Law Spottr Privacy Policy

Law Spottr Privacy Policy

Last updated: 13th May, 2024

Introduction

This Privacy Policy (“Policy”) describes Law Spottr’s policies and procedures on the collection, use and disclosure of Your information when You use our services. We are committed to protecting Your information and Your right to privacy. When You use our services, You trust us with Your information. We take Your privacy very seriously. This Policy seeks to explain to You in the clearest way possible what information we collect, how we use it and what rights You have in relation to it. We hope You take some time to read through it carefully, as it is important.If You have any questions or concerns about our Policy, or our practices with regards to Your personal information, please contact us via lawspottr@gmail.com .

Interpretation and Definitions

Interpretation

The words of which the initial letter is capitalised have meanings defined under the following conditions. The following definitions shall have the same meaning regardless of whether they appear in singular or in plural.

Definitions

For the purposes of this Privacy Policy:

Account means a unique account created for You to access our Service or parts of our Service.

Affiliate means an entity that controls, is controlled by or is under common control with a party, where “control” means ownership of 50% or more of the shares, equity interest or other securities entitled to vote for election of directors or other managing authority.

Company (referred to as either “the Company”, “We”, “Us” or “Our” in this Agreement) refers to Law Spottr.

Cookies are small files that are placed on Your computer, mobile device or any other device by a website, containing the details of Your browsing history on that website among its many uses.

Country refers to: Ireland.

Device means any device that can access the Service such as a computer, a cell phone or a digital tablet.

Personal Data is any information that relates to an identified or identifiable individual.

Service refers to the Website.

Service Provider means any natural or legal person who processes the data on behalf of the Company. It refers to third-party companies or individuals employed by the Company to facilitate the Service, to provide the Service on behalf of the Company, to perform services related to the Service or to assist the Company in analysing how the Service is used.

Usage Data refers to data collected automatically, either generated by the use of the Service or from the Service infrastructure itself (for example, the duration of a page visit).

Website refers to Law Spottr, accessible from www.lawspottr.com

You means the user wishing to access and/or use Law Spottr services. This includes any individual accessing or using the Website, company, or legal entity on behalf of which such individual is accessing or using the Website, as applicable.

Changes to this Privacy Policy

We may update our Policy from time to time and it is your responsibility to check regularly and determine whether you still agree to comply with the Policy. If you do not agree to any changes to this Policy then you must immediately stop using our services. In the event we make any significant changes to this Policy we will use our reasonable endeavours to inform you of such changes in advance in writing.

You are advised to review this Privacy Policy periodically for any changes.

It is important that the personal information we hold about you is true, complete, accurate and current. Accordingly, you must notify us of any changes to your personal information (for example, if you change your email address).

About Us

Law Spottr is a registered partnership under Partnerships Act 1890.

Law Spottr is the controller (also known as a data controller) of, and is responsible for, your personal information.

Law Spottr is a company dedicated to providing valuable information, resources, and tips for aspiring lawyers and individuals interested in the legal profession.

Collecting and Using Your Personal Data

Types of Data Collected

Personal Data

While using Our Service, We may ask You to provide Us with certain personally identifiable information that can be used to contact or identify You. Personally identifiable information may include, but is not limited to:

Email address

First name and last name

Usage Data

Usage Data

Usage Data is collected automatically when using the Service.

Usage Data may include information such as Your Device’s Internet Protocol address (e.g. IP address), browser type, browser version, the pages of our Service that You visit, the time and date of Your visit, the time spent on those pages, unique device identifiers and other diagnostic data.

When You access the Service by or through a mobile device, We may collect certain information automatically, including, but not limited to, the type of mobile device You use, Your mobile device unique ID, the IP address of Your mobile device, Your mobile operating system, the type of mobile Internet browser You use, unique device identifiers and other diagnostic data.

We may also collect information that Your browser sends whenever You visit our Service or when You access the Service by or through a mobile device.

Profile Data

This includes your username, email address and log-in data, details of any purchases or orders made by you, and your interests, preferences, feedback and survey or questionnaire responses.

