Privacy Notices

Cornet Vincent Ségurel, Société d’Exercice Libéral A Responsabilité Limitée (SELARL) inter-barreaux registered with the Bars of Nantes, Paris, Rennes, Lille, Bordeaux and Lyon and registered with the Nantes Trade and Companies Register under number 344 040 647, having its principal place of business at 28 boulevard de Launay, 44186 Nantes (hereinafter the “Firm”), is concerned about the protection of the personal data of visitors (hereinafter “You”) to its website www. cvs-avocats.com (hereinafter the “Site”).

By visiting the Site, you are likely to communicate personal data.

In connection with the collection and processing of personal data on the Site, the Firm acts as data controller, and undertakes to protect such data in accordance with applicable regulations and in particular Regulation (EU) No. 2016/679 of April 27, 2016 known as the “General Data Protection Regulation” or “GDPR”) and Law No. 78-17 of January 6, 1978 known as the “Data Protection Act” as amended (hereinafter the “Applicable Regulations”).

This policy may be amended or modified at any time in the event of changes in legislation, case law, CNIL decisions and recommendations or usage.

Your use of the Site indicates your full acceptance and understanding of the latest version of this Policy.

1. Definitions

• Recipient: refers to the natural or legal person, public authority, department or other body that receives personal data, whether or not it is a third part; 
• Personal data: means any information relating to a natural person who is directly or indirectly identified or identifiable, in particular by reference to an identifier, such as a name, an identification number, location data, an online identifier, or to one or more factors specific to his or her physical, physiological, genetic, mental, economic, cultural or social identity;
• Controller: refers to the natural or legal person, public authority, department or other body which, alone or jointly with others, determines the purposes and means of the processing;
• Sub-processor: means the natural or legal person, public authority, agency or other body which processes personal data on behalf of the controller or the original processor;
• Processing: means any operation or set of operations which may or may not be performed using automated processes and applied to personal data or sets of personal data, such as collection, recording, organization, structuring, storage, adaptation or alteration, retrieval, consultation, use, communication by transmission, dissemination or otherwise making available, alignment or combination, restriction, erasure or destruction.

Other words and expressions used in this Policy have the meaning given to them by the applicable Regulations.

2. Personal data collected and purposes of Processing

The Firm collects the following Personal Data on the basis of your consent, for the needs of its business and the performance of its contractual or pre-contractual, legal or regulatory obligations and legitimate interest: 

Means of collection	Personal data concerned	Purpose of processing
Site general contact form	Identifying data (surname, first name), Contact data (e-mail address, telephone number), Office selection Any information entered in the free message area	Communicate with you when you request information
Subscribe to our newsletter	Last name, first name, company or individual, company name, city, Email address	Communicate with you for the purpose of sending you Cabinet newsletters and Cabinet service offers
Contact form Spontaneous application or for a job at Cornet Vincent Ségurel	Identifying data (first and last name) and contact data (email address and telephone number), Office selection, Curriculum Vitae, Type of contract desired, Cover letter if applicable, Any information indicated in the free message area.	Recruitment management
Contact by email	Surname, first name, email address, copy of ID, purpose of request.	Management of data subjects’ requests for rights relating to the Processing of their Personal Data by the Firm
Private Extranet	Email address and password	Case management
Digital Service Ziplo (https://ziplo.fr)		Secure, time-stamped file transfer

The compulsory or optional nature of data entry is specified at the time of collection, by the affixing of an asterisk “*” next to the Personal Data that must be filled in.

The compulsory nature of the communication of some of your Personal Data is justified by the implementation of the aforementioned purposes specified by Cabinet. Optional Personal Data enables Cabinet to get to know you better or to specify your request.

How long we keep your Personal Data

The Firm only retains your Personal Data for the time necessary to carry out the operations for which it was collected and in compliance with the applicable Regulations.

Personal Data collected for recruitment purposes will be kept only for as long as is necessary for the recruitment process. In the event of a negative outcome to a job application, your Personal Data will be archived for a period of two (2) years to enable us to contact you again if necessary.

Personal Data collected via contact forms will be kept for a period of three (3) years following the last contact.

