Effective Date __/___/2018
PKorn Law respects your privacy.
This statement demonstrates that PKorn Law is firmly committed to your privacy. This Privacy Policy describes the information we collect about you and what will happen to that information. Questions regarding this statement should be directed to PKorn Law, at Pkorn@germanamericanlawyer.com. This privacy policy explains our online information practices and applies to your use of www.germanamericanlawyer.com and other services offered through the domain germanamericanlawyer.com and pkornlaw.com. This Privacy Policy does not apply to information provided to us pursuant to our attorney-client relationships or protected by confidentiality, the attorney-client privilege or any other applicable legal protection.
Information About You
You can visit our website without telling us who you are or sharing any personally identifiable information. We only collect personal data of you if you fill out our contact form or sign up to our newsletter.
When you make contact with PKorn Law through this website, we request that you provide your first and last name, and your email address. In addition, you can provide us information about the reason why you are contacting us. Transmission of sensitive, confidential or privileged information through the contact form should be avoided.
The information that you provide is held in the strictest confidence. The information that you provide will be reviewed by PKorn Law for purposes of responding to your inquiry. Under no circumstances will PKorn Law disclose information provided by you to any individual, advertiser, vendor, or any other entity without your express, prior written consent. If you send correspondence to PKorn Law, such as emails or letters, we may collect such information into a file specific to you. We may use information in the file we maintain about you, and other information we obtain from your current and past use of the website to assess problems or complaints.
The personal data is deleted when it is no longer necessary, or the deletion does not conflict with statutory retention requirements.
Cookies
We use cookies and similar tracking technologies to track the activity on our Service and hold certain information. Cookies are files with small amount of data which may include an anonymous unique identifier. Cookies are sent to your browser from a website and stored on your device. Tracking technologies also used are beacons, tags, and scripts to collect and track information and to improve and analyze our Service. You can instruct your browser to refuse all cookies or to indicate when a cookie is being sent. However, if you do not accept cookies, you may not be able to use some portions of our Service.
Tracking of Usage Data
We may also collect information how the service is accessed and used (“Usage Data”). This anonymous usage data (“Non-Personally Identifiable Information”) tells us about your activity at our Website. This Usage Data may include information such as your browser type, browser version, the pages of our service that you visit, the time and date of your visit, the time spent on those pages, unique device identifiers and other diagnostic data.
PKorn Law uses the collected data for various purposes:
- To provide and maintain the service
- To notify you about changes to our service
- To allow you to participate in interactive features of our service when you choose to do so
- To provide customer care and support
- To provide analysis or valuable information so that we can improve the service
- To monitor the usage of the service
- To detect, prevent and address technical issues
Newsletter
On our website you have the possibility to subscribe to a free newsletter. When registering for the newsletter, you have to provide your email address. In addition, the date and time of registration is collected upon registration. For the processing of the data, as part of the registration process, you have to give your consent. The Privacy Policy will be referenced. The newsletter is sent based on information about our activities. Your data will not be transferred to third parties. The data will be used exclusively for the shipment of the newsletters. The collection of the user’s email address serves to deliver the newsletter. The collection of other personal data during the registration process serves to prevent misuse of the services or the email address used.
The data is deleted when it is no longer necessary, or the deletion does not conflict with statutory retention requirements. The user’s email address will be saved as long as how the subscription to the newsletter is active. The subscription to the newsletter may be terminated by the user at any time. For this purpose, there is a corresponding link in each newsletter. This will also be a revocation of the consent of storage personal data collected during the registration process.
Links to Other Sites
Our Service may contain links to other sites that are not operated by us. If you click on a third party link, you will be directed to that third party’s site. We strongly advise you to review the Privacy Policy of every site you visit. We have no control over and assume no responsibility for the content, privacy policies or practices of any third party sites or services.
Children’s Privacy
We are committed to complying with the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA http://www.ftc.gov. ). Our Service does not address anyone under the age of 18 (“Children”). We do not knowingly collect personally identifiable information from anyone under the age of 18. If you are a parent or guardian and you are aware that your Children have provided us with personal data, please contact us. If we become aware that we have collected personal data from children without verification of parental consent, we take steps to remove that information from our servers.
California Privacy Rights
Pursuant to California Civil Code Section 1798.83, California residents may request certain information regarding our disclosures in the prior calendar year, if any, of their Personally Identifiable Information to third parties for their own direct marketing purposes. To make such a request, please email us with “California Privacy Rights Request” in the subject line to pkorn@germanamericanlawyer.com.
