Privacy Statement Client Relationship

LISCHER ZEMP & PARTNER is a law firm in the form of a cost-sharing community and processes personal data (data that directly or indirectly identifies natural persons) in the context of its client relationships. The individual lawyers of the law firm LISCHER ZEMP & PARTNER are responsible for the processing of personal data as described in this data protection declaration. If you have any questions, please contact us using the contact details in the imprint.

Origin of personal data

As a rule, you or the data subjects provide us with their personal data themselves when you or the data subject contact us by email or telephone and request our services. We also process personal data that we receive in our correspondence with third parties (in particular clients, counterparties, authorities and courts and their employees or other contact persons) in the context of the client relationship. In addition, we collect some personal data ourselves, e.g. from public registers or websites.

If you provide us with personal data about a third party (e.g. about your employees or other contacts), it is your responsibility to inform them in a general way about the processing of such data by LISCHER ZEMP & PARTNER and other legal service providers or external service providers (e.g. in a data protection declaration for employees).

Personal data collected

The content and scope of the personal data collected results from the client relationship (e.g. name, contact details, date of birth, information on the employment relationship, income situation, family circumstances or state of health that we receive from you). Furthermore, personal data may be collected in the context of such a client relationship if we contact third parties or are contacted by third parties.

Purpose

We process the types of personal data mentioned primarily in order to provide, document and bill for our legal services (this includes, in particular: service recording, accounting, marketing and communication and human resources).

We have a legitimate interest in processing personal data for the purposes mentioned. Some processing is also necessary for us to fulfil our contractual obligations to you or our legal obligations (e.g. retention obligations).

Transfer

In order to achieve the purposes described in this data protection declaration, it may be necessary for us to pass on personal data to the following categories of recipients: external service providers, clients, counterparties and their representatives, business partners with whom we may need to coordinate the provision of legal services, as well as authorities and courts.

We process personal data in our area of responsibility in Switzerland. However, we may transfer personal data to recipients (namely clients, counterparties or authorities) who, in turn, process personal data in other countries, including those that do not guarantee a level of data protection comparable to Swiss law. We will do the latter based on consent or standard contractual clauses or if it is necessary for the performance of a contract or for the enforcement of legal claims.

Storage period and protection of personal data

We only store personal data for as long as is necessary to carry out the mandate, for as long as a legal obligation to store and document the data applies, or for as long as we have an overriding private or public interest in doing so. We take appropriate and reasonable precautions to protect personal data from loss, unauthorized alteration or unauthorized access by third parties.

We would like to point out that we use external IT service providers and cloud providers with servers in Switzerland to manage our mandates. We then use certain IT services and means of communication that may be associated with data security risks (e.g. e-mail, videoconferencing). It is your responsibility to inform us if you require special security measures.

We would like to point out that communication via e-mail or other electronic means of communication is not secure for the unencrypted transmission of information. The transmission of confidential data by means of unencrypted e-mails or other electronic means of communication is therefore at your own risk. If we receive electronic communication from you, we may assume that we are entitled to reply by the same electronic means of communication, unless you expressly request a different form of communication.

Your right to information and deletion

Data subjects have the right to request information about the personal data stored about them and the purpose of the data processing, the right to correct and delete their personal data or restrict the processing of it, the right to object to the processing, the right to seek legal redress from a competent supervisory authority and the right to data transmission or data transfer. Please note that these rights are subject to conditions and exceptions. To the extent permitted or required by law, we may reject requests to exercise these rights. For legal reasons, we may or may not be required to retain or otherwise process personal data despite a request to delete or restrict the processing of personal data. To exercise your rights, please contact us using the contact details provided in the imprint.

Changes

No consent to the data protection declaration is required from the client, contact persons or data subjects. A data protection declaration is merely information about the type, scope and purpose of the use of personal data. We reserve the right to unilaterally amend the content of the aforementioned data protection declaration at any time and without notice. The current version published on our website applies. It is therefore recommended that you regularly consult our data protection declaration on our website.