Privacy Policy

We would like to inform you about the data protection aspects of using the website "www.vonzanthier.com" as follows:

1. Information when accessing the website

The data controller is VON ZANTHIER & DACHOWSKI Kancelaria Prawnicza sp. k. with its registered office in Poznań (ul. Garbary 56, 61-758 Poznań, telephone: +48 61 858 25 50 , email: poznan@vonzanthier.pl) (hereinafter referred to as "VON ZANTHIER & DACHOWSKI", "we" or "us").

Your IP address is processed. The processing is carried out for the purpose of displaying the contents of the website to you. The legal basis for the processing of the data is the protection of legitimate interests pursuant to Art. 6 (1) lit. f EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) as well as the processing for the implementation of pre-contractual measures pursuant to Art. 6 (1) lit. b GDPR, insofar as you request this.

The legitimate interest referred to in Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR consists in the fact that third parties (Internet server operators) must be involved in transmissions via websites for technical reasons. Without the involvement of third parties, it is not possible to display the content in your Internet browser. The involvement of third parties is limited to those directly involved in the communication process.

Your internet browser may also send us additional data without our prompting, such as the date and time of access or the name and URL of the file accessed, as well as data about your system, e.g. browser type and version, operating system used, the name of the access provider if you clicked on a hyperlink on a third-party site that refers to our website, the address of this third-party site ("referrer") and the name of your computer. This information is temporarily stored in a so-called log file. This data is processed for the following purposes: to ensure a smooth connection to the website, to ensure comfortable use of our website, and to evaluate system security and stability. The legal basis for the processing of the data is the protection of legitimate interests pursuant to Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f GDPR.

The legitimate interest referred to in Article 6(1)(f) of the GDPR consists in our desire to offer you a secure, functional and user-friendly website.

VON ZANTHIER & DACHOWSKI will delete the data immediately after the conclusion of the contact with you, unless otherwise specified below. If you request deletion beforehand, the data will be deleted immediately, unless there is another legal basis for processing.

The website is managed by 3st kommunikation GmbH, Taunusstraße 59-61, 55118 Mainz, on behalf of DIRO AG, Große Bleichen 32, 20354 Hamburg, as a so-called further processor of commissioned data in accordance with Art. 28 GDPR. The technical and organisational security measures for hosting the website at Hetzner Online GmbH, Industriestr. 25, 91710 Gunzenhausen, were checked before they were commissioned and are regularly monitored. This hosting service provider in turn acts strictly in accordance with the instructions of 3st kommunikation GmbH.

You have the right to access (Art. 15 GDPR) and rectification (Art. 16 GDPR) or erasure (Art. 17 GDPR) or restriction of processing (Art. 18 GDPR) or the right to object to processing (Art. 21 GDPR) and the right to data portability (Art. 20 GDPR). The data subject has the right to object at any time, on grounds relating to their particular situation, to the processing of personal data concerning them which is carried out by us on the basis of legitimate interests (Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR); this also applies to profiling based on these provisions. You have the right to lodge a complaint with a data protection supervisory authority.

You may have a choice between several data protection supervisory authorities. As a rule, you can contact the supervisory authority of your usual place of residence or workplace or our law firm's registered office.

The provision of personal data by you is neither required by law nor contractually required, nor is it necessary for the conclusion of a contract. You and the data subject are not obliged to provide the data. If you do not provide the data, the possible consequence is that you will not be able to access the VON ZANTHIER & DACHOWSKI website in whole or in part and will not be able to view the content accordingly.

There is no automated decision-making or profiling in accordance with Article 22 of the GDPR.

Please also note the information below under "Cookies", "Use of our contact form", "Google Analytics", "Links to social media platforms" and "OpenStreetMap".

2. Cookies

Cookies are small identifiers that are sent to your browser and that your computer stores and later transmits back when set appropriately. Partly the cookies come from us, partly from third parties. So-called session cookies are deleted when the browser is closed the next time (i.e. after the "session").

