How we collect, use and protect your personal data.
Protecting your privacy is inseparable from our duties. Notaries are bound by absolute professional secrecy, enforced under article 226-13 of the French Criminal Code. This obligation, which is stricter still than data protection legislation, applies to all information you entrust to us.
This policy describes the processing carried out when you browse this website and when you contact us. Processing relating to the handling of your notarial matters is covered by separate information provided at the firm.
The firm practises across two territories with different European statuses, which determines the framework that applies:
To guarantee a consistent level of protection whichever office you contact, the firm voluntarily applies the most protective standard — that of the GDPR — to all its processing activities.
When you use the contact form, we collect the following data:
Please do not send sensitive or confidential information through this form, which is not a secure channel. For anything relating to an ongoing matter, please contact us by telephone or arrange an appointment at the firm.
Our host retains technical logs (IP address, date and time of request, page accessed, browser type) for security and service continuity purposes. These are kept for no longer than twelve months.
We measure visits to this website in order to improve its content and organisation. This is done using Umami, open-source software that we host on our own servers: the data is not shared with any third party and never leaves the firm's infrastructure.
You may object to this measurement at any time by enabling the "Do Not Track" setting in your browser, which our tool honours, or by writing to us at the address given in section 3.
No decision producing legal effects is based on automated processing. We carry out no profiling and no marketing activity using data collected through this website.
This website sets no cookies and writes nothing to your browser's storage. It uses no advertising technology and performs no cross-site tracking.
The audience measurement described in section 4 operates without cookies and without any storage on your device. It therefore falls outside Article 82 of the French Data Protection Act, which requires consent only for operations that access or write information on a user's equipment. This is why no consent banner is shown to you.
Your data is intended solely for the notaries and authorised staff of the firm. It is never sold, rented or disclosed to third parties for commercial purposes.
The following technical providers act as processors under contractual arrangements compliant with article 28 of the GDPR:
No other third-party service is called while you browse: fonts, images, all site resources and the audience measurement tool are hosted on our own servers, with no connection to an external provider.
Beyond these providers, your data may be disclosed to administrative or judicial authorities where required by law.
Data collected through this website is hosted and processed within the European Union. No transfer to a third country takes place in the operation of this website.
Authenticated deeds and their annexes follow a separate regime: notaries are required by law to retain original deeds for seventy-five years, extended to one hundred years where a minor is concerned, before transfer to the departmental archives. This legal obligation takes precedence over the right to erasure.
The firm implements appropriate technical and organisational measures to preserve the confidentiality and integrity of your data: encryption of communications with the website (HTTPS/TLS), access restricted to authorised personnel, hosting within the European Union, and staff training on professional secrecy.
As no transmission over the internet can be guaranteed absolutely, please do not send identity documents, banking details or material covered by the confidentiality of your matter through this website.
Subject to the conditions set out in the applicable legislation, you have the following rights:
Send your request by email to idn.sxm@97116.notaires.fr or by post to the firm's registered office, stating the purpose of your request. Proof of identity may be requested where there is reasonable doubt as to your identity.
We will reply within one month of receiving your request, which may be extended by two months for complex requests.
If, after contacting us, you consider that your rights have not been respected, you may lodge a complaint with the supervisory authority:
This policy may be amended to reflect legal, technical or organisational developments. The version that applies is the one published on this page at the time of your visit.
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