Data Privacy Statement for H&G-Homepage
1. Name and contact information of the party responsible for processing
This privacy statement is a declaration of:
Hermes & Giebeler Rechtsanwälte PartG mbB
Kaiserstraße 22
D-60311 Frankfurt
Germany
e-mail: info@hermesgiebeler.com
Tel.: +49 (0)69 – 92020840
Fax: +49 (0)69 – 920208460.
2. Collection and storage of personal data as well as the type and purpose of their
use
When you visit our website www.hermesgiebler.com the browser on your device automatically sends information to the server at our website. This information is temporarily stored in a so-called log file. The following information is recorded without any action on your part and stored until it is automatically deleted:
· IP address,
· the date and time of the request,
· name and URL of the accessed website,
· referrer URL (the previously visited page),
· browser type and version as well if necessary the user’s operating system as the name of your requesting provider.
The specified data will be processed by us for the following purposes:
· Ensuring a smooth connection to the website,
· ensuring convenient use of our website,
· evaluation of system security and stability as well as
· for other administrative purposes.
The legal basis for this data processing is provided by Article 6 Paragraph 1 Sentence 1 lit. f of the EU General Date Protection Regulation (GDPR). Our legitimate interest follows from the data collection purposes listed above. Under no circumstances do we use collected data in order to draw conclusions about you personally.
In addition, we use cookies and analytical services when you visit our website. You can find more detailed information in this regard under Section 4 and 5 of this privacy statement.
3. Disclosure of Information
Your personal data will only be transmitted to third parties if:
· you have given your express consent in accordance with Article 6 Paragraph 1 Sentence 1 lit. a of the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR),
· the disclosure in accordance with Article 6 Paragraph 1 Sentence 1 lit. f of the EU General Date Protection Regulation (GDPR) is required in order to establish, exercise or defend legal claims and there is no reason to assume that you have an overriding interest worthy of protection in not disclosing your data,
· in the event that a legal obligation obtains for disclosure in accordance with Article 6 Paragraph 1 Sentence 1 lit. c of the EU General Date Protection Regulation (GDPR) and
· this is legally permissible and required for processing contractual relationships with you in accordance with Article 6 Paragraph 1 Sentence 1 lit. b of the EU General Date Protection Regulation (GDPR).
4. Cookies
We use cookies on our site. These are small files that your browser automatically creates and that are stored on your device (laptop, tablet, smartphone, etc.) when you visit our site. Cookies do no damage to your end device and they do not contain viruses, Trojans or other malware.
Information derived in connection with the specifically used terminal device is stored in the cookie. However, this does not mean that we immediately become aware of your identity.
On the one hand, the use cookies serve to make use of our offer more convenient for you. For example, we use so-called session cookies in order to recognize that you have already visited individual pages on our website. These will be deleted automatically after you leave our site.
In addition, we use temporary cookies that are stored on your end device for a specified period of time in order to optimize the user-friendliness of our site. If you visit our site again in order to use our service, then it will automatically recognize that you have already visited our site and what entries and settings you have made so that you do not have to enter them again.
On the other hand, we use cookies to statistically record use of our website and to evaluate it for you in order to enhance our offer (see Section 5). These cookies enable us to automatically recognize that you have already visited our website when you return. These cookies are automatically deleted after a respectively defined period of time.
The data processed by cookies is required for the aforementioned purposes in order to protect our legitimate interests and those of third parties in accordance with Article 6 Paragraph 1 Sentence 1 lit. f of the EU General Date Protection Regulation (GDPR).
Most browsers automatically accept cookies. However, you can configure your browser to that no cookies are stored on your computer or so that a message always appears before a new cookie is created. However, complete deactivation of cookies may prevent you from using all of the functions or our website.
5. Analytical Tools
The tracking measures listed below and used by us are implemented out on the basis of Article 6 Paragraph 1 Sentence 1 lit. f of the EU General Date Protection Regulation (GDPR). With the tracking measures employed, we aim on the one hand to ensure that our website is designed to meet requirements and is constantly enhanced. On the other hand, we use tracking measures to statistically record use of our website and to evaluate it in order to optimize our offer. These interests are to be regarded as legitimate within the meaning of the aforementioned provision.
The respective date processing purposes and data categories can be found in the corresponding tracking tools.
(i) Google Analytics
We use Google Analytics, a web analysis service provided by Google Inc., for the purpose of adequate design and continuous optimization of our pages. (https://www.google.de/intl/de/about/) (1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA; hereinafter referred to as “Google”). In this context user profiles are created under pseudonym and cookies (see Section 4) are used. The information generated by the cookie about your use of the website such as
· browser type/version
· operating system,
· referrer URL (the previously visited page),
· host name of the accessing computer (IP address),
· time of the server request,
are transferred to a Google server in the USA and stored there. The information is used to evaluate use of the website, to compile reports on website activities and to provide further services associated with use of the website and the Internet for the purposes of market research and adequate design of these Internet pages. This information may also be transferred to third parties if required by law or if third parties are commissioned to process such data. Under no circumstances do we combine your IP address with other Google data. The IP addresses are anonymized so that any assignment is impossible (IP masking).
You may refuse the use of cookies by selecting the appropriate settings on your browser; however, please note that if you do this you may not be able to use the full functionality of this website.
You can also prevent the collection of data generated by the cookie and related to your use of the website (including your IP address) and the processing of this data by Google by downloading and installing a browser add-on (https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=de).
