Privacy Policy
Cescon, Barrieu, Flesch & Barreto Sociedade de Advogados (“Cescon Barrieu” or “We”) is committed to preserving the privacy and protection of the personal data of its clients, partners and employees (“Data Subject” or “You”). Thus, the purpose of this document is to clarify how Cescon Barrieu treats information that identifies or may identify the Data Subject (“Personal Data”) collected in the development of its activities, including through the website www.cesconbarrieu.com.br (“Website”). Mainly we aim to indicate for what purposes Personal Data is processed, for how long, with whom we may share it and how You may request the exercise of your rights (“Privacy Policy”).
As indicated above, this Privacy Policy explains how we treat Personal Data of Data Subject in the context of the relationship between Cescon Barrieu and the Data Subject. However, where Cescon Barrieu and the Data Subject have entered into a specific agreement containing data protection terms, the provisions of the agreement shall be complied with. For the purposes of this Privacy Policy, “Treatment” or “Treat” means any operation performed with Personal Data, such as collection, use, storage and deletion. If you have any questions about the Privacy Policy, please contact us at privacidade@cesconbarrieu.com.br.
As indicated above, this Privacy Policy explains how we treat Personal Data of Data Subject in the context of the relationship between Cescon Barrieu and the Data Subject. However, where Cescon Barrieu and the Data Subject have entered into a specific agreement containing data protection terms, the provisions of the agreement shall be complied with. For the purposes of this Privacy Policy, “Treatment” or “Treat” means any operation performed with Personal Data, such as collection, use, storage and deletion. If you have any questions about the Privacy Policy, please contact us at privacidade@cesconbarrieu.com.br.
The Data Subject who is using the Website on behalf of a company, entity or organization represents and warrants that he or she is duly authorized to do so.
1. What Personal Data May We Treat?
Below is Personal Data that may be used by Cescon Barrieu, depending on the context and whether You are a client, partner or employee of our firm. Cescon Barrieu may ask you to update your Personal Data from time to time.
| Personal Data Category Identity Information | Personal Data Specification Full name, marital status, date of birth, gender, occupation, position, identity documents. |
| Contact Details | Home and business address, email, phone numbers. |
| Financial Information Transaction Data Client Information | Bank details and means of payment data, such as credit card data. Data about services rendered, invoice data, salary payment data. This includes Identity Information, Contact Details, Financial Information, Transaction Data, Sensitive Personal Data (as defined below), as well as information and Personal Data about any partners of the client, family members and employees of the client. |
| Employee Data Candidate Data Sensitive Personal Data | Identity Documents, resume, assessment performance data, beneficiary data for the purposes of benefits granted by Cescon Barrieu, resume information, Sensitive Personal Data (as defined below; e.g. union membership data). Identity Data, Contact Details, resume, performance data in assessments applied by Cescon Barrieu in selection processes. Personal Data about racial or ethnic origin, religious belief, political opinion, membership of a trade union or religious, philosophical or political organization, data concerning health or sex life, genetic or biometric data, when linked to a natural person. With regard to Sensitive Personal Data, we clarify that we only treat such data to the extent necessary to provide our legal services to our clients (for example, some labor proceedings, such as disputes involving alleged discrimination, information about medical conditions, race, religion, union membership and/or sexual orientation may be relevant to the representation) and for Cescon Barrieu to follow rights and obligations under applicable laws, such as applicable labor or social security laws. |
| Browsing Data | IP, date, time, cookies. |
In addition to collecting data upon specific consent, Cescon Barrieu may collect personal data from the user where it is necessary to comply with a contract, when required by law or there is a legitimate interest in this regard.
2. What Personal Data may we Treat and for what purpose?
2. What Personal Data may we Treat and for what purpose?
In the subsequent tables below, You will find out what Personal Data we Treat and for what purposes.
In all the cases of collection of Personal Data mentioned above, Cescon Barrieu may use Personal Data to send (i) information about Cescon Barrieu’s performance areas; (ii) news items in which Cescon Barrieu or its members have appeared in the media; (iii) invitations to events, as well as reminders about such invitations (iv) client satisfaction surveys; (v) other materials produced by Cescon Barrieu on the performance areas and for events; and (vi) physical materials, such as books and gifts from Cescon Barrieu; always in a reasonable manner and in line with the Personal Data Subject’s reasonable expectation.
