Privacy Statement
We inform you herein how Berg & Moll International Lawyers collect your data when visiting our website https://www.berg-moll.com, how we process your data and what claims and rights you are entitled to under the applicable data protection regulations, and in particular the EU General Data Protection Regulation.
1. Name and address of the Controller
Controller (hereinafter: “we”) for the purpose of the General Data Protection Regulation (Art. 4 (7) GDPR) and other provisions related to data protection is:
Claudia von Selle, Rechtsanwältin, Dirk Meißner, Rechtsanwalt, Dr. Lutz-Peter Gollnisch, Rechtsanwalt, Dr. jur. Daniel Fingerle, Verena Moll, Rechtsanwältin/Avocat à la Cour, Dr. Antje Luke, Rechtsanwältin/Avocat à la Cour, Dr. Michal Roszak, Radca prawny
(herein after: Berg & Moll)
Office Berlin: Kurfürstendamm 194
D-10707 Berlin, Germany
Tel: +49 30 3229250
Office Paris: 4, Avenue Hoche
F-75008 Paris, France
Tel: +33 1 88610468
Office Warsaw
ul. Piękna 28/34 lok. 7
PL-00547 Warsaw, Poland
Tel: +48 515 470 584
Contact details of our Data Protection Officer: Dirk Meißner (meissner@berg-moll.com), Berg & Moll, Kurfürstendamm 194, D-10707 Berlin, Germany
2. Collection of general data and log files
a) Your visit on our website
We collect a series of general data and information, when you or an automated system call up the website www.berg-moll.com. This general data is temporarily stored in the log files of the server.
We may collect:
- Your IP address,
- the date and time of access to the website,
- the name and URL visited,
- the website from which an accessing system reaches our website,
- the browser types, versions and languages used.
This information is needed to deliver the content of our website correctly, optimize the content of our website, ensure the long-term viability of our information technology systems and the technology of our website, and provide the law enforcement authorities with the information necessary for criminal prosecution in case of a cyber-attack. The anonymous data of the server log files are stored separately from all personal data provided by a data subject.
According to Art. 6(1) lit. f GDPR the processing of this data is necessary for the above-mentioned purposes and therefore of the legitimate interests pursued by the controller. We delete the data as long as it is no longer necessary for the fulfilment of the above-mentioned purposes.
b) Contact via e-mail
Alternatively, you can contact us by using the e-mail addresses indicated on our website. If you send us an e-mail, we will save all personal data that is included in the e-mail send to us (e-mail address, name, phone number, etc.).
The legal basis for the storage of this information is Art. 6(1) lit. a GDPR, i.e. you have given your consent to the processing of your personal data. Your personal data will be deleted after having given a feedback or response to your query, unless your wish our assistance in a specific matter or having your personal data in our contact database. In this case, your data is transferred to the authorised personnel of Berg & Moll.
3. Transmission of personal data
We will transmit data send to us to the authorised personal of Berg & Moll, and if necessary, for the purpose of the data collection, to our service providers.
4. Your rights
When your personal data is processed, the GDPR provides you with special rights. You have the right to be informed about the data that we hold on you, the right to have your data rectified if it is inaccurate, the right to erasure, the right to have your data restricted or blocked from processing, the right of data portability and the right to object to processing of your personal data (Art. 15 – 21 GDPR), as well as a right to revoke your consent at any time (Art. 7 GDPR), a right to give instructions for your post-mortem data (French data protection act) and a right of complaint to the competent data protection regulator (Art. 77 GDPR).
5. Right to object
If you wish to make use of your rights or have questions with regard to your personal data or our data protection policy, please feel free to contact us via e-mail (meissner@berg-moll.com) or mail (Kurfürstendamm 194, D-10707 Berlin, Germany).
6. Use of Cookies
Our website uses temporary and permanent cookies. Cookies are text files that are stored in a computer system via an Internet browser if you visit our website. Through the use of cookies, we provide users of this website with more user-friendly services. By means of a cookie, the information and offers on our website can be optimized. Cookies allow us to recognize our website users. The purpose of this recognition is to make it easier for users to utilize our website. The website user that uses cookies, e.g. does not have to enter access data each time the website is accessed, because this is taken over by the website, and the cookie is thus stored on the user’s computer system. We moreover use cookies to help us to analyse the use and performance of our website and services. Because of this, we ask users to accept our cookie policy when first accessing our website.
