Privacy Policy

Through the following Privacy Policy, we, Dr. Kleeberg & Partner GmbH, would like to inform you of the personal data that are collected, processed and used when you visit our website and to what extent and for what purpose this occurs.

Data Protection Officer

The Data Protection Officer at Kleeberg is Mr Michael Benz.

Personal data

Personal data are specific details about the personal or material circumstances of an identified or identifiable natural person. This includes information such as their name, address, telephone number or e-mail address. Information that is not directly related to a person’s actual identity (e.g. number of users of a webpage) is not personal data.

Consent to use of data

We do not find out any personal data about you via our website (e.g. name, address or e-mail address), unless you provide this information to us voluntarily (e.g. by making an inquiry or sending us a job application) or legal provisions on the protection of your data permit this.

Purpose

We will only collect, process and use the personal data provided by you online for the purposes notified to you, unless such collection, processing and use is carried out:

for a purpose directly related to the original purpose for which personal data were collected,
based on a legal obligation or an order by an authority or a court,
to establish or to protect legal claims or to ward off illegal activities.
We shall neither sell nor market nor disclose for any other reasons your personal data to third parties.

Logging

Any visit to our website is logged. The following data are collected in the process:

  • the current IP address of your computer,
  • the webpages selected,
  • your browser identification as transmitted,
  • date and time as well as
  • the operating system of your computer as transmitted.

These data shall only be collected for the purpose of optimising data security and for the technical administration and optimisation of the website. We will not use this information for any other purposes. No evaluations shall be conducted via Google Analytics.

Data retention and erasure

We store the personal data that you transmit to us only for as long as these are required to fulfil the purposes for which these data were transmitted or for as long as required by law. These data are automatically erased after this.

In the course of our regular full data backups, a backup may also be made of these data and stored for a specific period on backup data media according to our archiving guidelines. After the end of the archiving period, the backup data media are overwritten on a regular basis so that these data are also automatically erased.

If you no longer wish to have your personal data stored or if these are no longer accurate, we will delete or block your personal data or make the corrections necessary (to the extent permitted by law) on receipt of instructions from you to this effect. Upon request, you will receive information on all the personal data we have stored on you free of charge.

Security

Kleeberg makes every effort to take technical and organisational security measures to protect your personal data against unintended or illegal erasure, modification or against loss and against unauthorised disclosure or unauthorised access. Our employees are obliged to maintain confidentiality and data privacy accordingly.

Cookies

Our website uses cookies to improve the display on different terminal devices. Cookies are small text files that your browser stores on your computer upon instruction by our website. Cookies do not cause any damage on your computer and do not contain any viruses.

No personal data are stored.

Online forms

Our website offers you the opportunity of contacting us. You usually need to send us your personal data when using the online form.

If you use the respective form on our website, our webserver will automatically send your personal data and any other data entered in an unencrypted e-mail to an employee responsible for forwarding the data. He or she will then send your data to the right recipient within the company in order to continue processing your inquiry. Your data will not be sent to any third parties apart from this.

The personal data you send us via the online form will only be collected, processed and used for the purpose of processing your inquiry. Your personal data will be processed and used any further only with your express consent.

If you have given your consent to our sending you further information, we will process and use your personal data to announce interesting publications or events of Kleeberg, to keep you up-to-date on the latest developments in tax, audit, advisory and legal areas and to provide any other interesting and important information to you. You can revoke your consent at any time by sending an e-mail to or by calling telephone no. +49(0)89-55983-0.

E-mail / Cloudbased Services

For the handling of e-mail communication with clients and other business partners, we use cloud-based Microsoft 365 online services, in particular Exchange online, as well as, within the Crowe-Kleeberg Group and for communication with selected clients and business partners, the services Teams and SharePoint online, to enable up-to-date and secure information and data exchange.

When implementing and operating the cloud-based services, we attach great importance to the fact that the data is stored in data centers in Germany and that support is provided by German service providers wherever possible. In this way, we ensure that the data protection regulations applicable in Germany, in particular the DS-GVO, are observed in electronic data processing and guarantee operation in accordance with the professional secrecy obligations for tax consultants and lawyers.

The implementation was preceded by a comprehensive risk assessment together with our data protection officer. Within the framework of our data protection obligations, we also monitor these processing activities in regular internal data protection audits.

E-mail / further notes

If you wish to send us an e-mail, please note that unencrypted e-mails sent via the Internet are not sufficiently protected from unauthorized access by third parties.

If you send us applications by e-mail, we will use this data exclusively for processing your application. As part of the application process, we will forward your data to the employee responsible for the application. Your data will not be used for any other purposes not related to the application process, and in particular will not be transferred to third parties.

After completion of the application procedure and the associated legal deadlines, we delete your application data.

Social media buttons

On our website, we offer you the option of using what are known as “social media buttons”. To protect your data, these buttons are integrated on our website merely as static icons that contain a link to the website of the respective provider. By clicking on the icon, you will be redirected to the respective provider’s website in the same way as this works with normal links. Only when you access the provider’s website will the provider receive information about you, such as your IP address. If you are already logged in to a social network, this happens with Facebook without another window popping up. With Twitter, a pop-up window appears that will allow you to edit the text of the tweet. As long as you do not click on the button icons, no data whatsoever will be exchanged. Information on the collection and use of your data in the social networks can be found in the respective terms of use of each provider.

