Privacy Policy

Fortress Solicitors (the “Firm” or “Fortress Solicitors”) respects your privacy and aims to protect the personal information we collect and use as part of our business. Our Privacy Policy with respect to information collected, used, and disclosed through this website www.fortresssolicitors.com (the "Site") is set forth below.

Please note that this Privacy Policy is limited only to information collected through this Site.This Privacy Policy DOES NOT apply to our off-line practices or policies, or electronic communications to us other than through this Site (such as direct email).

1. Information that you give us:

We may collect personal information from you in the course of our business, including through your use of our website, when you contact or request information from us, or when you engage our legal services.

Also, in order to subscribe to our publications, we will require certain personal information, such as your first and last name, email address and current affiliation. In addition, in order to submit your resume with our talent department, we will require your first and last name and contact information, as well as a copy of your resume and other documents.

2. How we collect your personal information:

We collect information from you as part of our business acceptance processes and about you and others as necessary in the course of providing legal services.

We collect your personal information while monitoring our technology tools and services, including our websites and email communications sent to and from Fortress Solicitors.

We gather information about you when you provide it to us, or interact with us directly, for instance engaging with our staff or registering on any of our digital platforms or automatically, as you navigate the site. Information collected may include usage details, IP addresses, and information collected through cookies and other tracking technologies.

We may collect or receive information about you from other sources, for the purposes of  keeping the contact details we already hold for you accurate and up to date using publicly available sources.

3. Processing your personal information.

The Firm collects and processes personal information about you in a number of ways, including through your use of our website and in the provision of services by us. We use the personal information you provide us, including your name, email address to:

· send occasional informational emails (our newsletter) if you subscribe;

· respond to an inquiry you might initiate;

· provide and improve this website, including auditing and monitoring its use;

· provide and improve our services to you and to our clients, including handling the personal information of others on behalf of our clients;

· provide information requested by you;

· promote our services, including sending legal updates, publications and details of events;

· manage and administer our relationship with you and our clients;

· fulfil our legal, regulatory and risk management obligations, including establishing, exercising or defending legal claims;

· For the purposes of employment.

We may also automatically collect other, non-personally identifiable, information each time you visit this Site, including, without limitation:

· Technical information, including the Internet protocol address used to connect your computer to the Internet, browser type and version, and device type and version.

· Usage data and information about your visit, including the full Uniform Resource Locators (URL), clickstream to, through and from this Site (including date and time), page response times, download errors, and length of visits to certain pages.

· Information from cookies and similar technologies (see Cookie Policy below).

· General location information to identify where our audience views the Site from.

Some of the information described above can be collected by us only if you enable them on your hardware or software. For example, it is your option (and under your control) to accept or delete cookies, to enable location information, and to control the information that your browser transmits.

4. Legal basis for using your personal information

We use your personal information on the following basis:

· To perform a contract, such as engaging with an individual to provide legal or other services.

· For the establishment, exercise or defence of legal claims or proceedings.

· To comply with legal and regulatory obligations.

Please note that this Privacy Policy is limited only to information collected through this Site. This Privacy Policy DOES NOT apply to our off-line practices or policies, or electronic communications to us other than through this Site (such as direct email).

5. Retaining your personal information

Your personal information will be retained for as long as we are obliged, under relevant legislation and regulation, or where no such rules apply, for no longer than it is necessary for our lawful purposes, and until you notify us to delete your personal information.

6. Sharing your personal information

We may share information with:

a. our data processors and partners, for example, GoDaddy (our website partner, the email transmission service for our newsletter and business email provider), and GoDaddy Cloud Platform (our secure cloud hosting service), all of which are required to enable the Website’s smooth operation as well as our business functions;

b. lawful third parties or authorities for the purpose of preventing fraud and spam activity or if personal information is requested as part of a lawful investigation.

If in the future we re-organise or transfer all or part of our business, we may need to transfer your information to the new entities or to third parties through which the business of Fortress Solicitors will be carried out.

Fortress Solicitors uses social media sites such as Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn, and Twitter. If you use these services, you should review their privacy policy for more information on how they deal with your personal information.

