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Terms & Conditions of Use of Website

We, as BALyZ Hoogvliet MSC BV., a registered company in the Netherlands, using the registered tradename "LegalTech Bridge" ("hereafter "LegalTechBridge") allow you to access and to use the information on this website under the following conditions:

General

By accessing this website, you are agreeing to be bound by these website Terms and Conditions of Use, all applicable laws and regulations, and agree that you are responsible for compliance with any applicable local laws. If you do not agree with any of these terms, you are prohibited from using or accessing this site. The materials contained in this website are protected by applicable copyright and trademark law.

Use license
  • Permission is granted to temporarily download one copy of the materials (information or software) on this website for personal, non-commercial transitory viewing only. This is the grant of a license, not a transfer of title, and under this license you may not:
    • Modify or copy the materials;
    • Use the materials for any commercial purpose, or for any public display (commercial or non-commercial);
    • Attempt to decompile or reverse engineer any software contained on this website;
    • Remove any copyright or other proprietary notations from the materials; or
    • Transfer the materials to another person or “mirror” the materials on any other server.
  • This license shall automatically terminate if you violate any of these restrictions and may be terminated by us at any time. Upon terminating your viewing of these materials or upon the termination of this license, you must destroy any downloaded materials in your possession whether in electronic or printed format.
Disclaimer
  • The materials on our website are provided “as is”. We make no warranties, expressed or implied, and hereby disclaims and negates all other warranties, including without limitation, implied warranties or conditions of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, or non-infringement of intellectual property or other violation of rights. Further, we does not warrant or make any representations concerning the accuracy, likely results, or reliability of the use of the materials on its Internet website or otherwise relating to such materials or on any sites linked to this site.
  • We are not authorized to practice law or provide legal services in the District of Columbia or any state in the United States. The products and services offered by us are limited to the non-legal, administrative aspects of document review and discovery projects.
Limitations

In no event shall we or its suppliers be liable for any damages (including, without limitation, damages for loss of data or profit, or due to business interruption,) arising out of the use or inability to use the materials on our Internet site, even if we or a one of our authorized representative has been notified orally or in writing of the possibility of such damage. Because some jurisdictions do not allow limitations on implied warranties, or limitations of liability for consequential or incidental damages, these limitations may not apply to you.

 Revisions and errata

The materials appearing on our website could include technical, typographical, or photographic errors. We does not warrant that any of the materials on its website are accurate, complete, or current. We may make changes to the materials contained on its website at any time without notice. We does not, however, make any commitment to update the materials.

Links

We have not reviewed all of the sites linked to its Internet website and is not responsible for the contents of any such linked site. The inclusion of any link does not imply our endorsement of the site. Use of any such linked website is at the user’s own risk.

Site terms of use modifications

We may revise these terms of use for its website at any time without notice. By using this website you are agreeing to be bound by the then current version of these Terms and Conditions of Use.

Governing law

Any claim relating to our website shall be governed by the laws of the Netherlands without regard to its conflict of law provisions and settled in the court of the city of Amsterdam. General Terms and Conditions applicable to Use of a Website.

 

Terms and conditions of download and usage of Lectures and Course Material

Feel free to download the lectures (PDF, PowerPoint and additional resources) for reference and as inspiration to create your own LegalTech curriculum. Should you distribute the content to your students, then we would appreciate if you:

  • Create a link from your website to ours: www.legaltechbridge.com 
  • Keep the existing references to www.legaltechbrdige.com on all our slides and lecture material.
  • Do not change the contents of the slides. You can remove or add your own slides to the lectures.
  • Do not charge any additional fees other then general university tuition fees for the participation in your lectures. We created this content for free and would like to keep it us such.