2.1 Technically necessary cookies

When you visit the website, we set technically necessary cookies. These are cookies that enable basic functions and are essential for the proper functioning of the website. This applies to the following cookies on this website:

Keyword / name of the cookies & validity period / provider / integration via third party / purpose

Settings storage / DIRO multisite cookie (1 year) = dd_cookie_consent_status = 1 year / diro.eu / Saves the settings made by the user on the page (e.g. preferred language) and the content of external providers approved by the user. In this respect, personal data is processed.

The legal basis for the data processing associated with the setting of technically necessary cookies is the protection of legitimate interests pursuant to Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f GDPR. We use cookies exclusively to ensure the proper functioning of our website. The aforementioned legitimate interest pursuant to Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f GDPR is that we would like to offer you an appealing and user-friendly website.

The DIRO Multisite cookie is used to store the settings you have made on this website (e.g. preferred language) and the content of external providers that you have approved. The DIRO_C_FINGERPRINT processing operation is used to collect and store the IDs of the services requiring consent that were present the last time the page was accessed, as well as their configuration settings and the assignment to categories in the data protection pop-up (as an encrypted character string).

The sole purpose of this data processing is to store the settings made. The data is stored for one year.

2.2 Technically unnecessary cookies

In addition, depending on your consent, the following – non-essential – cookies may also be used when you visit the website:

Keyword / Name of cookies & validity period / Provider / Integration via third parties / Purpose

• OpenStreetMaps (maps) / _osm_location = 6 months; _pk_id = 6 months / OpenStreetMap Foundation / Display of addresses on a map that is integrated into the website.
• Google Analytics (usage analysis) / _pk_id = 6 months; _pk_ref = 6 months; _pk_ses = 30 minutes / Matthieu Aubry et al. / Self-hosted / Website analysis / Generates statistical data on how visitors use the website.
• reCAPTCHA / NID (6 months) / Google LLC / Google LLC / The cookie set by Google protects our website from misuse in the contact form through automated machine processing.

The legal basis for setting cookies that are not technically necessary, i.e. statistics and performance-related cookies, is your consent, Art. 6(1)(a) GDPR.

We know your IP address, among other things, which is technically necessary on the Internet. We have no direct way of assigning the IP address to your person. Despite the communication of the IP address and the setting of cookies, you therefore remain anonymous to us when visiting our websites, as long as you do not consciously provide us with your identity.

You have the right to information (Art. 15 GDPR) and to rectification (Art. 16 GDPR) or erasure (Art. 17 GDPR) or restriction of processing (Art. 18 GDPR) and also the right to data portability (Art. 20 GDPR). The legal basis for the processing of the data is your consent in accordance with Art. 6(1)(a) GDPR.

Your consent is entirely voluntary. You may revoke your consent at any time without providing reasons. Revoking your consent does not affect the legality of the processing carried out on the basis of your consent prior to revocation. You can revoke your consent, for example, at our premises, by post to VON ZANTHIER & DACHOWSKI, Kancelaria Prawnicza sp. k. with its registered office in Poznań, (ul. Garbary 56, 61-758 Poznań, telephone: +48 61 858 25 50 , Mail: poznan@vonzanthier.pl.

You have the right to lodge a complaint with a data protection supervisory authority. You may have a choice between several data protection supervisory authorities. As a rule, you can contact the supervisory authority of your usual place of residence or workplace or our law firm's registered office. The provision of personal data by you is neither required by law nor contractually required, nor is it necessary for the conclusion of a contract. You and the data subject are not obliged to provide the data. If you do not provide the data, this may result in the functions of the VON ZANTHIER & DACHOWSKI website not working in whole or in part.

There is no automated decision-making or profiling in accordance with Article 22 of the GDPR.

Please note that you can completely prevent the setting of technically unnecessary cookies by adjusting the settings in your browser.

