Privacy Notice

Phiri and Associates Attorneys is presented on this website as the responsible party for personal information submitted through the website. The firm's official registered details, Information Officer details and full office particulars must be confirmed before this notice is treated as final.

Privacy queries about this website can be sent to consult@phiriincattorneys.co.za or +27 11 014 7820.

The enquiry form asks for the information needed to consider and respond to a consultation request, including name, contact details, preferred contact method, practice area, urgency, optional timing preferences and a matter summary.

The website may also process limited technical information needed to operate and secure the enquiry endpoint, including a hashed request identifier derived from request metadata, submission timing, duplicate-submission signals and email-provider delivery metadata.

The form does not ask for identity numbers, banking details, passwords, evidence uploads or highly confidential documents. Visitors should avoid sending sensitive details until the firm confirms that it can assist.

Personal information is used to receive, assess and respond to enquiries, route the enquiry internally, protect the website from spam or abuse, deliver the internal notification email and maintain necessary operational records.

Submitting an enquiry does not mean the firm has accepted instructions or created an attorney-client relationship. A formal relationship starts only after the firm confirms it can act and the terms of engagement are agreed.

The website currently asks visitors to consent to the processing needed to respond to an enquiry. The final lawful basis wording must be reviewed by the firm against the Protection of Personal Information Act, 2013 and the firm's professional obligations.

Where the firm is required or permitted by law to retain or process information, privacy requests may be subject to those legal and professional duties.

Website enquiry information is delivered by server-side email through the configured email provider. The production hosting provider, email provider, DNS/CDN provider and any website maintenance provider may process limited personal information as operators or service providers.

The public website currently does not include advertising pixels, analytics tags, newsletter signup, client login, payment processing or document uploads.

Some providers used to host, secure or deliver the website may process information outside South Africa. Provider regions, data-processing terms and operator agreements must be confirmed before launch.

Visitors who click external services, such as email, telephone, map, WhatsApp or social links when enabled, leave this website and interact with the relevant third-party service.

This website does not currently set optional analytics, advertising or preference cookies, and no cookie banner has been added for non-existent tracking.

If analytics, embedded media, chat widgets, advertising pixels or other optional tracking technologies are added later, this notice and the consent approach must be reviewed before publication.

The application does not store enquiry submissions in a website database. Successful enquiries are delivered by email. Short-lived in-memory hashes are used for rate limiting and duplicate prevention.

Mailbox retention, email-provider log retention, hosting logs and backup retention must be approved by the firm and recorded in the data-retention schedule before production launch.

Subject to applicable law, data subjects may request access to, correction of or deletion of their personal information, and may object to or ask questions about processing.

Complaints may also be directed to the Information Regulator South Africa. Visitors should use the regulator's current official contact details and forms.

This notice may be updated when the firm confirms its Information Officer details, operator arrangements, retention periods, PAIA materials, production hosting stack or future website features.