Privacy Notice

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Identity and address of the controller processing personal data.

Gutierrez y Valdivia Abogados, S.C., known as GV ABOGADOS (hereinafter, GV ABOGADOS), with its address at Bosques de Ciruelos 186, floor 10, suite 1025, Bosques de las Lomas, Miguel Hidalgo, postal code 11700, Mexico City, and website https://www.gvabogados.mx/, is responsible for the use and protection of your personal data under this Privacy Notice and the Federal Law on the Protection of Personal Data Held by Private Parties (LFPDPPP) and its Regulations. We hereby inform you of the following:

I. Purposes of processing your personal data.

GV ABOGADOS collects your personal data directly from you, electronically through email and/or telephone, and in person.

The personal data collected by GV ABOGADOS is necessary to provide the professional legal advisory and consulting services you request, including immigration legal advice and immigration procedures before the relevant institutions and/or authorities, such as the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Ministry of the Interior, National Immigration Institute, embassies and consulates in Mexico and abroad.

The personal information collected by GV ABOGADOS is used solely for the purposes stated above and is not used for commercial prospecting or marketing.

II. Personal data subject to processing.

To fulfil the purposes described in this Privacy Notice, GV ABOGADOS may collect and, where applicable, process the following personal data: name; marital status; Federal Taxpayer Registry number (RFC); Unique Population Registry Code (CURP); place of birth; nationality; date of birth; language(s); sex; number of children; previous countries of residence; highest level of education; occupation; address in Mexico; passport number, country of issue and expiry date; home telephone; mobile telephone; email; handwritten signature; age; photograph; hair colour; distinguishing features; height; weight; scars; current or prospective position or job title; work address; business email and telephone; educational background; law or other professional degree; professional licence; school and educational certificates; awards and distinctions; entries into and departures from the country; length of stay; immigration status and documents; information on ownership of movable and immovable property; tax information; credit history; income; expenses; insurance; retirement fund administrators (AFORES); hobbies; interests; sports practised; games of interest; contact details; employment, academic and immigration information; and property-related and/or financial information.

III. Sensitive personal data to be used.

In addition to the personal data mentioned above, for the purposes stated in this Privacy Notice we will use the following personal data considered sensitive and requiring special protection: physical characteristics; religious beliefs; trade union membership; present, past or future physical health; genetic information; membership of a people, race, ethnic group or region; present, past or future mental health; sexual preferences; sexual practices; and/or fingerprints.

These personal data will be treated as sensitive data in accordance with the LFPDPPP and its Regulations.

IV. Personal information shared and the purposes for sharing it.As a result of your legal and/or professional services relationship with GV ABOGADOS and the procedures you have requested, GV ABOGADOS may share your personal data with the relevant government agencies, institutions and/or immigration authorities, including the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Ministry of the Interior, National Immigration Institute, embassies and consulates in Mexico and abroad, and/or third parties necessary to carry out the immigration procedures you have requested. The persons and/or government agencies receiving your personal data must protect them on the same terms as this Privacy Notice, without prejudice to their obligations under applicable law.

Before sharing your personal data, GV ABOGADOS will inform the relevant recipients of the contents and scope of this Privacy Notice so that the shared personal data are respected at all times in accordance with its terms, to the extent permitted by the legislation applicable to the relevant government agencies and/or authorities.

If you do not wish your personal data to be transferred to the persons, agencies and/or government institutions mentioned above, you may express this by requesting the document entitled “Request to Exercise ARCO Rights” at the offices of GV ABOGADOS through its designated personal data protection contact, on https://www.gvabogados.mx/ in the Privacy Notice section, and/or by emailing contacto@gvabogados.mx. You must complete the request and deliver it to the designated contact at the offices of GV ABOGADOS and/or email it to contacto@gvabogados.mx, together with the information and documentation required by the request, so that we can verify your identity and resolve your request.

