Privacy policy

avocado rechtsanwälte is committed to protecting the privacy of visitors to its website. This notice describes how your personal data are processed.

Collection and processing of personal data

a) When visiting the website

When you visit our website www.avocado.de, the browser used on your device automatically sends information to the server of our website. This information is temporarily stored in a so-called log file. The following personal data will be collected without your intervention and stored until they are automatically deleted:

IP address of the requesting computer,
Date and time of access,
Name and URL of the retrieved file,
Website from which access is made (referrer URL),
the browser used and, if applicable, the operating system of your computer as well as the name of your access provider.

Your personal data will be processed by us for the following purposes:

Ensuring a smooth connection of the website,
Ensuring comfortable use of our website
Evaluation of system safety and stability as well as
for other administrative purposes.

The legal basis for data processing is Art. 6(1)(1)(f) GDPR. Our legitimate interest follows from the purposes listed above for the collection of data. Under no circumstances do we use the collected data for the purpose of determining your identity.

The personal data are collected anonymously and cannot technically be assigned to specific persons. The personal data are not merged with other data sources; the data are deleted after statistical evaluation and are not stored as an individual data record.

With every access to our websites and with every retrieval of a file, static IP addresses are also recorded and automatically stored in a log file of the server. Under certain circumstances, static IP addresses may allow conclusions to be drawn about the person of the user. To this end, we neither carry out evaluations nor use such data for our own advertising purposes or make them available to third parties.

b) When registering for our newsletter

If you have explicitly consented in accordance with Art. 6(1)(1)(a) GDPR, we will use your e-mail address to send you our newsletter on a regular basis. To receive the newsletter, it is sufficient to provide an e-mail address.

You can unsubscribe at any time by sending an e-mail to k.walter@avocado.de .

c) Other data collection, contact

Apart from that, you can visit our websites without providing any personal information. However, you can decide to do this by filling out forms in various areas of our website, such as

Career
Contact us

Such personal information provided on this website will be used for the purposes described in the relevant part of the website and for other purposes for which you give your consent. The legal basis is Art. 6(1)(1)(a) GDPR (explicit consent) and Art. 6(1)(1)(b) GDPR (performance of contract).

Disclosure of data

Your personal data will not be transferred to third parties for purposes other than those listed below. We will only pass on your personal data to third parties if:

you have given your explicit consent in accordance with Art. 6(1)(1)(a) GDPR,
the disclosure pursuant to 6(1)(1)(f) GDPR is necessary for the assertion, exercise or defence of legal claims and there is no reason to assume that you have an overriding legitimate interest in not disclosing your data,
in the event that there is a legal obligation to pass on data pursuant to Art. 6(1)(1)(c) GDPR, and
it is legally permissible and required for the execution of contractual relationships with you pursuant to Art. 6(1)(1)(b) GDPR.

Storage

Your data will be kept and stored for as long as this is necessary for the purpose for which the data were permissibly collected or as required by law or legal obligations.

Cookies

We use cookies on various websites to make visiting our website attractive and to enable the use of certain functions. These are small text files that are stored on your computer. Most of the cookies we use are deleted from your hard drive at the end of the browser session (so-called session cookies). Other cookies remain on your computer and enable us to recognize your computer during your next visit (so-called long-term cookies). These cookies are used to save the individual selections made by the visitor (e.g. the parameters when performing a search) in order to restore them to their original state when the respective website is visited again. The generated cookies expire after closing the browser or after closing the last browser window. Cookies are also used for unpersonalized statistics. The generated cookies have an expiry time of max. three months.

The data processed by cookies are necessary for the purposes mentioned to safeguard our legitimate interests and those of third parties pursuant to Art. 6(1)(1)(f) GDPR.

You can set your browser in a way that you are informed about the setting of cookies, decide on the acceptance of cookies on a case-by-case basis or generally exclude the acceptance of cookies. If cookies are not accepted, the functionality of our website may be restricted.

Google Analytics and etracker – rights of revocation

The tracking measures listed below and used by us are carried out on the basis of Art. 6(1)(1)(f) GDPR. With the tracking measures used, we want to ensure that our website is designed as required and continuously optimised.

On the other hand, we use the tracking measures in order to statistically record the use of our website and to evaluate it for the purpose of optimising our offer to you. These interests are to be regarded as justified within the meaning of the aforementioned provision.

