1. data protection at a glance
General notes
The following notes provide a simple overview of what happens to your personal data when you visit our website. Personal data are all data with which you can be personally identified. For detailed information on the subject of data protection, please refer to our data protection declaration listed below this text.
Data collection on our website
Who is responsible for data collection on this website?
The data processing on this website is carried out by the website operator. His contact details can be found in the imprint of this website.
How do we collect your data?
On the one hand, your data is collected when you provide it to us. This can be data that you enter in a contact form, for example.
Other data is automatically collected by our IT systems when you visit the website. These are mainly technical data (e.g. internet browser, operating system or time of the page call). This data is collected automatically as soon as you enter our website.
What do we use your data for?
Part of the data is collected to ensure that the website is provided without errors. Other data can be used to analyse your user behaviour.
What rights do you have regarding your data?
You have the right to receive information free of charge about the origin, recipient and purpose of your stored personal data at any time. You also have the right to demand the correction, blocking or deletion of this data. For this purpose, as well as for further questions regarding data protection, you can contact us at any time at the address given in the imprint. Furthermore, you have a right of appeal to the responsible supervisory authority.
Analysis tools and third-party tools
When you visit our website, your surfing behaviour can be statistically evaluated. This is mainly done with cookies and with so-called analysis programs. The analysis of your surfing behaviour is usually anonymous; the surfing behaviour cannot be traced back to you. You can object to this analysis or prevent it by not using certain tools. You will find detailed information on this in the following data protection declaration.
You can contradict this analysis. We will inform you about the possibilities of objection in this data protection declaration.
2. General notes and mandatory information
Data protection
The operators of these pages take the protection of your personal data very seriously. We treat your personal data confidentially and in accordance with the legal data protection regulations and this data protection declaration.
When you use this website, various personal data is collected. Personal data are data with which you can be personally identified. This privacy policy explains what data we collect and what we use it for. It also explains how we do this and for what purpose.
We would like to point out that data transmission over the Internet (e.g. communication by e-mail) can have security gaps. A complete protection of data against access by third parties is not possible.
Note on the responsible body
The person responsible for data processing on this website is:
SCHMIDT-TAX
Christian Schmidt
Tax consultant
Eschenallee 22
14050 Berlin
phone: +49 30 863 28 71 – 30
e-mail: info@schmidt-tax.de
Responsible party is the natural or legal person who, alone or jointly with others, decides on the purposes and means of processing personal data (e.g. names, e-mail addresses, etc.).
Data protection officer
Due to the size of the company, we have not appointed a data protection officer. Special personal data is not processed.
Revocation of your consent to data processing
Many data processing operations are only possible with your express consent. You can revoke any consent already given at any time. For this purpose, an informal notification by e-mail to us is sufficient. The legality of the data processing carried out up to the time of revocation remains unaffected by the revocation.
Right of appeal to the competent supervisory authority
In the event of violations of data protection law, the person concerned has a right of appeal to the competent supervisory authority. The competent supervisory authority in matters of data protection law is the State Data Protection Commissioner of the federal state in which our company is based. A list of the data protection officers and their contact details can be found at the following link: https://www.bfdi.bund.de/DE/Infothek/Anschriften_Links/anschriften_linksnode. html.
Right to data transferability
You have the right to have data, which we process automatically on the basis of your consent or in fulfilment of a contract, handed over to you or to a third party in a common, machine-readable format. If you request the direct transfer of the data to another responsible party, this will only take place to the extent that it is technically feasible.
SSL or TLS encryption
For security reasons and to protect the transmission of confidential content, such as orders or inquiries that you send to us as the site operator, this site uses SSL or TLS encryption. You can recognise an encrypted connection by the fact that the address line of the browser changes from “http://” to “https://” and by the lock symbol in your browser line.
If the SSL or TLS encryption is activated, the data that you transmit to us cannot be read by third parties.
Information, blocking, deletion
Within the framework of the applicable legal provisions, you have the right to obtain information free of charge at any time about your stored personal data, its origin and recipients and the purpose of the data processing and, if applicable, a right to correct, block or delete this data. For this purpose, as well as for further questions regarding personal data, you can contact us at any time at the address given in the imprint.
3. Data collection on our website
Cookies
The Internet pages partly use so-called cookies. Cookies do not damage your computer and do not contain viruses. Cookies serve to make our offer more user-friendly, effective and safer. Cookies are small text files that are stored on your computer and saved by your browser.
Most of the cookies we use are so-called “session cookies”. They are automatically deleted at the end of your visit. Other cookies remain stored on your end device until you delete them. These cookies enable us to recognize your browser the next time you visit us.
You can set your browser to inform you about the setting of cookies and to allow cookies only in individual cases, to exclude the acceptance of cookies for certain cases or in general, and to activate the automatic deletion of cookies when closing the browser. If you deactivate cookies, the functionality of this website may be limited.
Cookies that are required to carry out the electronic communication process or to provide certain functions that you have requested (e.g. shopping basket function) are stored on the basis of Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f DSGVO. The website operator has a legitimate interest in the storage of cookies for the technically error-free and optimised provision of his services. Insofar as other cookies (e.g. cookies for analysing your surfing behaviour) are stored, these are treated separately in this data protection declaration.
The following cookies belong to the technically necessary cookies.
