Data Protection Information
This website is operated by Rechtsanwaltskanzlei Dr. Geisselmann, LL.M., Werdenbergerweg 11, 9490 Vaduz (‘we’ or ‘us’).
The following outlines how ‘we’, as the website operator and thus the controller under data protection law, process your personal data in connection with visiting this website, which can be accessed under this domain (hereinafter referred to as 'our website'), in compliance with the applicable data protection regulations, in particular the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and any applicable national implementing provisions in German-speaking countries, such as the German Federal Data Protection Act (BDSG), the Austrian Data Protection Act (DSG) and the Swiss Federal Act on Data Protection (DSG). For the sake of simplicity, the terms of the GDPR are used, so that ‘personal data’ also includes ‘personal data’ according to the Swiss DSG.
1. What data do we process about you?
In the course of your visit to this website, we will collect the following information:
- Date and time of accessing a page of our website, your IP address, URL, status and version of your web browser (user agent), the URL of the website you visited before accessing this website (referrer) (so-called ‘server log files’, see below point 6.),
- Information obtained usingcertain cookies and related technologies in order to present our website and our advertising presence to you in the most effective and interesting way possible (see below point 4.)
- Any information, in particular by filling out a contact form, that you provide yourself.
2. Purposes and legal bases of data processing
Data protection law protects personal data and defines this as information that can individualize a person (hereinafter: ‘data’), such as a name. We will process your personal data for the following purposes, relying on the legal bases listed in particular:
- To provide you with this website, including its basic functions, and to further improve and develop this website (on the basis of our predominantly legitimate interest [pursuant to Art 6 para 1 lit. f GDPR]);
- To compile usage statistics and thereby continuously improve our online content and the user experience of our website (based on your consent [pursuant to Art 6 para 1 lit a GDPR]);
- To detect, prevent and investigate attacks on our website (based on our predominantly legitimate interest [pursuant to Art 6 para 1 lit f GDPR]) and
- To respond to your inquiries (based on your consent [pursuant to Art 6 para 1 lit a GDPR] and our predominantly legitimate interest [pursuant to Art 6 para 1 lit f GDPR]).
3. Transmission of personal data
If we disclose, transfer or otherwise grant access to personal data to other persons and companies (such as processors, in particular technical service providers for the provision of our website, affiliated companies or other third parties) in the context of the above-mentioned processing, this will only take place if it is permitted by law (e.g. transfers to a payment service provider for the fulfillment of contracts in accordance with Art 6 para 1 lit a GDPR), if you have consented or if we are legally obliged to do so (e.g. authorities in the context of investigation proceedings) or on the basis of our legitimate interests (e.g. when using agents, etc.). If we commission third parties to process data on the basis of a so-called ‘order processing contract’, this is done in accordance with Art 28 GDPR.
Some of the recipients mentioned above are located outside your country or process your personal data there. The level of data protection in other countries may not be the same as in your country. However, we only transfer your personal data to countries or (US) companies for which the EU Commission has decided that they have an adequate level of data protection ( e.g. US companies certified under the EU-US Privacy Framework ), or we take measures to ensure that recipients commit to an adequate level of data protection. For example, we conclude standard contractual clauses for the transfer of personal data to third countries in accordance with Regulation (EU) 2016/679 or ensure that they are concluded by our service providers.
4. Cookies, similar technologies and tracking
So-called ‘cookies’ are used on this website. A cookie is a small file, i.e. data storage consisting of a name (key) and a value, which can be stored on your end device or your web browser when you visit a website. When you visit our website for the first time, a so-called ‘cookie banner’ appears. If you select ‘Reject all’, all cookies and similar technologies - with the exception of (technically) necessary cookies - will be blocked and, in the absence of your consent, will not be loaded and any associated data processing will be prevented.
Technically necessary cookies are used to provide users with essential functions on a website. For example, they can be used to make it easier for you to navigate a website, to enable you to continue using a website where you left it, to save your preferences and settings (e.g. language) or your shopping cart when you visit the website again. The setting of these technically necessary cookies does not require your consent, as it is in our legitimate interest as a website operator to be able to provide you with a functioning website (legal basis of a predominantly legitimate interest of the controller pursuant to Art 6 para 1 lit f GDPR), therefore these cookies cannot be deselected in the cookie banner.
Please note that blocking or deleting cookies may affect your experience when using the website and prevent you from using the full functionality of the website.
Non-necessary cookies serve the purposes of: 1. function, 2. statistics and analysis or 3. marketing and require your consent (Art 6 para 1 lit a GDPR). Functional cookies enable you to use functionalities of our website, such as sending requests, provided that a third-party provider is technically used for this purpose. Information obtained from the use of analysis or marketing technologies enables us to learn more about the interests of our users through aggregated statistics in order to continuously improve our website, measure the success of our marketing measures and align them with the interests of our users and customers and only show you advertising that is most likely to actually be of interest to you.
You can change your consent at any time by clicking on the image link in the footer of the website. There you can also see when you last made a corresponding selection.
