LEGAL INFORMATION

About Essensis

• Essensis Avocats, Association d’Avocats à Responsabilité Professionnelle Individuelle
• 14 rue de Berri – 75008 Paris
• SIRET 905 292 710 00019
• Email contact@essensislegal.com
• Publication directors: Cyrille Boillot, Svetlana Tokoucheva
• Website hosting: OVH, 424 761 419 – RCS Lille Métropole; 2 rue Kellermann – 59100 Roubaix, France
• Design and copywriting:  Ahead Marketing , Florence Dalléas
• Web development:  Magma Consulting, Marie-Alix Achard

 

Terms and conditions of use

This website and all of its contents, including text, still or animated images, databases, etc., are protected by copyright. The trademark and logo displayed on this site are the property of Essensis Avocats. The use or misuse of this trademark and logo without our consent is strictly prohibited.

The content and functionality of this site are the exclusive property of Essensis Avocats. They are provided to you without any warranty as to their accuracy or completeness. You are authorized to access this site and may download, display and print its contents, provided that you do not modify, reproduce or distribute them without our consent.

The information available on this Website is subject to change without notice.

This Website was created in France. By using this Website, you agree to the terms of use described above. Any dispute relating to the interpretation or performance of a contractual undertaking provided for in this Website shall be subject to the exclusive jurisdiction of the French courts applying French law.

Personal Data & Privacy Policy

Essensis Avocats (the ‘Firm’) is concerned about the protection of personal data and is committed to ensuring the protection of your data in accordance with EU Regulation 2016/679 General Data Protection Regulation (‘GDPR’) and Law n°78-17 of 6 January 1978 as amended (together, the ‘Regulations’).

WHO IS RESPONSIBLE FOR PROCESSING YOUR PERSONAL DATA?

Essensis Avocats, in its capacity as data controller, implements the processing of personal data, i.e. the entity that defines for what purpose(s) and how your personal data is used.

WHAT PERSONAL DATA IS COLLECTED AND FOR WHAT PURPOSES?

• • For website visitors:

The Firm may collect and process your name, first name, position and if you contact us using the website’s contact form.

We collect certain browsing data to enable us to ensure proper browsing on our website and the security of our services and to detect, prevent or trace any attempt at malicious intent or computer intrusion or any violation of the terms of use of our services. With regards to the cookies collected when you connect to the www.essensislegal.com website, please see the ‘Cookies’ section below (‘What cookies are used?’).

• • For clients and prospects:

As part of the fee agreements that we sign with our clients, and more generally in the course of the business relationship and the performance of assignments that we carry out on your behalf, we are required to process personal data relating to clients, employees, representatives and/or managers of clients: identification data such as name, first name, postal address, e-mail address, position, data relating to personal or professional life, where applicable sensitive data and, more generally, all personal data required to compile the client’s file and to defend the client’s interests.

• • The data is used by the Firm:

– To enable it to manage, monitor and invoice client files,

– Sending periodic electronic newsletters, press releases, invitations to training courses or events and/or personalized requests,

– Management and security of our site.

We collect certain browsing data to enable us to ensure proper browsing of our website and the security of our services and to detect, prevent or trace any attempt at malicious intent or computer intrusion or any violation of the terms of use of our services.

ON WHAT LEGAL BASIS AND FOR HOW LONG IS MY PERSONAL DATA PROCESSED?

Data relating to clients is necessary for the proper performance of the task entrusted to the Firm; in the case of electronic newsletters or personalized solicitations, or data relating to the use of the website, such processing is based either on the consent of the individual (in the case of registration), or on the Firm’s legitimate interest (monitoring of client relations, economic interest).

WHO RECEIVES YOUR PERSONAL DATA?

Your personal data will be used by our authorized departments. It is also used:

– for the proper performance of the assignment, to external partners or service providers (experts, bailiff, etc.)

– in the case of invoicing data, to our external service providers (chartered accountants, etc.),

• • if required by law, to follow up on claims made against the Firm and to comply with administrative and legal procedures, or to comply with a legal obligation (for example as part of the fight against money laundering, article L.561-2 13° of the French Monetary and Financial Code).

HOW LONG IS YOUR PERSONAL DATA KEPT?

Your data is kept in an active database for the duration of the relationship between the Firm and the Client. Beyond that, it may be kept in an intermediate archive for the duration of the legal requirements, i.e. 5 years, and for certain data, 10 years in order to comply with accounting and tax obligations.

IS MY DATA TRANSFERRED OUTSIDE THE EUROPEAN UNION?

Personal Data is collected and processed within the European Union. In the event of a transfer outside the EU, such transfers will be governed by the European Commission’s standard contractual clauses in the version applicable on the date of the transfer.

WHAT ARE YOUR RIGHTS?

Individuals have the right to access data concerning them, to rectify it, to object to it on legitimate grounds, to have it deleted, and to limit its processing under the conditions provided by law. These rights may be exercised by writing to contact@essensislegal.com. Individuals also have the right to withdraw their consent at any time upon receipt of the Firm’s newsletter.

If, after contacting us, you feel that your rights with regards to your data have not been respected, you may submit a complaint to the competent supervisory authority (in France, the CNIL).

WHAT COOKIES ARE USED?

A cookie is a small file sent by the website user’s browser and stored on their computer, tablet or smartphone.

Cookies enable the website visited to collect information about the user’s visit, such as the route taken through the site or language preference, in order to improve the user’s browsing experience and the website’s content and functions.

By using the www.essensislegal.com website, you acknowledge that the Firm may store and access strictly necessary cookies on your computer or other device. Strictly necessary’ cookies are cookies that are essential to the operation of our website and do not require your consent. Otherwise, the website cannot be displayed correctly on your mobile device or computer.

We use technical cookies that are strictly necessary for the website to function properly.

We do not use any other type of cookie.