Von Baross I Strategy & Transformation

Thomas von Baross​

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Address
Ruedesheimer Straße 22
65197 Wiesbaden
Deutschland

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Phone
Mobile +49 (0) 170 440 9000

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Email
kontakt@vonbaross.com

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Security and Protection of Your Personal Data

 

We consider it our top priority to maintain the confidentiality of the personal data you provide and to protect it from unauthorized access. To ensure this, we apply the utmost care and implement state-of-the-art security standards to safeguard your personal data.

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As a private-sector company, we comply with the provisions of the European General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and the Federal Data Protection Act (BDSG). We have implemented technical and organizational measures to ensure that both we and our external service providers adhere to data protection regulations.

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​Definitions

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The law requires that personal data be processed lawfully, fairly, and transparently for the individual concerned (“lawfulness, fairness, and transparency”). To ensure this, we provide you with an overview of the key legal terms used in this privacy policy:

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1. Personal Data
“Personal data” refers to any information relating to an identified or identifiable natural person (the “data subject”). An identifiable person is one who can be identified, directly or indirectly, particularly by reference to an identifier such as a name, an identification number, location data, an online identifier, or one or more factors specific to the physical, physiological, genetic, mental, economic, cultural, or social identity of that natural person.

2. Processing
“Processing” means any operation or set of operations performed on personal data, whether or not by automated means, including collecting, recording, organizing, structuring, storing, adapting, or altering, retrieving, consulting, using, disclosing by transmission, disseminating, or otherwise making available, aligning, or combining, restricting, erasing, or destroying data.

3. Restriction of Processing
“Restriction of processing” means the marking of stored personal data with the aim of limiting its future processing.

4. Profiling
“Profiling” means any form of automated processing of personal data used to evaluate certain personal aspects relating to a natural person, particularly to analyze or predict aspects concerning the person’s work performance, economic situation, health, personal preferences, interests, reliability, behavior, location, or movements.

5. Pseudonymization
“Pseudonymization” means the processing of personal data in such a way that it can no longer be attributed to a specific data subject without additional information, provided that the additional information is stored separately and is subject to technical and organizational measures to ensure the personal data cannot be attributed to an identified or identifiable natural person.

6. Filing System
A “filing system” is any structured set of personal data accessible according to specific criteria, whether centralized, decentralized, or dispersed on a functional or geographical basis.

7. Controller
The “controller” is a natural or legal person, public authority, agency, or other body that determines, alone or jointly with others, the purposes and means of processing personal data. Where the purposes and means of such processing are determined by Union or Member State law, the controller or the criteria for its nomination may be provided for by Union or Member State law.

8. Processor
A “processor” is a natural or legal person, public authority, agency, or other body that processes personal data on behalf of the controller.

9. Recipient
A “recipient” is a natural or legal person, public authority, agency, or another body to whom personal data is disclosed, whether or not it is a third party. However, public authorities that may receive personal data in the context of a specific investigative mandate under Union or Member State law are not considered recipients; their processing of such data must comply with applicable data protection laws in line with the purposes of processing.

10. Third Party
A “third party” is any natural or legal person, public authority, agency, or body other than the data subject, controller, processor, or persons authorized to process personal data under the direct authority of the controller or processor.

11. Consent
“Consent” means any freely given, specific, informed, and unambiguous indication of the data subject’s wishes, by which they signify agreement to the processing of their personal data through a statement or a clear affirmative action.

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Lawfulness of Processing

 

The processing of personal data is lawful only if there is a legal basis for it. Legal grounds for processing include, but are not limited to, the following under Article 6(1)(a)–(f) of the GDPR:

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1. The data subject has given consent for one or more specific purposes.

2. Processing is necessary for the performance of a contract to which the data subject is a party, or to take steps at the request of the data subject before entering into a contract.

3. Processing is necessary for compliance with a legal obligation to which the controller is subject.

4. Processing is necessary to protect the vital interests of the data subject or another natural person.

5. Processing is necessary for the performance of a task carried out in the public interest or in the exercise of official authority vested in the controller.

6. Processing is necessary for the purposes of legitimate interests pursued by the controller or a third party, except where such interests are overridden by the interests or fundamental rights and freedoms of the data subject that require protection of personal data, especially if the data subject is a child.

 

Information on the Collection of Personal Data

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1. Below, we provide information on the collection of personal data when using our website. Personal data includes, for example, your name, address, email address, and user behavior.

2. If you contact us via email or through a contact form, the data you provide (e.g., your email address, name, or phone number) will be stored to respond to your inquiry. We delete the data once storage is no longer necessary, or restrict processing if legal retention obligations apply.​

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Information on the Collection of Personal Data

(1) Below, we provide details about the collection of personal data when using our website. Personal data includes, for example, your name, address, email address, and user behavior.

(2) When you contact us via email or a contact form, the data you provide (e.g., your email address, name, and phone number, if applicable) will be stored by us to respond to your inquiries. Such data will be deleted once its storage is no longer necessary, or its processing will be restricted if legal retention obligations apply.

