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Courtois Lebel

A French civil-law professional partnership (Société Civile Professionnelle d’Avocats) with share capital of €80,000

13 ter Boulevard Berthier, 75017 Paris, France

Registered in the Paris Trade and Companies Register under the number 784 659 112

Tel.: +33 (0) 158 449 292

Fax: +33 (0) 158 449 258

Represented by: Béatrice Labboz, Cédric Frenel, Bruno Martin and Philippe Courtois (the firm's managing partners)

Hosting

OVH

2 Rue Kellermann

BP 80157, 59053

Roubaix Cedex 1, France

Hotline: +33 (0) 899 701 761

Email: support@ovh.com –

A French simplified joint-stock company (SAS) with share capital of €10,000,000

Registered in the Lille Trade and Companies Register under the number 424 761 419 – Business activity (APE) code: 6202A – VAT no.: FR 22424761419

Legally responsible for website content not created by users: Bruno Martin and Cédric Frenel

Website created by: Creano, Digital Craft Agency

Warning

The website www.courtois-lebel.com ("the Website") is a website that provides information on the law firm Courtois Lebel.

The information set out on the website www.courtois-lebel.com cannot, under any circumstances, be construed as legal and/or tax advice services and cannot, consequently, be used as a substitute for legal and/or tax consultations.

Said information is from reliable sources and has been examined by SCP Courtois Lebel's lawyers. However, it is not out of the question that material errors may come about, or else that the information could do with being corrected, being supplemented, or being brought up to date.

If this were to be the case, then we ask any users who identify any such issues to get in touch with Bruno Martin and/or with Cédric Frenel, and to notify him and/or them of the issue or issues in question.

Intellectual property

The website www.courtois-lebel.com,as well as all the items that make it up, constitute a protected work, as defined by the French Intellectual Property Code, to which SCP Courtois Lebel holds all rights, and, in particular, rights to all marks (brands), logos, graphics, photographs, and copyright, and likewise as regards any and all other types of data that appear on the website.

The website www.courtois-lebel.com, its overall structure, and also the text, images, whether animated or not, sounds, know-how, designs, graphics, etc., and any and all items that make up the Website, are the exclusive property of SCP Courtois Lebel.

The same principle applies to databases that appear on the Website and that are protected under the provisions of the French Act of 1 July 1998, which transposed the European (EU) Directive of 11 March 1996 on the legal protection of databases into the French Intellectual Property Code, as regards databases created by Courtois Lebel.

Any and all use or reproduction, in part or in full, of the Website, of the items that make it up and/or of the information that appears thereupon, by any processes whatsoever, are strictly prohibited and constitute an infringement that is punished under the French Intellectual Property Code, unless the prior written consent of Courtois Lebel is obtained.

For any and all hypertext links that redirect internet users to www.courtois-lebel.com , the prior written consent of SCP Courtois Lebel is required.

Protection of private life and personal data

Processing of personal data

When you browse the website www.courtois-lebel.com, personal data regarding you may be collected.

SCP Courtois Lebel is the data controller concerning your personal data that is processed or collected on the Website, as defined by the French Act of 6 January 1978 on Information Technology, Data Files and Civil Liberties, and by the European (EU) Regulation of 27 April 2016 on the protection of natural persons with regard to the processing of personal data and on the free movement of such data (the General Data Protection Regulation, hereinafter the "GDPR").

Two types of personal data are collected on the Website: technical browsing data (i.e. browser used, IP address, search history, operating system used, traffic data, languages and pages viewed, and geographical location data), and data contained in the contact form (first name, surname, email, and identification data).

The data collected on the website www.courtois-lebel.com are processed for the purpose of handling user queries (in relation to recruitment, comments, questions, in order to reply to contact form queries, etc.). and for Website technical administration purposes.

Some of the data collected are of a mandatory nature and are marked with an asterisk.

SCP Courtois Lebel undertakes to implement state-of-the-art security measures, with a view to guaranteeing the security and the confidentiality of the data collected via its website, for the time necessary for them to be processed.

The intention regarding the data collected by SCP Courtois Lebel is not that it be communicated to third parties; the intention is rather that it be used solely by the persons who are involved in the processing thereof, at SCP Courtois Lebel. However, the user authorises SCP Courtois Lebel to communicate the data to a provider of technical services, for purposes related to the administration of and the maintenance of the website www.courtois-lebel.com.

The data are only stored by SCP Courtois Lebel for time required for the operations for which they were collected, and otherwise only for the time necessary in order that SCP Courtois Lebel comply with applicable legislation.

User's rights

The user is hereby notified that the user has the right to information regarding, the right to access, the right to rectification, and the right to erasure, with respect to personal data concerning the user, which enables the user to consult, to have rectified, and/or completed, and/or brought up to date, and/or erased, personal data concerning him or her. The user has the right to data portability, and also the option of deciding what happens to the user's data after the user dies, and, where applicable, the right to submit a complaint to the authority responsible for personal data protection (i.e. the Commission Nationale de l’Informatique et des Libertés, or "CNIL", in France).

The user also has the right to object to processing of the user's data, on legitimate grounds, and also to object to the said data being used for direct marketing purposes. 

All of these rights may be exercised by writing a letter, which must include a signature, to Courtois Lebel, and by sending said letter to the following address:

SCP Courtois Lebel

Maître Cédric Frenel

13 ter Boulevard Berthier

75017 Paris, France

Or directly for his attention, using the contact form.

Proof of identity may be required of you, in order for your query to be handled.

