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Per­son­al data (usu­al­ly referred to just as „data“ below) will only be processed by us to the extent nec­es­sary and for the pur­pose of pro­vid­ing a func­tion­al and user-friend­ly web­site, includ­ing its con­tents, and the ser­vices offered there.

Per Art. 4 No. 1 of Reg­u­la­tion (EU) 2016/679, i.e. the Gen­er­al Data Pro­tec­tion Reg­u­la­tion (here­inafter referred to as the „GDPR“), „pro­cess­ing“ refers to any oper­a­tion or set of oper­a­tions such as col­lec­tion, record­ing, orga­ni­za­tion, struc­tur­ing, stor­age, adap­ta­tion, alter­ation, retrieval, con­sul­ta­tion, use, dis­clo­sure by trans­mis­sion, dis­sem­i­na­tion, or oth­er­wise mak­ing avail­able, align­ment, or com­bi­na­tion, restric­tion, era­sure, or destruc­tion per­formed on per­son­al data, whether by auto­mat­ed means or not.

The fol­low­ing pri­va­cy pol­i­cy is intend­ed to inform you in par­tic­u­lar about the type, scope, pur­pose, dura­tion, and legal basis for the pro­cess­ing of such data either under our own con­trol or in con­junc­tion with oth­ers. We also inform you below about the third-par­ty com­po­nents we use to opti­mize our web­site and improve the user expe­ri­ence which may result in said third par­ties also pro­cess­ing data they col­lect and con­trol.

Our pri­va­cy pol­i­cy is struc­tured as fol­lows:

I. Infor­ma­tion about us as con­trollers of your data
II. The rights of users and data sub­jects
III. Infor­ma­tion about the data pro­cess­ing

I. Information about us as controllers of your data

The par­ty respon­si­ble for this web­site (the „con­troller“) for pur­pos­es of data pro­tec­tion law is:

The controller’s data pro­tec­tion offi­cer is:

See above!

II. The rights of users and data subjects

With regard to the data pro­cess­ing to be described in more detail below, users and data sub­jects have the right

• to con­fir­ma­tion of whether data con­cern­ing them is being processed, infor­ma­tion about the data being processed, fur­ther infor­ma­tion about the nature of the data pro­cess­ing, and copies of the data (cf. also Art. 15 GDPR);
• to cor­rect or com­plete incor­rect or incom­plete data (cf. also Art. 16 GDPR);
• to the imme­di­ate dele­tion of data con­cern­ing them (cf. also Art. 17 DSGVO), or, alter­na­tive­ly, if fur­ther pro­cess­ing is nec­es­sary as stip­u­lat­ed in Art. 17 Para. 3 GDPR, to restrict said pro­cess­ing per Art. 18 GDPR;
• to receive copies of the data con­cern­ing them and/or pro­vid­ed by them and to have the same trans­mit­ted to oth­er providers/controllers (cf. also Art. 20 GDPR);
• to file com­plaints with the super­vi­so­ry author­i­ty if they believe that data con­cern­ing them is being processed by the con­troller in breach of data pro­tec­tion pro­vi­sions (see also Art. 77 GDPR).

In addi­tion, the con­troller is oblig­ed to inform all recip­i­ents to whom it dis­clos­es data of any such cor­rec­tions, dele­tions, or restric­tions placed on pro­cess­ing the same per Art. 16, 17 Para. 1, 18 GDPR. How­ev­er, this oblig­a­tion does not apply if such noti­fi­ca­tion is impos­si­ble or involves a dis­pro­por­tion­ate effort. Nev­er­the­less, users have a right to infor­ma­tion about these recip­i­ents.

Like­wise, under Art. 21 GDPR, users and data sub­jects have the right to object to the controller’s future pro­cess­ing of their data pur­suant to Art. 6 Para. 1 lit. f) GDPR. In par­tic­u­lar, an objec­tion to data pro­cess­ing for the pur­pose of direct adver­tis­ing is per­mis­si­ble.

III. Information about the data processing

Your data processed when using our web­site will be delet­ed or blocked as soon as the pur­pose for its stor­age ceas­es to apply, pro­vid­ed the dele­tion of the same is not in breach of any statu­to­ry stor­age oblig­a­tions or unless oth­er­wise stip­u­lat­ed below.

Follow-up comments

If you make posts on our web­site, we also offer you the oppor­tu­ni­ty to sub­scribe to any sub­se­quent fol­low-up com­ments made by third par­ties. In order to be able to inform you about these fol­low-up com­ments, we will need to process your email address.

