Privacy Policy

Welcome to Rechtsanwälte Lintl, Renger Partnerschaft mbB; we take the protection of your data very seriously and treat your data in accordance with the legal regulations. In the following, we inform you about the handling of your personal data when using our website and our offer. Personal data is all data with which you can be personally identified as a user of our online offer.

With regard to the terms used, for the sake of clarity we refer to the definitions of Art. 4 of the GDPR, which can be accessed under the following link: https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/DE/TXT/?uri=celex:32016R0679.

1. responsibility

The responsible person, i.e. the natural or legal person who alone or jointly with others determines the purposes and means of the processing of personal data, is:

Rechtsanwälte Lintl, Renger Partnerschaft mbB

Nymphenburger Str. 20a

80335 Munich

Germany

info@lr-ip.de

Partners:

RA Gregor Lintl, RA Christian Renger

2. data collection when visiting our website

In the case of merely calling up our online offer, i.e. without providing any other information, only the data transmitted to our server by your browser of the respective user (so-called “server log files”) are collected. This involves the following technically necessary data:

Our visited website
Date and time at the time of access
Amount of data sent in bytes
Source/reference from which you came to the page
Browser used together with its current language setting and version
Operating system used
IP address used

These log files are processed in accordance with Art. 6 Para. 1 lit. f GDPR on the basis of our legitimate interest in analyzing errors, improving the stability and functionality of our website and preventing and warding off abuse. In the event of concrete indications of unlawful use, we reserve the right to subsequently review the log files and/or – if necessary – provide the information necessary for law enforcement authorities in the event of a cyber-attack.

3. cookies

We use cookies to make our online offer more user-friendly and secure and to enable you to use certain functions. Cookies are pieces of information that are transferred from our web server or third-party web servers to your browser and stored there for later retrieval. Information is stored in cookies, each of which is related to the specific end device used and enables the browser to be uniquely identified when the website is called up again. A cookie also contains information about its origin and the storage period. However, this does not mean that we thereby obtain direct knowledge of your identity.

We use different types of cookies, although not all of the cookies mentioned are used compulsorily. On the one hand, we use necessary session cookies, which are required to navigate our online offer and to operate the basic functions of the website. These cookies are deleted after you close your browser. On the other hand, there are performance, or functional cookies, which are used to improve the user-friendliness of our online offer. These cookies collect information in an aggregated manner about the way our online offering is used, such as the number of visits and the average time spent on the pages called up. Aggregated data is individual data that can no longer be traced back to a person. These cookies are automatically deleted after a specified period of time, which varies depending on the cookie.

In addition, analysis/advertising/marketing social media cookies may be used, for example, to improve the user-friendliness of our online offering. With analysis cookies, we can determine, for example, how our website is used and which search terms are used to call it up. By means of advertising cookies, relevant advertising content can be displayed to you in a more targeted manner and the effectiveness of advertising campaigns can be measured/controlled. Marketing cookies register whether a website is visited and which content is used. Social media cookies are set by social networks, e.g. when registering via the login data of a social network. This information may be shared with third parties (e.g. advertisers) and is often linked to third-party site functionalities (third-party cookies). Where such cookies are used, we inform you in this privacy policy about the scope of the information collected in each case.

NOTE: You can either delete individual cookies or remove the entire cookie inventory via your browser settings, or activate a “Do-Not-Track-Fuction”. You can usually find information about managing your cookies under “Help” or “Settings” in your browser. For more information and instructions on how to delete these cookies or block their storage in advance, see the links below:

– Mozilla Firefox: https://support.mozilla.org/de/kb/cookies-erlauben-und-ablehnen

– Microsoft Edge: https://support.microsoft.com/de-de/microsoft-edge/cookies-in-microsoft-edge-l%C3%B6schen-63947406-40ac-c3b8-57b9-2a946a29ae09

– Google Chrome: https://support.google.com/accounts/answer/61416?hl=de

– Opera: https://help.opera.com/de/latest/web-preferences/#cookies

– Safari: https://support.apple.com/de-de/guide/safari/sfri11471/mac

4. your rights as a data subject

Right to information (Art. 15 GDPR): You have the right to receive information about whether data concerning you is being processed. In addition, you have a right to further information in accordance with the legal requirements as well as surrender in the form of a copy of the data.

