Privacy Policy

This Privacy Policy describes how G&W Legal (‘we’, ‘us’, ‘our’ or ‘G&W’), a full service boutique law firm engaged in providing legal advice, of the address MPowered Building, Plot 51+52, Udyog Vihar Phase IV, Sector 18 Gurugram 122022, Haryana, India, collects, uses, shares or otherwise processes your personal information, including when you access our website on www.gnwlegal.com (“website”).

While you can browse the website without the need of sharing any information with us, we may collect and process certain personal information in instances where such information is provided by you specifically, including in instances where you apply to work with us. In sharing such personal information with us, you expressly agree to be bound by the terms and conditions of this Privacy Policy and agree to be governed by the laws of India including but not limited to the laws applicable to data protection and privacy. If you do not agree please do not use or access the website or share any personal information with us.

Collection of Your Information

We collect and store the personal information provided by you from time to time. In general, you can browse the website without telling us who you are or revealing any personal information about yourself. Once you give us your personal information, you are not anonymous to us.

In instances where you have chosen to share such personal information, we may collect basic information such as your name, employer, title and current position, your current income- if this is information that you have chosen to share with us for a potential position to work with us, and other such information you may choose to share with us, or that we are able to garner from the public domain.

If you send us personal correspondence, such as emails or letters, we may collect such information into a file specific to you.

In certain circumstances, to provide you with our services, we may need to also collect sensitive personal information from you. For the purposes of this Privacy Policy, sensitive personal information shall have the same meaning as ascribed to sensitive personal data or information in Rule 3 of the Information Technology (Reasonable security practices and procedures and sensitive personal data or information) Rules, 2011, and may include passwords, financial information, health condition or other such relevant information as the circumstances may necessitate.

‘Personal information’ in this Privacy Policy shall include sensitive personal information.

Use of Your Information

We do not sell or rent your personal information, and may use your personal information to:

Provide you with legal advice if this is something you have specifically requested and has been agreed with us.
To communicate with you, including to provide you with relevant regulatory updates and events such as workshops and seminars.
To provide the website to you.
To manage your/your employer’s business relationships and transactions with us- such as managing accounting, billing, payments etc. for services that you/your organization chooses to obtain from us.
To comply with legal obligations placed upon us as per applicable law.
Any other purpose consistent with the purpose for which such personal information was provided to us.

Cookies

We may use data collection devices such as “cookies” on certain pages of the website to help analyze the effectiveness of our content and website. “Cookies” are small files placed on your hard drive that assist us in providing our services. Cookies do not contain any of your personal information. You are always free to decline/delete our cookies if your browser permits, although in that case you may not be able to use certain features on the website. Additionally, you may encounter “cookies” or other similar devices on certain pages of the website that are placed by third parties. We do not control the use of cookies by third parties.

Sharing of personal information

We may share personal information with third parties authorized by us to perform certain functions in relation to the website and/or our business, to be able to provide the website and our services, as well as to improve our website and our services being offered to you so long as they agree to keep this information confidential and do not have any independent use of the information we disclose to them. You hereby give us your consent to transfer your Personal Information to our trusted service providers.

We may also be required to disclose your personal information if legally required to do so in pursuance of an order issued by a court of competent jurisdiction, or by a governmental authority, or in good faith.

We may also share your personal information to protect our legal rights, prevent a crime, or in furtherance of public safety.

Links to Other Sites

Our website may on occasion provide links to other websites or applications that may collect personal information about you. We are not responsible for the privacy practices or the content of those linked websites and have no control over them.

You may find it advisable to acquaint yourself with the privacy practices of such third-party websites or applications.

Security Precautions

We maintain reasonable physical, electronic and procedural safeguards to protect your information. However, by using the website, you accept the inherent security implications of data transmission over the internet and the World Wide Web which cannot always be guaranteed as completely secure, and therefore, there would always remain certain inherent risks.

Choice/Opt-Out

We provide all users with the opportunity to opt-out of receiving non-essential communications from us, such as regulatory updates, or other information about seminars or workshops organized by us. If you do not wish to receive promotional communications from us, then please click on the unsubscribe/opt-out link provided in the email.

Children’s Information

Use of the website is only meant for persons who can form a legally binding contract under the Indian Contract Act, 1872. We do not knowingly solicit or collect personal information from children under the age of 18 years. If you have shared any personal information of children under the age of 18 years, you represent that you have the authority to do so and permit us to use the information in accordance with this Privacy Policy.

Data Retention

We retain your personal information in accordance with applicable laws, for a period no longer than is required for the purpose for which it was collected or as required under any applicable law. However, we may retain data related to you if we believe it may be necessary to prevent fraud or future abuse, to enable G&W to exercise its legal rights and/or defend against legal claims or if required by law or for other legitimate purposes.

Your Rights

We take reasonable steps to ensure that your personal information is accurate and, where necessary, kept up to date, and any of your personal information that we process that you inform us is inaccurate (having regard to the purposes for which they are processed) is erased or rectified. You may access, correct, and update your personal information by writing to us at [email protected] .

You have an option to withdraw your consent that you have already provided by writing to us at the contact information provided below. Please mention “for withdrawal of consent” in the subject line of your communication. We will verify such requests before acting upon your request. Please note, however, that withdrawal of consent will not be retroactive.

Your Consent

By providing your personal information, you consent to the collection, use, storage, disclosure and otherwise processing of your personal information (including sensitive personal information) in accordance with this Privacy Policy. If you disclose to us any personal information relating to other people, you represent that you have the authority to do so and to permit us to use the information in accordance with this Privacy Policy.

You, while providing your personal information consent to us (including our partners and affiliates acting on our behalf) to contact you through SMS, instant messaging apps, call and/or e-mail for the purposes specified in this Privacy Policy.

Changes to this Privacy Policy

Please check our Privacy Policy periodically for changes. We may update this Privacy Policy to reflect changes to our information practices.

Grievance Officer

If you wish to report a security breach, have a problem that you are unable to resolve or otherwise require any other assistance in respect of the Website and this privacy policy, you may contact our Grievance Officer whose details are provided below:

[email protected]