Our Commitment to Your Privacy
Truth & Trials Law Associates respects the privacy and confidentiality of personal information shared with us. This policy explains how we may collect, use, disclose, retain, and protect information received through this website and while providing legal services, in line with applicable Indian law, including the Information Technology Act, 2000, the Information Technology (Reasonable Security Practices and Procedures and Sensitive Personal Data or Information) Rules, 2011, and the Digital Personal Data Protection Act, 2023 where applicable.
1. Information We May Collect
Depending on how you interact with us, we may collect the following categories of information:
- Contact details: your name, email address, phone number, postal address, designation, organization, or similar details shared through inquiries, subscriptions, service requests, or career communications.
- Professional or matter-related details: information about your business, dispute, legal issue, documents, or circumstances when you seek or engage legal support.
- Career information: resumes, educational records, work history, cover letters, portfolio details, and other information submitted for recruitment or internship purposes.
- Website usage information: technical details such as IP address, browser, device type, operating system, referring links, pages visited, and time spent on the website, collected through cookies or similar tools where applicable.
- Sensitive personal data: information such as financial details for billing or confidential facts disclosed during legal consultation, handled with appropriate confidentiality and professional care.
2. How We Use Information
Personal information may be used for the purposes listed below:
- Responding to inquiries, requests, appointments, or communications from you.
- Providing legal services and performing obligations connected with client engagements.
- Reviewing career, internship, or collaboration applications.
- Sending legal updates, newsletters, invitations, or announcements where you have opted in or where permitted by law.
- Improving website performance, usability, content, and user experience.
- Complying with legal, regulatory, court, and professional obligations applicable to legal practitioners.
- Managing billing, administration, records, internal processes, and service delivery.
3. Basis for Processing
Where applicable under Indian data protection principles, we process personal information on one or more of the following bases:
- Consent: when you choose to provide information, subscribe to communications, allow non-essential cookies, or permit a specific use of your data.
- Contract or engagement: when information is needed to provide legal services, evaluate a request, or process an application submitted by you.
- Legitimate purposes: such as responding to communications, improving the website, maintaining records, and managing firm operations, subject to applicable rights and safeguards.
- Legal obligation: when processing is required for compliance with law, regulation, court orders, professional duties, or lawful authorities.
4. Sharing and Disclosure
We do not sell or rent personal information. Information may be shared only in limited situations, including:
- Service providers: trusted vendors assisting with website hosting, IT support, email delivery, analytics, storage, or administrative functions, subject to confidentiality and data protection obligations.
- Legal requirements: where disclosure is required by law, court order, subpoena, regulatory direction, or a lawful process.
- Professional obligations: where sharing is necessary to perform legal work, consult experts, coordinate with counsel, or meet ethical and professional responsibilities.
- Business transitions: where relevant information is transferred as part of a lawful restructuring, merger, acquisition, or asset transfer, subject to confidentiality safeguards.
- Your consent: where you have specifically authorized sharing with a third party.
Personal data is generally processed in India. If information must be transferred outside India for a legal matter or service arrangement, we aim to use reasonable safeguards appropriate to the nature of the transfer.
5. Data Security
We use reasonable technical, physical, and administrative safeguards to protect personal information from unauthorized access, misuse, disclosure, alteration, or destruction. These measures are intended to align with reasonable security practices under applicable Indian law. However, no method of online transmission or electronic storage can be guaranteed to be completely secure.
6. Data Retention
We retain personal information only for as long as needed for the purposes described in this policy, unless a longer period is required or permitted by law, professional obligations, regulatory requirements, dispute resolution, or potential legal proceedings. Client records and matter files are retained according to internal policies and professional duties. Recruitment-related information is retained according to the firm's recruitment practices.
7. Your Rights
Subject to applicable Indian law, you may have rights in relation to your personal information, including:
- Requesting access to personal information held about you.
- Requesting correction of inaccurate or incomplete information.
- Requesting deletion of information, subject to legal, ethical, and retention obligations.
- Withdrawing consent where processing is based on consent.
- Raising a privacy concern or grievance with the firm.
To exercise these rights, please contact us using the details provided below.
8. Cookies
This website may use cookies or similar technologies. Some cookies are necessary for basic website operation, while others may help us understand traffic patterns and improve the browsing experience. Where legally required, consent will be requested for non-essential cookies. You can also manage or disable cookies through your browser settings.
9. Third-Party Links
This website may contain links to external websites. This Privacy Policy does not apply to third-party websites, and Truth & Trials Law Associates is not responsible for their privacy practices. Please review the privacy terms of any external site you visit.
10. Updates to This Policy
We may update this Privacy Policy to reflect changes in law, technology, website features, or our internal practices. The updated version will be posted on this page and will apply from the date of publication.
11. Privacy Contact
For privacy questions, requests, or grievances, please contact Truth & Trials Law Associates at truthandtrialslaw@gmail.com or call +91 99942 21976. We will review and respond to concerns in accordance with applicable law.