Privacy Policy

Name and contact details of the controller:

This privacy policy provides information about the processing of personal data on the firm's website of:

Controller:

TEKIN + PARTNER mbB Steuerberater
Steuerberater Osman Tekin
Birlenbacher Straße 20
57078 Siegen

Contact details of the data protection officer:

The firm's data protection officer can be reached at the firm address stated above and at datenschutz@tekin-partner.de.

Scope and purpose of the processing of personal data:

Accessing the website:

When this website www.tekin-partner.de is accessed, data is automatically sent to the server of this website by the internet browser used by the visitor and stored for an unlimited period of time in a log file (logfile). Insofar as no more specific storage period has been stated within this privacy policy, your personal data remains with us until the purpose of the data processing ceases to apply. If you assert a legitimate request for erasure or revoke a consent to data processing, your data will be deleted, unless we have other legally permissible grounds for storing your personal data (e.g. retention periods under tax or commercial law); in the latter case, the deletion takes place once these grounds no longer apply. Until deletion, the following data is stored without any further input by the visitor:

IP address of the visitor's end device,
date and time of the visitor's access,
name and URL of the page accessed by the visitor,
website from which the visitor reaches the firm's website (so-called referrer URL),
browser and operating system of the visitor's end device as well as the name of the access provider used by the visitor

The processing of this personal data is justified pursuant to Art. 6 Abs. 1 Satz 1 Buchst. f) DSGVO. The firm has a legitimate interest in the data processing for the purpose of,

establishing the connection to the firm's website quickly,
enabling a user-friendly use of the website,
recognising and ensuring the security and stability of the systems and
facilitating and improving the administration of the website.

The processing is expressly not carried out for the purpose of obtaining information about the person of the website visitor.

Contact form:

Visitors can submit messages to the firm via an online contact form on the website. In order to be able to receive a reply, at least the provision of a valid e-mail address is required. All further details can be provided voluntarily by the enquiring person. By sending the message via the contact form, the visitor consents to the processing of the transmitted personal data. The data processing is carried out exclusively for the purpose of handling and answering enquiries via the contact form. This is done on the basis of the voluntarily granted consent pursuant to Art. 6 Abs. 1 Satz 1 Buchst. a) DSGVO. The personal data collected for the use of the contact form is automatically deleted as soon as the enquiry has been dealt with and there are no grounds for further retention (e.g. subsequent engagement of our firm).

Disclosure of data:

Personal data is transmitted to third parties if

the data subject has expressly consented to this pursuant to Art. 6 Abs. 1 Satz 1 Buchst. a) DSGVO,
the disclosure pursuant to Art. 6 Abs. 1 Satz 1 Buchst. f) DSGVO is necessary for the assertion, exercise or defence of legal claims and there is no reason to assume that the data subject has an overriding interest worthy of protection in the non-disclosure of their data, there is a legal obligation for the data transmission pursuant to Art. 6 Abs. 1 Satz 1 Buchst. c) DSGVO, and/or
this is necessary pursuant to Art. 6 Abs. 1 Satz 1 Buchst. b) DSGVO for the performance of a contractual relationship with the data subject.

In other cases, personal data is not disclosed to third parties.

Cookies:

So-called cookies are used on the website. These are data packets that are exchanged between the server of the firm's website and the visitor's browser. These are stored by the respective devices used (PC, notebook, tablet, smartphone, etc.) when the website is visited. In this respect, cookies cannot cause any damage to the devices used. In particular, they do not contain any viruses or other malware. Information that arises in connection with the specific end device used is stored in the cookies. The firm can thereby in no way obtain direct knowledge of the identity of the website visitor.

According to the default settings of the browsers, cookies are for the most part accepted. The browser settings can be configured in such a way that cookies are either not accepted on the devices used, or that a special notice is given in each case before a new cookie is created. It is, however, pointed out that the deactivation of cookies may result in not all functions of the website being able to be used in the best possible way

The use of cookies serves to make the use of the firm's web offering more convenient. For example, session cookies can be used to track whether the visitor has already visited individual pages of the website. After leaving the website, these session cookies are automatically deleted

To improve user-friendliness, temporary cookies are used. They are stored on the visitor's device for a temporary period. On a renewed visit to the website, it is automatically recognised that the visitor has already accessed the page at an earlier point in time and which entries and settings were made in doing so, in order not to have to repeat these.

