Your privacy is important to us. This Privacy Policy explains how French Tax Lawyer collects, uses, discloses, and protects your personal data when you visit our website. We are committed to complying with applicable data protection laws, including the General Data Protection Regulation (EU) 2016/679 (GDPR) and French data protection laws.
1. Data Controller
The data controller responsible for the processing of your personal data through this website is: Jean-Jacques Michallon who can be reached through the contact page on this website.
2. Personal Data We Collect
We may collect and process the following categories of personal data:
- Identity and Contact Data: Name, email address, phone number, postal address, and any other contact details you provide through our contact forms or direct communications.
- Professional Data: Information related to your professional situation if relevant to the tax law services you are seeking (e.g., company name, position, type of business), provided voluntarily.
- Technical Data: IP address, browser type and version, time zone setting, operating system, and platform, collected automatically when you visit our website.
- Usage Data: Information about how you use our website, pages visited, and interaction with website content.
- Communication Data: Content of your inquiries and communications with us.
3. How We Collect Your Personal Data
We collect data primarily through:
- Direct Interactions: When you fill out forms on our website (e.g., contact forms, inquiry forms), send us emails, or communicate with us by phone.
- Automated Technologies or Interactions: As you interact with our website, we may automatically collect Technical and Usage Data using cookies and similar technologies.
4. Purposes and Legal Basis for Processing
We process your personal data for the following purposes and under the following legal bases:
- To Respond to Your Inquiries and Provide Services:
- Purpose: To manage your requests, provide legal advice, and deliver our tax law services.
- Legal Basis: Performance of a contract or steps preparatory to entering into a contract (e.g., responding to a service inquiry) or legitimate interest (e.g., general inquiries).
- To Improve Our Website:
- Purpose: To understand how users interact with our website, identify areas for improvement, and ensure content is presented effectively.
- Legal Basis: Legitimate interest (e.g., analyzing website performance).
- For Direct Marketing (if applicable and with consent):
- Purpose: To send you newsletters, updates on tax law, or promotional materials that may be of interest to you.
- Legal Basis: Your explicit consent, which you can withdraw at any time.
- To Comply with Legal Obligations:
- Purpose: To meet our legal and regulatory requirements, such as tax laws or professional obligations for legal professionals.
- Legal Basis: Compliance with a legal obligation.
5. Disclosure of Your Personal Data
We may share your personal data with:
- Service Providers: Third-party service providers who assist us in operating our website, conducting our business, or providing services to you (e.g., IT support, web hosting). These providers are contractually bound to protect your data and only process it according to our instructions.
- Legal and Regulatory Authorities: When required by law, court order, or to comply with regulatory obligations (e.g., CNIL, tax authorities).
- Professional Advisers: Lawyers, auditors, and insurers as necessary for our professional operations and legal compliance.
We will not sell or rent your personal data to third parties for marketing purposes.
6. International Transfers
We generally store and process your personal data within the European Economic Area (EEA). If we transfer your personal data outside the EEA, we ensure a similar degree of protection is afforded to it by implementing appropriate safeguards, such as standard contractual clauses approved by the European Commission.
7. Data Security
We have implemented appropriate technical and organizational security measures to prevent your personal data from being accidentally lost, used, accessed in an unauthorized way, altered, or disclosed. Access to your personal data is limited to those employees, agents, contractors, and other third parties who have a business need to know.
8. Data Retention
We will retain your personal data only for as long as necessary to fulfill the purposes for which we collected it, including for the purposes of satisfying any legal, accounting, or reporting requirements. To determine the appropriate retention period, we consider the amount, nature, and sensitivity of the personal data, the potential risk of harm from unauthorized use or disclosure of your personal data, the purposes for which we process your personal data, and whether we can achieve those purposes through other means, and the applicable legal requirements.
9. Your Legal Rights
Under GDPR, you have the following rights concerning your personal data:
- Right to Access: Request a copy of the personal data we hold about you.
- Right to Rectification: Request correction of inaccurate or incomplete personal data.
- Right to Erasure (“Right to be Forgotten”): Request deletion of your personal data under certain conditions.
- Right to Restriction of Processing: Request that we limit the way we use your personal data.
- Right to Data Portability: Request transfer of your data to another organization or to you.
- Right to Object: Object to the processing of your personal data, particularly where we process it based on legitimate interests or for direct marketing.
- Right to Withdraw Consent: Where we rely on your consent to process your personal data, you have the right to withdraw that consent at any time. This will not affect the lawfulness of processing carried out before you withdraw your consent.
- Right to Lodge a Complaint: You have the right to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority, particularly in France with the CNIL (Commission Nationale de l’Informatique et des Libertés).
To exercise any of these rights, please contact us using the details provided in Section 1.
10. Cookies
Our website may use cookies to enhance your Browse experience. Cookies are small text files placed on your device. We use them for:
- Necessary Cookies: Essential for the website to function correctly.
- Analytical/Performance Cookies: To analyze how visitors use our website and monitor website performance.
- Functionality Cookies: To remember your preferences and provide enhanced features.
You can set your browser to refuse all or some browser cookies, or to alert you when websites set or access cookies. However, if you disable or refuse cookies, please note that some parts of this website may become inaccessible or not function properly.
11. Changes to This Privacy Policy
We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time to reflect changes in our practices or legal requirements. Any updates will be posted on this page with an updated effective date. We encourage you to review this Privacy Policy periodically.