Privacy Policy

This Privacy Policy ("Policy") explains how TG Legal Law Office ("TG Legal", "we", "us", "our") collects and processes personal data when you use our website https://tglgl.ru ("Website") or contact us via the contact details provided on the Website.

By using the Website or contacting us, you acknowledge that you have read this Policy.

1. Data Controller

The data controller responsible for the processing of your personal data is:

TG Legal Law Office (TG Legal)
Address: 127473, Moscow, Tverskoy Municipal District, 1st Shchemi­lovsky Lane, 19, bld. 1
Phone: +7 (499) 288-7-378
E-mail: info@tglgl.ru, tg@tglgl.ru

If you have any questions about this Policy or our data practices, please contact us using the details above.

2. Personal Data We Process

We may process the following categories of personal data:

2.1 Data you provide to us

When you contact us via the Website, by e-mail or by phone, you may provide:

• first name, last name, middle name (if applicable);
• phone number;
• e-mail address;
• job title, employer or company details (if you choose to provide them);
• any information contained in your message or attachments (for example, description of your request or case, documents you decide to share).

We do not intentionally request or aim to collect special categories of personal data (such as data relating to health, racial or ethnic origin, political opinions, religious beliefs, etc.) or data relating to criminal convictions through the Website. Please avoid including such information in website forms or unencrypted e-mail, unless explicitly necessary and agreed.

2.2 Data collected automatically

When you use our Website, we may automatically collect certain technical data, such as:

• IP address;
• browser type and version;
• device and operating system information;
• date and time of access;
• pages viewed and clickstream data;
• referring URL (the website you came from);
• other technical information sent by your browser.

This information is collected using cookies and similar technologies (see Section 5 below).

3. Purposes of Processing

We process your personal data for the following purposes:

• Responding to your enquiries
  • reviewing and answering your requests, questions and messages;
  • communicating with you and maintaining correspondence.
• Providing legal and related services
  • assessing potential matters;
  • entering into and performing contracts with clients and counterparties;
  • protecting the rights and legitimate interests of our clients.
• Compliance with legal obligations
  • compliance with applicable laws and regulations, including those on legal profession, anti-money laundering (if applicable), accounting and tax rules, and data protection rules.
• Website operation and improvement
  • operation, administration and security of the Website;
  • analysis of Website usage and performance;
  • improvement of content, functionality and user experience.
• Marketing and communications
  • sending you legal updates, news or invitations to events, where you have requested this or where permitted by law (with the possibility to opt out at any time).

We do not process personal data for purposes that are incompatible with those listed above.

4. Legal Bases for Processing

Depending on the specific situation and applicable law, we process your personal data on the following legal bases:

• Performance of a contract or steps prior to entering into a contract
  When you contact us to request legal services or information, or when we enter into an agreement with you or the organisation you represent.
• Compliance with legal obligations
  Where we must process personal data to comply with obligations under applicable laws (for example, accounting and tax rules, professional obligations).
• Legitimate interests
  Where processing is necessary for our legitimate interests (or those of a third party), and your interests or fundamental rights do not override those interests. Our legitimate interests include the provision of legal services, the operation and improvement of our Website and services, and the protection of our rights.
• Consent
  In some cases, we may rely on your consent (for example, for certain types of marketing or non-essential cookies, where required by law). You may withdraw your consent at any time without affecting the lawfulness of processing based on consent before its withdrawal.

Where the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) or similar legislation applies, these legal bases correspond to Article 6 GDPR.

5. Cookies and Similar Technologies

Our Website uses cookies and similar technologies to ensure its proper functioning and to help us understand how it is used.

5.1 What are cookies?

Cookies are small text files stored on your device (computer, smartphone, etc.) when you visit a website. They allow the Website to recognise your browser and remember certain information.

5.2 Types of cookies we may use

• Strictly necessary cookies
  Required for the Website to function (e.g. to load pages, secure the Website, manage basic settings). You cannot disable these cookies via our cookie tools, but you can block them in your browser (which may affect Website functioning).
• Analytics and performance cookies
  Help us understand how visitors use the Website (for example, which pages are visited most often, how users navigate). This information is used to improve the Website.
• Preference / functional cookies (if used)
  Allow the Website to remember your choices (e.g. language settings).

