Thank you for visiting our website and for your interest in our company. Below we inform you in accordance with Art. 12, 13 and 21 of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) about the handling of your personal data when using our website. Personal data are individual details about personal or factual circumstances of an identified or identifiable natural person. This includes information such as civil name, address, telephone number and date of birth.
A. Person responsible
Löffel Abrar Rechtsanwälte PartG mbB
Schirmerstraße 80
40211 Düsseldorf
Germany
Phone: +49 (0) 211 - 860 493 - 0
Fax: + 49 (0) 211 - 860 493 - 29
E-mail:
Internet: www.loeffel-abrar.com
B. Purposes and legal basis of data processing
I. Informational use of the website
You can visit our website without providing any personal data. If you only use our website for informational purposes, i.e. if you do not log in, register or otherwise provide us with information about yourself, we do not process any personal data, with the exception of the data that your browser transmits to enable you to visit the website and information that is transmitted to us as part of cookies used to statistically analyse the use of our website.
1. technical provision of the website
For the purpose of the technical provision of the website, it is necessary for us to process certain automatically transmitted information from you so that your browser can display our website and you can use the website. This information is automatically collected each time you visit our website and stored in our server log files. This information relates to the computer system of the accessing computer. The following information is collected:
IP address;
browser type/version (e.g.: Firefox 59.0.2 (64 bit));
browser language (e.g.: German);
operating system used (e.g.: Windows 10);
internal resolution of the browser window;
screen resolution;
Javascript activation;
Java on/off;
cookies on/off;
colour depth;
time of access.
We do not use the information we have collected through the above cookies to create user profiles or to analyse your surfing behaviour.
We process your personal data for the technical provision of our website on the following legal bases: to fulfil a contract or to carry out pre-contractual measures in accordance with Art. 6 para. 1 lit. b GDPR, insofar as you visit our website to find out about our services; and to safeguard our legitimate interests in accordance with Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f GDPR in order to be able to make the website technically available to you. Our legitimate interest is to be able to provide you with an attractive, technically functioning and user-friendly website and to take measures to protect our website from cyber risks and to prevent our website from posing cyber risks to third parties.
2. social links
Links to services such as Twitter or LinkedIn are integrated on the website. After clicking on the link, you will be redirected to the page of the respective provider, i.e. only then will user information be transmitted to the respective provider. For information on the handling of your data when using the websites of other providers, please refer to the respective data protection notices of these providers.
II. active use of the website
In addition to using our website purely for information purposes, you can also actively use our website to contact us. In addition to the processing of your personal data described above for purely informational use, we will then also process other personal data from you that we require to respond to your enquiry.
1. user enquiries
In order to be able to process and respond to your enquiries to us, e.g. via the contact form or to our email address, we process the personal data you provide in this context. This always includes your name and e-mail address in order to send you a reply, as well as any other information that you send us as part of your message. We process your personal data to respond to user enquiries on the basis of the following legal grounds: to safeguard our legitimate interests in accordance with Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f GDPR; our legitimate interest lies in responding appropriately to customer enquiries.
2. compliance with legal regulations
We also process your personal data in order to fulfil other legal obligations that apply to us in connection with the processing of the order. These include, in particular, retention periods under commercial, trade or tax law. We process your personal data on the following legal bases: to fulfil a legal obligation to which we are subject in accordance with Art. 6 para. 1 lit. c GDPR in connection with commercial, trade or tax law, insofar as we are obliged to record and store your data.
3. enforcement of rights
We also process your personal data in order to assert our rights and enforce our legal claims. We also process your personal data in order to be able to defend ourselves against legal claims. Finally, we process your personal data insofar as this is necessary for the defence or prosecution of criminal offences. We process your personal data for this purpose on the basis of the following legal bases: to protect our legitimate interests in accordance with Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f GDPR, insofar as we assert legal claims or defend ourselves in legal disputes or we prevent or investigate criminal offences.
C. Links
Some sections of our websites contain links to the websites of third-party providers. These websites are subject to their own data protection principles. We are not responsible for their operation, including data handling. If you send information to or via such third-party sites, you should check the data protection declarations of these sites before you send them information that can be assigned to you personally.
D. Categories of recipients
Initially, only we obtain knowledge of your personal data. In addition, we share your personal data with other recipients who provide services for us in connection with our website, insofar as this is permitted or required by law. We limit the disclosure of your personal data to what is necessary. In some cases, our service providers receive your personal data as processors and are then strictly bound by our instructions when handling your personal data. In some cases, the recipients act independently with your data that we transfer to them. The categories of recipients of your personal data are listed below: IT service providers in the administration and hosting of our website.
E. Third country transfer
We do not transfer your personal data to countries outside the EU or the EEA or to international organisations.
