Privacy Policy

This website (hereinafter: the "Website") is managed by Law Office Luka Mrkić, Zrinsko-Frankopanska 38, 23 000 Zadar, PIN: 50625804839 (hereinafter: the Law Office).

The Law Office respects the privacy of its website users and individuals who contact it. As the data controller, it collects, processes and uses your personal data for various purposes during and after your cooperation and/or communication with the Law Office, and ensures that your personal data is processed in accordance with all applicable data protection regulations.

How is your personal data used?

The Law Office processes your personal data in an appropriate and lawful manner, and such personal data may include all data necessary for the performance of services provided by the Law Office in the relevant representation and legal advisory proceedings for the protection of your rights. For example, personal data such as your name and surname, contact details such as email and phone number, and other data that you have provided to the Law Office yourself or that the Law Office has been granted access to during the provision of representation services.

Taking into account our business activities, it is possible that we will process your personal data on more than one lawful basis.

1. On the basis of a contract

The Law Office collects and uses your personal data for the purpose of fulfilling obligations arising from the contractual relationship with you, such as in the case of providing representation services before courts or other legal services.

The personal data in question relates exclusively to personal data that you have provided to the Law Office yourself for this purpose, which is necessary for the Law Office to provide you with the desired legal services.

2. On the basis of legitimate business interests

The Law Office processes your personal data if it is necessary for the purposes of legitimate business interests in order to exercise the rights and legal interests of our clients as well as our business interests, which include planning, advising, representing and providing other services to our clients.

Persons whose data the Law Office collects on this basis are generally opposing parties, but depending on the case, this may also include third parties (interveners, interested parties, witnesses and experts, legal representatives, etc.).

Categories of data that the Law Office processes on this basis may include:

Name and surname; Date, place and country of birth; PIN; Identification document and document type; Gender; Photograph; Maiden name; Former surname; Address of permanent residence, temporary residence, domicile; City and postal code; Contact details (phone, email, mobile); Bank account details; Credit debt data; Account transaction data; Property ownership data; Employment, company membership and income data (salary amount, type of employment); Educational qualifications; Data on marital status and related persons; other data necessary for conducting proceedings.

3. On the basis of binding applicable regulations

The Law Office also processes your personal data if it is required or permitted by applicable regulations, particularly when such processing is necessary for compliance with the legal obligations of the Law Office, for example maintaining records that may include your personal data, as is the case with accounting and tax regulations.

4. On the basis of consent

The Law Office collects and processes your personal data based on your consent given during cooperation and/or communication with the Law Office, in your capacity as a client or potential client (e.g. when you request us to send you an offer or contact us via the contact form on our Website). The personal data in question relates exclusively to personal data that you have provided to the Law Office yourself for this purpose.

If you have given consent for a specific purpose of processing your personal data, you have the right to withdraw it at any time, but this will not affect the lawfulness of processing that was based on consent before it was withdrawn.

Data security and retention

The Law Office takes appropriate measures to ensure that personal data is reliable for the intended purpose, accurate, complete and up to date.

At the same time, the Law Office takes appropriate security measures to protect your personal data from loss, interference, misuse, unauthorized access, disclosure, alteration or destruction.

Furthermore, employees of the Law Office are obligated to keep all your data confidential based on employment contracts as well as the Code of Legal Ethics.

Your data will be kept only for as long as is reasonably necessary for the particular purpose for which the personal data was collected, in accordance with the above-mentioned lawful bases. The Law Office regularly assesses the storage period of personal data in its possession and deletes them upon the cessation of the purpose for which the data was collected.

Sharing your personal data

When it is in accordance with the above-mentioned purposes, the Law Office may allow the processing of your data by third parties that provide processing support (e.g. IT support, accounting, etc.), who are bound by special contractual provisions that guarantee the protection and confidentiality of processing your data in accordance with applicable regulations.

At the same time, the Law Office may share your data with recipients such as regulatory authorities (including tax authorities) and government agencies when performing their prescribed scope of authority. Your personal data may also be transferred to third countries, e.g. if our clients have residence/registered office in third countries, but with the application of all appropriate and adequate safeguards and means of obtaining their copies or the location where they have been made available so as not to compromise the level of protection of individuals guaranteed by the General Data Protection Regulation.

Collection of your personal data

The Law Office does not collect your personal data through the website without your knowledge. However, personal data may be collected if you enter it yourself in the contact form on the website.

How we store your personal data and what your rights are

At any time, you have the right to request information from the Law Office about your personal data by exercising your right of access to personal data and to request the correction of inaccurate personal data. In certain cases, you have the right to erasure of personal data and to restriction of processing. You also have the right to object to processing as well as the right to data portability. These rights may be limited in certain situations – for example, when the data controller has a legal obligation to process your personal data.

In case of any questions regarding the protection of personal data and the exercise of your rights, you may contact our data protection officer:

ADDRESS: Zrinsko-Frankopanska 38, 23 000 Zadar

EMAIL: odvjetnik@lukamrkic.hr

If you suspect a violation in the processing of your data by the Law Office, you have the right to file a complaint with the Personal Data Protection Agency (AZOP), Martićeva 14, Zagreb.