Legal notice
Terms of use
By sending an email to the Firm by means of a “mailto” link appearing on the Website (as defined below) or by accessing and/or using the Website, each natural person (hereinafter “the User”) represents and warrants that he/she has previously read these terms of use, that is to say the legal information, the rules applicable to the protection of personal data and the terms of use, and that he/she accepts the terms and conditions thereof without reservation, modification or restriction.
Legal information
The email address and any other personal data voluntarily included by the User in order to identify themselves in the email addressed to the Firm, together with the IP (Internet Protocol) addresses relating to their Internet connection, are the only personal information liable to be collected by means of the Website and processed by the Firm (hereinafter referred to together as the “Personal Data”).
The email address and any other personal data included by the User in their email in order to identify themselves are collected from the Website by means of a “mailto” link which allows Users of the Website to send emails to the Firm or to its members. Such data are retained and used solely for the purpose of replying to the emails addressed to the Firm and to its members. A valid email address of the User must be provided to the Firm so that it may reply to the email sent. Any other personal data is optional. The aforementioned data are retained for as long as is necessary for the purposes for which they are collected and processed.
Users’ IP addresses are retained by the Firm solely for the purposes of examining any malfunctions of the Website, ensuring the security of the Website and/or of the servers on which it is hosted, and carrying out anonymised statistical calculations.
The Website uses cookies, intended to store browsing information during consultation. A cookie does not make it possible to identify the User; it does, however, record information relating to the computer’s browsing on the Website (pages viewed, date and time of consultation, etc.) which may be read during subsequent visits.
The User may object to the recording of “cookies” by configuring their browser settings in accordance with the documentation supplied with the software.
The Personal Data collected and processed by the Firm by means of the Website are not transferred or rented, whether free of charge or for consideration, to third parties. The Firm’s International Offices are not regarded as third parties.
Each User providing proof of identity has the right to request from the Firm:
– confirmation as to whether or not Personal Data concerning them are being processed by the Firm or on its behalf;
– information relating to the purposes of the processing operation(s), to the categories of Personal Data processed and to the recipients of those data within the Firm;
– information relating to envisaged transfers of Personal Data concerning them to a State which is not a member of the European Community;
– communication, in an accessible form, of the Personal Data concerning them as well as of any available information as to their origin. A copy of the Personal Data is provided to the User free of charge, provided that such a request is not manifestly excessive, in particular by reason of its repetitive or systematic nature.
Each User providing proof of identity may require that Personal Data concerning them which are inaccurate, incomplete, ambiguous, out of date, or the use or retention of which is prohibited, be, as the case may be, rectified, completed, updated or erased.
The rights of each User set out above are exercised by writing to contact@harlington.fr.
The personal data relating to members of the Firm which are made accessible on the Website may not be collected or processed without the prior written consent of the person concerned. In particular, each User undertakes not to collect or use, whether manually or automatically, such personal data in order to send advertising messages or messages of any other nature unrelated to the activities of the Firm and of its members.
Intellectual Property
The Website and each of the elements of which it is composed, and in particular the texts, articles, newsletters, press releases, presentations, brochures, illustrations, photographs, computer programs, animations, etc., are the exclusive intellectual property of the Firm.
Users are authorised only to display the Website on the screen of their personal computer, to print the pages of the Website for their personal use and temporarily to reproduce the files of which it consists in the cache memory of that computer for the sole purpose of facilitating consultation of the Website.
In particular, and subject to the provisions of the preceding paragraph, the User is not authorised to reproduce, display, modify, translate and/or adapt, in whole or in part, whether for consideration or free of charge, the Website and each of the elements of which it is composed, nor to reproduce and/or display such translations, adaptations and modifications, in whole or in part, whether for consideration or free of charge, without the prior written consent of the Firm.
By way of exception to the preceding paragraphs, the Firm authorises Users to download onto the hard disk of their personal computer the newsletters or other documents that are made available to Users in the form of electronic files specifically with a view to their being downloaded. Those files may be downloaded only from hyperlinks bearing the wording “download this document here” or any other wording evidencing the authorisation given to Users to download those files. In that case, and save for any express provision to the contrary reproduced on each of the aforesaid documents, the User shall be authorised only to hold one copy of those documents and to print those documents for strictly private use. The User undertakes in particular not to distribute those documents to third parties, including by sending them by electronic mail, by printing and distributing them on a tangible medium or by making them available on a server installed on a public or private network.
Other provisions
The Website is reserved for the private use of each User.
The Website and the data, information and documents it provides are intended solely as general information about the Firm and about the profession of avocat and may in no case be regarded as constituting an act of legal advice, canvassing, a solicitation and/or an offer of services.
Each User is solely responsible for the use he makes of the information provided from the Website and the Firm may in no case be held liable for any direct or indirect damage arising from the use of that information by the User. The Firm does not warrant that the Website will be continuously accessible.
Third-party websites, their content and/or the documents accessible from the hypertext links published on the Website or in the documents downloadable from it are the exclusive responsibility of their author(s) and may not engage the liability of the Firm.
Users are not authorised to create a hypertext link to the Website and/or to any page of the Website and/or to any file located on it without the prior and express agreement of the Firm. In accordance with the provisions of articles L.612-1 et seq. of the French Consumer Code, you may, in the event of a dispute, refer the matter free of charge to the Consumer Ombudsman at the Conseil National des Barreaux (CNB), whose contact details are as follows: CNB, Médiateur de la consommation, 180 boulevard Haussmann – 75008 Paris.
Telephone communications
The Firm’s Clients, as well as any User of the site and/or of the services offered by the avocat, are informed that all telephone exchanges made and/or received on the landlines and/or mobile lines belonging to the Firm are systematically recorded for purposes that are both professional and protective of the Firm’s employees, associates and avocats, which the Client(s) and/or User(s) of the Site accept by using the Firm’s services.
Avocat communication
Some of the information appearing on the Website may constitute avocat advertising within the meaning of the applicable rules. The information that follows is drafted in accordance with those rules:
PAST RESULTS ARE NO GUIDE TO FUTURE RESULTS AND PAST GAINS DO NOT GUARANTEE SIMILAR RESULTS.
Fiduciary Communication
Some of the information contained on the Website may constitute fiduciary advertising within the meaning of the regulations in force. The information set out below has been drafted in accordance with those regulations:
PAST PERFORMANCE IS NO GUIDE TO FUTURE PERFORMANCE AND PAST GAINS DO NOT GUARANTEE SIMILAR RESULTS.
CAPITAL INVESTED OUTSIDE THE FIDUCIARY BANK ACCOUNT IS NOT GUARANTEED AND IS SUBJECT TO MARKET FLUCTUATIONS.
Detailed methodology
Matters handled
The count of matters handled includes all files, of a legal and/or judicial nature, handled by the firm’s avocats since the date on which they were sworn in.
Sums paid over
The calculation of the sums paid over to our clients includes the amount of the sums awarded by:
• a court decision that has become final;
• together with the sums we have enabled our clients to save when they were being sued for payment (e.g. a tax reassessment claim); and
• finally, the sums obtained by way of a judicial or out-of-court settlement.
The success rate
The success rate is calculated, across all courts, on the number of matters handled in relation to the matters in which a court decision has been handed down.
The success rate displayed on the firm’s website is verified and certified by a Commissaire de Justice (judicial officer) every five (5) years in order to guarantee the integrity and the seriousness of the figures put forward.
Identity of clients
In accordance with the provisions of the Règlement Intérieur National and of the Internal Rules of the Paris Bar, we are not authorised to disclose the names of the firm’s clients, save in the specific case of clients obtained through a public tender.