Privacy Policy

Coverage

In our privacy policy we explain to you the sort, reach and purpose of the collection and use of your personal data on this website. We are: Meyer-Dulheuer MD Legal Patentanwälte PartG mbB, Franklinstraße 61-463, , 60486 Frankfurt am Main, [email protected],  +49 (0) 69 / 606 278-0

The legal framework of the German laws on privacy can be found in the Bundesdatenschutzgesetz (BDSG), in the Telemediengesetz (TMG)  and in the EU basic data protection regulation (EU-DSGVO).

Access data / Server logfiles

Meyer-Dulheuer MD Legal Patentanwälte PartG mbB (respectively our webspace provider) collects data about every access to our website (the so-called server logfiles). These access data include:

Title of the accessed page, file, access date and time, transferred amount of data, notification about successful access, type and version of your web browser, the operating system of the user, referrer URL (the last page you saw before you visited our website), IP-address and requesting provider.

Meyer-Dulheuer MD Legal Patentanwälte PartG mbB only uses these protocol data for statistical analysis, in order to ensure the smooth operation, safety and steady improvement of our website. But we reserve our right to check these protocol data afterwards if a user is suspicious of using our website against the law and can be suspected of doing so by specific evidence.

How we handle personal data

Personal data of a user is information which can be used to determine the user, i.e. data which can be traced back to a person. This includes the name, e-mail address, telephone number and also the IP address.

Personal data are only collected, used and passed on by us if this is permitted by law or if the user expressly agrees to the collection of this data.

Children and young people under the age of 14 may not transmit personal data on the Internet without the consent of their parents or legal guardians. Please note that our website is not intended for or directed at young people under the age of 18. We do not knowingly collect personal information from anyone under the age of 18.

Establishing contact via email or our contact form

If a user establishes contact to Meyer-Dulheuer MD Legal Patentanwälte PartG mbB via our contact form or via email, user details will be saved to handle the request and further questions resulting from the request.

Data transmission to our own web space is secured by SSL and HTTPS encryption. To make data transfer to our web space as secure as possible, we have integrated the SSL certificate with "HTTPS", which you can view at any time through the browser display of our pages. The symbol for secure data transmission is a green lock, the HTTPS (Hypertext Transfer Protocol Secure) transmission can be found in the address line of your web browser. There, the first five characters are the abbreviation "https", which indicates the secure connection.

An SSL certificate enables a user's computer to identify and confirm the identity of the website server. The browser first checks whether it is really in contact with the correct server. It then determines an encryption with which the data of the session, i.e. the web page visit, is encoded.

In particular for your data transmission to us via one of our contact forms, we thus offer the greatest possible security for your data.

Meyer-Dulheuer MD Legal Patentanwälte PartG mbB points out that the confidentiality of e-mails or other electronic forms of communication on the Internet is generally not fully guaranteed. We recommend sending confidential information by post.

Newsletter

With the newsletter we inform you about us and current cases or court decisions in intellectual property law.

If you would like to receive the newsletter, we need a valid email address from you as well as information that allows us to verify that you are the owner of the specified email address or that the owner of the email address agrees to receive the newsletter. Our law firm Meyer-Dulheuer MD Legal Patentanwälte PartG mbB does not collect any further data for the newsletter. We also use this data only for sending the newsletter and do not pass it on to third parties.

We use Cleverreach to send our newsletter; only your e-mail address and your name are stored there for sending our newsletter. We have no influence on the processing of these personal data; this is done by Cleverreach.

Cleverreach uses so-called web beacons or pixel tags. Tracking pixels are extremely small image files, often only 1×1 pixels in size, which are integrated into the newsletter e-mail and thus permit log file recording and log file analysis.