We may also use third-party analytics services (for example, web analytics providers), which use their own cookies. These providers process data according to their own privacy policies.

5.3 Managing cookies

You can manage cookies through:

• our cookie banner / settings (where available);
• your browser settings (usually found under "Privacy" or "Security" settings).

Please note: if you block or delete cookies, some features of the Website may not function properly.

6. Sharing Your Personal Data

We may share your personal data with:

• Our partners, lawyers, consultants and experts
  Where reasonably necessary to handle your request or matter, including foreign counsel, notaries, experts and translators.
• Service providers (processors)
  Third-party providers that support our activities, such as hosting providers, IT and security service providers, e-mail and other communication platforms, and analytics providers. These parties are bound by confidentiality and data protection obligations.
• Authorities and other parties
  Where required by applicable law, court order or official request, or to establish, exercise or defend legal claims.

We do not sell your personal data.

7. International Data Transfers

Given the international nature of legal work, we may transfer your personal data to countries outside your country of residence, including outside the European Economic Area (EEA) or the United Kingdom, where necessary to:

• provide legal services or advice related to foreign jurisdictions;
• cooperate with foreign lawyers, advisors or authorities;
• use service providers located abroad.

When we transfer personal data to countries that do not provide an adequate level of data protection, we will take appropriate safeguards as required by applicable law (for example, using standard contractual clauses approved by the European Commission, where GDPR applies), or rely on applicable derogations (such as necessity for the performance of a contract or for the establishment, exercise or defence of legal claims).

8. Data Retention

We retain personal data only for as long as necessary to fulfil the purposes for which it was collected, including:

• for the duration of the client relationship or matter;
• for the period required by applicable laws and professional rules (for example, accounting, tax, archiving or legal profession rules);
• for the limitation periods for potential legal claims.

After these periods expire, personal data will be deleted or anonymised, unless we are required by law to keep it longer.

9. Your Rights

Depending on your location and applicable data protection laws (for example, under GDPR), you may have some or all of the following rights:

• Right of access - to obtain confirmation whether we process your personal data and receive a copy of such data.
• Right to rectification - to request correction of inaccurate or incomplete data.
• Right to erasure - to request deletion of your personal data in certain cases ("right to be forgotten").
• Right to restriction of processing - to request that we restrict processing in certain circumstances.
• Right to data portability - to receive your personal data in a structured, commonly used and machine-readable format and to have it transmitted to another controller, where technically feasible.
• Right to object - to object to processing based on legitimate interests or for direct marketing purposes.
• Right to withdraw consent - where processing is based on your consent, you can withdraw it at any time.

You also have the right to lodge a complaint with a competent data protection authority in your country of residence, place of work or place of the alleged infringement.

These rights are not absolute and may be subject to legal limitations, for example where processing is required by law or for the establishment, exercise or defence of legal claims.

10. How to Exercise Your Rights

To exercise your rights or to ask any questions about this Policy or our data practices, please contact us at:

E-mail: info@tglgl.ru or tg@tglgl.ru
Postal address: TG Legal Law Office, 127473, Moscow, Tverskoy Municipal District, 1st Shchemi­lovsky Lane, 19, bld. 1
Phone: +7 (499) 288-7-378

We may need to verify your identity before responding to your request.

11. Security

We take appropriate technical and organisational measures to protect personal data against accidental or unlawful destruction, loss, alteration, unauthorised disclosure or access.

Such measures include, among other things:

• access controls and confidentiality obligations;
• use of security tools and protective software;
• limitation of access to personal data to those who need it for their tasks;
• contractual data protection and confidentiality clauses with service providers.

However, no method of data transmission over the Internet or electronic storage is completely secure. We cannot guarantee absolute security, but we aim to maintain a level of protection appropriate to the risks.

12. Children's Data

Our Website and services are not directed at children. We do not knowingly collect personal data from individuals under the age defined by applicable law.

If you believe that a child has provided us with personal data without appropriate consent, please contact us so that we can take appropriate steps.

13. Changes to This Policy

We may update this Policy from time to time. The updated version will be published on the Website and will indicate the date of the latest revision.

We encourage you to review this Policy periodically. Your continued use of the Website after any changes become effective constitutes your acceptance of the updated Policy.