Marketing and Communications Data

This includes your preferences with regards to receiving marketing from us and your other communication preferences.

Tracking Technologies and Cookies

We use Cookies and similar tracking technologies to track the activity on Our Service and store certain information. Tracking technologies used are beacons, tags, and scripts to collect and track information and to improve and analyse Our Service.

The technologies We use may include:

● Cookies or Browser Cookies. A cookie is a small file placed on Your Device. You can instruct Your browser to refuse all Cookies or to indicate when a Cookie is being sent. However, if You do not accept Cookies, You may not be able to use some parts of our Service. Unless you have adjusted Your browser setting so that it will refuse Cookies, our Service may use Cookies.

● Web Beacons. Certain sections of our Service and our emails may contain small electronic files known as web beacons (also referred to as clear gifs, pixel tags, and single-pixel gifs) that permit the Company, for example, to count users who have visited those pages or opened an email and for other related website statistics (for example, recording the popularity of a certain section and verifying system and server integrity).

Cookies can be “Persistent” or “Session” Cookies. Persistent Cookies remain on Your personal computer or mobile device when You go offline, while Session Cookies are deleted as soon as You close Your web browser. Learn more about cookies on the Free Privacy Policy website article.

We use both Session and Persistent Cookies for the purposes set out below:

Necessary / Essential Cookies

Type: Session Cookies

Administered by: Us

Purpose: These Cookies are essential to provide You with services available through the Website and to enable You to use some of its features. They help to authenticate users and prevent fraudulent use of user accounts. Without these Cookies, the services that You have asked for cannot be provided, and We only use these Cookies to provide You with those services.

Cookies Policy / Notice Acceptance Cookies

Type: Persistent Cookies

Administered by: Us

Purpose: These Cookies identify if users have accepted the use of cookies on the Website.

Functionality Cookies

Type: Persistent Cookies

Administered by: Us

Purpose: These Cookies allow us to remember choices You make when You use the Website, such as remembering your login details or language preference. The purpose of these Cookies is to provide You with a more personal experience and to avoid You having to re-enter your preferences every time You use the Website.

For more information about the cookies we use and your choices regarding cookies,

please visit our Cookies Policy or the Cookies section of our Privacy Policy.

Other Information relevant to services, customer surveys, questionnaires and/or offers

Use of Your Personal Data

In Short: We process your information for purposes based on legitimate business interests, the fulfilment of our contract with you, compliance with our legal obligations, and/or your consent.

The Company may use Personal Data for the following purposes:

To provide and maintain our Service, including to monitor the usage of our Service.

To manage Your Account: to manage Your registration as a user of the Service. The Personal Data You provide can give You access to different functionalities of the Service that are available to You as a registered user.

For the performance of a contract: the development, compliance and undertaking of the purchase contract for the products, items or services You have purchased or of any other contract with Us through the Service.

To contact You: To contact You by email, telephone, SMS, or other equivalent forms of electronic communication, such as a mobile application’s push notifications regarding updates, feedback or informative communications related to the functionalities, products or contracted services, including the security updates, when necessary or reasonable for their implementation.

To provide You with news, special offers and general information about other goods, services and events which we offer that are similar to those that you have already purchased or enquired about unless You have opted not to receive such information.

To manage Your requests: To attend and manage Your requests to Us.

For business transfers: We may use Your information to evaluate or conduct a merger, divestiture, restructuring, reorganisation, dissolution, or other sale or transfer of some or all of Our assets, whether as a going concern or as part of bankruptcy, liquidation, or similar proceeding, in which Personal Data held by Us about our Service users is among the assets transferred.

To protect Law Spottr services: for Business Purposes and/or Legal Reasons. We may use your Information as part of our efforts to keep the FE-1 Studygram Platform/Services safe and secure (for example, for the purposes of monitoring and/or preventing fraud).

To enforce our T&Cs and policies: for Business Purposes, Legal Reasons and/or possibly Contractual Reasons.

To respond to legal requests and prevent harm for Legal Reasons: For example, if we receive a witness summons/subpoena or other legal request, we may need to inspect the data we hold to determine how to respond.

