Privacy Policy

Last updated: 19 October 2026

Data controller

Pierre Souchar, sworn translator and court expert at the Court of Appeal of Rennes (Cour d’appel de Rennes), 15 rue Becquerel, 29200 Brest, France. Contact: contact@soucharandco.com.

Data collected and purposes

• Quote and contact requests: name, email address, phone number (optional), message, type of service, and any documents you attach. This data is used solely to prepare your quote and reply to you.
• Translation work: the documents to be translated and your delivery details. They are used solely to produce, certify and deliver the translation to you.
• Invoicing: name, address and payment details, to comply with my accounting obligations.

Confidential documents

The documents you entrust to me may contain sensitive data: civil status, legal situation, health. I process them in strict compliance with professional secrecy, solely for the translation requested. I do not disclose them to any third party, unless required by law.

Legal bases

• Pre-contractual measures and performance of the contract: quote and translation.
• Compliance with legal obligations: invoicing and accounting.
• Your consent: the form checkbox and non-essential cookies.

Retention periods

• Quote requests not followed up: 3 years after the last contact.
• Documents to be translated and translations delivered: 5 years after the end of the service.
• Invoices: 10 years, as required by law.

Recipients and processors

Your data is never sold or transferred. It is accessible only to me and to the technical providers needed to run the website: IONOS, located in the European Union, which hosts the website and my email.

Third-party services and transfers outside the European Union

• WhatsApp: if you click the button, the conversation takes place on WhatsApp, a Meta service, under its own terms.
• Google reviews: the review display module may load content from Google’s servers.

These transfers are governed by the EU-US Data Privacy Framework or by the European Commission’s standard contractual clauses.

Cookies

Non-essential cookies are only placed with your consent, collected through the consent banner. You can change your choices at any time:

Your rights

You have the right to access, rectify, erase, restrict, object to and port your data, as well as the right to withdraw your consent at any time. To exercise these rights, write to contact@soucharandco.com: I will reply within one month. If you believe your rights have not been respected, you may lodge a complaint with the CNIL, the French data protection authority (www.cnil.fr).

Security

The website uses an encrypted connection (https). Documents received are stored on protected media and deleted at the end of the periods stated above.