Data Protection Declaration

1. Personal Data

We, Demuth Business Partner GmbH, collect, process and use your personal data only with your consent, respectively your mandate or order for purposes agreed on with you or if another legal basis exists in accordance with the GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation); this in strict accordance with data protection and civil law regulations.

Only personal data is collected which is necessary for the carrying out and implementation of our consulting services or which you have provided to us voluntarily.

Personal data is all data which contains detailed information regarding personal or factual circumstances – for example name, address, e-mail address, telephone number, date of birth, age, gender, social insurance number, video recordings, photos, people´s voice recordings as well as biometrical data, for example finger prints. Also sensitive data, such as health data or data relating to respective proceedings can be included.

2. Information and Deletion

As a client, and generally as person concerned – with full reserve to the legal obligation to confidentiality – you have a right of information regarding your personal data, its origin and recipient, the purpose of data processing as well as the right of correction, data transfer, objection, limitation of processing as well as blocking or deletion of incorrect, and/or improperly processed data.
We kindly ask you to inform us, should any of your personal data change.
You have the right to revoke a granted agreement for the use of your personal data at any time. Your request for information, deletion, correction, objection and/or data transfer can be submitted to the lawyers´ office address, stated in article 8 of this declaration.
Should you be of the opinion that our processing of your personal data violates applicable law or your claims regarding data protection laws, there is the possibility to complain to the regulatory authority in charge. In Austria, the data protection authority is in charge of that.

3. Data Security

The protection of your personal data is carried out by means of respective organizational and technical precautions. These precautions especially affect the protection against unauthorized, illegal or also coincidental access, processing, loss, use and manipulation.
Regardless of the efforts to adhere to an always appropriate high standard of requirements of caution it cannot be excluded that information which you declare via internet, is seen and used by other persons.
Please note that therefore, we cannot assume any kind of liability for the disclosure of information due to errors regarding the data transfer and/or unauthorized access by third parties, which we are not responsible for (e.g. hacker attack on e-mail account and/or telephone, interception of faxes).

4. Use of Data

We will not process the data provided to us for any other purposes than those covered by the mandate agreement or your agreement or another regulation in accordance with the GDPR – except the use for statistical purposes as long as the provided data is anonymized.

5. Data Transfer to Third Parties

In order to fulfil your assignment, it is possibly also necessary to transfer your data to third parties (for example employees, facilitation institutions, banks, insurances, service providers which we employ and whom we provide data to, etc.), courts or authorities. A transfer of your data is only carried out on the basis of the GDPR, especially for the fulfilment of your assignment or on the basis of your prior agreement.
Furthermore, we inform you that – in the course of our legal representation and support –factual and case-related information referring to you is regularly also obtained from third parties.
Some of the recipients of your personal data listed above are located outside your country or process your data there. The data protection level in other countries is possibly not equivalent to the one in Austria. However, we only transfer your personal data to countries, for which the EU commission has decided that they provide an appropriate level of data protection, or we take measures to ensure that all recipients provide an appropriate level of data protection, for which we conclude standard contractual clauses (2010/87/EC and/or 2004/915/EC).

6. Notification in Case of Data Breach

We strive to ensure that data breaches are discovered timely and that you, respectively the regulatory authority, are notified immediately – taking into account the respectively affected data category.

7. Data Storage

We will not store your data any longer than is necessary for the fulfilment of our contractual and/or legal obligations and defence against possible liability claims.

8. Our Contact Data

The protection of your data is especially important to us. Please contact us anytime if you have questions or want to submit your revocation under the contact data stated below.
Demuth Business Partner GmbH
Walfischgasse 8/34
1010 Wien
+43 1 307 1992
austria@demuth.eu.com