Privacy Policy

The data protection declaration for the law office website www.roland-koch.de is as follows:

1. Name and contact data for the person responsible for processing as well as the operational data protection officer

Person responsible: Attorney Roland Koch (hereinafter: attorney), Bockenheimer Landstraße 51-53, 60325 Frankfurt am Main, Germany email: buero@roland-koch.de Telephone: +49 (0)69 – 153 919190 Fax: +49 (0)69 153 91910

2. Acquisition and saving of personal data in addition to type and purpose of its use

Visiting the website

When you call up our website www.roland-koch.de the browser used on your terminal device will automatically send information to our website server. This information will be temporarily saved in a so-called log file. The following information will be acquired without any action on your part, and saved until automatic deletion:

• IP address of enquiring computer,
• date and time of access,
• name and URL of files called up,
• website from which access takes place (referrer URL),
• browser used and, if necessary, the operating system on your computer and the name of your access provider.

The above data will be processed by ourselves for the following purposes:

• ensuring problem-free connection setup to the website,
• ensuring comfortable usage of our website,
• evaluation of system safety and stability and
• for further administrative purposes.

The legal basis for data processing is Art. 6 Para. 1 S. 1 lit. f GDPR. Our legitimate interest results from the purposes of data acquisition listed above. On no account will we use the acquired data for the purposes of drawing conclusions regarding your person.

Furthermore, we will use cookies and analysis services when you visit our website. You can find details about this in Clauses 4 and 5 of this data protection declaration.

If you contact us via the website, your transmission data will be communicated in acc. w. Art. 6 Para. 1 S. 1 lit. a GDPR on the basis of your voluntarily issued consent.

3. Data disclosure

Disclosure of your personal data to third parties for purposes other than those listed below does not take place.

We only disclose your personal data to third parties if:

• you have given your express permission in acc. w. Art. 6 Para. 1 S. 1 lit. a GDPR for this purpose,
• isclosure in acc. w. Art. 6 Para. 1 S. 1 lit. f GDPR is necessary for enforcement, practical execution or defence against legal claims and there is no reason to assume that you have an overriding legitimate interest in the non-disclosure of your data,
• for cases in which a statutory obligation to disclosure in acc. w. Art. 6 Para. 1 S. 1 lit. c GDPR exists, and also that
• this is permitted by law and is necessary for the drawing up of contractual relationships with you in acc. w. Art. 6 Are. 1 S. 1 lit. b DSGVO.

4. Cookies

We use cookies on our website. These are small files which are automatically created by your browser and which are saved on your terminal device (laptop, tablet, smartphone etc) every time you visit our website. Cookies do not cause any damage to your terminal device and do not contain viruses, Trojans or other malware.

The cookie contains information which is produced in connection with the terminal device specifically used. This does not, however, mean that we receive immediate knowledge of your identity.

The use of cookies makes it easier for you to use our website. This means that we use so-called session cookies in order to detect which individual pages of our website you have already visited. These are automatically deleted when you leave our website.

Furthermore we use temporary cookies, which are saved on your terminal device for a certain specified period, in order to optimise user-friendliness. If you visit our website again in order to take advantage of our services, the system automatically detects that you are a returning visitor and which inputs and settings you used so that you do not have to enter these again.

Furthermore we use cookies in order to statistically record usage of our website and to evaluate this for the purposes of optimising our offers to you (see Clause 5). These cookies enable us to automatically detect that you are a returning visitor when you revisit our website. These cookies are automatically deleted after a defined period.

All data processed by the cookies is necessary for the stated purposes of safeguarding our legitimate interests and those of third parties in acc. w. Art. 6 Para. 1 S. 1 lit. f GDPR.

Most browsers accept cookies automatically. You can, however, configure your browser so that no cookies are saved on your computer or so that a new message is always displayed before a new cookie is created. However, please note that complete deactivation of cookies may result in you not being able use all the functions on our website.

