DATA PROTECTION

1. General

The following data protection policy provides information on how we process your personal data and your rights in this context.

Personal data refers to all data that contain details of personal or factual circumstances, such as name, address, email address, phone number, date of birth, age, gender, social security number, video recordings, photos, voice recordings of individuals as well as biometric data such as fingerprints. Furthermore, sensitive data like medical data or data relating to criminal proceedings could be included.

2. Legal Basis for Data Processing

We collect, process and use personal data provided to us only in accordance with applicable data protection law, in particular the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).

3. Purpose of Data Processing

We collect, process and use personal data only for the purposes agreed upon or if another legal basis exists.

Only such personal data is collected, processed and used that is necessary for the implementation and processing of the respective purposes or that was voluntarily provided to us.

4. Transmission of Personal Data

In order to fulfil an engagement, it may also be necessary to forward personal data to third parties (e.g. opposing parties, substitute attorneys at law, courts, insurance companies, auditors as well as service providers that we use and make data available to). Personal data will only be forwarded on the basis of the GDPR, in particular for the fulfilment of an engagement or on the basis of a prior consent.

Some of the above mentioned recipients of personal data are located outside your country or process personal data outside of your country. It may be the case that the level of data protection in these countries does not meet the legal standards set out in Austria. However, personal data shall only be forwarded to countries that have been approved by the EU Commission for having an adequate level of data protection or otherwise we take adequate measures to ensure that all recipients provide an adequate level of data protection.

5. Data Storage

Personal data shall be stored no longer than necessary for the fulfillment of contractual or statutory obligations and as permitted by applicable laws. We shall store personal data in any case as long as statutory retention periods and/or not expired limitation periods of potential legal claims exist.

6. Data Security

Personal data shall be secured through appropriate organizational and technical measures. These measures particularly concern the protection against unauthorized, illegal or accidental access, processing, loss, use and manipulation. Despite our efforts to comply with the adequately high standard of diligence requirements, it cannot be excluded that information provided to us over the Internet are viewed or used by other persons.

Please note that we do not assume any liability whatsoever for the disclosure of information due to errors we have not caused during data transmission and/or unauthorized access by a third party (such as a hack attack on an email account or a phone).

7. Notification of Data Breaches

We are committed to ensure that data breaches are detected at an early stage and, where applicable, are immediately reported to you, respectively, to the competent supervisory authority (Austrian Datenschutzbehörde) including the respective data categories affected.

8. Your Rights relating to Personal Data

In compliance with the attorney at law’s confidentiality obligation and under the conditions of applicable law you are entitled to receive information about your stored personal data, its origin and recipients and processing purpose, as well as the right to correction, transfer, objection, restriction of processing as well as to block or delete inaccurate or inadmissible processed personal data. You are also entitled to revoke the consent to the use of your personal data, whereby a revocation does not affect the lawfulness of the processing carried out before the revocation.

If you consider the processing of your personal data violates the applicable data protection law or violates your privacy rights in a different way, you may file a complaint at the competent supervisory authority (Austrian Datenschutzbehörde).

9. Contact Details

If you have any questions or concerns regarding the processing of your personal data, please contact us:

BERGMANN HABSBURG Rechtsanwälte GmbH
Maria-Theresien-Straße 32-34/10
A-1010 Wien
Österreich
T +43 664 1188148
office@bergmann-habsburg.com
www.bergmann-habsburg.com