Additional terms and conditions:

  • Although these lectures may discuss legal issues, we are no law firms nor licensed attorneys and therefor we do not provide legal advice or services. This material should not be construed or used as such.
  • The opinions expressed herein are subject to change without notice. We strongly recommend that you consult your legal advisors before making any decisions about courses of action to be taken.
  • We shall have no liability for errors, omissions, inadequacies, copyrights, patents, intellectual property infringements or any other aspect of the the information contained in our lectures or for interpretations thereof. Should you use our materials, then you agree to indemnify, hold harmless and defend us, our officers and our employees, from and against all claims and suits by third parties, including damages, injuries, losses, and expenses, court costs and attorney’s fees related to such matters.
  • Any disputes shall be settled in the courts of the city of Amsterdam, the Netherlands and will be subject to Dutch law.

 

EU Privacy Statement

1. Introduction

We, as BALyZ Hoogvliet MSC BV., a registered company in the Netherlands, using the registered tradename the LegalTech Bridge ("hereafter "LegalTechBridge"), are pleased that you are interested in our company, products and service. It is important to us to protect your personal data you have provided to us. In this privacy statement we will explain how we collect, use, and protect your personal data.

We will also explain which rights you have with regards to your personal data and how you can exercise those rights.

2. What is Personal Data

Personal data means any information relating to an identified or identifiable natural person ('data subject'); an identifiable natural person is one who can be identified, directly or indirectly, in particular by reference to an identifier such as a name, an identification number, location data, an online identifier or to one or more factors specific to the physical, physiological, genetic, mental, economic, cultural or social identity of that natural person. This includes information such as your real name, address, telephone number and date of birth. Information which cannot be linked to your real identity - such as favourite websites or number of users of a site - is not considered personal data.

3. Who we are

This privacy statement is applicable to all personal data processing by the LegalTechBridge.If you have questions about how we process personal data, or would like to exercise your data subject rights, please email us at info@legaltechbridge.com 

Alternatively, contact us as Postbus 83, 1400 AB, BUSSUM, The Netherlands. 

4. Personal data we process

We process personal data of you because you’ve given us your data for entering a contract with us, providing you our services, or we received your personal data from third parties in order for us to provide you services and support of our products. Furthermore you might have given us personal data in order for us to customize our services and products based on your preferences and interest.

We process the following personal data:

·         Name and address
·         Contact details (e-mail, telephone number)
·         Company name
·         Company address
·         Payment information (optional)

Furthermore when you make use of our products / services we process, depending the use you make of the product / services, the following data that might be seen as personal data:

1.       Technical information, including the Internet Protocol (IP) address used to connect your device to the Internet;
2.       Your browser type and version, time zone setting, browser plug-in types and versions;
3.       Operating system and platform;
4.       Information about your visit, including the Uniform Resource Locators (URL) clickstream to, through, and from our site.

Technical information

In addition, and in order to ensure that each visitor to any of our websites can use and navigate the site effectively, we use tracking software to determine how many users visit our website and how often. We do not use this software to collect personal data or individual IP addresses. The data are used solely in anonymous and /or summarized form.

5. Lawful basis for the processing of personal data

The processing of the personal data is based on the following grounds as defined under article 6 General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR):

1.                   Consent
2.                   Performance of a contract
3.                   Compliance with a legal obligation
4.                   Vital interests of data subject or other natural person
5.                   Legitimate interest of LegalTechBridge or third party

Legitimate interests are for example: Marketing, Security, IT-Management, product improvements, legal proceedings, internal business processes. 

6. Purposes of the processing of personal data

We collect personal data from you for one or more of the following purposes mentioned below. The numbers behind each purpose are references to the lawful basis as mentioned previously (article 5)

1.       To provide you with information that you have requested; [1,2]

2.       to provide you with information which we think may be relevant to a subject in which you have demonstrated an interest;[1,2,5]

3.       to initiate and complete commercial transactions with you, or the entity that you represent, for the purchase of products and/or services;[2]

4.       to fulfil a contract that we have entered into with you or with the entity that you represent;[2,3]

5.       to fulfil agreements with you for the service and support of our products;[2,3,5]]

6.       to ensure the security and safe operation of our websites and underlying business infrastructure;[5]

7.       to manage any communication between you and us, and[2,5]

8.       to optimize our service offerings. [5]

 
7. Storage of personal data

We store personal data in accordance with our own data retention policy taking into account specific legal requirements, e.g. tax regulation.

