Legal information & general terms of use of the wr.hr website

1. The wr.hr website

The website accessible via the url www.wrhr.eu (hereinafter the “Website”) is published by WRHR, a French société par actions simplifiée with a share capital of 18,000.00 euros, registered with the RCS of Paris under the number 983 556 374, and whose registered office is located at 12, rue de Franqueville 75116 Paris (hereinafter “WRHR”).

Telephone number: +33 (0)1 79 35 08 99
Email: contact@wrhr.eu
Director and co-editor of the publication: Jana KLEY

The Website is hosted by OVH SAS au capital de 500 000 euros RCS Roubaix – Tourcoing 424 761 419 00011 Code APE 721Z – N° TVA : FR 22-424-761-419-00011 Siège social : 140 Quai du Sartel – 59100 Roubaix – France. Tel: 08 203 203 63

By using theWebsite, the user accepts these general conditions of use.

2. Personal data

All processing of personal data complies with the regulations applicable to 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 “RGPD”.

The personal data collected by WRHR via the Website or by any other means are processed under the responsibility of WRHR, whose contact details are given above. The data collected and processed includes identity information, information relating to professional life and all information required to monitor the relationship with the company.

WRHR is responsible for managing communications and requests for information from data subjects, storage periods and the security of personal data.

WRHR may collect and process the personal data of (i) its customers within the mission they entrust WRHR with, (ii) prospective customers following their registration for newsletters, events or their request for information, (iii) job applicants, (iv) external contacts (service providers, public institutions, legal professionals) in the context of the management of its activity, and (v) users when they browse the Website.

Personal data is processed by WRHR for the following purposes, depending on the category of data subjects concerned: (i) the processing of files entrusted to it by its customers (contracts, invoices, accounting), (ii) the management of its communication activities (newsletter, information letters, events, etc.) with its customers and prospects, (iii) examination and processing applications from candidates, (iv) managing the contractual relationship with service providers, (iv) managing communication with public institutions and other legal professionals, and (iv) the provision of the services offered on the Website and, where applicable, the analysis of browsing habits on the Website.

The legal bases are the following: (i) the performance of the contract, (ii) prior consent (e.g. certain cookies) or the pursuit of WRHR’s legitimate interests (e.g. maintaining commercial relationship and managing recruitment), or (iii) the performance of pre-contractual measures taken at the request of the data subject (e.g. contact form). WRHR may also need to process personal data in order to comply with its legal obligations (accounting and tax).

Personal data processed by WRHR will be kept for usage by WRHR for the following periods:

With regard to the processing of customer files throughout the contractual relationship ;
With regard to relations with 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 customer file for which they were collected or for the duration necessary to achieve the intended purpose;
With regard to communications, 3 years from the end of the contractual relationship for customer prospects and 3 years from their collection or the last contact from the prospect for non-customer prospects;
With regard to the examination and processing of applications, for a maximum period of 2 years from the last contact from the applicant ;
Cookies may be stored on the user’s terminal for a maximum period of 6 months.

At the end of these periods, personal data may be archived in an intermediate database for administrative reasons (legal, accounting, tax, etc.). For example, personal data may be archived for a period of 5 years from the end of the usage period, for litigation purposes (statute of limitations), or for 10 years for accounting purposes.

At the end of these periods, the data will be deleted or made anonymous, in accordance with the regulations in force.

The personal data collected may be passed on to WRHR’s lawyers and administrative staff, as well as to its IT service providers.

WRHR does not transfer personal data outside the European Union.

In accordance with the regulations, in addition to the right to file a claim with the competent authority, each data subject has a right of access, rectification and, where appropriate, portability and erasure, as well as a right to object to processing for a legitimate reason or to its restriction, and finally, the right to define directives concerning the fate of his or her personal data after his or her death. Furthermore, if consent is the legal basis for the processing of personal data, the data subject may withdraw it at any time.

With the exception of the right to claim to the CNIL, the aforementioned rights may be exercised at any time with WRHR by sending a request to the following postal address: 12, rue de Franqueville 75116 Paris – France or by email to contact@wrhr.eu. If WRHR has reasonable doubt as to the identity of the person concerned when exercising its rights, it may ask the person concerned for proof of identity.

