Legal notice

Legal information

The website www.merimee-avocats.fr is published by AARPI Mérimée Avocats, registered with the Paris Trade and Companies Register, email address: contact@merimee-avocats.fr.

The publication directors are Ms. Pauline Borczuch, Managing Partner, and Ms. Marion Moisan-Poissonnier, Managing Partner.

The website is hosted by Infomaniak Network SA, Rue Eugène Marziano 25, 1227 Les Acacias (Geneva, Switzerland).

Design, concept, and development were carried out by the communications agency MURMURE.

Liability

AARPI Mérimée Avocats undertakes to use its best efforts to ensure that the website remains accessible to users at all times. However, it cannot be held liable in the event the website is unavailable, for any reason whatsoever.

Users of the website acknowledge having read this legal notice and agree to comply with it.

Users acknowledge having the necessary skills and means to access and use the website, and confirm having verified that the computer configuration used contains no viruses and is in full working order.

AARPI Mérimée Avocats cannot guarantee the accuracy or completeness of the information published on its website, nor the continuity of its proper functioning or its complete IT security.

AARPI Mérimée Avocats makes every effort to offer users available and verified information and tools, but cannot be held liable for errors, unavailability of information, and/or the presence of viruses or other malicious code on its website.

Information provided by AARPI Mérimée Avocats is for informational purposes only. AARPI Mérimée Avocats cannot guarantee the accuracy, completeness, or timeliness of the information published on the website.

Users acknowledge using the information and tools available on the website at their own sole responsibility.

Protection of personal data

AARPI Mérimée Avocats is committed to respecting your privacy and the confidentiality of your personal data.

Generally speaking, you may browse this website without having to disclose your identity or provide any personal information about yourself.

However, any personal data that may be collected via the website is processed by AARPI Mérimée Avocats, acting as data controller, under the conditions set out below.

AARPI Mérimée Avocats undertakes to process your personal data in compliance with applicable laws and regulations, in particular French Law No. 78–17 of January 6, 1978 on information technology, data files, and civil liberties (the « Data Protection Act »), and Regulation (EU) 2016⁄679 of the European Parliament and of the Council of April 27, 2016 on the protection of individuals with regard to the processing of personal data and on the free movement of such data (the « Regulation ») (together, the « Applicable Regulations »).

In accordance with the Applicable Regulations, the collection and processing of personal data, where applicable, is based on (i) the legitimate interest of AARPI Mérimée Avocats (securing the website, managing the relationship), or (ii) your consent (cookies other than those strictly necessary, the contact form, invitations to events).

In accordance with applicable law, you have rights of access and rectification, allowing you to have your inaccurate, incomplete, or outdated personal data corrected, completed, updated, or erased, as well as the right to request restriction of the processing of your personal data and the right to object, on legitimate grounds, to the processing of your personal data.

You may also, at any time and without providing any reason, object to the processing of your personal data for marketing purposes.

These rights may be exercised with AARPI Mérimée Avocats by sending:

  • an email to: contact@merimee-avocats.fr
  • or a letter by post to: Cabinet MERIMEE AVOCATS, Personal Data, 66 rue de Caumartin, 75009 Paris, France

You are informed that you may lodge a complaint with the CNIL (the French data protection authority) at any time, at 3 place de Fontenoy, 75007 Paris, France.

Intellectual property

The website www.merimee-avocats.fr, taken as a whole, as well as each of its individual components — including specific programs and developments and content such as data, text, still or moving images, logos, sounds, graphics, and files — is the exclusive property of AARPI Mérimée Avocats or of third parties that have granted it a license. Any total or partial reproduction of the website or of any of its components without the express authorization of AARPI Mérimée Avocats is prohibited and would constitute infringement punishable under Articles L.335–2 et seq. of the French Intellectual Property Code.

The databases featured on the website are protected under Articles L.341–1 et seq. of the French Intellectual Property Code, and any qualitatively or quantitatively substantial extraction or reuse of the database content is punishable.

The trademarks and logos featured on the website are trademarks registered by AARPI Mérimée Avocats or by third parties. Any reproduction, imitation, or use, in whole or in part, of these distinctive signs without express authorization, in violation of the prohibitions set out in Articles L.713–2 et seq. of the French Intellectual Property Code, engages the liability of the person responsible.

Other distinctive signs, including corporate names, trade names, signage, and domain names reproduced on the website, are the property of AARPI Mérimée Avocats or of third parties, and any reproduction without express authorization may constitute misappropriation engaging the liability of its author under Article 1240 of the French Civil Code.

Any total or partial reproduction of the website www.merimee-avocats.fr and/or of the content that comprises it is prohibited without the express prior authorization of AARPI Mérimée Avocats.

Cookie management

By allowing cookies, where applicable, you accept the placement and reading of cookies and the use of the tracking technologies necessary for their proper functioning.

You do, however, have the option to object to the installation of these cookies at any time.

Governing law

This website is governed by French law.

Amendments

AARPI Mérimée Avocats reserves the right to modify the content of this legal notice at any time and without prior notice.

Users are therefore invited to consult it regularly.

Credits

Portrait photographs of the partners: Edouard Ducos.

Logo: Florence Pierre

Website design and development: Agence MURMURE