8. Data sharing with third parties

We do not share, sell, transfer or otherwise disseminate your personal data to third parties and will not do so in future, unless required by law, unless required for the purpose of the contract, providing you services or unless you have given explicit consent to do so. For instance, it may be necessary to pass on your address and order data to our contractors when you order products.

External service providers that process data on our behalf are contractually obliged to maintain strict confidentiality as per Art. 28 GDPR.

We might share your personal data within the LegalTechBridge corporation in order to execute a contract with your, perform services or because of legitimate interests of LegalTechBridge ( e.g. to have a centralized customer services administration.)

We may access and process your personal data on a global basis as necessary for the purposes listed in this Statement. To the extent such global processing involves a transfer of personal data to our affiliates or third parties located outside the EEA that have not received a binding adequacy decision by the European Commission, such transfers are subject to (i) EU standard contractual clauses; or (ii) other binding and appropriate transfer mechanisms that provide an adequate level of protection in compliance with GDPR, such as approved binding corporate rules.

9. Security Measures

We take all of the necessary technical and organizational security measures in order to protect your personal data. Your data is stored in a secure operating environment which is not publicly accessible. We also use encryption where feasible to secure personal information in transit. Please be advised, however, although we take reasonable steps to protect your information, no website, Internet transmission, computer system, or wireless connection is completely secure. In the unfortunate event that your personally data is compromised, we will notify you in the most expedient time reasonable under the circumstances.

10. Your rights as a data subject

As a data subject whose personal information we hold, you have certain rights. If you wish to exercise any of these rights, please email info@legaltechbridge.com  or use the information supplied in the ‘Contact us’ section below with your request for exercising your right. Your rights are as follows:

The right of access

You may request insight in the personal data we hold about you free of charge. If there are exceptional circumstances that mean we can refuse to provide the information, we will explain them. If requests are frivolous or vexatious, we reserve the right to refuse them. If answering requests is likely to require additional time or occasions unreasonable expense (which you may have to meet), we will inform you.

The right to rectification

When you believe we hold inaccurate or incomplete personal information about you, you may request us to correct or complete this data. This may be used with the right to restrict processing to make sure that incorrect/incomplete information is not processed until it is corrected.

The right to erasure (the ‘right to be forgotten’)

Where no overriding legal basis or legitimate reason continues to exist for processing personal data, you may request that we delete the personal data. We will take all reasonable steps to ensure erasure.

The right to restrict processing

You may ask us to stop processing your personal data. We will still hold the data, but will not process it any further. This right is an alternative to the right to erasure. If one of the following conditions applies you may exercise the right to restrict processing:

a)      The accuracy of the personal data is contested
b)      Processing of the personal data is unlawful
c)       We no longer need the personal data for processing but the personal data is required for part of a legal process
d)      The right to object has been exercised and processing is restricted pending a decision on the status of the processing

The right to data portability

You may request a copy of your set of personal data that we processes. We will provide the personal data in a commonly used and machine-readable format. This will be personal data that we have processed based on your consent or for fulfilment of a contractual obligation that we have with you.

The right to object

You have the right to object to our processing of your data where:

·         Processing is based on legitimate interest;
·         Processing is for the purpose of direct marketing;
·         Processing involves automated decision-making and profiling.

Identification

For each request you make we may ask you to identify yourself. The purpose for this is to confirm who you are so that your personal data is not shared with other persons and to ensure that any data changes are made to the correct records.

Withdrawal of your consent

You are always able to withdraw your consent to process your personal data. If you wish to revoke your consent, just let us know via one of the communication channels and we will not process your personal data any longer. This is only applicable on the personal data which is processed with consent.

Terms

We will respond to your requests as soon as possible but no later than one month. If we do not meet this deadline, we will let you know before the expiry of the deadline. It may be that due to the complexity or size of your requests, the response period will be up to three months.

 
11. Contact us

Any comments, questions or suggestions about this privacy policy or our handling of your personal data should be emailed to info@legaltechbridge.com 

12 Changes in the privacy statement

We do our utmost best to keep this privacy statement as accurate and correct as possible. Therefore it might be necessary to update our statement.