As an analysis tool for our website, we use the web analysis services Google Analytics, Google Inc. ("Google") and etracker of etracker GmbH. Both web analysis services use cookies of the type described above to enable an analysis of your use of the website. The data collected using the technologies of the aforementioned web analysis services will not be used to personally identify the visitor to this website and will not be merged with personal data relating to the bearer of the pseudonym without the explicit consent of the data subject. In this context, we would also like to point out the possibility described above of preventing the storage of cookies by means of browser software settings.

The collection and storage of data by etracker can also be revoked at any time with effect for the future.

The information generated by Google Analytics through the cookie about your use of this website are usually transferred to a Google server in the USA and stored there. If IP anonymisation is activated on this website, Google will, however, shorten your IP address beforehand 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 where it will be shortened. Google will use this information on our behalf to evaluate your use of the website, compile reports on website activity and provide other services to website operators relating to website activity and internet usage.

You can prevent Google from collecting the data generated by the cookie and related to your use of the website (including your IP address) and from processing such data by downloading and installing the following browser plugin.

You can find more information on terms of use and data protection on the Google Analytics website.

We also use Google Analytics to evaluate data from the AdWords cookie for statistical purposes. If you do not wish this to happen, you can deactivate it using the Ad Preferences Manager.

We would like to point out that on this website Google Analytics has been extended by the code "gat._anonymizeIp();" in order to guarantee an anonymous recording of IP addresses (so-called IP masking).

Confidentiality and security

We will keep your information confidential and protect it in accordance with our usual practices and all applicable laws.

Your rights

You have the right:

to request information about your personal data processed by us in accordance with Art. 15 GDPR. In particular, you may request information on the processing purposes, the category of personal data, the categories of recipients to whom your data have been or will be disclosed, the planned storage period, the existence of a right of rectification, deletion, restriction of processing or objection, the existence of a right of complaint, the origin of your data, unless it has been collected from us, as well as the existence of an automated decision-making process including profiling and, if applicable, meaningful information on its details;
in accordance with Art. 16 GDPR, to immediately request the correction of incorrect or incomplete personal data stored by us;
to demand the deletion of your personal data stored by us in accordance with Art. 17 GDPR, unless the processing is necessary for the exercise of the right to freedom of expression and information, for the fulfilment of a legal obligation, for reasons of public interest or for the assertion, exercise or defence of legal claims;
to demand the restriction of the processing of your personal data pursuant to Art. 18 GDPR if the accuracy of the data is disputed by you, the processing is unlawful but you refuse its deletion and we no longer need the data but you need it to assert, exercise or defend legal claims or you have lodged an objection to the processing pursuant to Art. 21 DSGVO;
in accordance with Art. 20 GDPR, to receive your personal data which you have provided to us in a structured, common and machine-readable format or to request the transfer to another responsible party;
in accordance with Art. 7 para. 3 GDPR, to revoke your consent once given to us at any time. The consequence of this is that we may no longer continue the data processing based on this consent in the future, and
to complain to a supervisory authority pursuant to Art. 77 GDPR. As a rule, you can contact the supervisory authority of your usual place of residence or place of work or our office.

Your right of objection

If your personal data are processed on the basis of legitimate interests pursuant to Art. 6(1)(1)(f) GDPR, you have the right, pursuant to Art. 21 GDPR, to object to the processing of your personal data if there are reasons for doing so which arise from your particular situation or if the objection is directed against direct advertising. In the latter case, you have a general right of objection, which is implemented by us without stating a particular situation.

If you wish to make use of your right of revocation or objection, an e-mail to t.wilmer(at)avocado.de is sufficient.

Data security

We use the SSL (Secure Socket Layer) method in connection with the highest level of encryption supported by your browser. As a rule, this is a 256-bit encryption. If your browser does not support 256-bit encryption, we use 128-bit v3 technology instead. You can tell whether an individual page of our website is transmitted in encrypted form by the closed representation of the key or lock symbol in the lower status bar of your browser.

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

Actuality and amendment of this privacy policy

This privacy policy is currently valid and as of May 2018.

Due to the further development of our website and offers on it or due to changed legal or official requirements, it may be necessary to amend this data protection declaration. You can view and print out the current privacy policy at any time on the website at www.avocado.de/en/privacy-policy/

Contact person

If you have questions about the processing of your personal data, please contact us:
t.wilmer(at)avocado.de