POLITIQUE DE CONFIDENTIALITE
Updated on March 3, 2025
Essentials
The privacy policy is designed to inform users of the website: www.myfrenchlawyer.com
The purpose of this privacy policy is to inform Users about what data is processed and for what purposes, as well as the rights available to Users.
User data is processed by the sole proprietorship Marc TIMMERMANS (“EI MT”), which publishes the website www.myfrenchlawyer.com.
The processing is based on Article 6 of the GDPR, in accordance with the purposes specified in Article 5.
It is important to inform the User of their rights, a list of which is provided in Article 7.
To exercise these rights, Users simply need to send their request to contact@myfrenchlawyer.com and a response will be provided as soon as possible.
We make every effort to ensure the security of User data.
The processing of personal data is governed by:
- By Law No. 78-17 of January 6, 1978 on information technology, files, and civil liberties (hereinafter “IEL Law”);
- By Regulation (EU) 2016/679 of the European Parliament and of the Council of April 27, 2016, which came into force on May 25, 2018 (hereinafter “GDPR”).
Article 1. Definitions
Data controller: An organization that, alone or jointly with others, determines the purposes and means of the processing (Article 4.7 GDPR).
Personal data: Any information relating to an identified or identifiable natural person, directly or indirectly (Article 4.1 GDPR).
Processor: An organization that processes personal data on behalf of the controller (Article 4.8 GDPR).
Processing of personal data: Any operation or set of operations, whether or not by automated means, applied to personal data or sets of personal data, such as collection, recording, organization, storage, erasure, etc. (Article 4.2 GDPR).
User: Any person using the website www.myfrenchlawyer.com
Article 2. Identity of the data controller
Your data is processed by the sole proprietorship Marc TIMMERMANS, registered in the National Business Register (RNE) under number 80483747400068, whose registered office is located at 1 rue Fontaine du Pila Saint Gely in Montpellier (34000),
Article 3. Data processed
The data controller will process various user data, such as:
3.1. Data necessary for making an appointment on the website www.myfrenchlawyer.com:
– Last name, first name
– Email address
– Phone number
– Nature of the request
– Value of the dispute
3.2 Data concerning the activity of My French Lawyer
- Your choice to subscribe to the My French Lawyer newsletter
3.3 Data may be processed automatically through the use of cookies and similar technologies in accordance with applicable regulations and the cookie management policy.
The website allows you to provide personal information, including:
- The services that interest you;
- Your contact and marketing preferences.
The Website does not allow online payment, nor does it offer any payment services via an external provider, as payment is made directly between the User and the referenced lawyer.
Article 4. Lawfulness of processing
Data processing is lawful insofar as:
- It is intended to comply with the legal obligations to which the data controller is subject (Article 6.1 c GDPR) and/or;
- The user has consented to the processing of their data for one or more specific purposes (Article 6.1 a GDPR) and/or;
- There is a legitimate interest pursued by the data controller (Article 6.1 f GDPR). The legitimate interest is based primarily on marketing, commercial, and financial grounds.
Article 5. Purposes of processing
Your various data may be collected by EI MT for explicit, legitimate, and specific purposes in order to ensure:
- The management of appointment requests,
- The processing of your legal file
- The proper functioning and continuous improvement of the WEBSITE, its services and its features;
- The management of your subscription to the MY FRENCH LAWYER newsletter;
- The management of requests for access, rectification and opposition, erasure, limitation, portability, the right to digital death and the right to lodge a complaint with the CNIL:
- Compilation of commercial statistics;
- Ensuring the security of the MY FRENCH LAWYER website and, in particular, identifying and dealing with any security breaches Complying with our legal and regulatory obligations, responding to any proceedings or requests for information from the authorities or a third party, and preventing and detecting crime and fraud, protecting your rights, our rights or those of third parties;
Article 6. Recipients of the data
The persons who will have access to personal data are:
- Mr. Marc TIMMERMANS (EI MT);
- Authorized personnel within EI MT, responsible for data processing.
- The lawyer with whom the User has made an appointment
- IT service providers involved in the operation of the website www.myfrenchlawyer.comtels, such as the website’s hosts and maintainers
- Third-party service providers assisting MY FRENCH LAWYER with marketing and communication relating to its business, such as communication agencies in charge of email campaigns;
- Third-party social networks. The WEBSITE may use social plugins provided and operated by third-party companies, such as Facebook, LinkedIn, and Twitter. As a result, you may send third parties the information you view in a section of our WEBSITE. If you are not logged into your account with the third party, the latter will not be able to know your identity. If you are logged into your account with the third party, the latter may link information or shares relating to your interactions with the WEBSITE to the account you hold with the third party in question. Please consult the third party’s privacy policies to learn more about its data practices. Third parties that may place cookies on your devices (computers, tablets, mobile phones, etc.) when you consent to this in accordance with the My French Lawyer cookie policy
- Any representative of law enforcement, court, regulatory body, government authority or third party when we believe it is necessary to comply with a legal or regulatory obligation or to protect our rights or the rights of a third party, to ensure the safety of persons, to detect, prevent or remedy fraud or a security problem;
- Any third party to whom we sell or transfer all or substantially all of our assets and business. If such a sale or transfer occurs, we will use reasonable efforts to ensure that the entity to which we transfer your data uses it in accordance with this policy.
