CASTILLO LAMAN TAN PANTALEON & SAN JOSE LAW OFFICES
PRIVACY POLICY

Castillo Laman Tan Pantaleon & San Jose Law Offices (“CLTPSJ”, “we”, “our” or “us”) appreciate you taking your time to visit our website. We are a full service law firm located in Makati City, Philippines.

We value privacy; thus, we present this Privacy Policy to explain how we handle, use, and store personal information that we collect through our website.

We use your personal information to improve our website and our services. By continuing to access and use our website and submitting personal information through it, your personal information will be collected, used, disclosed, and retained in accordance with this Privacy Policy.

Personal Information We Collect

We collect the following personal information from you when you communicate with us:

  • Full name
  • Company name (optional)
  • Address
  • Email address
  • Contact number (mobile or landline)

To enhance user experience, the website may use “cookies” and other tracking technology which collect certain kinds of information when you interact with us or our website. These are widely used to make websites work, or work more efficiently, as well as to provide information to the owners of the site. You may choose to set your web browser on refusing cookies, or to alert you when cookies are being sent. If you do this, please note that some parts of the website may not function properly.

How We Use Your Information

In general, we use the collected personal information for purposes necessary for us to perform our obligations, exercise our rights, conduct our associated work and functions, and communicate with you. Specifically, we use the collected personal information for purposes including:

  • To allow you to participate in interactive features of the website when you choose to do so;
  • To receive and respond to your inquiries;
  • To provide customer care and support;
  • To provide analysis regarding how you use the website, or any part thereof so that we can improve the same;
  • To monitor the usage of the website;
  • To detect, prevent and address technical issues; and
  • To establish, exercise, or defend legal claims.

Transfer and Sharing of Information

We share your information with our authorized staff to facilitate and manage the purposes listed above. Your information may be shared with third-party entities that provide services to us, including companies that provide app analytics, data processing, web hosting, and other services.

We may also share the collected information for the following cases or scenarios:

  • When we are required to do so by law or if such legal disclosure is reasonably necessary to comply with legal processes or regulatory requirements applicable to us, enforce our terms of use or other policies, or respond to any claims.
  • For maintaining the safety and security of the information collected as well as that of the data subject.

Website Analytics

The website may use Google Analytics, a third-party service, to analyze the web traffic data for us. This service uses cookies. The following identifiable web traffic data are analyzed:

  • Your IP address
  • The search terms you used
  • The pages and internal links accessed on our site
  • The date and time you visited the site
  • Geolocation
  • The referring site or platform (if any) through which you clicked to this site
  • Your operating system
  • Web browser type

Google uses the data collected to track and monitor the use of our website and web services. This data is shared with other Google services. Google may use the collected data to contextualize and personalize the advertisements of its own advertising network.

You can opt out of having made your activity in our website available to Google Analytics by installing the Google Analytics opt-out browser add-on. The add-on prevents the Google Analytics JavaScript (ga.js, analytics.js, and dc.js) from sharing information with Google Analytics about visits activity.

Security of Collected Information

To ensure the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of collected personal information, organizational, administrative, and technical processes and procedures are put in place to safeguard the information from loss, misuse, unauthorized access, disclosure, alteration or destruction. For example, we secure the personal information you provide in a controlled, secure environment, protected from unauthorized access, use or disclosure.

The security of your personal information is important to us, but note that no method of transmission over the Internet, or method of electronic storage is 100% secure. While we strive to use commercially acceptable means to protect your personal information, we cannot guarantee its absolute security.

Storage and Retention of Collected Information

We securely store your personal information. The personal information we collect shall be retained for as long as is necessary for the purposes set out in this Privacy Policy, and to fulfill the purpose for which it was collected. It will also be retained, if legally required, to resolve disputes, to enforce our legal agreements and policies, or to fulfill a legitimate interest. It will be disposed of when no longer relevant or necessary for the purposes set out in this Privacy Policy in compliance with applicable laws and regulations. Usage data will be retained for internal analysis purposes.

Your Rights as Data Subjects

As a data subject whose personal information is processed by us, you have a right to request access to and/or to correct your personal information, to limit the processing thereof or to lodge a complaint with the Philippine National Privacy Commission. You may also have other rights as a data subject under applicable data privacy laws. We must point out that in limiting the processing of your personal information as you may request, some parts of our website may not function properly or we may not be able to provide you with some of our services. If this is the case, we will inform you of the consequences in further detail depending on the specific personal information involved. You are also requested to promptly correct and/or amend your personal information to the extent you realize it is incorrect, inaccurate or outdated.

Changes to this Privacy Policy

We may update our Privacy Policy from time to time, in accordance with existing and new relevant laws and regulations. We will notify you of any changes by posting the new Privacy Policy on this page. You are advised to review this Privacy Policy periodically for any changes. Changes to this Privacy Policy are effective when they are posted on this page.

Your continued use of our websites or services after any change in this Privacy Policy will subject to such change your personal information that we collect and process.

This Privacy Policy was most recently updated on June 30, 2025.

Contact Us

If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy or concerns regarding the collection and use of your personal information, please contact us:

The Data Privacy Officer

  • Via snail mail: 4th Floor The Valero Tower, 122 Valero St., Salcedo Village, Makati City 1227, Philippines
  • Via email: DPOPrivacy@cltpsj.com.ph
  • Via telephone: (+632) 8817-6791 to 95 / (+632) 8810-4371 to 73