Villar & Villar Abogados, S.C., and/or any other of the companies of the VILLAR^® Group (hereinafter VILLAR^®, the Firm or the Group), with address at Avenida Prolongación Tecnológico número 950-B, Interior 58, Piso 11, Colonia San Pablo, Querétaro, Querétaro, México, C.P. 76125, recognizes the importance of the legitimate, controlled and informed treatment of the personal data of its clients and users of the website and makes this Privacy Notice available to you, so that you are aware of its practices when obtaining, using, storing and, in general, treating your personal data, in accordance with the Federal Law for the Protection of Personal Data in Possession of Individuals and other applicable regulations (hereinafter “the Law”.

Personal Data that may be processed.

You can browse the website without providing your personal data, however, there are certain sections within it where you can voluntarily provide your data, such as when sending your resume, send an email to contact you, register to receive information of interest or newsletter, as well as those that you provide or are requested with a view to establishing a legal relationship, for example, when you decide to hire legal services or provide any service, which may be: (i) Identification data, such as: name, home address, date of birth, CURP, landline or cell phone number, e-mail and image. ii) Academic data, such as: educational background, degree, professional license, certificates. iii) Employment data, such as: position, home address, email, landline or mobile phone number. iv) Billing data, such as: entity to be charged, tax address, RFC. v) Financial data, such as: bank account information, form of payment.

Minors and disabled persons.

VILLAR^® is a Law Firm committed to the privacy of minors and disabled persons; therefore, it does not intentionally collect or process personal data of minors and disabled persons without the express consent of their parents, guardians or legal representatives. If you are a parent, guardian or legal representative of a minor or disabled person and you know that you have provided personal data without their consent, you may request that such data be cancelled at the following e-mail address: privacidad@villarabogados.com.mx

Purposes and/or Uses of personal data.

The personal data you voluntarily provide, such as sending your resume, sending an email to contact you, registering to receive information of interest or the newsletter; will be used to contact you in the event that: (i) your profile results of interest and you are considered for a recruitment and selection process, (ii) they must follow up on your request and/or (iii) they must send you information of interest or the newsletter. The personal data obtained as a result of a legal relationship, whose processing is necessary to comply with obligations arising from such relationship, will be used only to provide you with the legal services requested, to send you communications in connection with the subject matter, to carry out the billing, to hire the services or products offered, to send you the payments for these services or products, to formalize in contracts or other documents the relationship that is generated with you. Your personal data may be used for purposes other than those mentioned above or those included in the Privacy Notices made available to you, provided that such purposes are compatible with those described and may be considered analogous. By providing personal data, you consent to VILLAR^® collecting and using such data for the purposes described above.

Use of tracking technologies.

When you browse the Firm's website, certain non-personal information is collected through “cookies” and “server logs” or “web beacons”. This information is collected through the simple use of and interaction with the website and the information collected may consist of Internet Protocol addresses, your operating system, browser type, location information (provided by mobile devices) and the route you take while on the site. This data is collected solely for the following purposes: to generate statistics regarding visits to the website, time spent on the site and referring sites that may have brought you to VILLAR^®. This information is also used to maintain and update user profiles and to tailor or personalize the information provided through this medium. It is possible to disable these tracking technologies in all types of browsers; however, disabling or blocking these mechanisms may cause the website to not function properly.

Transfers of personal data.

VILLAR^® will not sell, assign or transfer your personal data to third parties outside VILLAR^® without your prior consent.  However, VILLAR^® may transfer your personal data only when such transfer is provided for by law.

Security Measures.

VILLAR^® has adopted and maintains the administrative, technical and physical security measures necessary and available to protect your personal data against damage, loss, alteration, destruction or unauthorized use, access or processing. However, it is clear that no data communication over the Internet is completely secure, so VILLAR^® cannot guarantee that your personal data will be free from damage, loss, alteration, destruction or unauthorized use, access or processing when they are provided by that means.

Rights that correspond to the holder of personal data.

As holder of personal data, you may exercise before the Responsible for the Protection of Personal Data of VILLAR^®, the rights of access, rectification, cancellation and opposition (“ARCO” rights). Likewise, you may revoke, at any time, the consent you have given and that was necessary for the processing of your personal data, as well as limit the use or disclosure of the same. The above, by sending your request in the terms established by Law to the following e-mail address: privacidad@villarabogados.com.mx and with acknowledgement of receipt to: Avenida Prolongación Tecnológico número 950-B, Interior 58, Piso 11, Colonia San Pablo, Querétaro, Querétaro, México, C.P. 76125. By way of reference, the ARCO rights are briefly described as follows: i) Access.-To be informed which of your personal data are contained in the databases of VILLAR^®, what such personal data are used for, the origin and communications that have been made with the same and, in general, the conditions and generalities of the treatment. The obligation of access shall be deemed fulfilled when: (i) The data is made available to the holder of the personal data or; (ii) Through the issuance of simple copies, magnetic, optical, sound, visual, holographic, electronic documents or any other means or technology deemed appropriate. ii) Rectification.- That your personal data is corrected or updated in the event that it is inaccurate or incomplete. You will have the obligation to inform VILLAR^® of the changes that should be made to your personal data, when such changes are only of your knowledge. iii) Cancellation.- That your personal data be removed, totally or partially, from the databases of VILLAR^® because the purpose for which they were collected has been fulfilled. iv) Opposition.- To oppose for legitimate reasons to the processing of your personal data.

Changes to the Privacy Notice.

In case of substantial or total changes in this Privacy Notice or in the one provided to you at the time, the updated version of the same will be made available on the website: www.villarabogados.com.mx

Contact.

If you have any questions or comments regarding the Privacy Notice, please contact the Responsible for Personal Data Protection of VILLAR^®, through the following email address: privacidad@villarabogados.com.mx, or visit at: Avenida Prolongación Tecnológico número 950-B, Interior 58, Piso 11, Colonia San Pablo, Querétaro, Querétaro, Mexico, C.P. 76125.

In terms of the Law and its Regulations, we inform you that, in case of refusal of response to requests for ARCO rights or disagreement with it, you may submit to the Federal Institute of Access to Information and Data Protection, the corresponding Request for Protection of Rights in the terms and terms set by the Law and its Regulations.

Last update: January 2021.