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Privacy Policy

1. Introduction

Astre Legal (“We”) respect your privacy and are committed to protecting it by complying with this policy. As a law firm, we collect, use and disclose information to render our services in consultation, and transaction. We use all information, especially personal information, in accordance with the highest ethical standards and put professional secrecy at the heart of our client relationship.

This policy describes:

How we collect, use, disclose, and protect the personal information of our customers and website users (“you”).
Describes the types of information we may collect from you or that you may provide when you visit the website www.astrelegal.com (our “Website”).
Our practices for collecting, using, maintaining, protecting, and disclosing that information.

This policy applies to information we collect, use, or disclose about you:

On this Website.
In email, text, and other electronic messages between you and this Website.
When you interact with our advertising and applications on third-party websites and services if those applications or advertising include links to this policy.

The Website may include links to third-party websites, plug-ins, services, social networks, or applications. These third parties have their own privacy policies and we do not accept any responsibility or liability for these policies. We encourage you to read the privacy policy of every website you visit.

By accessing or using this Website, you indicate that you understand, accept, and consent to the practices described in this policy. This policy may change from time to time. Your continued use of this Website after we make changes indicates that you accept and consent to those changes, so please check the policy periodically for updates. We will notify you in advance of any material changes to this policy and obtain your consent to any new ways that we collect, use, and disclose your personal information.

2. Information We Collect About You

We collect and use several types of information from and about you, including:

Personal information, that we can reasonably use to directly or indirectly identify you, such as your name, mailing address, e-mail address, telephone number, Internet protocol (IP) address used to connect your computer to the Internet, user name or other similar identifier, and any other identifier we may use to contact you (“personal information”).
Billing and financial information such as billing address, bank account and payment information.
Services information such as details of services that we have rendered to you;
Identification and other background verification data such as a copy of ID’s (like driver’s licence, passports or utility bills) or the source of funds to comply with anti-money laundering laws and collected as part of our client acceptance and ongoing monitoring procedures.
Non-personal information, that does not directly or indirectly reveal your identity or directly relate to an identifiable individual, demographic information, or statistical or aggregated information. Statistical or aggregated data does not directly identify a specific person, but we may derive non-personal statistical or aggregated data from personal information. For example, we may aggregate personal information to calculate the percentage of users accessing a specific Website feature.
Technical information, including your browser type and version, time zone setting, browser plug-in types and versions, operating system and platform, or information about your internet connection, the equipment you use to access our Website, and usage details.
Non-personal details about your Website interactions, including the full Uniform Resource Locators (URLs), clickstream to, through and from our Website (including date and time), services you viewed or searched for, page response times, download errors, length of visits to certain pages, page interaction information (such as scrolling, clicks, and mouse-overs), methods used to browse away from the page, or any phone number used to call our customer service number.
You cannot send us confidential information until we have confirmed in writing that we represent or act for you or your company or organization. Unsolicited emails sent to us from non-clients do not establish a lawyer-client relationship. They may not be privileged and, therefore, are subject to disclosure to third parties.

3. How We Collect Information About You

We use different methods to collect your information, including through:

Direct interactions with you when you provide it to us, for example, by filling in forms or corresponding with us by phone, email, by filling in forms on our website, or otherwise.
Automated technologies or interactions, as you navigate through our Website. Information collected automatically may include usage details, IP addresses, and information collected through cookies, web beacons, and other tracking technologies.

4. How We Use Your Information

We use information that we collect about you or that you provide to us, including any personal information:

To provide our legal and other services and to conduct our business, to administer and perform our services, including to carry out our obligations arising from any agreements entered into between you and us.
To respond to requests for information or enquiries from visitors to our websites.
To present our Website and its contents to you.
To notify you about changes to our Website or any services we offer or provide through it.
To measure or understand the effectiveness of the advertising we serve to you and others, and to deliver relevant advertising to you.
In any other way we may describe when you provide the information.
For any other purpose with your consent.

5. Disclosure Of Your Information

We may disclose aggregated information about our users, and information that does not identify any individual, without restriction.

We may disclose personal information that we collect or you provide as described in this privacy policy:

To fulfill the purpose for which you provide it.
For any other purpose disclosed by us when you provide the information.
With your consent.
To comply with any court order, law, or legal process, including to respond to any government or regulatory request, in accordance with applicable law.
To advertisers and advertising networks that require the information to select and serve relevant advertisements to you and others. We do not disclose data about identifiable individuals to our advertisers, but we may provide them with aggregate information about our users (for example, we may inform them that 400 women between 30 and 45 have clicked on their advertisement on a specific day). We may also use such aggregate information to help advertisers target a specific audience (for example, men in a specific location). We may make use of the personal information we have collected from you to enable us to display our advertisers’ advertisements to that target audience.

6. Data Security

The security of your personal information is very important to us. We use physical, electronic, and administrative measures designed to secure your personal information from accidental loss and from unauthorized access, use, alteration, and disclosure.

Unfortunately, the transmission of information via the Internet is not completely secure. Although we do our best to protect your personal information, we cannot guarantee the security of your personal information transmitted to our Website. Any transmission of personal information is at your own risk. We are not responsible for circumvention of any privacy settings or security measures contained on the Website.

7. Data Retention

Except as otherwise permitted or required by applicable law or regulation, we will only retain your personal information for as long as necessary to fulfill the purposes we collected it for, including for the purposes of satisfying any legal, accounting, or reporting requirements. Under some circumstances we may anonymize your personal information so that it can no longer be associated with you. We reserve the right to use such anonymous and de-identified data for any legitimate business purpose without further notice to you or your consent.

8. Accessing And Correcting Your Personal Information

It is important that the personal information we hold about you is accurate and current. Please keep us informed if your personal information changes. By law you have the right to request access to and to correct the personal information that we hold about you.If you are concerned about our response or would like to correct the information provided, you may contact us at atrehin@astrelegal.com.

9. Withdrawing Your Consent

Where you have provided your consent to the collection, use, and transfer of your personal information, you may have the legal right to withdraw your consent. To withdraw your consent, if applicable, contact us at atrehin@astrelegal.com. Please note that if you withdraw your consent we may not be able to provide you with a particular service. We will explain the impact to you at the time to help you with your decision.

10. Changes To Our Privacy Policy

It is our policy to post any changes we make to our privacy policy on this page. If we make material changes to how we treat our users’ personal information, we will notify you through a notice on the Website home page.

We include the date the privacy policy was last revised at the top of the page. You are responsible for ensuring we have an up-to-date, active, and deliverable email address for you, and for periodically visiting our Website and this privacy policy to check for any changes.

Last modified: March 31st, 2022