Privacy Policy

The purpose of this information is, among other things, to inform you about what information is collected and how this information may be used by us when you visit our website and in any client relationship.

Your privacy is important to us, and we follow the applicable rules for the processing of personal data at all times.

We process personal data primarily in order to fulfil assignments and deliver agreed services, but also to provide information and conduct marketing.

Advokatfirmaet Halvorsen & Co is the data controller for the processing of personal data described in this privacy policy. You can find our contact information below.

Our websites are:

halvorsenco.no
dinerstatning.no

Who we process personal data about

This privacy policy applies to our processing of personal data about the following persons:

Private customers
Clients in criminal cases
Individuals involved in, or mentioned in the case documentation relating to bankruptcy estates, compulsory liquidation estates, compulsory winding-up estates, and estates of deceased persons where a lawyer from our firm has been appointed as administrator.
Contact persons at corporate clients
Contact persons at our suppliers and partners
Individuals involved in cases we assist with, e.g. as experts
Other individuals mentioned in case documents to which we gain access
Job applicants/employees
Visitors to our website

What is personal data?

Personal data is any information that can be linked directly or indirectly to you as an individual, such as name, date of birth, social security number, postal address, e-mail address, IP address, car number, mobile phone number, behavioural patterns such as web searches and biometric data such as fingerprints, iris recognition, etc.

What is sensitive personal data?

Sensitive personal data is information about health, sexual matters, membership of trade unions, religious, political or philosophical beliefs, ethnic and racial matters, etc.

What personal data do we process and what do we use the data for?

It is voluntary for visitors to our website to provide personal data in connection with services such as filling in a contact form.

If you choose not to provide personal data, we may lose the ability to provide you with access to the product or service as well as the ability to contact you when you contact us via the contact form on our website.

See how you can control our access to your personal data via cookies in the information below.

However, if you choose to become a customer/client with us, it will be necessary to provide both personal data and sensitive personal data in order for us to fulfil the assignment for you.

The information we collect for the above-mentioned purposes includes both information you provide to us and the information we collect on your behalf in the case as well as the information we collect when you use our websites.

Estate administration – bankruptcy estates, compulsory dissolution estates, compulsory winding-up estates and estates following a death

Advokatfirmaet Halvorsen & Co has lawyers who undertake roles as trustees in bankruptcy estates, estates in forced dissolution, estates in forced liquidation, and estates of deceased persons. In such matters, the processing of personal data will occur partly within the scope of the law firm's operations, where the law firm is the data controller, and partly within the scope of the estate's operations, where the estate is the data controller. The responsibility covers only personal data that Advokatfirmaet Halvorsen & Co or the estate actively controls. Responsibility for personal data that is not actively controlled lies with the bankrupt debtor/deceased.

What is the legal basis for our processing of your personal data?

The legal basis for our processing of your personal data normally lies in the assignment agreement or by consent, depending on the information in question and the context in which it is collected.

When we are contacted with a request to take on an assignment, we carry out an internal independence check (conflict clarification) before we accept the assignment. Conflict checks of private clients usually include full name, what the case concerns and possibly creditworthiness. The independence check serves a legitimate purpose and has legal basis in GDPR art. 6(1)(f) (balancing of interests).

In connection with the establishment of a client relationship, we will also carry out a client check in accordance with the rules of the Money Laundering Act, such as checking identity. This processing is authorised by Article 6(1)(c) of the GDPR.

If we undertake the assignment, contact information is registered in order, among other things, to be able to enter into agreements with the client. For private clients, this is authorised in GDPR art. 6(1)(b) of the GDPR, and for business clients in the same article (f).

As a client of ours, there will be an agreed right (assignment agreement) to process your personal data and your sensitive data, to the extent that this is necessary to assist you in establishing, asserting and defending legal claims.

Some legal assignments involve us gaining access to information about parties or other individuals affected by a case. Such information may arise from documents submitted by the client or from other correspondence in the case. The processing of personal data in connection with assignments for business clients is authorised by GDPR Art. 6(1)(f) of the GDPR. In some cases, we also have access to sensitive personal data, e.g. health information or criminal convictions and offences. In such cases, the processing of the data has a legal basis in GDPR art. 9 no. 2 letter f, cf. section 11 of the Personal Data Act.

Separate folders are created for assignments carried out on behalf of the client. Time and costs incurred are registered in our accounting system. This is information that also provides a basis for invoicing. The legal basis for such registration is authorised in GDPR art. 6 letter b for private clients and letter f for business clients.

By visiting our website, you agree to our use of cookies and that we can use the cookies to make it easier for you to use our website and to personalise certain parts of the content. See more about cookies below.

For marketing and other relevant information about our business, the processing will take place on the basis of the consent of the person receiving the marketing in accordance with the Marketing Act. Cf. section 15(3) and section 15(1) of the Marketing Act and GDPR art. 6 no. 1 a.

