Privacy notice

• We set no cookies. The only thing stored is your choice of light or dark appearance, held on your own device.
• No content is loaded from third-party servers — fonts, images and scripts are held on our own server.
• No audience measurement and no tracking take place.
• The enquiry form transmits no data to us; it opens your own email client.

When this website is accessed, technically necessary data is processed in server log files: IP address, date and time of access, file accessed, volume of data transferred, referrer, and browser and operating system identifiers. The processing serves to ensure technical operation and system security and is based on our legitimate interest under Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR. The log files are deleted after seven days at the latest. The sole recipient of this data is our hosting provider, which acts for us as a processor under Art. 28 GDPR on servers located in the Federal Republic of Germany. No transfer to a third country outside the European Union takes place. We will name the provider on request.

If you contact us by email, by telephone or via the besonderes elektronisches Anwaltspostfach (beA — the German lawyers’ secure electronic mailbox), we process the data you provide in order to deal with your enquiry. The legal basis is Art. 6(1)(b) GDPR where the enquiry is directed at the conclusion of an engagement, and otherwise Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR. Enquiries that do not lead to an engagement are deleted as soon as their retention is no longer necessary.

The form on the contact page processes your entries exclusively locally in your browser. On submission, a prepared message is opened in your email client; it is sent by you. No transmission to our web server takes place.

All fonts, images, scripts and other resources of this website are delivered from our own server. There is no connection to Google Fonts, content delivery networks, or map or video services. Your IP address is therefore not transmitted to any third-party provider.

This website does not set cookies. Only your choice of appearance (light or dark) is stored on your device in your browser’s local storage. This information does not leave your device and is not transmitted to us; you can delete it at any time through your browser settings.

Within an engagement we process personal data in order to perform the engagement agreement (Art. 6(1)(b) GDPR) and to comply with legal obligations, in particular under the BRAO (Federal Lawyers’ Act), the BORA (Code of Professional Conduct for Lawyers) and the Geldwäschegesetz (German Money Laundering Act) (Art. 6(1)(c) GDPR). Lawyers’ professional duty of confidentiality and the retention periods under professional law apply, in particular § 50 BRAO.

In handling an engagement we regularly also process personal data that we have not obtained from the data subject directly — for example data concerning contractual counterparties, shareholders, officers or opposing parties. That data reaches us from our clients, from public registers such as the commercial register (Handelsregister), from court files and files held by public authorities, or from the representatives involved. What we process is essentially identifying data, contact data and the facts required for legal assessment. The legal bases are Art. 6(1)(b), (c) and (f) GDPR. We refrain from giving notice under Art. 14 GDPR to the extent that the data is subject to lawyers’ professional duty of confidentiality (Art. 14(5)(d) GDPR).

You have the right of access (Art. 15 GDPR), to rectification (Art. 16 GDPR), to erasure (Art. 17 GDPR), to restriction of processing (Art. 18 GDPR) and to data portability (Art. 20 GDPR). You may object under Art. 21 GDPR to processing based on Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR. Please contact:

info@smr-legal.de

You have the right to complain to a data protection supervisory authority. The authority competent for us is the Landesbeauftragte für Datenschutz und Informationsfreiheit Nordrhein-Westfalen (State Commissioner for Data Protection and Freedom of Information of North Rhine-Westphalia), Kavalleriestraße 2–4, 40213 Düsseldorf.

We update this privacy notice when the legal position or the technical design of this website changes. The version published here applies in each case.