Privacy Policy
We are happy to welcome you as a visitor to the Website of PXR Rechtsanwaltsgesellschaft mbH, and thank you for your interest in our law firm.
Version as of 29 October 2023
We take the confidentiality and the protection of your personal data very seriously. Therefore, we process your personal data only to the extent permissible under statutory provisions, in particular under the EU General Data Protection Regulation (“GDPR”) and the German Federal Data Protection Act (“BDSG”).
With this Privacy Policy we would like to inform you in accordance with Art. 13 GDPR about the nature of the processing of your personal data via our website “pxr.law” (hereinafter “Website”), the purposes of such data processing and about the rights to which you are entitled. Personal data is any information relating to an identified or identifiable natural person.
I. General Information
1. Controller
The person responsible for processing your personal data pursuant to Art. 4 (7) GDPR is:
PXR Rechtsanwaltsgesellschaft mbH (hereinafter referred to as “we” or “PXR“)
Kurfürstendamm 195, 10707 Berlin, Germany
Tel.: +49 (0)30 629 3145 0
Fax: +49 (0)30 629 3145 50
E-Mail: datenschutz@pxr.law
PXR Legal has its registered seat in Berlin, is registered with the local court of Berlin (Charlottenburg) under HRB 219207 B and is represented by its sole managing director, Dr. Peter Möllmann (peter.moellmann@pxr.law).
2. Transfer to third parties
We may transfer your personal data to third parties where necessary to provide our Website or services. If we use external service providers, these have been carefully selected by us and commissioned in writing and only process your personal data on our behalf. If necessary, we have concluded a processing agreement pursuant to Art. 28 GDPR with them. The categories of recipient we transfer your data to are cloud service providers, management tool providers, marketing tool providers and technical service providers.
3. Transfer to third countries
We may transfer your personal data to non-EU/EEA countries. Insofar as there is no adequacy decision for these countries according to Art. 45 GDPR, we transfer your personal data subject to appropriate safeguards according to Art. 46 GDPR.
4. Blocking and deletion
Your personal data will be deleted or blocked as soon as the purpose for processing no longer applies. We will further retain your data if we are legally obliged to do so, especially for tax and accounting purposes. Blocking or deletion of your personal data will also take place if a retention period prescribed by the standards expires, unless there is a need for further storage of the data for the conclusion or performance of a contract.
II. Our Processing Activities
In the following we would like to provide an overview of the personal data we process, the purposes we process them for as well as the legal basis for such processing activity.
1. Processing of personal data during your visit to our Website
Each time you access our Website the following personal data is automatically processed:
• IP address of your requesting computer
• browser type, browser version and language used
• your operating system
• date and time of access of your visit
• name of your access provider
• name of the specific page or file accessed, and the amount of data transferred (access status/http status code)
• website from which your system accesses our Website (“referrer URL”)
The legal basis for this processing is our legitimate interest (Art. 6 (1) (f) GDPR). We weighed our interest in providing as well as operating and securing this website against your interest in the confidentiality of your personal data, whereby our interest prevails. Without the processing of personal data, the provision of the website is technically impossible. This also applies to its operation and security. In this context, the security of the website also serves your interests.
Your personal data is temporarily stored in server log files for the aforementioned purposes.
The log files are deleted after the end of the respective browser session, at the latest after 7 days. Personal data, which must be stored for further evidentiary purposes, is excluded from deletion until the respective incident has been finally clarified.
2. Processing of personal data when contacting us
When you contact us (e. g. by email or telephone), we process your personal data we collect exclusively in order to handle your inquiry, respond to it or contact you.
The legal basis for this processing of your personal data is principally Art. 6 (1) (b) GDPR. Insofar as the correspondence is neither necessary for the performance of a contract with us or in order to take steps prior to entering into a contract, the legal basis for the processing is Art. 6 (1) (f) GDPR. In such a case, it is our legitimate interest to communicate with you and to manage and document the communication.
Your personal data will be deleted after final answering, as far as there are no legal or other obligations to store.
3. Processing of personal data regarding our Careers-Website
If you apply to us in response to open positions published on our Careers-Website or if you send us an unsolicited application (e.g., via join@pxr.law), we process the following categories of personal data during the application process:
• private contact and identification information
• personal data on your professional qualifications
• place of study or training, certificates
• the personal data you provide to us in your curriculum vitae including photos of you
• any other personal data you may have provided in the application
The person responsible for the application process at PXR Legal will receive your application documents and they will be forwarded internally to other application decision-supporting team members of PXR Legal. § 26 (1) BDSG and Art. 6 (1) (b) GDPR are the legal basis for this data processing. Any information that you provide voluntarily, and which goes beyond the required amount will be processed in our legitimate interest Art. 6 (1) (f) GDPR in being able to respond to your application in the best possible way.