For other purposes: We may use Your information for other purposes, such as data analysis, identifying usage trends, determining the effectiveness of our promotional campaigns and to evaluate and improve our Service, products, services, marketing and your experience.

We may share Your personal information in the following situations:

● Contractual. We may share Your information with our own employees or contractors, third party providers and partners to enable any orders for products or services, or obligations arising out of any such orders, to be fulfilled.

● With Third Party Service Providers: We may share your Information with third party vendors, service providers, contractors or agents who perform services and require access to such Information to carry out that work. We may also share Your personal information with Service Providers to monitor and analyse the use of our Service.

We may disclose aggregated, anonymous Information (i.e. Information from which you cannot be personally identified), or insights based on such anonymous Information, publicly and to selected third parties, including (without limitation) analytics and search engine providers to assist us in the improvement and optimisation of Our Services. In such circumstances we will not disclose any Information which can identify you personally.

● Compliance with Legal Obligations. We may disclose your Information where we are legally required to do so in order to comply with applicable laws, governmental requests, judicial proceedings, court orders, or legal processes, such as in response to a court order or a witness summons/subpoena (including in response to requests from public authorities in order to meet national security or law enforcement requirements).

● For Business Transfers: We may share or transfer Your personal information in connection with, or during negotiations of, any merger, sale of Company assets, financing, or acquisition of all or a portion of Our business to another company.

● With Affiliates: We may share Your information with Our affiliates, in which case we will require those affiliates to honour this Privacy Policy.

● With Business Partners: We may share Your information with Our business partners to offer You certain products, services or promotions.

● With Other Users: When You share personal information or otherwise interact in the public areas with other users, such information may be viewed by all users and may be publicly distributed outside. You acknowledge that any Information you post within Our platform (e.g. by way of blog post, course review, book review or discussion post) is posted entirely at your own risk and that by posting to a public platform you make that Information visible to third parties who can use that Information at their discretion.

● With Your Consent: We may disclose Your personal information for any other purpose with Your consent.

● Vital Interests. We may disclose your Information where we believe it is necessary to investigate, prevent, or take action regarding potential violations of our policies, suspected fraud, illegal activities or situations involving potential threats to the safety of any person, or where we believe it is necessary for the purpose of providing evidence in connection with litigation proceedings in which we are involved.

● Third Party Advertisers. We may use third party advertising companies to serve ads when you visit the FE-1 Studygram Platform. These companies may use Information about your visits to the FE-1 Studygram Platform and other websites that are contained in web cookies and other tracking technologies in order to provide personalised advertisements about goods and services that may be of interest to you. See our Cookie Policy for further Information.

Retention of Your Personal Data

The Company will retain Your Personal Data only for as long as is necessary for the purposes set out in this Privacy Policy. We will retain and use Your Personal Data to the extent necessary to comply with our legal obligations (for example, if we are required to retain your data to comply with applicable laws), resolve disputes, and enforce our legal agreements and policies.

The Company will also retain Usage Data for internal analysis purposes. Usage Data is generally retained for a shorter period of time, except when this data is used to strengthen the security or to improve the functionality of Our Service, or We are legally obligated to retain this data for longer time periods.

Transfer of Your Personal Data

Your information, including Personal Data, is processed at the Company’s operating offices and in any other places where the parties involved in the processing are located. It means that this information may be transferred to — and maintained on — computers located outside of Your state, province, country or other governmental jurisdiction where the data protection laws may differ than those from Your jurisdiction. Your consent to this Policy followed by Your submission of such information represents Your agreement to that transfer. We will take all reasonably practicable measures to protect your Information in accordance with this Policy and applicable laws. To the extent that any transfer requires approved safeguards to be in place (for example, using the EU model contract clauses in connection with transfers outside of the European Economic Area, or other appropriate safeguards) we will ensure these measures are in place.

Delete Your Personal Data

You have the right to delete or request that We assist in deleting the Personal Data that We have collected about You. Our Service may give You the ability to delete certain information about You from within the Service.

You may update, amend, or delete Your information at any time by signing in to Your Account, if you have one, and visiting the account settings section that allows you to manage Your personal information.