 

Collection of Personal Data When Visiting Our Website

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When you use our website for informational purposes only—i.e., without registering or otherwise providing us with information—we collect only the personal data that your browser transmits to our server. This data is technically necessary to display our website and ensure its stability and security (the legal basis is Art. 6(1) sentence 1 lit. f GDPR):

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• IP address

• Date and time of the request

• Time zone difference from Greenwich Mean Time (GMT)

• Content of the request (specific page)

• Access status/HTTP status code

• Amount of data transferred

• Website from which the request originated

• Browser

• Operating system and its interface

• Language and version of the browser software

 

Use of Cookies

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(1) In addition to the data mentioned above, cookies are stored on your computer when you use our website. Cookies are small text files assigned to your browser and stored on your hard drive, enabling specific information to be sent to the entity that set the cookie. Cookies cannot execute programs or deliver viruses to your computer. They are designed to make our website more user-friendly and efficient.

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(2) This website uses the following types of cookies, whose scope and functionality are explained below:

• Transient cookies (see a.)

• Persistent cookies (see b.)

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a. Transient Cookies
Transient cookies are automatically deleted when you close your browser. This includes session cookies, which store a session ID that allows various requests from your browser to be associated with a single session. This enables us to recognize your computer when you return to our website. Session cookies are deleted when you log out or close your browser.

 

b. Persistent Cookies
Persistent cookies are automatically deleted after a specified duration, which may vary by cookie. You can delete these cookies at any time via your browser’s security settings.

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You can configure your browser settings to your preferences, such as rejecting third-party cookies or all cookies. “Third-party cookies” are cookies set by entities other than the website you are currently visiting. Please note that disabling cookies may limit the functionality of our website.

 

Additional Features and Services on Our Website

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(1) Beyond the purely informational use of our website, we offer various services that you can use if you are interested. For these, you will typically need to provide additional personal data that we use to deliver the requested service. The same principles of data processing mentioned earlier apply.

 

(2) In some cases, we employ external service providers to process your data. These providers are carefully selected and commissioned by us, are bound by our instructions, and are regularly monitored.

 

(3) We may also share your personal data with third parties if we jointly offer promotions, sweepstakes, contract completions, or similar services with partners. Detailed information will be provided when you disclose your personal data or in the description of the respective offer.

 

(4) If our service providers or partners are based in a country outside the European Economic Area (EEA), we will inform you of the consequences of this circumstance in the description of the respective offer.

 

Children

 

Our services are generally intended for adults. Individuals under 18 years of age should not transmit personal data to us without the consent of their parents or legal guardians.

 

Rights of the Data Subject

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(1) Right to Withdraw Consent
If the processing of personal data is based on your consent, you have the right to withdraw your consent at any time. Withdrawal of consent does not affect the lawfulness of processing based on consent before its withdrawal.

You can exercise your right to withdraw consent by contacting us at any time.

 

(2) Right to Confirmation
You have the right to request confirmation from the data controller as to whether personal data concerning you is being processed. You can request this confirmation at any time using the contact details provided above.

 

(3) Right of Access
If your personal data is being processed, you have the right to access the following information at any time:

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1. The purposes of processing

2. The categories of personal data processed

3. The recipients or categories of recipients to whom personal data has been or will be disclosed, particularly if recipients are in third countries or international organizations

4. Where possible, the anticipated storage period for personal data, or if not possible, the criteria used to determine that period

5. The existence of a right to rectify or erase personal data, restrict processing, or object to such processing

6. The existence of a right to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority

7. Where personal data has not been collected from the data subject, any available information about its source

8. The existence of automated decision-making, including profiling as per Article 22(1) and (4) GDPR, and—at least in these cases—meaningful information about the logic involved, as well as the scope and intended effects of such processing on the data subject

 

If personal data is transferred to a third country or an international organization, you have the right to be informed about the appropriate safeguards pursuant to Article 46 GDPR.

 

You may request a copy of the personal data undergoing processing. For any additional copies requested, we may charge a reasonable fee based on administrative costs. If your request is made electronically, the information will be provided in a commonly used electronic format unless otherwise specified.

 

The right to obtain a copy must not adversely affect the rights and freedoms of others.

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(4) Right to Rectification

 

You have the right to request the immediate correction of inaccurate personal data concerning you. Taking into account the purposes of the processing, you also have the right to request the completion of incomplete personal data, including by means of a supplementary statement.

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(5) Right to Erasure ("Right to Be Forgotten")

 

You have the right to request the data controller to delete personal data concerning you without undue delay, and we are obligated to delete such data if one of the following reasons applies:

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1. The personal data is no longer necessary for the purposes for which it was collected or otherwise processed.

2. You withdraw your consent on which the processing was based pursuant to Article 6(1)(a) or Article 9(2)(a) of the GDPR, and there is no other legal basis for processing.

