SCHNELLER LEGAL is happy to welcome you to this website. The protection of your personal data is a priority for SCHNELLER LEGAL. All handling of your personal data is done in strict compliance with the law, in particular the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and the Federal Data Protection Act (new version) (Bundesdatenschutzgesetz – BDSG).

1) The responsibility for data processing lies with:

SCHNELLER LEGAL
Responsible: Attorney Stephan Schneller
Nymphenburger Str. 127

80636 Munich, Germany

t   +49 (0) 89 235 42 990

m +49 (0) 172 84 23 104

f   +49 (0) 89 800 45 479

info@schneller.legal

www.schneller.legal

2) Use of “Cookies”:

We do not use cookies

3) Collection of personal data, purpose, and legal basis for its processing

For using the website www.schneller.legal you do not have to share personal data, e.g., your name, phone number, or e-mail address. But personal data is collected, processed, and stored as follows:

When visiting the website, automatically data and technical information will be sent via your Internet browser to the website’s server. The following information will then be temporarily stored in a log file until it is automatically deleted: the IP address of your computer, the name and URL of the file accessed and the access status / HTTP status code of your computer’s browser.

SCHNELLER LEGAL collects and uses the data to ameliorate user’s connection with the website and to maintain enhance and safeguard the security and stability of the website.

Art. 6(1)(f) of the GDPR rules the legal ground for the temporary storage of data. The purposes mentioned above reflects a legitimate basis for the processing of the data by SCHNELLER LEGAL. Under no circumstances are the data used to expose information about you. Related data is not combined with personal data from other sources.

4. Use, disclosure, and deletion of storage of personal data

Your personal data will only be disclosed to third parties – to the extent necessary and legally permissible – if you have explicitly consented thereto, or the law requires same.

Where you provide personal data to and explicitly consent to their use, SCHNELLER LEGAL will only uses the data for the purpose for which this consent is provided. You can always withdraw your consent for the future.

Your personal data will only be processed and stored for as long as and as far as this is necessary for the purposes specified in this Data Protection Statement. Once these purposes have been met, the data is routinely deleted. The Data is not deleted if further processing is necessary to satisfy statutory retention periods or where the statutory limitation periods require data retention for documentary and evidentiary purposes.

5. Security, e-mail communication

SCHNELLER LEGAL employs great efforts for ensuring the required security of your personal data and would like to note that by contacting SCHNELLER LEGAL by e-mail unauthorized use by third persons to read and amend your e-mail without being noticed. At the same time SCHNELLER LEGAL uses spam filtering software to filter unwanted e-mails. If e-mails are erroneously identified as spam due to its specific nature, they may be blocked by the spam filter. We are not obliged to use encryption technology and, therefore, suggest you using regular mail or fax if you wish to forward confidential information. If you communicate with SCHNELLER LEGAL by e-mail without any encryption technology, we understand that your consent is given to communicate in this way.

6. Links to other websites:

Our website may contain links to other websites. SCHNELLER LEGAL is not responsible for their content and privacy statements.

7. Integration of Google Maps

On this website Google Maps is used. This allows us to display interactive maps directly on the website and provides your use of the map function.

By visiting the website, Google receives the information that you have called up on the related subpage of the website. Also, the data mentioned under point 3 of this statement will be transmitted, and regardless of whether Google provides a user account that you are logged in or whether no user account exists. If you are logged in to Google, your information will be directly associated with your account. If you do not wish to be associated with your profile on Google, you must log out before activating the button. Google stores your data as usage profiles and may use them for purposes of advertising, market research and/or demand-oriented design of its website. In particular, such evaluation takes place (even for unlogged-in users) to provide demand-oriented advertising and to inform other users of the social network of your activities on our website. You have the right to object to the creation of these user profiles, whereby you must contact Google to exercise this right.

As for further information on the purpose and scope of data collection and its processing by the plug-in provider, please revert to the provider’s privacy policy. There you will also find further information about your rights for the protection of your privacy: https://www.google.de/intl/de/policies/privacy. Google also processes your personal data in the USA and has submitted to the EU-US Privacy Shield, https://www.privacyshield.gov/EU-US-Framework.

8. Right to access, right to object and other rights

You have a right to access information regarding your personal data stored at any time (Art. 15 of the GDPR). Moreover, you have the right to demand that inaccurate data about you be corrected and that incomplete data be completed (Art. 16 of the GDPR).

Where the statutory requirements are met, you have, in addition, the right to demand that data be deleted or that processing be restricted (blocked) (Art. 17 and Art. 18 of the GDPR).

