Introduction
ZSK Attorneys-at-Law and its branches (“ZSK/we”) are always committed to protecting your privacy and data security. The Privacy Policy of ZSK Attorneys-at-Law (“this Privacy Policy”) is intended to explain to you how we collect, use, share and protect your personal information and other matters related to the protection of information. Please read it carefully.
We may collect and use your personal sensitive information for the purpose of providing you with specific services. We will remind you by underlining sensitive personal information in this Privacy Policy. In the course of use, careful consideration should be given to whether such information is provided to us. We will make every effort to protect your personal information.
We may amend the Privacy Policy and notify you of the updates. If there are substantive changes, we will publish the new version of Privacy Policy on the ZSK website by means of page notification before it takes effect, or contact you in a more prominent way and explain such substantive changes to you, so that you can understand the specific changes and make suggestions to us. If you do not accept the revised terms, please stop using our services.
1. How We Collect Your Personal Information
In order to provide relevant services to you, we need to collect and process your relevant personal information. We collect and process your sensitive personal information only under certain specific and necessary circumstances in accordance with the requirements of laws and regulations. Sensitive personal information refers to personal information that, once disclosed or illegally used, is likely to lead to the infringement of the personal dignity of natural persons or the endangerment of personal and property safety. For sensitive personal information, we will draw your attention by underlining.
2. How We Use Your Information
The personal information we collect about you may be used for the following purposes:
Provision of legal services: In order to provide our most basic legal services, we need to collect and use your information or the information of your company’s employees to help us understand the actual situation and determine solutions;
Performance of contractual obligations: We will collect and use your information in accordance with the signed legal service agreement. In order to fully perform the contract, we may collect personal and enterprise information related to you or the project;
Compliance with applicable laws or regulatory authority orders: We will provide services in strict accordance with laws, regulations and legal professional ethics, and we may use your information for purposes required by laws and regulations, court orders or other legal procedures, or competent government authorities;
Development, research and marketing: We are always committed to the forefront of legal research and market development. In some cases, we may use your personal information and de-identified and anonymized information. We provide you with promotional information that you may be interested in, including our products and services, news and advertisements, performance and activities. If you do not want to accept the marketing information we provide to you in any way, you may choose to withdraw your authorization consent.
3. How We Entrust Processing, Share, Transfer and Publicly Disclose Your Personal Information
(1) Entrusted processing
For the purposes described in this Privacy Policy, we may entrust third-party service providers to assist us in providing support for related operations and services. In the process, your personal information will be processed to realize the functions of our products and/or services.
(2) Sharing
For the purposes of this Privacy Policy, we may share your personal information with third parties under the following circumstances:
Service partners: such as banks, express delivery companies, etc.
Regulatory authorities or tax authorities: We will share your personal information in accordance with laws and regulations or the requirements of competent government departments.
(3) Transfer
Generally, we will not transfer your personal information to any company, organization or individual, except for the following situations:
We will transfer your personal information to other parties after obtaining your explicit authorization or on other lawful basis;
In the case of merger, division, dissolution, bankruptcy, etc., if the transfer of personal information is involved, we will require the new company or organization holding your personal information to continue to be bound by this policy, otherwise we will require the company or organization to re-apply to you for authorization.
(4) Public Disclosure
We do not publicly disclose your personal information, except for the following situations:
After obtaining your explicit authorization or on any other lawful basis;
Legally based disclosure: We may publicly disclose your personal information when required by laws, legal processes, litigations or mandatory requirements of government authorities.
4. How We Protect Your Personal Information
We respect and protect your personal information. When processing your personal information, protecting its security is an important goal for us. We will collect, store, transmit, use and process your personal information in accordance with this Privacy Policy and any Privacy Policy as published or updated from time to time. In the process of collection, storage, transmission and other processing, we will choose encryption, deidentification or other necessary security technologies and procedures to protect your personal information according to the purpose of use, so as to avoid illegal disclosure or unauthorized access, use, modification, damage, or public disclosure of your personal information.
5. Data Storage Period
Unless otherwise stipulated by laws and regulations or special requirements of law enforcement agencies, we will retain your personal information within the minimum period stipulated by law and the period required to achieve the purposes described in this Privacy Policy, except as otherwise provided by laws and regulations. After the above time limit, we will delete or anonymize your personal information. We will specifically judge the period of information storage according to the amount, nature, sensitivity, purpose of collection and use, risk level and legal and regulatory requirements of the information.
6. Cross-border Data Transmission
The personal information collected and generated within the territory of the People’s Republic of China will be stored within the territory of the People’s Republic of China. If it is really necessary to provide your personal information abroad due to business needs, we will provide your personal information to overseas entities while fulfilling the obligations stipulated by applicable laws, and ensuring that necessary measures are taken to ensure the security of your personal information.
7. Rights of Your Personal Information Subject
We will guarantee the rights of your personal information in accordance with applicable laws and regulations. When you exercise your rights, we may require you to provide proof of identity to ensure the security of customer information. We will reply with our handling opinions or results within 15 working days after receiving your feedback and verifying your identity.
8. Protection of Minors
To protect the legal rights of minors, we may provide legal services to a minor, at which time we will obtain the consent and authorization of the guardian of the minor, and the guardian shall provide or accompany the minor to provide his/her personal information.
