DATA PROTECTION

We, Tuscher Schmidt Rechtsanwälte GmbH, collect, process and use your personal data only with your consent or mandate or appointment for the purposes agreed with you or if there is another legal basis in accordance with the GDPR; We do all this in compliance with the provisions of data protection and civil law.

We only collect personal data that is required for the performance and processing of our legal services or that you have voluntarily provided to us.

What data do we collect?

In particular, we collect the following personal data (collectively, the “Data“):

  • Name,
  • address,
  • email address,
  • telephone number,
  • date of birth,
  • social security number,
  • tax number;
  • bank data;
  • IP address;
  • Search engines and key words you used to find us.

How do we collect your information?

Most of the data we collect is provided to us directly by you as part of engaging our firm. We collect your information when

  • You engage our law firm to provide (legal) services;
  • you visit our website;
  • you send us a message via the contact form on our website.

We may also obtain your data indirectly from the following sources:

  • Courts and other authorities;
  • Vienna Bar Association in the context of mandatory pro bono cases;
  • Other lawyers or service providers.

How do we use your data?

The data we collect will not be processed for purposes other than those covered by the mandate agreement or by your consent or otherwise by a provision in accordance with the GDPR. This excludes the use for statistical purposes, provided that the data transmitted has been anonymized.

How long and where will the collected data be stored?

We will not store your data for longer than is necessary to fulfill our contractual or legal obligations and to defend against any liability claims.

Your data will generally be stored on our servers, which are located exclusively in the European Union. Your personal data is protected by appropriate organizational and technical precautions. These precautions relate in particular to protection against unauthorized, illegal or even accidental access, processing, loss, use and manipulation.

Notwithstanding our efforts to maintain an appropriately high level of diligence at all times, it cannot be ruled out that information you disclose to us via the Internet may be viewed and used by unauthorized 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 unauthorized access by third parties (e.g. hacking attack on email account or telephone, interception of faxes).

Will your data be transmitted to third parties?

In order to fulfill your order, it may also be necessary to forward your data to third parties (e.g. opposing parties, substitutes, insurance companies, service providers who we use 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 for the fulfillment of the mandate agreement you have with our firm or on the basis of your prior consent.

Furthermore, we inform you that in the course of our legal representation and support, factual and case-related information is also regularly obtained from third parties.

Some of the above-mentioned recipients of your personal data are located outside your country or process your personal data there. We transmit your data exclusively to service providers within the European Union.

Cookies

Our website uses “cookies” to make our services more user-friendly, effective and secure.

A “cookie” is a small text file that we transfer via our web server to the cookie file of the browser on the hard drive of your computer. This enables our website to recognize 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 websites. The content of the cookies we use is limited to an identification number that no longer allows any personal reference to the user. The main purpose of a cookie is to recognize visitors to the website.

Two types of cookies are used on this website:

Session cookies: these are temporary cookies that remain in the cookie file of your browser until you leave our website and are automatically deleted at the end of your visit.

Persistent cookies: for a better user experience, cookies remain stored on your terminal device and allow us to recognize your browser the next time you visit our website.

You can adjust 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, as well as activate the automatic deletion of cookies when closing the browser. If you disable cookies, the functionality of this website may be limited.

If you would like to learn more about cookies, please visit www.allaboutcookies.org.

Server log files

In order to optimize 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 server log files, which your browser automatically transmits to us. The provider of the pages automatically collects and stores information in so-called server log files, which your browser automatically transmits to us. These are:

  • browser type and browser version
  • Operating system used
  • referrer URL
  • Host name of the accessing computer
  • Time of the server request

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 illegal use.

Google Analytics

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Our website uses functions of the web analysis service Google Analytics. The provider is Google Inc, 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway Mountain View, CA 94043, USA.

Google Analytics uses “cookies”. Please find the explanation of what cookies are above.

IP anonymization

We have activated the IP anonymization function on this website. This means that your IP address is shortened by Google within member states of the European Union or in other contracting states to the Agreement on the European Economic Area before being transmitted to the USA. Only in exceptional cases will the full IP address be transmitted to a Google server in the USA and shortened there. On behalf of the operator of this website, Google will use this information for the purpose of evaluating your use of the website, compiling reports on website activity and providing other services relating to website activity and internet usage to the website operator. The IP address transmitted by your browser as part of Google Analytics will not be merged with other data from Google.

Browser plugin

You may refuse the use of cookies by selecting the appropriate settings on your browser, however please note that if you do this you may not be able to use the full functionality of this website. You can also prevent the collection of data generated by the cookie and related to your use of the website (including your IP address) to Google and the processing of this data by Google by downloading and installing the browser plugin available at the following link: https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=de.

Objection to data collection

You can prevent the collection of your data by Google Analytics by clicking on the following link. An opt-out cookie will be set, which will prevent the collection of your of your data during future visits to this website: Disable Google Analytics

More information about Google Analytics’ handling of user data can be found in Google’s privacy policy:

https://support.google.com/analytics/answer/6004245?hl=de

Demographic characteristics with Google Analytics

his website uses the “demographic characteristics” function of Google Analytics. This allows reports to be generated that contain statements about the age, gender and interests of site visitors. This data comes from interest-based advertising from Google as well as visitor data from third-party providers. This data cannot be assigned to a specific person. You can deactivate this function at any time via the ad settings in your Google account or generally prohibit the collection of your data by Google Analytics as shown in the item “Objection to data collection”.

Your rights

You have the following rights:

  • Right to information (Art. 15 GDPR): You have the right to request that we send you copies of your data stored by us. We may charge a small fee for making and sending such copies.
  • Right to rectification (Art. 16 GDPR): You have the right to request that we rectify any inaccurate data concerning you.
  • Right to deletion (Art. 17 GDPR): You have the right to demand that we delete your data.
  • Right to restriction of processing (Art. 18 GDPR): You have the right to demand that we restrict the processing of your data.
  • Right to data portability (Art. 20 GDPR): You have the right to request us to transfer your data to another controller.
  • Right to object (Art. 21 GDPR): you have the right to object to the processing of their data.

Our contact details

The protection of your data is particularly important to us. We can be reached at any time for your questions or revocation at the contact details listed below.

Tuscher Schmidt Rechtsanwälte GmbH
Weihburggasse 30/3a
1010 Vienna
T +43 1 3430413
E office@tuscherschmidt.at