Compliance with the provisions of the French Act on Information Technology, Data Files and Civil Liberties Users of the website www.courtois-lebel.com must comply with the provisions of the French Act on Information Technology, Data Files and Civil Liberties, breaches of which are punishable under criminal law.

They must in particular abstain, concerning the personal information to which they have access, from any and all collection thereof, from any and all improper use thereof and, less specifically, from any and all acts that are liable to harm the privacy or the reputations of individuals.

Cookies

The user is hereby notified that, during the course of the user's visits to the Website, a cookie or several cookies may be placed automatically in the user's browser software.

The presence of cookies is indicated by a cookie banner that appears onscreen when the user visits the Website.

Cookies are data that are used by a third-party server that enable information regarding the browsing of the user's computer on the Website to be recorded (i.e. pages visited, dates and times of visits, etc.).

The Website uses two types of cookies. A detailed list describes all the cookies that are used by it. The list is set out in a table below.

(i)        Cookies that do not require the prior consent of the user are identification cookies, authentication cookies, audience measurement and statistics cookies, load-balancing cookies and cookies that are necessary for the Website to operate ("operating cookies"). As regards the cookies that are necessary in order for the Website to operate optimally, the user may object to them and delete them, by changing the settings of his or her browser, however the user's user experience may be worsened by the user doing so, and some features of the Website may not be available or may generate errors.

(ii)       The cookies that are placed by third parties to SCP Courtois Lebel are targeting and advertising cookies, which are subject to the prior consent of the user of the Website, expressed by the user clicking "Accept" in the cookies banner, or in the cookies "Personalisation" tab after that.   

A detailed list of the cookies present on the Website and the storage times of the related data:

Personalising each of the cookies

Manage the deposit and/or the reading of identification cookies, of authentication cookies, of audience measurement and statistics cookies, of load-balancing cookies, and of cookies necessary for the operation of the Website or operating cookies: Accept / Refuse

The user can personalise these cookies in the options of his or her browser, and also using the links below.    Should the user do so, the user may not be able to avail of some of the features of the Website.

To configure browser cookie settings, the user should click on one or more of the following links:

Google Chrome: https://support.google.com/accounts/answer/61416?co=GENIE.Platform%3DDesktop&hl=en

Internet Explorer: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/delete-and-manage-cookies-168dab11-0753-043d-7c16-ede5947fc64d

Mozilla Firefox: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/products/firefox/protect-your-privacy/cookies

Opera: https://help.opera.com/en/latest/web-preferences/#cookies

Terms and Conditions of Access to and Use of the Website

The user of the Website hereby acknowledges that he or she has the expertise and the means necessary to access and to use this Website.

The user of the Website hereby acknowledges that he or she has checked that the computer configuration used thereby does not contain any viruses and that it is in perfect working order.

General warning

SCP Courtois Lebel does everything in its power to provide users with information and/or tools that are available and verified. Despite all due care, said information is provided without any guarantees of any kind.

SCP Courtois Lebel cannot be held liable for errors, for information not being available, for the accuracy thereof, for the currency thereof, for the exhaustiveness thereof and/or for the presence of a virus on its Website.

SCP Courtois Lebel asks users of the Website to notify it of any omissions, errors and of any corrections that are required, by sending an email to contact@courtois-lebel.com.

Likewise, SCP Courtois Lebel cannot be held liable in the event of improper use of the service by a user, or in the event of temporary unavailability of the service (i.e. in cases of force majeure, during maintenance periods, or in the event of technical incidents, irrespective of the nature thereof).

Users of this Website expressly agree that under no circumstances shall SCP Courtois Lebel be held liable for any damage or losses whatsoever, whether direct or indirect, whether material or non-material, arising, in particular, from any and all visits to and/or use of this Website (or from visits to or from use of other websites to which links are provided thereupon), or from any applications available as downloads, and likewise as regards the use of textual or visual information, which may have been gathered, and in particular SCP Courtois Lebel shall not be held liable for any and all financial or commercial damage or loss whatsoever, nor for losses of programs or of data, with respect to the IT systems of users.

By using this Website, the user acknowledges that he or she has had the opportunity of reading and of understanding this warning.

Hypertext links

The website www.courtois-lebel.com may provide hypertext links to websites or web pages published by third parties. 

However, SCP Courtois Lebel may not be held liable vis-à-vis any third-party websites to which the user had access via the Website and which contained illegal or inaccurate content.

Indeed, SCP Courtois Lebel has no means of control over the content of third-party websites.  Thus, the decision regarding whether or not to click on said hypertext links is the exclusive responsibility of the user.

Likewise, SCP Courtois Lebel cannot be held liable should said third-party websites not be available or should they malfunction.

SCP Courtois Lebel undertakes to remove links to other websites, immediately upon request from the businesses that own the said websites.

SCP Courtois Lebel must consent in writing prior to the creation of hypertext links to the Website, and it reserves the right to have such links deleted at any time.

Applicable law and competent courts

These contractual clauses are subject to French law.

Any and all disputes in relation to the contractual clauses set out on the Website shall be brought before the courts of France.

Consumer affairs Mediator

In accordance with the provisions of articles L. 612-1 et seq. of the French Consumer Code, if the user of the Website is a consumer, then said consumer has the option, in the event of a dispute with a lawyer, to call upon the services, free of charge, of the consumer affairs Mediator for the profession of lawyers, the contact details of whom are as follows:

Médiateur de la Consommation de la Profession d’Avocat, Mme Carole Pascarel, 180 Boulevard

Haussmann, Paris 75008, France, email mediateur@mediateur-consommation-avocat.fr.

Courtois Lebel thanks users for visiting its website.

Last amended on 07/21/2021