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1) Introduction and contact details of the controller
1.1 We are pleased that you are visiting our website and thank you for your interest. In the following, we will inform you about how we handle your personal data when you use our website. Personal data is all data that can be used to personally identify you.
1.2 The controller in charge of data processing on this website, within the meaning of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), is Niklas Einheuser, Konrad-Adenauer-Ufer 63, 50668 Köln Deutschland, 0221-25970816, info@steuerberatung-einheuser.de
The controller for the processing of personal data is the natural or legal person who, alone or jointly with others, decides on the purposes and means of processing personal data.
2) Data collection when visiting our website
2.1 If you use our website for informational purposes only, i.e. if you do not register or otherwise provide us with information, we only collect data that your browser transmits to the page server (so-called “server log files”). When you visit our website, we collect the following data, which is technically necessary for us to display the website:
The processing is carried out in accordance with Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f DSGVO based on our legitimate interest in improving the stability and functionality of our website. The data will not be passed on or used in any other way. However, we reserve the right to check the server log files retrospectively if there are concrete indications of illegal use.
2.2 This website uses SSL or TLS encryption for security reasons and to protect the transmission of personal data and other confidential content (e.g. orders or requests to the controller). You can recognize an encrypted connection by the character string “https://” and the lock symbol in your browser line.
3) Hosting & Content Delivery Network
We use a provider to host our website and display the page content, which provides its services itself or through selected subcontractors exclusively on servers within the European Union.
All data collected on our website is processed on these servers.
We have concluded an order processing contract with the provider, which ensures the protection of our site visitors’ data and prohibits unauthorized disclosure to third parties.
4) Cookies
We use cookies, which are small text files placed on your device, to make our website more user-friendly and to enable the use of certain functions. Some of these cookies are automatically deleted after you close your browser (so-called “session cookies”), while others remain on your device for a longer period of time and enable the storage of page settings (so-called “persistent cookies”). In the latter case, you can see the storage period in the overview of cookie settings for your web browser.
If personal data is also processed by individual cookies that we use, the processing is carried out in accordance with Art. 6 (1) point b GDPR, either for the execution of the contract or in accordance with Art. 6 (1) point f GDPR to safeguard our legitimate interests in the best possible functionality of the website and a customer-friendly and effective design of the page visit.
You can adjust the settings on your browser so that you are informed when cookies are set and can decide whether to accept them on a case-by-case basis, or to accept cookies in certain cases or to exclude them in general.
Please note that if you do not accept cookies, the functionality of our website may be limited.
5) Contact
When you contact us (e.g. using a contact form or by email), personal data is collected. Which data is collected when you use a contact form can be seen from the respective contact form. This data is stored and used solely for the purpose of answering your request or for establishing contact and for the associated technical administration.
The legal basis for the processing of this data is our legitimate interest in answering your request in accordance with Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f GDPR. If your contact is aimed at concluding a contract, the additional legal basis for the processing is Art. 6 para. 1 lit. b GDPR. Your data will be deleted after the final processing of your request. This is the case if it can be inferred from the circumstances that the matter in question has been conclusively clarified and provided that there are no legal storage obligations to the contrary.
6) Web analysis services
Plausible
This website uses “Plausible”, a web analysis tool from Plausible Insights OÜ Västriku tn 2, 50403, Tartu, Estonia.
It is used to anonymously record the interactions of randomly selected individual visitors with the website. This creates a protocol of, for example, mouse movements and clicks with the aim of identifying opportunities for improving the respective website. At no time is personal data collected or processed. Plausible only collects non-personal data when using this website, such as information about the browser and user agent. These are stored in a form that cannot be linked to a particular individual and are evaluated for statistical purposes. The data are erased as soon as they are no longer needed for our evaluation purposes.
Insofar as personal data are processed in individual cases, the processing is carried out on the basis of our legitimate interest in the statistical evaluation of user behavior for optimization purposes in accordance with Art. 6 (1) point f GDPR.
7) Rights of the data subject
7.1 The applicable data protection law grants you the following rights (rights of information and intervention) vis-à-vis the data controller with regard to the processing of your personal data, whereby reference is made to the cited legal basis for the respective conditions of exercise:
7.2 RIGHT TO OBJECT
IF, IN THE CONTEXT OF A BALANCING OF INTERESTS, WE PROCESS YOUR PERSONAL DATA ON THE BASIS OF OUR PREDOMINANT LEGITIMATE INTEREST, YOU HAVE THE RIGHT AT ANY ANY TIME, FOR REASONS ARISING FROM YOUR PARTICULAR SITUATION, TO FILE AN OBJECTION TO THIS PROCESSING WITH EFFECT FOR THE FUTURE.
IF YOU EXERCISE YOUR RIGHT TO OBJECT, WE WILL STOP PROCESSING THE DATA CONCERNED. HOWEVER, WE RESERVE THE RIGHT TO CONTINUE PROCESSING IF WE CAN PROVE THAT THERE ARE COMPELLING REASONS FOR PROCESSING WHICH ARE WORTHY OF PROTECTION AND WHICH OUTWEIGH YOUR INTERESTS, fundamental rights and freedoms, or if the processing is for the purpose of enforcing, pursuing or defending legal claims.
IF WE PROCESS YOUR PERSONAL DATA FOR THE PURPOSE OF DIRECT MARKETING, YOU HAVE THE RIGHT TO OBJECT AT ANY TIME TO THE PROCESSING OF YOUR PERSONAL DATA FOR THE PURPOSE OF SUCH MARKETING. YOU MAY EXERCISE THE RIGHT TO OBJECT AS DESCRIBED ABOVE.
IF YOU EXERCISE YOUR RIGHT TO OBJECT, WE WILL STOP PROCESSING THE DATA CONCERNED FOR DIRECT MARKETING PURPOSES.
8) Duration of the storage of personal data
The duration of the storage of personal data is determined on the basis of the respective legal basis, the purpose of the processing and, if relevant, additionally on the basis of the respective statutory retention period (e.g. commercial and tax retention periods).
When processing personal data on the basis of express consent in accordance with Art. 6 (1) point a GDPR, the data concerned will be stored until you revoke your consent.
If there are legal retention periods for data that is processed in the context of legal or similar obligations on the basis of Art. 6 (1) point b GDPR, this data is routinely deleted after the retention periods have expired, provided that it is no longer required for the fulfillment or initiation of a contract and/or there is no longer any legitimate interest on our part in further storage.
When processing personal data on the basis of Art. 6 (1) point f GDPR, this data is stored until you exercise your right of objection under Art. 21 (1) GDPR, unless we can prove compelling legitimate reasons for the processing that outweigh your interests, rights and freedoms, or the processing serves to assert, exercise or defend legal claims.
When processing personal data for the purpose of direct marketing on the basis of Art. 6 (1) point f GDPR, this data is stored until you exercise your right of objection under Art. 21 (2) GDPR.
Unless otherwise provided in the other information in this declaration regarding specific processing situations, stored personal data will otherwise be deleted when they are no longer necessary in relation to the purposes for which they were collected or otherwise processed.