Further information on "reCAPTCHA":

To protect our website from misuse of the contact form through automated machine processing, we use the reCAPTCHA service provided by Google LLC. reCAPTCHA allows us to determine whether access to our website is by a human or by a bot.

To do this, we send the IP address of your device (e.g. computer or smartphone) and, if necessary, other data required by Google for the reCAPTCHA service (e.g. click path, user behaviour and length of stay on our website, browser language, user input, JavaScript objects, browser plug-ins) to Google. Your IP address and other data are pseudonymised and sent to a Google server. The IP address transmitted by your browser as part of reCAPTCHA and, if applicable, the other data required by Google for the reCAPTCHA service are not merged with other Google data.

The legal basis for the processing of the data is your consent in accordance with Art. 6(1)(a) GDPR. Your consent is entirely voluntary. You may revoke your consent at any time without giving reasons. Revoking your consent does not affect the legality of the processing carried out on the basis of your consent prior to revocation. You can revoke your consent, for example, at our premises, by post to VON ZANTHIER & DACHOWSKI Kancelaria Prawnicza sp. k. with its registered office in Poznań, (ul. Garbary 56, 61-758 Poznań, telephone: +48 61 858 25 50 , Mail: poznan@vonzanthier.pl explain.

You have the right to access (Art. 15 GDPR) and rectification (Art. 16 GDPR) or erasure (Art. 17 GDPR) or restriction of processing (Art. 18 GDPR) and also the right to data portability (Art. 20 GDPR).

You have the right to lodge a complaint with a data protection supervisory authority. You may have a choice between several data protection supervisory authorities. As a rule, you can contact the supervisory authority of your usual place of residence or workplace or our law firm's registered office.

The provision of personal data by you is neither required by law nor contractually required, nor is it necessary for the conclusion of a contract. You and the data subject are not obliged to provide the data. If you do not provide the data, the possible consequence is that no cards can be displayed to you.

There is no automated decision-making or profiling in accordance with Article 22 of the GDPR.

It cannot be ruled out that data from Google may also be transferred to servers in the United States. Google is certified under the EU-U.S. Data Privacy Framework.

Please also note Google's privacy policy, which you can find at https://policies.google.com/privacy .

Please also note the further information on "Google Analytics" and "OpenStreetMap" as well as other external services below.

3. Use of our contact form

We provide a contact form that you can use to send us a message. We would be happy to respond to your message. To do so, we require your consent to process the data you provide. We will inform you as follows when collecting your data:

Content of the consent requested in the contact form:

You consent to VON ZANTHIER & DACHOWSKI storing and using the data you have provided in order to respond to your enquiry. Giving your consent is entirely voluntary. You have the right to withdraw your consent at any time. Withdrawing your consent does not affect the lawfulness of any processing carried out on the basis of your consent prior to its withdrawal.

You can withdraw your consent, for example, at our premises, by post to VON ZANTHIER & DACHOWSKI Kancelaria Prawnicza sp. k. with its registered office in Poznań, (ul. Garbary 56, 61-758 Poznań, telephone: +48 61 858 25 50 , Mail: poznan@vonzanthier.pl explain.

The data protection officer is VON ZANTHIER & DACHOWSKI (see above). The processing is carried out for the following purpose: You can contact us via the contact form. This is an alternative to contacting us by email, for example. We would then like to respond to you. This affects the data you have entered in the contact form (an email address is required) and, for technical reasons, your IP address, the date and the time. The legal basis for the processing of the data is your consent in accordance with Art. 6 (1) (a) GDPR, which you give us when you send a message, and with regard to the involvement of transport companies (e.g. when we send an email to your email address), also the protection of legitimate interests in accordance with Art. 6 (1) (f) GDPR.

