Introduction
Newway Consulting respects your privacy and is committed to protecting your personal data. This Privacy Policy informs you about how we look after your personal data when you visit our website, inquire about our legal services, or interact with us, and tells you about your privacy rights and how the law protects you. In accordance with the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and local data protection laws, we ensure that your data is processed lawfully, fairly, and transparently.
Data Controller
Newway Consulting is the data controller responsible for your personal data. If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, including any requests to exercise your legal rights, please contact our legal and finance department using the details provided at the end of this policy.
The Data We Collect About You
Personal data means any information about an individual from which that person can be identified. We may collect, use, store, and transfer different kinds of personal data about you which we have grouped together as follows:
Identity and Contact Data: Includes your first name, last name, corporate name, email address, and telephone number provided when completing our contact forms or communicating with us.
Brand Protection Data: Includes information regarding trademarks, logos, brand identity, commercial names, and domain names that you submit to us for legal evaluation or registration purposes.
Technical and Usage Data: Includes your internet protocol (IP) address, browser type and version, time zone setting, operating system, platform, and information about how you use our website, including language preferences managed by Polylang.
How We Collect Your Data
We use different methods to collect data from and about you, including through direct interactions where you give us your Identity, Contact, and Brand Protection Data by filling in forms on our website or by corresponding with us by post, phone, or email. We also collect data through automated technologies or interactions as you browse our website via cookies and similar analytical tools.
How We Use Your Personal Data
We will only use your personal data when the law allows us to. Most commonly, we will use your personal data to perform the contract we are about to enter into or have entered into with you, to address and respond to your inquiries submitted via our contact forms, to manage our relationship with you, to comply with a legal or regulatory obligation, or where it is necessary for our legitimate interests and your interests and fundamental rights do not override those interests.
Data Security and Integrity
We have put in place appropriate security measures to prevent your personal data from being accidentally lost, used, or accessed in an unauthorized way, altered, or disclosed. In addition, we limit access to your personal data to those employees, agents, contractors, and other third parties who have a business need to know. They will only process your personal data on our instructions and they are subject to a strict duty of confidentiality.
Data Retention
We will only retain your personal data for as long as necessary to fulfill the purposes we collected it for, including for the purposes of satisfying any legal, accounting, or reporting requirements. To determine the appropriate retention period for personal data, we consider the amount, nature, and sensitivity of the personal data, the potential risk of harm from unauthorized use or disclosure, and the applicable legal requirements.
Disclosures and International Transfers of Your Data
As a firm specializing in national and international trademark law, fulfilling your requests may require sharing your brand data with official intellectual property registration authorities, partner attorney networks, or legal bodies. We do not sell your personal data. We require all third parties to respect the security of your personal data and to treat it in accordance with the law.
Your Legal Rights Under GDPR
Under certain circumstances, you have rights under data protection laws in relation to your personal data:
Request access to your personal data, enabling you to receive a copy of the personal data we hold about you.
Request rectification of the personal data that we hold about you, enabling you to have any incomplete or inaccurate data corrected.
Request erasure of your personal data, enabling you to ask us to delete or remove personal data where there is no good reason for us continuing to process it.
Object to processing of your personal data where we are relying on a legitimate interest and you feel it impacts your fundamental rights and freedoms.
Request restriction of processing of your personal data, enabling you to ask us to suspend the processing of your personal data in specific scenarios.
Request the transfer of your personal data to you or to a third party in a structured, commonly used, machine-readable format.
Withdraw consent at any time where we are relying on consent to process your personal data.
Contact Details
If you wish to exercise any of the rights set out above, or if you have any questions or complaints about this privacy policy, please contact us:
Newway Consulting
Departamenti Ligjor dhe i Financës
Mobile: +355 69 363 6886
Address: Rr. Him Kolli, Tirana, Albania