| Purpose of the Personal Data Treatment | Type of Personal Data Treated |
| To register a new client, perform due diligence, background checks on new clients and partners, and check conflicts with other clients. | Identity Data Contact Details Client Information |
| For the provision of services by Cescon Barrieu, including in (i) drafting, reviewing and negotiating contracts; (ii) performing and participating in due diligences to assess companies’ compliance with applicable Brazilian laws and to analyze risks; (iii) participating in works involving mergers, acquisitions and capital markets transactions; (iv) representing and managing administrative and judicial proceedings. | Identity Data Contact Details Client Information Financial Information Transaction Data Employee Information Sensitive Personal Data |
| To manage the employment relationship, according to internal policies. If the Data Subject is an employee or a third party hired by Cescon Barrieu, we may collect and Treat Personal Data at the time of hiring or during the employment agreement. | Financial Information Transaction Data Employee Information Sensitive Personal Data |
| To contact the Data Subject, analyze his/her profile for a given vacancy, conduct job interviews, and conduct candidate selection process. To process payments. | Candidate Information Identity Data Contact Details Client Data Financial Information Transaction Data Employee Information |
| To manage access to our facilities and for security purposes. To perform criminal background checks, when allowed. For use within the Alumni program – mainly for sending invitations to events and information about Cescon Barrieu, if the Data Subject registers for the Cescon Barrieu Alumni program. | Identity Data Contact Details Photo and video data (picture and sound). Identity Data Contact Details Sensitive Personal Data Identity Data Contact Details |
| For information exchange and benchmarking, if the Personal Data Subject or his/her company is a business partner of Cescon Barrieu or in parallel projects, such as social actions. For communication to keep you up to date on the latest developments, announcements and other information about our services and solutions (including briefings, newsletters and other information), events and initiatives; to send you details of client surveys, marketing campaigns, market analyses, or other promotional activities. To exercise or defend our legal rights or to comply with court orders. | Identity Data Contact Details Identity Data Contact Details Identity Data Contact Details Financial Information Transaction Data Client Information Employee Information Sensitive Personal Data Browsing Data |
Note that we will only provide You with marketing-related information if You do not opt-out of receiving such communications and if (i) we have a prior contractual and/or business relationship, (ii) we believe it is within our legitimate interests, or (iii) You have consented. Where possible, in communications sent by Cescon Barrieu, there will be an option to access by email or contact address for the Personal Data Subject to inform that he or she no longer wishes to receive any materials or emails from Cescon Barrieu.
If You provide Cescon Barrieu with Personal Data and/or Sensitive Personal Data about anyone other than Yourself, your employees, counterparts, consultants or suppliers, we request that only the information strictly necessary to achieve the purpose of each case be shared. If you have questions, our staff may provide clarification and guidance on what information is required.
3. Cookies
Cescon Barrieu uses cookies on the Website. Cookies are small files that may be stored on your device (computer, smartphone or other Internetconnected device such as a smartphone or tablet) when you visit our Website. Cookies are useful because they allow a website to recognize a user’s device.
Cescon Barrieu uses cookies on the Website. Cookies are small files that may be stored on your device (computer, smartphone or other Internetconnected device such as a smartphone or tablet) when you visit our Website. Cookies are useful because they allow a website to recognize a user’s device.
On our Website, we use the following types of cookies:
- Strictly necessary cookies: These are cookies that are necessary for the operation of the Website. Strictly necessary cookies adjust transmitted Website data to match your internet connection, lead you to secure versions of the Website. These cookies cannot be disabled.
- Analytics cookies: Cookies from Google Analytics, which is a free analytics tool that Google provides to help us understand how Users interact with the Website. Google Analytics collects information anonymously and analyzes trends on the Website without identifying Users. These cookies are used to store information, such as what time the access occurred, whether the User has accessed the Website before, and what website referred the User to the Website.
You can change the settings to block cookies or alert you when a cookie is being sent to your device in your Internet browser settings. There are several ways to manage cookies. Please refer to your browser instructions or help section to learn more about how to adjust or change your browser settings. The following are links to some browsers that you may use to learn how to change your cookie settings in those browsers: Firefox | Cookies,Safara | Cookies, Chrome | Cookies, and Microsoft | Cookies. Disabling the cookies we use may impact your experience at our Website, for example, you may not be able to visit certain areas of our Website or you may not receive personalized information when you visit our Website.
Personal Data may be transferred to other countries, including to countries which do not have laws for the protection of Personal Data that ensure the same level of protection as the Brazilian legislation. We will use our best efforts to adopt measures to ensure the protection of the Personal Data transferred and the privacy of the Personal Data Subjects.
