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Privacy Policy

Privacy Policy of AS Law Offices

Effective Date: 16th August 2025
Last Updated: 16th August 2025

AS Law Offices (“we”, “our”, “us”) respects your privacy and is committed to protecting the personal information you share with us. This Privacy Policy explains how we collect, use, disclose, and safeguard your information when you engage with our legal services, visit our website, or otherwise interact with us.

1. Scope and Applicability

This Privacy Policy applies to:

  • Clients, prospective clients, counterparties, and their representatives.
  • Visitors to our website and digital platforms.
  • Job applicants, interns, and vendors.

This Policy complies with the Digital Personal Data Protection Act, 2023 (India) and, where applicable, aligns with international data protection standards such as the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).

2. Information We Collect

We may collect the following categories of personal information:

  • Contact Information: Name, email address, phone number, postal address.
  • Professional Information: Designation, company/organization details, qualifications.
  • Case-Related Information: Documents, contracts, agreements, and factual information necessary for providing legal services.
  • Financial Information: Billing details, bank account/payment information (where required).
  • Sensitive Personal Data: Identification documents (e.g., Aadhaar, PAN, passport), health records, or other sensitive information necessary for specific legal matters.
  • Website/Technical Data: IP address, browser type, cookies, and usage analytics.

3. Purpose of Processing Personal Data

We process personal data strictly for legitimate legal and business purposes, including:

  1. Providing legal advice, representation, and related services.
  2. Complying with professional and regulatory obligations.
  3. Managing client relationships, billing, and payments.
  4. Conducting conflict checks and due diligence.
  5. Responding to queries and requests via our website or other communication channels.
  6. Recruitment, internships, and employment-related purposes.
  7. Ensuring information security, fraud prevention, and risk management.

4. Legal Basis for Processing

We process your personal data based on one or more of the following:

  • Consent (as required under the DPDPA 2023).
  • Performance of a contract with clients.
  • Compliance with legal obligations under applicable laws and bar council regulations.
  • Legitimate interests, including business development, conflict management, and ensuring client service quality.

5. Data Sharing and Disclosure

We do not sell or rent your personal data. However, we may disclose information in the following circumstances:

  • To courts, regulators, or law enforcement agencies where legally required.
  • To counterparties, opposing counsel, or experts involved in your legal matter.
  • To trusted third-party service providers (IT, accounting, HR, etc.) under confidentiality obligations.
  • As part of a corporate restructuring, merger, or acquisition, where permitted by law.

6. Data Security

We implement appropriate technical and organisational measures to protect personal data, including:

  • Encryption, secure servers, and restricted access controls.
  • Regular monitoring and audits of IT systems.
  • Staff training on confidentiality and data protection.

However, no transmission or storage system is 100% secure. We cannot guarantee absolute security of your data.

7. International Data Transfers

In certain cases, we may transfer personal data outside India (e.g., when engaging with international counsel or clients). Such transfers will comply with applicable laws, and we will ensure that adequate protection standards are in place.

8. Data Retention

We retain personal data only as long as necessary for:

  • The purpose for which it was collected.
  • Compliance with legal, regulatory, or professional obligations.
  • Legitimate business needs.

Thereafter, we securely delete or anonymise personal data.

9. Your Rights

Depending on applicable law, you may have the right to:

  • Access and request a copy of your personal data.
  • Request correction or updating of inaccurate data.
  • Withdraw consent (where processing is based on consent).
  • Request erasure or restriction of processing (subject to legal obligations).
  • Lodge a complaint with the Data Protection Board of India or other competent authority.

Requests may be submitted to our Data Protection Officer (DPO) (details below).

10. Cookies and Website Usage

Our website may use cookies and analytics tools to improve user experience and measure site performance. You can manage cookie preferences via your browser settings.

11. Third-Party Links

Our website may contain links to third-party sites. We are not responsible for the privacy practices or content of external websites.

12. Children’s Data

We do not knowingly collect personal data of individuals under the age of 18 unless required for a specific legal matter and with appropriate guardian consent.

13. Contact Us

For questions, concerns, or to exercise your privacy rights, please contact:


Anurag Sharma
Email: anurag@aslawoffices.com

14. Updates to this Privacy Policy

We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time to reflect legal, regulatory, or operational changes. Updated versions will be posted on our website with the “Last Updated” date.

This website is not an attempt to advertise or solicit clients, and does not seek to create or invite any lawyer-client relationship and is only intended to share information purposes and to inform about the initiatives undertaken by the AS Law Offices. The content herein or on such links should not be construed as a legal reference or legal advice.

Readers are advised not to act on any information contained herein or on the links and should refer to legal counsels and experts in their respective jurisdictions for further information and to determine its impact.

This website has been made solely for the providing information about AS Law Offices. While it has been carefully prepared to ensure that the information provided herein is accurate and up-to-date but AS Law Offices is not responsible for any reliance that a reader places on such information and shall not be liable for any loss or damage caused due to any inaccuracy in or exclusion of any information, or its interpretation thereof. Reader is advised to confirm the veracity of the same from independent and expert sources.

We advise against the use of the communication platform provided on this website for exchange of any confidential, business or politically sensitive information. User is requested to use his or her judgment and exchange of any such information shall be solely at the user’s risk.

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