STECKEL LEGAL & TAX AG protects and treats the personal data that we collect or receive within the scope of our business activities confidentially and keep them safe. We process personal data in compliance with the Swiss Data Protection Act and - in so far as applicable - also in compliance with the EU General Data Protection Regulation. 

This privacy statement explains how we collect and process your personal data and also about the rights you have in this.

We can also make additional privacy statements available to you, should we consider this to be useful. Such additional privacy statements supplement this privacy statement and must be read in conjunction with this.

 

1. Who is responsible for your personal data

STECKEL LEGAL & TAX AG, Grienbachstr. 11, CH- 6300 Zug, is responsible for your personal data that we collect or receive within the scope of our business activities.  

 

2. How we procure and process your personal data

We raise and process your personal data as follows:

 

2.1 Business development, accepting a mandate and legal updates

We collect personal data of potential clients, their representatives and commercial owners as well as of other business partners within the scope of our business developments and during the process of accepting a mandate. The nature of information that we collect comprise in particular name, contact details (such as address, e-mail address and telephone number), nationality, nature of business of interest, professional background and interactions with us.

We receive this information directly from you and other business contacts or from publicly available sources.

We use this information to promote our business relationship with you and to develop services that you may be interested in in order to carry out specific business development activities, to send you publications and marketing information and to invite you to events and to comply with the legal obligation to identify clients.

You can change the information that you receive from our marketing communication via the option "Manage subscriptions"- at the end of our e-mails. If you do not wish to receive any e-mails on our services, legal developments and events any more, you can use the unsubscribe option at the end of the e-mails any time or contact us under info@remove-this.steckel.legal.  

If we require information in order to accept the mandate and you do not make this available to us upon request, we will not be able to act for you.

 

2.2 Legal services

Within the scope of our legal services we collect and process personal data of our clients, associated persons, counterparties, authorities, courts, third parties and other persons as well as their relevant representatives and employees. The type of data that we may raise include name and contact details (such as your address, e-mail address and telephone number), nationality, nature of business of interest, professional background as well as information of any kind from correspondence, contacts and interactions with us. We also process information of any kind that has been disclosed to us within the scope of our services or which we raise ourselves. As an exception, this information may also include data of persons of a particular sensitive nature.

We procure personal data directly from you, from our clients, other persons involved, and their relevant representatives and employees. We may also receive or procure personal information from third parties such as your employer, other organisations with whom you have been in contact, supervisory authorities, public bodies, courts, other law offices or other consultants. In addition we also obtain personal data from publicly accessible sources.

We process this data in order to provide clients with our services, to manage the business of our company (e.g. to carry out administrative and organisational processes), to monitor and analyse our business and last but not least to improve our services and products.

 

 

In case you or the organisation you are acting for, are our client and you do not let us have the information that we need upon request, we are not in a position to provide you with our services or continue our mandate.

 

2.3 Visit to our website

We collect certain personal data when you visit our website and use cookies on our websites.

We use cookies to obtain information on how our website is used, for online applications, and marketing communication.

Cookies are small text data files that are saved to the browsers indices of your computer or mobile device when you visit our website. On our website we use cookies permanently or also session cookies. Session cookies save your entries while you navigate our website from page to page. The cookies are deleted after a short while, at the latest, however, when you close down your browser. In case of permanent cookies, the website stores your preferences and settings in a way that they are available when you visit the website again. Permanent cookies are also deleted after a certain period of time. 

We use cookies as follows:

• Google Analytics: Google Analytics provides us with information on how visitors use our website. Google uses cookies to collect anonymous information, as for example the number of visitors on the website, from where the visitors log in, which sites they are looking at and how long they remain on our website.
• Career Page: When you visit our career page a cookie is installed on your computer. This cookie supports the online application process and is deleted as soon as you close down your browser.
• E-mail updates: Within the scope of our marketing communication we use cookies and tracking technology to check whether updates sent by e-mail are opened and answered and whether the links they contain are clicked. In addition, cookies enable you to contact us via the online contact form.
• Social plugin: We use a plugin for the social network LinkedIn. You will recognise it by the logo that we have placed on our website. Every time you are active in this social network relevant information is passed on and your visit on LinkedIn is recorded.

 

You can adjust the settings on your browser such that the cookies are blocked or you are warned once cookies are sent to your computer. If you deactivate the receipt of cookies you may possibly not be able to use all functions on our website and our marketing communication. If you carry on using the website of  STECKEL LEGAL & TAX AG without adapting the browser settings, you implicitly agree that our cookies are installed on your computer.

