Customer Zone
for the first meeting
For your first meeting at the office, be sure to take with you:
a.) all correspondence addressed to and received from the other party with a note on the date of its receipt or posting
b.) all correspondence addressed to and received from the Court with a note on the date of its receipt or posting
c.) any documents justifying the request or its lack, such as:
– contracts
– notarial deeds
– confirmation of deposits/withdrawals
– agreements
– private opinions of experts
– notes from meetings
– e-mail correspondence
– photos and recordings
– data of potential witnesses
The basic, general source of the obligation to maintain a lawyer’s professional secrecy is Art. 6 Act of May 26, 1982 Law on the Bar, which states that:
1. A lawyer is obliged to keep secret everything he learns about in connection with providing legal assistance.
2. The obligation to maintain professional secrecy cannot be limited in time.
3. A lawyer cannot be released from the obligation to maintain professional secrecy regarding facts he learned about while providing legal assistance or conducting a case.
4. The obligation of professional secrecy does not apply to information:
a.) made available under the provisions on counteracting money laundering and terrorism financing,
b.) transferred pursuant to the provisions of Chapter 11a, Section III of the Act of August 29, 1997.
– Tax Ordinance (Journal of Laws of 2019, items 900, 924 and 1018)
– within the scope specified in these regulations.
professional secrecy
In turn, in terms of professional secrecy of a legal advisor, Art. 15 of the Code of Ethics for Legal Advisers provides that:
1. A legal advisor is obliged to keep secret all information regarding the client and his affairs, disclosed to the legal advisor by the client or otherwise obtained in connection with the performance of any professional activities by him, regardless of the source of this information and the form and method of its recording (secret professional).
2. Professional secrecy also covers all documents created by the legal advisor and the correspondence of the legal advisor with the client and persons participating in the case – created for purposes related to the provision of legal assistance.
3. Professional secrecy also covers information disclosed to a legal advisor before he or she commenced professional activities, if the circumstances of the case show that the disclosure was made for the purposes of providing legal assistance and was justified by the expectation that the legal advisor would provide it.
In criminal proceedings, Art. 178 1) Code of Criminal Procedure stipulates that the following may not be heard as witnesses: a defender or a lawyer or legal advisor acting pursuant to Art. 245 § 1, as to the facts he learned about while providing legal advice or conducting the case In turn, Art. 180 § 2 provides that persons obliged to maintain notarial, attorney-at-law, legal advisor, tax advisor, medical, journalistic or statistical secrecy as well as the secrecy of the General Prosecutor’s Office may be questioned regarding the facts covered by this secrecy only when it is necessary for the benefit of the court. justice, and the fact cannot be established on the basis of other evidence.
In civil proceedings pursuant to Art. 261 § 2, a witness (lawyer or legal advisor) may refuse to answer a question put to him if the testimony would involve a violation of essential professional secrecy.
GDPR clause
Due to the entry into force of Regulation (EU) 2016/679 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 27 April 2016 on the protection of natural persons with regard to the processing of personal data and on the free movement of such data, and repealing Directive 95/46/EC (“GDPR”), we inform you that Kancelaria Adwokacka Wojciech Mędraś processes, among others, personal data:
a.) customers who are natural persons,
b.) in the case of the law firm’s clients who are legal persons or organizational units without legal personality – personal data of persons authorized to represent such entities, employees and associates of such clients,
c.) service providers who are natural persons, as well as employees and associates of service providers,
d.) persons contacting the Law Firm in order to obtain assistance in the field of legal advice provided by the Law Firm, as well as persons whose data were obtained while providing such services to the Law Firm’s clients,
e.) persons cooperating with the Law Firm on a permanent or sporadic basis in the provision of services by the Law Firm.
I. PERSONAL DATA ADMINISTRATOR
The administrator of personal data is the Wojciech Mędraś Law Firm with its registered office in Wrocław, ul. Świdnicka 12/16, 50 – 066 Wrocław,
II. CONTACT DETAILS OF THE ADMINISTRATOR
You can contact us:
a.) by phone: + 48 71 307 97 97
b.) at the e-mail address: kancelaria@wmedras.pl
c.) at the office of the Law Firm at the following address: ul. Świdnicka 12/16, 50 – 066 Wrocław.
