Data protection
1. personal data
We, the
Hauswirth-Kleiber Rechtsanwälte OG
1190 Vienna, Heiligenstädter Straße 28
FN: 369332 k
as the controller within the meaning of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), collect, process and use your personal data only with your consent or mandate or order for the purposes agreed with you or if there is another legal basis in accordance with the GDPR; this in compliance with the provisions of data protection and civil law.
Only such personal data is collected, necessary for the performance and processing of our legal services or which you have voluntarily provided to us.
Personal data is all data that contains individual details about personal or factual circumstances, for example name, address, email address, telephone number, date of birth, age, gender , national insurance number, video recordings, photos, voice recordings of individuals and biometric data such as fingerprints. Sensitive data, such as health data or data in connection with criminal proceedings may also be included.
2. information and deletion
As a client or. generally as a data subject, you have – subject to the lawyer’s duty of confidentiality – the right to information about your stored personal dataat any time, its origin and recipients and the purpose of the data processing and the right to rectification, data transfer, objection, restriction of processing and blocking or deletion of incorrect or inadmissibly processed data.
If there are any changes to your personal data , please inform us accordingly.
You have the right, to withdraw your consent to the use of your personal data at any time. Your request for access, erasure, rectification, objection and/or data portability, in the latter case, provided that this does not involve disproportionate effort, can be sent to the address of the law firm stated in point 10. of this declaration.
tIf you are of the opinion that the processing of your personal data by us violates the applicable data protection law or your data protection claims have been violated in any other way, you have the option of complaining to the competent supervisory authority. In Austria, the data protection authority is responsible for this.
3. data security
Your personal data is protected by taking appropriate organisational and technical precautions. These precautions relate in particular to protection against unauthorised, unlawful or accidental access, processing, loss, use and manipulation.
Notwithstanding the endeavours to maintain an appropriately high standard of level of due diligence it cannot be excluded, that information that you disclose to us via the Internet , may be viewed and used by other persons.
Please note, that we therefore accept no liability whatsoever for the disclosure of information due to errors in data transmission not caused by us and/or unauthorised access by third parties (e.g.e.g. hacking attack on email account or. telephone, interception of faxes).
4. use of the data
We will not use the data made available to us for purposes other than those specified in the mandate agreement or by your consent or otherwise by a provision in purposes covered by a provision in accordance with the GDPR. Excluded from this is the use for statistical purposes, provided that the data made available has been anonymised.
5. transmission of data to third parties
In order to fulfil your order, it may also be necessary to pass on your data to third parties (e.g. counterparty, substitutes, insurance companies, service providers, which we utilise and to whom we make data available, etc.) courts or authorities. Your data will only be forwarded on the basis of the GDPR, in particular. to fulfil your order or on the basis of your prior consent.
We would also like to inform you, that in the course of our legal representation and support your factual and case-related information is obtained by third parties.
Some of the above-mentioned recipients of your personal data are located outside your country or process your personal data there. The level of data protection in other countries may not be the same as in Austria. However, we only transfer your personal data to countries for which the EU Commission has decided that they have an adequate level of data protection or we take measures, to ensure, that all recipients have an adequate level of data protection , for which we conclude standard contractual clauses (2010/87/EC and/or 2004/915/EC).
6. disclosure of data breaches
We endeavour to ensure, that data breaches are recognised at an early stage and, if necessary, reported immediately to you or the competent supervisory authority, including the respective data categories that are affected.
7. storage of the data
We will not store data for longer than is necessary to fulfil our contractual or legal obligations and to defend against any liability claims.
8. Cookies
This website uses “cookies” to make our website more user-friendly, effective and secure.
A “cookie” is a small text file, which we transmit via our web server to the cookie file of the browser on the hard disc of your computer. This enables our website to recognise you as a user, when a connection is established between our web server and your browser. Cookies help us to determine the frequency of use and the number of users of our website. The content of the cookies we use is limited to an identification number, which can no longer be traced back to the user. The main purpose of a cookie is to recognise visitors to the website.
Two types of cookies are used on this website:
- Session cookies: These are temporary cookies, that remain in your browser’ s cookie file until you leave our websitefile and are automatically deleted at the end of your visit.
- Persistent cookies: For a better user experience, cookies remain stored on your end device and allow us to , recognise your browser on your next visit.
You can set your browser so, that you are informed about the setting of cookies and only allow cookies in individual cases, exclude the acceptance of cookies for certain cases or in general and activatethe automatic deletion of cookies when the browser is closed. If cookies are deactivated, the functionality of this website may be restricted.
9. Server-Log-Files
To optimise this website in terms of system performance, user-friendliness and provision of useful information about our services, the website provider automatically collects and stores information in so-called serverlog files, that your browser automatically transmits to us. This includes your internet protocol address (IP address), browser and language setting, operating system, referrer URL, your internet service provider and date/time.
This data is not merged with personal data sources. We reserve the right to check this data retrospectively, if we become aware of specific indications of unlawful use.
10. web analysis
Our website uses functions of the web analysis service Google Analytics, a web analysis service of Google Inc. (“Google”). Google Analytics uses so-called “cookies”, text files, that are stored on your computer and that enable us to analyse your use of the website. The information generated by the cookie about your use of this website is usually transferred to a Google server in the USA and stored there. Google Analytics is used on this website by anonymising the IP address. This means that your IP address is shortened and thus anonymised. This truncation and anonymisation takes place within member states of the European Union or in other signatory states to the Agreement on the European Economic Area. Only in exceptional cases will the full IP address be transmitted to a Google server in the USA and truncated there. Google will use this information on behalf of the operator of this website, to analyse your use of the website, to compile reports on website activity and to provide other services relating to website activity and services to the website operator in connection with the use of the website and the Internet. The IP address transmitted by your browser within the scope of Google Analyticsaddress is not merged with other Google data . You can prevent the storage of cookies by selecting the appropriate settings in your browser software; however, we would like to point out, that in this case you may not be able to use all functions of this website to their full extent. You can also prevent the collection of data generated by cookies and related to your use of the website (incl. your IP address) to Google and the processing of this data by Google, by downloading and installing the browser plug-in available at the following link: http://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=en.
11. Our contact details
The protection of your data is particularly important to us. We are available for you at any time under the contact details below for your questions or your recall at any time.
Hauswirth-Kleiber Rechtsanwälte OG
1190 Wien, Heiligenstädter Straße 28
FN: 369332 k
Telefon: 01 / 369 17 69
E-Mail: office@hauswirth-kleiber.at
