Privacy Policy

VANDELLOS ADR SL — www.sports-law.eu

VANDELLOS ADR SL (“the Firm”, “we”, “us”) is committed to protecting the privacy of visitors to its website and of the individuals whose personal data it processes in the course of its professional activity as a law firm specialising in international sports law and arbitration. This Privacy Policy explains how we collect, use, store and protect personal data, and describes the rights available to data subjects under Andorran Law 29/2021, of 28 October, qualified on the Protection of Personal Data (“LQPD”), its implementing Regulation approved by Decree 391/2022, of 28 September (the “Regulation”), and, where applicable to data subjects located in the European Union or to processing otherwise falling within its scope, Regulation (EU) 2016/679 of the European Parliament and of the Council, of 27 April 2016 (General Data Protection Regulation, “GDPR”).

1. Data Controller

Data Controller: VANDELLOS ADR SL

Registered office: C/ Paraires 8, AD700 Escaldes-Engordany, Principality of Andorra

Tax Registry Number (N.R.T.): L-719193-Z

Commercial Registry number: 935163 B

Email: office@sports-law.eu

Website: www.sports-law.eu

2. What Personal Data We Collect

Depending on your interaction with us, we may collect: identification and contact data (name, address, email, telephone); professional data (occupation, employer, sporting federation or club affiliation); data relating to the matter on which you instruct us, including, where relevant, special categories of personal data such as health data (for example, in doping-related or medical disciplinary proceedings) or data relating to criminal or disciplinary offences and sanctions; billing and payment data; and data automatically collected through our website, as described in our Cookies Policy.

3. Purposes and Legal Basis of the Processing

We process personal data to: (a) respond to enquiries submitted through our website or by email; (b) provide legal advice and represent clients before the Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS), disciplinary bodies, federations, leagues, governing bodies and courts; (c) manage the contractual and professional relationship with clients, agents, athletes, clubs and other professional contacts; (d) comply with legal, tax, accounting and professional conduct obligations; (e) send information about our services where consent has been given; and (f) safeguard the Firm’s legitimate interests in exercising or defending legal claims. The legal bases relied upon are, as applicable: performance of a contract or pre-contractual measures, compliance with a legal obligation, consent, and the legitimate interest of the Firm, always assessed to ensure it does not override your rights and freedoms.

Special categories of data (e.g. health data in doping matters) and data relating to criminal and disciplinary offences and sanctions are processed only where necessary for the establishment, exercise or defence of legal claims, for the provision of legal advice on the matter concerned, or on the basis of explicit consent, in accordance with articles 9 and 10 LQPD.

4. Data Retention

Personal data will be kept for as long as the professional relationship subsists and, once it ends, for the periods required to comply with statutory limitation periods and tax, accounting and professional conduct obligations, after which the data will be deleted or anonymised.

5. Recipients of Personal Data

Personal data may be disclosed to: co-counsel, experts and correspondent lawyers instructed in a matter; the Court of Arbitration for Sport, sporting federations, leagues, disciplinary bodies, courts, tribunals and public authorities, where necessary for the proceedings concerned; IT service providers, cloud storage and case-management providers acting as processors under contract; and professional insurers, auditors and public authorities where legally required. We do not sell personal data to third parties.

6. International Transfers

Given the international nature of sports arbitration, personal data may be transferred outside the Principality of Andorra, including to European Union Member States (recognised as offering an adequate level of protection) and, where relevant to the matter, to other jurisdictions such as Switzerland (seat of the CAS) or the jurisdiction of the sporting body or party concerned. Where a transfer is made to a country not benefiting from an adequacy decision, we rely on appropriate safeguards (standard contractual clauses, binding corporate rules or equivalent instruments) or, exceptionally, on one of the derogations set out in article 45 LQPD (e.g. explicit consent, necessity for the performance of a contract, or necessity for the establishment, exercise or defence of legal claims), in accordance with articles 42 to 45 LQPD.

7. Your Rights

You may exercise, free of charge, the following rights: access, rectification, erasure (“right to be forgotten”), restriction of processing, data portability, objection (including to direct marketing), and the right not to be subject to a decision based solely on automated processing, including profiling. To exercise these rights, please contact us in writing at office@sports-law.eu, enclosing a copy of an identity document. We will respond within one month of receipt of the request, a period that may be extended by a further two months where necessary, taking into account the complexity and number of requests. You are also entitled to lodge a complaint with the Andorran Data Protection Agency (Agència Andorrana de Protecció de Dades, “APDA”) or, where applicable, with the competent data protection supervisory authority in the European Union.

8. Security

The Firm applies technical and organisational measures appropriate to the risk, including confidentiality and encryption measures, to protect personal data against unauthorised access, loss, alteration or destruction, in accordance with article 35 LQPD. In the event of a personal data breach likely to result in a risk to the rights and freedoms of data subjects, we will notify the APDA without undue delay and, where feasible, within 72 hours, and inform affected data subjects where the breach is likely to result in a high risk to their rights and freedoms, in accordance with articles 36 and 37 LQPD.

9. Minors

Our services are not directed at minors. Where the processing of personal data of a minor is required in connection with a matter (for example, the representation of a minor athlete), the consent or intervention of the minor’s legal representative will be sought where required by law.

10. Data Protection Contact

For any question relating to the processing of your personal data or the exercise of your rights, you may contact us at office@sports-law.eu.

11. Changes to This Privacy Policy

We may update this Privacy Policy to reflect legislative changes or changes in our processing activities. The updated version will be published on this website together with its date of last revision.

Last updated: 15 July 2026