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Privacy and Cookies Policy

Otherside is committed to respecting the current legislation on privacy and personal data protection, particularly the European General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) of April 27, 2016.

The purpose of this privacy policy (hereinafter “Privacy Policy”) is therefore to:

  • Allow you to communicate your personal information confidently and confidentially when interacting with Otherside, by any means, especially when using the website https://www.otherside.law (hereinafter the “Website”);
  • Inform you about the purposes for which data collected by Otherside is processed;
  • Inform you about the measures taken to ensure the confidentiality and security of your personal data;
  • Generally enlighten you about your rights regarding personal data.

Identity of the Data Controller

The data controller, in the sense of the applicable personal data regulations, is Mr. Charlie Magri, an individual entrepreneur registered in the Marseille RCS under number 981542707 with its registered office located at 66D rue Sainte 13001 Marseille, France.

When Does Otherside Collect Personal Data?

When you interact with Otherside, by any means, especially when you visit and browse the Website, you may be required to communicate certain personal data about yourself, i.e., information allowing your direct or indirect identification.

You may be required to communicate personal data for:

  • Your navigation on the Website via the use of cookies,
  • Any information, by your own initiative, using the contact form on the Website, to receive information about Otherside’s services or to make an appointment, among other things,
  • Any correspondence with Otherside by phone, email, social networks, forums, or any other means,
  • Any reporting of a problem or a request for assistance.

Otherside collects your personal data explicitly and transparently, either through information notices or by express reference to this privacy policy.

Some personal data that may be requested are mandatory. The mandatory nature of the data collected is indicated by an asterisk; other data is optional. Failure to provide the mandatory personal data will result in the inability to access all the services offered by Otherside.

Definition of Personal Data

Personal data are concrete or personal information relating to an identified or identifiable natural person (for example, your name, telephone number, postal address, email address).

Non-private data (“pseudonyms”) are information relating to a particular person or account that is not sufficient to identify that person.

What Types of Personal Data Does Otherside Collect?

Otherside may collect the following personal data from you:

  • Civility
  • First and Last Name
  • Phone Number
  • Email Address
  • Valid Identity Document (national ID card, passport, driving license)

For any other data collected elsewhere, the data collection form will describe the rules applicable to such data in the event they are different from the rules stated in this policy.

For What Purposes Does Otherside Collect These Personal Data?

During the relationship you maintain with Otherside, regardless of the nature of this relationship, Otherside may collect personal data from you for the following purposes:

  • Management of your contact requests and appointments,
  • Customer relationship management (preparation of quotes, execution of services),
  • Customer relationship follow-up (conservation of files and deliverables),
  • Billing and collection management,
  • Managing your applications,
  • Fighting fraud and money laundering,
  • Managing your requests related to your rights as described below.

The legal bases on which we rely to process personal data include processing that:

  • is necessary for the execution of a contract concluded between you and Otherside,
  • is necessary to comply with legal and regulatory obligations imposed on Otherside, such as accounting obligations;
  • is necessary to respect our legitimate interests, such as the development of Otherside’s activities, the improvement of its services, the search for new services, the fight against fraud;
  • is based on your consent, which can then be withdrawn at any time under the conditions provided below, to communicate with you about our services and provide you with information about our services.

How Long Is Your Personal Data Kept?

During the relationship you maintain with Otherside, regardless of the nature of the relationship, Otherside may collect personal data from you as follows:

Purpose of Processing Legal Basis of Processing Personal Data Processed Retention Duration
Management of your contact requests and appointments Consent Identification Data Until withdrawal of consent or 3 years from the last contact
Customer relationship management Contract Identification Data Duration of the contractual relationship and 5 years maximum from its cessation in intermediate archiving
Customer relationship follow-up Legitimate Interests Identification Data 5 years maximum from the end of the contractual relationship
Billing and collection management Contract Legal and Regulatory Obligation Identification Data
Managing your applications Consent Identification Data Professional Life Data
Fighting fraud and money laundering Legal and Regulatory Obligation Identification Data Duration of the contractual relationship and 5 years maximum from its cessation in intermediate archiving
Management of the rights of the concerned persons Legal and Regulatory Obligation Identification Data 2 months

When the purposes for which personal data have been collected are completed, they will be deleted. Deletion of personal data may occur through anonymization. Where appropriate, personal data is retained in an anonymized form for statistical purposes.

