Privacy Policy

1) Introduction and contact information for the data controller
 

1.1 We are pleased that you are visiting our website and thank you for your interest. Below, we provide information about how we handle your personal data when you use our website. Personal data refers to any information that can be used to identify you personally.

1.2 The data controller for this website, as defined by the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), is JTR Tax & Advisory GmbH, Fählmannweg 22B, 14089 Berlin, Germany, Tel.: +49 171 993 7927, Email: info@jtr-tax.de. The controller is the natural or legal person who, alone or jointly with others, determines the purposes and means of the processing of personal data.

2) Data collection when visiting our website

2.1 When you use our website for informational purposes only—that is, if you do not register or otherwise provide us with information—we collect only the data that your browser transmits to the website server (so-called “server log files”). When you visit our website, we collect the following data, which is technically necessary for us to display the website to you:

• The website we visited

• Date and time of access

• Amount of data sent in bytes

• Source/link that brought you to this page

• Browser used

• Operating system used

• IP address used (if applicable: in anonymized form)

The processing is carried out in accordance with Article 6(1)(f) of the GDPR on the basis of our legitimate interest in improving the stability and functionality of our website. The data will not be disclosed or used for any other purpose. However, we reserve the right to review the server log files retrospectively if there are specific indications of unlawful use.

2.2 For security reasons and to protect the transmission of personal data and other confidential information (e.g., orders or inquiries to the controller), this website uses SSL or TLS encryption. You can recognize an encrypted connection by the "https://" prefix and the padlock icon in your browser address bar.
 

3) Hosting & Content Delivery Network
 

Wix

We use the following provider’s system to host our website and display its content: Wix HQ, 6350671, 40 Nemal Tel Aviv St, Tel Aviv-Yafo, Israel

Data is also transferred to: Wix Inc., 500 Terry A. Francois Boulevard, San Francisco, California 94158, USA

All data collected on our website is processed on the provider’s servers.
We have entered into a data processing agreement with the provider that ensures the protection of our website visitors’ data and prohibits its unauthorized disclosure to third parties.

When data is transferred to the provider's location, an adequate level of data protection is ensured by an adequacy decision issued by the European Commission.

Für Datenübermittlungen in die USA hat sich der Anbieter dem EU-US-Datenschutzrahmen (EU-US Data Privacy Framework) angeschlossen, das auf Basis eines Angemessenheitsbeschlusses der Europäischen Kommission die Einhaltung des europäischen Datenschutzniveaus sicherstellt.
 

4) Cookies

To make your visit to our website more enjoyable and to enable the use of certain features, we use cookies—small text files that are stored on your device. Some of these cookies are automatically deleted when you close your browser (so-called “session cookies”), while others remain on your device for a longer period and allow page settings to be saved (so-called “persistent cookies”). In the latter case, you can find the storage duration in the overview of your web browser’s cookie settings.

If personal data is processed through individual cookies we use, such processing is carried out in accordance with Article 6(1)(b) of the GDPR for the purpose of performing the contract, pursuant to Art. 6(1)(a) GDPR in the event that consent has been given, or pursuant to Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR to safeguard our legitimate interests in ensuring the best possible functionality of the website as well as a user-friendly and effective design of the site visit.

You can configure your browser to notify you when cookies are set, allowing you to decide on a case-by-case basis whether to accept them, or to block cookies in specific cases or generally.

Please note that if you do not accept cookies, the functionality of our website may be limited.
 

5) Contacting us

When you contact us (e.g., via the contact form or email), we collect personal data. The specific data collected when you use a contact form is indicated on the form itself. This data is stored and used solely for the purpose of responding to your inquiry, establishing contact, and performing the associated technical administration.

The legal basis for the processing of this data is our legitimate interest in responding to your inquiry pursuant to Article 6(1)(f) of the GDPR. If your contact is aimed at concluding a contract, the additional legal basis for processing is Article 6(1)(b) of the GDPR. Your data will be deleted after your inquiry has been fully processed. This is the case when it can be inferred from the circumstances that the matter in question has been conclusively resolved and provided that no statutory retention obligations preclude this.
 

6) Page features
 

6.1 Google reCAPTCHA

On this website, we use the CAPTCHA service provided by the following company: Google Ireland Limited, Gordon House, 4 Barrow St, Dublin, D04 E5W5, Ireland

Data may also be transferred to: Google LLC, USA.

The visual design of the CAPTCHA window uses “Google Fonts”—fonts downloaded from the internet via Google. No information other than that mentioned above, which is already transmitted to Google via the ReCAPTCHA functionality, is processed in this context.

The service checks whether an input is made by a human or is the result of abusive automated processing, and blocks spam, DDoS attacks, and similar automated malicious access attempts. To ensure that an action is performed by a human and not by an automated bot, the provider collects the IP address of the end device used, identification data regarding the browser and operating system type used, as well as the date and duration of the visit, and transmits this information to the provider’s servers for evaluation. Cookies may be used for this purpose; these are small text files stored in the end device’s browser.

If the processing described above is based on cookies, these will only be set if you have given us your explicit consent in accordance with Article 6(1)(a) of the GDPR. You may revoke your consent at any time with future effect by disabling this service in the “Cookie Consent Tool” provided on the website.

If the processing described above is carried out without the use of cookies, the legal basis is our legitimate interest in establishing individual accountability on the internet and preventing misuse and spam, in accordance with Article 6(1)(f) of the GDPR.

We have entered into a data processing agreement with the provider that ensures the protection of our website visitors' data and prohibits its unauthorized disclosure to third parties.

For data transfers to the United States, the provider has joined the EU-US Data Privacy Framework, which ensures compliance with European data protection standards based on an adequacy decision by the European Commission.
 

