Privacy policy

ADKL DATA PROTECTION DECLARATION

Below you will find information about the types of personal data we process, the extent to which we process it, and the purposes for which we process it.

Personal data is information that can be used to identify you as a data subject, such as your name, address, email address, or user behavior.

Data subjects are those with whom we have a relationship in the context of providing our services, visitors to our website, and users of our entire online offering.

Name and address of the data controller:

ADKL Abels Decker Kuhfuß & Partner mbB

Breite Straße 29–31
40213 Düsseldorf

Phone: +49 211 47838-0
Fax: +49 211 47838-111
Email: adkl@adkl-msi.de
Website: www.adkl-msi.de

This website serves as a joint platform for several companies.

  • ADKL Abels Decker Kuhfuß & Partner mbB
  • ADKL AG Wirtschaftsprüfungsgesellschaft
  • ADKL Consulting GbR
  • ADKL Rechtsanwälte Wirtschaftsprüfer Insolvenzverwaltung GbR i.L. (ADKL Lawyers, Auditors, Insolvency Administrators GbR i.L.)
  • Benrather Treuhandgesellschaft mbH (Benrather Trust Company mbH)

Please refer to the legal notice for the respective contact details.

The data protection officer of the controller is:

Datavise GmbH & Co. KG
Moltkestr. 97
40479 Düsseldorf

Tel: +49 211 5800 26 96 0
Email: datenschutz@datavise.de

We collect and store the following types of data:

  • Inventory data (e.g., names and addresses)
  • Contact data (e.g., telephone numbers and email addresses)
  • Contract data (e.g., terms and conditions)
  • Payment data (e.g., account details)
  • Usage data (e.g., access times, pages visited)
  • Metadata (e.g., browser type, IP address, operating system)
  • Content data (e.g., your text entries in contact forms or similar)

The categories of persons affected by this:

  • Employees
  • Applicants
  • Customers and their employees
  • Clients
  • Contractual partners
  • Prospective customers
  • Users (website/online offerings)

The data is collected for the following purposes:

  • Information
  • Communication
  • Customer service
  • Services for contract fulfillment
  • Direct marketing/marketing
  • (Technical) provision of online services
  • Security measures to protect (online) services
  • Reach measurement to improve services

Your personal data will be processed exclusively on the basis of the following legal grounds:

Consent pursuant to Art. 6 (1) (a) GDPR

“The data subject has given consent to the processing of his or her personal data for one or more specific purposes.”

Contract fulfillment and pre-contractual inquiries pursuant to Art. 6 (1) (b) GDPR

“processing is necessary for the performance of a contract to which the data subject is party or in order to take steps at the request of the data subject prior to entering into a contract.”

Legal obligations pursuant to Art. 6 (1) (c) GDPR

“processing is necessary for compliance with a legal obligation to which the controller is subject.”

Legitimate interest pursuant to Art. 6 (1) (f) GDPR

“processing is necessary for the purposes of the legitimate interests pursued by the controller or by a third party, except where such interests are overridden by the interests or fundamental rights and freedoms of the data subject which require protection of personal data, in particular where the data subject is a child”

Art. 88 GDPR, § 26 BDSG

Data processing in the context of employment or data processing for the purposes of the employment relationship

Transfer to third parties and third countries

Your data will generally remain within our company. Your personal data will only be transferred or disclosed to a third party

  • on the basis of a legal permission,
  • with your consent,
  • if we are legally obliged to do so, or
  • on the basis of a legitimate interest pursuant to Art. 6 lit. f GDPR.
Third countries

Your personal data will only be transferred to third countries (outside the European Union (EU)/European Economic Area) to countries

  • for which an adequacy decision has been made by the EU Commission or
  • appropriate safeguards within the meaning of Art. 46 GDPR,
  • which offer an adequate level of protection in accordance with Art. 45 et seq. GDPR,
  • are subject to officially recognized contractual obligations such as the so-called “standard contractual clauses,” or
  • for which one of the exceptions under Art. 49 GDPR applies.

Duration of storage

Your personal data will be routinely deleted or restricted in processing or blocked at the latest after expiry of the respective statutory retention periods (e.g., commercial and tax law retention periods), provided that this data is no longer necessary for the fulfillment of the contract and/or we have no legitimate interest in further storage.

Use of the website and creation of log files

When you visit our website, the following information is automatically transmitted from your browser to our provider’s server:

– IP address of your device

– Date and time of access

– Name and URL of files accessed

– Website from which access is made or from which you were directed to our site (referrer URL)

– Browser used and, if applicable, the operating system of your device

– Name of the access provider.

This data is not merged with other data sources. The IP address is anonymized.

This data is collected to ensure the proper use of the website, to optimize the website, and to ensure the security of our IT systems. These aforementioned purposes also constitute our legitimate interest in data processing in accordance with Art. 6 (1) (f) GDPR.

This data is automatically deleted on a regular basis. In the event of misuse of the website, the relevant data, which must be stored for evidentiary purposes, will be retained until the matter has been clarified.

Hosting by SPECTRUM COMPUTER-SYSTEMHAUS GMBH

We use the hosting service provided by SPECTRUM COMPUTER-SYSTEMHAUS GMBH
Max-Planck-Str. 17, 40699 Erkrath (hereinafter referred to as SPECTRUM) for the purpose of providing the website on the basis of processing on our behalf. All data collected on our website is processed on SPECTRUM’s servers. This may include IP addresses, contact requests, meta and communication data, contract data, contact details, names, website accesses, and other data generated via a website.