4. Information Security
Cescon Barrieu adopts information security measures that aim to protect the Personal Data in our custody. From among the measures adopted, we highlight the following:
- Security tools chosen among the best available on the market. An example of such a measure is information encryption, which scrambles the data provided, especially Secure Socket Layer (SSL) encryption technology where necessary for Internet transactions;
- Employee training on data protection issues;
- Implementation of Personal Data governance (committee focused on the subject that aims to constantly improve the measures adopted by the governance office, internal security Policies); and
- Confidentiality obligation for employees who have access to Personal Data.
Cescon Barrieu implements physical, electronic, contractual, and administrative measures to safeguard and secure the information it collects, but no method of transmission over the Internet or electronic storage is 100% secure.
5. Sharing of Personal Data
Cescon Barrieu will not share Personal Data under its ownership with third parties, except as disclosure is necessary under the terms set forth below:
| Third parties with whom we may share Subject data | Why may we share data with third parties? |
| Cescon Barrieu Partners Client Partners Authorities | If sharing for the provision of client services with Cescon Barrieu’s partners, such as legal and paralegal representatives, translators, educational assessment services, couriers, as well as other organizations for fraud prevention and credit risk mitigation purposes. Personal Data will also be shared with information technology partners, including providers of software, cloud and cybersecurity services to perform the services offered by Cescon Barrieu. In particular, for employees, Personal Data may be shared with unions, benefit providers and authorities. To share your Personal Data with our partners if necessary during the performance of our services. To comply with a legal or regulatory obligation, including to protect the rights, property or safety of Cescon Barrieu, its Data Subjects, clients, partners and employees. |
6. Deadline for Treating Personal Data
Cescon Barrieu stores Personal Data until such time as we no longer expect to use it to fulfill the purpose for which it was collected, including for providing services, sending mailings, providing client history, meeting a legal obligation, or demonstrating compliance with applicable law. In determining the appropriate period of storage, we take into consideration the nature, quantity and sensitivity of the Personal Data, as well as the purpose, necessity and appropriateness of its storage.
7. Links indicated on the Website
Where the Website provides links to other websites and sources provided by third parties, such links are provided for your information only. These websites operate independently from Cescon Barrieu and have their own privacy and Personal Data collection procedures. Any information you provide to these websites will be used in accordance with their specific privacy policies, if any. Cescon Barrieu is not responsible or liable for the actions or policies of these independent websites and is not responsible for their content.
8. Data Subject Rights
We will meet the Subject’s requests regarding his/her Personal Data, as follows. Requests should be sent to the email address privacidade@cesconbarrieu.com.br
| Data Subject Rights Access Correction and Updating | Right of access to Personal Data processed when using our Website. Request that we correct and update your Personal Data. In this case, we will inform the third parties with whom the personal data has been shared of the correction and update. |
| Portability | Request transfer of your Personal Data from Cescon Barrieu’s database to a third party. |
| Withdrawal of Consent Objection to Treatment | Withdraw any consent given for any particular Treatment of Personal Data (it is possible that the withdrawal of consent would mean that we would be unable to offer you our Services). Object to where and in what context Cescon Barrieu processes your Personal Data. In certain situations, we may demonstrate that we have legitimate reasons for processing your Personal Data. |
| Deletion | Request deletion of your Personal Data from our database. In such case, we will inform third parties with whom the Personal Data has been shared of our decision. We may retain certain Personal Data if necessary (i) to comply with applicable law; or (ii) to exercise our rights in legal, administrative or arbitral proceedings. Except in the cases mentioned, we will delete or keep your data anonymized (we will use the technique available at the time of the request for deletion). |
| Blocking | To request the suspension of the Processing of your Personal Data if You have legitimate reasons to request the suspension of the Processing of your Personal Data or You want your Personal Data to be kept, even if Cescon Barrieu no longer needs to Process your Personal Data. |
9. International data transfer
Personal Data may be transferred to other countries, including to countries which do not have laws for the protection of Personal Data that ensure the same level of protection as the Brazilian legislation. We will use our best efforts to adopt measures to ensure the protection of the Personal Data transferred and the privacy of the Personal Data Subjects.
10. Privacy Policy Review
We may review this Privacy Policy at any time by making changes to this page, which will be posted on our Website. Any significant changes to the Privacy Policy will be notified by means of an alert sent to emails under the responsibility of Cescon Barrieu.
11. Contact / Complaints / Questions
If you have any questions about our processing of your personal data or would like to receive any additional information regarding this Privacy Policy, please contact us at privacidade@cesconbarrieu.com.br.
This Privacy Policy was updated in September 2021 and is effective for an indefinite period.
