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Privacy policy

How we process your personal data when you contact us through this website or instruct us on a matter, in accordance with Regulation (EU) 2016/679 (GDPR) and Spanish Organic Law 3/2018 (LOPDGDD).

Last updated: 14 October 2026

Data controller

Controller
Aida Elias Soguero, NIF (tax ID) 43565939Y
Address
C/ Rosellón 372, 2º 4ª, 08025 Barcelona (Spain)
Telephone
+34 652 369 159 · +34 623 046 195

What data we process

  • The data you give us when you contact us: name, email address, telephone number if you provide it, and the content of your enquiry.
  • If you instruct us on a matter, the data and documents needed to handle it: for example, identity, family, employment, financial or tax data.
  • Where the matter requires it, special categories of data, such as health data, or data relating to criminal records. We process them with your explicit consent or because they are necessary for the establishment, exercise or defence of legal claims (Art. 9(2)(a) and (f) GDPR); data relating to criminal records, under Art. 10(3) LOPDGDD.
  • If you give us data about other people, such as family members, you must have informed them and have their permission where required.
PurposeLegal basis
To answer your enquiry and, if you ask, give you a quote.Your request: steps taken prior to entering into a contract (Art. 6(1)(b) GDPR) or, if the enquiry is not about an engagement, your consent (Art. 6(1)(a) GDPR).
To handle the matter you instruct us on: analysis, procedures, documents and communications with you and with third parties.Performance of the contract for professional services (Art. 6(1)(b) GDPR).
Invoicing and meeting accounting and tax obligations.Legal obligation (Art. 6(1)(c) GDPR).
Complying with anti-money laundering law in the matters to which it applies (Law 10/2010).Legal obligation (Art. 6(1)(c) GDPR).
Protecting the contact form against automated submissions (Google reCAPTCHA).Legitimate interest in the security of the website (Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR).

We do not make automated decisions or create profiles with your data, and we will not send you commercial communications without your consent.

How long we keep them

  • Enquiries that do not become an engagement: for as long as needed to deal with them. They are then deleted, unless the law requires us to keep them.
  • Matters you instruct us on: for the duration of the engagement and, afterwards, for the periods during which liability may be claimed and those set by tax law and, where applicable, anti-money laundering law (ten years, Art. 25 of Law 10/2010).

Who we share them with

  • Public authorities, courts, notaries, registries and other professionals involved in your matter, such as court representatives (procuradores), experts or translators, when needed to handle it.
  • The Spanish Tax Agency (Agencia Tributaria) and other bodies, when required by law.
  • Providers who supply services to us, such as website hosting, email or IT support, who process the data on our behalf as processors.
  • Google, through the reCAPTCHA on the contact form and, only if you choose to display it, the map on the Contact page.

International transfers

Google LLC, based in the United States, participates in the EU-US Data Privacy Framework, which the European Commission recognises as providing adequate protection (Decision of 10 July 2023). Should any other provider process data outside the European Economic Area, it will do so with the safeguards set out in Chapter V of the GDPR.

Your rights

You may ask us at any time to:

  • Access your data.
  • Rectify inaccurate data.
  • Erase your data when it is no longer needed.
  • Object to processing or ask us to restrict it.
  • Receive your data in a structured format (portability).
  • Withdraw your consent, without affecting processing carried out before.

Write to us at info@ruizsogueroabogadas.com or at our address, stating which right you are exercising. If necessary, we will ask you to prove your identity.

Some rights may be limited where the law requires us to keep the data or where we need it for the establishment, exercise or defence of legal claims.

If you believe we have not handled your request properly, you can lodge a complaint with the Spanish Data Protection Agency (Agencia Española de Protección de Datos):

aepd.es

Security and professional secrecy

We apply technical and organisational measures to protect your data. In addition, all our clients' information is subject to lawyers' professional secrecy.

Changes to this policy

If we change this policy, we will publish the new version here with its date.