1. General provisions
By using the Villechenon website (hereinafter the “Website”), you accept the collection and use of your personal data (hereinafter the “Personal Data” or the “Data”) in accordance with this privacy policy (hereinafter the “Policy”).
Personal data means any information concerning you and allowing you to be identified directly or indirectly.
This may include, for example, data relating to your civil status, your email address and your telephone number.
This Policy aims to inform you of how Villechenon collects, uses, stores and protects your Personal Data in compliance with applicable laws and regulations, in particular Regulation (EU) 2016/679 of 27 April 2016 (GDPR) and Law No. 78-17 of 6 January 1978 as amended, known as the “Data Protection Act”.
Villechenon reserves the right to amend this Policy at any time. Any update will be published on the Website, together with the date of the latest revision. It is therefore recommended to consult this page regularly.
2. Data controller
Your Personal Data collected from the Website is processed by Villechenon as the data controller.
The data controller is Villechenon, a French société d’exercice libéral à responsabilité limitée with a share capital of 197.370 euros, whose registered office is located at 5 rue La Boétie, 75008 Paris, registered with the Paris Trade and Companies Register under number 349 116 905, represented by Morgan Hunault-Berret.
For any question relating to the protection of your Personal Data, you may write to the above address or send an email to contact@villechenon.com.
3. Personal data collected
Your Data may be collected when you:
- browse the Website;
- send a question via the contact form;
- apply for a job or an internship;
- subscribe to a newsletter.
Villechenon may collect several categories of Data:
- Identification and contact data: this includes personal data that you provide when contacting the firm by email or submitting your application: name, first name, email address, telephone number as well as any information you communicate (postal address, photo, education, professional experience, skills, etc.).
- Website usage data: this includes personal data collected when you browse the Website, and more specifically the following technical data: IP address, cookies[1].
Providing certain data (in particular your contact details) is necessary to enable Villechenon to respond to your request.
A cookie is a string of information that may be transmitted to your browser when you visit the Website. Cookies may be of different types. The Firm only uses purely technical cookies that facilitate browsing on the Website.
You can object to the placement of cookies by configuring your browser accordingly.
The cookies placed by the Firm are used solely to facilitate your visit to the Website and to track your browsing activity for statistical and audience measurement purposes.
You can object to the placement of cookies by configuring your browser accordingly.
4. Purposes and legal bases of processing
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Purpose of processing |
Legal basis |
Categories of data concerned |
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Management of requests sent via the Website (form, email, phone) |
Performance of pre-contractual measures |
Identification data |
|
Recruitment management |
Performance of pre-contractual measures |
Identification data |
|
Statistic management |
Legitimate interest (management and monitoring of Website statistics for Villechenon’s internal needs) |
Website usage data |
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Newsletter / Information letter |
Legitimate interest (promotion of activities, maintaining the relationship with clients, information on the latest legal news) |
Identification data |
5. Data recipients
Your Personal Data is accessible only to authorized members of Villechenon, as well as to certain technical service providers acting on behalf of Villechenon (hosting provider, IT service provider, etc.), in compliance with confidentiality and data security.
It will never be transmitted to third parties for commercial purposes.
However, it may be disclosed where required by law, an administrative or judicial authority.
6. Data retention period
Villechenon processes your data only for the time required to achieve the aforementioned purposes.
Data collected by Villechenon is retained:
- – For the duration of the processing of your request when you submit a request via the contact form;
- For a period of 2 years from the submission of your application or your last contact with us;
- For a period of 13 months from the placement of cookies on your device.
At the end of these retention periods, your Personal Data will be securely archived for the necessary legal or regulatory retention and/or limitation periods. After these periods, your Personal Data will be deleted in accordance with applicable regulations.
