Thank you very much for your interest in our website and patent law firm.

This privacy notice gives you an overview over how, to what extent and for what purpose personal data is collected and used by KSVR on their homepage.

1. Responsible entity and Data Protection Officer

This privacy policy applies to the entity responsible for the collection, processing and use of your personal data:

König Szynka Tilmann von Renesse Patentanwälte Partnerschaft mbB

Mönchenwerther Straße 11
40545 Düsseldorf
Deutschland

email:               d@ksvr.net
Tel:                   +49 211 302020-0
Fax:                 +49 211 302020-11

You may contact the internal data protection officer at the aforementioned address, for the attention of the data protection officer or by email to datenschutz@ksvr.net.

2. Use of personal data

Visiting our website:

When you access our web pages, access data is stored in “server log files”.
Data is anonymized by altering the IP addresses in such a way that details of personal or material circumstances can no longer be attributed to an identified or identifiable natural person.

The following data is collected and stored, without any action on your part, until the time of automatic deletion:

• IP address of the requesting computer,
• date and time of access,
• name and URL of the retrieved file,
• website from which access is made (referrer URL),
• the browser used and, if applicable, the operating system of your computer as well as the name of your access provider.

The data mentioned is processed by us for the following  purposes:

• ensuring a smooth connection to the website,
• ensuring comfortable use of our website,
• evaluation of system security and stability as well as
• for further administrative purposes.

If and insofar as personal data is collected on our website, this is always on a voluntary basis, as far as possible, and purely to provide the web pages, to enable the provision of information about our undertaking or  to enable you to contact us (Article 6 (1) (f) GDPR).

Apart from that, cookies are used on our website.

2. Data transfer to third countries

No data is transferred to third countries outside the European Union/European Economic Area unless

• you have granted us your explicit consent to do so in accordance with Article 6 (1) (a) GDPR or
  • such transfer is necessary, pursuant to Article 6 (1) (f) GDPR, for the establishment, exercise or defense of legal claims and there is no reason to assume that you have an overriding legitimate interest in your data not being transferred,
  • there is a legal obligation on us to transfer such data, pursuant to Article 6 (1) (c) GDPR, or
  • this is permitted by law and is necessary for the performance of a contract to which you are party, pursuant to Article 6 (1) (b) GDPR.

3. Cookies

Your attention is drawn to the fact that cookies (session cookies) are used on our website. Use of our website is also possible without cookies. Cookies are a message given to a Web browser by a Web server. The browser stores the message in a text file.

Cookies are small text files that enable specific information relating to the user to be stored on the user equipment while using our website.

Cookies make it possible not only to determine the frequency of use and the number of users of the website and to analyze usage behaviour, but also to enhance website security to make our online service user-friendly.

By using our website, you agree to the use of cookies and to the collection, storage and use of cookies as non-personal usage data.

You can also prevent cookies being created, by deactivating the acceptance of third-party cookies in your Internet browser.

4. Your rights

You have the right:

• under Article 15 GDPR to obtain information from us concerning your personal data processed by us. In particular, you may demand information about the purposes of the processing, the categories of personal data concerned, the recipients or categories of recipients to whom the personal data have been or will be disclosed, where possible the envisaged duration of storage, the existence of the right to rectification or erasure or restriction of processing of personal data or to object to such processing, the right to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority, the source of your data, where they are not collected by us, and about the existence of automated decision-making, including profiling, and where relevant about the logic involved as well as the significance and the envisaged consequences of such processing for you;
• under Article 16 GDPR to demand the rectification of inaccurate personal data or the completion of incomplete personal data stored by us;
• under Article 17 GDPR to demand the erasure of your personal data stored by us, unless the processing is necessary for exercising the right of freedom of expression and information, for compliance with a legal obligation, for reasons of public interest or for the establishment, exercise or defense of legal claims;
• under Article 18 GDPR to demand restriction of processing of your personal data, if the accuracy of the data is contested by you, the processing is unlawful but you oppose the erasure, we no longer need the data but require them for the establishment, exercise or defense of legal claims, or you have objected to processing under Article 21 GDPR;
• under Article 20 GDPR to receive, in a structured, commonly used and machine-readable format, your personal data which you have provided to us, or to demand that said data be transmitted to another controller, where technically feasible;
• under Article 7 (3) GDPR to withdraw at any time the consent you have granted to us. This has the consequence that we are no longer permitted to continue the data processing that was based on that consent; and
• under Article 77 GDPR to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority. To do so, you can normally approach the supervisory authority for your habitual place of residence, place of work or for our patent law firm.

5. Objection to processing of your personal data

If and insofar as your personal data is processed on the basis of legitimate interest pursuant to Article 6 (1) (f) GDPR, you have the right, pursuant to Article 21 GDPR, to object to the processing of your personal data on grounds relating to your particular situation, or to the processing of your personal data for direct marketing purposes. In the latter case, you have a general right to object that is implemented by us without a special situation having to be specified.

If you have any queries in this respect, please send them by email to datenschutz@ksvr.net.

6. Data protection

We apply appropriate technical and organizational security measures in order to protect your personal data against manipulation, partial or full loss and against unauthorized access by third parties.

7. Up-to-dateness and possible changes regarding our privacy policy

This privacy policy is valid as of May 2018.

As a result of the further developments of our website and offers thereof or due to changed legal or official requirements, it may be necessary to change this privacy policy. The current privacy policy can be viewed and printed at any time on the website at https://ksvr.net/dataprotection.

