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The French Ministry of Justice accepts no responsibility or liability whatsoever with regard to the contents directly published by the other correspondents.
Website’s publisher
Comparative Law Office of the European and International Affairs Department of the General Secretariat of the French Ministry of Justice
Bureau du droit comparé de la Délégations aux affaires européennes et internationales – Secrétariat Général – Ministère de la Justice
13 Place Vendôme 75042 Paris cedex 01 (France)
+33 44 77 66 44 (Head of the office)
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PRIVACY POLICY - LEGICOOP
1. Purpose of the Privacy Policy
The network for legislative cooperation of the Ministries of Justice of the European Union (hereinafter called the “network” or “ENLC”) respects personal data and entirely acts in accordance with the Regulation (EU) 2016/679 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 27 April 2016 on the protection of natural persons with regard to the processing of personal data and on the free movement of such data, and repealing Directive 95/46/EC (General Data Protection Regulation) / (henceforth: GDPR).
The purpose of the below declaration is to provide information on the privacy and data process principles used by the network in connection with registration to the website.
The network process the data of the registered users on its website.
2. Definitions applied in this Privacy Policy
2.1. Data processing means any operation or set of operations performed regarding personal data or sets of personal data, whether or not by automated means, such as collection, recording, organisation, structuring, storage, adaptation or alteration, retrieval, consultation, use, disclosure by transmission, dissemination or otherwise making available, alignment or combination, restriction, erasure or destruction;
2.2. Personal data means any information relating to an identified or identifiable natural person (‘data subject’); the identifiable natural person is who can be identified directly by reference to one or more identifiers such as name, job, position, place of work, e-mail address, official telephone number;
2.3. Data subject means any individual person who can be identified directly, via one or more identifier such as a name, job, position, place of work, e-mail address, official telephone number;
2.4. Data controller can be natural or legal person, public authority, agency or other body which, alone or jointly with others, determines the purposes and means of the processing of personal data;
2.5. Consent of the data subject means any freely given, specific, informed and unambiguous indication of the data subject's wishes by which he or she, by a statement or by a clear affirmative action, signifies agreement to the processing of personal data relating to him or her;
2.6. Supervisory authority means an independent public authority which is established by a Member State pursuant to Article 51 of GDPR;
2.7. Third party means a natural or legal person, public authority, agency or body other than the data subject, controller, processor and persons who, under the direct authority of the controller or processor, are authorised to process personal data;
2.8. Personal data breach means a breach of security leading to the accidental or unlawful destruction, loss, alteration, unauthorised disclosure of, or access to, personal data transmitted, stored or otherwise processed;
2.9. Website means the « legicoop » website operated by the data controller;
2.10. The purpose of the network for legislative cooperation of the Ministries of Justice of the European Union (ENLC) is to allow the Ministries of Justice of the European Union to exchange legal information on their legislation in an informal way. To this end, the network has set up a secure IT platform, intra.legicoop.eu.
Through this platform, the correspondents of each Member State are able to post requests to which each State can respond.
ENLC was established by the Resolution of the EU Council and of the Representatives of the Governments of the Member States, meeting within the Council, on the establishment of a Network for legislative cooperation between the Ministries of Justice of the European Union (2008/C 326/01).
ENLC is currently being operated by the Comparative Law Office of the European and International Affairs Department of the General Secretariat of the French Ministry of Justice.
2.11. User means the natural person who registers on the website or registers on the website, and in this context provides its personal data listed below;
2.12. Privacy Policy means this privacy policy issued by the data controller.
3. Name of data controller
Name: Comparative Law Office of the European and International Affairs Department of the General Secretariat of the French Ministry of Justice
Registered office and postal address: 13 Place Vendôme 75042 Paris cedex 01 (France)
E-mail: legicoop.daei@justice.gouv.fr
4. The processed personal data
In order to ensure the registration of the national correspondants of ENLC to the website, the data controller process the one or more of the following personal data on its servers being rosted in France:
• First name
• Family name
• Languages
• Job / Position
• Work of place
• E-mail address
• Office telephone number
• Profile Picture
• Date and time of the last connection
5. Legal basis, purpose and method of the data processing
5.1. The data provision shall be voluntary and the processing of the personal data shall be based on the consent of the data subject. Please note that by accepting the Privacy Policy you give your consent to the data processing as it is described in this Privacy Policy.
