Privacy Policy

We take your privacy very seriously and process your personal data in accordance with the applicable legal data protection requirements. Personal data within the meaning of this information is all information that can relate to you as a person, such as name, address, email and IP address, user behavior.

With the following privacy policy, we inform you about the processing of your personal data by us. Furthermore, we provide you with an overview of your data protection rights. Which data is processed in detail and how it is used depends primarily on the services used, requested or agreed upon.

4.1 In addition to the purely informational use of our website, we offer various services that you can use if you are interested. To do so, you usually have to provide additional personal data that we use to provide the respective service.

4.2 When you contact us by email or via a contact form, the data you provide (your email address, salutation, first and last name and, if applicable, your telephone number) will be stored by us in order to answer your inquiry. We delete the resulting data after storage is no longer necessary or restrict processing if there are statutory retention obligations.

4.3 If you apply via the application form on our website, we process the data you provide (first and last name, email address, telephone number, the advertised position and the location, your answer to the question about completed training, and the origin of the application, e.g. the advertisement through which you came to us) in order to carry out the application process. The legal basis is Art. 6(1)(b) GDPR (steps prior to entering into an employment relationship). Your application reaches us by email and is forwarded to the persons involved in the selection; you receive an automatic confirmation of receipt at the email address provided. We do not pass your details on to third parties, in particular not to the operators of the platform on which you saw the advertisement. The same applies to applications that reach us by email or reached us via our former application forms. If no employment relationship is established, we delete the application data no later than six months after the application process has been completed, unless you have consented to longer storage.

5.1 On our website, we show the location of our practices on maps. The map material comes from OpenStreetMap, a service of the OpenStreetMap Foundation (OSMF), St John's Innovation Centre, Cowley Road, Cambridge, CB4 0WS, United Kingdom. The maps are displayed using the open-source library Leaflet, which we deliver ourselves.

5.2 When you open a page with a map, your browser loads the map tiles directly from the OSMF servers. Your IP address, information about your browser and operating system and the address of our website (referrer) are transmitted to the OSMF. No cookies are set in the process. The map tiles are delivered via a worldwide network of cache servers; according to its own information, the OSMF stores personal data in the United Kingdom and the Netherlands. An adequacy decision of the EU Commission exists for the United Kingdom (Art. 45 GDPR).

5.3 The legal basis is our legitimate interest in presenting our services attractively and making our locations easy to find (Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR). Further information can be found in the OSMF privacy policy: https://osmfoundation.org/wiki/Privacy_Policy.

8.1 We have some of the aforementioned processes and services carried out by carefully selected service providers commissioned in accordance with data protection regulations. These external service providers are bound by our instructions and are regularly monitored. They will not pass on your data to third parties.

8.2 With regard to the disclosure of data to other recipients, we only pass on information about you if statutory provisions require this, you have consented or we are authorized to pass on the information. If these conditions are met, recipients of personal data may include:

• Public authorities and institutions (e.g. tax authorities, law enforcement agencies) if there is a legal or official obligation.
• Other companies or comparable institutions to which we transmit personal data in order to carry out the business relationship with you.

11.1 The data is stored in accordance with statutory provisions on data processing and in observance of statutory retention periods. We only process and use your data for the purposes for which we are authorized and as long as the data is required for these purposes.

11.2 If the data is no longer required for the purpose or to fulfill legal obligations, it will generally be deleted unless its - temporary and possibly restricted - further processing is necessary for the following purposes:

• The fulfillment of commercial and tax retention obligations: The German Commercial Code (HGB) and the German Fiscal Code (AO) should be mentioned. According to this, the retention or documentation periods are set at up to 10 years.
• The preservation of evidence within the framework of statutory limitation periods: According to Sections 195 et seq. of the German Civil Code (BGB), the regular limitation period is three years, but in special circumstances up to 30 years.