DATA PROTECTION

1. The person responsible for data protection laws:
LEKKER Partners, Lawyer Franca Werhahn

Adress:
Ludwig-Thoma-Straße 5
82291 Mammendorf
Germany

T +49 8145 36 04 691
F +49 8145 44 99 999
M werhahn@lekkerpartners.de

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With this data protection declaration, LEKKER Partners lawyer Franca Werhahn (hereinafter also referred to as “LEKKER Partners”) informs you (hereinafter also referred to as “user” or “data subject”) in a general manner about data processing in the law firm and in a special way about data processing when accessing the website at www.lekkerpartners.de, contacting us by email or telephone and when registering to receive a newsletter. LEKKER Partners also informs you about its online presence in social media and about your rights with regard to the processing of your data. Conceptually, “data processing” always means the processing of personal data.

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2. General information on data processing

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2.1 Categories of personal data

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LEKKER Partners processes the following categories of personal data:

Inventory data (e.g. names, addresses, functions, organizational affiliation, etc.);

Contact details (e.g. email, telephone/fax numbers, etc.);

Content data (e.g. text input, image files, videos, etc.);

Usage data (e.g. access data);

Meta/communication data (e.g. IP addresses).

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2.2 Recipients or categories of recipients of personal data

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If LEKKER Partners discloses data to other people and companies such as web hosts, processors or third parties as part of the processing, transmits it to them or otherwise grants them access to the data, this is done on the basis of legal permission (e.g. if the data is transmitted to third parties in accordance with (Art. 6 Para. 1 lit. b GDPR is necessary for the fulfillment of the contract) if those affected have consented or a legal obligation requires this.

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​2.3 Duration of storage of personal data

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The criterion for the duration of storage of personal data is the respective statutory retention period. After the deadline has expired, the relevant data will be deleted unless it is no longer required to achieve the purpose, fulfill the contract or initiate a contract.

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2.4 Transfers to third countries

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If LEKKER Partners processes data in a third country (i.e. outside the European Union (EU) or the European Economic Area (EEA)) or this occurs in the context of using third-party services or disclosing or transmitting data to third parties, this only occurs if it is done to fulfill (pre-)contractual obligations, on the basis of your consent, on the basis of a legal obligation or on the basis of a legitimate interest. Subject to legal or contractual permissions, LEKKER Partners processes or allows LEKKER Partners to process the data in a third country only if the special requirements of Art. 44 ff. GDPR are met, i.e. the processing is carried out, for example, on the basis of special guarantees, such as the officially recognized determination of one of the EU-appropriate data protection levels or compliance with officially recognized special contractual obligations (so-called “standard contractual clauses”).

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3. Data processing when visiting the LEKKER Partners website

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3.1 Log files

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Every time a data subject accesses the website at www.lekkerpartners.de, general data and information is stored in the system's log files:

Date and time of retrieval (time stamp);

Request details and destination address (protocol version, HTTP method, referrer, UserAgent string);

Name of the file retrieved and amount of data transferred (requested URL including query string, size in bytes);

Message as to whether the retrieval was successful (HTTP status code).

When using this general data and information, no conclusions are drawn about the data subject. There is no personal evaluation or evaluation of the data for marketing purposes or profiling. The IP address is not stored in this context.

The legal basis for the temporary storage of the data is Article 6 (1) (f) GDPR. The collection of data to provide the website and the storage of the data in log files is absolutely necessary for the secure operation of the website. There is therefore no possibility for the data subject to object.​

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3.2 Malware detection and log data evaluation

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LEKKER Partners collects protocol data that arises when operating the law firm's communication technology and evaluates it automatically, insofar as this is necessary to detect, limit or eliminate disruptions or errors in the communication technology or to defend against attacks on information technology or to detect and defend against them is required by malware.

The legal basis for the temporary storage and evaluation of the data is Article 6 (1) (f) GDPR. The storage and evaluation of the data is absolutely necessary to provide the website and for its secure operation. There is therefore no possibility for the data subject to object.

