As professionals engaged in the provision of legal services to a wide array of varying clients, August Hill & Associates, (“the firm/us/we”) is committed to protecting the privacy of confidential and “Personal Data” (information that identifies or can be used to identify individuals). It is and shall remain our policy to comply with the rules of professional conduct governing our industry and which impose a duty to preserve and protect confidential client information, upon lawyers and their associated personnel.
This Privacy Policy is based on the principles and guidelines as promulgated in the Data Protection Act No. 3 of 2021 of the Laws of Zambia which regulates the transmission, collection, storage, use and processing of personal data in this jurisdiction. This Privacy Policy is applied in light of our overarching obligation to comply with the law, to preserve client confidentiality while representing our clients as effectively as possible within the parameters of the law. This Privacy Policy is intended to summarize the firm’s data protection practices generally, and to advise our clients, website visitors, and other third parties about the firm’s privacy policies that may be applicable to them.
This Privacy Policy is also specifically addressed to third parties who provide Personal Data to the firm or who visit or use the firm’s websites or our social media sites (collectively referred to as “Internet Platforms”). This privacy Policy also describes how the firm collects, processes and uses Personal Data in connection with the provision of legal services and the Internet Services.
This Privacy Policy, together with our Terms and Conditions posted on our website, sets forth the general rules and policies governing your use of our Internet Platforms. Depending on your activities when visiting our website or social media sites, you may be required to agree to additional terms and conditions.
The firm collects Personal Data in the course of providing legal services to clients and as provided by visitors to or users of our Internet Platforms. We may also collect Personal Data about you when you interact with us on our Internet Platforms and from other third parties and may also automatically collect information that may contain Personal Data as described below in the cookie policy.
We may use that Personal Data where in our legitimate interest to do so for the following purposes permits:
- to contact you and respond to your requests and enquiries;
- to personalize your visit and use of our Internet Platforms and to assist you while you use those services;
- to carry out, monitor and analyze our business or website operations;
- to provide you with legal services, if you are or become a client of the firm, and otherwise deal with you, and administer the matters you instruct us on;
- to contact you (unless you tell us that you prefer us not to) regarding legal or law firm developments that may be of interest to you;
- to enter into or carry out contracts of various kinds;
- to comply with applicable laws, regulations, guidance or professional obligations that we may be subject to, including anti-money laundering requirements. Where Personal Data is necessary for the firm to carry out its anti-money laundering checks failure to provide such information may result in the firm not being able to provide the representation.
Keeping in line with our professional obligations, it is our policy to exercise the utmost discretion regarding the information our clients entrust to us.
We strive to maintain reasonable and appropriate, albeit not infallible, physical, electronic and procedural safeguards intended to uphold the confidentiality of Personal Data, including that provided by a visitor to this website and provided while using our social media sites. We do not/cannot guarantee that our safeguards will always work.
We may retain information provided by you, including Personal Data, for as long as necessary to comply with our legal obligations, or to achieve the purposes for which the information was originally collected and for the purposes described in this Privacy Policy. If you wish to obtain more details on our information practices, please refer to the “Contact Us” section below.
It is part of the firm’s policy to not disclose any Personal Data to unrelated parties outside of the firm except in limited circumstances. Such circumstances include disclosures to our agents or data processors or other third parties acting on our behalf and at our direction, subject to appropriate confidentiality, privacy and information security commitments provided by the receiving party, or where we believe it necessary to provide a service which you have requested, or as permitted or required by law, or as otherwise authorized or directed by you. Consistent with our professional obligations, we may provide Personal Data to regulatory authorities and law enforcement officials in accordance with applicable law or when we otherwise believe in good faith that the provision of such information is required or permitted by law, such as in connection with the investigation or assertion of our legal defenses or for our legal and/or regulatory compliance matters.
A cookie is a text file sent by a web server and placed on your computer by your web browser. Cookies can be usefully divided into two different types; session and persistent. Session cookies differ from persistent cookies primarily in that session cookies are temporary and expire and are normally deleted when you close your browser. Persistent cookies, in contrast, remain stored on your computer after you close your browser until they are deleted either because they expire or you delete them.
Cookies are often used in conjunction with other Internet technologies, such as web beacons, to understand behavior on the Internet.The firm’s Internet Platforms also use cookies. Although the firm uses the services of third parties in connection with these cookies, we do not allow the third-party service provider to use Personal Data about the users of our Internet Platforms.
None of these cookies are strictly necessary to access our Internet Platforms. You may reset your browser to refuse all cookies or to allow your browser to alert you when a cookie is set, however, certain parts of the Internet Platforms may function differently and not as well. Unless you have adjusted your browser setting so that it will refuse cookies, our Internet Platforms will issue cookies when you logon to the firm’s Internet Platforms. For more information about how to manage your cookies preferences, you should use the “help” menu of your web browser or explore the customer support sections of your web browser. Please note that you need to configure each browser on each device that you use if you wish to opt-out or block some or all cookies.
Our website may contain links to enable you to visit other websites of interest easily. These third – party sites have separate and independent privacy policies. We therefore have no responsibility or liability for the content and activities of these linked sites.
We reserve the right, in our discretion, to change this Privacy Policy at any time and from time to time without advance notice. Should any new policy go into effect for our Internet Platforms, the firm will post it on this website and relevant social media sites. We urge you to review the Privacy Policy for changes. Your continued use of any of this website means that you accept any changes.
If you have any questions relating to our use of your Personal Data please contact us by mail at: info@augusthill.co.zm or by phone: +260 211356032.