Depending on your consent, cookies are furthermore used in order to analyse the visits to the website for statistical purposes and for the purpose of improving the offering. These cookies make it possible, upon a renewed visit, to automatically recognise that the website has already been accessed by the visitor previously. Here, an automatic deletion of the cookies takes place after a respectively defined period of time.

The data processed by technically necessary cookies is justified for the aforementioned purposes in safeguarding the legitimate interests of the firm pursuant to Art. 6 Abs. 1 Satz 1 Buchst. f) DSGVO.

Analysis services for websites, tracking:

On our website we use the website analysis service for websites of Google Analytics.

The legal basis for the use of the analysis tools is your consent in our Consent-Box. You can revoke this consent at any time with effect for the future. The website analysis is in the interest of our firm and serves the statistical recording of the use of the page for the continuous improvement of our firm's website and the offering of our services.

Social network plugins (social plugins):

The plugins of the following social networks are integrated on our firm's website: Instagram, Facebook and Linkedin

The legal basis for the use of social plugins is your consent in our Consent-Box. You can revoke this consent at any time with effect for the future. The purpose of using social network plugins is to make our offering known to a broad audience. The social networks share responsibility for handling their users' data in compliance with data protection law.

Your rights as a data subject:

Insofar as your personal data is processed on the occasion of your visit to our website, you are entitled to the following rights as a „data subject“ within the meaning of the DSGVO:

Access:

You can request information from us as to whether personal data concerning you is being processed by us. There is no right of access if the provision of the requested information would breach the duty of confidentiality pursuant to § 57 Abs. 1 StBerG or the information must be kept secret for other reasons, in particular because of an overriding legitimate interest of a third party. By way of derogation from this, an obligation to provide the information may exist if, in particular taking into account imminent damage, your interests outweigh the interest in confidentiality. The right of access is furthermore excluded if the data is stored only because it may not be deleted on account of statutory or charter-based retention periods or serves exclusively the purposes of data backup or data protection control, provided that the provision of the information would require a disproportionately high effort and the processing for other purposes is excluded by suitable technical and organisational measures. Insofar as the right of access is not excluded in your case and your personal data is processed by us, you can request information from us about the following:

purposes of the processing,
categories of the personal data processed concerning you,
recipients or categories of recipients to whom your personal data is disclosed, in particular in the case of recipients in third countries,
if possible, the planned duration for which your personal data will be stored or, if this is not possible, the criteria for determining the storage period,
the existence of a right to rectification or erasure or restriction of the processing of the personal data concerning you or of a right to object to this processing,
the existence of a right to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority for data protection,
insofar as the personal data was not collected from you as the data subject, the available information about the origin of the data,
where applicable, the existence of automated decision-making including profiling and meaningful information about the logic involved as well as the scope and intended effects of automated decision-making,
where applicable, in the case of transmission to recipients in third countries, insofar as there is no decision of the EU Commission on the adequacy of the level of protection pursuant to Art. 45 Abs. 3 DSGVO, information as to which appropriate safeguards pursuant to Art. 46 Abs. 2 DSGVO are provided for the protection of the personal data.

Rectification and completion:

Insofar as you establish that we hold inaccurate personal data concerning you, you can request from us the immediate rectification of this inaccurate data. In the case of incomplete personal data concerning you, you can request its completion.

Erasure:

You have a right to erasure („right to be forgotten“), provided that the processing is not necessary for the exercise of the right to freedom of expression, the right to information or for the fulfilment of a legal obligation or for the performance of a task carried out in the public interest, and one of the following grounds applies:

The personal data is no longer necessary for the purposes for which it was processed.
The justification basis for the processing was exclusively your consent, which you have revoked.
You have objected to the processing of your personal data which we have made public.
You have objected to the processing of personal data not made public by us and there are no overriding legitimate grounds for the processing.
Your personal data was processed unlawfully.
The erasure of the personal data is necessary for the fulfilment of a legal obligation to which we are subject.