Cookies from WordPress
| Name | Purpose | Validity |
|---|---|---|
| wordpress_test_cookie | This cookie determines whether the use of cookies has been disabled in the browser. Storage duration: Until the end of the browser session (is deleted when you close your Internet browser). | Session |
| PHPSESSID | This cookie stores your current session with respect to PHP applications, ensuring that all functions of this website based on the PHP programming language can be fully displayed. Storage duration: Until the end of your browser session (deleted when you close your Internet browser). | Session |
| wordpress_akm_mobile | These cookies are only used for the administration area of WordPress. | 1 year |
| wordpress_logged_in_akm_mobile | These cookies are only used for the administration area of WordPress and are not valid for other site visitors. | Session |
| wp-settings-akm_mobile | These cookies are only used for the administration area of WordPress and are not valid for other site visitors. | Session |
| wp-settings-time-akm_mobile | These cookies are only used for the administration area of WordPress and are not valid for other site visitors. | Session |
| ab | is used for A/B tests of new functions. | Session |
| akm_mobile | stores whether the visitor wants to see the mobile version of a website. | 1 day |
Cookies von DSGVO AIO for WordPress
| Name | Purpose | Validity |
|---|---|---|
| dsgvoaio | This LocalStorage Key / value stores which services the user has agreed or not. | variable |
| _uniqueuid | This LocalStorage Key / value stores a generated ID so that the user’s opt-in / opt-out actions can be documented. The ID is stored anonymously. | variable |
| dsgvoaio_create | This LocalStorage Key / value stores the time when _uniqueuid was generated. | variable |
| dsgvoaio_vgwort_disable | This LocalStorage Key / value stores whether the service VG word standard is allowed or not (setting of the site operator). | variable |
| dsgvoaio_ga_disable | This LocalStorage Key / value stores whether the service Google Analytics Standard is allowed or not (setting of the site operator). | variable |
Server log files
The provider of the pages automatically collects and stores information in so-called server log files, which your browser automatically transmits to us. These are:
- Browser type and browser version
- Operating system used
- Referrer URL
- Host name of the accessing computer
- Time of the server request
- IP address
This data is not merged with other data sources.
The basis for data processing is Art. 6 para. 1 letter b DSGVO, which permits the processing of data for the fulfilment of a contract or pre-contractual measures.
Contact form
If you send us enquiries via the contact form, your details from the enquiry form, including the contact data you provide there, will be stored by us for the purpose of processing the enquiry and in the event of follow-up questions. We will not pass on this data without your consent.
The processing of the data entered in the contact form is thus exclusively based on your consent (Art. 6 para. 1 lit. a DSGVO). You can revoke this consent at any time. For this purpose, an informal communication by e-mail to us is sufficient. The legality of the data processing operations carried out up to the time of revocation remains unaffected by the revocation.
The data entered by you in the contact form will remain with us until you request us to delete it, revoke your consent to its storage or the purpose for which it was stored ceases to apply (e.g. after your enquiry has been processed). Mandatory legal provisions – in particular retention periods – remain unaffected.
4. Plugins and tools
Use of Web Fonts
External fonts, Google Fonts, are used on these Internet pages. Google Fonts is a service of Google Inc. (“Google”). The integration of these Web Fonts is done by a server call, usually a Google server in the USA. This transfers to the server which of our Internet pages you have visited. The IP address of the browser of the end device of the visitor to these Internet pages is also stored by Google. You will find more detailed information in the Google data protection information, which you can download here:
www.google.com/fonts#AboutPlace:about
www.google.com/policies/privacy/
Google Maps
This site uses the map service Google Maps via an API. The provider is Google Inc, 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA.
To use the functions of Google Maps it is necessary to store your IP address. This information is usually transferred to a Google server in the USA and stored there. The provider of this site has no influence on this data transfer.
The use of Google Maps is in the interest of an attractive presentation of our online offers and to make it easy to find the places we have indicated on the website. This represents a legitimate interest in the sense of Art. 6 Para. 1 lit. f DSGVO.
More information on the handling of user data can be found in Google’s privacy policy: https://www.google.de/intl/de/policies/privacy/.
Gravatar
The Gravatar Service of Automatic is used for comments. Gravatar matches your email address and – if you are registered there – displays your avatar image next to the comment. If you are not registered, no image will be displayed. Please note that all registered WordPress users are automatically registered with Gravatar. Details about Gravatarr: https://de.gravatar.com
Comment function in the blog …
We would like to point out that we evaluate your user behaviour when sending our newsletter. We partly use an external service provider for the dispatch of the newsletter and the data processing mentioned below. This service provider has been carefully selected and commissioned by us, is bound by our instructions and is checked regularly. For the evaluation of user behaviour, the e-mails sent contain so-called web beacons or tracking pixels, which are one-pixel image files stored on the website of our external service provider. For evaluation purposes, we link the web beacons with your e-mail address and an individual ID. Links and/or QR codes received in the newsletter also contain this ID. With the data thus obtained, we create a user profile in order to adapt the newsletter to your individual interests. In doing so, we record when you read our newsletters, which links you click on in the newsletters and deduce your personal interests. We link this data to actions you take on our website. You can object to this tracking at any time by clicking on the separate link provided in each e-mail or by informing us via another contact channel. The information is stored for as long as you have subscribed to the newsletter. After you unsubscribe, we store the data purely statistically and anonymously. Furthermore, such tracking is not possible if you have deactivated the display of images in your e-mail program by default. In this case the newsletter will not be displayed completely and you may not be able to use all functions. If you display the images manually, the above-mentioned tracking will take place.