Responsible for the data processing on this website is
Louven Rechtsanwälte PartGmbB
Spitzenkamptwete 29
32756 Detmold
Phone: + 49 157 71 71 98 90 45
E‑Mail: privacy@louven.legal
Security of your data
We use encryption procedures on our website (e.g. SSL over HTTPS) to protect the security of your personal data during transmission. This corresponds to the current state of the art.
Changes
We will adapt this policy in case of actual or legal need to meet the current requirements. The most current version of our privacy policy is always valid. Please inform yourself at the beginning of each use of our website about the data protection information valid at that time.
Your rights
You can use the rights listed below under the aforementioned contact information or via the contact form provided on this website:
- Information about all your data stored with us and their processing (Art. 15 GDPR),
- Correcting incorrect personal data (Art. 16 GDPR),
- Deletion of the personal data stored by us about you (Art. 17 GDPR),
- Restriction of data processing (e.g. in case we are not yet allowed to delete your data due to legal obligations (Art. 18 GDPR),
- Objection to the processing of your data (Art. 21 GDPR)
- Data portability, if you have consented to data processing or have concluded a contract with us (Art. 20 GDPR).
- Revocation of any consent granted with effect for the future (Art. 7 GDPR)
Irrespective of this, your right to complain to the relevant supervisory authority remains. An up-to-date list of supervisory authorities and their addresses can be found at: https://www.bfdi.bund.de/DE/Infothek/Anschriften_Links/anschriften_links-node.html.
Data processing on our website
1. Collection of general information
Type and purpose of processing:
When you access our website, general information is collected by the provider (so-called server log files). The latter regularly include the operating system and web browser you use, your IP address and the domain name of your Internet service provider. We never use your data to draw conclusions about your person or your behaviour.
Legal basis of the processing:
The processing is carried out in accordance with Art. 6 para. 1 sentence 1 letter f GDPR on the basis of our legitimate interest in improving and maintaining the stability, integrity, security and functionality of our website.
Recipients:
Recipients of your personal data may be technical service providers who act as contract processors for the operation and maintenance of our website. We have concluded corresponding necessary contracts for order processing with these service providers.
Duration of storage:
The personal data are deleted when the purpose of the processing is fulfilled. This is generally the case for the data used to provide the website, when the respective session has ended.
Provision required or necessary:
You are not obliged to provide us with the aforementioned personal data. Without the transmission of an IP address, however, the use of our website is not possible for technical reasons.
2. Comments on the blog
Type and purpose of processing:
On our website you can make comments on individual blog posts. If you click on the button “POST COMMENT”, the personal data you have entered yourself will be transmitted to us by your browser and stored in our system. In addition to the personal data mentioned under 1., this concerns in any case your IP address and the time of sending your comment, as well as, if applicable, additionally your name, your email address and your website. We use this data to prevent abusive comments on our website. We authorize each comment within our discretion before it is publicly visible. There is no claim to publish a comment.
Legal basis of the processing:
The processing is carried out in accordance with Art. 6 para. 1 sentence 1 letter f GDPR on the basis of our legitimate interest in the presentation of your comment on our website and the verification of the origin of the comment as well as its contents.
Recipients:
Recipients of your personal data may be technical service providers who act as contract processors for the operation and maintenance of our website. We have concluded corresponding necessary contracts for order processing with these service providers.
Duration of storage:
The personal data are deleted when the purpose of the processing is fulfilled. This is generally the case for the data used to display your comment for as long as it is required to display the comment. Within the scope of our discretion, we regularly decide whether published comments are deleted.
Provision required or necessary:
You are not obliged to provide us with the aforementioned personal data. Without the transmission of an IP address and the time of the comment, however, the use of the comment function is not possible for technical reasons.
3. Newsletter
Type and purpose of processing:
We offer a newsletter subscription, in the context of which we inform you about current developments in our main areas of practice (in particular antitrust law and telecommunications law), as well as our services.
The registration is carried out by means of the so-called Double-Opt-in-Procedure (DOI). First of all, you enter an email address in a registration form. After clicking the “Register” button (first opt-in), you will receive an email at this address asking you to confirm your registration (second opt-in). This DOI procedure is necessary to prevent misuse of your email address. The registration for the newsletter will be logged in order to be able to prove that the procedure has been legally followed. This includes the storage of the time of registration and confirmation, the IP address and the email address. You can revoke your consent to receive the newsletter at any time and unsubscribe (opt-out). You can revoke your consent by clicking on the link provided in each newsletter e‑mail, by sending an e‑mail to privacy@louven.legal or by sending a message to the contact data provided in the imprint.