F. Duration of storage
I. Informational use of the website: When you use our website purely for information purposes, we store your personal data on our servers exclusively for the duration of your visit to our website. After you have left our website, your personal data will be deleted immediately.
II. Active use of the website: When you actively use our website, we initially store your personal data for the duration of the response to your enquiry or for the duration of our business relationship. This also includes the initiation of a contract (pre-contractual legal relationship) and the fulfilment of a contract. In addition, we then store your personal data until any legal claims arising from the relationship with you become time-barred in order to use them as evidence if necessary. The limitation period is usually between 12 and 36 months, but can also be up to 30 years. We delete your personal data when the limitation period expires, unless there is a statutory retention obligation, for example under the German Commercial Code (Sections 238, 257 (4) HGB) or the German Fiscal Code (Section 147 (3), (4) AO). These retention obligations can last from two to ten years.
G. Your rights as a data subject
You are entitled to the following rights as a data subject under the legal requirements, which you can assert against us:
Right of access: You are entitled to request confirmation from us at any time under Art. 15 GDPR as to whether we are processing personal data concerning you; if this is the case, you are also entitled under Art. 15 GDPR to receive information about this personal data and certain other information (including processing purposes, categories of personal data, categories of recipients, planned storage period, the origin of the data, the use of automated decision-making and, in the case of third country transfer, the appropriate safeguards) and a copy of your data.
Right to rectification: In accordance with Art. 16 GDPR, you are entitled to demand that we rectify the personal data stored about you if it is inaccurate or incorrect.
Right to erasure: You are entitled, under the conditions of Art. 17 GDPR, to demand that we erase personal data concerning you without undue delay. The right to erasure does not exist, among other things, if the processing of personal data is necessary for (i) the exercise of the right to freedom of expression and information, (ii) to fulfil a legal obligation to which we are subject (e.g. statutory retention obligations) or (iii) for the assertion, exercise or defence of legal claims.
Right to restriction of processing: You are entitled, under the conditions of Art. 18 GDPR, to demand that we restrict the processing of your personal data.
Right to data portability: You have the right to request that we provide you with the personal data concerning you that you have provided to us in a structured, commonly used and machine-readable format in accordance with the requirements of Art. 20 GDPR.
Right of revocation: You have the right to revoke your consent to the processing of personal data at any time with effect for the future.
Right to object: You are entitled to object to the processing of your personal data under the conditions of Art. 21 GDPR, which means that we must stop processing your personal data. The right to object exists only within the limits provided for in Art. 21 GDPR. In addition, our interests may conflict with the termination of processing, so that we are authorised to process your personal data despite your objection.
Right to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority: You have the right to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority, in particular in the Member State of your habitual residence, place of work or place of the alleged infringement if you consider that the processing of personal data relating to you infringes the GDPR, subject to the requirements of Art. 77 GDPR. The right to lodge a complaint is without prejudice to any other administrative or judicial remedy.
The supervisory authority responsible for us is:
State Commissioner for Data Protection and Freedom of Information North Rhine-Westphalia
Kavalleriestr. 2-4
40213 Düsseldorf
Phone: 0211/38424-0
Fax: 0211/38424-10
Email:
If possible, your requests to exercise your rights should be sent in writing to the above address.
H. Automated decision making / profiling
We do not use automated decision making or profiling (an automated analysis of your personal circumstances).
I. Information about your right to object pursuant to Art. 21 GDPR
You have the right to object at any time to the processing of your data on the basis of Art. 6 para. 1 f GDPR (data processing on the basis of a balancing of interests) or Art. 6 para. 1 e GDPR (data processing in the public interest) if there are reasons for this arising from your particular situation. This also applies to profiling based on this provision within the meaning of Art. 4 No. 4 GDPR. If you object, we will no longer process your personal data unless we can demonstrate compelling legitimate grounds for the processing which override your interests, rights and freedoms, or the processing serves the establishment, exercise or defence of legal claims. In individual cases, we also process your personal data for direct marketing purposes. If you do not wish to receive advertising, you have the right to object to this at any time; this also applies to profiling insofar as it is associated with such direct advertising. We will honour this objection for the future. We will no longer process your data for direct marketing purposes if you object to processing for these purposes. The objection can be made informally and should preferably be addressed to
Löffel Abrar Rechtsanwälte PartG mbB
Schirmerstraße 80
40211 Düsseldorf
Germany
Phone: +49 (0) 211 - 860 493 - 0
Fax: + 49 (0) 211 - 860 493 - 29
E-mail:
Internet: www.loeffel-abrar.com
J. Amendments
We reserve the right to amend this privacy policy at any time. Any changes will be publicised by publishing the amended privacy policy on our website. Unless otherwise specified, such changes will take effect immediately. Therefore, please check this privacy policy regularly to see the latest version.