Thank you very much for your interest in our website and patent law firm.

This privacy notice gives you an overview over how, to what extent and for what purpose personal data is collected and used by KSVR on their homepage.

1. Responsible entity and Data Protection Officer

This privacy policy applies to the entity responsible for the collection, processing and use of your personal data:

König Szynka Tilmann von Renesse Patentanwälte Partnerschaft mbB

Mönchenwerther Straße 11
40545 Düsseldorf
Deutschland

email:               d@ksvr.net
Tel:                   +49 211 302020-0
Fax:                 +49 211 302020-11

You may contact the internal data protection officer at the aforementioned address, for the attention of the data protection officer or by email to datenschutz@ksvr.net.

2. Use of personal data

Visiting our website:

When you access our web pages, access data is stored in “server log files”.
Data is anonymized by altering the IP addresses in such a way that details of personal or material circumstances can no longer be attributed to an identified or identifiable natural person.

The following data is collected and stored, without any action on your part, until the time of automatic deletion:

• IP address of the requesting computer,
• date and time of access,
• name and URL of the retrieved file,
• website from which access is made (referrer URL),
• the browser used and, if applicable, the operating system of your computer as well as the name of your access provider.

The data mentioned is processed by us for the following  purposes:

• ensuring a smooth connection to the website,
• ensuring comfortable use of our website,
• evaluation of system security and stability as well as
• for further administrative purposes.

If and insofar as personal data is collected on our website, this is always on a voluntary basis, as far as possible, and purely to provide the web pages, to enable the provision of information about our undertaking or  to enable you to contact us (Article 6 (1) (f) GDPR).

Apart from that, cookies are used on our website.

2. Data transfer to third countries

No data is transferred to third countries outside the European Union/European Economic Area unless

• you have granted us your explicit consent to do so in accordance with Article 6 (1) (a) GDPR or
  • such transfer is necessary, pursuant to Article 6 (1) (f) GDPR, for the establishment, exercise or defense of legal claims and there is no reason to assume that you have an overriding legitimate interest in your data not being transferred,
  • there is a legal obligation on us to transfer such data, pursuant to Article 6 (1) (c) GDPR, or
  • this is permitted by law and is necessary for the performance of a contract to which you are party, pursuant to Article 6 (1) (b) GDPR.

3. Cookies

Your attention is drawn to the fact that cookies (session cookies) are used on our website. Use of our website is also possible without cookies. Cookies are a message given to a Web browser by a Web server. The browser stores the message in a text file.

Cookies are small text files that enable specific information relating to the user to be stored on the user equipment while using our website.

Cookies make it possible not only to determine the frequency of use and the number of users of the website and to analyze usage behaviour, but also to enhance website security to make our online service user-friendly.

By using our website, you agree to the use of cookies and to the collection, storage and use of cookies as non-personal usage data.

You can also prevent cookies being created, by deactivating the acceptance of third-party cookies in your Internet browser.

4. Your rights

You have the right:

• under Article 15 GDPR to obtain information from us concerning your personal data processed by us. In particular, you may demand information about the purposes of the processing, the categories of personal data concerned, the recipients or categories of recipients to whom the personal data have been or will be disclosed, where possible the envisaged duration of storage, the existence of the right to rectification or erasure or restriction of processing of personal data or to object to such processing, the right to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority, the source of your data, where they are not collected by us, and about the existence of automated decision-making, including profiling, and where relevant about the logic involved as well as the significance and the envisaged consequences of such processing for you;
• under Article 16 GDPR to demand the rectification of inaccurate personal data or the completion of incomplete personal data stored by us;
• under Article 17 GDPR to demand the erasure of your personal data stored by us, unless the processing is necessary for exercising the right of freedom of expression and information, for compliance with a legal obligation, for reasons of public interest or for the establishment, exercise or defense of legal claims;
• under Article 18 GDPR to demand restriction of processing of your personal data, if the accuracy of the data is contested by you, the processing is unlawful but you oppose the erasure, we no longer need the data but require them for the establishment, exercise or defense of legal claims, or you have objected to processing under Article 21 GDPR;
• under Article 20 GDPR to receive, in a structured, commonly used and machine-readable format, your personal data which you have provided to us, or to demand that said data be transmitted to another controller, where technically feasible;
• under Article 7 (3) GDPR to withdraw at any time the consent you have granted to us. This has the consequence that we are no longer permitted to continue the data processing that was based on that consent; and
• under Article 77 GDPR to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority. To do so, you can normally approach the supervisory authority for your habitual place of residence, place of work or for our patent law firm.

5. Objection to processing of your personal data

If and insofar as your personal data is processed on the basis of legitimate interest pursuant to Article 6 (1) (f) GDPR, you have the right, pursuant to Article 21 GDPR, to object to the processing of your personal data on grounds relating to your particular situation, or to the processing of your personal data for direct marketing purposes. In the latter case, you have a general right to object that is implemented by us without a special situation having to be specified.

If you have any queries in this respect, please send them by email to datenschutz@ksvr.net.

6. Data protection

We apply appropriate technical and organizational security measures in order to protect your personal data against manipulation, partial or full loss and against unauthorized access by third parties.

7. Up-to-dateness and possible changes regarding our privacy policy

This privacy policy is valid as of May 2018.

As a result of the further developments of our website and offers thereof or due to changed legal or official requirements, it may be necessary to change this privacy policy. The current privacy policy can be viewed and printed at any time on the website at https://ksvr.net/dataprotection.