Privacy
Policy The protection of your personal data is of particular importance to us. We therefore process your data exclusively in accordance with legal requirements (GDPR, BDSG). In this privacy policy, we inform you about the most important aspects of data processing in connection with our website.

General Data Collection Upon Access
Each time a data subject or an automated system accesses the website, we collect a range of general data and information. This general data and information is stored in the server’s log files. The following data is collected:

an Internet Protocol (IP) address,
the date and time of access to the website,
the specific subpage accessed on our website,
the website from which you accessed our website (known as the referrer),
the browser used and its version,
and the operating system used to access the site.
We process the aforementioned data for the following purposes:

to ensure a smooth connection to the website,
to optimize the content of our website for you,
and to ensure system security and stability.
These purposes are in your and our legitimate interest. In addition, we may also use this data to comply with our legal obligations in cooperation with law enforcement authorities. Under no circumstances do we use the collected data for the purpose of drawing conclusions about your identity. The legal basis for data processing is Article 6(1)(f) of the GDPR. These log files are stored for 2 months.

Google Maps
This site uses the Google Maps mapping service via an API. The provider is Google Ireland Limited, Gordon House, Barrow Street, Dublin 4, Ireland. To use the features of Google Maps, it is necessary to store your IP address. This information is generally transmitted to a Google server in the United States and stored there. The provider of this website has no influence over this data transmission. The use of Google Maps is in the interest of presenting our online offerings in an appealing manner and making it easy to locate the places we specify on the website. This constitutes a legitimate interest within the meaning of Article 6(1)(f) of the GDPR.

For more information on how user data is handled, please see Google’s Privacy Policy: policies.google.com/privacy?hl=de.

Contact Form, Online Applications
If you contact us via the form on the website or by email, or if you submit an application, we will store the data you provide as well as the general data described above. By using our form, you consent to the processing of your data. We do not share the data with third parties and use it exclusively to process your inquiry and respond to your request. If you contact us via email, the processing of your inquiry also constitutes the necessary legitimate interest in processing the data. The legal basis for processing the data is Article 6(1)(a) of the GDPR, provided the user has given consent. The legal basis for processing the data transmitted when sending an email is Article 6(1)(f) of the GDPR. The data provided to us when you contact us will be deleted as soon as it is no longer needed to achieve the aforementioned purpose. With regard to the personal data from the contact form and the data sent via email, this is the case as soon as the respective conversation is concluded. This, in turn, is the case as soon as the matter has been conclusively resolved under the circumstances. If the purpose of contacting us is also to conclude a contract, the additional legal basis is Article 6(1)(b) of the GDPR. In this case, we retain your inquiry as a business letter for 7 years.

Startup Check
If you use our Startup Check, we collect your name, email address, phone number, and mailing address in order to send you your personalized assessment and to offer you pre-contractual advice regarding your startup. The legal basis for this is therefore Article 6(1)(b) of the GDPR. We retain this data for 7 years as a business letter. We do not share this data without your consent.

Newsletter
You have the option to subscribe to our newsletter via our website. To do so, we require your email address as mandatory information, as well as your consent to receive the newsletter.

If you do not provide the required information, you will not receive our newsletter. This does not apply to the non-provision of voluntary information, which simply means that you will not be addressed personally in the respective newsletter.

We use the so-called double opt-in procedure for subscribing to our newsletter. This means that as soon as you have subscribed to the newsletter, we will send you a confirmation email with a link to confirm your subscription. If you do not confirm your subscription within 24 hours, your data will be automatically deleted. The purpose of this procedure is to verify your subscription to the newsletter and, if necessary, to investigate any potential misuse of your personal data. After your confirmation, we store your email address, IP address, date and time of registration, and all voluntarily provided information for the purpose of sending you the newsletter. The legal basis is Article 6(1)(a) of the GDPR.

You may withdraw your consent to receive the newsletter at any time and unsubscribe from the newsletter without affecting the lawfulness of the processing carried out on the basis of your consent prior to withdrawal. You can revoke your consent by clicking the link provided in every newsletter email or by sending a message to the contact information listed in the legal notice. We will retain your data for as long as your subscription is active. We will not share this data without your consent.

Your Rights
: You generally have the rights to access, rectification, or erasure of your data; restriction of processing; data portability; withdrawal of consent; and objection to processing. If you believe that the processing of your data violates data protection law or that your data protection rights have otherwise been infringed, you may file a complaint with the supervisory authority. A list of the competent supervisory authorities by federal state can be found at www.datenschutz-wiki.de.

