Privacy Policy www.proximuscounsel.com

 

§ 1 General Information on Data Processing

  • In the following, the owner and operator of the website www.proximuscounsel.com ("Website"), attorney-at-law Dr. Ralf Thaeter, (see § 2, "we", "us", "our") informs about the collection of personal data when using our Website. Personal data are all data that can be related to you personally, including, but not limited to, name, address, e-mail addresses, user behavior.

  • In addition, we inform you about the processing of personal data in the context of client processing. In the course of providing our legal services, we generally also process personal data. We take our lawyer's duty of confidentiality and the trust of our clients very seriously. The lawyer's duty of confidentiality is particularly protected by law.

 

§ 2 Responsible person

The responsible person pursuant to Article 4 (7) of the EU General Data Protection Regulation ("DSGVO") is Attorney-at-Law Rechtsanwalt Dr. Ralf Thaeter, Kurfürstendamm 194, 10707 Berlin, info@proximuscounsel.com, Tel. +49 30 84418620 (see Imprint). You can send inquiries to our data protection officer via datenschutz@proximuscounsel.com or via our postal address with the addition of "Data protection matter".

§ 3 Data subject rights

You have the right:

  • Art. 7 (3) DSGVO to revoke a consent once given to us at any time. This has the consequence that we may no longer continue any data processing based on this consent for the future;
  • Art. 15 DSGVO to 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;
  • Art. 16 DSGVO to demand the correction of incorrect or completion of your personal data stored by us without delay;
  • Art. 17 DSGVO to 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 defense of legal claims;

  • Art. 18 DSGVO to request the restriction of the processing of your personal data, insofar as the accuracy of the data is contested by you, the processing is unlawful, but you object to its erasure 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 pursuant to Art. 21 DSGVO

  • Art. 20 DSGVO to receive your personal data that you have provided to us in a structured, common and machine-readable format or to request the transfer to another controller and
  • Art. 77 DSGVO to 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.

To exercise the above rights, please contact us by means of the options mentioned under § 2.

§ 4 Information about your right to object

Insofar as your personal data is processed on the basis of legitimate interests pursuant to Art. 6 (1) p. 1 lit. f DSGVO, you have the right to object to the processing of your personal data pursuant to Art. 21 DSGVO, insofar as there are grounds for doing so that arise from your particular situation. If you wish to exercise your right of objection, an e-mail to datenschutz@proximuscounsel.com will suffice.

§ 5 Collection, processing and use of your data when using our website

When using the website, we only collect the personal data that your browser transmits to our server. This is the following data, which is technically necessary for us to display our website to you and to ensure stability and security (legal basis is Art. 6 para. 1 p. 1 lit. f DSGVO, whereby our legitimate interest lies in the technical possibility of website operation):

  • IP address;

  • Date and time of the request;

  • Time zone difference from Greenwich Mean Time (GMT);

  • Content of the request (specific page);

  • Access status/HTTP status code;

  • Amount of data transferred in each case;

  • Website from which the request came;

  • Browser;

  • Operating system and its interface; and

  • Language and version of the browser software.

In addition, we process your personal data only if there is a legitimate interest in the context of the operation of the website, in particular:

  • for responding to inquiries;

  • for the provision of services and/or information intended for you;

  • for the operation and administration of our website;

  • for the prevention and detection of fraud and crime; and/or

  • for ensuring network and data security, to the extent that such interests are, in each case,

  • consistent with applicable law and with the rights and freedoms of the user;

  • you have consented to the use for the specifically stated lawful purposes; or

  • we are obliged to do so for legal reasons.

 

§ 6 Deletion of stored data

Deletion of your stored personal data will take place if there are no legal obligations to retain the data or if the personal data is no longer required for its intended purpose in accordance with Art. 17 DSGVO. If there is a legally permissible purpose for the continued storage of the personal data, its processing will be restricted in accordance with Art. 18 DSGVO by blocking this data and no longer processing it. This applies in particular to data that must be retained for legal reasons.

§ 7 Collection and storage of personal data as well as type and purpose and their use

In case of mandate
If you mandate us, we generally collect the following information:

  • Your title, first name, last name and, if applicable, the name of your company,

  • your e-mail address,

  • your address,

  • the telephone numbers you provide us with, and

  • the information necessary for the consultation and, if applicable, for the assertion and defense of your rights within the scope of the mandate.

The collection of this data is done,

  • to be able to identify you as our client;

  • to comply with our professional duties (e.g. from the BRAO and the BORA);

  • to be able to provide you with appropriate legal advice and representation;

  • for correspondence with you;

  • for invoicing; and

  • for the settlement of any mutual claims.

The data processing for these purposes is based on your request to accept a mandate and is necessary for the appropriate processing of the mandate and for the mutual fulfillment of obligations arising from the mandate agreement pursuant to Art. 6 para. 1 sentence 1 lit. b DSGVO.

 

The personal data collected by us will be stored until the expiry of the statutory retention obligation for lawyers (6 years after the end of the calendar year in which the mandate was terminated) and then deleted, unless we are obliged to store the data for a longer period due to tax and commercial law retention and documentation obligations (e.g. from the German Commercial Code (HGB), German Criminal Code (StGB) or German Tax Code (AO), currently between 2 and 10 years), there are legitimate interests in storing the data (e.g. during the course of limitation periods for the purpose of a possibly necessary legal defense) or you have consented to storage beyond this in accordance with Art. 6 Para. 1 S. 1 lit. a DSGVO.

 

§ 8 Transfer of data from the client relationship to third parties

Your personal data will not be transferred to third parties for purposes other than those listed below without your consent. Insofar as this is necessary in accordance with Art. 6 Para. 1 Sentence 1 lit. b DSGVO for the processing of mandate relationships with you, your personal data will be passed on to third parties. This includes, in particular, the disclosure as intended to negotiating partners, opposing parties in proceedings and their representatives (in particular their lawyers) as well as to arbitration courts and arbitration institutions, courts and other public authorities for the purpose of correspondence and the assertion and defense of your rights. The data disclosed may be used by the third party exclusively for the purposes stated. The attorney-client privilege remains unaffected. Insofar as data subject to attorney-client privilege is involved, the above-described disclosure to third parties shall only take place in consultation with you.

 

§ 9 Transfer of data from the client relationship to third countries

Depending on the content of the client relationship, it may be necessary for us to transfer your data to a third country. If we do so, this transfer will take place in order to fulfill our obligations arising from the client-lawyer relationship or to assert, exercise or defend your legal claims.

 

§ 10 Amendment of this data protection information

This privacy policy is valid as of April 2022. Due to the further development of our website or due to changes in legal or regulatory requirements, it may become necessary to amend this privacy policy. You can access and print out the current data protection information on our website at any time.