Cookies

During your visits to the Website, a “cookie” may be stored on your computer, tablet, or smartphone.

Upon your first visit to the Website, a banner informs you of the presence of these cookies and invites you to indicate your choice among three options:

  • “Accept”: if you consent to the use of all cookies and other connection markers,
  • “Refuse”: if you oppose the use of all cookies and other connection markers (except for “necessary” cookies),
  • “Configure”: if you wish to set the cookies you want to accept and those you want to refuse, depending on their purposes.

Different types of cookies are used on our site:

Type of Cookie Purpose
Strictly Necessary These cookies are essential for you to navigate our Website and use its features. The information collected by these cookies is related to the operation of our Website, for example, the website’s script language and security tokens that help ensure the security of areas of our Website.
Statistics These cookies collect anonymous information about your use of our Website, for example, which pages you visit most often, if you receive error messages, and how you arrived at our Website. The information collected by these cookies is used only to improve your use of our Website and never to identify you. Sometimes, these cookies are placed by third-party web traffic analysis service providers, like Google Analytics.

Cookies have a maximum lifespan of 13 months. The information collected through cookies is kept for a maximum of 25 months.

What Are Your Rights?

In accordance with regulations, you have the right to access your personal data, modify it, delete it, be forgotten by Otherside, limit the processing of your data, receive the personal data concerning you, provided to Otherside, in a structured, commonly used and machine-readable format, and, for a legitimate reason, to oppose the processing of your personal data. When processing is based on your consent, you also have the right to withdraw it.

You also have the right to file a complaint with the CNIL or a data protection authority of a European Union member state and to define post-mortem directives.

These rights can be exercised at any time:

  • Either via the contact form available on the Website;
  • Either by email at the following address: contact@otherside.law;
  • Either by postal mail to: Otherside – Maître Charlie Magri, 66D rue Sainte 13001 Marseille, France.

To enable Otherside to respond quickly, please indicate your first name, last name, email, and postal address. Some requests to exercise your rights (right of access) must be accompanied by a photocopy of an identity document bearing your signature to verify your identity and specify the address to which the response should be sent. A response will then be sent to you, except in special cases, within one (1) month following receipt of the request.

How Is Your Personal Data Protected?

Otherside is committed to ensuring the security of the data you transmit. To prevent unauthorized access, use, modification, destruction, loss, damage, or disclosure, appropriate technical and organizational measures are taken to protect the collected data.

In particular, the security of your data is ensured by the use of an SSL certificate to ensure the security of exchanges on the Website, as well as by limiting access to your data to only authorized persons who need to perform a specific job.

The transmission of information via the Internet is not completely secure. Although Otherside commits to doing its best to protect your personal data, it cannot guarantee the total security of the data concerning you that you transmit.

In the event of a breach of your personal data presenting a risk to the rights and freedoms of the concerned persons, be aware that Otherside has the obligation to notify the competent control authority and inform you, as soon as possible, of any breach of personal data likely to cause a high risk to your rights and freedoms, to allow you to take the necessary measures.

Are Your Data Transferred Outside the European Union?

The personal data collected by Otherside is not transferred outside the European Union, except in the case of using a foreign correspondent, with your agreement. Your personal data is hosted on a server located within the European Union.

To Whom May Otherside Disclose Your Personal Data?

The personal data collected by Otherside is not sold to third parties.

However, we may share personal data with third parties, under certain circumstances and in compliance with applicable regulations, namely:

  • Our partners involved in our legal missions such as lawyers, consultants, mediators, experts, translators, interpreters;
  • Service providers who perform certain functions on our behalf, especially our host;
  • When we have obtained your data in the context of legal proceedings carried out on behalf of our clients;
  • Judicial auxiliaries, ministerial officers, administrations, jurisdictions, administrative authorities when necessary for the establishment, exercise, and defense of legal action.

The service providers we use receive only the data necessary for the execution of our contract. In this context, they may use these data only for the purpose of carrying out their mission. We share your personal data only with trusted partners who enable us to provide our services, as long as they agree to keep this information confidential.

We also reserve the right to disclose your personal data to other parties in cases where the law, a current regulatory provision, a judicial order, or regulation requires or authorizes it, or if this disclosure is necessary as part of an investigation, or a procedure, on national or foreign territory.