There is no claim to erasure if, in the case of lawful non-automated data processing, the erasure is not possible or only possible with disproportionately high effort on account of the special nature of the storage and your interest in the erasure is low. In this case, the restriction of processing takes the place of an erasure.

Restriction of processing:

You can request from us the restriction of processing if one of the following grounds applies:

You contest the accuracy of the personal data. The restriction can in this case be requested for the duration that enables us to verify the accuracy of the data.
The processing is unlawful and, instead of erasure, you request the restriction of the use of your personal data.
Your personal data is no longer needed by us for the purposes of the processing, but you need it for the assertion, exercise or defence of legal claims.
You have lodged an objection pursuant to Art. 21 Abs. 1 DSGVO. The restriction of processing can be requested for as long as it has not yet been established whether our legitimate grounds outweigh your grounds.

Restriction of processing means that the personal data is processed only with your consent or for the assertion, exercise or defence of legal claims or for the protection of the rights of another natural or legal person or for reasons of an important public interest. Before we lift the restriction, we are obliged to inform you about it.

Data portability:

You have a right to data portability, provided that the processing is based on your consent (Art. 6 Abs. 1 Satz 1 Buchst. a) or Art. 9 Abs. 2 Buchst. a) DSGVO) or on a contract to which you are a party and the processing is carried out by means of automated procedures. The right to data portability in this case comprises the following rights, provided that the rights and freedoms of other persons are not thereby impaired: You can request from us to receive the personal data that you have provided to us in a structured, commonly used and machine-readable format. You have the right to transmit this data to another controller without hindrance on our part. Insofar as technically feasible, you can request from us that we transmit your personal data directly to another controller.

Objection:

Insofar as the processing is based on Art. 6 Abs. 1 Satz 1 Buchst. e) DSGVO (performance of a task carried out in the public interest or in the exercise of official authority) or on Art. 6 Abs. 1 Satz 1 Buchst. f) DSGVO (legitimate interest of the controller or of a third party), you have the right, on grounds relating to your particular situation, to object at any time to the processing of the personal data concerning you. This also applies to profiling based on Art. 6 Abs. 1 Satz 1 Buchst. e) or Buchst. f) DSGVO. After the exercise of the right to object, we will no longer process your personal data, unless we can demonstrate compelling legitimate grounds for the processing which override your interests, rights and freedoms, or the processing serves the assertion, exercise or defence of legal claims

You can object at any time to the processing of the personal data concerning you for the purposes of direct marketing. This also applies to profiling that is connected with such direct marketing. After the exercise of this right to object, we will no longer use the personal data concerned for the purposes of direct marketing.

You have the option of communicating the objection informally by telephone, by e-mail, where applicable by fax or to the postal address of our firm listed at the beginning of this privacy policy.

Revocation of a consent:

You have the right to revoke a consent granted at any time with effect for the future. The revocation of the consent can be communicated informally by telephone, by e-mail, where applicable by fax or to our postal address. The revocation does not affect the lawfulness of the data processing carried out on the basis of the consent up to the receipt of the revocation. Upon receipt of the revocation, the data processing that was based exclusively on your consent will be discontinued.

Complaint:

If you are of the opinion that the processing of the personal data concerning you is unlawful, you can lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority for data protection which is responsible for the place of your residence or workplace or for the place of the alleged infringement.

Status and updating of this privacy policy:

This privacy policy is dated September 2023. We reserve the right to update the privacy policy in due course in order to improve data protection and/or to adapt it to changed administrative practice or case law.

Use of Hotjar

We use Hotjar in order to better understand the needs of our users and to optimise this service and their experience. Hotjar is a technology service that helps us to better understand user behaviour (e.g. how much time they spend on which pages, which links they choose, what users like and do not like, etc.) and thus enables us to build and maintain our service with user feedback. Hotjar uses cookies and other technologies to collect data on the behaviour of our users and their devices. This includes a device's IP address (processed during your session and stored in a de-identified form), the screen size of the device, the device type (unique device identifiers), browser information, geographic locations (country only), and the preferred language used to display our website. Hotjar stores this information in a pseudonymised user profile on our behalf. Hotjar is contractually obliged not to sell any of the data collected on our behalf.