III. DATA PROCESSING PURPOSES, LEGAL BASIS AND LEGALLY STATED INTERESTS
We would like to inform you that your personal data will be processed when it is necessary for:
1. conclusion and performance of the contract, i.e. based on Article. 6 section 1 letter b GDPR, in particular legal services contracts, mandate contracts or contracts for the provision of services to the Law Firm by suppliers of such services,
2. fulfillment of legal obligations imposed on the personal data administrator pursuant to Art. 6 section 1 letter c GDPR, arising from EU law or Polish law,
3. for purposes arising from legitimate interests pursued by the administrator or a third party pursuant to Art. 6 section 1 letter f GDPR, which the administrator considers in particular: investigating, determining and defending against claims, preventing fraud, ensuring the security of the ICT environment, using internal control systems, determining conflicts of interest and ethical violations to the extent necessary to counteract abuses, for archival and statistical purposes, as well as the provision of services to the client, in situations where the client’s interests override the interests, rights and freedoms of the data subject.
IV. CATEGORIES OF PERSONAL DATA PROCESSED
The law firm processes the following categories of personal data:
a.) data to confirm identity, such as name and surname, PESEL number, ID card number, date of birth,
b.) contact details, such as: telephone number, e-mail address, residential address, tax identification details,
c.) data regarding education and professional experience – if necessary from the point of view of the legal services provided,
d.) data regarding the property and financial situation – if it is necessary from the point of view of the legal services provided,
e.) data regarding professional and business activities,
f.) data regarding marital status – – if it is necessary from the point of view of the legal services provided,
g.) in addition, the Law Firm may process other categories of personal data, provided that it is done for the purposes specified in this information.
V. CATEGORIES OF DATA RECIPIENTS
The recipients of data may be entities from the following categories:
a.) lawyers, legal advisors, experts, tax advisors, notaries and other entities providing legal services and independently deciding on the purposes and methods of data processing cooperating with the Law Firm,
b.) entities authorized under applicable law (in particular courts and state authorities),
c.) economic information offices;
d.) entities providing services:
– IT and new technologies;
– payment;
– accounting and finance;
– audit and control;
– debt collection;
– printing;
– destruction of documents;
– postal and courier
VI. DATA STORAGE PERIOD
a.) for the purpose of performing the contract – until its termination or expiration;
b.) establishing, pursuing or defending against claims – until the claims become time-barred or an objection is raised;
c.) in order to fulfill the legal obligations of the Law Firm – until the obligations arising from legal provisions expire.
VII. YOUR RIGHTS
At any time you are entitled to:
a.) access to personal data provided by Users relating to these Users, subject to Art. 15 section 3 GDPR (Article 15 GDPR);
b.) rectification of data (Article 16 of the GDPR);
c.) deletion of personal data provided by Users, i.e. “right to be forgotten” (Article 17 of the GDPR);
d.) restrictions on the processing of the User’s personal data (Article 18 of the GDPR);
e.) transfer of the User’s personal data (Article 20 of the GDPR);
f.) withdrawal of consent to data processing at any time, which will not affect the lawfulness of processing based on consent before its withdrawal.
g.) the right to object – in the case of processing personal data based on the legitimate interest of the Administrator, i.e. Art. 6 section 1 letter f) GDPR, – pursuant to Art. 21 GDPR. Accordingly, the Administrator will not be able to process personal data of Users subject to objection on this basis, unless he demonstrates the existence of valid legally justified grounds for processing, overriding the interests, rights and freedoms of the data subject, or grounds for establishing, investigating or defense of claims.
VII. INFORMATION REGARDING THE REQUIREMENT OR VOLUNTARYNESS OF PROVIDING DATA AND THE CONSEQUENCES OF FAILURE TO PROVIDE
In the scope of personal data processing for the purposes referred to in point III. 2 above, the obligation to provide data is a statutory requirement; in turn, in the case of data processing for the purposes referred to in point III. 1 and 3, the obligation to provide data is a contractual requirement – providing personal data for all the purposes referred to above is voluntary, but is necessary to conclude and perform the contract with the Law Firm.
VIII. COMPLAINT TO THE SUPERVISORY AUTHORITY
Users have the right to lodge a complaint at any time with the supervisory authority, i.e. President of the Office for Personal Data Protection, if they believe that the processing of their personal data by the Administrator violates applicable law.
The Law Firm does not transfer personal data outside the European Economic Area and does not process personal data in an automated manner, nor will the data be profiled.
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