Privacy policies

Guinard & Noriega has a confidentiality obligation inherent to its activity as a law firm and is bounded by attorney-client confidentiality legal provisions.

As such, Guinard & Noriega is obliged and committed to keep your personal information secured and confidential. 

As practicing lawyers and corporate and legal service providers, we have a professional and ethical obligation to keep all information we receive confidential as part of our lawyer-client relationship. Further, we are committed to safeguarding the personal information we store and/or process concerning any individual (s).

For the purposes of this policy

Personal information is any information that we collect that identifies you. Such information includes:

  • Name, address, e-mail, phone, fax if applicable, and other related business information known today or in the future.
  • Information obtained in the internet or in public database for compliance purposes.
  • The information we are required to have by law regarding to the know your client policy

Our firm stores all its information at secure and robust servers with redundancy. 

As a law firm, we must collect and maintain personal data. Your personal data may be collected for the following purposes:

  1. At the moment of initiating our relationship for the opening of the client’s docket and the inclusion of the information at our database.
  2. For the purposes related to the services we render to you, specifically the information required to better give counsel.
  3. When are a provider to our firm.
  4. When we require to update your information
  5. As required by law specifically for due diligence purposes.

We may also collect information from third parties that is required for rendering our services or during our due diligence investigation when required by law.Use of your information.

Your information will be used for the purpose of providing legal advice and other services to you, for our accounting purposes and for the use of our internal staff regarding with the administration of our relationship.

We will also use information for compliance purposes, for conflict checks and to comply with legal obligations.

We will use your information to send you notices, bulletins and other information that we may consider of use for you. However, you may opt out from continue receiving such notices or bulletins.

Each time you are asked to fill in a form, such as the user registration form, you can check or uncheck the option to receive information by email. In case you have marked the option to receive our newsletter or advertising you can cancel it at any time.

Guinard & Noriega will not disclose, assign, or sell your personal information. We will only disclose your information in the case we are required by law or to a third party we may contract for certain services, such as computer systems. In that case, the third party will have to sign a confidentiality agreement before accessing your information.

Links to Third Parties

This website may contain links to other sites that may be of interest to you. Once you click on these links and leave our page, we no longer have control over the site to which you are redirected and therefore we are not responsible for the terms or privacy or the protection of your data in those other third party sites. These sites are subject to their own privacy policies, so it is advisable to consult them to confirm that you agree with them.

Access to your data

As established by the Panamanian Privacy Data Act, you may request access to your personal information on our possession. You also may request the correction and/or update of data. You may also request the elimination of your data when and if the relationship with our firm ends. In that case we will only keep the data we are required to maintain by law.

Changes to this policy

We may change this policy from time to time. In that case, the link to this policy will be duly updated to reflect such changes.