These purposes serve as legitimate purposes pursuant to Art. 6 Abs. (1) lit. f GDPR.
You may, at any time, prevent the setting of cookies through our website by means of a corresponding setting of your internet browser. Thus, you may also permanently deny the setting of cookies. Furthermore, already set cookies may be deleted at any time via your internet browser or other software programs. However, if you deactivate the setting of cookies in your Internet browser, you may not be able to use all functions of our website.
Most browsers allow you to refuse to accept cookies and to delete cookies.
Additional information with regard to cookies you can find in the information provided with regard to our use of analytic tools (7).
7. Analysis tools
The analysis tools listed below and used by us are carried out on the basis of Art. 6 (1) lit. f GDPR. With the analysis measures used, we want to ensure that our website is designed to meet the needs of the users and is continuously optimized. On the other hand, we use the analysis tools to record the use of our website statistically and evaluate it for the purpose of optimizing our offer for you. These interests are to be regarded as justified in the sense of the aforementioned regulation.
The respective data processing purposes and data categories can be found in the analysis tools listed below.
a) Google Analytics
Our website uses Google Analytics, a web analytics service provided by Google, Inc. (“Google”). Google Analytics uses “cookies”, which are text files placed on your computer, to help the website analyse how users use the site. The information generated by the cookie about your use of the website will be transmitted to and stored by Google on servers in the United States.
In case IP-anonymisation is activated on this website, your IP address will be truncated within the area of Member States of the European Union or other parties to the Agreement on the European Economic Area. Only in exceptional cases the whole IP address will be first transferred to a Google server in the USA and truncated there. Google will use this information on behalf of the operator of this website for the purpose of evaluating your use of the website, compiling reports on website activity for website operators and providing them other services relating to website activity and internet usage. The IP-address that your Browser conveys within the scope of Google Analytics, will not be associated with any other data held by Google.
You may refuse the use of cookies by selecting the appropriate settings on your browser, however please note that if you do this you may not be able to use the full functionality of this website. You can also opt-out from being tracked by Google Analytics with effect for the future by downloading and installing Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Addon for your current web browser: http://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=en.
b) Matomo
We also use the open source software Matomo for analysis and statistical evaluation of the use of the website. Cookies are used for this purpose (see 6). The information generated by the cookie about the use of the website is transferred to our servers and summarized in pseudo-numerical user profiles. The information is used to analyse the use of the website and to ensure an appropriate design of our website.
The information is not transmitted to third parties.
Under no circumstances will the IP address be associated to other user-related data. The IP addresses are made anonymous (IP masking).
Your visit to this website is currently recorded by Matomo Webanalyse. Click here so that your visit is no longer recorded.
8. Social media Plug-ins
We use social plugins (“plugins”) on our website provided by social networks (Linkedin, Instagram, etc.) on the basis of our legitimate interests in order to give greater publicity to our law firm (marketing measures) via our website as defined in Art. 6(1) lit.f GDPR. The plugins are identified with the companies’ logo.
If you open a page of our website in your web browser containing such a plugin, your web browser will create a direct connection to the servers of the respective provider in the country concerned. By incorporating the plugins, the provider is given at the least the information that you have visited a certain page on our website, and perhaps also other information that your web browser or the device you use also discloses. The content of the plugin is loaded by your web browser directly from the provider and incorporated into our website. If you are registered and have logged in with the provider concerned, your visit can also be assigned to your user account.
If you interact with a plugin, your browser will also transmit this information directly to the provider where it will be saved and, if applicable, continue to be used and published.
We have no influence on the scope of the data that the social networks record using these plugins and we therefore inform users based on the knowledge we have.
If you do not wish a provider to collect data on you through our website, you must deactivate the plugins in your web browser. If you wish to avoid a link to any existing user account, you must log out before your visit to our website. By visiting our website, you declare your consent to the above provisions.
9. Data Security
We use appropriate technical and organizational security measures to protect your personal data stored by us against manipulation, partial or complete loss and against unauthorized access by third parties. Our security measures are continuously improved in line with technological developments.
Update of the privacy declaration
This notice is updated January 2020 and may be changed from time to time.
Please check our website regularly for the latest version of our privacy declaration that is available here.