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This site is normally accessible to users at any time. An interruption due to technical maintenance may however be decided by the firm, which will then endeavor to communicate to users in advance the dates and times of the intervention.

This site is governed by current regulations on copyright and intellectual property. All reproduction rights are reserved including downloadable documents and iconographic representations. It is forbidden to reproduce, for any use other than private, sell, distribute, sell, distribute, transmit, distribute, transmit, broadcast, adapt, modify, publish, communicate in whole or in part, in any form whatsoever, the data, the presentation or the organization of the site without the prior written authorization of the law firm SEJAL Avocats.

Any unauthorized use of the site or any of the elements it contains will be considered as constituting an infringement and prosecuted in accordance with the provisions of articles L.335-2 and following of the Intellectual Property Code.

When browsing this site you may be required to provide information of a personal or nominative nature. This information is reserved for strictly internal use. The use of your email address and/or your contact details collected as part of the contact forms will only be used to process your request. Under no circumstances can your address or contact details be transferred or made available to third parties for commercial purposes without your prior agreement and without you being first in a position to oppose it. If you wish to have your email address and/or contact details removed from any file and any processing to which this information has given rise, you can contact SEJAL Avocats at its postal address and/or by email: contact@sejal-avocats.com

The legal profession is subject to ethical rules to which SEJAL Avocats is bound.

Lawyer fees are not regulated: they are subject to an agreement with the client, which takes into account, in accordance with the rules in force (article 10 of Law No. 71-1130 of 31 December 1971 and article 11-2 of the RIN of the legal profession), in particular, the time spent and the research work of the lawyer, the importance of the interests in question and the wealth situation of the client, reputation, experience and specialization of the lawyer, and/or of the result obtained.

As soon as we are referred, we inform you of the procedures for determining fees and we regularly inform you of the evolution of their amount and of all the expenses, disbursements and emoluments incurred.

The fees are payable upon receipt by bank transfer or bank check. The lawyer may request the prior payment of a deposit to be used against his costs and fees.

The contestation of fees is the competence of the President of the Strasbourg Bar Association. In accordance with article R156-1 of the Consumer Code, the customer may also contact the consumer mediator for the profession of lawyer (180 Boulevard Haussmann à 75001 PARIS — mediateur-conso@mediateur-consommation-avocat.fr) or any other mediator of his choice.

The data collected by SEJAL Avocats is subject to computer processing intended to respond to client requests and more generally for the purposes of processing and monitoring files, invoicing and collection or even the taxation of fees.

a. Responsible for processing and recipients of the data collected: The law firm SEJAL Avocats, located at 2 rue Henri Bergson in Strasbourg (67200).

Out of respect for professional secrecy, all information is intended solely for the lawyer and his authorized staff, including employees and trainees. The data collected from the customer will not be transmitted to commercial or advertising actors.

b. Data retention period: the data is kept only for the time necessary for the purposes pursued, in accordance with the legal or ordinal requirements applicable to the lawyer.

c. Personal law : On the personal data collected, you have the following rights:

  • The right to access and obtain a copy of your personal data;
  • The right to have your personal data rectified either because they are incorrect, or to update them or to complete them;
  • The right to object to the processing of your personal data;
  • The right to withdraw your consent to the processing of your personal data;
  • The right to limit the processing of your personal data;
  • The right to have your personal data forgotten or deleted;
  • The right to the portability of the data you have provided to us, when this data is subject to automated processing based on their consent or on a contract.

The client can give instructions to the firm for the communication or not of his personal data after his death.

The above rights may be exercised with the firm, by email: contact@sejal-avocats.com or by post to SEJAL Avocats — 2 rue Henri Bergson — 67 200 Strasbourg. For security reasons and to avoid any abusive or fraudulent request, any request must be accompanied by a copy of a signed identity document, the use of which will be strictly limited to the processing of the request, and deleted as soon as this processing is completed.

In the event of a dispute, it is possible to refer the matter to the Commission Nationale de l'Informatique et des Libertés, the competent supervisory authority.

Personal Data collected by SEJAL Avocats is hosted under conditions that comply with the security and confidentiality requirements of the General Data Protection Regulation (RGPD).

Professional secrecy covers in all matters, in the field of advice or that of defense, and regardless of the medium, material or intangible (paper, fax, electronic...):

  • Consultations sent by a lawyer to his client or intended for him;
  • Correspondence exchanged between the client and his lawyer, between the lawyer and his colleagues, except for the latter those containing the official mention;
  • The interview notes and more generally all the documents in the file, all the information and confidences received by the lawyer in the exercise of the profession;
  • The name of the clients and the lawyer's agenda;
  • Financial settlements and any handling of funds carried out pursuant to article 27 paragraph 2 of the Act of 31 December 1971;
  • Information requested by auditors or any third party (information that can only be communicated by the lawyer to his client).

In public or private tenders and the award of public contracts, the lawyer may mention the personal references of one or more of his clients with their express and prior agreement.

If the name given in reference is that of a client who was followed by this lawyer as an collaborator or partner in a law firm in which he has not worked for less than two years, the latter must simultaneously notify his former firm of the request for express agreement sent to this client and indicate in the response to the call for tenders the name of the firm in which the experience was acquired.

No consultation or seizure of documents may be carried out in the lawyer's office or home, except under the conditions of article 56-1 of the Code of Criminal Procedure.