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Privacy Policy

  1. Information about the collection of personal data

(1) In the following, we inform about the collection of personal data when using our website. Personal data is all data that can be related to you personally, e.g. name, address, e-mail addresses, user behavior.

(2) The responsible party pursuant to Article 4 (7) of the EU General Data Protection Regulation (DS-GVO) is LICHTE Rechtsanwälte GbR, Kaiser-Wilhelm-Str. 93, 20355 Hamburg.

(3) When you contact us by e-mail or via our contact form, the data you provide (your e-mail address, name and telephone number, if applicable) will be stored by us in order to answer your questions. We delete the data accruing in this context after the storage is no longer necessary or restrict the processing if there are legal retention obligations.

(4) If we use contracted service providers for individual functions of our offer or would like to use your data for advertising purposes, we will inform you in detail about the respective processes below. In doing so, we will also state the specified criteria for the storage period.

 

  1. Your rights

(1) You have the following rights with respect to us regarding the personal data concerning you:

– Right of access,

– Right to rectification or deletion,

– Right to restriction of processing,

– Right to object to processing,

– right to data portability.

(2) You also have the right to complain to a data protection supervisory authority about the processing of your personal data by us.

 

  1. Collection of personal data when visiting our website

(1) In the case of merely informational use of the website, i.e. if you do not register or otherwise transmit information to us, we only collect the personal data that your browser transmits to our server. If you wish to view our website, we collect the following data, which is technically necessary for us to display our website to you and to ensure stability and security (legal basis is Art. 6 para. 1 p. 1 lit. f DS-GVO):

– IP address

– Date and time of the request

– Time zone difference to Greenwich Mean Time (GMT)

– Content of the request (specific page)

– Access status/HTTP status code

– Amount of data transferred in each case

– Website from which the request comes

– browser

– Operating system and its interface

– Language and version of the browser software.

(2) In addition to the previously mentioned data, the cookie “qtrans_front_language” is stored on your computer when you use our website.

Cookies are small text files that are stored on your hard drive associated with the browser you are using and through which the entity that sets the cookie (in this case by us) receives certain information. Cookies cannot execute programs or transfer viruses to your computer. They serve to make the Internet offer as a whole more user-friendly and effective.

In the cookie qtrans_front_language we store your language selection for one year. You can, of course, delete the cookie at any time in the security settings of your browser. The legal basis is § 25 para. 2 no. 2 TTDSG. It is to be classified as necessary, since this cookie only remembers your language selection once it has been made and is thus of a purely functional nature, and has no other functionality beyond that.

 

  1. Other features and offers of our website

(1) In addition to the purely informational use of our website, we offer various services that you can use if you are interested. For this purpose, you must usually provide further personal data, which we use to provide the respective service and for which the aforementioned data processing principles apply.

(2) In some cases, we use external service providers to process your data. These have been carefully selected and commissioned by us, are bound by our instructions and are regularly monitored.

(3) Furthermore, we may pass on your personal data to third parties if we offer participation in promotions, competitions, conclusion of contracts or similar services together with partners. You will receive more information on this when you provide your personal data or below in the description of the offer.

(4) If our service providers or partners are located in a country outside the European Economic Area (EEA), we will inform you about the consequences of this circumstance in the description of the offer.

 

  1. Objection or revocation against the processing of your data

(1) If you have given your consent to the processing of your data, you may revoke it at any time. Such revocation affects the permissibility of the processing of your personal data after you have expressed it to us.

(2) Insofar as we base the processing of your personal data on the balance of interests, you may object to the processing. This is the case if the processing is not necessary, in particular, for the performance of a contract with you, which is shown by us in each case in the following description of the functions. When exercising such an objection, we ask you to explain the reasons why we should not process your personal data as we have done. In the event of your justified objection, we will review the merits of the case and either discontinue or adapt the data processing or show you our compelling legitimate grounds on the basis of which we will continue the processing.

 

  1. Changes

We reserve the right to make changes to the website and therefore also changes to this privacy policy.

 
Status: March 2022