In the event that you enter into a contractual relationship with us, your Personal Data will be kept for as long as is necessary for the proper management of the contractual relationship, and will then be archived for the legal period of prescription for the purposes of proof for the establishment, exercise or defense of a legal claim.

4. Recipients

Within the framework of a strict policy of access and confidentiality management, only the recipients duly authorized by the Firm and listed below may access the information you have communicated to us.

4.1. Internal recipients

The personal data collected is intended for use by the firm’s lawyers and administrative staff.

4.2. Subcontractors and external service providers

When the Firm uses an external service provider or a Subcontractor, it only communicates Personal Data to the latter when strictly necessary, and only after having obtained a commitment and guarantees from the latter regarding its ability to meet the security and confidentiality requirements imposed by the applicable Regulations.

In compliance with its legal and regulatory obligations, the Firm enters into contracts with its Subcontractors which precisely define the terms and conditions under which the latter will Process Personal Data, in accordance with the applicable Regulations.

The Cabinet’s list of Subcontractors is regularly updated. You can request it at the following e-mail address data@cvs-avocats.com.res.

4.3. Authorities

The Firm may disclose your Personal Data to administrative or judicial authorities when disclosure is necessary to defend its interests, or to identify, arrest or prosecute any individual likely to harm the rights of the Firm, any other user or any third party.

5. Hosting of Personal Data

The Processing and hosting of Personal Data takes place within the European Economic Area (“EEA”).

Nevertheless, if the Firm is required to transfer and/or store your Personal Data to a destination outside the EEA, where one of the third parties identified below is located outside the EEA, the Firm guarantees that such transfers are carried out to States that are the subject of an adequacy decision by the European Commission, justifying an adequate level of protection, within the meaning of Article 45 of the RGPD.

In the absence of an adequacy decision, the Firm may transfer Personal Data outside the European Union to Subcontractors, under the conditions provided for by the applicable Regulations, in particular by concluding standard subcontracting clauses approved by the European Commission.

6. Your rights

In accordance with the applicable Regulations, you have the right to access, rectify, limit the processing of, delete, port and object to your Personal Data.

You also have the right to define general and specific directives defining the way in which you intend the above-mentioned rights to be exercised after your death.

To exercise these rights, you may at any time contact the Cabinet’s Data Protection Officer by e-mail at the following address: data@cvs-avocats.com

or by post at the following address Cornet Vincent Ségurel, Délégué à la Protection des Données, 28 boulevard de Launay, 44186 Nantes, with a copy of a signed identity document.

For further information or to make a complaint, please contact the Commission Nationale de l’Informatique et des Libertés (CNIL) or any other competent supervisory authority. Please contact us beforehand.

7. Safety measures implemented

The Firm undertakes to ensure the security and integrity of your Personal Data.

To this end, the Firm implements and maintains technical and organizational security measures for the Site and its information system that are appropriate to the nature of the Personal Data and the risks presented by their Processing.

These measures are designed to:

• protect your Personal Data from destruction, loss, alteration or disclosure to unauthorized third parties,
• ensure the restoration of availability and access to your Personal Data within an appropriate timeframe in the event of a physical or technical incident.

8. Cookie management

The Firm may use cookies and tracers on the Site in order to improve its functionality and performance, provide additional security and remember you when you return to the Site, and offer you the opportunity to share content on the Site via social networking platforms.

The term “cookie” refers to all files stored on an Internet user’s computer or telephone, used to operate Internet sites and/or to collect information about said Internet user’s browsing.

A cookie cannot give Cabinet access to your computer or to any information other than that which you provide to us.

Cabinet does not store any personal data in the cookies it creates. It only uses encrypted information collected from them to improve your experience on the Site.

The cookies used to operate the Site are strictly necessary for its proper functioning, and are therefore exempt from prior consent from the Internet user.

Cookies requiring prior information and consent are, for example :

• cookies related to advertising operations;
• social network cookies generated by sharing buttons;
• certain audience measurement cookies.

The Cabinet uses the following cookies on its Site:

Retention period 6 months maximum

You can block the use of certain cookies by clicking on the “Configure my choices” tab in the cookies banner, although you should be aware that some of the site’s functions will no longer be accessible. These cookies do not store any personally identifiable information.