PRIVACY POLICY

GENERAL PROVISIONS

By using the website (the ‘Site’) of Dartevelle Dubest Bellanca AARPI (the ‘Firm’), you agree to the collection and use of your personal data (the ‘Personal Data’) as described in this Privacy Policy. In the event of a change or update, the revised Privacy Policy will be posted on the Site with an indication of the last update date. You should therefore check the Site regularly to stay informed of any changes or updates to the Firm’s Privacy Policy.

Your Personal Data collected from the Site are processed by the Law Firm in its capacity as data controller.

The Firm takes great care to ensure that your privacy and the confidentiality of your Personal Data are respected. It therefore undertakes to process your Personal Data in compliance with the applicable laws and regulations, and in particular Law No. 78-17 of 6 January 1978 on data processing, data files and individual liberties, and Regulation (EU) 2016/679 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 27 April 2016 on the protection of individuals with regard to the processing of personal data and on the free movement of such data (the ‘Applicable Regulation’).

1. DATA COLLECTED

Your Personal Data is collected by the Firm in the context of the processing of files, professional meetings, partnerships, job applications and the use of our Site, where applicable on a declarative basis when you fill in a form submitted to you by the Firm.

The Firm only collects Personal Data that is relevant, adequate and limited to what is necessary for the purposes for which it is processed. The Firm adopts measures to protect Personal Data at the design stage of the processing concerned.

Your Personal Data is kept by the Firm for the time necessary to fulfil the purposes for which it is processed, subject to the legal possibilities of archiving, obligations to keep certain data, and/or anonymisation.

The storage periods applied by the Firm are :

  • three (3) years from the time of collection or your last contact with the Firm as regards Personal Data relating to customers, prospects and partners;
  • the period required to process the application and three (3) years after the last contact in the event of a negative outcome as regards Personal Data relating to applicants;
  • one (1) year from the last connection as regards Personal Connection Data

2. LEGAL BASIS AND PURPOSES OF PROCESSING

The Firm processes your Personal Data in the cases authorised by the Applicable Regulations and in particular where such processing :

  • have given rise to free, specific, informed and unambiguous consent ;
  • is necessary for the performance of a contract or pre-contractual measures concerning you; or
  • is necessary for the Firm to comply with legal or regulatory obligations to which it is subject; or
  • are justified by the Firm’s legitimate interests.

Your Personal Data may be used in order to:

  • communicate with you in the context of handling cases or assignments, partnerships or any other type of relationship;
  • respond to your requests for information about the Firm, our services or those of our partners;
  • send you thematic or specific information, in particular legal training, documents or reports, newsletters or invitations to events, seminars or conferences;
  • carry out satisfaction surveys, analyses and statistics with a view to improving our services and our knowledge of our customers and prospective customers;
  • to process applications received;
  • to ensure the operation and security of the Site, to improve its operation and to adapt it to your expectations.

The Firm may also use your Personal Information for administrative purposes or for any other purpose required by applicable law.

3.  RECIPIENTS OF YOUR PERSONAL DATA

Your Personal Data will not be accessible to anyone other than duly authorised persons within the Firm, unless there is a legal or regulatory obligation to allow access or to transmit said Personal Data to any competent authority, particularly in the context of an audit.

Our service providers and subcontractors may also be required to process certain Personal Data from time to time in order to carry out the tasks and services we have entrusted to them. Where we use service providers located outside the European Union, the Firm verifies that appropriate measures have been put in place to ensure that your Personal Data is afforded an adequate level of protection, in particular by means of the European Commission’s standard contractual clauses, internal company rules or, where applicable, the data protection shield set up between the European Union and the United States

4.  EXERCISING YOUR RIGHTS

In accordance with applicable law, you have rights of access and rectification, which allow you to have inaccurate, incomplete or out-of-date Personal Data rectified, completed, updated or deleted, as well as rights to request the limitation of processing, and to object on legitimate grounds to the processing of your Personal Data.

You may also, at any time and without reason, object to the processing of your Personal Data for communication purposes.

These rights may be exercised by contacting the Firm by sending an email to cabinet@ddbavocats.com or a letter to the following address: Firm Dartevelle Dubest Bellanca AARPI, 9 rue Boissy d’Anglas, 75008 Paris (France).

You are informed that you may at any time lodge a complaint with the CNIL (3 Place de Fontenoy – TSA 80715 – 75334 Paris Cedex 07).

5.  COOKIE MANAGEMENT POLICY

What are cookies?

When you connect to the Site, and by continuing your browsing, you accept that the Site uses cookies in order to improve its functionality and performance.

A cookie is a small text file sent to the user’s browser by the Site consulted and stored in the user’s terminal equipment. Cookies enable the Site consulted to collect information relating to the user’s visit in order to improve the user’s browsing experience and the Site’s content and functions.

There are different types of cookies:

  •  session cookies, which disappear as soon as the user leaves the site;
  •  permanent cookies, which remain on the User’s terminal until their lifetime expires or until the User deletes them using their browser’s functions.

Users are informed that cookies may be installed on their terminal equipment when they visit the Site.

How to object:

To accept or refuse the use of other cookies on the Site, simply manage your preferences on the cookies banner visible when you first connect to the Site.

Deleting or blocking certain cookies may affect your user experience and you may not be able to access all or part of our Site.