You may also refuse processing of your personal data for purposes that are neither necessary for nor gave rise to your legal relationship with GV ABOGADOS, through the “Request to Exercise ARCO Rights” described in the preceding paragraph.

Any disclosure and transfer of your personal data is subject to the express written consent you provide through this Privacy Notice.

By submitting your personal data, you grant the fullest consent permitted by law for collection of your personal information.

GV ABOGADOS may provide your personal data to any civil, criminal or administrative authority in accordance with requests made by the relevant authority.

If your personal data are obtained indirectly and the purposes to which you consented when the data were transferred change, we will make the relevant Privacy Notice available before using the data. If this Privacy Notice is not provided to you directly, electronically by email and/or telephone, or in person, you will have five days to refuse processing for purposes other than those necessary for and giving rise to the legal relationship between you and GV ABOGADOS. If you do not express your refusal in accordance with the above, you will be deemed to have consented to processing.

V. How to access, rectify or cancel your personal data, or object to their use.

You have the right to know which personal data we hold about you, the purposes for which we use them and the conditions of their use (Access). You may request correction of outdated, inaccurate or incomplete information (Rectification); deletion from our records or databases if you consider the information is not being used appropriately (Cancellation); and object to the use of your personal data for specific purposes (Objection). These are known as ARCO rights.

To exercise any ARCO right, you must submit the relevant request to GV ABOGADOS. To obtain the “Request to Exercise ARCO Rights” and information about the procedure and requirements, visit https://www.gvabogados.mx/ in the Privacy Notice section, email contacto@gvabogados.mx, and/or contact Enrique Gamboa Vázquez, the person designated by GV ABOGADOS for personal data protection, at its offices. This contact will process your request and address questions concerning the processing of your personal data.

The designated personal data protection contact is located at Bosques de Ciruelos 186, floor 10, suite 1025, Bosques de las Lomas, Miguel Hidalgo, postal code 11700, Mexico City, and may be contacted at contacto@gvabogados.mx and/or 55 9548 4272.

VI. How to withdraw consent for the use of your personal data.

You may withdraw any consent you have given for processing of your personal data. However, we may not always be able to comply with your request or stop using the data immediately, as a legal obligation may require continued processing. For certain purposes, withdrawal of consent may mean we can no longer provide the service you requested or that your relationship with us must end.

To withdraw consent, you must submit a “Request to Withdraw Consent to the Processing of Personal Data”. To obtain the request form and information about the requirements, visit https://www.gvabogados.mx/ in the Privacy Notice section, email contacto@gvabogados.mx, or contact the designated personal data protection contact at the offices of GV ABOGADOS.

VII. How to limit the use or disclosure of your personal information.

To limit the use or disclosure of your personal information, contact GV ABOGADOS on 55 9548 4272, visit https://www.gvabogados.mx/ in the Privacy Notice section, email contacto@gvabogados.mx, or contact its designated personal data protection contact. Your data may be excluded for these purposes once your identity has been verified using the documentation you provide.

VIII. How to learn about changes to this Privacy Notice.

This Privacy Notice may be amended, changed or updated as a result of new legal requirements, our needs arising from the professional services we provide, our privacy practices, or causes beyond the control of GV ABOGADOS.

We undertake to keep you informed of changes to this Privacy Notice by email to the address you provided, through our personal data protection contact, by notice on https://www.gvabogados.mx/, and/or by telephone on 55 9548 4272.

IX. Use of tracking technologies on our website.

Our website does not use tracking technologies that allow us to monitor your behaviour as an internet user.

X. Right to contact the National Institute for Transparency, Access to Information and Personal Data Protection (INAI).

You may contact the National Institute for Transparency, Access to Information and Personal Data Protection (INAI) at any time if you consider it appropriate to protect your interests.

XI. Your consent to the processing of your personal data.

By submitting my information, I consent to the processing of my personal data in accordance with the terms and conditions set out in this Privacy Notice.​