1. Objective

Our Privacy Policy was created to reaffirm our commitment to security, privacy, and transparency in the handling of your information. In this policy, you will find a description of how we collect and process data when you browse our websites, install our application on your mobile device/tablet, use our products and/or services, or contact us through available communication channels. By accessing and/or using the content of this site, you express your full and unconditional acceptance of the terms stated here, for all legal purposes. If you do not agree with any of the terms and rules provided here, you should not access and/or use the content. We define our Platform as a set of technological solutions that involve our website and application, as well as other components for managing and maintaining services.

2. What personal data is collected?

Information provided by you – We collect personally identifiable information. By accepting our policy, you acknowledge this fact. Website browsing information – When you visit our website, a ‘cookie’ is placed on your browser through our software and third parties such as Google Analytics, to identify how many times you return to our site. Information such as Internet Protocol (IP) address, access logs, IP address geolocation, browser type, operating system version, mobile device model and features, internet bandwidth, carrier, visit duration, website navigation paths, page view behavior, and visited pages may also be collected. The collection of geolocation data will occur on the Platform if that option is active and you authorize it. The purpose of collecting such information will be solely to prevent fraud, identify bugs, improve the usability of tools, monitor marketing and campaigns, and enhance performance. Contact history – We store information about all contacts made with our users, such as content downloaded from our pages and interactions via email, phone, chats, and information requests. Data generated from using our services – If you use any of our services, we collect additional information about you and the people who visit the websites you register on our platforms. In this case, contact information such as your name, email, and phone, location data such as country, city, and state of your access location, and information about your browser will be collected. Facebook data – By using your Facebook account to integrate with our services, we may collect all the data made available by Facebook to our system, such as information about your ads, the number of clicks they receive, information about visitors to your websites available on that platform, among others.

3. What purposes do we use personal data for?

We collect personal data for identification and authentication purposes, enabling the provision of products and services, operationalization of new products, technical or security issues in the identification and authentication processes, and even for service improvement and enhancing your experience. We may also collect and process data to comply with applicable legal requirements. Below are the purposes of data collection:

• Registration and identification, including authentication methods (for example, but not limited to, photos or email), for creating and accessing our services;
• Performing and completing transactions;
• Generating usage statistics and improving the usability of tools;
• Supporting strategic decision-making through data metrics and analysis of usage patterns;
• Implementing marketing and relationship campaigns;
• Notifying users about changes in the Platform and/or services, as well as fulfilling legal obligations arising from the contract of services and/or access and use of the Platform;
• Measures deemed necessary or advisable for the constant improvement of Platform functionalities and actions taken to offer the Services, as well as to better understand users’ needs;
• Reporting operations, storing information, data, communications, and others related to access and use of the Platform and contracting of the Services, as well as complying with other legal and regulatory obligations imposed on the Platform;
• Occasionally, we may use data for purposes not foreseen in this privacy policy, but they will be within your legitimate expectations. The eventual use of your data for purposes that do not comply with this prerogative will be done with your prior authorization.

4. Sharing personal data

By agreeing to this Policy, you expressly authorize the sharing of some of your information with third parties – our partners – in order to provide the contracted services. In addition, certain information may also be shared for the purpose of fulfilling legal obligations.

5. Data retention

Your personal data will be stored and retained in our database as long as necessary to provide the services and for legitimate and essential commercial purposes, such as maintaining service performance, making business decisions based on data, complying with legal obligations, and resolving disputes.

6. Amendment/deletion of personal information

You may request the review and correction of your data at any time and at no cost. To do so, simply contact us through one of the available contact channels or by sending an email to administrativo@thompsonadvogados.com. At the end of our business relationship, if you wish to delete your data, please note that some of it will be stored for a period defined by law for the purpose of fulfilling legal obligations. Based on your request, we will delete or anonymize your personal data unless it is legally permitted or required to maintain certain personal data, including situations such as:

• If there is an unresolved problem related to the concluded contract, the necessary personal data will be retained until the issue is resolved;
• If there is a legal provision to retain personal data to fulfill our legal, tax, auditing, and accounting obligations for the period required by applicable law; and/or,
• Whenever necessary for our legitimate business interests, such as fraud prevention or maintaining the security of our users.

7. Data security

Do not worry, we will make every effort to ensure the protection of users’ personal data against unauthorized access and misuse, using technologies, policies, and practices commonly employed by the industry when collecting and storing your personal data, as well as standard Internet data encryption (SSL). The collected data will be stored on servers located in the United States, Europe, and Brazil, as well as in the cloud computing environment, involving data transfer or processing abroad.

8. Changes to this Privacy Policy

We may make changes to this policy periodically. If you are our client, supplier, and/or partner, you will be notified when such changes occur, and you can also consult the updated version available on our website.

9. Applicable Law

This document is governed by and should be interpreted in accordance with the laws of the Federative Republic of Brazil. The Central Forum of the District of Rio de Janeiro, State of Rio de Janeiro, is elected as competent to settle any issues arising from this document, with express waiver of any other, no matter how privileged.

11. Review Periodicity

Every 12 months or as needed.

12. Contact Us

If you have any questions about this Policy, please contact our data protection representative at the following email address: administrativo@thompsonadvogados.com.

13. References

Law No. 13,709/2018 – General Data Protection Law