We reserves the right to make changes at any time and without prior notice. So check regularly if changes have been made.

13. Complaints

Should you wish to discuss a complaint, please feel free to contact us using the details provided above. All complaints will be treated in a confidential manner.

Should you feel unsatisfied with our handling of your data, or about any complaint that you have made to us about our handling of your data, you are entitled to escalate your complaint to a supervisory authority within the European Union. For more information please go to the website of the Autoriteit Persoonsgegevens for more information.

 

Global Privacy Statement (Outside of the EU)

About this policy

We, as BALyZ Hoogvliet MSC BV., a registered company in the Netherlands, using the registered tradename the LegalTech Bridge ("hereafter "LegalTechBridge"), recognize the importance of protecting your privacy. The following privacy policy (“Privacy Policy”) describes what information we collects, how we collects that information, and how we stores, uses, transfers, and discloses (collectively “Uses”) the collected information.

This Privacy Policy is subject to our Terms and Conditions (“TAC”), which can be found at the bottom of the web site home page. You should print a copy of this Privacy Policy for your records, and you should also know that we may update or amend this Privacy Policy from time to time as we deems necessary.

When we updates or amends its Privacy Policy, we will post the revision date of the updated or amended Privacy Policy at the top of the document. This Privacy Policy applies to any websites, apps, products or services of we (“Services”) except if and to the extent any such Services post additional or different privacy terms.

Affiliate, partner and third party web sites

This Privacy Policy applies to we Services only. To the extent that any Service permits you to link to other web sites, products, data, services of our affiliates, partners, or other third-parties, and/or integrates content, data, or services therefrom, e.g., via API’s, etc. (collectively, “Third Party Services”), separate privacy policies may apply to those Third Party Services.

Those separate privacy policies may contain different terms that are not the same as those terms contained in our Privacy Policy. Your access to and use of such Third Party Services through links that are provided on this web site are not governed by this Privacy Policy.

Rather, your access to and use of such Third Party Services are governed by the privacy policies in those linked web sites, and we expressly disclaims any and all responsibility for your access to and use of such Third Party Services, as well as for any use of the information that you may provide, or any information that may be collected about you, at such Third Party Services.

Purpose of collection of personal information

Personal Data or Personal Information is data that can be used to uniquely identify or contact an individual. we collects such information in order to complete online transactions that you may place with us, and also to act upon instructions that you may give to us, and as otherwise set forth herein.

In some countries, including in the European Economic Area, some of this information may be considered “personal data” under applicable data protection laws.

Actively collected information

We may collect Personal Information from you when you choose to provide it to us. 

This may include when you submit a membership application or otherwise join us, request information from us, register for or attend a conference or trade show or other event, purchase a product, create an account with us, sign up for newsletters or our email lists, use our Services, submit a rating or review, participate in a survey or promotion, or otherwise contact us.

The information we collect may include your name, address, email address, telephone number, mobile telephone number, geolocation information, photos or videos, user name and, if you are our customer or member, credit/debit card number or other financial information. 

We may also collect information about your organization including but not limited to the organization’s program, staff and education information. You may be required to provide certain information to create your account or to participate in certain services. 

If you use a third party service to login, link to us, or communicate with us (such as a social network or third party video chat), we may receive certain information about you from the third party based on your registration and privacy settings on those third party services.

Passively collected information (cookies etc.)

Our Services, including without limitation its web site(s), online services, applications, email messages, and advertisements, if any, may use “cookies” web beacons, pixel tags, log files, or other technologies to automatically collect certain information when you use our Services or interact with our emails and online or mobile advertisements (collectively known as “Other Technologies”) to collect information about you. A cookie is a small data file stored on the web browser on your computer’s hard drive.

A cookie associates the identification numbers built into the cookie with information about you that you have provided to us. This association allows us to recognize who you are when you arrive at our web site(s) or other Services. Other Technologies tell us where on our Services you have visited, counts how many users visited certain pages within our Services, and measures the effectiveness of advertisements, if any, and search activity.

