Privacy and Cookie Policy

 
 

Christensen Partners' Privacy Policy

In some situations, Christensen Partners records and processes a number of personal data about you, e.g. when you use our website, when you participate in a course or seminar with us, when your company establish a client relationship with us, or as part of our administrative procedures. 

This privacy policy describes how Christensen Partners processes your personal data. 

Christensen Partners is the data controller. This means that Christensen Partners is the legal entity that is responsible for processing the personal data we receive from you or about you in connection with a case or an enquiry. 

Through the links below you can get an overview of when and how we collect and process your personal data in the following situations:

Use of our website www.christensenpartners.dk

As part of establishing a client relationship

In the performance of our legal services

 

YOUR RIGHTS

As a registered person, you have the following rights which you can exercise by contacting our CPO, Shaina Jabbar:

  1. You are entitled to request access to, rectification or erasure of your personal data.

  2. You are entitled to oppose the processing of your personal data and to restrict the processing of your personal data.

  3. You have an unconditional right to oppose the processing of your personal data for direct marketing purposes.

  4. You are entitled to revoke such consent at any time if the processing of your personal data is based on a consent. Your revocation will not affect the lawfulness of the processing carried out prior to your revocation of consent.

  5. You are entitled to receive the personal data which you have provided to us in a structured, commonly used and machine-readable format (data portability).

  6. You can always lodge a complaint with a data protection authority, for example the Danish Data Protection Agency.


Your rights may be subject to conditions or restrictions, and there is no certainty that you will be entitled to e.g. data portability.

You can read more about your rights in the Danish Data Protection Agency’s guidance on the rights of the data subjects (in Danish).


EXCEPTIONS TO CHRISTENSEN PARTNERS’ DUTY OF DISCLOSURE

The Data Protection Regulation gives you a number of rights, including the right to be informed about Christensen Partners' processing of your personal data. However, the rules of the Danish Administration of Justice Act and the Code of Conduct for the Danish Bar and Law Society impose on our lawyers a duty of non-disclosure, which may require us in certain cases to decline disclosure to you if your personal data or the processing of them are to remain confidential.

Christensen Partners may furthermore decline disclosure to you to safeguard essential private interests, including your own, or to safeguard essential public interests, where such interests are found to override your interest in receiving the information. 

Finally, Christensen Partners may decline disclosure to you if you are in possession of the information already or if disclosing them to you is impossible or would involve a disproportionate effort or would impair the achievement of the objectives of the processing.


SECURITY OF PROCESSING 

Christensen Partners process your personal data in a manner that ensures the security and confidentiality of the data as required under the data protection laws in force from time to time.  We will generally not disclose data to third parties. However, this may occur to specific clients, counterparties, authorities and/or courts. Christensen Partners will not transfer personal data to countries outside the EEC/EEA unless such transfer is made to a specific client, counterparty, court or the like. Such transfers will made based on article 49(1) of the General Data Protection Regulation.

Christensen Partners' employees have access to your personal data to the extent necessary for the processing of your case or your enquiry. Your personal information is kept secure and confidential. At Christensen Partners we have procedures in place to ensure that your personal data are not kept longer than necessary. 


CONTACT CHRISTENSEN PARTNERS

If you have questions for Christensen Partners about our processing of personal data, you are welcome to contact our person in charge of privacy, CPO Shaina Jabbar.


COMPLAINT

You can lodge a complaint to the Danish Data Protection Agency about Christensen Partners' processing of your personal data, if you disagree or are dissatisfied with the way Christensen Partners processes your personal data. The Danish Data Protection Agency is the authority responsible for supervising data protection in Denmark. 

Christensen Partners’ Cookie Policy

Christensen Partners' website uses various cookies to optimize your visit, to improve the user experience of our website and to generate usage statistics. We also use cookies to customize advertising on social media.


CONSENT

By using our website, www.christensenpartners.dk, you accept that Christensen Partners uses cookies as described below, unless you have opted out of cookies in your browser settings. If you wish to withdraw your consent to use cookies, you shall block cookies in your web browser. 


WHAT IS A COOKIE?

A cookie is a small text file, which is placed on your computer's hard drive, smartphone or other electronic device. A cookie contains a randomly generated ID that allows to recognize your computer/IP address and to see which sites you visit and which functions you use, including when and for how long. Cookies cannot see who you are, your name or where you live. They also cannot spread computer viruses or other damaging programs. For example, a cookie can be used to remember the text size of the website if you change it yourself. Then the text has the same size the next time you visit our website.


WHICH COOKIES ARE USED BY CHRISTENSEN PARTNERS? 

There are basically two types of cookies: "temporary" cookies and "permanent". Christensen Partners uses both types of cookies. The temporary cookies are linked to the current visit to our website and are deleted automatically, when you close your web browser. The permanent cookies will be stored on your computer. Permanent cookies delete themselves after a certain period, but will be renewed every time you visit our website.

Temporary and permanent cookies can also be categorized according to the party that places them on the website. At Christensen Partners first-party cookies are placed by the website www.christensenpartners.dk, and third-party cookies are placed by our suppliers and business partners (e.g. LinkedIn), who have access to place cookies on our website.


TO WHAT PURPOSES CHRISTENSEN PARTNERS USES COOKIES

We use cookies to improve your user experience of our website, for instance in relation to language choice. In some cases cookies are the only way for our website to work as intended, and you should be aware that the website may not work optimally if you decline cookies. 


HOW TO REMOVE COOKIES

If you do not want Christensen Partners to place cookies on your computer, you have at all times the possibility of opting out of cookies in your browser settings. How to do so depends on what kind of browser you are using. Be aware that if you are using multiple browsers you will have to delete the cookies in all of them.

The links below provide instructions on how to block cookies from the most common browsers:


FURTHER ON COOKIES

The use of cookies is subject to the “Danish Executive Order on Information and Consent Required in Case of Storing or Accessing Information in End-User Terminal Equipment” (referred to as the “Executive Order on Cookies”). 

More information on cookies is available on the Danish Business Authority’s website.