Further information about your rights can be found, among other places, on the website of the BFDI—the Federal Commissioner for Data Protection and Freedom of Information.

Contact
Please direct all inquiries, statements, and questions regarding data use to datenschutz@stb-lp.de.
Cookies
To enhance your experience on our website, we use small text files known as “cookies” and other methods ("storage methods") to store data on your device (e.g., in your browser’s local storage) in order to track user preferences and optimize our website accordingly. However, we do not use cookies or other storage methods to track individual visits to our website. Cookies and other storage methods are routinely used by most websites today. If you still have concerns in this regard, you can configure your browser to reject both cookies and other storage methods.
Use of Social Media

General Information
Purpose of Data Processing: We use social media primarily to communicate with existing and new customers and to make information about our company available to a broad audience. For this purpose, we process, in particular, contact and communication data, as well as data necessary to measure the reach of the information we provide. In addition, the operator of the respective social media platform processes personal data for tracking (e.g., creating user profiles based on usage behavior or interests), remarketing (e.g., targeted advertisements from partners), and to provide us with statistical analyses of the use of our service.
Data subjects: In general, all profile visitors—that is, individuals who access our social media profiles.

Scope of data processing: For the purposes mentioned, we or third-party providers commissioned by us process personal data to identify the profile visitor (e.g., name, address), data necessary to contact the profile visitor (e.g., email address, phone number), data on usage behavior (e.g., time spent on the site, websites visited, content searched for, services used), technical data (e.g., IP addresses, devices and programs used to access the website), content posted by the profile visitor (e.g., text, photos, videos), and, with the appropriate consent, data regarding the profile visitor’s physical location.
This personal data of the profile visitor is consolidated into a user profile and stored on the profile visitor’s device as a file (“cookie”). Occasionally, other websites may also access these user profiles to use and supplement the data contained therein for the targeted selection of advertising content. Third-party providers that offer social media and other data-processing tools for marketing purposes may also store the data contained in the user profiles on their servers.

Legal basis for data processing: We process personal data based on our legitimate interest in communication and direct marketing within the meaning of Article 6(1)(f) of the GDPR.

Data Processing Outside the European Union: Social media operators sometimes process data outside the European Union.

Data Subject Rights: We ask our profile visitors to exercise their rights of access and other data subject rights (e.g., erasure) directly with the social media operators whenever possible, as only the operators have unrestricted access to the processed data. We are, of course, happy to forward any data protection-related inquiries (e.g., requests for access, rectification, or erasure) directed to us to the operator of the respective social media platform.
Further information on exercising your data subject rights, particularly regarding the existing options to object to data processing, can be found in the privacy policy of the operator of the respective social media platform.
Use of Cookies: User profiles are stored as a file (“cookie”) on the profile visitor’s device. The storage of this file requires the consent of the profile visitor, which may be revoked at any time.

Data Controller
The entity responsible for processing your personal data on our website is:

Lehniger & Pöschick Tax Consulting Firm
Große Seestraße 117
13086 Berlin Weißensee
Germany
Phone: 030 96 06 64 - 84
Email:

Google GTag
Remarketing
When you visit this website, personal data is processed. The categories of data processed include: data regarding website usage and the logging of clicks on individual elements. Purpose of processing: To examine user behavior, analyze the effectiveness of online marketing measures, and select online advertisements on other platforms, which are automatically selected via real-time bidding based on user behavior. The legal basis for processing: Your consent pursuant to Art. 6(1)(a) of the GDPR. Data is transferred to: the independent data controller Google Ireland Limited, Gordon House, Barrow Street, Dublin 4, Ireland. The legal basis for the data transfer to Google Ireland Limited is your consent pursuant to Article 6(1)(a) of the GDPR. This may also involve the transfer of personal data to a country outside the European Union. The transfer of data to the United States is based on Article 45 of the GDPR in conjunction with the European Commission’s Adequacy Decision C(2023) 4745 of the European Commission, as the data recipient has committed to complying with the data processing principles of the Data Privacy Framework (DPF). Google Ireland Limited’s Privacy Policy: https://business.safety.google/privacy/.

