Legal
Privacy Policy
Effective January 2026
Your privacy is important. PARINTIA Law Office is committed to respecting the privacy rights of all clients. This privacy statement outlines the personal data that we collect and process, your rights and choices to the personal data we hold and process. This Privacy Policy is separate and in addition to client confidentiality obligations applicable to your engagement.
1. What Personal Information We Collect About You
The personal information that we process includes:
- Basic information, such as your name (including name prefix or title), the company you work for, your title or position and your relationship to a person
- Contact information, such as your postal address, email address and phone number(s)
- Other personal data regarding your preferences where it is relevant to legal services
We collect personal information from you in the course of our business, including through your use of our website, when you contact or request information from us, when you engage our legal services or as a result of your relationship with one or more of our staff and clients.
We may collect or receive information about you from other sources, such as using publicly available sources or collecting information from third party sources as part of our business acceptance, including government agencies or publicly available records.
2. How and Why We Use Your Personal Data
We use your personal data for the following purposes:
- To provide services and information required by you
- To manage your business relationship with PARINTIA Law Office
- To comply with our legal, regulatory and risk management obligations, including compliance screening or recording obligations (e.g. for anti-money laundering and fraud prevention) and protecting the rights of third parties
- To analyse and improve our services and communications to you
- Protecting the security of and managing access to our premises, IT and communication systems, preventing and detecting security threats or fraud
- For any purpose related and/or ancillary to any of the above or any other purpose for which your personal data was provided to us
- To fulfill our legal obligations, we may need to collect and use your personal information to enter into a contract with you or to perform a contract that you have with us
Depending on for which we use your personal data, we may process your personal data on one or more of the following legal grounds:
- Performance of contract — because processing is necessary for the performance of a client instruction or other contract with you
- Legitimate interest — because processing is necessary for purposes of our legitimate interest or those of any third-party recipients that receive your personal data
- Consent, where your consent is required by law
Where you have expressly given us your consent, we may process your personal data for communicating with you through approved channels. We will not use your personal data for taking any automated decisions affecting you or creating profiles other than described above.
3. Who Has Access to Your Personal Data
PARINTIA Law Office may share the personal data of clients with its employees in order to perform the contract between PARINTIA Law Office and the client.
If you are a client, we may disclose your personal data to third-party service providers that perform services on our behalf. This will include advisors, banks, notaries, consultants, experts, potential transactional partners and counterparties duly engaged with your instructions.
We may be required to disclose your information to comply with legal or regulatory requirements. We will use reasonable endeavors to notify you before we do this, unless we are legally restricted from doing so.
4. Data Security
PARINTIA Law Office will take appropriate technical and organisational measures to keep your personal data confidential and secure. We apply commercially reasonable technical, physical and organizational measures to prevent unauthorized or unlawful processing of your personal data or accidental loss or destruction. Our employees handle your personal data with due care and access it only to the extent necessary to serve legitimate purposes.
5. Data Retention
PARINTIA Law Office will process and store personal data for the duration of our services or business relationship. We may also store data as necessary to fulfill legal, contractual or statutory obligations.
To determine the appropriate retention period, we consider the amount, nature, and sensitivity of the data, the potential risk of harm from unauthorized use, the purposes for processing, and applicable legal requirements.
6. What Are Your Rights
You, as a data subject, have the following rights:
- The right to be informed
- The right to access your personal data
- The right to rectification and erasure (the right to be forgotten)
- The right to restriction to (part of) the processing
- The right to data portability
- The right to object to (part of) the processing activities
- Automated individual decision
If you are not satisfied with our response, you may take your complaint to the Data Protection Commissioner:
Komisioneri per Mbrojtjen e te Dhenave Personale
Rr. “Abdi Toptani”, Nd. 5, Kodi postar 1001, Tirana, Albania
Email: info@idp.al
Updates to This Privacy Policy
PARINTIA Law Office reserves the right to change this Privacy Statement from time to time. All revisions will be reported on the website. By visiting the website you accept the practices set out in this statement.
Questions and Comments
For any questions about this privacy statement, please contact us at:
Rruga “Shyqyri Berxolli”, Seksioni A, Kati i 6-te, Nr. 20A, Tirana, Albania