Disclosure Of Data
PKorn Law may disclose your Personal Data in the good faith belief that such action is necessary to:
- To comply with a legal obligation
- To protect and defend the rights or property of PKorn Law
- To prevent or investigate possible wrongdoing in connection with the Service
- To protect the personal safety of users of the Service or the public
- To protect against legal liability
Security of Data
The security of your data is important to us but remember that no method of transmission over the Internet, or method of electronic storage is 100% secure. While we strive to use commercially acceptable means to protect your Personal Data, we cannot guarantee its absolute security.
Service Providers
We may employ third party companies and individuals to facilitate our Service (“Service Providers”), to provide the Service on our behalf, to perform Service-related services or to assist us in analyzing how our Service is used. These third parties have access to your Personal Data only to perform these tasks on our behalf and are obligated not to disclose or use it for any other purpose.
Changes To This Privacy Policy
Your use of our Website constitutes your acceptance of the terms of the Privacy Policy as amended or revised by us, and you should review this Privacy Policy each time upon visiting the website to stay informed of its terms. We may update our Privacy Policy from time to time, so you are advised to review this Privacy Policy periodically for any changes. We will notify you of any changes by posting the new Privacy Policy on this page. You can determine if this Privacy Policy has been revised since your last visit by referring to the “Effective Date” at the top of this page.
Transfer Of Data
Our Website is based on computers located in the United States. Your Personally Identifiable Information will be used and stored in the United States, where data protection and privacy regulations may differ from the level of protection as in other parts of the world, such as in Mexico, Canada and the European Union.
If you are located outside United States and choose to provide information to us, please note that we transfer the data, including Personal Data, to United States and process it there. Your consent to this Privacy Policy followed by your submission of such information represents your agreement to that transfer.
PKorn Law will take all steps reasonably necessary to ensure that your data is treated securely and in accordance with this Privacy Policy and no transfer of your Personal Data will take place to an organization or a country unless there are adequate controls in place including the security of your data and other personal information.
Contact Us
If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, please contact us by email: pkorn@germanamericanlawyer.com.
Note to our European Clients:
On May 25th, 2018 the General Data Protection Regulations, or GDPR came into effect. Residents of any of the European Countries who provide us over this website with any personal data that directly or indirectly makes you identifiable in our records as a natural person, including but not limited to, your name and email address, please note the following:
- Responsible for Data Processing
Petra Korn, PKorn Law, 11620 Wilshire Blvd. 9th Floor, Los Angeles, CA 90025
This privacy policy applies to data processing
by: Responsible person: Petra Korn, PKorn Law, 11620 Wilshire Blvd. 9th Floor, Los Angeles, CA 90025
Email: pkorn@germanamericanlawyer.com
Phone: +1 310 361 8582
- Collection and storage of personal data as well as nature and purpose and their use
If you, visit our website, we collect the following information:
- First name, Name,
- Email-address,
- Information about the reason why you are contacting us. The collection of these data takes place
- To identify you;
- For correspondence with you.
The data processing is based on your request and our legitimate interest and is in accordance with Art. 6 para. 1 sentence 1 lit. b, f DSGVO for the stated purposes for the adequate processing of your request.
The personal data is deleted when it is no longer necessary, or the deletion does not conflict with statutory retention requirements.
- Collection and storage of personal data and the nature and purpose of their use
We may collect information how the Service is accessed and used (“Usage Data”). This anonymous usage data (“Non-Personally Identifiable Information”) tells us about your activity at our Website. This Usage Data may include information such as your browser type, browser version, the pages of our Service that you visit, the time and date of your visit, the time spent on those pages, unique device identifiers and other diagnostic data.
PKorn Law uses the collected data for various purposes:
- To provide and maintain the Service
- To notify you about changes to our Service
- To allow you to participate in interactive features of our Service when you choose to do so
- To provide customer care and support
- To provide analysis or valuable information so that we can improve the Service
- To monitor the usage of the Service
- To detect, prevent and address technical issues
- Email Contact
When you make contact with PKorn Law through this website, we request that you provide your first and last name, and email address. In addition, you can provide us information about the reason why you are contacting us.
Transmission of sensitive, confidential or privileged information through the contact form should be avoided.
The data processing for the purpose of contacting us is in accordance with Art. 6 para. 1 sentence 1 lit. a DSGVO based on your voluntarily granted consent.
