We, Christian Haas and Ulrich Sauer, notaries in Cologne, are aware that the protection of your privacy when using our Internet pages is an important concern. We take our task of ensuring the confidentiality of your data within the framework of the applicable provisions of data protection law very seriously in our mutual interest. We use modern techniques to secure your data.

The following data protection information applies to the website of the notaries Christian Haas and Ulrich Sauer in Cologne. Insofar as this website contains links to third-party websites (external links), the content of the third-party websites is subject to the liability of the respective operators. Should you notice that links on our website refer to Internet pages whose contents violate applicable law, please notify us immediately via the e-mail address info@notar-haas-sauer.de. We will then remove these links from our website immediately. We will then immediately remove these links from our website. We, the notaries Christian Haas and Ulrich Sauer in Cologne, do not assume any liability for the topicality, correctness, completeness or quality of the information provided.

Use of data

We hereby inform you about the processing of your personal data when using the Internet presences and the rights to which you are entitled under data protection law.

Person responsible for data processing and data protection officer.

Responsible for data processing are the

Notaries Christian Haas and Ulrich Sauer
Kitschburger Street 1
50935 Cologne

E-mail: info@notar-haas-sauer.de

You can reach our data protection officer, Ms. Manuela Haas, at the above address with the addition -Datenschutzbeauftragte- or at the e-mail address mh@notar-haas-sauer.de.

Categories of data

In principle, you have the possibility to use our internet offer anonymously. We do not store any personal or personally identifiable data (such as IP addresses) of users of the website.

Further notes on our Internet presence can be found below.

Purposes of data processing

If you provide us with your personal data in certain cases, we will treat it confidentially in accordance with the data protection regulations in force in Cologne. If you send us an e-mail or fill out an online form on our website and submit it to us, we will process the personal data you provide there (e.g. your name or e-mail address) exclusively for our correspondence with you or in accordance with your order in accordance with the other purposes stated therein.

Should we wish to process your personal data for a purpose not stated therein, we will inform you in advance.

Legal basis of data processing

We process your personal data in compliance with the provisions of the European General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), the Federal Data Protection Act NEW (BDSG) and all other applicable, relevant laws on the processing of personal data.

The specific legal basis for data processing depends on the context in which and the purpose for which we receive your data. We will therefore refer you to this separately in the respective application, insofar as this is required by law.

As a rule, the legal basis will either be “legitimate interests of the controller to handle the communication” or necessary to carry out the orders at the request of the data subject or, if necessary, also the consent of the user or data subject.

Circle of persons using the data

Within the responsible party, only those persons and offices receive the data concerned that are responsible for the respective process. The data may also be transferred to service providers for the above-mentioned purposes. The involvement of service providers is necessary, for example, in the context of the administration and maintenance of IT systems.

In addition, personal data may be transferred to other recipients, insofar as this is necessary for the fulfillment of contractual or legal obligations (e.g. tax authorities, courts, in particular land registry offices, commercial registers, probate courts and family courts, as well as municipalities and supervisory authorities).

Data protection

We take appropriate technical and organizational security measures in accordance with the state of the art to protect data against accidental or intentional manipulation, loss, destruction or against access by unauthorized persons. If you send us data unencrypted as a normal, unsecured e-mail, there is a possibility that your data may be accessed or changed by unauthorized persons during transmission over the Internet. This danger also exists if we send you normal, unsecured e-mails.

Data protection rights

You can request information about the data stored about you at the above address. In addition, under certain conditions, you can request the correction or deletion of your data. You may furthermore be entitled to a right to restrict the processing of your data as well as a right to the return of the data provided by you in a structured, common and machine-readable format.

Right of objection

If we process your data to protect legitimate interests, you may object to this processing on grounds relating to your particular situation. We will then no longer process your personal data unless there are compelling legal, in particular professional, or other compelling reasons for processing that are worthy of protection. These are to be disclosed to you by us upon request.

If we process your data on the basis of your consent, you may revoke this consent at any time with effect for the future, unless there are compelling legal reasons, in particular professional reasons, to the contrary.

Possibility of complaint

You have the possibility to address a complaint to the data protection officers mentioned above or to a data protection supervisory authority. The data protection supervisory authority responsible for us is:

State Commissioner for Data Protection and Freedom of Information of North Rhine-Westphalia Kavalleriestraße 2-4, 40213 Düsseldorf, Germany.

Duration of data storage

We delete your personal data as soon as they are no longer required for the above-mentioned purposes. This regularly results from legal obligations of proof and storage, which are regulated, among other things, in the notarial professional law, commercial code, tax laws and the tax code. Accordingly, the storage periods are usually up to ten years. In addition, personal data may be retained for the period during which claims can be asserted against us (statutory limitation period of three or up to thirty years).

Data provision

You are not required to provide any personally identifiable information as part of your use of the Site. However, there are services for which we require personal data from you, for example, to provide you with requested information or draft documents. Without this data, it may not be possible to provide the requested services. In each case, we only collect the data that is actually required.

Purely automated processing processes to bring about a decision – including profiling are not used.

Data use

According to the GDPR, there will be legal information obligations in the future as soon as and to the extent that personal data is collected from you for processing. Therefore, in particular on the occasion of meeting appointments and / or drafting will be included in the future appropriate information on the specific use of your personal data.

Adaptations

Any further development of the Internet presence and changes in technology will lead from time to time to adjustments of this privacy policy. Therefore, the current version must always be observed.

Cookies

During an online session, so-called cookies are stored on your computer. These are small files that control the display and operation of our website. When you exit the dialog, these cookies are deleted, there is no evaluation of user behavior. We use cookies to give you the best possible experience on our website. Therefore, we store these small files – which, however, do not identify you personally – and evaluate the data under certain circumstances. In this way, we improve the usability of our website. We do not carry out statistical evaluations of this website. We also do not establish any personal reference to you. The cookies do not contain any personal data.

This website uses Google Analytics, a web analytics service provided by Google, Inc. (“Google”). Google Analytics uses “cookies”, which are text files placed on your computer, to help the website analyze how users use the site. The information generated by the cookie about your use of the website (including your IP address) will be transmitted to and stored by Google on servers in the United States. Google will use this information for the purpose of evaluating your use of the website, compiling reports on website activity for website operators and providing other services relating to website activity and internet usage. Google may also transfer this information to third parties where required to do so by law, or where such third parties process the information on Google’s behalf. Google will not associate your IP address with any other data held by Google. You may refuse the use of cookies by selecting the appropriate settings on your browser, however please note that if you do this you may not be able to use the full functionality of this website. By using this website, you consent to the processing of data about you by Google in the manner and for the purposes set out above.