Who do we share your information with?

Our suppliers of IT services may have access to personal data if such data is stored by the supplier or is otherwise available to the supplier in accordance with the contract with us. The supplier acts in accordance with the data processing agreement and under our instructions. The supplier may only use the personal data for the purposes we have determined and which are described in this privacy policy. The legal basis for this is GDPR art. 6(1)(f) and Art. 32 and 6(1)(c).

Advokatfirmaet Halvorsen & Co uses the information we receive about you when you search our website or submit forms to us from these pages only for the law firm's own operations. This information is not shared with outside third parties, but we may use subcontractors to deliver all or part of the websites. We also use external, professional partners for marketing, such as Google and Facebook advertising. Such subcontractors may process personal data on our behalf. Subcontractors and partners are located in Norway, the EU and EU-approved countries, and are obliged to safeguard your privacy rights in accordance with the GDPR.

As our client, we do not disclose information about you to anyone other than the other party to the extent that this is necessary. The counterparty in our cases is usually an insurance company or the public sector, such as NAV or Norwegian Patient Injury Compensation (NPE). In cases where this is relevant, it will also be necessary to provide information to tribunals, conciliation boards and courts. Where statements are to be obtained from experts, e.g. doctors or technical experts, these must also be given access to the information necessary to fulfil the assignment.

Lawyers are subject to a penal duty of confidentiality under section 111 of the Norwegian Penal Code. All information entrusted to us in connection with an assignment is handled confidentially.

We do not disclose personal data in other cases or in other ways than those described in this privacy policy unless the client explicitly requests this or the disclosure is required by law.

How do we secure your personal data?

Personal data is stored with us on paper and/or electronically.

Halvorsen & Co has established procedures to ensure that unauthorised persons do not gain access to your personal data and that all processing of such data otherwise takes place in accordance with applicable law. The measures include regular risk assessments, which also include technical systems and procedures to safeguard information security. We have established routines to manage and safeguard your rights to access your data and to correct any errors in it.

We conduct regular assessments of the security of all central systems used for handling personal data, and agreements have been entered into that require suppliers of such systems to ensure satisfactory information security.

We have internal IT guidelines and regularly train employees in security and the use of IT systems.

All our processing of personal data takes place within the EU/EEA area.

When do we delete your personal data?

We do not retain personal data for longer than necessary to provide our legal services or otherwise fulfil the purpose of the processing within the legal retention requirements.

The storage period will normally be ten years from the conclusion of your case with us. All electronic information and paper documentation will be deleted approximately 10 years after the conclusion of the case. The storage is considered necessary for the sake of both the client and ourselves, since questions or disputes may subsequently arise where access to the stored information is necessary. The legal basis for this is authorised in GDPR art. 6(1)(f) (balancing of interests) and Art. 9 (2) (f) and section 11 of the Personal Data Act.

Otherwise, accounting legislation requires us to store certain accounting documents for a specified period of time. When a specific purpose dictates storage for a given period of time, we ensure that the personal data is used exclusively for the purpose in question during this period.

Your rights

As a user of our website, you have the right to demand correction, deletion and to restrict our use of your data. The processing of your personal data is based on consent, and you can withdraw your consent at any time.

As a client of ours, you also have the right to access all information we have about you, unless confidentiality rules prevent this.

Requests for access may be requested in writing to ensure that the information is given to the right person.

With some exceptions, you have the right to have documented incorrect information related to your personal data corrected or deleted, and you may have the right to have information deleted that is no longer necessary to fulfil our mission for you.

You can also set restrictions on how your personal data is to be used. However, it is important to realise that such restrictions may affect our ability to resolve the matter in your best interests.

When it comes to deletion requirements, there are exceptions for the data that is necessary for us to be able to provide a service that you still want access to, or where we are required by law to store the data for a specific period.

We will as far as possible fulfil a request to delete personal data, but we cannot do this if there are compelling reasons not to delete, for example that we need to store the data for documentation purposes.

Our company cannot vouch for information we have received from other organisations, such as medical records, nor can we delete such information. Questions about this must be directed to the issuer of the medical record, for example.

In some cases, you have the right to data portability. This means that you can, among other things, be given the opportunity to take your personal data with you in a machine-readable format to another law firm.

You also have the right to object to the processing of personal data, and the right to object to personal profiling and automated decisions.

You can also object to the use of the information and also complain about our handling of your personal data to the Norwegian Data Protection Authority (see www.datatilsynet.no ).

Contact us

Feel free to send us an e-mail to [email protected] if you have any questions about how we process personal data or want access, correction, deletion, etc.

Advokatfirmaet Halvorsen & Co, represented by the general manager, is the data controller for the company's processing of personal data.

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Last modified 15.02.2022