Privacy Policy

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:

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.

Social media links via graphics

We also inte­gra­te the fol­lo­wing social media sites into our web­site. The inte­gra­ti­on takes place via a lin­ked gra­phic of the respec­ti­ve site. The use of the­se gra­phics stored on our own ser­vers pre­vents the auto­ma­tic con­nec­tion to the ser­vers of the­se net­works for their dis­play. Only by cli­cking on the cor­re­spon­ding gra­phic will you be for­ward­ed to the ser­vice of the respec­ti­ve social network.

Once you click, that net­work may record infor­ma­ti­on about you and your visit to our site. It can­not be ruled out that such data will be pro­ces­sed in the United States.

Initially, this data includes such things as your IP address, the date and time of your visit, and the page visi­ted. If you are log­ged into your user account on that net­work, howe­ver, the net­work ope­ra­tor might assign the infor­ma­ti­on coll­ec­ted about your visit to our site to your per­so­nal account. If you inter­act by cli­cking Like, Share, etc., this infor­ma­ti­on can be stored your per­so­nal user account and pos­si­bly pos­ted on the respec­ti­ve net­work. To pre­vent this, you need to log out of your social media account befo­re cli­cking on the gra­phic. The various social media net­works also offer set­tings that you can con­fi­gu­re accordingly.

The fol­lo­wing social net­works are inte­gra­ted into our site by lin­ked graphics:

Facebook

Facebook Ireland Limited, 4 Grand Canal Square, Dublin 2, Ireland, a sub­si­dia­ry of Facebook Inc., 1601 S. California Ave., Palo Alto, CA 94304, USA.

Privacy Policy: https://www.facebook.com/policy.php

twitter

Twitter Inc., 795 Folsom St., Suite 600, San Francisco, CA 94107, USA

Privacy Policy: https://twitter.com/privacy

YouTube

Google Ireland Limited, Gordon House, Barrow Street, Dublin 4, Irland, a sub­si­dia­ry of Google LLC, 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043 USA

Privacy Policy: https://policies.google.com/privacy

LinkedIn

LinkedIn Ireland Unlimited Company, Wilton Plaza, Wilton Place, Dublin 2, Irland, a sub­si­dia­ry of LinkedIn Corporation, 1000 W. Maude Avenue, Sunnyvale, CA 94085 USA.

Privacy Policy: https://www.linkedin.com/legal/privacy-policy

Instagram

Facebook Ireland Limited, 4 Grand Canal Square, Dublin 2, Ireland, a sub­si­dia­ry of Facebook Inc., 1601 S. California Ave., Palo Alto, CA 94304, USA.

Privacy Policy: https://help.instagram.com/519522125107875

Google+ plug-in

We use the plug-in of the Google+ social net­work on our web­site. Google+ is an online ser­vice pro­vi­ded by Google Ireland Limited, Gordon House, Barrow Street, Dublin 4, Irland (her­ein­af­ter: Google).

The legal basis is Art. 6 Para. 1 lit. f) GDPR. Our legi­ti­ma­te inte­rest lies in impro­ving the qua­li­ty of our website.

Further infor­ma­ti­on about the pos­si­ble plug-ins and their respec­ti­ve func­tions is available from Google at

https://developers.google.com/+/web/

If the plug-in is stored on one of the pages you visit on our web­site, your brow­ser will down­load an icon for the plug-in from Google’s ser­vers in the USA. For tech­ni­cal reasons, it is neces­sa­ry for Google to pro­cess your IP address. In addi­ti­on, the date and time of your visit to our web­site will also be recorded.

If you are log­ged in to Google while visi­ting one of our plug­ged-in web­sites, the infor­ma­ti­on coll­ec­ted by the plug-in from your spe­ci­fic visit will be reco­gni­zed by Google. The infor­ma­ti­on coll­ec­ted may then be assi­gned to your per­so­nal account at Google. If, for exam­p­le, you use the +1 but­ton, this infor­ma­ti­on will be stored in your Google Account and may be published on the Google plat­form. To pre­vent this, you must eit­her log out of Google befo­re visi­ting our site or make the appro­pria­te set­tings in your Google account.

Further infor­ma­ti­on about the coll­ec­tion and use of data as well as your rights and pro­tec­tion opti­ons in Google’s pri­va­cy poli­cy found at

https://policies.google.com/privacy

Google Analytics

We use Google Analytics on our web­site. This is a web ana­ly­tics ser­vice pro­vi­ded by Google Ireland Limited, Gordon House, Barrow Street, Dublin 4, Irland (her­ein­af­ter: Google).