Right to rectification (Art. 16 GDPR): In accordance with the legal requirements, you have the right to completion of the data concerning you as well as to correction of the incorrect data concerning you.

Right to erasure (Art. 17 GDPR): In accordance with the legal requirements, you have the right to the immediate deletion of the data concerning you.

Right to restriction of processing (Art. 18 GDPR): You have a right to request the restriction of processing in accordance with the law.

Right to information (Art. 19 GDPR): You will be informed about the disclosure/correction/deletion/restriction of the processing of your personal data in accordance with the legal requirements and have a right to information regarding the recipients in accordance with the legal requirements.

Right to data portability (Art. 20 GDPR): In accordance with the legal requirements, you have a right to be provided with the data relating to you that you have made available to us; in doing so, you may also request that it be transferred to other data controllers.

Right of appeal to a data protection supervisory authority (Art. 77 GDPR): You have the right to lodge a complaint with the competent supervisory authority.

5. right of revocation

You can revoke your consent in accordance with Art. 7 (3) GDPR at any time with effect for the future.

6. right of objection

Pursuant to Art. 21 GDPR, you have the right to object to the future processing of data concerning you in accordance with the statutory provisions. In particular, the objection may also be directed against processing for direct marketing purposes. If you exercise your right to object, we will terminate the processing of the data concerned unless we can demonstrate compelling legitimate grounds for further processing that override your interests/basic rights. Such a reason may also exist if the further processing serves the assertion/exercise/defense of legal claims.

7. security measures

7.1 Technical and organizational measures

In order to ensure a level of protection commensurate with the risk, we shall, in accordance with

– the legal requirements, taking into account the state of the art,

– the implementation costs, the nature, scope, circumstances and purposes of the processing, and

– the varying likelihood and severity of the risk to the rights and freedoms of natural persons.

for appropriate technical and organizational measures. These measures shall include, in particular, ensuring the confidentiality, integrity and availability of data through

– Controlling physical access to the data,

– Control of access to the data,

– controlling the input and transfer of data, ensuring their availability, and separating them.

In addition, we have established procedures that guarantee the exercise of data subjects’ rights, deletion of data, and response to data compromise.

7.2 SSL or TLS encryption

Within the scope of our online offer, we use SSL or TLS encryption for security reasons and to protect the transmission of personal data and other confidential content. You can recognize the encrypted connection by the string “https://” and the lock symbol in your browser line.

7.3 Wordfence

To protect our website from unwanted access and/or cyberattacks, we use Wordfence. Wordfence is a security plugin from Defiant Inc, Defiant, Inc, 800 5th Ave Ste 4100, Seattle, WA 98104, USA (“Wordfence”). Through features such as a firewall and malware scanner, cyber-attacks can be detected and defended against in a timely manner. For this purpose, our website establishes a permanent connection to Wordfence’s servers so that Wordfence can check its databases against the accesses made on our website and block them if necessary.

Wordfence is used on the basis of our legitimate interest in the security of our website pursuant to Art. 6 (1) lit. f GDPR. We have concluded a so-called order processing agreement with Defiant Inc., by which Defiant Inc. is obliged to protect the data of our website users and not to pass it on to third parties. The data transfer to the USA is based on the standard contractual clauses of the EU Commission. Details can be found here: https://www.wordfence.com/help/general-data-protection-regulation/. If a corresponding consent was requested, the processing is based exclusively on Art. 6 para. 1 lit. a GDPR; the consent can be revoked at any time.

8. contact options

8.1 Contact form/email/telephone

In the context of contacting us, which is possible via contact form, e-mail or telephone, personal data is collected. The type of data collected can be found in the contact form, or was communicated by you via e-mail/telephone. This data is stored and used exclusively for the purpose of responding to your request or for contacting you and the associated technical administration. The legal basis with regard to contractual/pre-contractual relations results from Art. 6 para. 1 lit. b. GDPR. Furthermore, the processing of this data is carried out within the framework of our legitimate interest in responding to your request in accordance with Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f GDPR. We delete the data processed in the course of contacting you as soon as the request has been conclusively clarified and the data is no longer required, provided that no legal archiving obligations speak against this. The review of the necessity takes place annually.