Right to Object
If the processing of your personal data is based on a legitimate interest, you have the right to object to such processing. Unless we have compelling legitimate grounds for the processing, the processing of your data on this legal basis will be discontinued. You also have the right to object to the processing of your personal data for the purpose of direct marketing. If you object, your personal data will no longer be processed for the purpose of direct marketing. The lawfulness of the data processed up until the time of your objection remains unaffected by the objection.

Right
to Withdraw Consent: You have the right to withdraw any consent you have previously given at any time by changing your privacy settings. If you have consented to receiving electronic marketing, you may withdraw your consent by clicking the unsubscribe link. In this case, processing will be discontinued unless another legal basis exists. The lawfulness of the data processed up to the time of withdrawal remains unaffected by the withdrawal.

Other Data Subject Rights
You also have the right to access, rectify, erase, and restrict the processing of your personal data. To the extent that the legal basis for the processing of your personal data is your consent or a contract concluded with you, you also have the right to data portability. Furthermore, you have the right to lodge a complaint with the supervisory authority. You can find more information about the supervisory authorities in the European Union here.

Marketing Activities
General Information
Purpose of Data Processing: Our website uses tools that enable the processing of personal data, in particular to tailor the display of advertising content to the hypothetical interests of website visitors—as derived from their individual usage behavior—and to measure the reach of our advertising content.

Scope of data processing: For the purposes mentioned above, we and third-party providers commissioned by us process personal data regarding the website visitor’s usage behavior (e.g., time spent on the site, websites visited, content searched for, services used), technical data (e.g., anonymized IP addresses, devices and programs used to access the website), and, with the appropriate consent, data regarding the website visitor’s physical location.

This personal data about the website visitor is consolidated into a user profile and stored as a file (“cookie”) on the website visitor’s device. Occasionally, other websites that use such tools may also access these user profiles to use and supplement the data contained therein for the targeted selection of advertising content. Third-party providers that supply tools for data processing for marketing purposes may also store the data contained in the user profiles on their servers.

Legal basis for data processing: In the course of data processing, we only disclose personal data to third-party providers with the prior consent of the website visitor pursuant to Art. 6(1)(a) of the GDPR. We process personal data that is not transferred to third-party providers based on our legitimate interest in direct marketing within the meaning of Article 6(1)(f) of the GDPR.

Measures to Protect Identity: The IP addresses contained in user profiles are masked without exception by truncation, so that the stored IP address does not allow the identity of the website visitor to be determined. Furthermore, we generally do not process any personal data that would allow the website visitor to be identified (e.g., the website visitor’s name or address) for advertising purposes as described above.

However, data that could be used to identify the website visitor may, under certain circumstances, be combined with user profiles if the website visitor also uses other services provided by a third-party provider that offers tools for data processing for marketing purposes (e.g., social media profiles). The merging of data is carried out exclusively by the third-party provider and is based on any existing agreements between the website visitor and the third-party provider. Data merged in this manner is not made available to us in a way that would allow us to identify the website visitor.

In general, third-party providers only provide us with aggregated data, which we use to measure the reach of our advertising content and the effectiveness of our advertising campaigns. In particular, we use this data to determine which advertising content and campaigns led to the visit to our website (“conversion tracking”).

Use of Cookies: User profiles are stored as a file (“cookie”) on the website visitor’s device. Storing this file requires the website visitor’s consent, which may be revoked at any time.

Tools
Used: Disclosure Requirement Pursuant to Section 36 of the VSBG
We are neither obligated nor willing to participate in dispute resolution proceedings before a consumer arbitration board.
Rating Seal
We have integrated the werkenntdenBESTEN rating seal (“Rating Seal”) on our website, which is displayed to you and allows you to view collected customer reviews of our services. The rating seal and the services advertised through it are provided by 11880 Internet Services AG, Hohenzollernstr. 24, 45128 Essen. For more information on data protection, please visit https://www.werkenntdenbesten.de/datenschutz. To integrate the review badge and retrieve customer reviews, it is technically necessary to process your IP address so that the content can be sent to your browser. Your IP address is therefore transmitted to 11880 Internet Services AG. 11880 Internet Services AG does not use tracking cookies or similar technologies within the plugin. Your IP address is automatically deleted by 11880 Internet Services AG no later than 24 hours after it is collected. This data processing is carried out to safeguard our legitimate interest in optimizing and ensuring the efficient operation of our website and is technically necessary for the integration of the review seal. The legal basis is Article 6(1)(f) of the GDPR.