As an alternative to the browser add-on, especially for browsers on mobile devices, you can also prevent Google Analytics from collecting data by clicking on this link. An opt-out cookie is set to prevent future collection of your data when you visit this website. The opt-out cookie is only valid in this browser and only for our website and is stored on your device. If you delete the cookies in this browser, then you must set the opt-out cookie again.
For more information about privacy in connection with Google Analytics, please visit Google Analytics Help (https://support.google.com/analytics/answer/6004245?hl=de).
(ii) Google Adwords Conversion Tracking
To statistically record the use of our website and for the purpose of optimizing our website, we also use Google Adwords Conversion Tracking. Google Adwords places a cookie (see Section 4) on your computer if you have accessed our website via a Google ad.
These cookies expire after 30 days and are not used for personal identification. If the user visits certain pages of the Adwords customer’s website and the cookie has not yet expired, then Google and the Adwords customer can detect that the user clicked on the ad and was redirected to this page.
Each Adwords customer receives a different cookie. Thus cookies cannot be traced via the websites of Adwords customers. The information collected using the conversion cookie is used to generate conversion statistics for Adwords customers who have opted for conversion tracking. Adwords customers see the total number of users who clicked on their ad and were redirected to a page with a conversation tracking tag. However, they do not receive any information that personally identifies users.
If you do not wish to participate in the tracking process, then you can refuse placement of the cookie required for this purpose – for example, by using a browser setting that generally deactivates automatic placement of cookies. You can also deactivate cookies for conversation tracking by setting our browser to block cookies from the “www.googleadservices.com“ domain. Google’s privacy policy for conversation tracking can be found here: (https://services.google.com/sitestats/de.html).
(iii) Matomo
We are using the open source web analysis tool Matomo for the analysis and statistical evaluation of the use of our website. For this purpose we use cookies (see Section 4). These data are transferred to our server and can be used to create pseudonymized use profiles. This information will be used to optimize our website based on the needs of its users. This information will not be transmitted to third parties.
Under no circumstances do we combine your IP address with other personal data. The IP addresses are anonymized so that any identification is impossible (IP masking).
Currently, your visit of this website is recorded by the Matomo web analysis. In order to terminate this recording, please use the following link: (https://matamo.org/docs/privacy/).
6. Rights of the Data Subject
You have the right:
· to request information about your personal data processed by us in accordance with Article 15 of the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). In particular, you may request information on the purposes to processing, the category of personal data, the categories of recipients to whom your data have been or will be disclosed, the planned storage period, the existence of a right to rectification, erasure, restriction of processing or objection, the existence of a right to lodge a complaint, the origin of your data, if not collected by us, and the existence of automated decision-making including profiling and, if applicable, meaningful information on their details;
· in accordance with Article 16 of the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), to demand without delay that inaccurate personal data be rectified or have incomplete personal data stored by us completed;
· to request erasure of your personal date stored with us in accordance with Article 17 of the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), unless the processing is necessary to exercise the right to freedom of expression and information, to fulfill a legal obligation, for reasons of public interest or to establish, exercise or defend legal claims;
· in accordance with Article 18 of the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), to restrict the processing of your personal data if you contest the accuracy of the data, if the processing is unlawful but you oppose erasure of the data and we no longer need the data, but you require the data in order to establish, exercise or defend legal claims or if you have filed an objection to processing in accordance with Article 21 of the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR);
· to receive your personal data, which you have provided to us, in a structures, commonly used and machine-readable format in accordance with Article 20 of the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) or to request transmission to another controller;
· in accordance with Article 7 Paragraph 3 of the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), to revoke your consent given to us at any time. As a result, we are no longer allowed to continue processing data based on this consent in the future and
· to complain to a supervisory authority in accordance with Article 77 of the EU General Date Protection Regulation (GDPR). As a rule, you can contact the supervisory authority at your usual place of residence or workplace or at our office seat.
7. Rights to Object
If your personal data are processed on the basis of legitimate interests in accordance with Article 6 Paragraph 1 Sentence 1 lit. f of the EU General Date Protection Regulation (GDPR), then you have the right to object to the processing of your personal data pursuant to Article 21of the EU General Date Protection Regulation (GDPR), provided that there are grounds relating to your particular situation or the objection is directed against direct marketing. In the latter case, you have a general right of objection, which we will implement without specification of a particular situation.
If you would like to make use of your right of revocation or objection, then simply send an e-mail to info@hermesgiebeler.com.
8. Data Security
We use the widely employed SSL procedure (Secure Socket Layer) in connection with the respectively highest level of encryption supported by your browser within the scope of the website visit. Usually this is 256-bit encryption. If your browser does not support 256-bit encryption, then we use 128-bit v3 technology instead. Whether a single page of our website is transmitted in encrypted form is indicated by the display of the closed key or lock symbol in the lower status bar of your browser.
We also use suitable technical and organizational security measures in order to protect your data against accidental or intentional manipulation, partial or complete loss, destruction or unauthorized access by third parties. Our security measures are continuously improved in accordance with technological developments.
9. Topicality and Modification of this Privacy Statement
This privacy statement is valid in its current May 2018 version.
It may become necessary to modify this privacy statement due to further development of our website and additional offers or due to a change in legal or official requirements. The respectively current data protection declaration can be retrieved on the website and printed out at any time at our data protection page https://www.hermesgiebeler.com/datenschutz.
