Privacy
1. Personal data
The Schnetzer law firm collects, processes, and uses your personal data only with your consent, mandate, or appointment for the purposes agreed with you, or if another legal basis exists in accordance with the GDPR; this in compliance with data protection and civil law provisions.
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. If your personal data changes, please notify us accordingly. Personal data is all data that contains individual details about personal or factual circumstances, such as name, address, email address, telephone number, date of birth, age, gender, social security number, video recordings, photographs, voice recordings of individuals, and biometric data such as fingerprints. Sensitive data, such as health data or data related to criminal proceedings, may also be included.
2. Data security
Your personal data is protected by appropriate organizational and technical data protection security measures and precautions. These measures and precautions particularly concern protection against unauthorized, unlawful, or even accidental access, processing, loss, use, and manipulation. Despite our efforts to maintain an appropriately high level of due diligence, it cannot be ruled out that information you provide to us via the Internet may be viewed and used by other persons. Please note that we therefore assume 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 of email accounts or telephones, interception of faxes).
3. Use of data and transmission of data to third parties
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 GDPR. In order to fulfill your mandate, it may also be necessary to forward your data to third parties (e.g., the opposing party, substitutes, insurance companies, service providers we use and to whom we provide data, etc.), courts or authorities. Your data will only be forwarded on the basis of the GDPR, in particular to fulfill your mandate or based on your prior consent. We also 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 correspond to that 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).
4. Storage of data
We will not retain data longer than necessary to fulfill our contractual or legal obligations and to defend against any liability claims. Personal data disclosed or made known will be stored for at least the duration of the statutory limitation period of 30 years.
5. Disclosure of data breaches
We strive to ensure that data breaches are detected early and, where appropriate, reported immediately to you or the relevant supervisory authority, including the respective data categories affected.
6. Rights regarding the data used
As a client or generally as a data subject, you have the right at any time – subject to the attorney-client duty of confidentiality – to information about your stored personal data, its origin and recipient and the purpose of the data processing as well as the right to correction, data transfer, objection, restriction of processing as well as blocking or deletion of incorrect or impermissibly processed data.
You have the right to revoke your consent to the use of your personal data at any time. Your request for information, deletion, correction, objection, and/or data transfer—in the latter case, provided this does not entail disproportionate effort—can be sent to the law firm's address listed in section 7 of this policy. A data protection officer has not been appointed because the legal requirements for a mandatory appointment are not met.
If you believe that our processing of your personal data violates applicable data protection law or that your data protection rights have been violated in any other way, you have the right to lodge a complaint with the competent supervisory authority. In Austria, this is the Data Protection Authority.
7. Our contact details
The protection of your data is particularly important to us. You can contact us at any time using the contact details provided below for any questions or to withdraw your consent.
Wirtschaftskanzlei Schnetzer
RA MMag. Dr. Manfred Schnetzer,
Lustenauer Straße 64, 6850 Dornbirn