Privacy policy
This document explains what personal data is processed in connection with the use of stogniy.com, for what purpose, and for how long it is kept.
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Who processes the data
The data controller is advocate Oleh Viktorovych Stohnii. The contact details for any question about the processing of personal data are the ones given on the Contact page: place of work, telephone and email.
What data is collected
The site has no registration and no user accounts, and collects nothing in the background. The only source of personal data is the contact form on the Contact page. Through it you send:
- name — required
- email address — required
- telephone number — optional
- the text of your message — required
- the interface language, and the date and time of sending — determined automatically
IP address
The sender's IP address is stored neither in the database nor in server logs. It is held only in memory, to limit the number of submissions from one address (protection against automated spam): for no longer than one hour after the last submission, after which it is discarded on the next use of the form, and immediately on every server restart.
Purpose and legal basis
The data is processed in order to consider your enquiry and reply to it, and to assess whether legal assistance can be provided — including checking that there is no conflict of interest.
The basis is the consent you give by submitting the form; where a legal-services agreement is concluded, performance of that agreement. Rate limiting rests on the controller's legitimate interest in protecting the site.
The data is not used for advertising, mailings, profiling, or any decision taken by automated means.
Who the data is shared with
The data is not sold, not passed to third parties for their own purposes, and not published. Only the advocate has access to enquiries.
Technically the data sits on a hosting provider's server in Germany — a state of the European Economic Area, which under Art. 29 of the Law of Ukraine “On Personal Data Protection” is deemed to afford an adequate level of protection, so no further condition applies to that transfer.
The content of enquiries is never sent by email: email is used only for one-time codes to sign in to the admin panel.
Disclosure to state authorities is possible only in the cases and by the procedure expressly provided by law.
Retention period
Enquiries that do not lead to an agreement are kept for 6 months from the date of sending, after which they are deleted automatically.
Where an enquiry does lead to a legal-services agreement, the relevant information passes into the case file and is thereafter governed by advocate–client privilege and the practice's file-retention rules.
A longer period applies only where the law expressly requires it. Deleted records may persist in database backups for no more than 14 days.
Your rights
You have the rights set out in Art. 8 of the Law of Ukraine “On Personal Data Protection”, including the right to know the sources of collection, the location of your data and the purpose of its processing; to obtain access to it; to require the correction of inaccurate data, and its erasure or the restriction of processing; to withdraw consent; and to complain to the Ukrainian Parliament Commissioner for Human Rights or to a court.
To exercise any of these rights, send a request to the email address given on the Contact page. We will tell you whether the request is granted within 10 working days, and give a substantive reply within 30 calendar days.
Cookies and third-party services
The public pages of this site set no cookies at all. Technical cookies are used only in the admin panel on a separate domain, and only for signing in.
The site uses no analytics, no advertising pixels, no external scripts and no content delivery network. Fonts are served from our own server. The map on the Contact page loads from Google only after you press the button yourself — until then no request is made to any third-party service.
If analytics is ever introduced, a separate consent mechanism will be provided for it and this document will be updated.
Data security
The site is served only over an encrypted connection (HTTPS). The database is not reachable from the internet. Access to the admin panel is protected by a password plus an additional confirmation code sent by email. Enquiries are never published or used in any materials.
An important note on privilege
The fact that you made contact, and the content of what you sent, are treated as confidential — without limit in time, and whether or not an agreement follows.
That said, the guarantees of advocates' activity under Art. 23 of the Law of Ukraine “On Advocacy and Advocates' Activity” attach to the advocate–client relationship. A message sent through the website form before an agreement is concluded is kept confidential, but its presence on a server does not give it the same procedural protection as material in an advocate's case file.
So please do not use the form to send case details, copies of documents, other people's personal data, or anything you regard as privileged. Describe the question in a sentence or two — we will discuss the rest at a consultation.
Minors
The form is not intended to be used unaccompanied by persons under 18 without a legal representative.
Changes to this policy
The current version is always published on this page. The date of the last update is shown above.