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3.3 Cookies

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So-called cookies are used on the website at www.lekkerpartners.de. Cookies are small text files that are exchanged between the web browser and the hosting server. Cookies are stored on the user's computer and transmitted from the user to the website. You can restrict or completely prevent the use of cookies by making the appropriate settings in the web browser you are using. Cookies that have already been saved can be deleted at any time. If cookies are deactivated for this website, this may mean that the website cannot be displayed or used in its entirety.

The legal basis for the processing of personal data using cookies is Article 6 (1) (f) GDPR.

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3.4 Hosting

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The hosting services used by LEKKER Partners serve to provide the following services: infrastructure and platform services, computing capacity, storage space and database services, security services and technical maintenance services, which are used for the purpose of operating this website.

LEKKER Partners or the processors process inventory data, contact data, content data, contract data, usage data, meta and communication data from users of the website on the basis of the legitimate interest in the efficient and secure provision of this online offer in accordance with Article 6 Paragraph 1 Letter f GDPR in conjunction with Art. 28 GDPR (conclusion of a contract for order processing).4. Datenverarbeitung im Rahmen der Kontaktaufnahme

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4.1 Contacting us by email

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You can contact LEKKER Partners by email using the email address(es) published on this website.

If you use this contact method, the data you transmit (e.g. last name, first name, address), but at least the e-mail address, as well as the information contained in the e-mail, along with any personal data you may have transmitted, will be used for the purpose stored before contacting you and processing your request. The following data is also collected by the system:

IP address of the accessing computer;

Date and time of the email.

The legal basis for the processing of personal data in the context of transmitted emails is Article 6 Paragraph 1 Letter b and Letter f GDPR.

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4.2 Contact by letter and fax

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If you send your request by letter or fax, the data you send (e.g. last name, first name, address) and the information contained in the letter or fax, along with any personal data you may have sent, will be stored for the purpose of contacting you and processing your request .

The legal basis for the processing of personal data in the context of transmitted letters and faxes is Article 6 (1) (b) and (f) GDPR.​

 

5. Data processing when receiving the LEKKER Partners newsletter

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If you register for the newsletter distribution list, your email address and the newsletter you selected will be stored on a server.

In addition, the following data is collected by the system when you register:

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IP address of the accessing computer;

Date and time of registration.

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Your consent will be obtained for the processing of data as part of the registration process and reference will be made to this data protection declaration. The data is processed based on your consent in accordance with Article 6 Paragraph 1 Letter A of the GDPR and within the scope of the legitimate interest according to Article 6 Paragraph 1 Letter F of the GDPR.

This data is used exclusively for sending the newsletter. Your data will not be passed on to third parties and will not be used for any other purposes. The registration system with an additional confirmation message containing a link to final registration (double opt-in) ensures that the newsletter was requested by you and not by a third party.

When registering, your data is stored on the servers and a confirmation message with a link for final registration is generated to the email address provided. If you do not confirm your registration using the link in this email, the data will be deleted after 24 hours. Only by confirming the link in the email will your data for sending the newsletter be saved for the duration of your use of the offer.

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If you no longer agree to the storage of data for this purpose and therefore no longer wish to use this offer from LEKKER Partners, you can unsubscribe from the newsletter at any time. For this purpose, there is a corresponding link in every newsletter. The personal data you provided to receive the newsletter will then be deleted.​

 

6. Online presence on social media

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LEKKER Partners maintains online presences within social networks (Instagram and LinkedIn) in order to inform active users about their services and to communicate via the platforms if they are interested. The social media channels can only be accessed via an external link. As soon as you access the respective social media profiles in the respective network, the terms and conditions and data processing guidelines of the respective operators apply there.

LEKKER Partners has no influence on data collection and its further use by social networks. There is no information about the extent, where and for how long the data is stored, the extent to which the networks comply with existing deletion obligations, what evaluations and links are made with the data and to whom the data is passed on. LEKKER Partners therefore expressly points out that your data (e.g. personal information, IP address) will be stored by the network operators in accordance with their data processing guidelines and used for business purposes.

