Member of the State Bar of Brandenburg (Rechtsanwaltskammer Brandenburg)

Professional title and professional regulations:
The legal professional title is “Rechtsanwalt” (english: lawyer or attorney-at-law). The professional title and professional admission were acquired in the Federal Republic of Germany. The lawyer practices law under the laws of the Federal Republic of Germany and of the laws of the European Union. The lawyer is subject to the following rules of professional conduct in the currently applicable version (obtainable under www.brak.de under “Anwaltschaft > Berufsrecht”): BRAO – Bundesrechtsanwaltsordnung (Federal Lawyers Act); BORA – Berufsordnung für Rechtsanwälte (Rules of Professional Conduct for Lawyers); FAO – Fachanwaltsordnung (Rules Governing Certification as a Legal Specialist); RVG – Rechtsanwaltsvergütungsgesetz (Law on the Remuneration of Lawyers); CCBE – Standesregeln der Rechtsanwälte der Europäischen Gemeinschaft (Code of Conduct for Lawyers in the European Union).

Professional liability insurance:
Markel Insurance SE
Sophienstr. 26, 80333 München
Registry Court: Amtsgericht München, Registry Number: HRB 233618

Insurance cover exists for liability claims asserted before courts of the states of Europe, Turkey, the Russian Federation and the other states of the former Soviet Union as well as non-European territories of European states, the EU or the EEA and that are based on the violation of the law of these countries. For liability claims arising from the recourse of the policyholder before courts of states not mentioned here, liability exists only in the amount of the legally prescribed minimum liability insurance sum (currently € 250.000,00).

Note according to ODR regulation:
The European Commission provides a platform for online dispute resolution, which can be found at https://ec.europa.eu/consumers/odr .

Note according to § 36 VSBG:
We are neither obliged nor willing to participate in a dispute resolution procedure before a consumer arbitration board.

Data protection notice The purpose of this privacy policy is to inform you as a user about the collection of personal data on this website. We therefore attach importance to a transparent presentation of all essential information regarding the protection of your data. However, should there be any ambiguities, questions and thus a need for clarification, please do not hesitate to contact us.

1. Person responsible

The responsible party within the meaning of the General Data Protection Regulation (Sect. 4 (7) GDPR) and the other national data protection laws is the website operator (name and address as stated above). These contact details are thus relevant for all questions of a data protection nature regarding this website as well as for all data protection claims on your part

2. Collection and storage of personal data when visiting our website

In the following, we inform you about the processes relevant to data protection law that take place when you call up our website.

(a) Log files
Each time you visit our website, we automatically collect data and information from the computer system you use to access the website. The following data is collected:
- the IP address of your device,
- the date and time of the page view,
- the page accessed or the name of the file accessed,
- the amount of data transferred,
- the "user agent string" of your web browser
- the website from which you accessed the current page or file- and the status message as to whether the access or retrieval was successful.

This non-anonym GDized log data is automatically deleted at the earliest possible time, usually after two weeks, not archived and used exclusively for non-commercial purposes. They are only viewed manually if necessary and are required for error analysis, delivery of the contents of our website, optimization or investigation of cases of abuse or performance bottlenecks. This constitutes a legitimate interest within the meaning of Sect. 6 (1) lit. f GDPR. A right of objection according to Sect. 21 GDPR is not possible due to lack of technical feasibility.

(b) Web fonts
Fonts are integrated on the page that are not stored by us. These fonts are provided by Google (Google Ireland Limited, Gordon House, Barrow Street, Dublin 4, Ireland). When displaying the embedded fonts, your IP address is transmitted to the provider of these fonts. Google's privacy policy can be viewed here: https://www.google.com/policies/privacy/. Opting out of Google can be done here: http://www.google.com/ads/preferences. The processing of the data is based on our legitimate interest, i.e. the optimization of our website according to Sect. 6 para. 1 lit. f. GDPR.

3. Contacting us

You can contact us via a form on the website, by telephone or by e-mail. In this case, the data that you enter in the form or send to us by e-mail or communicate on the phone will be transmitted to us and stored by us.
This is about:
(i) name and address (ii) e-mail and telephone number (iii) date and time of contact If you contact us and are interested in our offers, the legal basis for data processing is Sect. 6 (1) lit. b GDPR. Otherwise, the processing is based on our legitimate interest from Sect. 6 para. 1 lit. f GDPR for the implementation of business activities. This data transmitted to us will only be used for the execution of the conversation and will not be passed on to third parties.
We will delete this data when it is no longer needed for the respective purpose. That is, when the exchange with you by e-mail or via the contact form has ended and we have fully processed your request. Mandatory legal provisions - in particular retention periods - remain unaffected.

4. Processing in third countries in general

Unless and insofar as otherwise stated above, the processing of your personal data in countries outside the European Union (EU) or the European Economic Area (EEA) is carried out exclusively on the basis of the legal requirements pursuant to Article 44 of the GDPR. In the present case, this is exclusively the case either on the basis of an adequacy decision of the European Commission (Sect. 45 GDPR) and/or on the basis of appropriate guarantees (Sect. 46 GDPR).

5. General storage period

In general, personal data is stored exclusively for as long as is necessary to fulfil the purpose of the data collection or to comply with the respective statutory retention period. After the purpose ceases to exist or the period expires, the data is deleted.

6. Data subject rights

Insofar as we have processed personal data from you, you are a data subject within the meaning of the GDPR and you are entitled to the following rights against us:

• Sect. 15 GDPR - You can request information about your personal data processed by us. In particular, you can request information about the processing purposes, the category of personal data, the categories of recipients to whom your data has 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 of complaint, the origin of your data if it has not been collected by us, as well as the existence of automated decision-making including profiling and, if applicable, meaningful information about its details.
  
• Sect. 16 GDPR - You can immediately request the correction of incorrect or completion of your personal data stored by us.
  
• Sect. 17 GDPR - You may request the erasure of your personal data stored by us, unless the processing is necessary for the exercise of the right to freedom of expression and information, for compliance with a legal obligation, for reasons of public interest or for the establishment, exercise or defence of legal claims.
  
• Sect. 18 GDPR - You can demand the restriction of the processing of your personal data, as far as the correctness of the data is disputed by you, the processing is unlawful, but you refuse its deletion and we no longer need the data, but you need it for the assertion, exercise or defense of legal claims or you have objected to the processing in accordance with Sect. 21 GDPR.
  
• Sect. 20 GDPR - You may receive your personal data that you have provided to us in a structured, commonly used and machine-readable format or request that it be transferred to another controller.
  
• Sect. 7 para. 3 GDPR - You can revoke your consent once given to us at any time. This has the consequence that we may no longer continue the data processing based on this consent for the future.
  
• Sect. 77 GDPR - You can complain to a supervisory authority. As a rule, you can contact the supervisory authority of your usual place of residence or workplace or our registered office for this purpose.

7. Right of objection

If your personal data is processed on the basis of legitimate interests pursuant to Sect. 6 (1) sentence 1 lit. f GDPR, you have the right to object to the processing of your personal data pursuant to Sect. 21 GDPR, provided that there are grounds for doing so that arise from your particular situation or the objection is directed against direct advertising. In the latter case, you have a general right of objection, which is implemented by us without specifying a particular situation.
If you wish to make use of your right of revocation or objection, it is sufficient to send an e-mail to the e-mail address given above in the imprint.