We hereby provide you with information regarding the processing of personal data that occurs when you use the services offered by Walther Bayer Faber Patentanwälte PartGmbB. Personal data refers to any data that can be linked to you personally, such as your name, address, email addresses, telephone number or user behaviour.

We are the data controller pursuant to Article 4(7) of the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR): Walther Bayer Faber Patents Attorneys PartGmbB, Heimradstr. 2,

We process personal data for the purpose of fulfilling the contractual obligations arising from the mandates entrusted to us and in connection with other

contractual relationships (e.g. patent offices, public authorities, suppliers, tax authorities) as well as to provide information about our services and related legal

matters (Article 6(1)(b) of the GDPR) and, following a balancing of interests, for our own marketing purposes, provided you have not objected to the use of your

data for this purpose (Article 6(1)(f) of the GDPR). We expressly draw your attention to your right to object to the aforementioned use.

You have the following legal rights vis-à-vis us with regard to your personal data:

• Right of access,

• Right to rectification or erasure,

• Right to restriction of processing,• Right to object to processing, in particular where processing is based on a balancing of interests

• Right to data portability

• Right to withdraw consent to processing

You also have the right to lodge a complaint with a data protection supervisory authority regarding our processing of your personal data.

Details of these rights can be found in the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and the Federal Data Protection Act (BDSG).

If you do not agree to the data collection and processing described below when accessing this website via the internet, you must leave this website and must not download any further parts of our website onto your computer. Please also do not contact us by email. This is because data collection and storage take place automatically. The data processed is necessary for the purposes described below to safeguard our legitimate interests and, where applicable, those of third parties in accordance with Article 6(1) of the GDPR.

We do not publish personal data without authorisation, nor do we otherwise disclose it to third parties without justification. When you visit our websites, the web servers temporarily store each access in a log file. The following data is collected and stored until it is automatically deleted::

• IP address of the requesting computer

• Date and time of access

• Time zone difference from Greenwich Mean Time (GMT)

• Name and URL of the file accessed

• Amount of data transferred

• Indication of whether the request was successful

• Identification data of the browser and operating system used

• Website from which the access originates

• Content of the request – specific page

• Access status/HTTP status code

• Browser

• Operating system and its interface

• Language and version of the browser software• Pages visited (including entry and exit pages)

The IP address is not linked to any other data collected. In the event of an attack and its defence, only the date, time and IP address are recorded in the system access log file. We only analyse the IP address in the event of attacks on our network infrastructure. No personal, non-anonymised user profiles are created. 

In addition to the data mentioned above, cookies are stored on your computer when you use our website. The cookies store information relating to the specific device used. However, this does not mean that we thereby gain direct knowledge of your identity. Most browsers accept cookies automatically. However, you can configure your browser so that no cookies are stored on your computer or so that a notification always appears before a new cookie is created. However, completely disabling cookies may mean that you cannot use all the features of our website.