ESKIL NIELSEN · LAW FIRM uses and records a range of personal data about you when your company establishes a client relationship with us or as part of our practice of the legal profession.
ESKIL NIELSEN · LAW FIRM is, in most situations, the data controller. This is, for example, the case with the processing of personal data involved in our daily business activities, case handling, and legal advisory services for our clients. This means that we normally do not need to enter into a data processing agreement with our clients.
Below, you can find more information about when and how we collect and use your personal data:
Your Rights as a Data Subject
As a data subject, you have a number of rights that you can exercise by contacting ESKIL NIELSEN · LAW FIRM. You have the right to request access to the personal data we process about you, and you are entitled to receive a copy of this data. You also have the right to object to our processing of your personal data, to request the rectification or deletion of any personal data you believe to be incorrect, outdated, etc., and you may request that the processing of your personal data be restricted. However, the exercise of certain rights—such as the right to deletion—requires that specific conditions under data protection legislation are met.
As a data subject, you also have the right to data portability, provided that specific conditions under data protection legislation are met. The right to data portability means that you are entitled to receive the personal data you have submitted to us in a structured, commonly used, and machine-readable format, when the processing is carried out automatically and is based on consent or a contract. If technically feasible, you also have the right to have your personal data transmitted directly to another data controller.
The exercise of your rights may, however, be limited in accordance with applicable regulations, including considerations of overriding private interests, if these are deemed to outweigh your interests.
To the extent that you have given your consent to the processing of your personal data, you have the right to withdraw your consent at any time. The withdrawal of your consent does not affect the lawfulness of the processing based on consent before the withdrawal. Upon withdrawal, the processing of your personal data will cease, and your personal data will be deleted, unless there is, for example, a legitimate reason for continued storage due to documentation requirements.
You can read more about your rights in The Danish Data Protection Agency’s guidance on data subjects’ rights can be found here.
Exceptions to ESKIL NIELSEN · LAW FIRM’s duty to provide information
As a data subject, you have the right to be informed about ESKIL NIELSEN · LAW FIRM’s processing of your personal data. However, lawyers are bound by confidentiality under the rules of the Administration of Justice Act and the ethical rules for lawyers, which means that the law firm may, in certain cases, refrain from fulfilling the duty to provide information to you if the personal data about you or its processing must remain confidential.
ESKIL NIELSEN · LAW FIRM may also refrain from fulfilling the duty to provide information to you out of respect for overriding private interests, including considerations for you, or overriding public interests, if these are deemed to outweigh your interest in receiving the information. This exception is relevant if the duty to provide information would have negative consequences for protecting our clients' interests, for example, in connection with legal proceedings and enforcement of civil claims or criminal offenses, regulatory or supervisory functions, and similar situations.
Furthermore, ESKIL NIELSEN · LAW FIRM may refrain from fulfilling the duty to provide information to you if you are already aware of the information, or if it is impossible or would require a disproportionate effort—or would hinder the fulfillment of the purposes of the processing—to provide you with the information.
Processing Security at ESKIL NIELSEN · LAW FIRM
We always process your personal data securely and confidentially in accordance with applicable data protection legislation, including the required technical and organizational security measures. Among other things, we have established procedures to ensure that only selected employees at the law firm have access to your personal data, and that your personal data is not retained longer than necessary.
To the extent permitted by applicable data protection legislation, we may also use personal data for statistical purposes so that we can continuously improve our service to clients.
Contact ESKIL NIELSEN · LAW FIRM
If you have any questions about ESKIL NIELSEN · LAW FIRM’s processing of your personal data, you are welcome to contact our privacy policy officer: Eskil Nielsen.
Contact Datatilsynet
If you disagree with or are dissatisfied with the way the law firm processes your personal data, you can file a complaint with the Danish Data Protection Agency (Datatilsynet), which is the authority in Denmark responsible for overseeing data protection.