The legitimate interest in involving transport companies pursuant to Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR consists in the fact that, for technical reasons, third parties must be involved in transmissions, in particular via websites (internet server operators) and via email (the internet server operators on the communication channel and the providers of the email accounts). Without the involvement of third parties, it is not possible to contact you. The involvement of third parties is limited to those directly involved in the communication process.

The website is managed by 3st kommunikation GmbH, Taunusstraße 59-61, 55118 Mainz, on behalf of DIRO AG, Große Bleichen 32, 20354 Hamburg, as a so-called further processor of commissioned data in accordance with Art. 28 GDPR. The technical and organisational security measures for hosting the website at Hetzner Online GmbH, Industriestr. 25, 91710 Gunzenhausen, were checked before they were commissioned and are regularly monitored. This hosting service provider in turn acts strictly in accordance with the instructions of 3st kommunikation GmbH.

VON ZANTHIER & DACHOWSKI will delete the data immediately after the conclusion of the contact with you. If you request deletion beforehand, the data will be deleted immediately, provided that there is no other legal basis for processing.

You have the right to access (Art. 15 GDPR) and rectification (Art. 16 GDPR) or erasure (Art. 17 GDPR) or restriction of processing (Art. 18 GDPR) or the right to object to processing (Art. 21 GDPR) and the right to data portability (Art. 20 GDPR). The data subject has the right to object at any time, on grounds relating to their particular situation, to the processing of personal data concerning them which is carried out by us on the basis of legitimate interests (Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR); this also applies to profiling based on these provisions. You have the right to object to the processing of data that we process for direct marketing purposes.

You have the right to withdraw your consent at any time without affecting the lawfulness of processing based on consent before its withdrawal.

You have the right to lodge a complaint with a data protection supervisory authority. You may have a choice between several data protection supervisory authorities. As a rule, you can contact the supervisory authority of your usual place of residence or workplace or our law firm's registered office.

The provision of personal data by you is neither required by law nor contractually required, nor is it necessary for the conclusion of a contract. You and the data subject are not obliged to provide the data. Possible consequences of not providing the data are that you will have to contact us by other means if you have any questions or comments.

There is no automated decision-making or profiling in accordance with Article 22 of the GDPR.

4. OpenStreetMap

We use OpenStreetMap maps on our website. These maps are provided by the OpenStreetMap Foundation, 132 Maney Hill Road, Sutton Coldfield, West Midlands, B72 1JU, United Kingdom (hereinafter referred to as "OpenStreetMap"). The maps are integrated into our website using an iframe or by retrieving the so-called tiles (map images) from the provider's server. This transfers your IP address to the OpenStreetMap server. Furthermore, a session cookie is set (for information on cookies, see above in this privacy policy under "Cookies").

We would also like to inform you of the following:

The data protection officer is VON ZANTHIER & DACHOWSKI (see above). OpenStreetMap maps are used for the purpose of providing you with map material. They serve to make it easy to find the addresses we provide on the website. The legal basis for the processing of the data is your consent in accordance with Art. 6(1)(a) GDPR. Your consent is entirely voluntary. You may revoke your consent at any time without giving reasons. Revoking your consent does not affect the legality of the processing carried out on the basis of your consent prior to revocation. You can revoke your consent, for example, at our premises, by post to VON ZANTHIER & DACHOWSKI Kancelaria Prawnicza sp. k. with its registered office in Poznań, (ul. Garbary 56, 61-758 Poznań, telephone: +48 61 858 25 50 , Mail: poznan@vonzanthier.pl explain. You have the right to access (Art. 15 GDPR) and rectification (Art. 16 GDPR) or erasure (Art. 17 GDPR) or restriction of processing (Art. 18 GDPR) and also the right to data portability (Art. 20 GDPR). You have the right to lodge a complaint with a data protection supervisory authority. You may have a choice between several data protection supervisory authorities. As a rule, you can contact the supervisory authority of your usual place of residence or workplace or our law firm's registered office. The provision of personal data by you is neither required by law nor contractually required, nor is it necessary for the conclusion of a contract. You and the data subject are not obliged to provide the data. If you do not provide the data, the possible consequence is that no cards can be displayed to you. There is no automated decision-making or profiling in accordance with Article 22 of the GDPR. Further information can be found in the OpenStreetMap Foundation's privacy policy: https://wiki.osmfoundation.org/wiki/Privacy_Policy

