In the course of its activities, AARPI LAROQUE & SULIGA – Avocats (hereinafter referred to as “LAROQUE & SULIGA” or “the Law firm”) is required to process the personal data of its clients.
The personal data concerned is data relating to the civil status of natural persons (surname, first name, date of birth, e-mail and postal addresses, profession, etc.), as well as all information that you choose to entrust to LAROQUE & SULIGA for handling cases (professional, financial, medical information, etc.).
In accordance with the legislation and regulations applicable to the protection of personal data, in particular the European Regulation No. 2016/679 of 27 April 2016 on the protection of individuals with regard to the processing of personal data (“GDPR”) as well as the French Data Protection Act (“Loi Informatique & Libertés”), the personal data that you entrust to LAROQUE & SULIGA benefits from special protection.
1°) Data controller
The data controller is LAROQUE & SULIGA located at 3, boulevard Flandrin 75116 Paris, and registered under SIRET No. 953 879 160. You can contact us by phone on +33 (0)1 84 80 70 11, or by email at contact@laroque-suliga.com.
2°) Purpose of personal data processing and legal basis
The opening and management of client accounts, the management of our clients’ files, the personal data of third parties in connection with the management of our clients’ files, our occasional communications, our directories and contact lists involve the processing of personal data.
This personal data is processed to carry out the consultancy, assistance or representation assignment entrusted to us, administer and manage the client account, offer to participate in training courses or events organised by the Law firm, carry out the contract entered into with our local counsels, service providers, suppliers, have lists of contacts adapted according to the specific features of the cases (experts, medical advisors, local counsels, translators, court officers etc.) in accordance with Article 6 of the GDPR.
3°) Transfer of personal data
If necessary, your personal data is transferred to recipients who need to have access to it, in particular within our teams, to our local counsels and court officers, to the courts, administrative and public authorities, and to our service providers and suppliers.
We do not transfer your data outside the European Union, except in situations where this is necessary for the performance of the mission you have entrusted to us and after having been able to ensure a sufficient level of protection and security of personal data.
4°) How long we keep your data
The retention periods applied to your personal data are proportionate to the purposes for which they were collected.
Thus, personal data collected as part of the management of contacts, clients and prospects is kept for 3 years.
Personal data collected as part of the performance of our mission in accordance with our legal obligations (in particular as part of the prevention of money laundering and the financing of terrorism and the fight against corruption) is kept for 5 years.
Lastly, personal data collected for invoicing and accounting purposes is kept for 10 years.
5°) Security of personal data
We take the necessary precautions to preserve the confidentiality and security of your personal data in order to prevent its accidental or unlawful alteration, destruction, loss, disclosure or unauthorised access.
6°) Exercising your rights
We remind you that you have the right to request access to personal data concerning you, as well as rectification or deletion of such data, or even limitation of the processing of your personal data, as well as the right to object to such processing. However, in the event of limiting or objecting to processing, the Law firm may no longer be able to handle the case entrusted to it.
You also have the right to request the portability of your personal data. In this case, this right can be exercised in the form of a request to transfer the file(s) concerning you to a new lawyer.
Lastly, you have the right to lodge a complaint with the French Data Protection Authority (Commission Nationale de l’Informatique & des Libertés – CNIL) regarding the way in which your personal data is collected and/or processed by the Law firm. For further information, you may consult the CNIL’s website: www.cnil.fr
All the rights listed above may be exercised at the following e-mail address contact@laroque-suliga.com or by post to the firm’s postal address.
We invite you to consult this policy regularly on our website. It may be updated from time to time.