7. Your rights
In application of the GDPR, as a “data subject” with regard to the processing carried out by Villechenon, you have the right:
- To access your Data: that is, to obtain from the data controller confirmation that Data concerning you is or is not being processed and to request access to this Data, as well as various information including the purposes of the processing, the category of Data, the recipient(s) of the Data;
- To rectification in case of error: that is, to obtain from the data controller, as soon as possible, the rectification of inaccurate Data concerning you. You have the right to have incomplete data completed, including by providing a supplementary statement;
- To erasure: that is, to obtain from the data controller the deletion, as soon as possible, of personal data concerning you for the following reasons:
- purposes for which it was collected or processed;
- the consent on which the processing was based has been withdrawn, and there is no other legal basis for processing;
- the processing has been objected to and no overriding legitimate grounds justify the processing;
- the data has been unlawfully processed;
- the data must be deleted to comply with a legal obligation to which Villechenon may be subject;
- To restriction of processing: that is, to obtain from the data controller the restriction of the processing of your Data if you contest the accuracy of your Data, if the processing is unlawful and you request restriction, if the data controller no longer needs your Data but it is still necessary for you;
- To data portability: that is, to receive the Data provided to the data controller in a structured, commonly used and machine-readable format, and to transmit it to another data controller;
- To object: that is, to object at any time to the processing of the Data unless there are legitimate and compelling reasons for the processing.
You also have the right not to be subject to a decision based solely on automated processing, including profiling, unless this decision is necessary for the conclusion or performance of a contract, is authorized by European Union or Member State law to which the data controller is subject, or you have given your consent.
You may also define directives regarding your data in the event of death. These directives are specific and, in accordance with Article 85, I, paragraph 1 of the Data Protection Act, relate to the retention, erasure and communication of personal data post-mortem. If you define specific directives concerning the processing of personal data mentioned in these directives, they must be registered with the relevant data controllers. You may in particular send such registration to the following email address: contact@villechenon.com or by post to Villechenon’s registered office.
Where your consent has been obtained for the processing of your Personal Data, you may withdraw your consent at any time.
These rights may be exercised by simple written request addressed to your data protection contact by email at: contact@villechenon.com, providing a legitimate reason when required by law. To exercise your rights, proof of identity may be requested in case of reasonable doubt as to your identity.
In the event of disagreement with the response provided or if the response is considered incomplete, you may lodge a complaint with the CNIL (Commission nationale de l’informatique et des libertés, located at 3 Place de Fontenoy – TSA 80715 – 75334 PARIS CEDEX 07), the national supervisory authority responsible for ensuring compliance with personal data protection obligations.
8. Use and configuration of cookies
The Website uses several types of cookies, including to facilitate navigation and collect traffic statistics.
An information banner is displayed at each first visit to (i) inform you of the list of cookies used by Villechenon, the purpose of these cookies, and (ii) obtain your consent where the cookies concerned are not strictly necessary for the functioning of the Website.
The rights listed in Article 7 of the Policy may also be exercised for Personal Data collected through any of the cookies used by Villechenon.
For more information on configuring your browser to limit the storage of cookies, you can visit the CNIL website at the following address: https://www.cnil.fr/en/cookies-the-tools-to-control-them
Most browsers allow you to block the placement of cookies listed in the cookie banner; however, your experience on the Website may be degraded when it comes to technical cookies necessary for the functioning of the Website.
9. Modification of the Policy
Villechenon may amend this Policy at any time to reflect legal, technical or organizational developments.
The most recent version is always available on the Website and indicates the date of the latest update.
You should therefore check the Website regularly to stay informed of any change or update to the Policy.
Last update: 2025 december 1st
A cookie is a string of information that may be transmitted to your browser when you visit the Website. Cookies may be of different types. The Firm only uses purely technical cookies that facilitate browsing on the Website.
Your browser will retain these cookies for a period of 13 months and will send them back to the web server each time you reconnect to it.
The cookies placed by the Firm are used solely to facilitate your visit to the Website and to track your browsing activity for statistical and audience measurement purposes.
You can object to the placement of cookies by configuring your browser accordingly.
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