Legal notices & terms and conditions of use for the henkalaw.com website
1. Who are we?
The website accessible via the URL www.henkalaw.com (hereinafter the “Website”) is published by Cabinet Henka, an AARPI registered under SIRENE number 908 899 701, with its registered office at 19 rue Danielle Casanova, 75001 Paris, telephone number: +33 1 89 19 84 93, email: contact@henkalaw.com (hereinafter “HENKA”).
Publishing Director: Benoît Van Bésien .
The lawyers at HENKA are duly registered with the Paris Bar Association and are subject to the following professional rules: (i) the Internal Regulations of the Paris Bar, and (ii) the National Internal Regulations of the Legal Profession.
The Website is hosted by: OVHcloud, a simplified joint-stock company (SAS) with a share capital of €50,000,000, registered with the Roubaix–Tourcoing Trade and Companies Register under number 424 761 419, with its registered office at 2 rue Kellermann, 59100 Roubaix, tel: 1007 or +33 9 72 10 10 10 07.
By using the Website, the user accepts these terms and conditions of use.
2. What personal data is collected?
All processing of personal data complies with the applicable regulations on the protection of personal data, in particular the provisions of the amended French Data Protection Act of 6 January 1978 and the General Data Protection Regulation (EU Regulation 2016/679) or ‘GDPR’.
Personal data collected by HENKA via the Website or by any other means is processed under its responsibility. The data thus collected and processed includes identity information, information relating to professional life, and all information necessary for managing the relationship with the firm:
– surname
– first name
– postal address
– email address
– telephone numbers (landline and mobile)
– company and job title
HENKA ensures that data subjects are kept informed and responds to their requests regarding the exercise of their rights. The firm also manages communication and requests for information from data subjects, as well as the retention periods and security of personal data.
HENKA may collect and process personal data (i) from its clients in connection with the assignments they entrust to it, (ii) from prospective clients following their subscription to newsletters, events or requests for information, (iii) from candidates, (iv) from external contacts (service providers, public institutions, legal professionals) in the course of managing its activities, and (v) from users whilst they are browsing the Website.
Personal data is processed by HENKA to enable, depending on the categories of data subjects, (i) the processing of files entrusted to it by its clients (advice, contracts, litigation, invoices, accounting), (ii) the management of its communications activities (newsletters, newsletters, events, etc.) with its clients and prospects, (iii) the review and processing of job applications, (iv) the management of contractual relationships with service providers, (iv) the management of communications with public institutions and other legal professionals, and (iv) the provision of the Site’s services and, where applicable, the analysis of browsing activity on the Site.
The legal bases are as follows: (i) the performance of the contract, (ii) prior consent (e.g. certain cookies) or the pursuit of HENKA’s legitimate interests (e.g. maintaining the commercial relationship and managing recruitment), or (iii) the implementation of pre-contractual measures taken at the request of the data subject (e.g. contact form). Furthermore, HENKA may need to process personal data in order to comply with its legal obligations (accounting and tax).
Personal data processed by HENKA will be retained, in an active database, for the following periods:
- in the case of the processing of client files, for the entire duration of the contractual relationship;
- in relation to external contacts: (i) for the duration of the commercial relationship with service providers, and (ii) for others (public institutions and legal professionals), for the duration of the client file for which the data was collected or for the period necessary to achieve the intended purpose;
- with regard to the sending of communications, 3 years from the end of the contractual relationship for prospective clients and 3 years from the date of collection or the last contact initiated by the prospective client for non-client prospects;
- with regard to the review and processing of applications, for a maximum period of 2 years from the last contact initiated by the applicant;
- specifically regarding cookies that may be placed on the user’s device:
The retention period for choices (consent or refusal) regarding the placement of cookies shall not exceed six (6) months from the date they are first placed on your device, with the exception of audience measurement cookies, which may be retained for a maximum of thirteen (13) months, and information collected via these trackers for a maximum of twenty-five (25) months.
At the end of these periods, personal data may be archived in an intermediate database for administrative purposes (legal, accounting, tax, etc.). For example, personal data may be archived for a period of 5 years from the end of the retention period in the active database, for litigation purposes (limitation period), or for 10 years for accounting purposes. At the end of these periods, the data will be deleted or anonymised, in accordance with the regulations in force.
The personal data collected may be shared with HENKA’s lawyers, legal professionals and administrative staff, as well as with their IT service providers. HENKA does not transfer personal data outside the European Union.
3. What are users’ rights regarding the collection and processing of data?
In accordance with the regulations, in addition to the right to lodge a complaint with the competent authority, every data subject has the right of access, rectification and, where applicable, the right to data portability and erasure, as well as the right to object to processing on legitimate grounds or to restrict it, and finally, the right to set out instructions regarding the fate of their personal data after their death. Furthermore, if consent forms the legal basis for the processing of personal data, the data subject may withdraw it at any time.
Visit cnil.fr for more information about your rights.
