This Privacy Notice (this “Notice”) of Oldani Entrepreneurial Law, P.C. (“Oldani Law”, “us” or “we”), an Illinois professional corporation, describes how Oldani Law uses your personal information (including the personal information you provide to us about others) (collectively, “PI”) and discusses your rights. Updates to this Notice will appear on this website, primarily through this Privacy Notice. This Notice does not apply to any third-party websites, platforms, content, information, products or services which may be referenced or accessible through links or otherwise on the Oldani Law website.

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Oldani Law takes seriously and respects your privacy. If you have any questions regarding our collection or processing of your PI or would like to exercise your privacy rights, please email or call Jessica Oldani at joldani@oldanilaw.com or 844-344-2147 x101 or reach the office at info@oldanilaw.com or 844-344-2147 x103.

 

WHY WE COLLECT YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION AND HOW WE USE IT

We collect your PI to communicate with you, provide you with legal services (when expressly engaged by you through a written engagement agreement), provide others with legal services relevant to you, manage our business and relationships, and for legal and regulatory purposes.

Specifically, we may collect your PI under the following legal bases and for purposes such as the following:

Legal Basis	Example Purposes
You provide your consent	To respond to your communications or requests for information; to provide marketing, news, and public relations information requiring your consent; to carry out supporting activity on your behalf when you are an employee; otherwise with respect to your valid consent
To take steps at your request prior to entering into a contract with you, to form a contract with you, or to perform or exercise rights or obligations under a contract with you	In connection with enquiries by you; an engagement agreement or the related services and billing; an employment offer or the management of your employment and compensation; or a service agreement or the management of your services and compensation; or otherwise with respect to any pre-contract or actual contract or agreement with you and the related contractual activity
To comply with law or a legal or regulatory obligation	To carry out internal conflict checks, perform due diligence on client matters, or maintain our accounting and supporting records information for tax compliance purposes; to comply with government new-hire information or employment-related registration and reporting requirements; to prepare and/or file documents and instruments with government agencies or otherwise relative to client matters; to ensure compliance with our professional regulatory (including privacy) obligations; to protect our information and/or property and/or that of others who have entrusted us with their information and/or property; or otherwise with respect to other laws, rules, and obligations thereunder to which we are subject
To protect your or another person’s vital interests	In the event of death, medical emergency, or otherwise under specifically applicable circumstances
For purposes of our legitimate interests or that of another party, except when your interests or fundamental rights and freedoms override those interests	For effective provision of services; maintaining our service records in connection with future prospective needs of clients; client satisfaction and retention of related records for insurance and response purposes; business financial planning; accounting, tax, and auditing; corporate, business and service management, reporting, review, analysis, and other due diligence and improvement; security and business continuity; marketing, news, and public relations; website and communications management, maintenance, review, analysis, and improvement; or otherwise with respect to other specific, legitimate purposes communicated to you through specific means. Please do not hesitate to contact us if you believe your interests, rights, or freedoms conflict with or override any of such purposes
For one or more of the other purposes and legal bases provided in this section, when the data is manifestly made public by you	Such as on your publicly accessible social media accounts or otherwise
For the establishment, exercise, or defense of legal or regulatory claims	To make, defend, or support a client claim, complaint, or regulatory action or filing; to exercise our legal rights; to defend claims, complaints, or regulatory allegations against us; or otherwise for the establishment, exercise, or defense of any other legal or regulatory claim;
For reasons of substantial public interest, on the basis of law	The prevention or detection of fraud, other unlawful acts, misconduct, or otherwise in the public interest
For reasons of public interest in the area of public health, such as protecting against serious cross-border threats to health, on the basis of law	In connection with epidemic, pandemic, or other serious threat to health in accordance with public health requirements

 

HOW WE COLLECT YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION

We may collect your PI:

Directly from you	For example, when you make enquiries, engage us, seek employment with us, or otherwise contract with us
Automatically through our website or other marketing communications	For example, your IP address collected through Cookies when you visit our website or click links in marketing communications
From publicly available information	For example, from available websites, social networking platforms, news and press, and other relevant public data sources
From applicable third parties	For example, your business partners, business agents and representatives, counterparties to legal matters, other attorneys or professional service providers, employers, employees, reference providers, government agencies, and others

WHERE INFORMATION IS COLLECTED DIRECTLY FROM YOU, IT MAY BE COLLECTED, AT LEAST IN PART, UNDER OR IN CONNECTION WITH A STATUTE, A CONTRACT, OR AS NECESSARY TO ENTER INTO A CONTRACT. IN SUCH CASES, YOU ARE GENERALLY REQUIRED TO PROVIDE THE INFORMATION, PROVIDED THAT CERTAIN COLLECTION OF INFORMATION MAY SOMETIMES BE AVOIDED SUBJECT TO THE CONSEQUENCES DESCRIBED BELOW IN THIS NOTICE.

