Data Protection Statement of the Law Firm Schulz Junghans Patentanwälte PartGmbB

Thank you for your interest in our homepage and our law firm. Despite careful content control, we cannot assume any liability for external links to external content. The protection of your personal data in their collection, processing and use during your visit to our homepage is important to us. Your data are protected within the framework of legal regulations. In the following we provide information on which data are collected during your visit to our homepage and how they are used.

1. Name and contact details of the party responsible for data processing and the company data protection officer

This data protection information applies to data processing by:

Responsible: Schulz Junghans Patentanwälte PartGmbB, Großbeerenstraße 71, 10963 Berlin, Germany. Phone: +49 30 20215420. Fax: +49 30 20215422. E-mail: office@mittepatent.de.

The data protection officer of Schulz Junghans Patentanwälte PartGmbB, Mr. Marius Hennig, can be contacted at the above address or at office@mittepatent.de.

2. Collection and storage of personal data and type and purpose of their use

This website is hosted by Squarespace Ireland Ltd, Le Pole House, Ship Street Great, Dublin 8 Ireland. Squarespace collects personal data when you visit this website. This includes:

  • Information about your browser, network and device

  • Web pages that you have visited before visiting this website

  • Your IP address

Squarespace requires the data for the operation of this website and for the protection and improvement of its platform and services. Squarespace analyses the data in a de-personalized form.

This website also uses font files from Google Fonts and Adobe Fonts. In order to display this website correctly, servers that store the font files may receive personal information about you. This includes:

  • Information about your browser, network or device

  • your IP address

This website also collects personal data that serves as the basis for our website analytics. This includes:

  • Information about your browser, network and device

  • Web pages that you have visited before visiting this website

  • your IP address

This information may also include details about your use of this website, including:

  • clicks

  • internal links

  • visited pages

  • scrolling

  • search operations

  • timestamps

We share this information with Squarespace, our website analytics provider, to learn more about traffic and activity on this website.

The legal basis for data processing is Art. 6 para. 1 sentence 1 lit. f DSGVO. Our legitimate interest stems from the purposes listed above for data collection. Under no circumstances will we use the data collected for the purpose of drawing conclusions about you personally. In addition, cookies are placed when you visit our website. You will find more detailed explanations under point 4 of this data protection statement.

3. Sharing of data with third parties

Your personal data will not be transmitted to third parties other than for the purposes listed below.

We will only pass on your personal data to third parties if:

  • you have given your express consent pursuant to Art. 6 para. 1 sentence 1 lit. a DSGVO,

  • the disclosure pursuant to Art. 6 para. 1 sentence 1 f DSGVO is necessary to assert, exercise or defend legal claims and there is no reason to think that you have an overriding justification for not disclosing your data,

  • a legal obligation exists for the transfer pursuant to Art. 6 para. 1 sentence 1 lit. c DSGVO, and

  • it is legally permissible and necessary for the processing of contractual relationships with you pursuant to Art. 6 para. 1 sentence 1 lit. b DSGVO.

4. Cookies

This website uses cookies and similar technologies, which are small files or short texts that are downloaded to a device when a visitor accesses a website or app.

Cookies do no damage to your device and do not contain viruses, Trojan horses or other malware.

On the one hand, using cookies allows us to make using our services more pleasant for you. For example, we use so-called session cookies to recognize that you have already visited individual pages of our Web site.

In addition, we also use temporary cookies that are stored on your device for a specified period of time to optimize user-friendliness. If you visit our site again to use our services, it will automatically recognize that you have already been here, and the entries and settings you have made so that you do not have to enter them again.

On the other hand, we use cookies to record the use of our Web site statistically and to evaluate it for the purpose of optimizing our services to you. These cookies enable us to automatically recognize when you return to our site that you have already been here.

These functional and necessary cookies are always used because they enable Squarespace, our hosting platform, to provide this website securely for you:

Name

Type

Duration

Purpose

Crumb

cookie

Session

Prevents cross-site request forgery (CSRF). CSRF is an attack vector that tricks a browser into taking unwanted action in an application when someone’s logged in.

siteUserCrumb

cookie

3 years

Prevents cross-site request forgery (CSRF) for logged site visitors.

RecentRedirect

cookie

30 minutes

Prevents redirection loops when a website has custom URL redirects. Redirection loops are bad for SEO.

Gesperrt

cookie

Session

Prevents the password protection screen from displaying when a visitor enters the correct password for the entire site.

squarespace-popup-overlay

localstorage

Permanently

Prevents the advertising pop-up from being displayed when a visitor closes it.

squarespace-announcement-bar

localstorage

Permanently

Prevents the message bar from being displayed when a visitor closes it.

ss_sd

Cookie

Session

Ensures that visitors to the Squarespace 5 platform remain authenticated during their sessions.