The legal basis for this is Art. 6 Para. 1 lit. a) GDPR. You may revoke your pri­or con­sent to this sub­scrip­tion under Art. 7 Para. 3 GDPR with future effect. All you have to do is inform us that you are revok­ing your con­sent or click on the unsub­scribe link con­tained in each email.

Contact

If you con­tact us via email or the con­tact form, the data you pro­vide will be used for the pur­pose of pro­cess­ing your request. We must have this data in order to process and answer your inquiry; oth­er­wise we will not be able to answer it in full or at all.

The legal basis for this data pro­cess­ing is Art. 6 Para. 1 lit. b) GDPR.

Your data will be delet­ed once we have ful­ly answered your inquiry and there is no fur­ther legal oblig­a­tion to store your data, such as if an order or con­tract result­ed there­from.

User posts, comments, and ratings

We offer you the oppor­tu­ni­ty to post ques­tions, answers, opin­ions, and rat­ings on our web­site, here­inafter referred to joint­ly as „posts.“ If you make use of this oppor­tu­ni­ty, we will process and pub­lish your post, the date and time you sub­mit­ted it, and any pseu­do­nym you may have used.

The legal basis for this is Art. 6 Para. 1 lit. a) GDPR. You may revoke your pri­or con­sent under Art. 7 Para. 3 GDPR with future effect. All you have to do is inform us that you are revok­ing your con­sent.

In addi­tion, we will also process your IP address and email address. The IP address is processed because we might have a legit­i­mate inter­est in tak­ing or sup­port­ing fur­ther action if your post infringes the rights of third par­ties and/or is oth­er­wise unlaw­ful.

In this case, the legal basis is Art. 6 Para. 1 lit. f) GDPR. Our legit­i­mate inter­est lies in any legal defense we may have to mount.

Server data

For tech­ni­cal rea­sons, the fol­low­ing data sent by your inter­net brows­er to us or to our serv­er provider will be col­lect­ed, espe­cial­ly to ensure a secure and sta­ble web­site: These serv­er log files record the type and ver­sion of your brows­er, oper­at­ing sys­tem, the web­site from which you came (refer­rer URL), the web­pages on our site vis­it­ed, the date and time of your vis­it, as well as the IP address from which you vis­it­ed our site.

The data thus col­lect­ed will be tem­porar­i­ly stored, but not in asso­ci­a­tion with any oth­er of your data.

The basis for this stor­age is Art. 6 Para. 1 lit. f) GDPR. Our legit­i­mate inter­est lies in the improve­ment, sta­bil­i­ty, func­tion­al­i­ty, and secu­ri­ty of our web­site.

The data will be delet­ed with­in no more than sev­en days, unless con­tin­ued stor­age is required for evi­den­tiary pur­pos­es. In which case, all or part of the data will be exclud­ed from dele­tion until the inves­ti­ga­tion of the rel­e­vant inci­dent is final­ly resolved.

Matomo (formerly: PIWIK)

Our web­site uses Mato­mo (for­mer­ly: PIWIK). This is open-source soft­ware with which we can ana­lyze the use of our site. Data such as your IP address, the pages you vis­it, the web­site from which you came (refer­rer URL), the dura­tion of your vis­it, and the fre­quen­cy of your vis­its is processed.

Mato­mo stores a cook­ie on your device via your brows­er in order to col­lect this data. This cook­ie is valid for one week.

In case you have grant­ed your con­sent to this pro­cess­ing the legal basis is Arti­cle 6 para. 1 lit. a GDPR. The legal basis can also be Arti­cle 6 para. 1 lit. f GDPR. Our legit­i­mate inter­est lies in the analy­sis and opti­miza­tion of our web­site.

We use Mato­mo with the „Auto­mat­i­cal­ly Anonymize Vis­i­tor IPs“ func­tion. This anonymiza­tion func­tion trun­cates your IP address by two bytes so that it is impos­si­ble to assign it to you or to the inter­net con­nec­tion you are using.

If you do not agree to this pro­cess­ing, you have the option of pre­vent­ing the instal­la­tion of cook­ies by mak­ing the appro­pri­ate set­tings in your brows­er. Fur­ther details can be found in the sec­tion about cook­ies above.

In addi­tion, you have the option of ter­mi­nat­ing the analy­sis of your usage behav­ior by opt­ing out. By con­firm­ing the link

[HERE ADD INSERT IFRAME FROM MATOMO WITH OPT-OUT-COOKIE]

a cook­ie is stored on your device via your brows­er to pre­vent any fur­ther analy­sis. Please note, how­ev­er, that you must click the above link again if you delete the cook­ies stored on your end device.

Mod­el Data Pro­tec­tion State­ment for Anwalt­skan­zlei Weiß & Part­ner