PRIVACY NOTICE

The present privacy notice aims at informing you how our Firm collects and processes your personal data while browsing our website or contacting us or requesting our assistance. It has been drawn up in accordance with the provisions of the new Swiss Data Protection Act (Swiss Federal Act on Data Protection, “DPA”) and where applicable, with the provisions of the Regulation of the European Council on the protection of natural persons with regards to the processing of personal data (GDPR).

This notice applies to data we might collect on our website (cookies), as well as to personal data within the meaning of DPA, which are provided to us or third parties, whether in the context of mandates or any other activity of our Firm. As of the date of this notice, our website does not contain any cookies, and we do not collect any data via our website.

By entrusting us with a mandate, or by entering into any kind of relationship with our Firm, you understand that you are providing us with personal data and you accept that (i) our Firm collects and processes a certain number of personal data concerning you (ii) our Firm and each of its members (i.e. is lawyers, administrative team, affiliates, external IT or chartered accountant) is expressly authorized to use these data within the frame of the related legal provisions (iii) you read and understood the terms of this privacy notice and (iv) you accept the terms of this privacy notice and will conform to it.

The personal data we may receive include (but is not limited to) your name, your address, your telephone and e-mail details, details of your employer or the organization you are working for, your income, assets, tax data, health data, whether these information be provided to us by you, or any third party, in particular courts, authorities, colleagues acting for an opposing or counterparty, or any other third party with whom we may come into contact, in particular in the context of carrying out our mandate.

We collect these in order to carry out our mandate as lawyers, in particular the mandates entrusted to us, and we may therefore be required to disclose them to third parties, in particular courts, colleagues, or opposing parties, administrations, experts who may be asked for an opinion, etc, in the context of our mandates.
Your personal data are stored on our servers, in Switzerland exclusively. It is however possible that in the course of their activities, the Firm’s lawyers may need to access to your data from abroad, albeit via a secured connexion. These data will be used only in the context of our activity, and will accessible by any member of the Firm, whether lawyers, administrative staff or possibly third parties such as IT specialists or other service providers, in particular chartered accountants of the Firm which are bound to us by a confidentiality agreement. All measures are taken to ensure that personal data are protected. Your attention is drawn to the fact that the use of means of communication such as email, telephone, or video-conferencing, presents a risk of undue transmission, and you accept this risk in full.

Personal data are kept for the duration of our mandate, and that imposed on us by law, in particular as to the retention of correspondence and the storage of documents.

Persons whose personal data we process may obtain information about the data collected within the limits of law, and have the right to have them rectified, suppressed as well as the right to limit their processing. Your attention is drawn to the fact that such requests may lead us to decide to abandon our mandate if, at our sole discretion, we consider that we are no longer in a position to perform our mandate normally.

The present notice is exclusively governed by Swiss law. And dispute which might arise in connexion with this notice shall be submitted to the exclusive competence of the Courts of Geneva.