COOKIES
We only use the following very common cookies:
1. Google Analytics
Our website uses Google Analytics to count the visitors and to measure the traffic. The following information are used:
- Browser type and version,
- Operating system used,
- Referrer URL (URL of the website you visited before),
- IP-address and hist name of the accessing computer,
- Time of the request
The privacy policy of this tool can be found on https://policies.google.com/privacy?hl=en. By no means personal data (IP, e-mails, etc.) are stored in this tool. And the cookies have also been changed to have a lifespan of 14 months, which is the minimum period expected by Google Analytics, in compliance with the European legislation on the GDPR.
2. Google AdWords
This website uses Google AdWords, an online advertising program of Google Inc., 1600 Amphitheater Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, United States (“Google”). As part of Google AdWords, we use so-called conversion tracking.
When you click on an ad placed by Google, a cookie is created for the conversion tracking and records the click on the ad. It is not possible to identify you personally via this cookie.
This cookie loses its validity after 30 days. When a user visits certain pages of this website during these 30 days, Google and we can identify that the user has clicked on the ad and has been redirected to this page. The conversion cookies serve to create statistics to measure the success of our marketing activities.
We also identify if you click on the telephone number in our Google ad. This way we can see, if the ad led to a call to our law firm.
The conversion tracking is done on the basis of Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f GDPR. We have a legitimate interest in measuring the success of our marketing activities.
When treating the conversation cookies data might be processed on the Google servers in the United States. For the United States, a decision from the European Commission concerning its adequacy (reference C/2016/4176) based on the “Privacy Shield” applies.
If you do not wish to participate in the conversion tracking, you can turn this off in the cookie settings of your browser. Only users having a corresponding cookie on their computer are taken into consideration for the conversion tracking. If you want to delete the conversion cookie or if it is not even created due to the settings of your browser, you are not taken into consideration for the conversion tracking.
