Privacy Policy

1. Name and contact details of the controller

This data protection information applies to data processing by:

Controller: ab&d Rechtsanwälte – Bystry Dauskardt PartG (hereinafter: ab&d), Flensburger Str 11/13, D-10557 Berlin, Germany, e-mail: kontakt@abd-partner.de, telephone: +49 (0)30 – 364141-90, fax: +49 (0)30 – 364141-999.

2. Collection and storage of personal data when visiting our website as well as the type and purpose of their use

When you access our website abd-partner.de, the browser used on your terminal device automatically sends information to the server of our website. This information is temporarily stored in a so-called log file. The following information is collected without your intervention and stored until it is automatically deleted:

  • IP address of the requesting computer,
  • date and time of access,
  • name and URL of the file retrieved,
  • website from which the access is made (referrer URL),
  • the browser used and, if applicable, the operating system of your computer as well as the name of your access provider.

The aforementioned data are 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, and
  • for other administrative purposes.

The legal basis for the data processing is Art. 6 para. 1 sentence 1 lit. f GDPR. Our legitimate interest follows from the purposes listed above for data collection. Under no circumstances do we use the collected data to draw conclusions about your person.

3. Disclosure of data

Your personal data will not be transferred to third parties for purposes other than those listed below. We only pass on your personal data to third parties if:

  • you have given your express consent pursuant to Art. 6 para. 1 sentence 1 lit. a GDPR,
  • the disclosure pursuant to Art. 6 para. 1 sentence 1 lit. f GDPR is necessary for the establishment, exercise, or defense of legal claims and there is no reason to assume that you have an overriding legitimate interest in the non-disclosure of your data,
  • in the event that there is a legal obligation to disclose pursuant to Art. 6 para. 1 sentence 1 lit. c GDPR, and
  • this is legally permissible and necessary pursuant to Art. 6 para. 1 sentence 1 lit. b GDPR for the performance of contractual relationships with you.

4. Cookies

In order to make your visit to our website attractive and to enable the use of certain functions, we use so-called cookies on various pages. These are small files that your browser automatically creates and that are stored on your terminal device (laptop, tablet, smartphone etc.) when you visit our website.

The cookie stores information which in each case results in connection with the specific terminal device used. However, this does not mean that we thereby obtain direct knowledge of your identity.

The following types and functions of cookies are distinguished:

  • Temporary cookies (also: session cookies): deleted at the latest after the user leaves an online offering and closes the browser.
  • Permanent cookies: remain stored even after the browser is closed. For example, the login status can be saved or preferred content displayed directly when the user visits a website again. Likewise, user interests which are used for reach measurement or marketing purposes can be stored in such a cookie.
  • First-party cookies: set by us ourselves.
  • Third-party cookies: mainly used by advertisers (so-called third parties) to process user information.
  • Technically necessary cookies: may be absolutely necessary for the operation of a website (e.g. to save logins or other user entries or for security reasons).
  • Statistics, marketing and personalization cookies: generally used in the context of reach measurement as well as when a user’s interests or behavior (e.g. viewing certain content, using functions, etc.) are stored in a user profile on individual websites. Such profiles are used to show users content that corresponds to their potential interests. This process is also referred to as “tracking,” i.e. following the potential interests of users.

Optional cookies and comparable technologies for marketing and analysis purposes are only used if you have given your consent to data processing pursuant to Art. 6 para. 1 sentence 1 lit. a GDPR and to data transfer to third countries pursuant to Art. 49 para. 1 sentence 1 lit. a GDPR via our cookie banner.

Our website uses the WordPress plugin “Borlabs Cookie” to record and manage consents and any withdrawals of consent. If you give your consent to the use of cookies, a cookie is set (“borlabs-cookie”) which records your consent. We set this technically required cookie on the basis of Art. 6 para. 1 sentence 1 lit. f GDPR to document your consent. If you delete cookies, we will ask you again for your consent on a later visit to the website.

5. Google Tag Manager

We use Google Tag Manager on our website. Google Tag Manager is a service of Google Ireland Limited, Gordon House, Barrow Street, Dublin 4, Ireland (“Google”).

Google Tag Manager is a solution that allows us to manage website tags via an interface. A tag is a code element that is stored in the source code of the website to control, for example, which page or service elements and tools are activated and loaded in which order. The Tag Manager tool itself (which implements the tags) is a cookie-less domain and does not collect or store any personal data. Google Tag Manager merely triggers other tags, which may in turn collect data. In some cases, the data are processed on a Google server in the USA. However, Google Tag Manager cannot access these data.

If you have deactivated cookies at the domain or cookie level, this deactivation remains in effect for all tracking tags implemented with Google Tag Manager.

Further detailed information on Google Tag Manager can be found at https://marketingplatform.google.com/about/analytics/tag-manager/use-policy/ and at https://www.google.com/intl/de/policies/privacy/index.html under the section “Data we collect when you use our services.”

6. Google Analytics

Our website uses – on the basis of your consent, which you may revoke at any time – Google Analytics, a web analysis service of our service provider Google Ireland Limited, Gordon House, Barrow Street, Dublin 4, Ireland (“Google”). Google Analytics uses cookies which are stored on your computer and which enable an analysis of your use of the website.