 

 

2.4 Recruitment

In case you are applying for a position or to take part in a career event at STECKEL LEGAL & TAX AG you will have to let us have personal information and if need be sensitive personal data. By submitting your application you explicitly allow us to use this information. We use it to check your application. We may also use the information that you gave us to check details (including references, background, identity, debt collection register and criminal records).

We work with third-party service providers in Germany to save this information.

Should we require information for the position you applied for and you do not make this information available to us upon request, we cannot process your application any further.

 

2.5 Alumni

If you are a former employee or partner of STECKEL LEGAL & TAX AG, we collect personal data such as your name, contact details (address, e-mail address and telephone number), information about your employment with us and thereafter, and other information that we receive from you.

We use this information to keep in contact with you.

 

2.6 Other contacts

In addition, we collect and process personal data when you offer services or products, when we check your products or services and generally, if you request information from us or provide us with information.

 

 

3. Basis for processing your data

We only process your personal data insofar as this is permissible by the applicable law. Therefore, we process your personal data, provided:

• this is necessary to fulfil a contract with you or the organisation you are acting for;
• this becomes necessary to fulfil legal obligations;
• you (as far as required) give us permission to process such data or the organisation you are acting for (if necessary) has received your permission to disclose your personal data to us;
• we or a third party, in particular one of our clients, has a justified interest in it and your interests, fundamental rights and fundamental freedom do not prevail. Such justified interests comprise in particular the provision of legal services to our clients.

 

4. How and why do we share your personal information

If necessary or even expedient to provide our services, we can disclose personal data that we collect while providing our legal services, to third parties (such as consultants, associate parties, courts, authorities, counterparties and other persons) in Switzerland, the EU or other states. We can furthermore disclose personal data to third parties, provided:

• you (if necessary) have given permission to do so or the organisation (if necessary) you are acting for has received your permission to do so;
• we are obliged to do so based on legal, regulatory or business obligations (for example to satisfy money laundering regulations or sanction regulations); or
• this becomes necessary in connection with legal proceedings or in order to assert or ward off claims.

We work together with third parties that provide services to us and with whom we can share your personal data, for example with banks, insurances or IT-providers who have access to your personal data through software support.

 

5. How we protect your personal information

We have appropriate safety precautions in place to keep safe your personal data in an electronic as well as physical format and to protect them from unauthorised access, misuse, disclosure, unauthorised amendments or deletion as well as from being lost. Our information security management system (ISMS) is certified in compliance with ISO 27001. Access to our offices is monitored and where necessary, monitored also by video; electronic data is protected by logins and passwords.

 

Our partners, employees and third-party service providers that have access to confidential information (including personal data), are obliged to treat these confidentially.  

 

6. How long do we keep your personal information

We keep your personal data as long as they are needed for processing. We furthermore keep your personal data to comply with legal and regulatory obligations as long as claims can be assessed against us or insofar as justified interests, especially the security of our data require us to do so.

 

7. Your rights

You have rights concerning the personal data kept by us that you may be able to exercise under certain circumstances. You are entitled

• to receive information on your personal data and certain aspects of the processing;
• to request that your personal data is corrected;
• to request that your personal data is deleted;
• to request that the processing of your personal data is restricted; and
• to object to your personal data being processed.

Should you have agreed to your personal data being collected, processed or transferred for a certain purpose, you can revoke your consent for this particular processing at any time. As soon as we have received your request to revoke your consent, we will no longer process your personal data for this particular purpose, unless there exists another justified interest to do so.

 We can refuse to give information as far as the data protection act or other laws, especially the attorney-client-privilege allows or dictates this. We will give you the reasons for our decision, if it becomes legally necessary to do so.

 If you want to exercise your rights, please contact us in writing by e-mail under datenschutz@steckel.legal or by surface mail to:

 

STECKEL LEGAL & TAX AG

Datenschutz

Grienbachstr. 11
CH- 6300 Zug

 

Under normal circumstances you will not have to pay any fee for exercising your rights. We may, however, charge a fee if this is permitted by the applicable data protection, of which we will inform you in compliance with the law.

 

Should you be of the opinion that we have not treated your enquiry or your issues satisfactorily, you can turn to the relevant authority - in Switzerland to the Eidgenössischen Datenschutz- und Öffentlichkeitsbeauftragten.

We reserve the right to update and amend this data protection declaration from time to time, in order to take into consideration amendments on how and in what way we process your personal data, or make amendments to comply with legal requirements. We will publish all amendments in the declaration that we carry out in future on our website. Please check regularly whether updates or amendments have been made to our data protection declaration.