Privacy policy
We are committed to protecting the privacy of your personal data. For that reason, we process your data exclusively in accordance with the legal requirements (GDPR, Federal Data Protection Act [BDSG]). The purpose of this privacy information is to acquaint you with the most important aspects of data processing that come to bear when you visit our website.
General data collection activities during website visits
Every time a data subject or an automated system accesses the website, we collect a range of general data and information. This general data and information is stored in the server's log files. The data and information we collect are:
- an internet protocol address (IP address),
- the data and time of accessing the website,
- the exact page accessed on our website,
- the website from which you accessed our website (known as the referer),
- the browser used and the version of this browser,
- and the operating system used to access our website.
We process this data for the following purposes:
- to warrant a smooth connection with the website,
- to optimise content for you on our website,
- and to warrant system security and stability.
These points are both in your and our legitimate interest. Where necessary, we also use this data to meet our legal obligations in dealings with law enforcement agencies. We will never use the data collected to identify you as a person. The legal basis for this processing is article 6 (1) (f) GDPR. We store these log files for a period of 2 months.
Contact by e-mail, telephone or post
So we can address your concerns at all times, we also process personal data when you contact us by e-mail, telephone or post. We only process the data you provide when you contact us, especially name, address, telephone number, e-mail address and other personal details that may be included in the description of your concern. In fact, this data will be stored for the length of time it takes to address your concern. Especially if you contact us within the scope of an existing contractual relationship or a contractual relationship is established by you contacting us, we will store this data for a prolonged period of time in conformity with our documentation and retention obligations.
During this time, we will not disclose the data you provided when you contacted us to third parties without due authorisation. The legal basis for processing the data may be any of the following: legitimate interest in communication with new prospective customers (Article 6[1][f] GDPR), your consent (Article 6[1][a] GDPR) and, when making contact within the scope of an existing contractual relationship or if a contractual relationship is established by initiating such contact, the necessity to perform a contract (Article 6[1][b] GDPR) and/or the need to comply with a legal obligation (Article 6[1][c] GDPR).
Contact form, Online application, Newsletter
If you contact us using the form available on our website or by email, or send us your application, we will process the data you provide as well as the above mentioned general data. By using our form you agree that we may process your data. We will not disclose this data to any third party and will use the data exclusively for processing your request and for answering your enquiry. Your consent according to article 6 (1) (a) GDPR forms the legal basis for processing your data. In case you contact us by email, the basis is article 6 (1) (f) GDPR. The data we collect during this process will be deleted as soon as it is no longer required for the purpose you provided it. This is the case when the respective conversation is finished. This in turn is the case when your enquiry appears to be resolved completely. If you contact us for placing a contract, a further legal basis is article 6 (1) (b) GDPR. In this case we keep your enquiry as a business letter for 7 years.
Your rights
Generally, you enjoy the following rights: the right to access your data, the right to rectification of your data, the right to erasure of your data, the right to restrict processing of your data, the right to data portability and the right to object to the processing of your data. If you believe that the processing of your data is in breach of data protection law, or your rights under data protection law are otherwise infringed, you may file a claim with the supervisory authority. A list of the competent supervisory authorities classified by Länder is available at www.datenschutz-wiki.de.
You will find further information on your rights at BFDI - Federal Commissioner for Data Protection and Freedom of Information.
Contact
Please address all inquiries, declarations and questions relating to data use to luerweg@lundb.de.
Matomo
We use Matomo to learn more about how visitors interact with our website. For that purpose, we collect certain data on visitors' behaviour on our website. We combine these data and use it to perform statistical analyses on an aggregated level. Among the data we collect and process are for example:
- which of our website's sub-sites a visitor is navigating to,
- how long a visitor remains on our website
- from which other website a visitor navigated to our website („referer“).
These data are collected and processed strictly anonymously. That means that we are not able to deduce information on any individual website visitor or identify them. Also, we do not combine these data with data from other sources, do not disclose these data to third parties within or outside of the European Union and do not use these data for individual profiling or solely automated decision-making.
You may object to the analyisis of your behaviour on our website, even though it is performed anonymously and no personal information is used in the process:
Cookies and local data storage
To improve your browsing experience, we use small text files known as "cookies" and other methods ("storage methods") to store data on your end device (e.g. in the local storage of your browser) to process your preferences and to enrich your user experience on our website. We do not use cookies and other storage methods to track your visits to our website. Cookies and other storage methods are routinely used by most websites today. If you are concerned about this, you can also set your browser to accept neither cookies nor other storage methods.
YouTube videos
We have integrated YouTube videos on our homepage, which are stored on www.youtube.com and can be played directly from our homepage. YouTube, part of Google Inc., 1600 Amphitheater Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA.
The videos are all integrated in the extended data protection mode, i.e. no data about you as a user will be transmitted to YouTube if you do not play the videos. The YouTube cookies stored on your computer are only transferred when you play the videos. We have no influence on this data transfer.
If you are also logged into your YouTube account, you would enable YouTube to assign your surfing behavior directly to your personal profile. You can prevent this possibility of assignment by logging out of your account beforehand. YouTube saves your data as a user profile and uses it for advertising, market research and / or needs-based design of its website. You have the right to object to the creation of these user profiles, although you must contact YouTube to exercise this right. Further information on the collection or use of your data by YouTube can be found in the information on data protection there at www.youtube.com/t/privacy_at_youtube. Google also processes your personal data in the USA.
Responsible within the meaning of Article 13 Paragraph 1 Letter a GDPR
HLB TREUMERKUR GmbH & Co. KG Wirtschaftsprüfungsgesellschaft
Hofaue 37 42103 Wuppertal Germany
T +49 202 45960 - 0 F +49 202 45960 - 60 E mail@treumerkur.de