Privacy

Hennebel Avocats, represented by Ludovic Hennebel, avocat · global@hennebel.legal. Postal address: see the legal notice.

Initial contact (form, email, secure channels): identity, contact details, capacity (individual, company, correspondent lawyer, press, etc.), country concerned, description of the situation and any documents. Purpose: to respond to the request, assess its urgency, carry out the conflict-of-interest check and, where appropriate, open a case file. Legal basis: pre-contractual measures taken at the request of the data subject (Article 6(1)(b) GDPR) and the firm's legitimate interest in handling the requests addressed to it; for sensitive data that may be volunteered (political opinions, criminal proceedings, health), processing is based on Article 9(2)(f) GDPR (establishment, exercise or defence of legal claims) and on legal professional privilege.

Case management: data necessary for the performance of the engagement, retained under the conditions imposed by the rules of professional conduct and the lawyer's legal obligations.

Browsing the website: the website sets no advertising tracking cookies and uses no third-party trackers for profiling purposes. Technical data (IP address, browser type, pages visited) may be processed by the hosting provider for security purposes and for aggregate audience measurement.

Audience measurement is carried out by Vercel Analytics, in a configuration without cookies or individual identifiers: only aggregate browsing statistics (page views, country, device type) are produced. This mechanism is exempt from the consent requirement; no banner is required.

The data are intended for the firm and, under legal professional privilege, for the lawyers, experts and correspondents whom it involves in a case with the client's agreement. They are neither sold nor transferred. Technical service providers (hosting, email, encrypted channels) may have access to them strictly to the extent necessary for their services, on the basis of confidentiality undertakings.

The international nature of the firm's practice may involve exchanges with courts, authorities, lawyers or clients located outside the European Union. Such transfers are based, as the case may be, on an adequacy decision, standard contractual clauses or the derogations of Article 49 GDPR (performance of the contract, establishment or defence of legal claims). Hosting by a provider established in the United States is subject to the applicable safeguards.

Contact requests not followed by an engagement: no more than twelve months after the last exchange, save where retention is required for conflict-of-interest checks. Case files: for the duration of the engagement, then in accordance with the lawyer's professional and legal obligations, in particular the limitation period for professional civil liability. Technical browsing data: period set by the hosting provider, not exceeding thirteen months.

The firm implements technical and organisational measures appropriate to the sensitivity of the situations entrusted to it. Encrypted communication channels and a secure document drop are available on request. It is recommended that no confidential or sensitive document be sent before the case file has been formally opened and the appropriate channel confirmed.

You have the right of access, rectification, erasure, restriction of processing, objection and data portability, under the conditions laid down by the GDPR, as well as the right to set out directives concerning the handling of your data after your death. These rights may be exercised by email to global@hennebel.legal. They may be limited by legal professional privilege and by statutory retention obligations. You may lodge a complaint with the Commission nationale de l'informatique et des libertés (CNIL).

This policy may be amended to reflect changes to the website, the services or the applicable regulations. The date of the last update appears at the top of the page.