Personal data

The controller for the processing of personal data is ATA Avocats, represented by Ambre Theuil.

Controller

ATA Avocats — Ambre Theuil

Address

Résidence AFTER C3 bis rue Adolphe BarrauOrphelinat — 98800 Nouméa

Email

[email protected]

Telephone

+687 76 51 51

The firm has not appointed a data protection officer: any request concerning your data is handled directly, at the address above.

This is a presentation site: no accounts, no payments, no analytics. It carries a single form, at the foot of the home page, and collects nothing else of its own accord. Three points are worth stating.

• The form passes what you write in it to the firm’s mailbox, through a relay service. The contact links, by contrast, open your own mail client or phone, with nothing passing through the site.
• Your language preference is kept in your browser’s local storage, under the key ata:lang. It never leaves your device and disappears if you clear the site data.
• Like any web server, the host keeps connection logs — IP address, date and time, page requested, browser — for security and operational purposes. The firm has no access to them: the plan in use makes no such logs available to it.

The site sets no cookies. It uses no advertising trackers, no analytics tools and no social network buttons. No consent banner is shown: there is nothing to accept or decline.

When you fill in the form, write to or call the firm, you pass on data: your identity, your contact details, and the elements of the situation you describe. The form asks for first name, last name, email, telephone, subject and the body of your enquiry; only the company field is optional.

Purposes

Answering your request, assessing whether the firm can take it on, and where applicable opening and handling the matter.

Legal bases

Pre-contractual steps and then performance of our engagement, the firm’s legitimate interest in replying to those who contact it, and compliance with the legal obligations of the profession, in particular anti-money-laundering rules.

Optional

No data is required to browse the site. What you send is sent freely; withholding it only prevents the firm from giving you a useful answer.

The site is hosted by Cloudflare, Inc., a company incorporated in the United States. The firm’s mailbox is hosted by Microsoft, under the Outlook service: the emails you send are stored there. Messages sent from the form pass through the Web3Forms relay service before arriving in it.

Enquiry with no follow-up

Twelve months from the last exchange, then deleted.

Open matter

For the duration of the engagement, then archived for five years from its completion — the period during which the firm’s liability may be engaged.

Original documents

Returned to the client at the end of the engagement. The firm does not keep them.

Server logs

Kept by the host on its own account and under its privacy policy. The firm neither receives nor uses them.

Your data is neither sold, nor rented, nor passed on for commercial purposes. Outside the firm, it is disclosed only to those strictly necessary to handle your matter:

• the firm’s technical providers — site host, form relay, mail provider —, strictly to the extent of their involvement;
• court officers, experts, fellow lawyers and courts concerned by your matter, where handling it so requires;
• administrative or judicial authorities, where the law so requires.

Some of these providers process data outside New Caledonia. The firm ensures that such transfers are covered by the safeguards provided for that purpose.

Everything entrusted to an avocat is covered by professional secrecy. That secrecy is general, absolute and unlimited in time. It does not conflict with data protection rules: it sits above them and reinforces them. No request from a third party, on whatever ground, can lead the firm to disclose what it protects.

The site is served over HTTPS. Ordinary email, however, is not end-to-end encrypted: for any sensitive document, the firm prefers hand delivery or a channel agreed with you.

You have the right to access, rectify, erase and restrict the processing of your data, to object on legitimate grounds, to data portability, and to set directions as to what becomes of your data after your death.

These rights are exercised by email or post at the firm’s address. You will receive an answer within one month; proof of identity may be requested in case of reasonable doubt.

They are not unlimited: they yield to professional secrecy and to the retention obligations that bind the firm. A third party cannot use them to obtain what secrecy protects.

If, having contacted us, you consider that your rights are not respected, you may lodge a complaint with the French data protection authority.

Authority

Commission nationale de l'informatique et des libertés

Address

3 place de Fontenoy — TSA 8071575334 Paris Cedex 07, France

Online

www.cnil.fr

The firm applies to this processing the principles of Regulation (EU) 2016/679 on data protection, known as the GDPR, and of French law no. 78-17 of 6 January 1978 on data processing, files and freedoms, as applicable in New Caledonia.

This policy may be amended to follow changes to the site or to the applicable rules. The date it was last updated appears at the top of the page.