We evaluate the user behaviour of the newsletter subscribers in the context of a performance measurement. This is done through a so-called “web-beacon” in the newsletter. This is a pixel-sized file that is retrieved from the server of the newsletter service provider when the newsletter is opened. Within the scope of this retrieval, technical information such as information on the browser and your system, as well as your IP address and the time of retrieval, is initially collected. This information is used for the technical improvement of our newsletter based on the technical data or the target groups and their reading behaviour on the basis of their retrieval locations (which can be determined by means of the IP address) or the access times. This analysis also includes determining whether the newsletters are opened, when they are opened and which links are clicked. For technical reasons, this information can be assigned to individual newsletter recipients. However, it is neither our intention nor, if used, that of the mailing service provider to observe individual users. The evaluations rather serve to identify the reading habits of our users and to adapt our contents to them or to send different contents according to the interests of our users.
Used services and service providers:
Mailchimp: e‑mail marketing platform; service provider: “Mailchimp” – Rocket Science Group, LLC, 675 Ponce De Leon Ave NE #5000, Atlanta, GA 30308, USA; website: https://mailchimp.com; privacy statement: https://mailchimp.com/legal/privacy/; Privacy Shield (ensuring the level of data protection when processing data in the USA): https://www.privacyshield.gov/participant?id=a2zt0000000TO6hAAG&status=Active.
Legal basis of the processing:
The processing of the registration data as well as the measurement of success is carried out in accordance with Art. 6 Para. 1 S. 1 lit. a GDPR within the framework of your consent. Revocation of consent to performance measurement is only possible if the subscription is terminated at the same time. The DOI procedure is also carried out in accordance with Art. 6 para. 1 sentence 1 lit. f GDPR on the basis of our legitimate interest in direct marketing, if and to the extent that this is permitted by law, e.g. in the case of advertising to existing customers. The processing by services and service providers used is carried out in accordance with Art. 6 para. 1 sentence 1 letter f GDPR on the basis of my legitimate interest in the efficient and secure execution of my newsletter.
Duration of storage:
We will store deleted e‑mail addresses for up to three years after the end of the year in which they were deleted, in order to be able to prove a previously given consent and the legality of the registration procedure. The processing of this data is limited to the purpose of a possible defence against claims. An individual request for deletion is possible at any time, provided that the former existence of a consent is confirmed at the same time. In case of obligations to permanently observe objections, we reserve the right to store the email address in a blacklist for this purpose alone.Provision required or necessary: You are not obliged to provide us with the aforementioned personal data. Without the provision of a functioning email address, the DOI procedure and the measurement of success, however, the newsletter subscription is technically not possible.
4. APPLICATION
You have the possibility to apply for open positions or to send us an unsolicited application. Within your application, you can provide us with your CV and further information about you, your motivation for applying and your ideas about working with us. We process the personal data you provide via the application channel you have chosen for the purpose of carrying out the application process and, if necessary, for contacting you in the event of queries. Additionally, if we are interested in your profile, we will use your contact data to invite you to participate in the next round of the application process. The data processing described above is carried out on the basis of Art. 6 Para. 1 lit. b DSGVO and § 26 Para. 1 BDSG for the purpose of initiating a contract. If you provide us with data that is not mandatory, we process such data on the basis of our legitimate interests in the use of information provided to us based on Art. 6 (1) f DSGVO. Obviously irrelevant data will be deleted by us. In addition, we have a legitimate interest in managing and evaluating your application and information from and about your application process. The legal basis for this purpose of data processing is Art. 6 (1) lit. f DSGVO.
Personal data used for the exercise and defence of our interests, rights and claims we process on the basis of our legitimate interests in the exercise and defence of our interests, rights and claims under Art. 6 (1) lit. f DSGVO. If the processing of special categories of personal data is necessary for the assertion, exercise or defence of legal claims, we additionally carry out such data processing on the basis of Art. 9 (2) lit. f DSGVO. To clarify inconsistencies, we use personal data on the basis of our interests in clarifying inconsistencies based on Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f DSGVO. As claims could be asserted against us from the application process (e.g. according to the AGG), we store the data necessary to enable the presentation of legally compliant conduct until the respective claims have become time-barred based on our legitimate interests in this and based on Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f DSGVO.
Insofar as we are legally obliged to process data that we have received as part of the application process, we carry out this data processing on the basis of Art. 6 para. 1 lit. c DSGVO.
If your application was successful, we will store your application documents in your personnel file. If the data processing is based on our legitimate interests (Art. 6 (1) (f) DSGVO), the data will be stored for as long as our interests prevail and the data are required to fulfil an overriding legitimate interest. If the data processing is based on a legal obligation to which we are subject (Art. 6 (para. 1 lit. c DSGVO), the data will be stored for as long as is necessary to fulfil our legal obligation. For example, we are subject to the retention periods provided for in tax laws.
If your application was unsuccessful, we will delete it within six months of the decision to reject your application. If there is interest on our part and yours in a future cooperation and you have given your consent in accordance with Art. 6 para. 1 lit. a DSGVO, we will also store your application documents in the future in order to be able to contact you regarding vacant positions relevant to you, provided you do not revoke your consent to this in the future.