5. Analysis tools

a) Tracking tools

The tracking measures that we use are implemented on the basis of Art. 6 Para. 1 S. 1 lit. f GDPR and are listed below. We want to ensure that we use a needs-based design and can continuously optimise our website through use of these tracking measures. Furthermore we use tracking measures in order to statistically record usage of our website and to evaluate this for the purposes of optimising our offers to you. These interests are considered justified in the sense of the above regulations.
The relevant data processing purpose and data categories can be seen from the tracking tools used.

b) Google Analytics¹

We use Google Analytics, a web analysis service provided by Google Inc to ensure a needs-based design and continuous optimisation of our website. (https://www.google.com/about/). (1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA; hereinafter “Google”). For this purpose pseudonymised user profiles are created and cookies are used (see under Clause 4). The information created by the cookie about your use of this website such as

• browser type/version,
• operating system used,
• referrer URL (website previously visited),
• hostname of accessing computer (IP address),
• time of server request,

are transmitted to a Google server in the USA and saved there. The information is used to to assess usage of the website, to compile reports about website activity and to create further services associated with website usage and Internet usage for the purpose of market research and needs-based design of these webpages. This information may also be disclosed to third parties insofar as this is legally required or insofar as third parties process this data as subcontractors. Your IP address will never be linked with other data by Google. IP addresses are anonymised to ensure that assignment is not possible (IP masking).

You can block installation of the cookies by setting your browser software appropriately; however we would point out that by so doing you may not be able to use all the functions of this website in their entirety.

Furthermore, you can prevent recording of data created by the cookie related to your usage of this website (incl. your IP address) by Google or processing of this data by Google by downloading and installing the browser plugin(https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=en).

As an alternative to the browser plugin, especially in the case of browsers on mobile terminal devices, you can also prevent data collection by Google Analytics by clicking on this link. In this case an opt-out cookie is set so that future acquisition of your data is prevented when you visit this website. The opt-out cookie only applies to this browser and only for our website, and is saved on your device. If you delete the cookies in your browser you will have to reset the opt-out cookie.

You can find further information about data protection in connection with Google Analytics here, for example in the Google Analytics Help (https://support.google.com/analytics/answer/6004245?hl=en).

6. Persons affected

You have the right:

• to demand information about your personal data which is processed by ourselves in acc. w. Art. 15 GDPR. You can especially demand information about the purpose of use, the category of personal data, the categories of recipients to whom your data is or will be disclosed, the planned saving duration, 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 in so far as these have not been acquired by ourselves, and about the existence of an automated decision-making system including profiling and, if applicable, meaningful information about these details;
• to demand immediate rectification of incorrect data or completion of the personal data saved by ourselves in acc. w. Art. 16 GDPR;
  to demand the deletion of personal data saved by ourselves in acc. w. Art. 17 GDPR insofar that such processing is not necessary for the right to exercise freedom of expression and information, for fulfilment of legal obligations, for reasons of public interest or for enforcement, practical execution or defence against legal claims;
• to demand restriction of the processing of your personal data in acc. w. Art. 18 GDPR insofar as the correctness of the data is disputed by yourself, the processing is illegal but you refuse deletion of such data and we no longer require the data, if you require the data for enforcement, practical execution or defence against legal claims or you have objected to its processing in acc. w. Art. 21 GDPR;
• to demand that the personal data which you have provided us with is handed over in a structured, conventional and machine-readable format or is handed over to another responsible person in acc. w. Art. 20 GDPR;
• to revoke any permission you have issued us with at any time in acc. w. Art. 7 Para. 3 GDPR. This results in the fact that we may no longer continue the data-processing which is based on this agreement in the future and
• a complaint will be submitted to the relevant regulatory authorities in acc. w. Art. 77 GDPR. You can normally contact the regulatory authorities in your normal place of residence or workplace or the location of our law office.

7. Right to objection

Insofar is your personal data have been processed on the basis of justified interests in acc. w. Art. 6 Para. 1 S. 1 lit. f GDPR, you have the right to object to processing of your personal data in acc. w. Art. 21 GDPR insofar as there are reasons for this which result from your specific situation or which are dealing with objections to direct advertising. In the latter case you have a general right of objection which will be implemented by ourselves without the presence of a specific situation.

If you wish to use your rights of objection or revocation it is sufficient to send an email to buero@roland-koch.de.

8. Data security

During your website visit we will use the standard SSL procedure (Secure Socket Layer) in connection with the highest-available encryption level supported by your browser. This is normally 256-bit encryption. If your browser does not support 256-bit encryption we will use 128-bit v3 technology instead. You can tell whether individual pages on our website are transmitted with encryption through the use of the closed key or padlock symbol in the bottom status bar in your browser.

We normally use suitable technical and organisational security measures to protect your data against accidental or deliberate manipulation, partial or complete loss, destruction or against unauthorised access by third parties. Our security measures are continuously improved to keep up with technical progress.

9. Validity and revisions to this data protection declaration

This data protection declaration is currently valid and was published in May 2018.

For reasons of further development of our website and offers or for reasons of changed statutory or official specifications it may be necessary to revise this data protection declaration. You can call up and print out the currently applicable data protection declaration at any time at “privacy policy” on our website.