If the user now opens the respective previously loaded e-mail, the pixel-code is loaded from the server of the newsletter operator and at the same time some information is transmitted via the e-mail recipient:

• if the e-mail has been opened,
• Time of the call,
• and the corresponding IP address. Meyer-Dulheuer MD Legal Patentanwälte PartG mbB receives access to these evaluations in statistical form, not in individually personalized form. Nor do we get any insight into the IP addresses.

For further information please inform yourself about the data protection at https://www.cleverreach.com/de/datenschutz/.

Cookies

Cookies are little files which enable the storage of information related to an access device on the access devices of users. These information serve the usability of webpages and therefore directly serve website users (e.g. the storage of login data). Additionally, they serve to collect data about the use of our website, by which we will make our website more user-friendly and ensure its smooth operation.

Users can affect the use of cookies, i.e. limit it or cancel it completely. Most web browsers have an option to limit or completely cancel the use of cookies. But we want to notify you that in case you limit or cancel the use of cookies you might not be able to use our website or some of its devices to their full extent.

Users can administer many cookies used by companies on the US-American webpage http://www.aboutads.info/choices/ or on the European webpage http://www.youronlinechoices.com/uk/your-ad-choices/ .

You may change your cookie preferences with immediate effect at any time. Cookie options may be viewed and changed by clicking on the Link at the bottom left of this page.

Borlabs Cookie

This website uses Borlabs Cookie, which sets a technically necessary cookie (borlabs-cookie) to store your cookie preferences.

Borlabs Cookie does not collect personal data.

In the borlabs-cookie cookie, your privacy choices are saved, which you set when navigating to this website. If you would like to withdraw your consents to cookies, simply delete this cookie in your browser. When you navigate back onto this website, you will be asked your cookie preferences again.

Change cookie preferences

Google Analytics

This website uses Google Analytics, a service provided by the Google Inc. (“Google”). Google Analytics uses so-called “cookies”, little text files which will be stored on the access devices of the users. Through the use of cookies Google Analytics is able to analyze how a user uses our website. Information collected through the use of cookies generally will be transferred to a Google-owned server in the USA and will be stored there.

The IP address collected by Google Analytics’ cookie will be shortened, i.e. it will be made anonymous, if a user accesses our website from a member country of the European Union (e.g. Germany) or any other signatory of the Agreement on the European Economic Area. Only in exceptional cases the user’s IP address will be transferred to Google’s Server in the US unabridged. On this website IP addresses are made anonymous. Meyer-Dulheuer MD Legal Patentanwälte PartG mbB orders Google to collect users’ data to analyze the use of the website, to send reports about website activities and to provide some other services centered around the use of websites.

The IP address transferred by your web browser to Google Analytics will not be merged with other Google data.

The user can prohibit the storage of cookies on his computer by configuring his browser. By prohibiting cookies on your computer you may not be able to use our website and all of its functions to the fullest extent possible.

Additionally, the user can prohibit Google’s cookie from sending information about the user’s behavior on this website. In this way, the use and processing of these information is prohibited, too. To prohibit the sending of information to Google, you have to download an add-on for your browser and install it: http://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=de

As an alternative to the browser add-on or to prohibit cookies and the sending of information on mobile devices, click the following link to prohibit the recording of your data on this website for the future (this opt-out will only work within this browser and only for this domain). If you click this link, an opt-out cookie will be stored on your device. If you clear your cookies in your browser, you’ll have to click this link again:
opt out of Google Analytics

etracker

This website uses the analysis service etracker. The provider of this service is the etracker GmbH, Erste Brunnenstraße 1, 20459 Hamburg, Germany.

It makes it possible to generate a user profile under a pseudonym based on the data. etracker uses technologies that make it possible to recognize the user (e.g., cookies or device fingerprinting). Data collected with the etracker technologies shall not be used in the absence of a separate declaration of consent given by the data subject to personally identify users of this website and shall not be merged with personal data about the holder of the pseudonym.

