The Immigration Lawyers Association of the Philippines, Inc. (ILAP) values your privacy and wants you to be aware on how we collect, use, and share any personal data you provide to us. This Privacy Notice explains our data processing practices and describes your data privacy rights under Republic Act No. 10173, otherwise known as the Data Privacy Act of 2012.
What data is collected
We receive the following information from users and visitors of our site, when it is provided to us through our website’s contact form or via communication by email or by other contact information provided in this website:
- Your name
- Your email address
- Your contact number
- Your company, firm or organization
- Your address
- Any other information contained in your message or inquiry
Purposes behind the use and collection of your data
By visiting this website, sending a query using our website’s contact form, communicating with us through the email address or other contact information in this website, you consent that we may collect, process, use, and disclose your Information for the following purposes:
- Contact you and respond to your message or inquiry;
- Allow your comments on articles, together with your name, username, nickname, or alias to be posted publicly below the article on which you commented;
- Provide you with legal services with a view to or in the course of forming an attorney-client relationship, and otherwise deal with you, and administer the matters you instruct us to do; and
- Comply with legal obligations under applicable laws, rules and regulations, such as anti-money laundering requirements.
Your data privacy rights
You, as the data subject, have the following rights under the Data Privacy Act:
- Right to be informed of the collection and processing of your personal information;
- Right to object to the processing of your personal information;
- Right to access your personal information upon demand;
- Right to rectify or correct any inaccuracy or error in your personal information;
- Right to erasure or blocking of your personal information;
- Right to file a complaint with the National Privacy Commission; and
- Right to indemnified for damages due to inaccurate, incomplete, outdated or unlawfully obtained or unauthorized use of personal data; and
- Right to data portability.
If you have any questions or would like to exercise your rights under this “Privacy Notice”, you may send your query or request via our contact form.