Each time you call up my website www.masbaum-law.de your computer’s browser automatically sends pieces of information to the server of my website, which are temporarily stored in a so called log-file. In particular, this concerns the following kinds of information that are collected without your assistance until they are later automatically deleted:
- IP-address of accessing computer,
- date and time of access,
- name and URL of accessed file,
- website of access (Referrer URL)
- browser used and possibly operational system of your device as well as the name of your internet services provider.
The mentioned data are only processed for the following purposes:
- facilitation of smooth establishment of internet-connection,
- facilitation of convenient access to my website,
- analysis of security and stability of my server as well as other administrative purposes.
Legal basis of the processing of information is Art. 6 Par. 1 S. 1 lit. f is the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). My legal interest follows from the above mentioned purposes to collect information. I will in no way use the collected data for the purpose to draw conclusions about your personal identity. However, I apply during your visit of my website cookies and analytical services.
In case you wish to ask any questions about the secrecy of your data you have opportunity to contact me via my contact form provided on my website. With that it is necessary that you provide me with your valid email address so that I know who issues the request to allow me to send you an answer. Other pieces of information could be provided if you wish to do so.
Data processing for the process of getting in contact with me is done in compliance with Art. 6 Abs. 1 S. 1 lit. a GDPR as it is based on your freely declared permission. Data that is collected with the use of my contact form will be deleted after fulfillment of your request or question.
The transfer of your personal data to third persons for other purposes than those mentioned in the following will not happen.
I only provide your personal data to third persons if:
- you gave your explicit permission according to Art. 6 Abs. 1 S. 1 lit. a GDPR
- the transfer according to Art. 6 Abs. 1 S. 1 lit. f GDPR is required for the execution or protection of legal claims and, additionally, no reason exists to assume that you have an overwhelming legal interest in the prohibition of such a data being transferred to third persons.
- if the transfer of is done on grounds of a legal obligation, and
- it is admissible under the law and according to Art. 6 Abs. 1 S. 1 lit. b GDPR necessary to conduct contractual obligation with you.
In order to collect information about your use of my homepage I apply cookies. These are small digital files that your browser creates automatically and that are saved on your device (desktop, laptop, tablet, smartphone, etc.), when you visit my homepage. Cookies do not cause any harm neither do they contain any viruses, trojans or other malware. Those cookies that are used on my website collect information about the identity of the computer that is used by you. This however does not mean that I receive immediate knowledge of your personal identity.
The use of cookies on my website serves the purpose to make your use of my website more convenient. I use for example so called session cookies in order to see that you visited a certain page of my website earlier. These cookies are erased immediately after you have left my website. In addition I use temporary cookies that are intended to optimize usability of my website and that are for a certain period saved on your device. In the event that you will visit my website again to take advantages of my services it is automatically recognized which adjustments you made previously in order to save your time that you would spent for repeated adjustments.
On the other hand I use cookies to conduct statistical reviews on the use of my website in order to evaluate respective findings to improve the services that I offer. This allows me to identify technical circumstances of visits of my website. The cookies will be erased after a certain period of time. The pieces of information that are processed with these cookies are necessary for the protection of my legitimate interests and that of third persons, which is in line with Art. 6 Abs. 1 S. 1 lit. f GDPR.
Most browsers automatically accept cookies, however you are able to configure your browser in such a way that no cookies are saved at all or that there will be made an indication before a new cookie is about to be set on your device. However, the complete deactivation of cookies may result in a restricted access to my website.
The tracking measures that are described in the following are applied on the basis of Art. 6 Abs. 1 S. 1 lit. f GDPR. They serve to ensure an ongoing optimization of my website with the help of statistical assessments and evaluations of my website to the benefit of your interests.
For this I use particularly Google Analytics, which is an analytical service of Google Inc. (https://www.google.de/intl/de/about/) (1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA; im Folgenden „Google“) that creates anonymous profiles of users with the help of cookies.
Collected information concerning the use of this website extends to:
- browser-type/version
- operational system used
- referrer URL (site visited before)
- host-name of acceding device (IP-address)
- date and time of server access
The collected information is sent to a server of Google in the USA and saved there. It will be used to evaluate the use of the website and to report on the activities related to it.
This kind of information is transferred to third persons only, if this is required by the law or third persons are requested to process these data. In no way your IP address is brought together with other data of Google. The IP-addresses used are made anonymous so that it is impossible to identify any relation to your identity (IP masking).
You may however prevent the installation of these cookies with an adequate configuration of your browser software. I explicitly draw your attention to the fact that in this case you will possibly not be able to use all functions of this website in the full extent. In addition you may wish to avoid the the collection of data related to the use of this website (including your IP-address) by installation of cookies with the download and installation of a browser- add-on that would prevent this (https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=en).
Alternatively, you may want to prevent the collection of data by Google Analytics if you click on the button Google-Analytics-Optout on my startpage. As a consequent an opt-out cookie would be set that prevents the collection of data by google-analytics during your visit of my homepage. The opt-out-cookie does only work in this browser and only in respect to my homepage and is stored on your device. If you erase cookies that are stored on your browser you will have to enable the opt-out-cookie once more. Further information related to data protection as far as Google Analytics is concerned you will find in the Google-Analytics help manual https://support.google.com/analytics/answer/6004245?hl=en.
You are entitled:
- according to Art 15 GDPR receive information on your personal data that is processed by me. In particular you may receive information on the purpose of data processing, the category of personal data, the categories of recipients, in relation to which data has been or will be published, the envisaged period of storage, the existence of a right to correction, erasure, restriction of processing or objection, the existence of a right to complain, the origin of your data, if it is not stored by me as well as in respect to a possibly existing automated decision making including profiling and if applicable information with regard to their possibly meaningful particularities;
- according to Art. 16 GDPR immediately require correction of false data or completion of your data that is stored at my website, according to Art. obtain from the controller without undue delay the rectification of inaccurate personal data concerning him or her.
- according to Art. 20 you have the right to receive the personal data that concerns you, which you have provided to me, in a structured, commonly used and machine-readable format and you have the right to transmit those data to another controller without hindrance.
- according to Art 7 Par. 3 you have the right to withdraw your consent at any time. The withdrawal of consent does not affect the lawfulness of processing based on consent before its withdrawal.
- according to Art. 77 complain at a supervisory authority.
If your personal data is processed on the basis of legal interests according to Art. 6, then you have a right – according to Art. 21 GDPR – to object to the processing of your personal sata, on grounds related to your particular situation, or if the objection concerns direct-mail-advertisement. In the latter case you have a general right to object, which is implemented without the indication of a specific situation that you might find yourself in. If you wish to take advantage of your right to complain or object is an email to masbaum-law@gmx.de would suffice.
For data transmission that is conducted during your visit of my website I apply the SSL – mechanism in connection with the highest level of encryption that is supported by your browser. As a rule this is a 256 Bit encryption. If your browser does not support 256-bit encryption, I apply 128-bit v3 technology instead. In the event that a page of my website is transmitted with the help of data encryption you will find a key or a lock symbol in the status line of your browser .
Furthermore I take advantage of suitable technical and organizational safety measures in order to protect your data against accidental or unlawful access of third persons. My safeguard measures are continuously developed in accordance with ongoing technical progress.
This declaration on data protection is currently valid and published May 2018. The further development of my website and respective service offers or due to changing legal provisions or administrative requirements it might become necessary to change this declaration. You will be able to access and download this declaration at https://www.masbaum-law.de/dataprotection if you wish so.