Last updated on: Apr 28, 2023
Privacy
Fangda Partners (“Fangda” or “we” or “us”) respect your right to privacy and value the protection of your personal information. This Fangda Privacy Policy (this “Privacy Policy”) is intended to inform you how we collect and process your personal information, how we protect your personal information and how you may exercise your rights in personal information when you access Fangda’s official website (https://www.fangdalaw.com/), WeChat official account or any other webpage, or when you contact us, participate in any of our events, request information from us or use our legal or other services.
“Personal information” in this Privacy Policy refer to all kinds of information recorded electronically or otherwise that can identify a specific natural person or reflect the activities of a specific natural person either alone or in combination with other information, including name, contact address, residential address, account information, property condition and whereabouts, excluding anonymized information. Personal information includes sensitive personal information specified in applicable laws and regulations.
If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, please contact us using the contact details provided at the bottom of this Privacy Policy.
This Privacy Policy will help you understand:
I. Types of personal information for and purposes of our processing
II. How do we process minors’ personal information
III. How do we entrust the processing of and share your personal information
IV. How do we protect your personal information
V. How do we store your personal information
VI. Your rights
VII. Updates to this Privacy Policy
VIII. How to contact us
I. Types of personal information for and purposes of our processing
(1) When you approach us for business cooperation or inquiries through the Fangda websites or otherwise, we may collect your contact information (e.g., phone number, email address and contact address) and other information you may volunteer (e.g., name, name of your organization, specific inquiry, etc.) in order to contact you, confirm your identity, sign agreements and/or provide services to you.
We may also use the above contact information to send you or your organization information about content and services that may interest you or your organization (e.g., legal newsletters, legal research reports, information on the performance of Fangda), or to solicit feedback or suggestions from you or your organization. If you or your organization do not wish to receive information about relevant content and services or provide feedback, you may opt out at any time.
When we participate in ranking by legal ranking agencies (such as Chambers and Partners), we may provide the above basic contact information (primarily name, email address and organization name) to such third party agencies in order for them to solicit customer feedback or verify information for ranking.
(2) When we hold online or offline events, such as online or offline legal seminars, thematic forums and lectures, we may collect your name, employer, title and contact information (email address, mobile phone number, etc.) in order to complete registration for such events and provide you with event-related information.
(3) When you follow Fangda’s public or official accounts on social media platforms such as LinkedIn and WeChat, we may collect information about your account on the respective social media platforms (usually including your nickname, avatar, gender, region and other public information) and records of your interactions with us through the background systems of the social media platforms.
(4) When you intend to apply for a position with us, we may collect your basic contact information (including name, email address and mobile phone number), identity information (including identity card information and social security information), your resume containing your education and work experience as well as relevant supporting materials for the purpose of screening candidates, conducting background checks and entering into an employment contract.
If you provide us with any personal information of any data subjects other than yourself, please bring this Privacy Policy to their attention. You hereby acknowledge that you have obtained their consent or satisfied conditions as required by other lawful basis for personal information processing in lieu of consent before providing such personal information to us. By submitting such information to us, you represent to us that you are entitled to provide and we are entitled to process relevant personal information for the purposes as stated in this Privacy Policy.
In general, we will use your personal information only for the purposes described in this Privacy Policy or for purposes that we explain to you at the time we collect relevant personal information. However, we may also process personal information for other purposes that are not incompatible with the purposes we have disclosed to you if and where it is permitted by applicable laws and regulations.
II. How do we process minors’ personal information
Please note that normally we do not intentionally collect or process personal information of minors under the age of 18. For the personal information of minors under the age of 18 we collect upon the consent of parents or guardians, we will process such information only to the extent permitted by law, explicitly authorized by parents or guardians, or necessary for the protection of minors. In the course of providing legal services to our clients, we may also process personal information of minors that we collect from clients or other third parties to the extent permitted by legal procedures and authorized by clients. In such cases, we will process such information only to the extent legally required or authorized (e.g., after entering into a legal service relationship with the client or in performing legal service obligations under law).
If you are the parent or guardian of a minor under the age of 18 and have questions on how we process minors’ personal information, please contact us using the contact details provided in “How to contact us”.
III. How do we entrust the processing of and share your personal information
In order to improve the efficiency of information processing, we may engage third parties (such as those who assist us in developing and operating the Fangda websites) to process your personal information on our behalf. We will enter into strict confidentiality agreements with such third parties and require them to process personal information in accordance with our requirements, this Privacy Policy, and the confidentiality and security measures required by applicable laws and regulations.
