Data Privacy Statement

We, Quint GmbH Steuerberatungsgesellschaft, appreciate your visit to this website and your interest in our services. We appreciate your trust and apply the utmost care and highest security standards to protect your personal data from unauthorized access. The processing of personal data on our website is carried out in accordance with the provisions of the European General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and the German Federal Data Protection Act 2018 (BDSG (new)).

1. Name and contact details

Quint GmbH
Steuerberatungsgesellschaft
Bahnhofstraße 4a
23683 Scharbeutz

E-Mail: info@quint-wpg.com

2. Data processing on our website

When processing data, your legitimate interests are always taken into account in accordance with the statutory provisions. Personal data is only processed on our website as described below:

a) Protocolling

When you visit our website, our web server temporarily stores every access in a log file. The following data is recorded and stored until it is automatically deleted:

IP address of the requesting computer
Date and time of access
Name and URL of the retrieved file
Amount of data transferred
Message as to whether the retrieval was successful
Identification data of the browser and operating system used
Website from which the access was made
Name of your Internet access provider

The IP addresses are only stored by us in anonymized form, so that it is no longer possible to identify the calling client. This data is not merged with other data sources; the data is also deleted after a statistical evaluation.

The legal basis for the temporary storage of data and log files is Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f) GDPR (protection of legitimate interests).

This data is processed for the purpose of enabling the use of the website (connection establishment) and for the purposes of system security, technical administration, network infrastructure and optimization of the website. This also constitutes our legitimate interest in data processing.

The data will be deleted as soon as it is no longer required to achieve these purposes. In the case of the collection of data for the provision of the website, this is the case when the respective session has ended.

b) Use of cookies

This website uses cookies. Cookies are small text files that are stored locally in the cache of the website visitor's Internet browser or by the Internet browser on the website visitor's operating system. Cookies enable the internet browser to be recognized when the website is called up again.

We use cookies to make our website more convenient for you and to enable the use of certain functions. When you access the website, you will be informed about the use of cookies and asked for your consent.

The legal basis for data processing here is Art. 6 para. 1 sentence 1 lit. a) GDPR (consent).

You also have the option of deactivating or restricting the storage of cookies on your computer by making the appropriate settings in your browser. However, this may limit the functionality of our website for you. Cookies that have already been saved can be deleted at any time. This can also be done automatically.

c) Contact option via e-mail

It is possible to contact us via the e-mail address provided under "Contact". If you contact us by e-mail, the personal data transmitted with your e-mail will be stored.

The legal basis for the processing of the data is Art. 6 para. 1 sentence 1 lit. f) GDPR (protection of legitimate interests).

The data you provide will be used without your separate consent exclusively to process your request. After your inquiry has been processed, your data will be blocked for further use or deleted unless you have expressly consented to the further use of your data or a contractual relationship has been established on the basis of your inquiry.

d) Hosting

We host the content of our website with the following provider: STRATO AG

The provider is STRATO AG, Otto-Ostrowski-Straße 7, 10249 Berlin (hereinafter referred to as STRATO). When you visit our website, STRATO records various log files including your IP addresses. Details can be found in STRATO's privacy policy: https://www.strato.de/datenschutz/. STRATO is used on the basis of Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f GDPR. We have a legitimate interest in displaying our website as reliably as possible. If a corresponding consent has been requested, the processing is carried out exclusively on the basis of Art. 6 para. 1 lit. a GDPR and § 25 para. 1 TTDSG, insofar as the consent includes the storage of cookies or access to information in the user's terminal device (e.g. device fingerprinting) within the meaning of the TTDSG. Consent can be revoked at any time.

Data processing

We have concluded a data processing agreement (DPA) for the use of the above-mentioned service. This is a contract prescribed by data protection law, which guarantees that it processes the personal data of our website visitors only in accordance with our instructions and in compliance with the GDPR.

3. Our Security Standard

Your personal data is transmitted on our website via the Internet using the so-called SSL (Secure Socket Layer) security system. We secure our website and other systems through technical and organizational measures against loss, destruction, access, modification or distribution of your data by unauthorized persons.