The use of this analysis tool is based on Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR. The website operator has a legitimate interest in the analysis of user patterns, in order to optimize the operator’s web offerings and advertising. If appropriate consent has been obtained, the processing is carried out exclusively on the basis of Art. 6(1)(a) GDPR and § 25 (1) TTDSG, insofar the consent includes the storage of cookies or the access to information in the user’s end device (e.g., device fingerprinting) within the meaning of the TTDSG. This consent can be revoked at any time.

Data processing

We have concluded a data processing agreement (DPA) with the above-mentioned provider. This is a contract mandated by data privacy laws that guarantees that they process personal data of our website visitors only based on our instructions and in compliance with the GDPR

Social Media Plugins

Our pages include plugins from the social network Facebook, provider Facebook Inc, 1 Hacker Way, Menlo Park, California 94025, USA. You can recognize the Facebook plugins by the Facebook logo or the "Like" button on our page. An overview of the Facebook plugins can be found here: http://developers.facebook.com/docs/plugins/.
When you visit our pages, the plugin establishes a direct connection between your browser and the Facebook server. Facebook receives the information that you have visited our site with your IP address. If you click the Facebook "Like" button while logged into your Facebook account, you can link the contents of our pages on your Facebook profile. This allows Facebook to associate the visit to our pages with your user account. We would like to point out that, as the provider of the pages, we have no knowledge of the content of the data transmitted or of their use by Facebook.

There is no Facebook pixel installed on our website. Facebook can use a visitor action pixel to associate visitor behavior on websites with Facebook accounts and also use it for its own advertising purposes, according to Facebook's data usage policy.

For more information, please see Facebook's Privacy Policy at http://facebook.com/policy.php.
If you do not want Facebook to associate your visit to our pages with your Facebook account, please log out of your Facebook account.

Our pages include functions of the Twitter service. These functions are provided by Twitter Inc, 1355 Market Street, Suite 900, San Francisco, CA 94103, USA. By using Twitter and the "Re-Tweet" function, the websites you visit are linked to your Twitter account and made known to other users. Data is also transmitted to Twitter. We would like to point out that, as the provider of the pages, we are not aware of the content of the data transmitted or how it is used by Twitter. For more information, please see Twitter's privacy policy at http://twitter.com/privacy.
You can change your Twitter privacy settings in your account settings at http://twitter.com/account/settings

Our website uses functions of the XING network. The provider is XING AG, Dammtorstrasse 29-32, 20354 Hamburg, Germany. Every time you visit one of our pages that contains functions of Xing, a connection to Xing servers is established. To our knowledge, personal data will not be stored. In particular, no IP addresses are stored or the usage behavior is evaluated.
Further information on data protection and the Xing Share button can be found in Xing's data protection declaration at https://www.xing.com/app/share?op=data_protection.

By using Google Plus, information about your use of this website (including your IP address) may be transmitted to and stored by Google on servers in the United States. Google may also transfer this information to third parties if this is required by law or if third parties process this data on behalf of Google. It would be technically possible for Google to identify at least individual users on the basis of the data received. It is possible that personal data and personality profiles of users of the Google website could be processed for other purposes over which we have and cannot influence.  The Google Privacy Policy & Additional Terms of Use for Google Plugins and Tools can be found at https://policies.google.com/privacy?hl=en.

Social Sharing Plugins

There are plugins installed on our pages for sharing our posts with social networks.  This concerns the social networks Facebook, Twitter, Xing, LinkedIN and Google Plus.

We would like to point out that, as the provider of the pages, we have no knowledge of the content of the data transmitted or of their use by the social networks. However, the sharing plug-ins establish direct connections between your browser and the respective network. The visit of our pages can thus be assigned to your user account from your network.

We want to protect your data in the best possible way, so we use the Shariff Wrapper plugin for social sharing. The Shariff Wrapper only communicates with the respective social network after the user has actively clicked on the link.