Moreover, where SCHNELLER LEGAL processes your personal data to safeguard its legitimate interests, you have the right to object at any time to such processing of your personal data on grounds relating to your specific situation (Art. 21 of the GDPR).

To exercise your rights, you can contact SCHNELLER LEGAL by postal mail, fax, or e-mail at info@schneller.legal. Please note that for overseeing your request and to identify you SCHNELLER LEGAL will process your personal data pursuant to Art 6(1)(f) of the GDPR.

9. Right to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority

You also have the right to lodge a complaint with a data protection supervisory authority if you are of the opinion that the processing of your data infringes data protection law (Art. 77 of the GDPR). Such complaints may, inter alia, be lodged with the supervisory authority mentioned below:

Bavarian State Authority on Data Protection for the Private Sector
Promenade 27, D-91522 Ansbach, Germany
Contact information: poststelle@lda.bayern.de
www.lda.bayern.de

10. Special Information on data processing for the clients of SCHNELLER LEGAL

SCHNELLER LEGAL advises companies and entrepreneurs. When you mandate SCHNELLER LEGAL the following information will be collected:

• title, first name, last name,
• a valid e-mail address,
• contact address,
• telephone number (landline and/or mobile) and fax number
• information necessary to enforce and defend your rights under the mandate.

This data is collected

• to identify you as the client or their contact person and representative.
• to provide you with appropriate legal advice and representation;
• to communicate with you;
• for invoicing / accounting;
• for the processing of claims.

Following Art. 6 (1)(b) GDPR, data processing for the above-mentioned purposes is necessary for the proper handling of the mandate and for the mutual fulfilment of obligations arising from the mandate.

The personal data collected by SCHNELLER LEGAL for the mandate will be stored up to the end of the legal obligation to retain attorney´s data (six years after the end of the calendar year in which the mandate has ended) and subsequently deleted, unless SCHNELLER LEGAL is required, in accordance with Art. 6 (1)(c) GDPR, due to tax and commercial law storage and documentation obligations (from HGB, StGB or AO), to storage for a longer time or where you have consented to a longer storage according to Art. 6 (1)(a) GDPR, or in case of legitimate interests, such as for determining conflicts of interest or the defense of liability claims, a longer storage is required.

Personal data will not be transferred to third parties for purposes other than those listed below. As far as this is necessary according to Art. 6 (1)(b) GDPR for the handling of client relationship with you, the personal data may be passed on to third parties. This includes, inter alia, the passing on to opposing parties and their representatives (in particular their lawyers) as well as to courts and other public authorities for the purpose of correspondence and for enforcing and defending your rights. The data passed on may be used by the third party exclusively for the purposes mentioned.

The clients and/or their contact persons with whom SCHNELLER LEGAL communicates have the right with regard to their respective personal data:

• to revoke the consent provided in accordance with Art. 7 (3) GDPR at any time. As a result, SCHNELLER LEGAL is no longer entitled to continue processing data based on this consent in the future;
• to request information about the personal data processed by SCHNELLER LEGAL in accordance with Art. 15 GDPR. In particular, you may request information about the purposes of processing, 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, deletion, restriction of processing or objection, the existence of a right of appeal, the origin of your data, if these have not been collected by SCHNELLER LEGAL, and the existence of automated decision-making including profiling and, if applicable, meaningful information on their details,

• to demand immediately the correction of incorrect or complete personal data stored by SCHNELLER LEGAL in accordance with Art. 16 GDPR;

• to request the deletion of personal data stored by SCHNELLER LEGAL pursuant to Art. 17 GDPR, unless the processing is necessary to exercise the right to freedom of expression and information, to fulfil a legal obligation, for reasons of public interest or to assert, enforce or defend legal claims;

• pursuant to Art. 18 GDPR, to demand the restriction of the processing of personal data if you dispute the accuracy of the data, if the processing is unlawful but you refuse to delete the data and SCHNELLER LEGAL no longer needs the data, but if you need it to enforce, exercise or defend legal claims or if you have filed an objection to the processing pursuant to Art. 21 GDPR;

• to receive the personal data, you have provided to SCHNELLER LEGAL in a structured, current, and machine-readable format in accordance with Art. 20 GDPR or to request the transmission to another person responsible; and

• to complain to a supervisory authority pursuant to Art. 77 GDPR. As a rule, you can contact the supervisory authority at your common place of residence or workplace or the office of SCHNELLER LEGAL (see point 9).

11. Changes to this privacy policy

The business model might require SCHNELLER LEGAL to amend this privacy policy. Accordingly, SCHNELLER LEGAL reserves the right to amend this statement at any time.