Most of the cookies on this website are so-called ‘session cookies’. They are automatically deleted when you leave our website. Persistent cookies, on the other hand, remain on your computer until you delete them manually in your browser. We use such persistent cookies to recognize you the next time you visit our website. In the following table you will find an overview of the cookies used, including the prescribed information: Expiry time, type (purpose), provider and the provider's corresponding data protection information.
‘Third-party cookies’ are cookies that are offered by providers other than us (otherwise, if they are only their cookies, they are referred to as ‘first-party cookies’). In principle, such third-party cookies are blocked as long as you do not accept them. If you only want to accept our own cookies, but not the cookies of our service providers and partners, you can also select the ‘Block third-party cookies’ setting in your browser. In the following paragraph, we explain certain services and services behind these third-party cookies, the operators of which may only process the data concerned within the framework of a order processing contract in accordance with Art 28 GDPR. Please note, however, that they may, in turn, transfer your data to third parties if this is required by law or if third parties process this data on their behalf. It cannot be ruled out that the recipients will associate your IP address with other data. It is technically possible that the recipients could identify at least individual users on the basis of the data received. We have no influence on whether personal data and personality profiles of users of the website are processed by such third parties for other purposes.
5. Embedded Third-Party Content
Our contact form
The data you enter via our contact form will be transmitted to us via email for processing. Email notification is sent via SendGrid service (Twilio: more information at https://www.twilio.com/legal/aup and https://www.twilio.com/legal/privacy) notification, whereby the log files are stored for 30 days. However, these do not contain any content transmitted via the form.
SSL encryption of our website
Our website uses SSL encryption through Let's Encrypt - SSL Certificates (https://letsencrypt.org/repository/). This encryption is used, for example, for inquiries that you send to us via our website. Please ensure that SSL encryption is activated for corresponding activities on your part. The use of encryption is easy to recognize: the display in your browser address bar shows ‘https:// ’. Data encrypted via SSL cannot be read by third parties.
Anti-spam system
The purpose of hCaptcha is to identify and eliminate contact requests that have been generated automatically as spam or bots, so that the use is based on our legitimate interest (pursuant to Art 6 para 1 lit f GDPR). The service and the cookies used for this purpose are provided by Intuition Machines, Inc. based in the USA. The data transfer is protected by EU standard data protection clauses. Further information can be found in the terms of use and privacy policy of Intuition Machines Inc. at https://hcaptcha.com/privacy/, https://www.hcaptcha.com/gdpr and https://hcaptcha.com/terms.
Our online presence on social media
We maintain online presences within social networks and platforms in order to communicate with the customers, interested parties and users active there and to inform them about our services. When accessing the respective networks and platforms, the terms and conditions and data protection notices of the corresponding social networks apply. We process users' data when they communicate with us within the social networks and platforms, e.g. write posts on our profile or send us messages. Requests for information and the assertion of data subject rights can be most effectively asserted with the providers. Only the providers have access to the users' data and can take appropriate measures and provide information directly.
6. Storage location (hosting and content delivery network) and storage duration
The personal data collected on this website is stored on the servers of the host provider, an external service provider, on servers in the EU. The host provider (mono solutions ApS., Denmark, Amagerfælledvej 106, 2300 Copenhagen) is used as part of order processing in accordance with Art 28 GDPR for the purpose of fulfilling contracts with our potential and existing customers (Art 1 lit b GDPR) and in the interest of secure, fast and efficient provision of our online presence by a professional provider (Art 6 para 1 lit f GDPR). A content delivery network (CDN) is also used to deliver content and to secure our digital offerings by making the content of our website (e.g. images, fonts) available on various locally distributed servers. This shortens the loading time of the website, achieves greater reliability and increased protection (including the protection of your data from unauthorized access), so that this processing is in our legitimate interest in accordance with Art 6 para 1 lit f GDPR. We will only store your data for as long as is necessary to fulfill the purposes for which it was collected. Server log files (above under point 1.) are stored for 30 days.
7. Your rights in connection with personal data
- Subject to the conditions of applicable law, you are entitled to the following rights:
- Right of access (Article 15 GDPR)
- Right to rectification (Article 16 GDPR)
- Right to erasure (‘right to be forgotten’) (Article 17 GDPR)
- Right to restriction of processing (Article 18 GDPR)
- Right to notification - notification obligation regarding rectification or erasure of personal data or the restriction of processing (Article 19 GDPR)
- Right to data portability (Article 20 GDPR)
- Right to object (Article 21 GDPR)
- Right not to be subject to a decision based solely on automated processing, including profiling (Article 22 GDPR)
- Right to lodge a complaint with the competent supervisory authority
8. Our contact details
If you have any questions or concerns regarding the processing of your personal data, please contact us:
Law firm
Dr. Geisselmann, LL.M.
Werdenbergerweg 11
9490 Vaduz
Liechtenstein
chg@geisselmann-law.com
This privacy policy is currently valid and has the status of 13 August 2024