5. Web analysis by Matomo

Our website uses the analysis service Matomo (formerly Piwik). Matomo is an open source software for statistical analysis of visitor access. By using Matomo, it is possible for us to learn how the website is used. This enables us to continuously improve the quality of our website and its content.

Matomo uses cookies. These text files are stored on your computer and make it possible for us to analyze the use of our website. For this purpose, the information about usage obtained by the cookie is transmitted to our servers and stored so that usage behavior can be evaluated. Information on cookies can be found above under "Cookies". Information on the processing of personal data on the occasion of calling up our website can be found above under "Information on the occasion of calling up the website".

The following data is collected when individual pages of our website are called up:

• 2 bytes of the IP address of the user's calling system.
• The called website
• The website from which the user accessed the accessed website (referrer)
• The subpages that are accessed from the accessed website
• The time spent on the website
• The frequency with which the website is accessed
• It is not possible to draw conclusions about a specific person when using Matomo, as your IP address is anonymized.

The legal basis for the processing of this data is your consent according to Art. 6 para. 1 lit. a DSGVO.

Your consent is completely voluntary. You can revoke your consent at any time without giving reasons. The revocation of consent does not affect the lawfulness of the processing carried out on the basis of the consent until the revocation. You can declare a revocation e.g. at our premises, by letter VON ZANTHIER & DACHOWSKI, Lietzenburger Straße 54, 0719 Berlin or by e-mail to berlin@vonzanthier.com or fax to the fax number +49 30 88 03 59 99.

If you do not agree to the storage and use of your data, you can deactivate the storage and use here. In this case, an opt-out cookie will be stored in your browser, which prevents Matomo from storing usage data. If you delete your cookies, this will have the effect that the Matomo opt-out cookie will also be deleted. The opt-out must be reactivated when you visit our site again.

Further information about Matomo can be found here: https://matomo.org/faq/general/faq_146/

We further inform you as follows:

The person responsible under data protection law is VON ZANTHIER & DACHOWSKI (see above).

Duration of storage: The data will be deleted immediately as soon as the general statistics, from which your data can no longer be taken in detail, have been compiled. If you request deletion beforehand, the data will be deleted immediately, unless there is another legal basis for the processing.

There is a right to information (Art. 15 DSGVO) as well as to correction (Art. 16 DSGVO) or deletion (Art. 17 DSGVO) or restriction of processing (Art. 18 DSGVO) and furthermore a right to data portability (Art. 20 DSGVO) as well as a right to object to processing (Art. 21 DSGVO). The data subject has the right to object at any time, on grounds relating to his or her particular situation, to the processing of personal data concerning him or her which are processed by us on the basis of legitimate interests (Art. 6(1)(f) DSGVO) ; this also applies to profiling based on these provisions.

You have the right to lodge a complaint with a data protection supervisory authority. You may have the choice between several data protection supervisory authorities. As a rule, you can contact the supervisory authority at your usual place of residence or workplace or at the registered office of our law firm.

The provision of personal data by you is neither legally nor contractually required or necessary for the conclusion of a contract. You and the data subject are not obliged to provide the data. Possible consequence if you do not provide the data is that your data will not be included in the general statistics and cannot be taken into account in the evaluation and thus the improvement of our website.

There is no automated decision-making and profiling according to Art. 22 DSGVO.