4. Rights of the data subject

If your personal data is processed, you are a data subject within the meaning of the GDPR and you have the following rights vis-à-vis the individual controllers:

a) Right of access

According to Art. 15 GDPR, you can request confirmation from the controller as to whether personal data concerning you is being processed. If this is the case, you have a right to information about this personal data and the information specified in Art. 15 para. 1 lit. a) - h), such as processing purposes, categories of personal data that are processed, whether disclosure to third parties takes place and the planned storage period. You also have a right to a copy of the personal data that is the subject of the processing.

b) Right to rectification

Art. 16 GDPR grants you the right to obtain without undue delay the rectification of inaccurate personal data and/or the completion of incomplete personal data.

c) Right to erasure

In accordance with Art. 17 GDPR, you have the right to obtain from the controller the erasure of personal data concerning you without undue delay where one of the grounds specified in Art. 17 (1) (a) - (f) GDPR applies. Reasons for the right to erasure are therefore, for example

the personal data are no longer necessary in relation to the purposes for which they were collected or otherwise processed
you withdraw your consent and there is no other legal basis for the processing; or
that the personal data has been processed unlawfully.

The right to erasure does not exist if the processing is necessary pursuant to Art. 17 para. 3 lit. a) - e) GDPR, such as for exercising the right of freedom of expression and information, for compliance with a legal obligation which requires processing by Union or Member State law to which the controller is subject, or for the establishment, exercise or defense of legal claims.

d) Right to restriction of processing

According to Art. 18 GDPR, you have the right, under certain conditions, to request the restriction of the processing of personal data concerning you. This is the case if

you contest the accuracy of the personal data concerning you for a period of time and the controller must be given the opportunity to verify the accuracy of the personal data;
the processing is unlawful and you oppose the erasure of the personal data and request the restriction of their use instead;
the controller no longer needs the personal data for the purposes of the processing, but they are required by you for the establishment, exercise or defense of legal claims, or
if you have objected to processing pursuant to Art. 21 (1) GDPR pending the verification whether the legitimate grounds of the controller override your grounds.

If the processing of personal data concerning you has been restricted, this data - apart from its storage - may only be processed with your consent or for the establishment, exercise or defense of legal claims or for the protection of the rights of another natural or legal person or for reasons of important public interest of the Union or of a Member State. If processing has been restricted in accordance with the above conditions, you will be informed by the controller before the restriction is lifted.

e) Notification of recipients and right to information

If you have asserted the right to rectification, erasure or restriction of processing against the controller in accordance with Art. 17 GDPR, the controller is obliged to notify all recipients to whom the personal data concerning you have been disclosed of this rectification or erasure of the data or restriction of processing, unless this proves impossible or involves a disproportionate effort. You have the right to be informed of these recipients by the controller.

f) Right to data portability

Art. 20 GDPR grants you the right to receive the personal data concerning you, which you have provided to the controller, in a structured, commonly used and machine-readable format. You also have the right to transmit this data to another controller without hindrance from the controller to which the personal data has been provided, where the processing is based on your consent or on a contract and the processing is carried out by automated means. In exercising this right, you also have the right to have the personal data concerning you transmitted directly from one controller to another, where technically feasible. The freedoms and rights of other persons must not be affected by this.

g) Right to object

If your personal data are processed on the basis of Art. 6 para. 1 lit. e) GDPR for the performance of a task carried out in the public interest or in the exercise of official authority vested in the controller or on the basis of Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f) GDPR to safeguard the legitimate interests of the controller or a third party, you have the right under Art. 21 GDPR to object to the processing of your personal data at any time for reasons arising from your particular situation. This also applies to profiling based on these provisions.

The controller will then no longer process your personal data unless the controller demonstrates compelling legitimate grounds for the processing which override your interests, rights and freedoms or for the establishment, exercise or defense of legal claims.

h) Right to revoke the declaration of consent under data protection law

If you have given your consent to the processing of personal data concerning you in accordance with Art. 6 para. 1 lit. a) GDPR, you have the right to withdraw your consent at any time (Art. 7 para. 3 GDPR). The withdrawal of consent shall not affect the lawfulness of processing based on consent before its withdrawal.

i) Right to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority

Pursuant to Art. 77 GDPR, without prejudice to any other administrative or judicial remedy, you have the right to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority, in particular in the Member State of your habitual residence, place of work or place of the alleged infringement if you consider that the processing of personal data relating to you infringes the GDPR.

j) Automated decisions including profiling

Your personal data will not be used for automated decision-making.