This information that you provide is held in the strictest confidence. The information that you provide will be reviewed by PKorn Law for purposes of responding to your inquiry. Under no circumstances will PKorn Law disclose information provided by you to any individual, advertiser, vendor, or any other entity without your express, prior written consent. If you send correspondence to PKorn Law, such as emails or letters, we may collect such information into a file specific to you. We may use information in the file we maintain about you, and other information we obtain from your current and past use of the website to assess problems or complaints.
- Newsletter
On our website you have the possibility to subscribe to a free newsletter. When registering for the newsletter, you have to provide your email address. In addition, the date and time of registration is collected upon registration. For the processing of the data, as part of the registration process, you have to give your consent. The Privacy Policy will be referenced. The newsletter is sent based on information about our activities. Your data will not be transferred to third parties. The data will be used exclusively for the shipment of the Newsletters. The newsletter is sent on the basis of the user’s registration on the website, legal basis for the processing of the data after registration for the newsletter by the user is in the presence of the consent of the user Art. 6 para. 1 lit. a DSGVO.
The collection of the user’s email address serves to deliver the newsletter. The collection of other personal data during the registration process serves to prevent misuse of the services or the email address used. The data is deleted when it is no longer necessary, or the deletion does not conflict with statutory retention requirements. The user’s email address will be saved as long as how the subscription to the newsletter is active.
The subscription to the newsletter may be terminated by the user at any time. For this purpose, there is a corresponding link in each newsletter. This will also be a revocation of the consent of stored personal data collected during the registration process.
- Disclosure of data to third parties
A transfer of your personal data to third parties for purposes other than those listed below does not take place.
We only share your personal information with third parties if:·
- You have given express consent according to Art. 6 (1) sentence 1 lit. a DSGVO
- the disclosure is required according to Art. 6 (1) sentence 1 lit. f DSGVO to assert, exercise or defend legal claims and there is no reason to assume that you have a predominantly legitimate interest in not disclosing your data,
- in the event that disclosure according to Art. 6 (1) sentence 1 lit. c DSGVO is a legal obligation, and
- this is legally permissible and, according to Art. 6 (1) sentence 1 lit. b DSGVO is required for the settlement of contractual relationships with you.
- Rights of the individuals affected
You have the right to:
- in accordance with Art. 7 para. 3 DSGVO you can revoke your once granted consent against us at any time. As a result, we are not allowed to continue the data processing based on this consent for the future;
- in accordance with Art. 15 DSGVO, you can request information about your personal data processed by us. In particular, you can request information about the processing purposes, the category of personal data, the categories of recipients to whom your data was or will be disclosed, the planned retention period, the right of rectification, deletion, limitation of processing or opposition, the existence of a right of appeal, the source of your data, if any were not collected from us, as well as the existence of automated decision-making including profiling and, if applicable, meaningful information on their individual details;·
- in accordance with Art. 16 DSGVO, immediately demand the correction of incorrect or complete personal data stored with us;·
- in accordance with Art. 17 DSGVO, to demand the deletion of your personal data stored by us, except where the processing is required for the exercise of the right to freedom of expression and information, for the fulfillment of a legal obligation, for reasons of public interest or for the assertion, exercise or defense of legal claims;
- in accordance with Art. 18 GDPR to demand the restriction of the processing of your personal data, as far as the accuracy of the data is disputed by you, the processing is unlawful, but you reject their deletion and we no longer need the data, but you need this to assert, exercise or defense legal claims or you have objected to the processing in accordance with Art. 21 GDPR;
- in accordance with Art. 20 DSGVO to receive your personal data that you have provided to us in a structured, standard and machine-readable format or to request the transfer to another person responsible and
- pursuant to Art. 77 GDPR to complain to a supervisory authority. As a rule, you can contact the supervisory authority of your usual place of residence or work, residence or contact our office.
- Right to object
If your personal data are processed based on legitimate interests in accordance with Art. 6 para. 1 sentence 1 lit. f DSGVO, you have the right to file an objection against the processing of your personal data in accordance with Art. 21 DSGVO, provided there are reasons for this arising from your particular situation.
Would you like to exercise your right to object, send an email to pkorn@germanamericanlawyer.com
- Changes To This Privacy Policy
Your use of our Website constitutes your acceptance of the terms of the Privacy Policy as amended or revised by us, and you should review this Privacy Policy each time upon visiting the Website to stay informed of its terms.
We may update our Privacy Policy from time to time. We will notify you of any changes by posting the new Privacy Policy on this page. You can determine if this Privacy Policy has been revised since your last visit by referring to the “Effective Date” at the top of this page. You are advised to review this Privacy Policy periodically for any changes.
- Contact Us
If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, please contact us by email: pkorn@germanamericanlawyer.com