Privacy & Cookies Policy
At Labro Law Office (the “Firm“), we value and respect your data privacy rights. We understand that safeguarding your personal data is a huge responsibility. This Privacy and Cookies Policy is meant to help you understand the types of personal data we collect, the purpose of such collection, and how you can exercise your rights as a data subject.
What types of personal data do we collect from you?
We may collect various types of personal data from you when you access our website and social media pages, when you contact us for legal inquiries and requests, and over the course of our engagement as your legal counsel or when you avail of any of our services. In particular, we may collect the following types of personal data from you:
Identity Data - these include your name (in any of its variations or syntax), username and similar identifiers, marital status, age, date of birth, place of birth, race, ethnicity, color, religious, political and philosophical affiliations, personal identifiers issued by the government (i.e., social security number, driver’s license number, etc.), and other personal identifiers;
Personal Records - these include information about your health, education, genetic and biometric profile, and proceedings before administrative bodies and courts;
Contact Data - these include your residential, billing, office and/or business address, email address, phone number, or social media page address;
Financial Data - these include details about your bank account, credit card, or e-wallet, and any other data necessary for us to process payments and fund transfers and implement fraud prevention measures;
Privileged Information - these include information related to your legal inquiries and requests, or those disclosed in the course of our engagement as your legal counsel or when availing of our services;
Technical Data - these include internet protocol addresses, log-in data, browser type and version, time zone setting and location, browser plug-in types and version, operating system and platform, and other technology on the devices you use to access this website;
Profile Data - these include your username and password for platforms maintained by the Firm (where you have access to any), services you have availed, your legal queries and requests, comments posted on the Firm’s website and social media pages, preferences, and feedback and survey responses;
Compliance Data - these include personal data we may collect from you for the purpose of complying with our legal and regulatory obligations; and
Recruitment Data - these include information we may collect from you, and your previous employers and colleagues when you apply for a position at the Firm and/or during the course of your employment at the Firm.
When do we collect such personal data from you?
We may collect such personal data from you when:
You visit our website or social media pages, and when you upload comments on our posts in our website and social media pages;
You contact us regarding a legal inquiry, request, or concern;
During the course of the engagement of the Firm as your or your organization’s legal counsel, or when you or your organization avail of any of our services;
During proceedings before judicial, quasi-judicial bodies, and arbitrators and mediators wherein you participate either as a litigant or a witness, and the Firm is representing one of the litigants;
Processing governmental licenses, permits, approvals, certifications, and visas on your or your organization’s behalf;
You or your organization provides services or supplies products to the Firm;
You or your organization provides us feedback;
We receive personal data such as Identity, Contact and Financial Data from third-party providers of technical, payment and delivery services; and
You apply for a position at the Firm, or during the course of your employment in the Firm.
How do we use your personal data?
We use your personal data for the following purposes (“Permitted Purposes”):
To respond to and address your legal inquiry, request, or concern;
To carryout our engagement as your or your organization’s legal counsel, or to perform a service you or your organization has availed;
To negotiate, draft, and execute a contract between the Firm and you or your organization;
To procure you our your organization’s services or products;
To manage and administer our business and/or professional relationship with you or your organization;
To comply with our legal and regulatory obligations;
To engage you in our website and social media posts;
To conduct surveys, focus group discussions, and similar activities; and
To process your application for a position at the Firm, or for employment-related matters during the course of your employment at the Firm.
How do we ensure the integrity, confidentiality, and availability of your personal data?
We have established effective organizational, physical, and technical security protocols designed to safeguard the confidentiality, integrity, and accessibility of your personal data. These security measures have been seamlessly integrated into our systems, processes, and procedures. We are also firmly dedicated to upholding the preservation of attorney-client confidentiality and privilege. This commitment is not only limited to our lawyers, but it also extends to our non-legal and support staff, as well as authorized third-party service providers and consultants.
To whom do we share your personal data?
Any information we collect for you or your organization may be shared with the Firm’s lawyers, and non-legal and support staff. We may also disclose your personal data to the following categories of authorized third-parties:
Third-party service providers and consultants engaged by the Firm, such as experts, accountants, auditors, medical professionals, IT support services providers, couriers, and messengerial services providers;
Government and regulatory agencies and offices, and law enforcement agencies; and
Courts, quasi-judicial bodies, arbitrators, and mediators, as well as their clerks and personnel, witnesses, opposing parties and their lawyers, court or tribunal-appointed experts, consultants, advisors, and resource persons.
personal data about other individuals
When you provide or disclose to us information about other individuals, such as your employees, company officers, colleagues, family members, service providers, and suppliers, or any other individual, it is imperative you must ensure that you have the right or possess authorization to share or disclose such information with the Firm for further processing.
FOR how long do we retain your personal data?
In general, we will retain your personal data for as long as the Permitted Purposes for which we have collected and processed them remain, and until such purposes have been served. Generally, we will retain your personal data for five (5) years, unless a shorter or longer period is prescribed by applicable laws, rules and regulations. In particular, we shall observe the following data retention periods:
For those collected and processed in connection to a case or a legal matter, we will retain relevant personal data for as such case or legal matter remains pending or active, and for a period of five (5) years from the Firm’s last interaction with the client, the termination of the case or legal matter, or the finality of the decision or order, whichever is longer, unless a shorter or longer period of time is required by our legal, regulatory, and professional obligations;
For those collected and processed through our website and social media pages, except when the same fall under Item No. 1 above, we will retain relevant personal data for a period of five (5) years from the date of our last interaction with you, unless a shorter or longer period of time is required by our legal, regulatory, and professional obligations; and
For those collected and processed for potential employment in the Firm we will retain relevant personal data for a period of seven (7) years from the date of the Firm received such personal data. For employment-related matters during the course of your employment at the Firm, we will retain relevant personal data for a period of seven (7) years from the date of the termination of your employment, except when a longer retention period is necessary in order for the Firm to avail of legal remedies against such employee.
what are your rights as a data subject?