TYPES OF PERSONAL INFORMATION WE COLLECT

The types of PI we may collect and examples of the possible consequences of not providing the information include:

Type of Data	Data Examples	Examples of Collection	Example Consequences of Not Providing the Data
Personal contact data	Name, home address, telephone contact, email address	When you are a prospective or actual client, employee, or other business contact	We may not be able to provide you with services, hire you, or communicate with you
Identity data	Name, passport, SSN or other Tax ID, or other ID data	When you are an employee for regulatory purposes or when you are a client for purposes of preparing and/or filing documents requiring such data	We would not be able to hire you or provide you with applicable legal services
Work and business data	Name of business or employer, job title or position data, work contact data, other work- or business-related information you provide when reaching out to us or seeking services	When you are an actual or prospective client, employee, vendor, or other business contact	We may not be able to respond to your inquiries or requests, provide you with applicable legal services, engage you, communicate with you, or conduct pre-hiring checks
Right to work data	Nationality, residency, passport, and/or other work permit data	When provided by you in connection with employment	We may not be able to hire you
Academic and professional data	Educational experience, work experience, resume data	When provided by you or through independent investigation in connection with your prospective employment	We may not be able to conduct pre-hiring checks
Reference data	Confirmation regarding your work history, skills, and related data	In connection with your prospective employment	We may not be able to conduct pre-hiring checks
Personality and competencies survey data	Data regarding your personality, preferences, problem solving tendencies, competencies, interpersonal relationships, teamwork, and related	In connection with your prospective employment	We may not be able to conduct pre-hiring checks
Criminal and regulatory data	Criminal background, offence, and regulatory and legal proceeding data	Where lawful and relevant to a position with us, in connection with pre-hiring checks	We may not be able to conduct pre-hiring checks
Website activity	IP address, data on webpages you visit, data you download, how you connected to our website	When you visit our website, collected through Cookies and other automated electronic means	We would not be able to track the activity on our website or use the data to improve our business or website
Electronic and IT data	Email correspondences, voicemail messages, and other electronic and IT records	When you communicate or interact with us electronically or otherwise online or through IT means	We may not be able to respond to or communicate with you or provide you with services
Sensitive data or data deemed to be “special categories” of personal data	Racial or ethnic origin, political opinion, religious or philosophical belief, trade union membership, health, gender, or sexual orientation data	When communicated by you when you are a client, employee, or vendor and the information is relevant to our relationship with or services for you	When the data is relevant, we may not know or be able to honor or respond to your needs or provide you with relevant services

 

WITH WHOM WE MAY SHARE YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION

Where appropriate and applicable to our relationship with you, such as in support of your actual or prospective services, engagement, employment, or other business relationship with us and/or the organization and storage of data in support of our legitimate business needs, your PI may be disclosed internally. To the extent necessary, we may also disclose certain of your PI to third parties who need limited access in order to provide us with services, provide intersecting services to you, or enable us to provide you with services, such as the following:

Regulatory or other government agencies or authorities, courts and tribunals, law enforcement	Where necessary in connection with your services, such as through the filing of documents, or otherwise where disclosure is required by law, rules, law enforcement, any court or tribunal with authority to require the disclosure, or similar
Employers	Where required by law or legal process
Other persons connected to you	Where necessary for your services, employment, or otherwise upon your request or consent, such as your other advisors, agents, counterparties or their representatives, lenders, trustees, beneficiaries, or other persons connected to you
Our advisors and service providers	Such as our attorneys, tax advisors, and other professional advisors; payment processors,  banking institutions, financial providers, payroll vendors; debt collection providers; insurers; due diligence providers, background verification investigators, survey vendors, analysts, and consultants; IT providers, data storage providers, software and data platform providers, web content management providers; telecommunications providers; business continuity, disaster recovery, file storage, and data management and backup providers; actual or prospective affiliates or successors in interest to our business
Other persons with your consent or at your request	Such as in connection with an event or otherwise with your consent or at your request

 

Where necessary in connection with your legal services and with your prior consent, we may disclose certain of your PI to the above persons in third countries using appropriate safeguards. Where communication between you, us, and the international third party is typically conducted via email, the information may be disclosed via email, provided that whenever identity data (passport, SSN or other Tax ID, or other ID or similar data) is involved, we will typically take steps to use advanced security measures such as secure portal delivery to transport such data.

HOW LONG WE KEEP YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION

We will keep your PI for the time necessary and applicable to the purposes for which it was collected, though, when no longer needed by us for such purposes, we may dispose of data without further notice to you. If you are a client, you should always retain your own copies of documents and data in connection with your legal services.

