This website, accessible from the URL address www.samson.legal (hereinafter the "Website") is published by Pierre-Yves SAMSON, admitted to the Paris Bar, 11 rue Edouard Detaille, 75017 Paris, France (e-mail: py@samson.legal ; +33 6 8578 3344) (hereinafter the "Firm"), registered under the number 911 115 667 at the business registrar.

The Director of Publication of the Website is Pierre-Yves Samson.

The Website is hosted by LWS SAS (https://www.lws.fr/), 10, rue Penthièvre F-75008 Paris, France.

MANAGEMENT OF PERSONAL DATA

This personal data management policy is intended to inform users about the terms and conditions of use and processing of their personal data collected by the Law Firm via this Website (Legal basis: General Data Protection Regulation of the European Union no. 2016/679 (GDPR) and Act no. nᵒ78-17 relating to information technology, files and freedoms).

Me Samson (the Firm) is committed to protecting the privacy of all users. The Firm is the sole recipient of the information and personal data transmitted via this Site.

1- Nature of the Personal Data collected

Personal data are defined as any information relating to an identified or identifiable individual.

The following personal data are collected by the Firm: the user's first and last names; the user's e-mail address; the content of the message sent by the user.

2- Collection of personal data and purposes

Personal data are collected via the contact / information request form.

They are required in order to respond to requests and, if consent has been given, in order to:

• send the firm's newsletter,

• manage registration for a Firm event.

No data are collected without the user's knowledge.

The use and processing of personal data presented above is based on the user's consent to the use of his/her personal data in order to respond to his/her request.

The fields marked with an asterisk in the contact forms must be completed by the user in order to process his/her request.

The information collected is not transmitted to any third party. However, in the event of a proven breach of legal or regulatory provisions, it may be communicated to the judicial authorities at the express request of the latter.

Digital file data and e-mails are stored in Switzerland and France respectively.

The firm implements technical and organisational security measures to protect the data collected. If it works with subcontractors, it requires each of them to provide appropriate guarantees to ensure the security and confidentiality of personal data.

3- Rights

The user has a right of access, rectification, portability, deletion, limitation, opposition, withdrawal of consent to the processing of personal data and to define the use after her/his death of data concerning the user.

These rights may be exercised at any time by post, enclosing a copy of an identity document, to the following postal address: Pierre-Yves SAMSON, avocat à la Cour, 11 rue Edouard Detaille, 75017 Paris, France.

The Firm may amend this personal data management policy in accordance with changes in regulations. Any such changes are binding on all users, who are invited to gain knowledge of them.

INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY

The photographs, texts, slogans, illustrations, drawings, images, logos, company names, domain names, icons, animated sequences with or without sound and all works integrated into the Site (hereinafter referred to as the "Elements") are the property of the Site editor or of third parties who have authorised the Site editor to use them.

Any representation and/or reproduction and/or imitation and/or use and/or exploitation, in whole or in part, of one or more of the Elements and/or distinctive signs, content and services offered on this Site, by any process whatsoever, without the express prior written authorisation of the Law Firm is strictly prohibited and may constitute an infringement/usurpation for which the author shall be held liable.

The use and presentation of any of the pages of this Site in a web page that does not belong to the Firm is prohibited.

Any databases appearing on the Site are protected, in particular against any extraction or re-use.

Any user of the Site is responsible to take all appropriate measures to protect his own data and/or software and/or computer equipment from contamination by any viruses circulating on the Internet.

The Law Firm may interrupt access to the Site at any time for technical reasons.

GENERAL TERMS AND CONDITIONS OF USE

Introductory provisions

These conditions contain the provisions applicable to any use of this Site and its services.

By using the Site, the user agrees to comply with these conditions, which (s)he acknowledges having read, understood and accepted in their entirety. If (s)he refuses to accept these conditions of use, (s)he is requested not to use it in any way.

The conditions are those in force at the date of connection to the Site. The Firm reserves the right to modify them at any time and without prior notice.

1- Access to and content of the Site

Access to and use of the Site are reserved for strictly personal use. This excludes use for commercial, political or advertising purposes and any form of commercial solicitation, in particular the sending of unsolicited electronic mail (e-mail).

The Site has been opened for the personal information of users. The information contained on this Site is non-contractual and subject to change without notice.

The Site may contain links to other Sites not managed and/or published by the Firm. The Law Firm has no control whatsoever over the information, products or services offered by these other Sites and cannot under any circumstances be held responsible for the content of such Sites.

The creation of hypertext links to any page other than the home page of this Site requires the prior and express written consent of the Law Firm, which may be obtained by sending an e-mail to the following address: py@samson.legal.

The publisher is free to refuse this authorisation without justification. Any authorisation may be withdrawn at any time, without the need for justification.

2- Site management

For the proper management of the Site, the publisher may at any time:

• suspend, interrupt or limit access to all or part of the Site;

• restrict access to the Site, or to certain parts of the Site, to a specific category of Internet user;

• delete any information that may disrupt its operation or contravene national or international laws;

• suspend the Site in order to update it.

3- exclusion of warranty and liability

The information contained on the Site is non-contractual and is provided solely for the general information of the user.

It does not replace or substitute legal, tax or any other professional advice or consultation.

The Firm endeavors to check the accuracy of the information provided on the Site and reserves the right to modify or delete it at any time without notice.

However, the Firm makes no warranty, express or implied, concerning the content of the Site.

Cabinet may not be held liable for any direct or indirect damage that may result from the use of the Site or, on the contrary, from the impossibility of accessing the Site, and in particular :

• lack of performance of the Site,

• loss of data or services resulting from failure to meet deadlines, modification, suspension or interruption of its services,

• the accuracy, quality or nature of information obtained through its services,

• the consequences arising directly or indirectly from the transmission of viruses via its servers,

• interruption of the Site service due to maintenance operations or the behaviour of Site users,

• inaccessibility to the Site,

• contamination of the user's software/IT equipment resulting from the propagation of a virus or other computer infection.

Any user of this Site remains solely responsible to take all appropriate measures to protect his own data and/or software and/or computer equipment from contamination by any viruses circulating on the Internet.

Cabinet may interrupt access to the Site at any time for technical reasons.

4- general provisions

These terms and conditions of use of the Site are governed by French law and are subject to the jurisdiction of the courts of Paris.

In the event that any provision of the General Terms and Conditions of use is declared null and void or ineffective, the remaining provisions shall be deemed applicable by operation of law.

The non-application or failure to assert the application by the Firm of any of the provisions of the General Terms and Conditions or of any of its rights shall not under any circumstances be construed as a waiver by it of such provision or such right.

5- Contact

If you have any questions, please contact us at the following address: py@samson.legal

6- for private individual customers - mediation :

In accordance with the provisions of Articles L.612-1 et seq. of the French Consumer Code, you may, in the event of a dispute, call for free upon the Consumer Ombudsman at the National council of French Bars (CNB), whose contact details read as follows: CNB, Médiateur à la consommation, 180 boulevard Haussmann - 75008 PARIS.

For more information, you can log on to the platform :

https://www.economie.gouv.fr/mediation-conso

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