Article 7. Your rights
As data subjects, you have rights over your personal data, which are:
- The right to access your data (Article 15 GDPR) and, if necessary, the right to rectify it (Article 16 GDPR) by correcting or completing it.
- The right to object to one or more types of processing (Article 21 GDPR). For example, unsubscribing from the newsletter.
- The right to erasure, also known as the right to be forgotten (Article 17 GDPR).
- The right to data portability (Article 20 GDPR).
- The right to restriction of processing (Article 18 GDPR). This right allows, in certain cases, the processing of one or more pieces of data to be frozen for a certain period of time. The data controller continues to store the data.
- The right not to be subject to a decision based solely on automated processing (Article 22 GDPR).
- You have the right to lodge a complaint with our services.
- You also have the right to lodge a complaint with the CNIL (Commission Nationale de l’Informatique et des Libertés), the supervisory authority (Article 77 of the GDPR).
- You have the right to seek a judicial remedy against the data controllers or processors (Article 79 of the GDPR).
To exercise one or more of your rights, please send your request to contact@myfrenchlawyer.com
We will respond as soon as possible.
However, certain legal provisions, particularly regarding security issues, may prevent us from doing so.
In accordance with Article 40-1 of the French Data Protection Act, as amended by Law No. 2016-1321 of October 7, 2017, you may define guidelines for the storage, erasure, and communication of your personal data after your death. In the absence of such instructions, your heirs may close your user accounts and object to the continued processing of your personal data or have it updated. Failing this, your personal data will be stored in accordance with this privacy policy.
If you have any questions about how EI MT uses your personal data, or would like to obtain information about the data held by EI MT concerning you, or exercise any of your rights regarding your data, please contact contact@myfrenchlawyer.com or write to us at the following address: Marc Timmermans Lawyer – 1 rue Fontaine du Pila Saint Gely – 34000 MONTPELLIER
Article 8: How long we keep your data
EI MT promises that the data we collect will be kept in a way that lets us identify you for no longer than we need to for the reasons we collected and processed it.
However, data processing is possible for the purpose of proving a right or a contract. This data may also be retained for the purpose of complying with a legal obligation or kept in files in accordance with applicable regulations and laws.
For the management of our relationship with you and user tracking, your data is kept for 3 years from the date of your last appointment via the WEBSITE. Beyond this period, the data is archived.
For the management of requests regarding your personal data rights: your data is kept for 1 year.
With regard to cookies, it is specified that information stored on your device (e.g., cookies) or any other element used to identify you for audience statistics purposes is not kept for more than six (6) months. Beyond this period, raw traffic data associated with an identifier is either deleted or anonymized.
Finally, in order to ensure the proper functioning and continuous improvement of the website and its features, raw traffic data associated with an identifier is stored for a period of thirteen (13) months. Beyond this period, it is deleted or anonymized.
For more information about cookies (how to manage, delete, and identify them), please visit the CNIL website: http://www.cnil.fr/vos-droits/vos-traces/les-cookies/#c5554
This information is kept for the necessary period of time:
- Users’ personal data is kept for a period of 3 years from the date of the last appointment made by the said user;
Article 9. DPO contact details
EI MT has not appointed a Data Protection Officer (DPO).
Article 10. Security
EI MT and any subcontractors undertake to implement all technical and organizational measures to ensure the security of our processing of personal data and the confidentiality of your data, in accordance with the French Data Protection Act and the European General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and Law No. 2018-133 of February 26, 2018 “containing various provisions for adaptation to European Union law in the field of security.”
As such, EI MT takes the necessary precautions, given the nature of your data and the risks presented by our processing, to preserve the security of the data and, in particular, to prevent it from being distorted, damaged, or accessed by unauthorized third parties.
Article 11. Transfer of data outside the European Union
EI MT undertakes not to transfer user data outside the European Union.
In the event that EI MT should do so, it will inform users, indicating the measures taken to control this transfer and ensure the confidentiality of their data.
Article 12. Updating this privacy policy
We may change this policy from time to time.
If we make any substantial changes in the way we use your personal data, we will notify you by means of a notice on the website or by contacting you directly.
If you do not agree to these changes, please do not continue to use the website.