For further information on the social networks mentioned by us, please read the companie's data protection declarations.

http://facebook.com/policy.php

http://twitter.com/privacy

https://www.xing.com/app/share?op=data_protection

http://www.linkedin.com/static?key=privacy_policy&trk=hb_ft_priv

https://policies.google.com/privacy?hl=en

Withdrawal of consent, changes, corrections and updates

You have a right to information about the personal data collected about you and stored by us and about any data recipients. In addition, you have the right to have your personal data stored corrected if it is incorrect. You have the right to the deletion of this data, however, we are legally obliged to observe possible legal or tax retention periods, which can prevent an immediate deletion of this data in the specific case. If these reasons should influence the deletion, we will inform you.

You can revoke your consent to the processing of personal data at any time. This also applies to the revocation of declarations of consent that were given to us prior to the validity of the basic EU data protection regulation, i.e. before 25 May 2018.

Our data protection officer:
If you wish information about your data, correction or deletion of your data, please contact our data protection officer:
Dr. Tim Meyer-Dulheuer
Email: [email protected]

In addition, you have the right to complain to the data protection supervisory authority responsible for you if you believe that we are not processing your personal data correctly.

Responsible supervisory authority for data protection:
The Hessian Data Protection Commissioner
PO Box 3163
65021 Wiesbaden
https://datenschutz.hessen.de/ueber-uns/biografie-der-hessische-datenschutzbeauftragte

Google reCAPTCHA

We use “Google reCAPTCHA” (hereinafter referred to as “reCAPTCHA”) on this website. The provider is Google Ireland Limited (“Google”), Gordon House, Barrow Street, Dublin 4, Ireland.

The purpose of reCAPTCHA is to determine whether data entered on this website (e.g. information entered into a contact form) is being provided by a human user or by an automated program. To determine this, reCAPTCHA analyses the behaviour of the website visitors based on a variety of parameters. This analysis is triggered automatically as soon as the website visitor enters the site. For this analysis, reCAPTCHA evaluates a variety of data (e.g. IP address, time the website visitor spent on the site or cursor movements initiated by the user). The data tracked during such analyses are forwarded to Google.

reCAPTCHA analyses run entirely in the background. Website visitors are not alerted that an analysis is underway.

Data are stored and analyzed on the basis of Art. 6 Sect. 1 lit. f GDPR. The website operator has a legitimate interest in the protection of the operator’s websites against abusive automated spying and against SPAM. If a respective declaration of consent has been obtained (e.g. consent to the archiving of cookies), the data will be processed exclusively on the basis of Art. 6 Sect. 1 lit. a DGDPR. Any such consent may be revoked at any time.

For more information about Google reCAPTCHA please refer to the Google Data Privacy Declaration and Terms Of Use under the following links: https://policies.google.com/privacy?hl=en and https://policies.google.com/terms?hl=en.

etracker

This website uses the analysis service etracker. The provider of this service is the etracker GmbH, Erste Brunnenstraße 1, 20459 Hamburg, Germany.

It makes it possible to generate a user profile under a pseudonym based on the data. etracker uses technologies that make it possible to recognize the user (e.g., cookies or device fingerprinting). Data collected with the etracker technologies shall not be used in the absence of a separate declaration of consent given by the data subject to personally identify users of this website and shall not be merged with personal data about the holder of the pseudonym.

The use of this analysis tool is based on Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR. The website operator has a legitimate interest in the analysis of user patterns, in order to optimize the operator’s web offerings and advertising. If appropriate consent has been obtained, the processing is carried out exclusively on the basis of Art. 6(1)(a) GDPR and § 25 (1) TTDSG, insofar the consent includes the storage of cookies or the access to information in the user’s end device (e.g., device fingerprinting) within the meaning of the TTDSG. This consent can be revoked at any time.

Data processing

We have concluded a data processing agreement (DPA) with the above-mentioned provider. This is a contract mandated by data privacy laws that guarantees that they process personal data of our website visitors only based on our instructions and in compliance with the GDPR.