6.2 Weglot

This website uses the translation service of the following provider via an API integration: Weglot SAS, 7 Cité Paradis, 75010 Paris, France

To automatically display the translation in the language of your choice, the browser you are using connects to the provider’s servers. The provider uses so-called “cookies,” which are text files stored on your computer that enable an analysis of your use of the website. The information generated by the cookie regarding your use of this website (including your truncated IP address) is generally transmitted to one of the provider’s servers and stored there.

All processing described above, in particular the setting of cookies to read information from the device you are using, will only take place if you have given us your explicit consent in accordance with Article 6(1)(a) of the GDPR. You may revoke your consent at any time with future effect by deactivating this service in the “Cookie Consent Tool” provided on the website.

We have entered into a data processing agreement with the provider that ensures the protection of our website visitors' data and prohibits its unauthorized disclosure to third parties.
 

7) Tools and Miscellaneous
 

Cookie Consent Tool

This website uses a so-called “cookie consent tool” to obtain valid user consent for cookies and cookie-based applications that require consent. The “Cookie Consent Tool” is displayed to users when they visit the site in the form of an interactive user interface, where they can grant consent for specific cookies and/or cookie-based applications by checking the appropriate boxes. Through the use of this tool, all cookies and services requiring consent are loaded only if the respective user grants the corresponding consent by checking the appropriate boxes. This ensures that such cookies are set on the user’s device only if consent has been granted.

The tool uses technically necessary cookies to save your cookie preferences. No personal user data is processed in this process.

If, in individual cases, the storage, assigning, or logging cookie settings, this is done in accordance with Art. 6(1)(f) of the GDPR on the basis of our legitimate interest in legally compliant, user-specific, and user-friendly consent management for cookies and, consequently, in the legally compliant design of our website.

Another legal basis for the processing is Article 6(1)(c) of the GDPR. As the data controller, we are legally required to make the use of non-essential cookies contingent upon the user’s consent.

Where necessary, we have entered into a data processing agreement with the provider to ensure the protection of our website visitors’ data and to prohibit its unauthorized disclosure to third parties.

For more information about the operator and the settings options for the cookie consent tool, please refer directly to the relevant user interface on our website.

8) Rights of the Data Subject
 

8.1 Under applicable data protection law, you have the following rights as a data subject (rights of access and rectification) vis-à-vis the controller with regard to the processing of your personal data; please refer to the cited legal basis for the respective conditions for exercising these rights:

• Right of access pursuant to Article 15 of the GDPR;

• Right to rectification under Article 16 of the GDPR;

• Right to erasure under Article 17 of the GDPR;

• Right to restriction of processing pursuant to Article 18 of the GDPR;

• Right to information under Article 19 of the GDPR;

• Right to data portability pursuant to Article 20 of the GDPR;

• Right to withdraw consent pursuant to Article 7(3) of the GDPR;

• Right to lodge a complaint under Article 77 of the GDPR.
   

8.2 RIGHT TO OBJECT

IF, AS PART OF A BALANCING OF INTERESTS, WE PROCESS YOUR PERSONAL DATA BASED ON OUR OVERRIDING LEGITIMATE INTEREST, YOU HAVE THE RIGHT AT ANY TIME TO OBJECT TO SUCH PROCESSING ON GROUNDS RELATING TO YOUR PARTICULAR SITUATION, WITH EFFECT FOR THE FUTURE.

IF YOU EXERCISE YOUR RIGHT TO OBJECT, WE WILL CEASE PROCESSING THE DATA IN QUESTION. HOWEVER, WE RESERVE THE RIGHT TO CONTINUE PROCESSING IF WE CAN DEMONSTRATE COMPELLING LEGITIMATE GROUNDS FOR THE PROCESSING THAT OVERRIDE YOUR INTERESTS, FUNDAMENTAL RIGHTS AND FREEDOMS, OR IF THE PROCESSING SERVES TO ASSERT, EXERCISE, OR DEFEND LEGAL CLAIMS. 

IF WE PROCESS YOUR PERSONAL DATA FOR DIRECT MARKETING PURPOSES, YOU HAVE THE RIGHT TO OBJECT AT ANY TIME TO THE PROCESSING OF YOUR PERSONAL DATA FOR THE PURPOSE OF SUCH MARKETING. YOU MAY EXERCISE THIS RIGHT AS DESCRIBED ABOVE.

IF YOU EXERCISE YOUR RIGHT TO OBJECT, WE WILL STOP PROCESSING THE RELEVANT DATA FOR DIRECT MARKETING PURPOSES.
 

9) Retention period for personal data

The length of time personal data is stored is determined by the applicable legal basis, the purpose of processing, and—where applicable—the relevant statutory retention period (e.g., retention periods under commercial and tax law).

When processing personal data based on explicit consent pursuant to Article 6(1)(a) of the GDPR, the data in question will be stored until you withdraw your consent.

If there are statutory retention periods for data processed in connection with contractual or quasi-contractual obligations pursuant to Article 6(1)(b) of the GDPR, such data will be routinely deleted upon the expiration of the retention periods, provided that it is no longer necessary for the performance or initiation of a contract and/or we no longer have a legitimate interest in continuing to store it.

When processing personal data on the basis of Article 6(1)(f) of the GDPR, this data will be stored until you exercise your right to object under Article 21(1) of the GDPR, unless we can demonstrate compelling legitimate grounds for the processing that override your interests, rights, and freedoms, or the processing is necessary for the establishment, exercise, or defense of legal claims.

When processing personal data for direct marketing purposes pursuant to Article 6(1)(f) of the GDPR, this data will be stored until you exercise your right to object under Article 21(2) of the GDPR.

Unless otherwise specified in the other information contained in this statement regarding specific processing situations, stored personal data will otherwise be deleted when it is no longer necessary for the purposes for which it was collected or otherwise processed.