You may also contact Us to request access to, correct, or delete any personal information that You have provided to Us. You have certain rights in relation to the Information that we hold about you. Details of these rights and how to exercise them are set out below. Please note that we will require evidence of your identity before we are able to respond to any requests. This is a security measure to ensure that your Information is not disclosed to a person who does not have the right to receive it. We may also contact you to ask you for further Information in relation to your request to speed up our response. To exercise or discuss any of your rights, please contact us via lawspottr@gmail.com.

● Right of Access. You have the right at any time to ask us for a copy of the Information that we hold about you and to check that we are lawfully processing it. Where we have good reason, and where data protection law permits, we can refuse your request for a copy of your Information, or certain elements of the request. If we refuse your request or any element of it, we will provide you with our reason(s) for doing so.

● Right of Correction or Completion. If Information we hold about you is not accurate or is out of date and requires amendment or correction, you have a right to have the data rectified or completed.

● Right of Erasure. In certain circumstances, you have the right to request that the Information we hold about you is erased (for example, if the Information is no longer necessary for the purposes for which it was collected or processed or our processing of the Information is based only on your Consent and there are no other legal grounds on which we may process the Information).

● Right to Object to or Restrict Processing. In certain circumstances, you have the right to object to our processing of your Information (for example, if we are processing your Information on the basis of our legitimate interests but there are no longer any compelling legitimate grounds to justify our processing overriding your rights and interests). You may also have the right to restrict our use of your Information, for example during a period in which we are verifying the accuracy of your Information in circumstances where you have challenged the accuracy of that Information.

● Right of Data Portability. In certain instances, you have a right to receive the Information that we hold about you (or a portion thereof) in a structured, commonly used and machine-readable format. In such circumstances, you can ask us to transmit your Information to you or directly to a third-party organisation on your behalf. While we are happy for such requests to be made, we are not able to guarantee technical compatibility with a third-party organisation’s systems. We are also unable to comply with requests that relate to personal Information of others without their consent.

If we are relying on Consent to process your Information, you have the right to withdraw your Consent at any time. Please note however that this will not affect the lawfulness of the processing that occurred before the withdrawal of such Consent.

Please note, that We may however need to retain certain information when we have a legal obligation or lawful basis to do so.

Disclosure of Your Personal Data

Business Transactions

If the Company is involved in a merger, acquisition or asset sale, Your Personal Data may be transferred. We will provide notice before Your Personal Data is transferred and becomes subject to a different Privacy Policy.

Law enforcement

Under certain circumstances, the Company may be required to disclose Your Personal Data if required to do so by law or in response to valid requests by public authorities (e.g. a court or a government agency).

Other legal requirements

The Company may disclose Your Personal Data in the good faith belief that such action is necessary to:

● Comply with a legal obligation

● Protect and defend the rights or property of the Company

● Prevent or investigate possible wrongdoing in connection with the Service

● Protect the personal safety of Users of the Service or the public

● Protect against legal liability

Security of Your Personal Data

The security of Your Personal Data is important to Us, but remember that no method of transmission over the Internet, or method of electronic storage is 100% secure. While We strive to use commercially acceptable means to protect Your Personal Data, We cannot guarantee its absolute security.

Links to Other Websites

Our Service may contain links to other websites that are not operated by Us. If You click on a third party link, You will be directed to that third party’s site. We strongly advise You to review the Privacy Policy of every site You visit.

We are not responsible for the content or privacy and security practices and policies of any third parties, including other websites, services or applications that may be linked to or from the FE-1 Studygram Platform. You should review the policies of such third parties and contact them directly if you have any related questions.

Contact Us

If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, You can contact us:

By email: Lawspottr@gmail.com

By visiting this page on our website: www.lawspottr.com/contactus

You have the right to make a complaint at any time to the Data Protection Commission, the Republic of Ireland’s national independent authority responsible for upholding the fundamental right of individuals in the EU to have their personal data protected (https://www.dataprotection.ie/). We would, however, appreciate the chance to deal with your concerns before you approach the Data Protection Commission, so please contact us in the first instance.