We do not share, sell, rent, or otherwise make available your personal data with any other third party and do not sell information for advertising or promotional purposes.

7. How we protect your personal information

We use a variety of technical and organisational measures to help protect your personal information from unauthorised access, use, disclosure, alteration or destruction consistent with applicable data protection laws. Fortress Solicitors is subscribed to one of the top information security providers which provides information security support managed in line with international best practices.

8. Your individual privacy rights.

You have the right to:

a. be informed by providing clear, transparent, and easily understandable information about how we use your data and your rights. We fulfill this right by giving you this notice;

b. object to our processing and/or control of your personal data, subject to certain exceptions;

c. see what personal data we hold about you (access);

d. ask us to correct or rectify inaccurate or incomplete personal information by providing the accurate or complete information;

e. delete or erase your personal information where it is no longer necessary for us to use it, you have withdrawn consent (where applicable), or where we have no lawful basis for keeping it or otherwise using it. Notwithstanding, there are limited exceptions, for example where we need to use the information to bring or defend a legal claim;

f. withdraw and opt-out;

g. restrict the processing of your personal data;

h. ask for some or all your personal data to be provided to someone else. This is limited to the personal information you have provided with your consent or in relation to the products you have with us, and which we process by automated means;

i. lodge a complaint in relation to Fortress Solicitors’ processing of your personal information with the Nigerian Data Protection Bureau.

Requests to exercise your rights to your personal information can be made by sending an email to datap@fortresssolicitors.com.ng

Please note that when you ask us to restrict the use of your personal information, we may still store your information but will not use it further without your consent, unless we need to process it: to bring or defend legal claims; to protect the rights and freedoms of other individuals; or for other public or vital interest reasons.

Please also note that the only private information we control, and process is the information you’ve given us, which is typically your name and email address – or a note if you have sent us an inquiry. We do not store or track any other personal data. 

9. Use of Information.

By submitting your personal information, you agree that we can use such information for the purposes described in this Privacy Policy. We use the personal information to properly identify you, to respond to your requests and enquiries, to send you the requested information, publication(s) and updates, to keep a record of your communications with us, and to initiate your request for employment where applicable.

10. Transmission of Information via the internet.

Although we use encryption (https) on our website, the transmission of information via the Internet is not completely secure. While we do our best to protect your data, we cannot guarantee the security of your data transmitted to this Site; any transmission is AT YOUR OWN RISK. Once we have received your information, we will use strict procedures and security features to prevent unauthorized access.

We collect and use other, non-personally identifiable information to administer this Site, determine usage levels, diagnose any technical issues relating to this Site, to improve and optimize this Site, to improve the security of this Site and to ensure that this Site otherwise functions properly. In other words, we use the information collected through this Site solely for our own internal purposes, and to provide you with the requested services through this Site.

11. Disclosure of Information.

We do not disclose, share, sell, rent, lease, license or otherwise disseminate your personal information to any third party, other than to our service providers (who are bound by confidentiality and other fiduciary obligations to us regarding the information that we provide to them).

We reserve the right, however, to disclose such information to appropriate third parties:

a. as required by applicable laws, rules and regulations;

b. in response to a lawful subpoena or information request from governmental authorities;

c. to comply with a legal process;

d. to protect, defend and enforce the rights, privacy, safety or property of our firm, individuals affiliated with our firm and other third parties;

e. including to analytics and search engine providers that assist us in the improvement and organization of this Site;

f. in the event that we sell or buy any business or assets, in which case we may disclose your personal data to the prospective seller or buy of such business or assets;

g. if Fortress Solicitors or substantially all of its assets are acquired by a third party, in which case personal data held by it about its clients will be one of the transferred assets;

h. as otherwise agreed between our firm and you (or your organization).

12. Changes to this Privacy Policy.

We reserve the right to change this Privacy Policy at any time by posting revisions on this Site. This Privacy Policy is not intended to, and does not, create any contractual or other legal rights.

Contact us. This Website is owned and operated by Fortress Solicitors.

Questions, comments, and requests regarding our Privacy Policy or if you would like to make a privacy request or enquiry, please contact datap@fortresssolicitors.com.ng.