Privacy and General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)

ebl EEIG is a privacy conscious global organisation and is strongly committed to your right to privacy. We respect your privacy and we process personal data only in strict compliance with the General Data Protection Regulation (EU) 2016/679 (GDPR), in especially Art. 6 sec. 1 sent. 1 lit. f GDPR and any national implementing law, regulations and secondary legislation, as amended or updated from time to time in the EU and in Germany and any successor legislation to the GDPR or the Data Protection Act 1998 (Data Protection Legislation). The privacy statement set out below is in accordance with the international data protection legislation. 

ebl EEIG only collects identifiable information that is specifically and voluntarily provided by a visitor to our site. A visitor to our site may choose to provide this information to register for certain areas of the site, apply for a job, or order a publication. When a visitor provides this type of identifiable information to us, we use it solely for the purposes for which it was provided. Our policy is not to share personally identifiable information with third parties, unless required by law, or unless explicitly requested by a visitor. We recognise that your information is valuable and we take all reasonable measures to protect your information while it is in our care. We use small text files called cookies to improve the overall site experience, however, these are not used to track individual visitors to our site. The use of cookies is now standard operating procedure for most websites, however if you are uncomfortable with the use of cookies, most browsers now permit users to opt-out of receiving them. With this policy we clearly state our commitment to creating a safe and enjoyable online experience for visitors to our site. 

Third-party links 

Our website may include links to third-party web-sites. Clicking on those links or enabling those connections may allow third parties to collect or share data about you. We do not control these third-party websites and are not responsible for their privacy statements. When you leave our website, we encourage you to read the privacy notice of every website you visit. 

LinkedIn PlugIn 

Our website uses a function of the social media network LinkedIn, LinkedIn Corporation, 2029 Stierlin Court, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA. 

In case you use a function of LinkIn on our website, you will be connected with LinkedIn and LinkedIn will be informed about your IP-address and your visit of our website. 

If you are logged in your account at LinkedIn and use the “Recommend Button” for LinkedIn on our website, LinkedIn can connect your visit of our website with your account on LinkedIn. We do not control the submission of data to LinkedIn, we know nothing about the data submitted to LinkedIn and we know nothing about the use of the data by LinkedIn. 

For more information about the privacy-policy of LinkedIn, see: https://www.linkedin.com/legal/privacy-policy. 

Data security 

We have put in place appropriate security measures to prevent your personal data from being accidentally lost, used or accessed in an unauthorised way, altered or disclosed. In addition, we limit access to your personal data to those employees, agents, contractors and other third parties who have a business need to know. They will only process your personal data on our instructions and they are subject to a duty of confidentiality. 

We have put in place procedures to deal with any suspected personal data breach and will notify you and any applicable regulator of a breach where we are legally required to do so. 

Administrative matters 

All employees are trained in the implementation of this Privacy Notice. We will take appropriate disciplinary action against any employee who violates this policy. 

Complaints and data enquiries 

Please send an email to the ebl EEIG manager Dr. Jill Baas-Holler (baas-holler@eschkramer.de) or telephone +49 (0) 211 602240-0 if you wish to: 

request access to the personal data that we hold on you; 
request correction of the personal data that we hold about you (we may need to verify the accuracy of the new data your provide to us); 
request erasure of your personal data; 
object to the processing of your personal data; 
request restriction of the processing of your personal data; 
request the transfer of your personal data to you or to a third party; 
withdraw your consent, where we are relying on consent to process your personal data; 
contact someone with any questions or comments or complaints about this policy and/or personal data that are collected and/or used by us; 
let us know that you no longer wish to receive marketing materials from us; or 
make a complaint about any breach of this Privacy Notice. 

Data Subject Access Request 

Within one month of receiving your request and subject to having received satisfactory confirmation of your identity we will send you a copy of all the personal data that we are holding on you, unless your request is particularly complex, in which case we may ask you to clarify the scope of your request and our response may be delayed for up to two months. 

You will not have to pay a fee to access your personal data (or to exercise any of the other rights). However, we may charge a reasonable fee if your request is clearly unfounded, repetitive or excessive. Alternatively, we may refuse to comply with your request in these circumstances. 

Complaints 

When we receive your complaint, we will review it and ensure that we are in compliance with our Privacy Notice and all applicable law. We will contact you within 40 days of receiving your complaint to inform you of the result of our investigation and any proposals that we may wish to make. 

Right to object to the processing 

You have the right to object, on grounds relating to your particular situation, at any time to processing your personal data. 

Alternative contact information 

To comment on the content of this Privacy Notice please send an email to: 

j.baas-holler@ebl-eschkramer.com 

If you prefer, you may also contact us by writing: 

ebl EEIG 
Speditionstrasse 17 
40221 Düsseldorf 
Germany 

This Privacy notice was last updated in November 2024. 

 General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) 

Our legitimate interest to work with data is based on the reasons listed below. We cannot and will not use data in order to identify persons or draw any conclusions about individuals. 

Controller 

ebl EEIG is a data controller for the purpose of the Data Protection Legislation and is responsible for your personal data.  

Our Data Protection Officer (DPO) is responsible for overseeing questions in relation to this privacy notice. Please contact our DPO for any questions and concerns about this privacy notice using the details set out at the end of this privacy notice.    

How we obtain your personal information 

We do not collect information from you. We do not render legal advice. We therefore do not work with clients, nor do we contact or interact with persons directly. This work is performed by the ebl EEIG partner firms. For more information please visit the ebl partner firms websites or contact them directly. 

Information collected and stored automatically (in website log files) 

We may use certain technologies to record information about your visit to our web pages automatically. The information we gather does not identify you personally. We may automatically collect and store – until the moment when data are automatically deleted – only the following types of information about your visit: 

the internet domain (such as “domain.com” or “isp.com”) and IP address (an IP address being a number, “xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx”, which is automatically given to your computer when you serve the web) from which you access this website; 
the type of browser software and operating system used to access our site; 
the date and time you access our site; 
the pages you enter, visit and exit our site from; and 
if you link to the www.ebl-law.com domain from another website, the address of that website. 

We use this information to improve our website, to learn about the number of visitors to our website, the types of technology that visitors use, and to help us identify patterns of use. We only use the information to ensure that our web pages stay compatible with a variety of systems and browsers, to ensure that our pages appeal to as wide an audience as possible, to ensure systems security and for administrative reasons. We do not track or record information about individuals and their visits.