Web analysis by Google Analytics

We use the web analysis tool Google Analytics 4 to analyse user behaviour and the reach of our website. This sets various cookies, such as "_ga", "_gid" and "_gat". When using Google Analytics 4, the following data, among other things, is collected and stored: the shortened IP address (anonymised), the website visited, the referrer website (the website from which you accessed our site), the subpages you visited, the length of time you spent on our website and the frequency with which you visited our website. Technical information such as browser type, operating system, screen resolution and location (based on anonymised data only) may also be collected.

This data is processed solely for the purpose of evaluating the use of our website and compiling reports on website activity. The storage period for the cookie "_ga" is 14 months, for "_gid" 24 hours and for "_gat" 1 minute.

Our website uses Google Analytics 4, a web analytics service provided by Google Ireland Limited, Gordon House, Barrow Street, Dublin 4, Ireland ("Google"). Google Analytics 4 uses cookies that enable an analysis of your use of the website. The information generated by the cookie about your use of this website is usually transferred to a Google server and stored there.

It cannot be ruled out that data from Google may also be transferred to servers in the United States. Google is certified under the EU-U.S. Data Privacy Framework.

The data we send and link to cookies is automatically deleted after 14 months.

The legal basis for the processing of this data is your consent in accordance with Art. 6(1)(a) GDPR.

Your consent is entirely voluntary. You may revoke your consent at any time without providing reasons. Revoking your consent does not affect the legality of the processing carried out on the basis of your consent prior to revocation. You can revoke your consent, for example, at our premises, by post to VON ZANTHIER & DACHOWSKI, Kancelaria Prawnicza sp. k. with its registered office in Poznań, (ul. Garbary 56, 61-758 Poznań, telephone: +48 61 858 25 50 , Mail: poznan@vonzanthier.pl.

If you do not agree to the storage and use of your data, you can deactivate the storage and use here. In this case, an opt-out cookie will be stored in your browser, which prevents Google Analytics from storing usage data. If you delete your cookies, this will also delete the Google Analytics opt-out cookie. The opt-out must be reactivated when you visit our site again.

Further information about Google Analytics can also be found here: https://policies.google.com/privacy

Duration of storage: The data will be deleted immediately as soon as the general statistics, from which your individual data can no longer be derived, have been compiled. If you request deletion beforehand, the data will be deleted immediately, provided that there is no other legal basis for processing.

You have the right to access (Art. 15 GDPR) and rectification (Art. 16 GDPR) or erasure (Art. 17 GDPR) or restriction of processing (Art. 18 GDPR) and also the right to data portability (Art. 20 GDPR).

You have the right to lodge a complaint with a data protection supervisory authority. You may have a choice between several data protection supervisory authorities. As a rule, you can contact the supervisory authority of your usual place of residence or workplace or our law firm's registered office.

The provision of personal data by you is neither required by law nor contractually required, nor is it necessary for the conclusion of a contract. You and the data subject are not obliged to provide the data. If you do not provide the data, the possible consequence is that your data will not be included in the general statistics and cannot be taken into account in the evaluation and thus the improvement of our website.

There is no automated decision-making or profiling in accordance with Article 22 of the GDPR.

Further information can be found in Google's privacy policy: https://policies.google.com/privacy

7. Links to social media platforms

Our website contains simple links to social media platforms. Simply visiting our website does not result in any data being transmitted to the operators of these platforms. Only when you click on such a link is a connection established to the respective platform, which then receives, among other things, your IP address and information about which page you came from (referrer). If you are logged in there, the platform can assign the visit to your user account. The processing of data on the platforms' websites is governed exclusively by their privacy policies. The legal basis for providing the links on our website is our legitimate interest in public relations and communication (Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR).

7. Current status and amendments to this privacy policy

This privacy policy is currently valid and was last updated in October 2025.

Due to the further development of our website and offers on it, or due to changes in legal or regulatory requirements, it may be necessary to amend this privacy policy. The current privacy policy can be viewed at any time on the website at https://vonzanthier.com/en/privacy-policy be accessed and printed out by you.

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