Data Protection

The protection of your personal data is treated as a top priority by our law office. This principle applies to our internet presentation as well as to our conventional services.

This is why we would like to inform you here, how the data privacy regulations are implemented in our internet presentation.

Further information about the risks of using the internet and the possibilities of protecting yourself can be found in the internet under www.datenschutz.de

1. Data privacy
Basically, most presentations and services on our website are intended for anonymous use. During your access to our website, no personal data regarding your use are generated, and only anonymous data are stored.  

Anonymous data are data which do not allow any conclusion about your identity. Evaluation of anonymous data serves for instance to analyse the habits of our users, so as to be able to make our presentation more user-friendly, and to adapt it to the users’ preferences and requirements (e.g. number of visits, statistics on use, etc.)

Personal data consist of information which allows identification of a person. This includes in particular the name, date of birth, address and telephone number.

If you enter any personal data on our website, they will only be used in the scope of the consent given by you, and only for the purpose indicated on that page (e.g. ordering of services, etc.). You are at any time at liberty to revoke a consent once granted.

We do not provide third parties with personal data of any kind. Where personal data have to be collected by is for performing services (e.g. commissioning), they will immediately be deleted after completion of the service.

When you retrieve any pages or files within this homepage, and are requested to enter personal data in this connection, we kindly ask you to observe that this data transmission via the internet is unsecured, and that the data might hence come to the knowledge of unauthorised persons or even be falsified by them.

2. 2. Handling of e-mail addresses
If you send us an e-mail, we only use your e-mail address for the correspondence with you; of course it will not be disclosed to third parties.

3. Request for information
If our law office has stored data concerning your person you may, upon request, obtain information for free on the data stored about your identity. Please inform us, if we have stored incorrect data about you, so that we can correct, bar or delete them.

If you have further queries on data privacy, please contact info@neumann-schmeer.de

4. Cookies
Cookies are small strings of data stored by the operator of a website in your computer. For the execution of certain functions of our website, data are stored in cookies (e.g. in navigation or in the „protected clients’ area“).

Temporary cookies are automatically erased when closing the browser. They merely contain an identification number (session ID) allowing the server to allocate the successive inquiries of the browser to the same user. Temporary cookies are used by many servers and do not constitute any safety risk.

Things are different with permanent cookies, which may also be read by other servers. Our website only uses temporary cookies in the public area. As far as you have been provided with a SmartCard as a client of our law office and work in the non-public area of our website via „Arbeitsplatz Online“, also permanent cookies are used to facilitate work with the SmartCard. In this connection, however, no personal data are stored or evaluated.

Cookies leave you the choice, whether to admit them or not. Changes in this regard can be made in your browser settings. By changing your browser settings (in most cases to be found under "Option" or "Settings" in your browser menus) you have the choice to accept all cookies, to be informed when a cookie is issued or to reject all cookies. If you decide not to accept our cookies, it may happen that the functionality on our web pages is restricted and that some services cannot be used. We kindly ask for your comprehension.

5. Encryption of data during transmission
Information transmitted in the internet is usually unencrypted. As the path of the data between the server and the local PC can never be exactly predicted, the information transmitted can in principle be inspected and seen at numerous points.

The transmission of sensitive information from the non-public area of our internet site to your PC therefore always takes place in encrypted form. The codes required for this technique are stored on a SmartCard. Access to non-public areas is therefore only possible by means of the DATEV-SmartCard.