With the exception of the right to lodge a complaint with the CNIL, the aforementioned rights may be exercised at any time by contacting HENKA by sending a request to the following postal address: HENKA, 19 rue Danielle Casanova, 75001 Paris – France or by email to contact@henkalaw.com. If HENKA has reasonable doubts as to the identity of the data subject in the context of the exercise of their rights, it may ask the data subject to provide proof of identity.
An objection to the processing of personal data by a data subject may result in HENKA being unable to process their request, for which HENKA cannot be held responsible.
4. What are cookies used for and how does Henka use them?
A cookie is a small file stored by a server on a user’s device (computer, phone, etc.) and associated with a web domain (i.e. in most cases, all the pages of the same website).
The Website uses cookies that are strictly necessary for its proper functioning, which enable, in particular, the storage of language preferences, security measures, etc. These cookies are subject to the user’s prior consent upon their first visit to the Website, and the user may subsequently configure them via their web browser. However, such configuration may alter the conditions of access to the Website and its features and, consequently, limit its performance.
In accordance with Article 82 of the LIL, your consent is not required for the use of these trackers/cookies, which are necessary for the pursuit of our legitimate interests.
Acceptance of technical cookies enabling access to the Site is itself recorded via a cookie in order to store this information.
You also have the option to ‘block’ third-party cookies by adjusting your browser settings accordingly. This is a personal setting on the user’s computer that is beyond our control; we are simply providing information on how to do this.
5. Intellectual Property
The general structure of the Website, including the software, and all content published on this Website (images, articles, photographs, logos, trademarks, videos, interviews, audio, text, etc.), are protected by the intellectual property laws in force in France, including copyright, related rights, trademark law and image rights, as well as by applicable international legislation.
All reproduction rights are reserved, including for photographs, texts, downloadable documents and iconographic representations.
As such, unless expressly authorised by HENKA, it is strictly prohibited to reproduce, copy, display, distribute or publish, either temporarily or permanently, all or part of the content of the Website, on any medium or by any means whatsoever, for purposes other than personal consultation, as well as to modify, translate, arrange or adapt all or part of it, or to create derivative works. It is also prohibited to decompile, disassemble or reverse engineer the Website.
Analyses and short quotations from parts of the Website are, in accordance with Article L. 122-5(3) of the Intellectual Property Code, authorised provided they are justified by the critical, polemical, educational, scientific or informational nature of the work in which they are incorporated, and provided the following statements are clearly and conspicuously indicated: “Henka – document taken from the website henkalaw.com – All rights reserved”.
The credits for the Site’s content are as follows: Axel Van Hessche for the photos and Uplawder for web development.
6. What are our responsibilities? What are yours?
The purpose of the Website is to present the activities of HENKA.
None of the information appearing on the Website may be interpreted as pre-contractual information relating to HENKA’s services, nor as constituting any contractual guarantee offered by HENKA in the course of its business.
HENKA undertakes to do everything in its power to ensure that the Website is accessible 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, subject to any interruptions necessary for technical maintenance, servicing and updates that HENKA deems necessary to carry out. Access to the Website may also be restricted or interrupted due to malfunctions or disruptions in IT and telecommunications systems.
HENKA cannot guarantee to the user the confidentiality of email correspondence or any other form of communication using the Internet, which may be intercepted by a third party due to the nature of data transmission over this network. Furthermore, it is the responsibility of each user to take all appropriate measures to protect their own data and/or software from infection by any viruses circulating on the Internet.
Consequently, HENKA shall not be liable for any damage, whether direct or indirect, caused, or which may be caused, to the user as a result of (i) the direct or indirect consequences that may arise from errors in the entry of contact details or any other incomplete or incorrect information transmitted by the user via this Site, (ii) any unavailability, slowdowns and/or difficulties in accessing the Site caused by a failure or inadequacy of the user’s internet connection, and (ii) security breaches or any other failures, in particular the presence of malicious software, and/or any incompatibility of the hardware, software and operating systems used by the user to access the Site.
The creation of hyperlinks (simple [if linking to the Site’s home page] or deep [if linking to a page within the Site]) to the Site is subject to the prior consent of HENKA’s publication director.
In accordance with the provisions of Articles L. 612-1 et seq. of the French Consumer Code, in the event of a dispute, if you use our website or our services as a consumer within the meaning of the introductory article of the French Consumer Code, you may, free of charge, refer the matter to the Consumer Ombudsman at the National Bar Council (CNB), whose contact details are as follows: Ms Carole PASCAREL, Consumer Ombudsman for the legal profession, 180 Boulevard Haussmann, 75008 Paris. A case may only be referred to the Ombudsman after a prior attempt has been made to resolve the dispute directly with the firm by means of a written complaint.
7. Conditions for amending these legal notices & general terms and conditions of use
HENKA reserves the right to amend these legal notices and terms of use at any time to ensure compliance with applicable law for users of the Website. Users are invited to review the terms of use each time they use our services, without the need for formal notification.
This policy was published on 5 May 2025.