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LEKKER Partners processes data with regard to social media presences insofar as, for example, comments or direct messages are sent to LEKKER Partners. The legal basis for processing the data after the user has given his consent is Article 6 (1) (a) GDPR.​

 

7. Social media plug-ins

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LEKKER Partners uses social media plug-ins from the social networks Instagram and LinkedIn on the website at www.lekkerpartners.de based on Article 6 Paragraph 1 Sentence 1 Letter f of the GDPR in order to make LEKKER Partners better known. The underlying advertising purpose is to be viewed as a legitimate interest within the meaning of the GDPR. The responsibility for data protection-compliant operation must be ensured by the respective provider. LEKKER Partners integrates these plug-ins using the so-called two-click method in order to best protect visitors to this website.

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7.1 Instagram

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This website uses social media plug-ins from Instagram (service provider or company headquarters in the EU: Facebook Ireland Ltd., 4 Grand Canal Square, Grand Canal Harbour, Dublin 2, Ireland). You can recognize this by the Instagram logo in the shape of a square camera.

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If you deliberately activate the plug-in, a connection will be established from your browser to Instagram's servers. Instagram receives the information, including your IP address, that you have visited this website and transfers the information to Instagram servers in the USA, where this information is stored. If you are logged into your Instagram account, Instagram can assign this information to your account and you can click on the Instagram button to share and save the contents of this website on your Instagram account and, if necessary, show them to your friends there.

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LEKKER Partners has no knowledge of the exact content of the transmitted data, its use and storage period by Instagram.

If you log out of Instagram before visiting this website and delete your cookies, no data about your visit to this website will be assigned to your profile on Instagram when the plug-in is activated.

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The purpose and scope of the data collection as well as its further processing and use of the data by Instagram as well as your related rights and setting options to protect your privacy can be found in Instagram's data protection information: https://help.instagram.com/519522125107875

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7.2 LinkedIn

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This website uses social media plug-ins from LinkedIn, which is operated by LinkedIn Ireland Unlimited Company, Wilton Plac, Dublin 2, Ireland, (“LinkedIn”). The plugins are marked with a LinkedIn logo, for example in the form of an abbreviation “in”.

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If you access a page on this website that contains such a plug-in, your browser establishes a direct connection to LinkedIn's servers. The content of the plug-in is transmitted directly to your browser by LinkedIn and integrated into the page. Through this integration, LinkedIn receives the information that your browser has accessed the corresponding page of this website, even if you do not have a LinkedIn profile or are not currently logged in to LinkedIn. This information (including your IP address) is transmitted from your browser directly to a LinkedIn server in Ireland and/or the USA and stored there. If you are logged in to LinkedIn, LinkedIn can directly assign your visit to this website to your LinkedIn account. If you interact with the plug-ins, this information is also transmitted directly to a LinkedIn server and stored there. The information will also be published on your LinkedIn account and shown to your contacts there.

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If you do not want LinkedIn to directly assign the data collected via this website to your LinkedIn account, you must log out of LinkedIn before visiting this website.

The purpose and scope of the data collection as well as its further processing and use of the data by LinkedIn as well as your related rights and setting options to protect your privacy can be found in LinkedIn's data protection information: https://www.linkedin.com/legal/privacy-policy

 

8. Google reCAPTCHA

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LEKKER Partners uses “Google reCAPTCHA” (hereinafter “reCAPTCHA”) on this website. The service provider is Google Ireland Limited (“Google”), Gordon House, Barrow Street, Dublin 4, Ireland.

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The purpose of reCAPTCHA is to check whether data entry on this website (e.g. in a contact form) is done by a human or by an automated program. To do this, reCAPTCHA analyzes the behavior of the website visitor based on various characteristics. This analysis begins automatically as soon as the website visitor enters the website. For analysis, reCAPTCHA evaluates various information (e.g. IP address, length of time the website visitor stays on the website or mouse movements made by the user). The data collected during the analysis is forwarded to Google.

