Social impact companies are organizations that prioritize doing work that consciously, systemically and sustainably serves or attempts to solve a local or global community need. 

If you’ve got a business idea that you hope will both make money, and provide a positive benefit to society, you can register as a societal impact company.

Unlike forms such as foundations or charitable associations, societal impact companies can make a profit, but they still place society at their heart.

Societal impact company have potential tax benefits. If all your share capital is in the form of ‘impact shares’ – i.e. without the right to a dividend – then the SIS is exempt from wealth tax, corporate income tax, and communal business tax. Donations to such companies are also tax-deductible.

All companies need privacy policies and procedures. They ensure quality, consistent outcomes, manage risk & ensure compliance.

We help our clients in all aspects related to the protection of personal data.

• Audit of personal data processing
• Assistance with impact analyzes
• Compliance assistance
• Writing of notices, privacy policies, cookies policies
• Drafting of clauses specific to personal data in contracts
• Advice and support in the application of the principles of Privacy by design and Privacy by default
• Validation of customer or user journeys
• Assistance with administrative formalities with the CNIL & CNPD
• Support and advice in the context of CNIL /CNPD controls
• Support and advice in the context of complaints from data subjects whose personal data is processed (right of access, right of opposition, etc.)

Do your customers understand your documents?

Simple language in many contracts has become a consumer right and a competitive advantage. Poor drafting has become a liability. Plain language law is a growing movement, which brings enormous benefits.

We help understand & draft in plain language General conditions of use, sale or services (B2B, B2C, website CGU)

E-reputation is the reputation of a natural person (even under a pseudonym), of a legal entity (e.g. a company or a public body) and/or its products and services on the Internet. It represents the image that web users have thereof. It depends on several factors, from the quality of the product to the acts carried out by the person or entity. The key factor for influencing one’s e-reputation is communication.

In this respect, the e-reputation of a company is based on several kinds of communication:

• communication stemming from the company itself (‘owned media’, e.g. press releases on the company’s website),
• communication stemming from third parties at the request of the company and against payment (‘paid media’, e.g. ad banners on the website of a third party) and
• ‘free’ communication by third parties (‘earned media’, e.g. client comments on Facebook, Twitter, Pinterest etc.).

In a world where the Internet makes communication global, instantaneous and often permanent, a company must carefully control its own communication and manage communication stemming from third parties.

A company’s e-reputation turns out to be both a marketing matter and a legal matter. Throughout its presence on the Internet, it is essential for the company both to build (and maintain) its e-reputation and to defend it if necessary.

HOW CAN WE HELP? We audit and manage your e-reputation on internet and intervene when your E-reputation rights is broken (defamation, denigration, identity theft, etc.)

An IT contract is any contract that has at least some connection to the world of information technology. You sign an IT contract when you order goods over the internet, sell your time as a web developer, or even licence someone else to use your software. Because of this, many historically ‘offline’ contracts can become IT contracts if the circumstances are right – even where they are simply accepted online. In fact, each time goods and services selling have some connection to the digital world, they require, as IT contracts,  the application of the standard contracts rules and IT regulations.

IT contracts include:

• Support and Maintenance Services Agreement – where one company provides support and maintenance for software or hardware that another company uses
• Development Services Agreement – where one company provides development services to another company
• Consulting Services Agreement – where one company provides consulting services to another company
• Professional Services Agreement – where one company provides professional services to another company
• Licence Agreement – where one company or individual licences their software or other intellectual property to another company or individual
• SAAS software as a service Agreement where one company provides software to another company or individual, via a web or mobile application
• IT Support Agreement or IT Services Agreement

How We Can Help You to understand, create simple and strong IT contracts. We draft in plain language, which will help to set out clearly what both parties expect from one another.

The internet and new technologies will continue to redefine the traditional boundaries of regulations. We can help you to understand the new opportunities that these technologies provide, or how they might impact your businesses.

We have helped make the regulations accessible and empowering to various businesses and entities, including:

• e-commerce businesses,
• website design companies,
• web hosting companies,
• internet service providers,
• digital entertainment developers, and
• regular internet users

Information technology law has become a specialist area with many laws that specifically relate to IT or ICT. Essentially, we help with the legal aspects of ICT (for example the development of an information system). We’re techies and lawyers – a rare breed.

How we can help you

• Conclude IT contracts with your customers, contractors, agents, resellers and others.
• Protect your intellectual property
• Get a domain name from someone or protect yourself from someone demanding a domain name.
• Ensure that your personnel use IT (like email) responsibly by drafting or reviewing your IT policies
• Give people access to information you hold in accordance with the law.
• Sell things online or electronically. Automate processes.
• Get paid quicker by billing your clients electronically.
• Ensure that electronic evidence you have will carry evidentiary weight.
• Manage your records and information as the law requires you too.
• Know what you must do to secure your information in accordance with your legal obligations.
• Process personnel information (or data) lawfully.
• Outsource your certain IT goods or services to vendors.
• Avoid the risks of using open source software.

IT governance, risk and compliance is a broad topic that has many aspects to it. We provide various services that relate to IT governance, risk and compliance that will help you to:

1. Apply IT Governance, Risk and Compliance in a practical way to real issues.
2. Practice good IT Governance.
3. Address IT compliance risk.
4. Ensure IT compliance by complying with information, communications and technology regulations and adhering to IT rules, codes and standards.

The Benefits of Focusing on IT GRC

1. Reduce your risk profile.
2. Implement current best practice.
3. Manage the risks of non-compliance.
4. Avoid legal problems, difficulties, and disputes.
5. Keep your board continually informed of relevant IT laws, rules codes and standards, including changes to them.

Linked to a branding identity strategy, your biggest asset can be intellectual property. 

Because the exploitation of content in the digital world constantly raises new questions and requires permanent adaptation, we developed expertise in intellectual property applied to new information technologies.

Advertising and marketing are just as important as they have always been to the success of organisations. In the digital context, you need to be Compliant with advertising and marketing regulations otherwise, you can get yourself into some serious trouble. 

How we can help :

• Learn how to market without breaking the law by attending a workshop

• Stand out from the crowd by establishing a brand identity

• Avoid legal problems whilst advertising using digital ads, like Google Adwords, by knowing how not to infringe the trademark of others

• Promote your offerings by running lawful promotional competitions

• Manage your relationships with sponsors or sponsor events.

• Lawfully process personnal datas information (or protect data) whilst marketing.

• Manage your relationship with advertisers by providing you with an advertising agreement

• Know the impact of data protection on your marketing by attending a webinar, workshop.