Privacy & Cookie Policy

This Privacy & Cookie Policy explains how Secomb Arbitration (“we”, “us”, “our”) collects, uses and protects personal data when you visit this website or contact us. As independent arbitrators, we take the confidentiality and protection of personal data seriously.

Because we are based in both Singapore and Paris, we handle personal data in accordance with Singapore’s Personal Data Protection Act 2012 (PDPA) and, where applicable, the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and French data protection law.

1. Who we are

The data controller responsible for your personal data is Secomb Arbitration Pte Ltd, 30 Toh Yi Road, Singapore, together with its Paris office at 29 rue Blanche, Paris. For any question about this policy or your personal data, contact us at contact@secomb.net.

2. Information we collect

Information you provide to us

When you contact us by email or through any form on this website, we collect the information you choose to give us — typically your name, email address and the content of your message.

Please do not send confidential or privileged case documents through this website. If you are approaching us in connection with a possible appointment, please send only the limited information needed for us to carry out a conflict check. Unsolicited confidential material may prevent us from accepting an appointment.

Information collected automatically

As with most websites, our hosting provider automatically records limited technical information when you visit, such as your IP address, browser type, device information and the pages you view. This is used to operate and secure the site.

3. How we use your information

• To respond to your enquiries and correspondence;
• To carry out conflict checks before accepting an appointment;
• To provide information about our availability and practice;
• To operate, maintain and secure this website;
• To comply with our legal, regulatory and professional obligations.

4. Legal bases for processing (GDPR)

Where the GDPR applies, we rely on our legitimate interests in responding to enquiries and running our practice; your consent, where you have given it; and compliance with our legal obligations.

5. Cookies

Cookies are small text files placed on your device when you visit a website. This site uses only the strictly necessary cookies required for it to function and be served securely. We do not currently use advertising cookies, and we do not use analytics cookies to track you across websites.

Cookies used on this site

• Strictly necessary cookies — set by our website platform (Webflow) to deliver the site, keep it secure and remember basic display preferences. These are required for the site to work and do not need your consent.

If we introduce analytics or other non-essential cookies in the future, we will update this policy and, where required, ask for your consent first.

Controlling cookies

You can block or delete cookies through your browser settings. Blocking strictly necessary cookies may affect how this website works.

6. Who we share your information with

We do not sell your personal data. We share it only with the service providers that help us operate, in particular:

• our website hosting platform, Webflow, Inc. (United States), which hosts this website and its infrastructure;
• our email and IT service providers;
• professional advisers, arbitral institutions or authorities where necessary to comply with legal or professional obligations.

7. International transfers

Because we operate from Singapore and Paris and use a hosting provider based in the United States, your personal data may be transferred outside your country of residence. Where personal data protected by the GDPR is transferred outside the EEA, we rely on appropriate safeguards such as the European Commission’s standard contractual clauses.

8. How long we keep your data

We keep personal data only for as long as necessary for the purposes described above, including to meet our legal and professional obligations. Enquiry correspondence is generally kept for one year, after which it is deleted or anonymised.

9. Your rights

Subject to applicable law, you may have the right to access, correct, update or request deletion of your personal data, to object to or restrict certain processing, to withdraw consent, and to request a copy of your data. To exercise any of these rights, email us at contact@secomb.net.

If you are in the EU and consider that we have not handled your data properly, you may lodge a complaint with your local supervisory authority (in France, the Commission Nationale de l’Informatique et des Libertés, or CNIL). If you are in Singapore, you may contact the Personal Data Protection Commission (PDPC).

10. Security

We take reasonable technical and organisational measures to protect personal data against unauthorised access, loss or misuse. No method of transmission over the internet is completely secure, and we cannot guarantee absolute security.

11. Children

This website is not directed at children, and we do not knowingly collect personal data from them.

12. Changes to this policy

We may update this policy from time to time. The date shown below indicates when it was last revised.

13. Contact

For any question about this Privacy & Cookie Policy or about how we handle your personal data, please email us at contact@secomb.net.