Test

Cookie

Session

Checks whether the browser supports cookies and prevents errors.

squarespace-likes

Localstorage

Permanently

Shows you whether you have already marked a blog entry with a "Like".

These analytics and performance cookies are only used on this website as described below if you confirm our cookie banner. We use analytics cookies to gain insight into site traffic, site activity and other data:

Name of Cookie

Duration

Purpose

ss_cid

2 years

Identifies unique visitors and tracks a visitor's sessions on a website.

ss_cvr

2 years

Identifies unique visitors and tracks a visitor's sessions on a website.

ss_cvisit

30 minutes

Identifies unique visitors and tracks a visitor's sessions on a website.

ss_cvt

30 minutes

Identifies unique visitors and tracks a visitor's sessions on a website.

ss_cpvisit

2 years

Identifies unique visitors and tracks a visitor's sessions on a website.

ss_cookieAllowed

30 days

Remembers whether a visitor has consented to the placement of analytics cookies in their browser when a website restricts the placement of cookies.

The data processed by cookies is required for the aforementioned purposes in order to protect our legitimate interests and those of third parties pursuant to Art. 6 Para. 1 S. 1 lit. f DSGVO.

Most browsers automatically accept cookies. However, you can configure your browser so that no cookies are stored on your computer or a message always appears before a new cookie is created. However, the complete deactivation of cookies can lead to the fact that you cannot use all functions of our website.

5. Rights of the persons concerned

You have the right:

  • to request information about your personal data processed by us in accordance with Art. 15 DSGVO. In particular, you may request information about the purposes of processing, the category of personal data, the categories of recipients to whom your data have been or will be disclosed, the planned storage period, the provision of a right to correction, deletion, restriction of processing or objection, the provision of a right to appeal, the origin of your data where these have not been collected by us, and the presence of automated decision-making including profiling and, where applicable, meaningful information on its details;

  • in accordance with Art. 16 DSGVO to demand the immediate correction of incorrect or incomplete personal data stored by us;

  • to request the deletion of your personal data stored by us in accordance with Art. 17 DSGVO, unless such processing is necessary for an exercising of the right to freedom of expression and information, to fulfil a legal obligation, for reasons of public interest or to assert, exercise or defend legal claims;

  • in accordance with Art. 18 DSGVO, to restrict the processing of your personal data if you dispute the accuracy of the data, if the processing is unlawful but you refuse to delete the data and we no longer need the data, but if you need it to assert, exercise or defend legal claims or if you have filed an objection to the processing in accordance with Art. 21 DSGVO;

  • in accordance with Art. 20 DSGVO, to receive your personal data that you have provided to us in a structured, current and machine-readable format or to request its transfer to another person responsible;

  • in accordance with Art. 7 para. 3 DSGVO, to revoke your consent to us at any time. As a result, we will no longer be allowed to continue processing data based on this consent in the future; and

  • to complain to a supervisory authority pursuant to Art. 77 DSGVO. Normally you can contact the regulatory authority pertaining to your usual place of residence, or your workplace, or our office.

6. Right of opposition

If your personal data are being processed on the basis of legitimate interests pursuant to Art. 6 para. 1 sentence 1 letter f DSGVO, you have the right to object to the processing of your personal data pursuant to Art. 21 DSGVO, provided that there are reasons for this which arise from your particular situation or the objection is directed against direct advertising. In the latter case, you have a general right of objection, which we will implement without specifying a particular situation.

If you wish to exercise your right of revocation or objection, simply send an e-mail to office@mittepatent.de.

7. Data security

During your visit to our Web site we use the well-known SSL (Secure Socket Layer) method coupled with the highest level of encryption supported by your browser. Usually this is a 256 bit encryption. If your browser does not support 256-bit encryption, we revert to 128-bit v3 technology instead. Whether a given page of our Web site is transmitted in encrypted form is indicated by the appearance of a closed key or lock symbol in the lower status bar of your browser.

We also use suitable technical and organisational security measures to protect your data against accidental or intentional manipulation, partial or complete loss, destruction or unauthorised access by third parties. We  continuously improve our security measures  in line with technological developments.

8. Updates to and amendment of this data protection statement

This data protection statement is valid as of Februrary 2020.

The continuing development of our Web site and the services offered on it, or changes to legal or official requirements may make it necessary to amend this data protection declaration. You can access and print out the current data protection statement at any time on our website.