For example, we may automatically collect certain information from you such as your mobile device identifier or MAC address, browser type, operating system, device model, software version, Internet Protocol (“IP”) address, mobile or ISP carrier information, and the domain name from which you accessed the Services. 

We also may collect information about your use of the Services including the date and time you access the Services, the areas or pages of the Services that you visit, the amount of time you spend using the Services, the number of times you return, whether you open forward or click-through emails and ads, and other usage data.

We use this tracking information to understand and analyze trends, to administer our Services, and to learn about user behavior on our Services and to better personalize and optimize our Services.

In addition, we may use such information when we feels, in its sole discretion, that it is necessary to enforce compliance with its TAC, this Privacy Policy, to protect its Services, systems, information, employees, business partners, affiliates, users, customers or others, or when required by law.

We may obtain information about you from other sources, including social networks that you use to connect with us.  This information may include name, user name, demographic information, updated address or contact information, interests, and publicly-observed data, such as from social media and online activity.

We may combine the information we receive from and about you, including information you provide to us and information we automatically collect through our Services, as well as information collected offline or from third party sources to help us tailor our communications to you and to improve our Services.

Tracking options, EEA and California DO NOT TRACK disclosures

You may adjust your browser or operating system settings to limit this tracking or to decline cookies, but by doing so, you may not be able to use certain features on the Services or take full advantage of all of our offerings. 

Check the “Help” menu of your browser or operating system to learn how to adjust your tracking settings or cookie preferences.  To learn more about the use of cookies or other technologies to deliver more relevant advertising and your choices about not having this information used by certain Service Providers (defined below), please click here

On your mobile device, you can adjust your privacy and advertising settings to limit your tracking for advertising or control whether you receive more relevant advertising.  Note that our systems may not recognize Do Not Track headers or requests from some or all browsers.

Changes to this privacy policy and notification to you

We reserves the right, in its sole discretion, to make changes to this Privacy Policy. When we make changes to the Privacy Policy, we will revise the “Last Revision Date” field at the top of the Privacy Policy so you know the most recent version of the Privacy Policy and when the changes became effective.

We encourage you to periodically review the Privacy Policy to be informed of any changes. You are responsible for checking for updates. Your continued use of any Services after any changes is your consent to the updated terms.

How we use your information

We may use the information we collect from and about you to:

  • Respond to your inquiries, provide membership and member benefits, accreditation services and other services, fulfill orders, process payments and prevent transactional fraud, and contact and communicate with you;
  • Develop new programs, products or services;
  • Engage in policy initiatives to communicate with you and others to further our public policy and education goals;
  • Provide you with customized content, targeted offers, and advertising on the Services, via email or text message, or on other sites or apps;
  • Contact you with information, newsletters and promotional materials from us or on behalf of our partners and affiliates;
  • Research, address problems, and improve the usage and operations of the Services;
  • Protect the security or integrity of the Services and our business; and
  • As described to you at the point of data collection.
Disclosure of personal information to third parties

As a general rule, we does not share with or disclose to any third parties any specific Personal Information, except (a) as otherwise described in this Privacy Policy, (b) when we has your permission, or (c) under special circumstances such as, but not limited to, when we believe in good faith that the law requires such disclosure, or when the disclosure will protect the safety of others.

We may share the information we collect from and about you (including as set forth in more detail below):

(1) with selected third parties that we believe may provide member benefits, promotional materials, and goods and services that may be of interest to you;

(2) among our local, state and regional affiliates;

(3) to our service providers, if the disclosure will enable them to perform a business, professional or technical support function for us;

(4) as necessary if we believe that there has been a violation of our TAC or of our rights or the rights of any third party;

(5) to respond to judicial process or provide information to law enforcement or regulatory agencies or in connection with an investigation on matters related to public safety, as permitted by law, or otherwise as required by law; and

(6) as described to you at the point of collection.

Affiliates: we may share any or all of your Personal Information with and among its affiliated or related entities, including our affiliates located in the EU and elsewhere. Any onward transfer of your Personal Information is done in compliance with applicable laws.