8.2 Live Chat Userlike

We use the live chat of Userlike UG (haftungsbeschränkt), Probsteigasse 44-46, 50670 Cologne (hereinafter “Userlike”). Userlike uses cookies to enable you to have a personal conversation with us in the form of a real-time chat. It is not necessary to provide a name for this; the chat can be conducted anonymously. We use the so-called privacy mode when using Userlike. This means that your IP address is stored anonymously in the cookies and is not used to identify you personally.

If you disclose personal data about yourself during the anonymous chat, this is done voluntarily. The processing of your personal data takes place on the basis of Article 6 para. 1 lit. f) GDPR, as we have a legitimate interest in the functionality of the chat function to be directly available to users; or with regard to contractual / pre-contractual relationships on the basis of Art. 6 para. 1 lit. b. GDPR. We delete the data processed in the course of contacting you as soon as the inquiry has been conclusively clarified and the data is no longer required, provided that no legal archiving obligations speak against this. For further information, please refer to the Userlike privacy policy: https://www.userlike.com/de/terms#privacy-policy.

9. analysis services

9.1 Google Analytics

For the purpose of the ongoing optimization of our site and our advertising measures, we use Google Analytics. Google Analytics is a web analytics service provided by Google Ireland Limited, Gordon House, Barrow Street, Dublin 4, Ireland (“Google”; parent company: Google LLC, 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA). Cookies are used to store information about your use of the website and your IP address, which is automatically shortened by the last four digits, and transmitted to Google servers.

The data obtained from this is used to optimize our website and advertising measures. The transmitted IP address, automatically shortened by the last four digits, is not merged with other Google data and excludes a direct personal reference of the collected information.

In addition, Google Analytics enables the creation of statistics with statements about the age, gender and interests of site visitors based on an evaluation of interest-based advertising and using third-party information via the “demographic characteristics” function. This allows the definition and differentiation of user groups of the website for the purpose of targeting marketing measures; an assignment to a specific person is not possible.

We have concluded a so-called order processing agreement with Google for our use of Google Analytics, by which Google is obliged to protect the data of our website users and not to pass it on to third parties. Nevertheless, it is possible that the data will be forwarded to Google LLC in the USA and processed there. In this case, Google invokes the so-called standard contractual clauses of the European Commission, which we have contractually agreed with Google, to ensure compliance with the European level of data protection.

The legal basis for this data processing is Article 6 (1) a) GDPR, provided you have consented to its use. Without this consent, Google Analytics will not be used during your visit to the site. You can revoke your consent at any time with effect for the future. To exercise your revocation, deactivate Google Analytics in our “Cookie Consent Tool”. The data collected as part of the use of Google Analytics will be retained for two months and then deleted.

For more information on Google Analytics and the standard contractual clauses, please refer to Google’s privacy policy at https://policies.google.com/privacy/frameworks?hl=de.

9.2 Google Tag Manager

We use the Google Tag Manager to manage website tags. The Google Tag Manager is a service of Google Ireland Limited, Gordon House, Barrow Street, Dublin 4, Ireland (“Google”; parent company: Google LLC, 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA). Google Tag Manager provides a uniform interface for managing website tags and tools. We inform you about the use of the individual tools in this privacy policy (e.g. Google Analytics). The service provides for the triggering of other tags, which in turn may collect data. However, the Google Tag Manager does not access this data. However, the Google Tag Manager transmits your IP address to Google (possibly also Google LLC in the USA) when you access a page and may store it there.

We have concluded a so-called order processing agreement with Google, which obliges Google to protect the data of our website users and not to pass it on to third parties. A forwarding of the data solely responsible for data protection to Google LLC in the USA and a processing of the data there is nevertheless possible. In this case, Google invokes the so-called standard contractual clauses of the European Commission to ensure compliance with the European level of data protection.

The legal basis for this data processing is Article 6 (1) a) GDPR, provided that you have consented to its use. Without this consent, Google Tag Manager will not be used during your visit to the site. You can revoke your consent at any time with effect for the future. To exercise your revocation, please deactivate this service in the “Cookie Consent Tool” provided on the website. For more information on Google Tag Manager and the standard contractual clauses, please visit https://policies.google.com/privacy/frameworks?hl=de and https://www.google.com/intl/de/tagmanager/faq.html.

