Privacy policy

1. Personal data

We, andréewitch & partner rechtsanwälte GmbH, collect, process and use your personal data only with your consent or mandate or order for the purposes agreed with you or if there is another legal basis in accordance with European and Austrian data protection laws.

We only collect personal data that is necessary for the performance and processing of our legal services or that you have voluntarily provided to us.

Personal data is all data that contains individual details about personal or other circumstances and can be related to you personally, such as your name, address, email address, telephone number, date of birth, age, gender, social security number, video recordings, photos, voice recordings of people and biometric data such as fingerprints. Sensitive data such as health data or data in connection with criminal proceedings may also be included.

2. Your rights

As a client or generally as a data subject, you have the right to information, rectification, erasure, restriction of processing, data portability and objection at any time, subject to the lawyer's duty of confidentiality.

If there are any changes to your personal data, please inform us accordingly.

You have the right to withdraw your consent to the use of your personal data at any time. This revocation as well as your request for information, correction, deletion, restriction of processing, data transfer and/or objection can be sent to the address of the law firm stated in point 10 of this declaration.

If you are of the opinion that the processing of your personal data by us violates applicable data protection law or that your data protection claims have been violated in any other way, you have the option of lodging a complaint with the competent supervisory authority. In Austria, the data protection authority is responsible for this.

3. Data security

Your personal data is protected by appropriate organizational and technical precautions. These precautions relate in particular to protection against unauthorized, unlawful or accidental access, processing, loss, use and manipulation.

Notwithstanding our efforts to maintain an appropriately high level of due diligence at all times, it cannot be ruled out that information that you disclose to us via the Internet may be viewed and used by other persons.

Please note that we therefore accept no liability whatsoever for the disclosure of information due to errors in data transmission not caused by us and/or unauthorized access by third parties (e.g. hacking attack on email account or telephone, interception of faxes).

4. Use of the data

We will not process the data provided to us for purposes other than those covered by the mandate agreement or by your consent or otherwise by a provision in accordance with the applicable data protection regulations (e.g. GDPR).

5. Transfer of data to third parties

In order to fulfill your order, it may also be necessary to forward your data to third parties (e.g. counterparties, substitutes, insurance companies, service providers that we use and to whom we provide data, etc.), courts or authorities. Your data will only be forwarded on the basis of the applicable data protection regulations (e.g. GDPR), in particular to fulfill your order or on the basis of your prior consent.

We would also like to inform you that, as part of our legal representation and support, we regularly obtain factual and case-related information from you from third parties.

Some of the above-mentioned recipients of your personal data are located outside your country or process your personal data there. The level of data protection in other countries may not be the same as in Austria. However, we only transfer your personal data to countries for which the EU Commission has decided that they have an adequate level of data protection or we take measures to ensure that all recipients have an adequate level of data protection, for which we conclude standard contractual clauses (2010/87/EC and/or 2004/915/EC).

6. Storage of the data

The personal data collected will be deleted by us as soon as the purpose of storage no longer applies. Storage beyond this may take place if such storage is provided for by European or national legislation to which we are subject.

7. Website

As we take the protection of your personal data seriously, this website is operated in accordance with the principles of data minimization and transparency. We do not use cookies, tracking tools or externally hosted fonts.

8. Server log files

In order to optimize this website in terms of system performance, user-friendliness and the provision of useful information about our services, the website provider automatically collects and stores information in so-called server log files, which your browser automatically transmits to us. This includes your Internet Protocol address (IP address), browser and language setting, operating system, referrer URL, your Internet service provider and date/time.

This data is not merged with personal data sources. We reserve the right to check this data retrospectively if we become aware of specific indications of unlawful use.

9. Adaptation of the privacy policy

We reserve the right to adapt and update this privacy policy so that it complies with current legal requirements or to appropriately reflect or implement changes to our services in the privacy policy. When you visit our website or make use of our services, the current version of the privacy policy at that time applies.

10. Our contact details

The protection of your data is very important to us. You can contact us at any time using the contact details below if you have any questions, wish to withdraw your consent or wish to exercise your rights as a data subject:

General information

The website is hosted in the EU and complies with the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).

Responsible for the content:

andréewitch & partner rechtsanwälte GmbH
1010 Vienna, Stallburggasse 4
office@and.law