5. Links to other companies

We use links to other companies on our website. If you click on these, you leave our website and are then on the website of the other company. The conditions for this can be found in the data protection declarations of the companies you click on. We are not responsible for their content or how they handle data.

XING

Our website uses functions of the XING network. The provider is XING AG, Dammtorstraße 29-32, 20354 Hamburg, Germany. Each time one of our pages containing XING functions is accessed, a connection to XING servers is established. To the best of our knowledge, no personal data is stored in the process. In particular, no IP addresses are stored or usage behavior evaluated.

Further information on data protection and the XING share button can be found in XING's privacy policy at https://privacy.xing.com/en/privacy-policy

Plugins of the social network LinkedIn of LinkedIn Corporation, 2029 Stierlin Court, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA (hereinafter "LinkedIn") are integrated on this website. are integrated. You can recognize the LinkedIn plugins by the LinkedIn logo or the "Share button" ("Recommend") on this website. When you visit this website, a direct connection is established between your browser and the LinkedIn server via the plugin. LinkedIn receives the information that you have visited this website with your IP address. If you click on the LinkedIn "Share button" while you are logged into your LinkedIn account, you can link the content of this website to your LinkedIn profile. This allows LinkedIn to associate your visit to this website with your user account.

We would like to point out that, as the provider of the pages, we have no knowledge of the content of the transmitted data or its use by LinkedIn. Details on data collection (purpose, scope, further processing, use) as well as your rights and settings options can be found in LinkedIn's privacy policy. LinkedIn provides this information at https://www.linkedin.com/legal/privacy-policy available.

Google Analytics data protection and opt-out options

This website uses Google Analytics, a web analytics service provided by Google Ireland Limited ("Google"). Google Analytics uses "cookies", which are text files placed on your computer, to help the website analyze how users use the site. The information generated by the cookie about your use of this website (pages viewed, behavior on the website, approximate location, technical information, source of the visit) may be transmitted to Google servers in another EU member state or in the USA and stored there in aggregated form for 14 months. Your IP address is shortened by the activated IP anonymization and thus anonymized so that the transmitted IP address cannot be assigned to an individual person. If information is transmitted to Google servers in the USA, the IP anonymization takes place beforehand on a server in a member state of the EU or the EEA. On behalf of the operator of this website, Google will use the transmitted information to evaluate your use of the website, to compile reports on website activity and to provide other services related to website activity and internet usage to the website operator. The anonymized IP address transmitted by your browser as part of Google Analytics may be merged by Google with other data from an existing Google user account or from the use of other Google products.

Service provider: Google Ireland Limited, Gordon House, Barrow Street, Dublin 4, Ireland; Website: https://marketingplatform.google.com/intl/en/about/analytics/; Privacy Policy: https://policies.google.com/privacy; Privacy Shield: https://www.privacyshield.gov/participant?id=a2zt000000001L5AAI

Processed data: Google processes search queries, user location, user behavior on the website, websites and apps that the user accesses, videos and advertisements that the user views, as well as more general information that the user has provided to Google, such as age group and gender.

More information: https://safety.google/intl/en/privacy/ads-and-data/

Data storage: 14 months

Legal basis: Consent of the website visitor within the meaning of Art. 6 para. 1 lit. a GDPR and legitimate interest in direct advertising within the meaning of Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f GDPR.

Protective measures: Masking of the IP addresses.

Cookies: Google Analytics uses cookies to collect and analyze anonymized data about your user behavior on our website. Data is only recorded with the active consent of the user. This allows pseudonymous user profiles to be generated.