If we enter into an employment agreement we will process your personal data for the purposes of the employment agreement in accordance with a separate data privacy policy, which you will then receive from us. In the event that no employment relationship is established with you, we will generally store your data for a period of six months from the time of receipt of the rejection by you. Your application documents are then deleted.
For the above-mentioned purpose, we may transfer your personal data to Personio SE & Co. KG Seidlstraße 3 80335 München and to GAIA
4. Cookies and Social Media
a) Functional Cookies
We use functional cookies in order to ensure functionality of our Website. Cookies are small text files that store information on the user behavior when visiting a website and that are placed on the user’s computer and held available for further visits to the website. These cookies do not cause any damage to your computer and do not contain any viruses.
The information obtained through the use of functional cookies will not be linked to your IP address. No other personal data is collected. We use the information contained in these cookies to enable, analyze and improve the operation and use of our Website and in order to ensure our IT security.
The legal basis for the data processing is Art. 6 (1) (f) GDPR. We weighed our interest in providing the cookie-dependent functions of this Website against your interest in the confidentiality of your personal data, whereby our interest prevails. Without the processing of personal data, it is not technically possible to provide the functions. At the same time, the option outlined above is open to you to prevent the processing of your personal data in connection with cookies.
You may also visit our Website without cookies being used, provided that you have disabled the storage of cookies by adjusting your browser settings accordingly. However, in doing so, you may not be able to use all functions of our Website.
As soon as you close your browser, the session cookie is automatically deleted by default, unless you have made a different setting in the cookie settings of your browser.
b) Social-Media-Buttons
No cookies from social media platform operators are integrated on our Website (e.g., via plug-ins). Instead, the buttons present at some points on the Website represent a link to the Website of the respective social media service (in our case LinkedIn, Instagram and TalentRocket). The existing buttons alone do not result in the collection and transfer of data to these services. Only when you click on a button will you be directed to the page of the respective provider. Our privacy policy applies only to this Website and not to other websites (especially LinkedIn, Instagram und TalentRocket) to which we refer by link.
The respective providers process your data in accordance with their own privacy policies: : LinkedIn (https://www.linkedin.com/legal/privacy-policy), Instagram (https://privacycenter.instagram.com/policy/?entry_point=ig_help_center_data_policy_redirect), TalentRocket (https://www.talentrocket.de/datenschutz).
c) Analytics and Marketing Tools
Google Analytics and Google Search Console
We use Google Analytics on our website, a web analytics service provided by Google Ireland Limited, Building Gordon House, 4 Barrow St, Dublin, D04 E5W5, Ireland ("Google").
Google Analytics uses so-called tracking pixels and cookies. The information generated by a cookie about your use of this website is usually transmitted to a Google server in the USA and stored there. However, by activating IP anonymization, Google will truncate your IP address beforehand within the European Economic Area (European Union and other Member States). Only in exceptional cases will the full IP address be transferred to a Google server in the USA and shortened there.
On our behalf, Google will use this information for the purpose of evaluating your use of the websites, compiling reports on website activity and providing us with other services relating to website activity and internet usage. The IP address transmitted by your browser as part of Google Analytics will not be merged with other data from Google.
The processing of your personal data is based on your consent (Art. 6 (1) (a) GDPR. You can revoke your consent at any time for the future by changing the cookie settings.
Google processes your personal data in the USA. The transfer of data to the USA is possible due to the Data Privacy Framework.
Hubspot-Pixel
This website uses the Hubspot Pixel of Hubspot Inc., 25 First Street, Cambridge, MA 02141 USA. This enables the tracking of users of this website also via other websites that use the Hubspot Pixel. This is used for the analysis and optimization of our online offer, in particular retargeting, i.e. renewed advertising on our website and other websites as well as the allocation to target groups.
To do this, we process ads you have viewed, browser information, content viewed, device information, geographic location, interactions with ads, services and products, IP address, marketing information, non-confidential custom data, pixel ID, referrer URL, marketing campaign success, usage data, user behavior, user ID.
The processing of your personal data is based on your consent (Art. 6 (1) (a) DSGVO). You can revoke your consent at any time for the future by changing the cookie settings.
Hubspot may process your personal data in the USA. The transfer of your personal data to the USA is generally possible under the Data Privacy Framework.
III. Data Subject Rights
In accordance with the GDPR, you have the following rights regarding your personal data:
• right of access
• right to rectification
• right to erasure (“right to be forgotten”)
• right to restriction of processing
• right to object to the processing
• right to withdraw consent
• right to data portability
If we process your personal data based on our legitimate interests (Art. 6 (1) (f) GDPR), you can object to the processing by contacting us (see “Controller” for contact details). The same applies if we process your data based on your consent, you have the right to revoke your consent at any time with effect for the future.
Furthermore, you are entitled to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority regarding the processing of your personal data.