Privacy Policy

Last Updated: May 27, 2025

Democrat Legal & Partners ("us", "we", or "our") is committed to protecting the privacy and confidentiality of information entrusted to us by our clients and visitors to our website, [www.democratlegal.com] (the "Website"). This Privacy Policy outlines how we collect, use, disclose, and protect Personal Data in the course of providing legal services and operating our Website, in compliance with our professional obligations and applicable laws.

By engaging our legal services or using our Website, you acknowledge the terms of this Privacy Policy.

1. Information We Collect

We collect Personal Data necessary for providing legal services and for the purposes outlined in this policy. The types of Personal Data we may collect include:

Personal Data You Provide:

This includes information you provide when you contact us, request a consultation, or engage us for legal services. This may include, but is not limited to:

Email address
First name and last name
Phone number
Address, State, Province, ZIP/Postal code, City
Information related to your legal matter, including documents and communications.
Any other information you voluntarily provide through contact forms, email, or other communications.

Information Collected in the Course of Legal Representation:

This may include information obtained from you, from third parties (e.g., opposing counsel, witnesses, experts, courts, government agencies), or from public records, as necessary for your legal matter.

2. How We Use Your Information

Democrat Legal & Partners uses the collected Personal Data for the following purposes:

To provide legal advice and representation to you.
To manage your case, including communication, documentation, and court filings.
To provide client care and support, and to respond to your inquiries
For billing, accounting, and other administrative purposes related to our legal services.
To comply with our legal obligations, professional responsibilities, and ethical duties (e.g., conflict checks, record-keeping as required by the Bar Council or other regulatory bodies).
To detect, prevent, and address fraud, security, or technical issues related to our services.
To provide you with information about our services or legal updates, where you have consented or where permitted by law.

3. Legal Basis for Processing Personal Data

Our legal basis for collecting and using the Personal Data described in this Privacy Policy depends on the Personal Data we collect and the specific context in which we collect it. We may process your Personal Data because:

Democrat Legal & Partners may process your Personal Data because:

We need to perform a contract with you (e.g., to provide legal services)
You have given us permission to do so
The processing is in our legitimate interests (e.g., for administrative purposes, to manage our practice) and it's not overridden by your data protection interests or fundamental rights and freedoms.
To comply with a legal or regulatory obligation.

4. Client Confidentiality and Attorney-Client Privilege

As a law firm, we are bound by strict rules of professional conduct, including duties of confidentiality and attorney-client privilege. Information shared with us for the purpose of seeking or obtaining legal advice is treated as confidential and, where applicable, privileged, subject to legal exceptions.

5. Data Retention

Democrat Legal & Partners will retain your Personal Data only for as long as is necessary for the purposes for which it was collected, including for the purposes of satisfying any legal, accounting, professional, or reporting requirements. Client file retention periods are determined by applicable legal and regulatory obligations.

6. Transfer of Data

Your information, including Personal Data, may be transferred to — and maintained on — computers located outside of your state, province, country or other governmental jurisdiction where the data protection laws may differ from those from your jurisdiction.

If you are located outside India and choose to provide information to us, please note that we transfer the data, including Personal Data, to India and process it there.

Your consent to this Privacy Policy followed by your submission of such information represents your agreement to that transfer.

Democrat Legal & Partners will take all steps reasonably necessary to ensure that your data is treated securely and in accordance with this Privacy Policy and no transfer of your Personal Data will take place to an organization or a country unless there are adequate controls in place including the security of your data and other personal information.

6. Disclosure of Data

Legal Requirements

Democrat Legal & Partners may disclose your Personal Data if required to do so by law or in the good faith belief that such action is necessary to:

To comply with a legal obligation or professional duty
As necessary to provide legal services to you (e.g., disclosures to courts, tribunals, opposing counsel, experts, with your consent or as instructed).
To protect and defend the rights or property of Democrat Legal & Partners
To prevent or investigate possible wrongdoing in connection with our legal services or our firm.
To protect the personal safety of our clients, personnel, or the public.
To protect against legal liability

7. Security of Your Data

The security of your Personal Data is important to us. We implement appropriate administrative, technical, and physical security measures designed to protect your Personal Data from unauthorized access, use, alteration, and disclosure, consistent with our professional obligations. However, no method of transmission over the Internet or method of electronic storage is 100% secure. While we strive to use commercially acceptable means to protect your Personal Data, we cannot guarantee its absolute security.

8. Your Data Protection Rights

Depending on your jurisdiction and applicable data protection laws, you may have certain rights regarding your Personal Data. Democrat Legal & Partners aims to take reasonable steps to allow you to correct, amend, delete, or limit the use of your Personal Data, subject to our legal and professional obligations, including attorney-client privilege and confidentiality duties.

If you wish to be informed what Personal Data we hold about you and if you want it to be removed from our systems, or to exercise any other rights, please contact us using the details below.

Your rights may include:

The right to access, update or to delete the information we have on you.
The right of rectification.
The right to object to processing.
The right of restriction of processing.
The right to data portability.
The right to withdraw consent.

Please note that we may ask you to verify your identity before responding to such requests. The exercise of these rights may be subject to certain legal restrictions or exemptions, particularly in the context of legal proceedings or our professional duties.

9. Service Providers

We may employ third-party companies and individuals ("Service Providers") to facilitate our legal services or to provide certain services on our behalf (e.g., IT support, document management services, expert witnesses, or counsel in other jurisdictions). These third parties may have access to your Personal Data only to perform these tasks on our behalf and are obligated by contract and/or professional duties not to disclose or use it for any other purpose and to maintain its confidentiality.

10. Links to Other Sites

Our Website may contain links to other sites that are not operated by us. If you click on a third-party link, you will be directed to that third party's site. We strongly advise you to review the Privacy Policy of every site you visit.

We have no control over and assume no responsibility for the content, privacy policies or practices of any third party sites or services.

11. Children's Privacy

Our legal services and Website are not directed to individuals under the age of 18 ("Children"), or a higher age of consent depending on jurisdiction, without appropriate legal guardianship or parental consent where required by law for specific legal matters.

We do not knowingly collect personally identifiable information from children for general purposes. If you are a parent or guardian and you are aware that your child has provided us with Personal Data outside the context of a legal matter requiring such information, please contact us. If we become aware that we have collected Personal Data from children without verification of parental consent (where applicable), we take steps to remove that information from our systems.

12. Changes to This Privacy Policy

We may update our Privacy Policy from time to time. We will notify you of any changes by posting the new Privacy Policy on this page and updating the "Last Updated" date at the top of this Privacy Policy.

You are advised to review this Privacy Policy periodically for any changes. Changes to this Privacy Policy are effective when they are posted on this page. Your continued engagement of our services or use of the Website after any modification to this Privacy Policy will constitute your acceptance of such modification.

13. Contact Us

If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, please contact us:

By email: democratlegal@gmail.com
By visiting this page on our website: Contact Us
By phone number: +91-8188877758 / +91-9044115555
By mail: 004, Shakti Residency, Chinhat, Lucknow, U.P., India – 226010