WHO WE ARE

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The website www.seruslegal.com is operated by Serus Legal Limited (“we”, “our” or “us”) so that we may: (1) help direct you to products and services which may be of interest to you; and (2) contact you with information on services which may be of interest to you.

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Where we use “our site” in this privacy notice, we mean www.seruslegal.com.   

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Company Name: Serus Legal PLLC

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Registered Office: 48 Wall Street, Fl 11, New York, NY 10005, United States of America.

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OUR PRIVACY TERMS

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The information we collect about you

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Each time you visit our site, we may automatically collect personal data about you and the device you are using, including:

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• information about which pages you visit and which resources you use on our site

• information about how you got to our site

• your internet protocol address known as your IP address which is used to connect your device to the internet

• your device’s operating system and platform

• the type and version of the browser you are using

• traffic data, which is aggregated information about the number of visitors, sessions, users and page visits to our site

• location data, time zone setting, and weblogs

We also collect any information you provide to us directly by filling in any of the forms on our site.

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If you sign up with us, we may also collect:

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• your name

• your email address

• your address

• your telephone number

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Source of personal data

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We collect the information you provide to us directly by filling in any of the forms on our website.

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We also collect information directly from your device.  We use cookies to collect some of this information. Please see our ‘Our Use of Cookies’ below for details of the information we collect through our site.

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Purpose of collection

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We need the information we collect automatically about your visit to our site to:

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• administer our site

• improve our site to ensure that content is presented in the most effective manner

• allow you to participate in interactive features of our services when you choose to do so

• analyze how visitors use our site (including behavior patterns and the tracking of visits across multiple devices)

• improve your online experience.

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We need the information you provide directly by filling in any of the forms on our site to:

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• direct you to products and/or services which may be of interest to you

• contact you with information and offers, suggestions and recommendations of products and/or services which may be of interest to you

• contact you about those products and/or services on our site in which you have expressed an interest

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You do not have to give us any information or confirm that the information we have obtained from other sources is correct.

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Data sharing

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We sometimes share some of your information with other organizations, namely affiliates or subsidiaries who are bound by similar confidentiality obligations.

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We use Google analytics to collect details of how you use our site, as well as anonymous data that you enter into our forms. We do this to help us analyze how visitors use our site (including behavior patterns and the tracking of visits across multiple devices).  All the information collected is anonymous and only used to improve how our site works. Please see Cookie Notice for more details.

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We also use a number of carefully selected third parties to supply us with products and services. We will only share your information with our suppliers where it is necessary for them to provide us with the services we need.

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Storage

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Our site may, from time to time, contain links to and from the websites of third parties (e.g. payment processing sites).  If you follow a link to any of these websites, please note that these websites have their own terms and conditions, privacy notices and cookie notices and we do not accept any responsibility or liability for those notices or your use of those websites.

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Sending information via the internet is not totally secure.  Although we do our best to protect your information, we cannot guarantee the security of any information you transmit to our site; any transmission is at your own risk.  Once we have received your information, we will use strict procedures and security features to prevent unauthorized access.

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Legal basis for processing personal information

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Our legal basis for collecting and using the personal information described above will depend on the personal information concerned and the specific context in which we collect it.

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However, we will normally collect personal information from you only where we have your consent to do so, where we need the personal information to perform a contract with you (for example, when providing our services), or where the processing is in our legitimate interests and not overridden by your data protection interests or fundamental rights and freedoms. In some cases, we may also have a legal obligation to process personal information about you or may need to process personal information in order to exercise, establish or defend legal claims.

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If we ask you to provide personal information to comply with a legal requirement or to perform a contract with you, we will make this clear at the relevant time and advise you whether the provision of your personal information is mandatory or not (as well as the possible consequences, if any, if you do not provide your personal information).

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If you have questions about or need further information concerning the legal basis on which we collect and use your personal information (including any legitimate interests relied upon), please send an email to info@seruslegal.com

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Retention

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We only keep your information for as long as we need it We keep your information for this long so that we can ensure we contact you with information on services, suggestions, offers and recommendations relevant and appropriate to you. When we have no ongoing legitimate business need to process your personal information, we will either delete or anonymize it or, if this is not possible (for example, because your personal information has been stored in backup archives), we will securely store your personal information and isolate it from any further processing until deletion is possible. We use appropriate technical and organizational measures to protect the personal information that we collect and process about you.  The measures we use are designed to provide a level of security appropriate to the risk of processing your personal information.

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Profiling and automated decision making

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We use Google analytics to collect details of how you use our site, as well as anonymous data that you enter into our forms. We do this to help us analyze how visitors use our site (including behavior patterns and the tracking of visits across multiple devices), and to administer our site.  When your personal data is processed in this way it is used in summarized (by which we mean anonymized and aggregated) business reports, or to tailor news we feel you will find most relevant. Please see ‘ Cookie Policy for more details about Google analytics.