The Data Privacy Act of 2012, and its implementing rules and regulations provides that you have the following rights as a data subject:
Right to be Informed - you have the right to be informed about the personal data collected and processed from you, and the purpose of such collection and processing;
Right to Access - you have the right to request a copy of your personal data which we have collected and processed;
Right to Object - you have the right to refuse to provide consent to the collection and processing of your personal data, as well as withdraw such consent (if one has already been given);
Right to Erasure or Blocking - you have the right to suspend, withdraw or order the blocking, removal, or destruction of your personal data from our systems upon discovery, upon proof that your personal data is either incomplete, outdated, false, unlawfully obtained, used for unauthorized purposes, or are no longer necessary for the purposes for which they were collected;
Right to Rectification - you have the right to demand the correction of any inaccurate data we hold about you;
Right to Data Portability - You have the right to request us to transfer the data we hold about you to another organization;
Right to File a Complaint - You have the right to submit a complaint before the National Privacy Commission if you have concerns about the manner by which we have collected and processed your personal data; and
Right to Damages - you have the right to be indemnified for any damages you sustained due to inaccurate, incomplete, outdated, false, unlawful collection, or unauthorized use of your personal data.
Do you need more information about your rights as a data subject?
☎ Contact our Data Protection Officer:
Landline: +632 9676261
Mobile: +63 908 8941784
Email: dpo@labrolaw.com
➤ Visit us at:
Unit C, 3rd Floor, C&C Business Center, 235 Aguirre Avenue, BF Homes, Paranaque City, Metro Manila, Philippines 1720
🌏︎ Visit the National Privacy Commission’s website:
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Personalize content
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With your consent, we store cookies on your browser or the hard drive of your device (be it a computer, tablet, mobile phone or any other device that can access the internet). The information in the cookie can be used to track your internet usage.
What cookies do we use?
We use the following cookies:
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Analytics and Performance Cookies - our website uses Analytics and Performance cookies to collect information about how visitors interact with our website site. Storing these cookies is how we populate the data for our website’s analytics, such as traffic sources, and unique visitors.
Targeting Cookies - these cookies record your visit to our website, the pages you have visited and the links you have followed. We will use this information to make our website and the advertising displayed on it more relevant to you. We may also share this information with third parties for this purpose.
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Please note that third parties (including, for example, advertising networks and providers of external services like web traffic analysis services) may also use cookies, over which we have no control. These cookies are likely to be analytical/performance cookies or targeting cookies.
Managing cookies
Acceptance or blocking of cookies
You can manage cookies by activating the setting on your Internet browser that allows you to accept or refuse the setting of all or some cookies. You can accept or block cookies on a case-by-case basis, or you can block all cookies. Please note, that changing your settings to block all cookies (including essential cookies) may affect your access to content and services on our website that require the use of cookies. We do not accept any responsibility for any consequences relating to improper operation of our services where it results from our inability to save or consult cookies necessary for the operation of those services or if you have blocked or deleted those cookies. If you consent to the saving of cookies contained in content that you have accessed, those cookies will be stored temporarily in a dedicated location on your device. Please note that you can also adjust the settings on your browser so that it indicates the cookies that are being stored on your device and asks you whether you want to accept them.
Adjusting your settings on different browsers
Each browser has a different set up for the management of cookies and on this basis we provide below (for convenience purposes) the link for the adjustment of cookies to the four most frequently used browsers:
If your browser is not mentioned hereinabove, you should research on how you will be able to make adjustments to your cookie settings.
Depending on the type of cookie, there are other ways of managing cookies that do not involve adjusting your browser's settings.
blocking our website’s cookies
Please click this link to learn more about blocking cookies used by our website: Square Space - Blocking Cookies
Blocking Google Analytics’ Cookies
Google Analytics mainly uses audience-measuring cookies to report on user interactions on Google Analytics customers’ websites and such cookies have been placed on our website by Google Analytics. Google Analytics uses cookies to collect information in an anonymous form (aggregated) about how visitors use the website, such as the number of page views, how visitors have arrived at the website, and the number of visits. The purpose is to help us improve the usability of the website. The information generated through your website usage is redirected to and stored by Google Inc. You can block these specific cookies by clicking on the deactivation link below, downloading the add-on and installing it on your browser. Please check compatibility of the add on with your browser.
Google Analytics deactivation link: Deactivate Google Analytics
We would like to highlight that the downloaded add-on will save a cookie on your device, but that cookie will be used only to prevent your browser from transmitting data to Google Analytics.
For more information on deactivating Google Analytics and installing the browser add-on, click this link: Browser Add-on to Deactivate Google Analytics
For more information on how Google Analytics’ treats personal information when you use Google's products and services click this link: Google Privacy Policy
Blocking social network cookies
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changes to this policy
This Privacy and Cookies Policy may be updated from time to time. We suggest that you periodically review this Privacy and Cookies Policy for the latest updates. This was last updated on November 5, 2023.