We will store your PI according to the following criteria:

Type of Data	Criteria for Retention
Client data	For so long as we continue to serve you and the data is or may be relevant to your services and thereafter for so long as required for regulatory, compliance, insurance, legal, or tax matters; for conflict checks business continuity purposes; to support, evidence, enforce or defend our rights or work; or to the extent there is another legitimate reason for keeping it longer
Prospective client data	Typically for at least three (3) years and thereafter for conflict checks and business continuity purposes; to support, evidence, enforce or defend our rights or lack of provision of services; or to the extent there is another legitimate reason for keeping it longer
Employee data	For so long as you are employed and the data is or may be relevant to your employment and thereafter for so long as required for regulatory, compliance, insurance, legal, or tax matters; for business continuity purposes; to support, evidence, enforce or defend our rights or relationship; or to the extent there is another legitimate reason for keeping it longer
Prospective employee data	Typically for at least three (3) years and thereafter for so long as required for regulatory, compliance, insurance, legal, or tax matters; for business continuity purposes; to support, evidence, enforce or defend our rights or lack of relationship; or to the extent there is another legitimate reason for keeping it longer
Vendor data	For so long as you provide us with services and thereafter for so long as required for regulatory, compliance, insurance, legal, or tax matters; for business continuity purposes; to support, evidence, enforce or defend our rights or services; or to the extent there is another legitimate reason for keeping it longer
Prospective vendor data	Typically for so long as we continue to contemplate engaging you
Other business contacts’ data	For so long as we continue to maintain a business relationship with you or with others connected to you and thereafter for so long as required for regulatory, compliance, insurance, legal, or tax matters; for business continuity purposes; to support, evidence, enforce or defend our rights or interests or that of others represented by us; or to the extent there is another legitimate reason for keeping it longer
Marketing data	To the extent needed to assess your use of our website or marketing materials, for so long as you consent to receive, or have not opted out of receiving, marketing, promotional, newsletter, or other such information from us, and thereafter to the extent needed to record your withdrawal of consent or opting out of receipt of such information and to ensure we honor your wishes regarding marketing materials

 

To the extent multiple categories of your PI is stored by us, the duration of storage for each such category may be overlapping, and the longer duration of storage will continue to apply to the applicable category of data even when a shorter duration may apply to a different category of data.

When we no longer require your PI for the purposes and durations described in this Notice, to the extent possible, we will take steps to anonymize and/or delete it.

YOUR RIGHTS

You may have certain rights regarding your PI, depending on the purposes for which we have collected and processed your information and the laws and rules applicable to you and your PI. Your rights may include:

Right of information	To be informed regarding the information provided in this Notice
Right of confirmation	To request and receive confirmation regarding whether your PI is being processed by us
Right of access	To access your PI (by way of a copy of the PI that would not adversely affect others’ data, rights or freedoms and complies with our professional licensing, ethical, and regulatory obligations)
Right to rectification	To correct your PI, including the right to complete otherwise incomplete data, including by providing a supplementary statement
Right to erasure	In certain circumstances, to have your PI deleted
Right to restrict	In certain circumstances, to restrict the processing of your PI
Right to data portability	In certain circumstances and where the data processing is automated, to receive copies of your PI for transfer to others or to request, where technically feasible, that we move, copy, or transfer the data for you (all without adversely affecting others’ data, rights or freedoms and in compliance with our professional licensing, ethical, and regulatory obligations)
Right to object	To require us to stop processing your PI for marketing purposes, in certain other circumstances with respect to PI collected and processed on the basis of our legitimate interests, and in certain other situations
Right to withdraw consent	At any time when your consent was previously provided and is the basis for the collection or processing of your PI (provided that your withdrawal of consent will not affect the lawfulness of data collected and/or processed with your consent)
Right to lodge a complaint	With a supervisory authority*

 

Many of the above rights are subject to exceptions and limitations or apply only in certain circumstances. Where certain requests are manifestly unreasonable and excessive or unfounded, we many not be able to comply with such requests.

For more information regarding certain of your rights, please see: https://commission.europa.eu/law/law-topic/data-protection/reform/rights-citizens/my-rights_en

If you have any concerns regarding your data or our collection or processing of that data, or to exercise your rights, please contact Jessica Oldani at joldani@oldanilaw.com or 844-344-2147 x101 or reach the office at info@oldanilaw.com or 844-344-2147 x103.

*If you need to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority regarding your rights and PI, please reach out to the applicable data protection regulator in the jurisdiction where you live or work or where an alleged breach has occurred if you consider that the related processing of your PI has infringed your rights.

OUR CONTACT INFORMATION

Oldani Entrepreneurial Law, P.C.
701 Main Street, Ste. 200
Evanston, Illinois 60202
Office email: info@oldanilaw.com
Office phone: 844-344-2147 x103
Ms. Oldani’s email: joldani@oldanilaw.com
Ms. Oldani’s telephone extension: 844-344-2147 x101
Secure fax: 866-284-9013
Website: https://www.oldanilaw.com/