The following types of data are processed by Google:

  • browser type/version
  • operating system used
  • referrer URL (the previously visited page)
  • hostname of the accessing computer (IP address)
  • time of the server request

The information generated by the cookie about your use of this website is generally transmitted to a Google server in the USA and stored there. However, by activating IP anonymization on our website, your IP address is first shortened by Google within member states of the European Union or in other states party to the Agreement on the European Economic Area and thus anonymized. Only in exceptional cases is the full IP address transmitted to a Google server in the USA and shortened there.

On our behalf, Google will use the transmitted information to evaluate your use of the website, to compile reports on website activity and to provide us with further services related to website use and Internet use.

The legal basis for the processing of personal data described here is your consent, which you may have given for data processing pursuant to Art. 6 para. 1 sentence 1 lit. a GDPR and for data transfer pursuant to Art. 49 para. 1 sentence 1 lit. a GDPR in the cookie banner. In the Privacy Settings you can revoke your consent at any time with effect for the future or adjust your selection.

You can also prevent Google from collecting the data generated by the cookie and relating to your use of the website (including your shortened IP address) as well as from processing these data by downloading and installing the browser add-on available at the following link: http://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=de.

If you prevent the storage of cookies, please note that in this case not all functions of our website may be fully usable.

Further information on data protection in connection with Google Analytics can be found, for example, in Google’s data protection information and in the Google Analytics privacy policy.

7. Google Maps

We use the Google Maps map service on our website, which is offered for users from the European Economic Area and Switzerland by Google Ireland Limited, Gordon House, Barrow Street, Dublin 4, Ireland, and for all other users by Google LLC, 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway Mountain View, CA 94043, USA (“Google”). In order for the Google map material we use to be integrated and displayed in your web browser, your web browser must establish a connection to a Google server, which may also be located in the USA, when you call up the contact page. Google thereby receives the information that the contact page of our website has been accessed from the IP address of your device. We would like to point out that data transmission to third countries involves certain risks (e.g. access to data by authorities of the third country).

The legal basis is your consent, which you may have given for data processing pursuant to Art. 6 para. 1 sentence 1 lit. a GDPR and for data transfer pursuant to Art. 49 para. 1 sentence 1 lit. a GDPR in the cookie banner. Without your consent, no connection to Google’s servers will be established. In the Privacy Settings you can revoke your consent at any time or adjust your selection.

If you call up the Google Maps service on our website while logged into your Google profile, Google may also link this event to your Google profile. If you do not want it to be assigned to your Google profile, you must log out of Google before calling up our contact page. Google stores your data and uses it for advertising, market research and personalized display of Google Maps. You can object to this data collection by Google.
Further information on this can be found in Google’s privacy policy and in the Additional Terms of Use for Google Maps.

8. Rights of data subjects

You have the right:

  • pursuant to Art. 15 GDPR to request information about your personal data processed by us. In particular, you may request information about the purposes of 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, as well as the existence of automated decision-making including profiling and, if applicable, meaningful information on its details;
  • pursuant to Art. 16 GDPR to request the immediate rectification of inaccurate or completion of your personal data stored by us;
  • pursuant to Art. 17 GDPR to request the deletion of your personal data stored by us, unless the processing is necessary for exercising 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 defense of legal claims;
  • pursuant to Art. 18 GDPR to request the restriction of the processing of your personal data if the accuracy of the data is contested by you, the processing is unlawful but you oppose its deletion and we no longer need the data, but you need it for the establishment, exercise or defense of legal claims, or you have objected to processing pursuant to Art. 21 GDPR;
  • pursuant to Art. 20 GDPR to receive the personal data that you have provided to us in a structured, commonly used and machine-readable format or to request the transfer to another controller;
  • pursuant to Art. 7 para. 3 GDPR to revoke your consent given to us at any time. As a result, we may no longer continue the data processing that was based on this consent in the future; and
  • pursuant to Art. 77 GDPR to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority. As a rule, you can contact the supervisory authority of your usual place of residence or work or our law firm’s registered office for this purpose.

9. Right to object

If your personal data are processed on the basis of legitimate interests pursuant to Art. 6 para. 1 sentence 1 lit. f GDPR, you have the right to object to the processing of your personal data pursuant to Art. 21 GDPR if there are grounds relating to your particular situation or if the objection is directed against direct marketing. In the latter case, you have a general right to object which will be implemented by us without specification of a particular situation.

If you wish to exercise your right of revocation or objection, simply send an e-mail to info@abd.legal

10. Data security

During your visit to the website we use the widespread SSL (Secure Socket Layer) method in connection with the highest level of encryption supported by your browser. As a rule, this is 256-bit encryption. If your browser does not support 256-bit encryption, we instead use 128-bit v3 technology. You can recognize whether an individual page of our website is transmitted in encrypted form by the closed display of the key or lock symbol in the lower status bar of your browser.

We also use appropriate technical and organizational security measures to protect your data against accidental or intentional manipulation, partial or complete loss, destruction or against unauthorized access by third parties. Our security measures are continuously improved in line with technological developments.

11. Up-to-dateness and amendment of this privacy policy

This privacy policy is currently valid and has the status of November 2021.

Due to the further development of our website and offers on it or due to changed legal or official requirements, it may become necessary to change this privacy policy. The current privacy policy can be accessed and printed out by you at any time on the website at https://abd.legal/privacy-policy