Privacy Policy

The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) is a European regulatory text that came into force on 25 May 2018, governing the processing of data on an equal basis throughout the European Union.

The GDPR follows on from the French Data Protection Act of 1978, which established rules on the collection and use of data on French territory.

Umami Law may need to collect some of your data, in particular so that a user can book an appointment. Below, you will find answers to various questions you may have.

Data Controller

The data controller for personal data is Umami Law, within the meaning of the French Data Protection Act and, as of 25 May 2018, of Regulation 2016/679 on the protection of personal data.

Collection and Use of Your Personal Data

In application of French Law No. 78-17 of 6 January 1978 as amended, relating to information technology, data files and civil liberties, as well as the General Data Protection Regulation No. 2016/679, the user is informed that Umami Law  may process certain personal data. In this respect, Umami Law undertakes to process only data strictly necessary for the intended purposes, in particular for recruitment and communication with users, in the context of contact forms completed by them.

In any event, Umami Law only collects personal information relating to the user for the purposes of certain services offered by its website and for the management of relationships and contracts with you. The user provides this information with full knowledge of the facts, in particular when they enter it themselves. The user of the website https://umami.law/ is then informed whether or not they are obliged to provide this information.

No personal information of the user of the website https://umami.law/ is published without the user’s knowledge; exchanged; transferred, assigned or sold on any medium whatsoever to third parties.

The personal data collected is gathered solely within the framework of the services offered by Umami Law, in accordance with Article 5 of the General Data Protection Regulation No. 2016/679. Accordingly, all data that is not strictly necessary will be deleted.

Hyperlinks & Cookies

The website https://umami.law/ contains hyperlinks to other websites. However, Umami Law has no means of checking the content of the websites thus visited, and will therefore accept no liability in this respect.

Browsing the website https://umami.law/ may cause cookies to be installed on the user’s computer. The user is informed of this on arrival at the website, and unless you decide to disable cookies, you accept that the website may use them.

A cookie is a text file deposited by your browser on your smartphone, computer or tablet when you visit a website. A cookie cannot identify you but is used to record information relating to your browsing on a website. Statistical data is thus collected in order to improve the website and better meet your needs.

Umami Law uses cookies to track users’ paths on the website, store specific information such as recently consulted pages, in order to recognise you on your next visit and to make your user experience easier.

We remind you that your browser has settings that allow you to object to the recording of cookies, to be notified before accepting cookies, or to delete them. However, refusing to install a cookie may reduce or prevent access to all or part of the services offered by the website.

Right of Access, Rectification and Objection

In accordance with applicable national and European regulations, the user has a right of access, modification, rectification and deletion of data concerning them. This right may be exercised by the user by making a request by email to office@umami.law. This does not include data stored for administrative, legal or security reasons.
The data controller must provide a response within a maximum period of one month. In the event of difficulty in exercising your rights, you have the right to lodge a complaint with the French National Commission for Information Technology and Civil Liberties (CNIL).

Right to Object to Telephone Marketing

Umami Law may collect the user’s telephone details when the user sends an email via the contact form.
In accordance with Article L223-2 of the French Consumer Code, the user is informed that they have the option of registering free of charge on the telephone marketing opt-out list called BLOCTEL, available on the website http://www.bloctel.gouv.fr/.

Bloctel is the telephone marketing opt-out list on which any consumer can register free of charge in order to no longer be contacted by telephone by a professional with whom they do not have an ongoing contractual relationship, in accordance with French Law No. 2014-344 of 17 March 2014 relating to consumption.

The law specifies that it is prohibited for any professional, directly or through a third party acting on their behalf, to make telephone marketing calls to a consumer registered on this list, except in the cases listed by law. In particular, you may still be called in the following cases:

• By professionals with whom you have an ongoing contract
• For prospecting calls relating to the supply of newspapers, periodicals or magazines
• For reasons not relating to the sale of goods or services, such as:
  – Calls from a public service
  – Calls from research and polling institutes
  – Calls from non-profit associations
• If you have freely and unambiguously communicated your number in order to be called back

Data Retention Period

In accordance with the regulation of the European Parliament, the data collected is retained for a period of 3 years, covering the limitation period of the applicable contractual civil liability.

Security and Confidentiality

Umami Law implements all reasonable measures to protect personal data against alteration, destruction and unauthorised access in matters of digital security. However, it is noted that the Internet is not a completely secure environment, and Umami Law cannot guarantee the security of the transmission or storage of information on the Internet. To ensure the security and confidentiality of personal data, Umami Law uses networks protected by standard devices such as firewalls, pseudonymisation, encryption and passwords. When processing Personal Data, Umami Law takes all reasonable measures to protect it from any loss, misuse, unauthorised access, disclosure, alteration or destruction.

Changes to the Privacy Policy

You acknowledge having read and accepted this privacy policy, and you undertake to review it each time you use the website to take note of any changes. This personal data policy may be subject to modifications at any time, and users of the website https://umami.law/ are therefore invited to consult it regularly.