5.2. The purpose of the data processing is the identification of the registering user during website registration. The gathered personal and non-personal data will be stored securely. The data controller shall not manage the data provided beyond the purposes defined in this Privacy Policy.
5.3. The release of the gathered data to a third party can be possible only under the prior consent of the data subject unless otherwise required by law.
5.4. The data provider is exclusively responsible for the real content of data and the data controller will not do such control of the received data.
6. Duration of the data processing
The duration of processing of the gathered data in case of the website registration exists from the date of the website registration until the date of deleting the website registration.
Data relating to the date and time of the last connection are kept for a maximum of 6 months.
7. Circle of persons with knowledge of personal data
The personal data will be known by the employees of the data controller under whose responsibility falls the processing of the concerned data.
8. Your rights and opportunities for enforcement data protection
8.1. The right of access to your personal data;
8.2. The right to request information from the data controller on the purpose, the legal basis and the duration of the data process (on the planned duration of the storage of personal data or, if this is not possible, the criteria for determining this period);
8.3. The right to request a copy of the information you provided to the data controller in machine-readable format;
8.4. The right to request information on the circumstances and effects of the eventual personal data breach and the measures taken to prevent it (under certain legal conditions, the data controller shall inform you, without any specific request, on the possible personal data breach);
8.5. The right to request rectification or deletion of your personal data;
8.6. The right to object to the processing of your personal data;
8.7. The right to withdraw your consent to any processing that is solely reliant upon your consent;
8.8. The right to make a complaint to the French Data Protection Authority (Commission Nationale de l'Informatique et des Libertés) (CNIL) - 3 Place de Fontenoy - TSA 80715 - 75334 PARIS CEDEX 07. (phone: Tel: +33 (0)1.53.73.22.22, Fax: +33 (0)1.53.73.22.00 website: https://www.cnil.fr/en/contact-cnil );
8.9. If the data subject wants to review, verify or correct its personal information subject to the data processing on the basis of this Privacy Policy, please contact the data controller via e-mail to legicoop.daei@justice.gouv.fr
8.10. The above rights for data protection are based on the Act No. 78-17 on Information Technology, Data Files and Civil Liberties dated 6 January 1978, as amended by Act No. 2018-493 dated 20 June 2018 on Personal Data Protection, (DPA), which:
- incorporate the Regulation (EU) 679/2016 on the protection of natural persons with regard to the processing of personal data and on the free movement of such data (General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)), which came into application on 25 May 2018
- takes a position on some of the opening clauses of the GDPR; and
- implements Directive (EU) 2016/680 on the protection of natural persons with regard to the processing of personal data by competent authorities for the purposes of the prevention, investigation, detection or prosecution of criminal offences or the execution of criminal penalties, and on the free movement of such data. Following the enactment of Act No. 2018-493, the DPA only partially complies with the GDPR, as a numberof provisions of the DPA need to be revoked and certain provisions of the GDPR need to be implemented.For the time being, the DPA must be read in combination with the GDPR, with the GDPR taking precedence in the case of conflicting provisions. Under Act No. 2018-493, the French Government has until December 2018 to overhaul the DPA to provide a simple and coherent new legislative scheme, and will need to pass an ordinance to do so.
- Decree No. 2005-1309 of 20 October 2005, modified by Decree No. 2018-687 of 1 August 2018 (DPADecree), which takes the amended DPA into consideration.
9. Deleting the website registration
Website users can delete their account on the website anytime by clicking the “cancel account.” Deletion of personal account can also be initiated by sending request for that via e-mail to the legicoop.daei@justice.gouv.fr, or the request for deletion can be sent via post to the following postal address:
Ministère de la Justice – Secrétariat Général
Délégation aux affaires européennes et internationales, Bureau du droit comparé
13 Place Vendôme
75042 Paris cedex 01
(France)