The Google Analytics ser­vice is used to ana­ly­ze how our web­site is used. The legal basis is Art. 6 Para. 1 lit. f) GDPR. Our legi­ti­ma­te inte­rest lies in the ana­ly­sis, opti­miza­ti­on, and eco­no­mic ope­ra­ti­on of our site.

Usage and user-rela­ted infor­ma­ti­on, such as IP address, place, time, or fre­quen­cy of your visits to our web­site will be trans­mit­ted to a Google ser­ver in the United States and stored the­re. However, we use Google Analytics with the so-cal­led anony­miza­ti­on func­tion, wher­eby Google trun­ca­tes the IP address within the EU or the EEA befo­re it is trans­mit­ted to the US.

The data coll­ec­ted in this way is in turn used by Google to pro­vi­de us with an eva­lua­ti­on of visits to our web­site and what visi­tors do once the­re. This data can also be used to pro­vi­de other ser­vices rela­ted to the use of our web­site and of the inter­net in general.

Google sta­tes that it will not con­nect your IP address to other data. In addi­ti­on, Google pro­vi­des fur­ther infor­ma­ti­on with regard to its data pro­tec­tion prac­ti­ces at

https://www.google.com/intl/de/policies/privacy/partners,

inclu­ding opti­ons you can exer­cise to pre­vent such use of your data.

In addi­ti­on, Google offers an opt-out add-on at

https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=en

in addi­ti­on with fur­ther infor­ma­ti­on. This add-on can be instal­led on the most popu­lar brow­sers and offers you fur­ther con­trol over the data that Google coll­ects when you visit our web­site. The add-on informs Google Analytics’ JavaScript (ga.js) that no infor­ma­ti­on about the web­site visit should be trans­mit­ted to Google Analytics. However, this does not pre­vent infor­ma­ti­on from being trans­mit­ted to us or to other web ana­ly­tics ser­vices we may use as detail­ed herein.

Google-Maps

Our web­site uses Google Maps to dis­play our loca­ti­on and to pro­vi­de direc­tions. This is a ser­vice pro­vi­ded by Google Ireland Limited, Gordon House, Barrow Street, Dublin 4, Irland (her­ein­af­ter: Google).

To enable the dis­play of cer­tain fonts on our web­site, a con­nec­tion to the Google ser­ver in the USA is estab­lished when­ever our web­site is accessed.

If you access the Google Maps com­pon­ents inte­gra­ted into our web­site, Google will store a coo­kie on your device via your brow­ser. Your user set­tings and data are pro­ces­sed to dis­play our loca­ti­on and crea­te a rou­te descrip­ti­on. We can­not pre­vent Google from using ser­vers in the USA.

The legal basis is Art. 6 Para. 1 lit. f) GDPR. Our legi­ti­ma­te inte­rest lies in opti­mi­zing the func­tion­a­li­ty of our website.

By con­nec­ting to Google in this way, Google can deter­mi­ne from which web­site your request has been sent and to which IP address the direc­tions are transmitted.

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, the use of Google Maps and the infor­ma­ti­on obtai­ned via Google Maps is gover­ned by the Google Terms of Use https://policies.google.com/terms?gl=DE&hl=en and the Terms and Conditions for Google Maps https://www.google.com/intl/de_de/help/terms_maps.html.

Google also offers fur­ther infor­ma­ti­on at

https://adssettings.google.com/authenticated

https://policies.google.com/privacy

Google reCAPTCHA

Our web­site uses Google reCAPTCHA to check and pre­vent auto­ma­ted ser­vers (“bots”) from acces­sing and inter­ac­ting with our web­site. This is a ser­vice pro­vi­ded by Google Ireland Limited, Gordon House, Barrow Street, Dublin 4, Irland (her­ein­af­ter: Google).

This ser­vice allows Google to deter­mi­ne from which web­site your request has been sent and from which IP address the reCAPTCHA input box has been used. In addi­ti­on to your IP address, Google may coll­ect other infor­ma­ti­on neces­sa­ry to pro­vi­de and gua­ran­tee this service.

The legal basis is Art. 6 Para. 1 lit. f) GDPR. Our legi­ti­ma­te inte­rest lies in the secu­ri­ty of our web­site and in the pre­ven­ti­on of unwan­ted, auto­ma­ted access in the form of spam or similar.

Google offers detail­ed infor­ma­ti­on at

https://policies.google.com/privacy

con­cer­ning the gene­ral hand­ling of your user data.