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International data transfers

Our servers and filing systems are located in the US and the EEA. Our partners and third-party service providers and partners operate in the EEA and around the world.  This means that when we collect your personal data it may be processed in countries that may have data protection laws that are different to the laws of your country.

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However, we have taken appropriate safeguards to require that the personal information we process will remain protected in accordance with this Privacy Notice when transferred internationally, including when processed internationally by our third-party service providers and partners. The safeguards we have taken include implementing the European Commission’s Standard Contractual Clauses for transfers of personal information to our non-EEA members and business partners, which requires our non-EEA members to protect personal information they process from the EEA in accordance with European Union data protection laws. Our Standard Contractual Clauses can be provided on request.

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We have also implemented similar appropriate safeguards with our third-party service providers and partners and further details can be provided upon request. The transfer of personal data to third-party service providers outside of the UK and the EEA takes place on the basis of data protection adequacy decisions by the UK or the European Commission or via the implementation of EU data protection standard contractual clauses.

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Your rights

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Depending on where you live, you have rights in respect of your information. These rights may include the right to:

• access your information

• withdraw your consent to the processing of your information at any time

• ask us to make changes to the information we hold about you to make sure that it is accurate and up to date

• delete or erase your information (sometimes called the right to be forgotten)

• stop or restrict our processing of your information

• object to our processing your information

• not be subject to automated decision-making and

• request the transfer of some of the information we hold about you (known as data portability).

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If you would like to exercise any of your rights, please contact us at info@seruslegal.com.   Please note that an archive copy of any information provided to us may be retained by us for our records and for audit purposes.

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You can unsubscribe from our emails at any time by clicking on “unsubscribe” at the bottom of the email.

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Making a complaint

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If you have any questions, concerns or complaints about the way we process your personal information, please contact info@seruslegal.com. You also have a right to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority in your country. You can find contact details for the relevant supervisory authority for your country of residence here.

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OUR USE OF COOKIES

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What are cookies?

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Cookies are text files containing small amounts of information that are downloaded to your device when you visit our site. Our site recognizes those cookies on each subsequent visit, enabling our site to recognize you.

Unless you have adjusted your browser settings to refuse cookies (and details of how to do this are signposted at the end of this policy), our site will set cookies as soon as you visit our site.

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How and why we use cookies

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We use cookies on our site to:

• recognize you whenever you visit our site;

• measure how you use our site so it can be updated and improved to give you the best possible experience.

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The information we obtain from our use of cookies will not usually contain information from which you can easily be identified, such as your name.  However, we do collect some personal data relating to your computer or other electronic devices, such as your IP address, your browser and/or other internet log information.

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In most cases, we will need your consent to use cookies on our site.  The exception to this is where the cookie is essential for us to provide you with a service you have requested.

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You may withdraw your consent or acceptance at any time by following the instructions for disabling cookies, signposted at the end of this policy.

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We use the following cookies on our site:

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Third-Party Performance Cookies

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These non-essential cookies collect information about how visitors use our site, for instance, which pages visitors go to most often, and if they get error messages from web pages. These cookies don’t collect information that identifies a visitor. All information these cookies collect is aggregated and therefore anonymous. It is only used to improve how a website works.

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We use Google Analytics to collect information about how you use our site.

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We use the information to compile reports and to help us improve our site. The cookies collect information in an anonymous form, including the number of visitors to our site, where visitors have come to our site from and the pages they visited.

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We don’t allow Google to use or share our analytics data.
Google Analytics stores information about:

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• The pages you visit on our site

• The actions you perform on our site

• How long you spend on each page

• How you got to our site

• What you click on while you’re visiting our site

• Information about the browser and device you use to navigate our site, (including an anonymized IP address).

• We don’t collect or store any personal information (for example your name or address) that can be used to identify who you are.

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More details about how Google Analytics collects and processes data are available at www.google.com/policies/privacy/partners
You can opt-out of being tracked by Google Analytics cookies across all websites http://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout

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Where to find more information

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You can adjust the settings in your web browser to determine whether (all) sites can set cookies on your computer.  More information about cookies and how to manage them, specific to your browser, can be found at https://ico.org.uk/for-the-public/online/cookies/.

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If you have any further questions, comments or requests regarding our use of cookies or how we use cookies on our site, please contact us at info@seruslegal.com.

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Changes to this notice

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We will regularly review this notice and keep it updated to make sure that the information we provide you with is accurate and up to date.

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Any changes to this notice will be highlighted on our site so that you can see what has been changed.

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This Privacy notice was last reviewed and updated in December 2022 and this Cookie Policy was last reviewed and updated in February 2022.