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The reCAPTCHA analyzes run completely in the background. Website visitors are not informed that an analysis is taking place.

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The storage and analysis of the data is based on Art. 6 Para. 1 lit. f GDPR. The website operator has a legitimate interest in protecting its web offerings from abusive automated spying and SPAM. If appropriate consent has been requested, processing is carried out exclusively on the basis of Art. 6 Para. 1 lit. a GDPR; consent can be revoked at any time.

Further information about Google reCAPTCHA can be found in the Google data protection regulations and the Google terms of use under the following links: https://policies.google.com/privacy?hl=de and https://policies.google.com/terms?hl=de .

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9. Your data subject rights

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As a data subject, you have the right in connection with the processing of your personal data

 

• in accordance with Art. 15 GDPR, to request information about your personal data processed by LEKKER Partners. In particular, you can obtain 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 to complain, the origin of your data, if it was not collected by LEKKER Partners, as well as the existence of automated decision-making including profiling and, if necessary, meaningful information about its details;

• in accordance with Art. 16 GDPR, to immediately request the correction of incorrect or complete personal data stored by LEKKER Partners;

• in accordance with Art. 17 GDPR, to request the deletion of your personal data stored by LEKKER Partners, unless the processing is carried out to exercise the right to freedom of expression and information, to fulfill a legal obligation, for reasons of public interest or to assert, exercise or defend is required by legal claims;

• in accordance with Art. 18 GDPR, to request the restriction of the processing of your personal data if you dispute the accuracy of the data, the processing is unlawful but you refuse its deletion and LEKKER Partners no longer needs the data but you use it to assert it , exercise or defend legal claims or you have objected to the processing in accordance with Art. 21 GDPR;

• in accordance with Art. 20 GDPR, to receive your personal data that you have provided to LEKKER Partners in a structured, common and machine-readable format or to request that it be transmitted to another person responsible;

• in accordance with Art. 7 Para. 3 GDPR, to revoke your consent to LEKKER Partners at any time. This means that LEKKER Partners may no longer continue the data processing based on this consent in the future

• to complain to a supervisory authority in accordance with Art. 77 GDPR. As a rule, you can contact the supervisory authority at your usual place of residence or place of work or at the headquarters of LEKKER Partners.

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10. Right to object

 

If your personal data is processed on the basis of legitimate interests in accordance with Article 6 Paragraph 1 Sentence 1 Letter f of the GDPR, you have the right to object to the processing of your personal data in accordance with Article 21 of the GDPR, provided there are reasons for doing so. which arise from your particular situation or the objection is directed against direct advertising. In the latter case, you have a general right to object, which LEKKER Partners will implement without specifying a particular situation. If you would like to exercise your right to object, simply send an email to LEKKER Partners (werhahn@lekkerpartners.de).

You also have the right to revoke your data protection declaration of consent at any time. The revocation of consent does not affect the lawfulness of the processing carried out based on the consent before its revocation. If you would like to exercise your right of withdrawal, simply send an email to LEKKER Partners (werhahn@lekkerpartners.de).

 

11. Data Security

 

When visiting this website, LEKKER Partners uses the common SSL procedure (Secure Socket Layer) in conjunction with the highest level of encryption supported by your browser. This is usually 256 bit encryption. If your browser does not support 256-bit encryption, we will use 128-bit v3 technology instead. You can tell whether an individual page on this website is transmitted in encrypted form by the closed display of the key or lock symbol in the bottom status bar of your browser.

LEKKER Partners also uses 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. The security measures are continuously improved in line with technological developments.

 

12. Currentness and changes to this data protection declaration

 

This data protection declaration is currently valid and is valid as of November 2023.

Due to the further development of this website and offers on it or due to changed legal or official requirements, it may become necessary to change this data protection declaration. You can access and print out the current data protection declaration at any time on the website at https://www.lekkerpartners.de/datenschutz.