Privacy Policy

The use of this website may involve the processing of personal data. To make these processing activities transparent to you, we would like to provide you with an overview of these processes in the following information. To ensure fair processing, we would also like to inform you of your rights under the European General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and the German Federal Data Protection Act (BDSG).

Name and Contact Details of the Controller and Data Protection Officer

If you have any questions or suggestions regarding this information, or if you wish to contact us to assert your rights, please direct your inquiry to:

Notary Roman Lorenz
Frankfurter Straße 47-53
61118 Bad Vilbel
Germany

Email: kontakt@notar-lorenz.com
Phone: +49 6101 510904-0
Fax: +49 6101 510904-59

The data protection officer appointed by us for the notarial office is

Attorney Dr. Frank Tykwer, who can be reached at rechtsanwalt@dr-tykwer.de. The deputy data protection officer appointed by us is Notary Specialist Katharina Stern, who can be reached at rux@dsb-notare-aerzte.de.

General Information on Data Processing

We process personal data in compliance with the applicable data protection regulations, in particular the GDPR and the BDSG. Data processing by us only takes place on the basis of a legal permission. When using this website, we process personal data only with your consent (Art. 6(1)(a) GDPR), for the performance of a contract to which you are a party, or at your request to take steps prior to entering into a contract (Art. 6(1)(b) GDPR), for compliance with a legal obligation (Art. 6(1)(c) GDPR), or where processing is necessary for the purposes of our legitimate interests or those of a third party, except where such interests are overridden by your interests or fundamental rights and freedoms requiring the protection of personal data (Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR).

Duration of Storage

Unless otherwise stated in the following notices, we store data only for as long as necessary to achieve the purpose of processing or to fulfil our contractual or legal obligations. Such statutory retention obligations may arise in particular from commercial or tax law provisions.

Processing of Server Log Files

When you use our website for purely informational purposes, general information that your browser transmits to our server is automatically stored (i.e., without registration). This typically includes: browser type/version, operating system used, page accessed, previously visited page (referrer URL), IP address, date and time of the server request, and HTTP status code. This processing is carried out to protect our legitimate interests and is based on the legal basis of Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR. This processing serves the technical administration and security of the website. The stored data is deleted unless there are specific indications of justified suspicion of unlawful use that would require further examination and processing of the information for that reason.

Data Processing Through User Input

When information is collected through contact forms, registrations, or applications, processing is carried out to protect our legitimate interests and is based on the legal basis of Art. 6(1)(a) GDPR.

Cookies

We use cookies on our website. Cookies are small text files that are stored by your browser when you visit a website. This identifies the browser used and allows it to be recognized by our web server. In particular, we use persistent cookies ("Persistent Cookies") for the analysis of our website. These cookies are automatically deleted after a specified period of time, which may vary depending on the cookie.

Where the use of cookies results in the processing of personal data, this is based on the legal basis of Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR. This processing serves our legitimate interest in making our website more user-friendly, effective, and secure. You can delete cookies in your browser's security settings at any time. You can generally object to the use of cookies through your browser settings.

Third-Party Content

This website uses the map service Google Maps. The provider is Google Ireland Limited ("Google"), Gordon House, Barrow Street, Dublin 4, Ireland. To use the functions of Google Maps, it is necessary to store your IP address. This information is generally transferred to and stored on a Google server in the USA. The provider of this website has no influence on this data transfer.

When Google Maps is enabled, Google may use Google Web Fonts for the uniform display of fonts. When Google Maps is loaded, your browser downloads the required web fonts into its browser cache in order to display texts and fonts correctly. The use of Google Maps is in the interest of an appealing presentation of our online offers and easy findability of the locations we indicate on the website. This constitutes a legitimate interest within the meaning of Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR. Where corresponding consent has been requested, processing is carried out exclusively on the basis of Art. 6(1)(a) GDPR; consent can be withdrawn at any time.

Data transfer to the USA is based on the standard contractual clauses of the EU Commission. Details can be found here: https://privacy.google.com/businesses/gdprcontrollerterms/ and https://privacy.google.com/businesses/gdprcontrollerterms/sccs/. More information on how user data is handled can be found in Google's privacy policy: https://policies.google.com/privacy?hl=en.

Your Rights

As a data subject, you have the right to assert your data subject rights against us. In particular, you have the following rights:

In accordance with Art. 15 GDPR and § 34 BDSG, you have the right to request information about whether and, if so, to what extent we process personal data relating to you.

You have the right, in accordance with Art. 16 GDPR, to request that we rectify your data.

You have the right, in accordance with Art. 17 GDPR and § 35 BDSG, to request that we erase your personal data.

You have the right, in accordance with Art. 18 GDPR, to request that the processing of your personal data be restricted.

You have the right, in accordance with Art. 20 GDPR, to receive the personal data concerning you that you have provided to us in a structured, commonly used, and machine-readable format, and to transmit that data to another controller.

In accordance with Art. 21(1) GDPR, you have the right to object to any processing based on the legal basis of Art. 6(1)(e) or (f) GDPR. Where we process personal data about you for the purpose of direct marketing, you may object to such processing pursuant to Art. 21(2) and (3) GDPR.

Where you have given us separate consent to the processing of data, you may withdraw that consent at any time in accordance with Art. 7(3) GDPR. Such withdrawal does not affect the lawfulness of processing carried out prior to the withdrawal on the basis of the consent.

Complaint to a Supervisory Authority

If you believe that the processing of personal data relating to you violates the provisions of the GDPR, you have the right, in accordance with Art. 77 GDPR, to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority.

Online Forms

Our website is linked to a button for online data collection, which gives you the opportunity to submit data to us via an online form. If you use this online service provided by NotarNow (LegalNow GmbH, Lena-Christ-Straße 2, 82031 Grünwald), your details, including the contact information you provide there, will be temporarily and automatically stored on the NotarNow servers for the purpose of processing your request and in the event of follow-up questions, and will subsequently be forwarded to us. Data transmission is encrypted via transport encryption using Secure Socket Layer (SSL/TLS).

Storage is solely for the purpose of processing or contacting the data subject. Data is not passed on to other third parties. The legal basis for the processing of data is Art. 6(1)(b) GDPR, insofar as your request is related to the performance of a contract or is necessary for the implementation of pre-contractual measures. In all other cases, processing is based on our legitimate interest in effectively handling the inquiries addressed to us (Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR) or on your consent (Art. 6(1)(a) GDPR), where this has been requested.

The data you enter in the online form will remain with us until you request its deletion, withdraw your consent to storage, or the purpose for data storage no longer applies (e.g., after your request has been fully processed). Mandatory statutory provisions – in particular retention periods – remain unaffected.

When using the "Save for later" function, your online form entries are stored in encrypted and anonymized form for 30 days. If the online form is not submitted to us within these 30 days, all form entries are automatically deleted in full. A deletion request from you is not necessary in this case.