Business Partners and Service Providers: we may share your Personal Information with companies which provide services such as, but not limited to, online chat, product promotion via email, order fulfillment, e-commerce, delivering products to you, managing and enhancing customer data, providing customer service, assessing your interest in products and services, information processing, conducting customer research or satisfaction surveys, and online job applications. These companies are obligated to protect your Personal Information in compliance with applicable laws.

Other: we may, if required by law, legal process, litigation and/or requests from public or governmental authorities, disclose your Personal Information. We may also disclose Personal Information about you if we determine, in good faith and in our sole discretion, that such disclosure is necessary for purposes of national security, law enforcement, the prevention of a crime, or other issues of public importance. We may also disclose Personal Information about you if we determine, in our sole discretion, that it is reasonably necessary to enforce the TAC, or to protect our operations or users. Additionally, in the event of a corporate reorganization, merger or acquisition, or sale, we may transfer any and all Personal Information we collect to a relevant third party. In addition, if any bankruptcy or reorganization proceeding is brought by or against us, Personal Information may be considered an asset of ours and may be sold or transferred to third parties. We also may share aggregate or anonymous non-personal information with third parties for their marketing or analytics uses.

Any information you may disclose in ratings or review, on message boards, in chat rooms, or on other public areas of the Services, becomes public information.  Please exercise caution when disclosing personal information in these public areas.

Opting out: how you control the use of your personal information

In the event you decide that you want to opt out from our use of your Personal Information that you previously provided to us, you may opt out of our use of your Personal Information to the extent required by law, by notifying us by email at: info@legaltechbridge.com 

Integrity, protection and retention of your personal information

While we endeavors to protect your Personal Information, we cannot warrant the security of any Personal Information, and ultimately you provide your Personal Information to us at your own risk. We uses industry standard efforts and security practices to safeguard your Personal Information, and we use commercially reasonable efforts to use different security measures designed to protect your Personal Information from access by unauthorized persons.

Some of those measures include, but may not be limited to, encryption, firewalls and use of Secure Socket Layers (SSL). We retains your Personal Information for the period necessary to fulfill the purpose for which it was collected, as outlined previously in this Privacy Policy, unless a longer retention period is mandated or permitted by law.

Your California privacy rights

For California residents:  We may share your personal information with third parties and affiliated third parties (such as local, state and regional affiliates and affiliate alliances), some of which do not share the We name, for their direct marketing purposes.  As these third parties and this category of affiliated third parties are considered an unaffiliated party under California law, you may opt-out of our disclosure of personal information to third parties for their direct marketing purposes. 

To opt out, please send us an e-mail at:info@legaltechbridge.com

  • We will continue to provide your information to local, state and regional affiliates and affiliate alliances identified in your membership application or account for the purpose of processing your membership in such affiliate and affiliate alliance programs.
Data storage and retention

Your personal information is stored on servers in the United States and may also be stored or processed in other countries by our service providers, if and to the extent compliant with law. 

You understand and agree that We may collect, use, disclose, and otherwise process the information you provide as described in this Privacy Statement even if you are from an area outside the United States.  Your personal information may be disclosed in response to inquiries or requests from government authorities or to respond to judicial process in the United States. We will retain your personal information for as long as it is needed to provide you with the Services, or to fulfill any legal or contractual obligations we may have.

If you are a resident of the EEA: Your personal information will be transferred to and processed in the United States, which has data protection laws that are different than those in your country and may not be as protective.

Access to personal information (incl. children)

There may be times that you wish to access your Personal Information. We makes good faith efforts to provide you with access to your Personal Information so you can instruct us to correct or update the Personal Information if it is inaccurate, or delete your Personal Information if it is not required to retain it by law or for a legitimate business purpose.

To receive a copy of your Personal Information, or to provide instructions to us on what you want corrected or updated, send us an e-mail at:info@legaltechbridge.com 

Children

This website is not intended for use by children. We do not knowingly solicit or collect Personal Information from children under the age of 13. If you are under the age of 18, you must obtain the consent of your parent or guardian to use this web site.