PRIVACY POLICY

1. Personal data 

 

We collect, process and use your personal data only with your consent or mandate or order for the purposes agreed with you or if there is another legal basis in accordance with the DSGVO; this is done in compliance with the provisions of data protection and civil law.  

 

We only collect personal data that is necessary for the performance and processing of our legal services or that you have voluntarily provided to us. 

 

Personal data are all data that contain individual details about personal or factual circumstances, for example name, address, email address, telephone number, date of birth, age, gender, national insurance number, video recordings, photos, voice recordings of persons as well as biometric data such as fingerprints. Sensitive data such as health data or data related to criminal proceedings may also be included. 

 

2. Information and deletion 

 

As a client or, more generally, as a data subject, you have the right - subject to the lawyer's duty of confidentiality - to obtain information at any time about your stored personal data, their origin and recipients and the purpose of the data processing, as well as the right to rectification, data transmission, objection, restriction of processing and blocking or deletion of incorrect or unlawfully processed data. 

 

You have the right to revoke your consent to the use of your personal data at any time. 

 

If you are of the opinion that the processing of your personal data by us violates the applicable data protection law or that your data protection rights have been violated in any other way, you have the possibility to complain to the competent supervisory authority. In Austria, the competent authority is the data protection authority. 

 

3. Data security 

 

Your personal data is protected by appropriate organisational and technical precautions. These precautions relate in particular to protection against unauthorised, illegal or even accidental access, processing, loss, use and manipulation. 

 

Notwithstanding our efforts to maintain an appropriately high level of due diligence at all times, it cannot be ruled out that information you disclose to us via the Internet may be viewed and used by other persons. 

 

Please note that we therefore accept no liability whatsoever for the disclosure of information due to errors in data transmission not caused by us and/or unauthorised access by third parties (e.g. hacking attack on email account or telephone, interception of faxes). 

 

4. Use of data 

 

We will not process the data provided to us for purposes other than those covered by the mandate agreement or by your consent or otherwise by a provision in accordance with the GDPR. In the case of financial or real estate transactions concerning the purchase or sale of real estate or companies, the management of money, securities or other assets, the opening or management of bank, savings or securities accounts or the establishment, operation or management of companies, foundations or similar structures, including the raising of funds necessary for the establishment, operation or management of companies, the processing of data shall also be carried out in accordance with the legal obligations of the lawyer under the RAO for the purposes of preventing money laundering and terrorist financing.

 

5. Transmission of data to third parties 

 

In order to fulfil your order, it may also be necessary to forward your data to third parties (e.g. the opposing party, substitutes, insurance companies, service providers whom we use and to whom we make data available, etc.), courts or authorities. Your data will only be forwarded on the basis of the GDPR, in particular for the fulfilment of your order or on the basis of your prior consent. 

 

Furthermore, we inform you that in the context of our legal representation and support, factual and case-related information is also regularly obtained from third parties. 

 

Some of the above-mentioned recipients of your personal data are located outside your country or process your personal data there. The level of data protection in other countries may not be the same as in Austria. However, we only transfer your personal data to countries for which the EU Commission has decided that they have an adequate level of data protection or we take measures to ensure that all recipients have an adequate level of data protection. 

 

6. Disclosure of data breaches 

 

We endeavour to ensure that data breaches are identified at an early stage and, where appropriate, reported to you or the relevant supervisory authority without delay. 

 

7. Retention of data 

 

We will not retain data for longer than is necessary to fulfil our contractual or legal obligations and to defend against any liability claims. 

 

8. Cookies 

 

Our website uses "cookies" to make our services more user-friendly, effective and secure. A "cookie" is a small text file that we transfer via our web server to the cookie file of the browser on the hard drive of your computer. This enables our website to recognise you as a user when a connection is established between our web server and your browser. Cookies help us to determine the frequency of use and the number of users of our web pages. The content of the cookies we use is limited to an identification number that no longer allows any personal reference to the user. The main purpose of a cookie is to recognise visitors to the website. 

 

Two types of cookies are used on this website: 

a. Session Cookies (Transient Cookies): These are temporary cookies that remain in the cookie file of your browser until you leave our website and are automatically deleted at the end of your visit. 

b. Permanent cookies (Persistent cookies): For a better user experience, cookies remain stored on your terminal device and allow us to recognise your browser on your next visit. 

 

You can set your browser so that you are informed about the setting of cookies and only allow cookies in individual cases, exclude the acceptance of cookies for certain cases or in general and activate the automatic deletion of cookies when closing the browser. If you deactivate cookies, the functionality of our website may be limited and you may not be able to use all the functions of our website. 

 

9. Server log files 

 

In order to optimise our website in terms of system performance, user-friendliness and the provision of useful information about our services, the website provider automatically collects and stores information in so-called server log files, which your browser automatically transmits to us. This includes your internet protocol address (IP address), browser and browser software language, operating system and its interfaces, referrer URL, your internet service provider, time zone difference to Greenwich Mean Time (GMT), content of the request (specific page), access status/HTTP status code, the amount of data transferred in each case and the date/time of the request. 

 

This data is not merged with personal data sources. We reserve the right to check this data retrospectively if we become aware of specific indications of unlawful use. 

 

10. Contact details 

 

You can reach us as follows: Dr. Peter Gatternig and Mag. Karl Gatternig, Attorneys-at-law. Renngasse 9/5, 1010 Vienna, Phone +43 1 533 33 33, Fax: +43 1 535 04 42, E-Mail: advokat@gatternig.at