3. You object to the processing pursuant to Article 21(1) of the GDPR, and there are no overriding legitimate grounds for the processing, or you object to the processing pursuant to Article 21(2) of the GDPR.

4. The personal data was unlawfully processed.

5. The deletion of the personal data is necessary to fulfill a legal obligation under Union or Member State law to which the controller is subject.

6. The personal data was collected in relation to the offer of information society services pursuant to Article 8(1) of the GDPR.

 

If the controller has made the personal data public and is obligated to delete it pursuant to the above, the controller shall, taking into account available technology and the cost of implementation, take reasonable steps, including technical measures, to inform other controllers processing the personal data that you have requested the deletion of any links to, or copies or replications of, such personal data.

 

The right to erasure ("right to be forgotten") does not apply to the extent that processing is necessary:

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• For exercising the right of freedom of expression and information;

• To fulfill a legal obligation requiring processing under Union or Member State law to which the controller is subject or to perform a task carried out in the public interest or in the exercise of official authority vested in the controller;

• For reasons of public interest in the area of public health pursuant to Article 9(2)(h) and (i) and Article 9(3) of the GDPR;

• For archiving purposes in the public interest, scientific or historical research purposes, or statistical purposes pursuant to Article 89(1) of the GDPR, to the extent that the right referred to above is likely to render impossible or seriously impair the achievement of the objectives of that processing; or

• To establish, exercise, or defend legal claims.

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(6) Right to Restriction of Processing

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You have the right to request the restriction of the processing of your personal data if one of the following applies:

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1. You contest the accuracy of the personal data, for a period enabling the controller to verify the accuracy of the personal data.

2. The processing is unlawful, and you oppose the erasure of the personal data and request the restriction of its use instead.

3. The controller no longer needs the personal data for the purposes of processing, but you require it to establish, exercise, or defend legal claims.

4. You have objected to processing pursuant to Article 21(1) of the GDPR pending the verification of whether the legitimate grounds of the controller override your interests.

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Where processing has been restricted under these conditions, such personal data shall, with the exception of storage, only be processed with your consent or for the establishment, exercise, or defense of legal claims, for the protection of the rights of another natural or legal person, or for reasons of important public interest of the Union or a Member State.

To exercise the right to restrict processing, you may contact us at any time using the contact details provided above.

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(7) Right to Data Portability

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You have the right to receive the personal data concerning you, which you have provided to us, in a structured, commonly used, and machine-readable format, and you have the right to transmit this data to another controller without hindrance from us, where:

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1. The processing is based on consent pursuant to Article 6(1)(a) or Article 9(2)(a) or on a contract pursuant to Article 6(1)(b) of the GDPR; and

2. The processing is carried out by automated means.

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In exercising your right to data portability, you have the right to have the personal data transmitted directly from one controller to another, where technically feasible. This right shall not adversely affect the rights and freedoms of others.

The exercise of this right does not affect your right to erasure ("right to be forgotten").

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(8) Right to Object

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You have the right to object at any time, on grounds relating to your particular situation, to the processing of personal data concerning you that is based on Article 6(1)(e) or (f) of the GDPR, including profiling based on these provisions.

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We will no longer process the personal data unless we demonstrate compelling legitimate grounds for the processing that override your interests, rights, and freedoms or for the establishment, exercise, or defense of legal claims.

 

If your personal data is processed for direct marketing purposes, you have the right to object at any time to the processing of your personal data for such marketing, including profiling to the extent related to such direct marketing.

You may exercise your right to object by contacting the controller directly.

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(9) Automated Individual Decision-Making, Including Profiling

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You have the right not to be subject to a decision based solely on automated processing, including profiling, which produces legal effects concerning you or similarly significantly affects you, unless the decision:

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1. Is necessary for entering into, or the performance of, a contract between you and the controller;

2. Is authorized by Union or Member State law to which the controller is subject and which also lays down suitable measures to safeguard your rights and freedoms and legitimate interests; or

3. Is based on your explicit consent.

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(10) Right to Lodge a Complaint with a Supervisory Authority

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You have the right to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority, particularly in the Member State of your residence, workplace, or the place of the alleged infringement, if you believe that the processing of your personal data violates the GDPR.

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Google Web Fonts

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This site uses web fonts provided by Google Ireland Limited, Gordon House, Barrow Street, Dublin 4, Ireland (“Google”), to ensure a consistent and visually appealing presentation of fonts. When you visit a page, your browser loads the required web fonts into its cache to display text and fonts correctly.

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In doing so, your browser establishes a connection to Google’s servers, which informs Google that your IP address has accessed our website. The use of Google Web Fonts is based on our legitimate interest in providing a uniform and attractive website appearance (Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR).

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For cases where personal data is transferred to Google LLC in the USA, Google has self-certified under the EU-U.S. Privacy Shield Framework, ensuring compliance with EU data protection standards.

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For more information, visit Google Web Fonts FAQ and Google’s Privacy Policy.

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To opt-out, visit: Google Ads Settings.

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