1. Data controller
The controller for the processing described in this policy is Barış Tarim, a lawyer admitted to the Caen Bar in France, 95, rue Saint-Pierre, 14000 Caen, France.
For questions about your personal data: contact@baristarim.lawyer.
2. Data that may be processed
When direct sending is available, the form sends your entries to the website’s server and then to the practice through the Brevo email delivery service. Message content is not retained in the website’s database. If the form offers “Prepare my email”, your entries remain on the page until you send them through your own email application. When you write, call or book an appointment through an external service, the practice may process the information you choose to provide, including:
- your first and last name and professional or personal contact details;
- information about your company or organisation;
- the content of your request and documents you voluntarily send;
- information needed to manage an appointment or a matter;
- for an application, your CV, professional experience, availability and related correspondence.
Browsing may also involve the hosting provider processing technical data, including IP addresses, pages viewed and operating logs, to serve, secure and measure use of the website.
Please do not send confidential or sensitive documents before agreeing with the practice how your request will be handled.
3. Purposes and legal bases
Data may be used to:
- respond to an enquiry or arrange a consultation;
- consider whether to accept an engagement and check for conflicts of interest;
- prepare, enter into and perform the fee agreement;
- manage the matter, billing and the practice’s professional obligations;
- establish or defend legal rights and comply with legal obligations;
- review applications received by email and correspond with candidates.
Depending on the circumstances, processing is based on steps taken before entering into a contract, performance of a contract, compliance with a legal obligation or the practice’s legitimate interest in responding to enquiries and defending its rights. Reviewing an application received by email is based on steps taken before entering into a contract at the candidate’s request.
4. Retention periods
Data is retained for as long as necessary for its purpose, then archived for the periods required or permitted by law, professional rules and the need to defend the practice’s rights. Enquiries that do not result in an engagement are not retained beyond the period reasonably necessary to handle them and follow up the relationship. Application data is kept for the time needed to review the application and handle related correspondence, then deleted, subject to restricted archiving where necessary to defend legal rights.
To protect direct sending, the website retains only random submission identifiers, transmission status and technical counters linked to an IP address hash renewed every hour. These records contain no name, email address or message. They expire within 24 hours and are deleted when a new enquiry is processed. Preventing abusive submissions is based on the practice’s legitimate interest in securing its website.
5. Recipients and security
Data is intended for Barış Tarim and, where necessary, service providers bound by confidentiality obligations, other professionals involved in the administration of justice, professional correspondents and legally authorised authorities. It is handled in accordance with the lawyer’s duty of professional confidentiality.
Appropriate technical and organisational measures are taken to preserve the confidentiality, integrity and availability of information.
Direct sending uses Brevo, an email delivery provider. Your contact details and message are passed to this provider for transmission to the practice. The email is then retained in the practice’s mailbox under the periods set out above. Sending an enquiry does not subscribe you to a mailing list. Brevo privacy policy.
6. Your rights
Subject to the conditions laid down by applicable regulations, you may request access, rectification, erasure or restriction of processing, object to certain processing and request portability of the relevant data.
You may exercise these rights by emailing contact@baristarim.lawyer. If, after contacting the practice, you believe your rights have not been respected, you may lodge a complaint with the French data protection authority (CNIL).
8. Updates
This policy may be amended to reflect changes to the website, the services used or the regulations. The applicable version is the one published on this page.