Cezium Avocats AARPI (“Cezium Avocats”) may collect personal data concerning users of this website www.cezium-avocats.com. Cezium Avocats may also collect personal data in the context of professional meetings, files, partnerships, applications, visits to our premises, etc.

Cezium Avocats is deeply committed to protecting the privacy and personal data of its contacts and strives to implement and comply with a data processing policy that complies with current regulations, in particular those established by the European General Data Protection Regulation No. 2016/679 of April 27, 2016 (known as the “GDPR”), applicable since May 25, 2018.

Declarative personal data (“Personal Data”) is data that you provide via forms, whether electronic on our website, in paper format, or in response to questions asked by lawyers or members of the Cezium Avocats firm.

Cezium Avocats only collects data that is necessary for its activities and implements measures to protect Personal Data from the moment our processing operations are designed. Consequently, the information collected is relevant, adequate, and limited to what is necessary for the purposes for which it is processed.

The term “Personal Data” refers to any information relating to a natural person. This may be a person who can be identified directly or indirectly, in particular by their physical, physiological, economic, cultural, or social identity.

The Personal Data that Cezium Avocats holds about you concerns the following categories:

• Identification data;
• Professional life;
• Personal life;
• Connection or location data;
• Financial data.

Some of this data may be considered sensitive and is subject to special attention from Cezium Avocats. Cezium Avocats only collects data that is necessary for its activities and implements measures to protect Personal Data from the moment our processing operations are designed. Consequently, the information collected is relevant, adequate, and limited to what is necessary for the purposes for which it is processed.

Your Personal Data is collected for specific, explicit, and legitimate purposes. In particular, it may be used for the following purposes:

• To communicate with you in the context of cases, assignments, partnerships, etc.
• Participate in satisfaction surveys, analyses, and statistics in order to improve our services and our knowledge of our clients and prospects;
• Request, obtain, or receive information about Cezium Avocats, or about the services offered by Cezium Avocats or its partners;
• Subscribe to and receive thematic information (legal training, documentation, invitations, activity reports, etc.);
• Participate in our communications, newsletters, and event organization;
• Process your job application;
• Improve your customer experience;
• For administrative purposes or for any other purpose required by applicable law.

As your Personal Data is confidential, only persons duly authorized by Cezium Avocats may access your Personal Data, without prejudice to its possible transmission to bodies responsible for control or inspection in accordance with applicable regulations.

All persons with access to your Personal Data are bound by a confidentiality obligation. These persons are duly authorized members of Cezium Avocats. Our service providers may also be required to process Personal Data on an ad hoc basis that is strictly necessary for the performance of the services we entrust to them (assignments, electronic and postal distribution, logistics and catering, etc.). In the event of recourse to service providers located outside the European Union, Cezium Avocats undertakes to verify that appropriate measures have been put in place to ensure that your Personal Data benefits from an adequate level of protection, in particular through standard contractual clauses of the European Commission, internal company rules, or the Data Protection Shield established between the European Union and the United States.

The GDPR reinforces certain obligations in this area. In line with its values and responsible practices, Cezium Avocats has implemented the new measures imposed by the regulations in force to strengthen the protection of the personal data of the individuals concerned. Personal Data is protected and secured to ensure its confidentiality and prevent it from being distorted, damaged, destroyed, or disclosed to unauthorized third parties for as long as necessary to fulfill the purposes pursued in accordance with applicable law.

When the disclosure of data to third parties is necessary and authorized, Cezium Avocats ensures that these third parties guarantee the same level of protection for the data concerned as that offered by Cezium Avocats and requires contractual guarantees so that, in particular, the data is processed exclusively for the purposes you have previously accepted, with the required level of confidentiality and security.

If a breach of Personal Data likely to result in a high risk to the rights and freedoms of the individuals concerned is proven, Cezium Avocats undertakes to report this breach to the competent supervisory authority and, where required by the aforementioned regulations, to the individuals concerned (individually or generally, as the case may be).

Cezium Avocats undertakes to provide all evidence of compliance required by the supervisory authorities.

You have the following rights with regard to your Personal Data:

• Right to information about the processing of your Personal Data: Cezium Avocats strives to provide you with concise, transparent, understandable, and easily accessible information in clear and simple terms about the conditions under which your Personal Data is processed.

• Right of access and inquiry: the right of access allows you to obtain confirmation from Cezium Avocats as to whether or not your Personal Data is being processed and the conditions of such processing, as well as to receive a copy of such Personal Data in a commonly used electronic form, where applicable.

• Right to modify and rectify: you also have the right to obtain from Cezium Avocats, as soon as possible, the rectification or updating of your Personal Data.

• Right to delete (or “right to be forgotten”) your Personal Data: subject to the exceptions provided for by applicable law (examples: storage necessary to comply with a legal obligation, legitimate interest of Cezium Avocats in storing the data), you have the right to request that Cezium Avocats erase your Personal Data as soon as possible, when this data is no longer necessary for the purposes for which it was collected or otherwise processed; when you wish to withdraw your consent on which the processing of your Personal Data was based and there is no other basis justifying such processing; or when you consider and can establish that your Personal Data has been unlawfully processed. Your Personal Data must be erased in accordance with a legal obligation.

• Right to restrict the processing of your Personal Data: applicable regulations provide that this right to restrict the processing of your Personal Data may be invoked in certain cases, including:
  • When you contest the accuracy of your Personal Data;
  • When you can establish that the processing of Personal Data is unlawful but you oppose the erasure of Personal Data and instead demand the restriction of its use;
  • When Cezium Avocats no longer needs your Personal Data but you still need it for the establishment, exercise, or defense of legal claims;
  • When you object to processing based on Cezium Avocats’ legitimate interest while it is being verified whether the legitimate grounds pursued by the controller override those of the data subject.

• Right to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority: If, despite Cezium Avocats’ efforts to preserve the confidentiality of your Personal Data, you feel that your rights have not been respected, you have the right to lodge a complaint with the French supervisory authority, the Commission Nationale de l’Informatique et des Libertés.

If you have any questions or wish to exercise your rights, you can send us a letter to Cezium Avocats, accompanied by a copy of a signed identity document, to the following address: Cezium Avocats – 91, rue du Faubourg Saint-Honoré, 75008 Paris, or by email to contact@cezium-avocats.com.

Cezium Avocats undertakes to respond to you as soon as possible, and in any event within one month of receiving your request. If necessary, this period may be extended by two months, depending on the complexity and number of requests sent to Cezium Avocats. In this case, you will be informed within one month of receipt of your request of this extension and the reasons for the delay. If your request is submitted electronically, the information will also be provided to you electronically where possible, unless you expressly request otherwise. Finally, if Cezium Avocats does not comply with your request, it will inform you of its reasons and you will have the option of lodging a complaint with a supervisory authority and/or seeking judicial review.