10. hosting, site functionality

10.1 Hosting and e-mail dispatch

For the operation of our online offer, we use the following external hosting services of the provider of &1 IONOS Internet SE, Elgendorfer Str. 57, 56410 Montabaur (“IONOS”) on the basis of our legitimate interest in an efficient and secure provision of our online offer (Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f GDPR):

– Infrastructure and platform services,

– computing capacity, storage space and database services,

– e-mail dispatch services,

– security services and technical maintenance services.

All data collected as part of our online offering is processed on the servers of this provider. We have concluded an order processing agreement with this provider to ensure the protection of your data and to prohibit unauthorized disclosure to third parties.

For more information, you can access the privacy policy of the hosting provider at the following link: https://www.ionos.de/terms-gtc/terms-privacy.

10.2 Google Fonts

For the purpose of demand-oriented design, we use Google Fonts on the basis of your consent. Google Fonts are fonts which are provided by Google Ireland Limited, Gordon House, Barrow Street, Dublin 4, Ireland, (“Google”; parent company: Google LLC, 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA) are downloaded when the website is called up. This is technically necessary, as otherwise no characters could be displayed. During this process, data such as IP address is forwarded to Google. With regard to the USA, the European Court of Justice has determined that this is a country with an insufficient level of data protection. In this context, there is a particular risk that your data will be processed by American institutions / authorities for control and monitoring purposes without you having an adequate legal remedy against this. The use of Google Fonts is based on your consent pursuant to Art. 6 para. 1 lit. a GDPR. You can revoke your given consent at any time with effect for the future by deactivating this service in the “Cookie Consent Tool” provided on the website. If your browser does not support web fonts, a default font will be used by your computer.

For more information on Google Fonts, please see Google’s privacy policy: https://www.google.com/policies/privacy/.

11 Online (Re-)Marketing

11.1 DoubleClick of the Google Marketing Platform

For marketing purposes, we use DoubleClick of the Google Marketing Platform. Google DoubleClick is an online marketing tool from Google Ireland Limited, Gordon House, Barrow Street, Dublin 4, Ireland, (“Google”; parent company: Google LLC, 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA). DoubleClick uses cookies to serve relevant ads to users on the one hand and to limit the frequency of the same ads on the other hand. In addition, Google can use cookie IDs to record so-called conversions. In this way, Google recognizes whether a user who has seen an ad later calls up the website of the ad server and purchases something there/performs an interaction. According to Google, these cookies do not contain any personal information.

Your browser automatically establishes a direct connection with Google’s server, whereby we have no influence on the scope and further use of your data collected by Google. According to Google, by integrating DoubleClick, Google only receives the information that you have called up the relevant part of our website or clicked on the ad from us. If you are registered with a Google service, Google can assign the visit to your account. Even if you are not registered with Google or have not logged in, there is a possibility that the provider learns your IP address and stores it.

We have concluded a so-called order processing agreement with Google, which obliges Google to protect the data of our website users and not to pass it on to third parties. Nevertheless, it is possible that the data will be forwarded to Google LLC in the USA and processed there. In this case, Google invokes the so-called standard contractual clauses of the European Commission to ensure compliance with the European level of data protection.

The legal basis for this data processing is Article 6 (1) a) GDPR, provided you have consented to its use. Without this consent, DoubleClick of the Google Marketing Platform will not be used during your visit to the site. You can revoke your granted consent at any time with effect for the future. To exercise your revocation, deactivate DoubleClick in our “Cookie Consent Tool”. For more information on DoubleClick and the standard contractual clauses, please see Google’s privacy policy at https://policies.google.com/privacy/frameworks?hl=de. For more information on how to object to the advertisements displayed by Google, please visit https://policies.google.com/technologies/ads.