Find out more at https://policies.google.com/technologies

Objection: The objection can be made by opting out when accessing the website

You can also prevent Google from collecting the data generated by the cookie and relating to your use of the website (including your IP address) and from processing this data by Google by downloading and installing the browser plug-in available under the following link: Browser add-on to deactivate Google Analytics

Retargeting/remarketing

This website uses retargeting services from the following providers: Google Adwords Remarketing, a retargeting service provided by Google Ireland Limited, Gordon House, Barrow Street, Dublin 4, Ireland (Google Adwords Privacy Policy). The retargeting technology makes it possible to target visitors to our website with personalized, interest-based advertising who have already shown an interest in our products. The advertising material is displayed on the basis of a cookie-based analysis of previous usage behavior, but no personal data is stored. In the case of retargeting technology, a cookie is stored on your computer or mobile device in order to collect anonymized data about your interests and thus adapt the advertising individually to the stored information. These cookies are small text files that are stored on your computer or mobile device. As a result, you will be shown advertising that is highly likely to match your product and information interests.

6. Use of social media

General information

Purpose of data processing: We use social media primarily to communicate with existing and new customers and to make information about our company available to a wide range of recipients. For this purpose, we process in particular contact and communication data as well as data necessary to measure the reach of the information we provide. In addition, the operator of the respective social medium processes personal data for tracking (e.g. creation of user profiles based on usage behavior or interests), remarketing (e.g. targeted advertising by cooperation partners) and to provide us with statistical evaluations of the use of our service.

Data subjects: Basically all profile visitors, i.e. people who access our profiles on social media.

Scope of data processing: For the purposes mentioned, we or third-party providers commissioned by us process personal data to identify the profile visitor (e.g. name, address), data necessary for contact with the profile visitor (e.g. e-mail address, telephone number), data on usage behavior (e.g. length of stay, websites accessed, content searched for, services used), technical data (e.g. IP addresses, devices and programs used to access the website), content of the profile visitor (e.g. length of stay, websites accessed, content searched for, services used), and data on the user's personal data. e.g. length of visit, websites accessed, content searched for, services used), technical data (e.g. IP addresses, devices and programs used to access the website), content of the profile visitor (e.g. texts, photos, videos) and, with the appropriate consent, data on the physical location of the profile visitor.

This personal data of the profile visitor is merged into a user profile and stored on the profile visitor's end device as a file ("cookie"). Other websites may also be able to access these user profiles in order to use and supplement the data contained therein for the targeted selection of advertising content. Third-party providers that provide social media and other data processing tools for marketing purposes may also store the data contained in the user profiles on their servers.

Legal basis for data processing: We process personal data on the basis of our legitimate interest in communication and direct advertising within the meaning of Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f GDPR.

Data processing outside the European Union: The operators of social media sometimes process data outside the European Union.

Rights of data subjects: We ask our profile visitors to assert information and other data subject rights (e.g. deletion) directly with the operators of the social media if possible, as only the operators have unrestricted access to the processed data. We are of course happy to forward data protection requests (e.g. information, rectification, erasure) addressed to us to the operator of the respective social media.

Further information on the enforcement of your rights as a data subject, in particular on the existing options for objecting to data processing, can be found in the privacy policy of the operator of the respective social medium.

Use of cookies: The user profiles are stored as a file ("cookie") on the profile visitor's end device. The storage of this file requires the consent of the profile visitor, which can be revoked at any time.

7. Contents of DATEV eG

The following personal data is automatically processed on our website through the integration of DATEV content, e.g. videos, banners, etc.: - IP address - Information that your browser automatically transmits (operating system of your device, browser name, browser version, last page accessed, time spent on the website, date and time) - Language settings, log-in information, location/proximity information, search terms entered, frequency of page views, use of website functions The purpose of the processing is statistical analysis and error tracking. The legal basis for the collection is Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f GDPR.

Recipient of the data

DATEV eG, Paumgartnerstr. 6-14, 90429 Nuremberg, Germany

Storage period

We have no influence on the retention periods of DATEV eG. According to its own information, DATEV eG stores your personal data for a period of 2 months. Further information on DATEV eG's data protection provisions can be found at https://www.datev-mymarketing.de/privacy.html.