The site holder recognizes the importance of your privacy and the sensitivity of personal information and electronic documents.  As a lawyer it is my professional obligation to keep confidential all information receive within a lawyer-client relationship.  The policy stated hereof delineates on how  your personal information  and privacy are being managed and safeguarded.   

What are personal information to be disclosed and collected?

Personal information is any information that identifies you, or by which your identity could be deduced. If no personal information and other details will be disclosed and collected, we could not provide you with legal services.

How is your personal information  to be collected?

We collect information only by lawful and fair means, and not in an unreasonably intrusive way. Wherever possible, your personal information will be collected directly from you, both at the start of a retainer and in the course of our representation or we may obtain information about you from other sources such as from a government agency or registry, your employer, insurance company and other public records.

As to Your consent

In most cases, your specific consent, orally or written, shall be asked in the collection, usage and disclosure of your personal information. However, your consent can also be obtained impliedly through your conduct.

The Use of Your InformationYour personal information shall be used to provide legal advice and services. However, your personal information shall be disclosed  in the following cases: 

• when required or authorized by law to do so, for example  a subpoena issued by a court;
• when you have consented to the disclosure;
• when the legal services to be provided requires us give your information to third parties  unless directed otherwise;
• where it is necessary to establish or collect fees;
• if we engage a third party to provide administrative services to us and the third party is bound by our privacy policy;
• if we engage expert witness/es on your behalf;
• if we retain other law firms on your request, and on your behalf;
• if the information is publicly available personal information

Updating Your Information

Since your personal information shall be used in connection with our legal services to you, it is important that the information be accurate and up-to-date. If during the course of the retainer, any of your information changes, you should inform us on necessary changes.

Is My Personal Information Secure?

All reasonable precautions shall be undertaken to ensure that your personal information to be safe from loss, unauthorized access, modification or disclosure. Among the steps to be taken to protect your information are: premises security; restricted file access to personal information; deploying technological safeguards like security software and firewalls to prevent hacking or unauthorized computer access; internal password and security policies.

Access to Your Personal Information

You may ask for access to your personal information disclosed and submitted to us. However, your right to access your personal information is not absolute. This can be denied when it is required or authorized by law.

Correcting Errors

If the information you previously disclosed appears to be not accurate, complete and up-to-date, we shall take reasonable steps to correct it.

Request for anonymity.

Whenever it is legal and practicable, we may offer the opportunity to deal with general inquiries without providing your name.

Changes to this Privacy Policy

This Privacy Policy is subject to change from time to time. Requests for AccessIf you have any questions, or wish to access your personal information, please send us through the email address indicated in this site.

Web Site Links

This website contains links to other sites, which are not governed by this privacy policy. However, like most other commercial websites, we may monitor traffic patterns, site usage and related site information in order to optimise our web service. We may provide aggregated information to third parties, but these statistics do not include any identifiable personal information.