11.2 Google Ads Conversion Tracking

For advertising purposes, we use the online tool Google Ads and, within the framework of Google Ads, conversion tracking. Google Google Ads is an advertising and analysis tool of Google Ireland Limited, Gordon House, Barrow Street, Dublin 4, Ireland, (“Google”; parent company: Google LLC, 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA). Google Ads uses cookies to display ads that are relevant to users and to limit the frequency of the same ads. With the help of cookie IDs, Google can record so-called conversions that are related to ad requests. This allows Google and us to recognize that you clicked on our ad and were redirected to the advertised website.

The legal basis for this data processing is Article 6 (1) a) GDPR, provided that you have consented to its use. Without this consent, Google Analytics will not be used during your visit to the site. You can revoke your consent at any time with effect for the future. To exercise your revocation, deactivate Google Ads Conversion Tracking in our “Cookie Consent Tool”. For more information on Google Ads Conversion Tracking and the standard contractual clauses, please see Google’s privacy policy at https://policies.google.com/privacy/frameworks?hl=de.

11.3 Google Remarketing

We use Google Remarketing for analysis purposes. Google Remarketing is an advertising analysis tool provided by Google Ireland Limited, Gordon House, Barrow Street, Dublin 4, Ireland, (“Google”; parent company: Google LLC, 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA). Remarketing sets cookies that recognize users by means of an automatically created pseudonymous cookie ID when pages from Google’s advertising network are accessed. On these pages, you may be presented with advertisements that relate to content previously visited.

Your browser automatically establishes a direct connection with the Google server, whereby we have no influence on the scope and further use of your data collected by Google. If you are registered with a Google service, Google can assign the visit to your account and temporarily linked with Google Analytics data to form target groups.

The legal basis for this data processing is Article 6 (1) a) GDPR, provided you have consented to its use. Without this consent, remarketing will not be used during your visit to the site. You can revoke your consent at any time with effect for the future. To exercise your revocation, deactivate remarketing in our “Cookie Consent Tool”. For more information on remarketing and the standard contractual clauses, please see Google’s privacy policy at https://policies.google.com/privacy/frameworks?hl=de and https://policies.google.com/technologies/ads.

12. Cookie Consent Tool

We use a so-called “cookie consent tool” to obtain your consent to the use of cookies and cookie-based applications that require your consent. When you access the page, you will be shown an interactive window in which you can agree to the setting of selected cookies. All cookies/services requiring your consent will only be loaded if you have given the corresponding consent. In order to improve the user experience, the cookie consent tool sets technically necessary cookies to save your setting. If, in deviation from the normal case, personal data, such as your IP address, is processed in the process, this is done on the basis of our legitimate interest in legally compliant, user-specific and user-friendly consent management for cookies, Art. 6 (1) lit. f GDPR. In addition, the processing is carried out in accordance with Art. 6 (1) lit. c GDPR to fulfill our legal obligation as the responsible party. We have concluded an order processing agreement with the provider to ensure the protection of your data and to prohibit unauthorized disclosure to third parties. For more information about the provider, please refer to the information within the cookie consent tool.

13. changes to the privacy policy

Legal innovations or changes to the data processing carried out by us may make it necessary to adapt this data protection declaration. For this reason, we ask you to regularly check the content of our privacy policy. Should a change require an act of cooperation on your part (e.g. consent) or other individual notification, we will inform you in a timely and appropriate manner.

14 Deletion of data

In accordance with the legal requirements, we delete the data stored by us on the basis of explicit consent (Art. 6 (1) a GDPR) as soon as you have revoked your consent. When processing personal data on the basis of Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR, this data will be stored until you exercise your right to object pursuant to Art. 21(1) GDPR, unless we can demonstrate compelling legitimate grounds for further processing that override your interests/basic rights. Such a reason may also exist if the further processing serves the assertion/exercise/defense of legal claims. In all other respects, your data will be deleted as soon as the purpose underlying the storage has ceased to exist or the storage period of the data stored in potential cookies (cf. the specified period in the Cookie Consent Tool) has expired, or after 24 months at the latest, provided that there are no statutory storage obligations to the contrary and no deviating provisions have been made in this data protection declaration. If the data cannot be deleted due to its necessity for other, legally permissible purposes (e.g. retention for commercial or tax law reasons), its processing will be restricted. In this case, the data is processed exclusively for this purpose and is otherwise blocked.

Status: March 2023

Data privacy policy