A data subject’s objection to the processing of personal data may result in WRHR being unable to process his/her request, for which it cannot be held responsible.

3. Cookies

A cookie is a small file stored by a server on a user’s terminal (computer, telephone, etc.) and associated with a web domain (i.e. in most cases with all the pages of a single website).

The Website uses two types of cookies and tracers:

Cookies that are strictly necessary for the proper operation of the Website, in particular to memorise the choice of language, security measures, etc. These cookies are not subject to the prior consent of the user, who may nevertheless set them using his or her web browser. However, this setting is likely to modify the conditions of access to the Website and its functionalities and thus limit its performance.

Audience measurement cookies using the Google Analytics tool published by Google. These cookies, which collect data relating to user browsing, make it possible to generate visitor statistics that are useful for managing and improving the Website. These cookies may keep a record of the user’s browsing habits, including the pages most frequently visited, the IP (Internet Protocol) address, the type of browser, the Internet Service Provider (ISP), the operating system and the time stamp. These cookies are subject to the user’s prior consent.

Here is a detailed list of the cookies used:

Cookies necessary for the proper operation of the Website.
Audience measurement cookie produced by Google Analytics. Used to distinguish unique visitors.
Audience measurement cookie produced by Google Analytics. Used to limit the rate of requests for the duration of the session.

Audience measurement cookies are kept for a maximum of 13 months if the user accepts them and the information collected via these cookies will be kept for a maximum of 25 months.

Users may at any time modify their choices regarding acceptance or refusal of the deposit of audience measurement cookies on their terminal by clicking here.

4. Intellectual property

The general structure of the Website, including the software, and all the content published on this Website (images, articles, photographs, logos, brands, videos, interviews, sounds, texts, etc.) are protected by the rules in force in France relating to intellectual property, and in particular copyright, neighbouring rights, trademark rights and image rights, as well as by the international legislation in force.

All reproduction rights are reserved, including for photos, texts, downloadable documents and iconographic representations.

In this respect, in the absence of express authorization from WRHR, it is strictly forbidden to reproduce, copy, represent, distribute or publish, 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 them in whole or in part and to create derivative works. It is also forbidden to decompile, disassemble or reverse engineer the Website.

Analysis and short quotations of parts of the Website are, in accordance with article L.122-5 3° of the French Intellectual Property Code, authorised provided that they are justified by the critical, polemical, educational, scientific or informative nature of the work in which they are incorporated, and that the following terms are clearly and visibly indicated: WRHR – document from the wrhr.eu website – All rights reserved”.

The credits for the creations on the Website are as follows: Unsplash, Pexels and Istock for photos, in a nutshell for web design and web development.

5. Liability

The purpose of the Website is to present the activities of WRHR.

None of the information appearing on the Website may be interpreted as pre-contractual information relating to WRHR’s services, nor as constituting any contractual guarantee whatsoever offered by WRHR in the context of its activity..

WRHR undertakes to do its best to ensure that the Website is accessible 7 days a week, 24 hours a day, subject to interruptions required for technical maintenance, servicing and updating operations that WRHR may deem necessary. Access the Website may also be limited or interrupted due to malfunctions or interruptions in computer and telecommunications systems.

WRHR cannot guarantee the user the secrecy of e-mail correspondence or any other means of communication using the Internet and which may be intercepted by a third party, due to the way in which data circulates on this network. Furthermore, it is the responsibility of each user to take all appropriate measures to protect their own data and/or software from contamination by any viruses circulating on the Internet.

Consequently, WRHR may not be held liable for any direct or indirect damage caused, or which may be caused, to the user as a result of (i) the direct or indirect consequences which may arise from errors in entering contact details or any other incomplete information or containing mistakes, transmitted by the user via this Website, (ii) any unavailability, slowdowns and/or difficulties in accessing the Website caused by a failure or insufficiency of the Internet user’s Internet connection, and (iii) any security failure or any other failure, in particular the presence of a malicious program, and/or any incompatibility of the hardware, software and operating systems used by the user to access the Website.

The creation of hypertext links (simple or deep) to the Website is subject to the prior agreement of WRHR’s publication director or co-publication director.