As part of its activities, LAWBACH may need to collect data. This data collection is systematically based upon the consent of the individual concerned, or upon a legal obligation.
It is restricted to data that is strictly necessary to the law firm’s activities.
Data prospects
LAWBACH collects personal data of web users who wished to make contact with the law firm via the online contact form. This data is necessary to respond to their online contact form. The compulsory data contains the following : surname, email address and the telephone number of the concerned individual.
Client data
LAWBACH clients are conveyed to provide sensible and confidential information. This information is collected and processed in order to enact the client’s demands or to execute legal obligations.
Duration and place of data retention
The data collected from LAWBACH’s contacts are kept, unless there is a contrary legal obligation, for a maximum duration of 1 year starting from the last established contact.
The data collected from LAWBACH’s clients are kept following durations established by rules governing the legal practice of a lawyer. Following the type of data, those which do not hold any legal duration of retention are kept for a maximum of 10 years following the end of the working relationship between LAWBACH and its client.
The collected data issafely kept on a secured server for this purpose at the law firm. Technical and managerial measures are in place as to ensure the safety of the data kept.
Data security
The Firm trains its associates and partners in data security best practices by providing documentation.
LAWBACH’s employees and associates pledge to act in the best way possible to safeguard data security and confidentiality. They will inform without any delay the responsible of the processing, as well as the IT service in any reasonable suspiscion of a breach of security or data confidentiality.
The law firm chooses its independent contractors by taking into account their capacity to guarantee the security of the data that they are to safeguard. LAWBACH regularly verifies that its contractors are fit to guarantee this security.
The law firm’s contractors pledge to inform the law firm in case of a security breach or a breach of confidentiality of the data kept by them.
Rights of persons concerned
The user benefits of a right of accessing, correcting, erasing, updating, limiting the processing and transporting.
The user may also object, on legitimate grounds, to the processing of his data and, without reason and free of charge, to the use of his data for commercial prospecting purposes.
The user may use his or her rights by writing to accueil@lawbach.com or by mail to LAWBACH, 222, boulevard Saint Germain, 75007 Paris, by detailing in the subject of the mail « Droit des personnes / Rights of Users » and including the copy of his or her ID.
LAWBACH will respond to your requests to exercise your rights to your data as soon as possible and in any event within one month of receipt of your request and verification of your identity.
This deadline may be extended to two months in case of complexity and multiplicity of requests, provided you are informed in advance.
LAWBACH designated as its data processing manager : Audrey PICARD, 222, boulevard Saint-Germain - 75007 Paris (apicard@lawbach.com).
She is responsible for the good application of legal dispositions regarding data processing, as well as the effectiveness of the persons’ rights concerned by the processing of their data.
The contact information is available on the law firm’s website and is passed on to the law firm’s employees and associates.