Facebook

This website uses the link to the social network of the provider Facebook Inc., 1 Hacker Way, Menlo Park, California 94025, USA (“Facebook”) only once you have activated it by clicking on the respective button. The Facebook sharing button is merely a link to the provider Facebook. Therefore, no data whatsoever will be transferred simply by accessing our website. Only when you click on the button will Facebook find out which website you came from – as with any link. If you click on the button while you are logged in to Facebook, Facebook can assign your use to your user account. We have no knowledge of any potential collection and use of your data by Facebook subsequently and cannot influence this. You can find more information in the privacy policy of Facebook at http://facebook.com/policy.php.

Twitter

This website uses the link to the social network of the provider Twitter Inc., 795 Folsom Street, Suite 600, San Francisco, CA 94107, USA (“Twitter”) only once you have activated it by clicking on the respective button. The Twitter sharing button is merely a link to the provider Twitter. Therefore, no data whatsoever will be transferred simply by accessing our website. Only when you click on the button or the re-tweet button will Twitter find out which website you came from – as with any link. We have no knowledge of any potential collection and use of your data by Twitter subsequently and cannot influence this. You can find more information in the privacy policy of Twitter at https://twitter.com/privacy.

Xing

This website uses the link to the social network of the provider XING AG, Dammtorstrasse 30, 20354 Hamburg, Germany (“Xing”) only once you have activated it by clicking on the respective button. The Xing sharing button is merely a link to the provider Xing. Therefore, no data whatsoever will be transferred simply by accessing our website. Only when you click on the button will Xing find out which website you came from – as with any link. We have no knowledge of any potential collection and use of your data by Xing subsequently and cannot influence this. You can find more information in the privacy policy of Xing at https://privacy.xing.com/en.

LinkedIn

This website uses the link to the social network of the provider LinkedIn Ireland Unlimited Company, Wilton Place, Dublin 2, Ireland (“LinkedIn”) only once you have activated it by clicking on the respective button. The LinkedIn sharing button is merely a link to the provider LinkedIn. Therefore, no data whatsoever will be transferred simply by accessing our website. Only when you click on the button will LinkedIn find out which website you came from – as with any link. We have no knowledge of any potential collection and use of your data by LinkedIn subsequently and cannot influence this. You can find more information in the privacy policy of LinkedIn at https://www.linkedin.com/legal/privacy-policy?.

WhatsApp

This website uses the link to the social network of the provider WhatsApp Inc., 1601 Willow Road, Menlo Park, California 94025, USA (“Whatsapp”) only once you have activated it by clicking on the respective button. This allows you to conveniently send content from our website to your WhatsApp contacts. The Whatsapp sharing button is merely a link to the provider Whatsapp. Therefore, no data whatsoever will be transferred simply by accessing our website. Only when you click on the button will Whatsapp find out which website you came from – as with any link. Whatsapp is solely responsible for the further processing of this information. You can find the link to the privacy policy of Whatsapp here: https://www.whatsapp.com/legal/

Telegram

This website uses the link to the social network of the provider Telegram Messenger LLP 71-75 Shelton Street, Convent Garden, London, United Kingdom (“Telegram”) only once you have activated it by clicking on the respective button. This allows you to conveniently send content from our website to your Telegram contacts. The Telegram sharing button is merely a link to the provider Telegram. Therefore, no data whatsoever will be transferred simply by accessing our website. Only when you click on the button will Telegram find out which website you came from – as with any link. Telegram is solely responsible for the further processing of this information. You can find the link to the privacy policy of Telegram here: https://www.telegram.org/privacy

E-mail

This website uses the link to the forwarding option by e-mail (e.g. Outlook) only once you have activated it by clicking on the respective sharing button. This allows you to conveniently send content from our website by e-mail. The e-mail sharing button is merely a link to an e-mail provider (e.g. Outlook). Therefore, no data whatsoever will be transferred simply by accessing our website. Only when you click on the button will the e-mail provider find out which website you came from – as with any link. The e-mail provider is solely responsible for the further processing of this information.

Your rights as a data subject

Notwithstanding your rights already mentioned, you also have the following rights vis-à-vis our firm concerning the data relating to you personally:

  • Right to information (according to Art. 15 GDPR)
  • Right to correction or deletion (according to Art. 16 and 17 GDPR)
  • Right to restriction of processing (according to Art. 18 GDPR)
  • Right to object to processing (according to Art. 21 GDPR)
  • Right to data portability (according to Art. 20 GDPR)

Please use the contact data shown below to assert your rights. In order to rapidly identify you as the authorised person and thus swiftly respond to your request, we kindly ask you to contact us in writing.

You also have the right to file an objection with a data protection authority on the processing of your personal data by us.

Links

Where links are provided on our website to external companies or other third parties, Kleeberg is not responsible for compliance with data protection requirements or for the content of these websites. The videos provided on our website are provided by an external service provider. Kleeberg is not responsible for compliance with data protection requirements in this case either.

Further information and contacts

Please contact us if you have questions about our Privacy Policy, our website or about Kleeberg: by e-mail to or call telephone no. +49(0)89-55983-0.

We reserve the right to supplement or amend this Privacy Policy.

The latest status of this Privacy Policy is dated February 23, 2021.