We may share your personal information with third parties in the following circumstances:
- When we participate in ranking by legal ranking agencies (such as Chambers and Partners), we may provide your basic contact information to such third party agencies in order for them to solicit customer feedback or verify information for ranking.
- In the event of any change, merger, acquisition, reorganization, or liquidation involving the transfer of personal information, we will ask the new company or organization holding your personal information to continue to process your personal information in accordance with this Privacy Policy. If the new company or organization holding your personal information needs to use your personal information for purposes not stated in this Privacy Policy, the new company or organization will obtain your consent, unless otherwise provided for by the applicable laws and regulations.
- Subject to compliance with relevant laws and regulations, making disclosure to relevant domestic or foreign law enforcement body, regulator, government agency, court or other third party where we believe that such disclosure is necessary and for the purpose of (1) complying with certain applicable law or regulation; (2) exercising, establishing or defending our legal rights, or (3) protecting your vital interests or those of any other persons.
- Making disclosure to any other parties that are consented to by you.
Prior to sharing, we may inform you of the names of the third parties, their contact information, the purpose and manner of processing and the types of personal information to be processed, and obtain your consent (or satisfy any condition required by other lawful basis) where required by applicable laws and regulations.
IV. How do we protect your personal information
We use appropriate technical and organizational measures to protect your personal information that we collect and process. These measures will be applied depending upon the level of risk of your personal information. Please be aware and understand that an absolute secure network is in no way assured. If you find that your personal information are breached, please immediately contact us using the contact details disclosed in “How to contact us” in this Privacy Policy so that we can take corresponding measures.
In the event of any accident, force majeure event or other circumstances leading to the breach of your personal information, we will make every effort to control the situation and promptly inform you of the cause, the security measures we have taken and you can take and other relevant information. In the event of a security incident related to personal information, we will report to the competent authorities in accordance with the requirements of applicable laws and regulations, promptly investigate the problem, and take emergency measures.
V. How do we store your personal information
Storage Location
The personal information we collect and generate will be stored in the People’s Republic of China.
Retention Period
We will take all reasonably practicable steps to ensure that no unrelated personal information is collected. Unless otherwise required by laws and regulations, we will retain your personal information for the following periods：
- We may retain your personal information to meet our legitimate business needs (e.g., providing legal services to you, contacting with you or complying with relevant legal, tax and financial requirements).
- When there is no such legitimate business need to use your personal information, or when the retention period required by applicable laws and regulations expires, we will delete or anonymize your personal information or, if neither deletion nor anonymization is possible (e.g., if your personal information has already been stored in a backup), store it securely and insulate it from other data processing areas.
VI. Your rights
If you want to access, correct, update or delete your personal information, and exercise other legal rights of a data subject under applicable laws and regulations (e.g., to withdraw your consent to our collection and processing of your personal information, or to request us to transfer your personal information to a designated third party as long as the legal conditions are met, or to restrict our processing of your personal information, or to object to any processing of your personal information carried out by us on the basis of legitimate interests, etc.), you can contact us using the contact details provided in “How to contact us” below.
We will respond to all requests you make to exercise the data subject’s rights in accordance with the requirements of applicable laws and regulations within the required time limit. To the extent as permitted by applicable laws and regulations, we may not be able to respond to your request to exercise your rights under certain circumstances. For instance, if your request is contrary to our obligations under applicable laws and regulations, or may infringe our trade secrets, we may refuse to respond to your request. Besides, if we have sufficient evidence of your subjective malice or abuse of rights, or response to your request would infringe other individuals’ significant legitimate rights and interests, we may also decline your request. In such cases, we would provide you with our reason of refusal in the response.
VII. Updates to this Privacy Policy
We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time to respond to changing legal, technical, and business developments. When we make updates to this Privacy Policy, we will notify you in an appropriate manner depending on the significance of those changes. We will obtain your consent to (or satisfy conditions required by other lawful basis) before making any material changes to this Privacy Policy in accordance with requirements of applicable laws and regulations.
You can see when this Privacy Policy was last updated by checking the “last updated” date displayed at the top of this Privacy Policy. If you continue to use the service provided by us or contact us through the information displayed on the Fangda websites or otherwise, you are deemed to have accepted the updated Privacy Policy.
VIII. How to contact us
If you have any questions or concerns about this Privacy Policy or our processing of your personal information, especially if you consider that our processing of your personal information impairs your legitimate interests, please contact us via the contact information described below. We will review your question without delay and make a timely reply according to applicable laws and regulations within the required time limit.
Contact Information
- Fangda Partners
- Address: 24/F, HKRI Centre Two, HKRI Taikoo Hui, 288 Shi Men Yi Road, Shanghai, China
- Contact information: +8621 2208 1166
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