Further information on data protection at SPECTRUM can be found on the following website: https://www.spectrum-news.de/datenschutzerklaerung

The host is used for the purpose of fulfilling contracts with our potential and existing customers (Art. 6 (1) (b) GDPR) and in the interest of secure, fast, and efficient provision of our online services by a professional provider (Art. 6 (1) (f) GDPR).

Further processing on servers other than those mentioned above by SPECTRUM only takes place within the scope specified below.

Cookies

This website uses cookies. These are small text files that are stored in the Internet browser or by the Internet browser on the user’s terminal device. When a user visits a website, a cookie may be stored on the user’s operating system. This cookie contains a characteristic string of characters that enables the browser to be uniquely identified when the website is visited again.

A distinction is made between the following types of cookies:

Session cookies

Session cookies are functionally necessary cookies that do not require consent, as they are automatically deleted when you leave the homepage.

The legal basis for this processing is Art. 6 (1) lit. f GDPR.

Persistent cookies

Persistent cookies remain on the end device permanently. This allows, for example, the login status to be checked or preferred content to be displayed. In addition, the data processed here can be used for reach measurements.

The legal basis for this processing is Art. 6 (1) (a) GDPR, which requires the consent of the user.

We use cookies that enable analysis of the user’s surfing behavior.

The following data is stored and transmitted in the cookies:

– Frequency of page views

– Use of website functions

When you visit our website, we inform you about the use of cookies for analysis purposes and obtain your consent to the processing of the associated personal data.

You can revoke your consent and the processing of your personal data at any time by using the following cookie settings.

You can also exercise your right to object via the corresponding browser settings. Please note that the transmission of cookies can be deactivated or restricted by adjusting your Internet browser settings. You can delete stored cookies manually or automatically at any time. The procedure for doing this varies depending on your browser, and you will find detailed instructions in your browser’s help menu.

We may work with advertising partners to make our website more appealing to you. In this case, partner companies also store cookies on your hard drive (third-party cookies), including providers from unsafe third countries. Please note that data may be forwarded to partner companies in the USA, for example.

Consent with Borlabs Cookie

Our website uses consent technology from Borlabs Cookie to obtain your consent to store certain cookies in your browser or to use certain technologies and to document this in accordance with data protection regulations. This technology is provided by Borlabs GmbH, Rübenkamp 32, 22305 Hamburg (hereinafter referred to as Borlabs).

When you visit our website, a Borlabs cookie is stored in your browser, which stores the consents you have given or the revocation of these consents. This data is not passed on to the provider of Borlabs Cookie.

The collected data is stored until you request us to delete it, delete the Borlabs cookie yourself, or the purpose for data storage no longer applies. Mandatory legal retention periods remain unaffected.
Details on data processing by Borlabs Cookie can be found at https://de.borlabs.io/kb/welche-daten-speichert-borlabs-cookie/.

Borlabs cookie consent technology is used to obtain the legally required consent for the use of cookies. The legal basis for this is Art. 6 (1) lit. c GDPR.

Other services

Google services

Our website uses various services provided by Google Ireland Limited, Gordon House, 4 Barrow St, Dublin, D04 E5W5, Ireland.

Google Analytics 4

Google Analytics uses cookies that enable an analysis of your use of our websites. The information collected by the cookies about your use of this website is usually transferred to a Google server in the USA and stored there.

With Google Analytics 4, IP address anonymization is enabled by default. Due to IP anonymization, your IP address is truncated by Google within member states of the European Union or in other signatory states to the Agreement on the European Economic Area. Only in exceptional cases is the full IP address transmitted to a Google server in the USA and truncated there. According to Google, the IP address transmitted by your browser as part of Google Analytics is not merged with other Google data.
During your visit to the website, your user behavior is recorded in the form of “events.” Events can include:

  • Page views
  • First visit to the website
  • Start of session
  • Web pages visited
  • Your “click path,” interaction with the website
  • Scrolls (whenever a user scrolls to the bottom of the page (90%))
  • Clicks on external links
  • Internal search queries
  • Interaction with videos
  • File downloads
  • Ads viewed/clicked on
  • Language settings

The following is also recorded:

  • Your approximate location (region)
  • Date and time of visit
  • Your IP address (in abbreviated form)
  • Technical information about your browser and the devices you use (e.g., language settings, screen resolution)
  • Your Internet service provider
  • The referrer URL (which website/advertisement brought you to this website)

On behalf of the operator of this website, Google will use this information to evaluate your pseudonymous use of the website and to compile reports on website activity. The reports provided by Google Analytics are used to analyze the performance of our website.

Google Maps is used to provide you with interactive maps and to enable you to use the map function conveniently.

Legal basis

The use of the above-mentioned services is based on your consent in accordance with Art. 6 (1) (a) GDPR.

Revocation
You can revoke your consent at any time with future effect by accessing the cookie settings and changing your selection there. The lawfulness of the processing carried out on the basis of the consent until revocation remains unaffected.

Storage period
The data sent by us and linked to cookies is automatically deleted after 2 months. The maximum lifetime of Google Analytics cookies is 2 years. Data that has reached its retention period is automatically deleted once a month.