Google Fonts

Our web­site uses Google Fonts to dis­play exter­nal fonts. This is a ser­vice pro­vi­ded by Google Ireland Limited, Gordon House, Barrow Street, Dublin 4, Irland (her­ein­af­ter: Google).

To enable the dis­play of cer­tain fonts on our web­site, a con­nec­tion to the Google ser­ver in the USA is estab­lished when­ever our web­site is accessed.

The legal basis is Art. 6 Para. 1 lit. f) GDPR. Our legi­ti­ma­te inte­rest lies in the opti­miza­ti­on and eco­no­mic ope­ra­ti­on of our site.

When you access our site, a con­nec­tion to Google is estab­lished from which Google can iden­ti­fy the site from which your request has been sent and to which IP address the fonts are being trans­mit­ted for display.

Google offers detail­ed infor­ma­ti­on at

https://adssettings.google.com/authenticated

https://policies.google.com/privacy

in par­ti­cu­lar on opti­ons for pre­ven­ting the use of data.

OpenStreetMap

For direc­tions on our site, we use OpenStreetMap, a ser­vice of the OpenStreetMap Foundation, St John’s Innovation Centre, Cowley Road, Cambridge, CB4 0WS, United Kingdom, her­ein­af­ter refer­red to as “OpenStreetMap”.

When you access one of our Internet pages that includes the OpenStreetMap ser­vice, OpenStreetMap stores a coo­kie on your ter­mi­nal device via your brow­ser. This pro­ces­ses your user set­tings and user data for the pur­po­se of dis­play­ing the page or gua­ran­te­e­ing the func­tion­a­li­ty of the OpenStreetMap ser­vice. Through this pro­ces­sing, OpenStreetMap can reco­gni­ze the web­site from which your request has been sent and to which IP address the direc­tions should be transmitted.

The legal basis for coll­ec­ting and pro­ces­sing this infor­ma­ti­on is Art. 6 Para. 1 lit. f) GDPR. Our legi­ti­ma­te inte­rest lies in the opti­miza­ti­on and eco­no­mic ope­ra­ti­on of our site.

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.

OpenStreetMap offers fur­ther infor­ma­ti­on about its data coll­ec­tion and pro­ces­sing as well your rights and your opti­ons for pro­tec­ting your pri­va­cy at this link:

https://wiki.osmfoundation.org/wiki/Privacy_Policy.

YouTube

We use YouTube on our web­site. This is a video por­tal ope­ra­ted by YouTube LLC, 901 Cherry Ave, 94066 San Bruno, CA, USA, her­ein­af­ter refer­red to as “YouTube”.

YouTube is a sub­si­dia­ry of Google Ireland Limited, Gordon House, Barrow Street, Dublin 4, Irland, her­ein­af­ter refer­red to as “Google”.

We use YouTube in its advan­ced pri­va­cy mode to show you vide­os. The legal basis is Art. 6 Para. 1 lit. f) GDPR. Our legi­ti­ma­te inte­rest lies in impro­ving the qua­li­ty of our web­site. According to YouTube, the advan­ced pri­va­cy mode means that the data spe­ci­fied below will only be trans­mit­ted to the YouTube ser­ver if you actual­ly start a video.

Without this mode, a con­nec­tion to the YouTube ser­ver in the USA will be estab­lished as soon as you access any of our web­pages on which a YouTube video is embedded.

This con­nec­tion is requi­red in order to be able to dis­play the respec­ti­ve video on our web­site within your brow­ser. YouTube will record and pro­cess at a mini­mum your IP address, the date and time the video was dis­play­ed, as well as the web­site you visi­ted. In addi­ti­on, a con­nec­tion to the DoubleClick adver­ti­sing net­work of Google is established.

If you are log­ged in to YouTube when you access our site, YouTube will assign the con­nec­tion infor­ma­ti­on to your YouTube account. To pre­vent this, you must eit­her log out of YouTube befo­re visi­ting our site or make the appro­pria­te set­tings in your YouTube account.

For the pur­po­se of func­tion­a­li­ty and ana­ly­sis of usa­ge beha­vi­or, YouTube per­ma­nent­ly stores coo­kies on your device via your brow­ser. 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.

Further infor­ma­ti­on about the coll­ec­tion and use of data as well as your rights and pro­tec­tion opti­ons in Google’s pri­va­cy poli­cy found at

https://policies.google.com/privacy

Model Data Protection Statement for Anwaltskanzlei Weiß & Partner