Privacy Statement in accordance with Articles 13 and 14 of the GDPR
We process your personal data exclusively on the basis of the legal provisions, in particular those of Regulation (EU) 2016/679 (General Data Protection Regulation, hereinafter “GDPR”).
Below you will find information on how we collect and process personal data in our offices in Paris, Berlin, Warsaw and Rome, when visiting our website, what data protection rights you have and how you can contact us about this or any other data protection issues.
1. Name and contact details of the Controller
Dirk Meißner, Rechtsanwalt, Dr. Lutz-Peter Gollnisch, Rechtsanwalt, Dr. jur. Daniel Fingerle, Rechtsanwalt, Verena Moll, Rechtsanwältin|Avocat à la Cour, Dr. Antje Luke, Rechtsanwältin|Avocat à la Cour, Dr. Michal Roszak, Radca prawny, Annamaria Vicaretti, Avvocato, together COLIBER LEGAL
Berlin Office:
Kurfürstendamm 194
D-10707 Berlin, Germany
Tel: +49 30 3229250
Paris Office:
4, Avenue Hoche
F-75008 Paris, France
Tel: +33 1 88 61 04 68
Warsaw Office:
ul. Piękna 28/34 lok. 7
PL-00547 Warsaw, Poland
Tel: +48 515 470 584
Rome Office:
Via Tibullo 10
I-00193 Roma
Tel: +39 06 92958656
If you have any questions about data protection, please contact Dirk Meißner (meissner@coliber.legal).
2. Information on the collection, storage and use of personal data
We may collect and process personal data about you. “Personal data” means any information relating to you, such as your name, address, e-mail address, IP address and behaviour.
a) Connection data
When you visit our website www.coliber.legal, the browser used on your terminal automatically sends information to our website’s server. This information is stored temporarily. The following information is collected without any action on your part and stored until it is automatically deleted:
- IP address of your terminal
- Date and time of access
- Name and URL of the file accessed
- Quantity of data transmitted
- Message indicating whether the request was successful
- Website from which access was made (Referrer-URL)
- Browser used and operating system of your terminal
- Name of your internet service provider
The above data is processed by us for the following purposes:
- to ensure a trouble-free connection to the website
- to ensure comfortable use of our website
- to assess system security and stability, and
- for administrative purposes.
The legal basis for data processing is Article 6, paragraph 1, sentence 1, lit. f) of the GDPR. In addition, the data is analysed in anonymised and aggregated form and used in the interests of system security and the technical management of the network structure. We reserve the right to check the log data at a later date if, on the basis of specific indications, we suspect illegal use.
Our legitimate interest derives for the above-mentioned purposes from the necessity to secure provision of our website and to analyse the use of our website. The data described above is generally stored for 60 days from the date of collection. In exceptional cases, data is kept for the purpose of clarifying cases of suspected illegal use until the incident has been clarified.
b) Contact by electronic means
If you contact us via one of the e-mail addresses provided on our website, the data you provide (your e-mail address, if applicable your name, your address and telephone number, etc. as well as the factual content of the e-mail) is stored by us in order to answer your questions.
Please note that data transmitted by e-mail is not encrypted. Please note that communicating by e-mail may carry security risks. If you require a particularly secure method of communication, please contact us in advance.
The collection and processing of your data that you provide to us as part of this contact procedure is based on Article 6, paragraph 1, sentence 1, lit. a) of the GDPR and is justified by your consent. The data will be deleted following your request, unless you wish to receive legal advice from the lawyers at COLIBER LEGAL or have your details stored in our contact list. In this case, your data will be forwarded to the relevant person at COLIBER LEGAL for further processing in accordance with Article 6, paragraph 1, sentence 1, lit. b) of the GDPR and stored there.
We will retain the data relating to your enquiry for the duration of our business relationship with you, or for as long as required by law, or until you have exercised your right to object to the processing of your data on the basis of Article 6 paragraph 1, sentence 1, lit. f) of the GDPR and your interests override ours.
3. Transmission of personal data
Your personal data will be passed on to lawyers or authorised personnel of COLIBER LEGAL as well as, where applicable, to sub-contractors bound by confidentiality to protect the personal data of COLIBER LEGAL and/or to cooperation lawyers mandated by COLIBER LEGAL and bound by professional secrecy by law (the latter only in the context of the specific processing of a mandate). We will only transfer personal data to recipients outside the European Economic Area if this is necessary for the purposes of a mandate assigned to us. We will then take all necessary measures to ensure the security of your personal data.
4. Your rights
You have the right :
- to obtain information about the personal data we process about you, in accordance with Article 15 of the GDPR. In particular, you may request information regarding the purposes of processing, the categories of personal data, the categories of recipients to whom your data has been or will be disclosed, the intended storage period, the existence of a right to rectification, erasure, restriction of processing or objection, the existence of a right to lodge a complaint, the origin of your data where it was not collected by us, as well as the existence of automated decision-making, including profiling, and, where applicable, meaningful information regarding its details;
- to obtain, in accordance with Article 16 of the GDPR, the rectification of inaccurate personal data or the completion of your personal data held by us;
- to obtain the erasure of your personal data stored by us in accordance with Article 17 of the GDPR, unless processing is necessary for the purposes of exercising the right to freedom of expression and information, for compliance with a legal obligation, for reasons of public interest, or for the establishment, exercise or defence of legal claims;
- to obtain the restriction of the processing of your personal data in accordance with Article 18 of the GDPR,
- in accordance with Article 20 of the GDPR, to receive the personal data you have provided to us in a structured, commonly used and machine-readable format, or to request that it be transferred to another controller;
- in accordance with Article 7(3) of the GDPR, to withdraw your consent at any time. As a result, we will no longer be permitted to process your data on the basis of that consent;
- in accordance with Article 48 of the French Data Protection Act (Loi relative à l’informatique, aux fichiers et aux libertés), the right to give instructions regarding the disposition of personal data after death;
- in accordance with Article 2(13) of the Italian Data Protection Act (Decreto legislativo 30 giugno 2003, n. 196 – Codice in materia di protezione dei dati personali), the right to give instructions regarding the handling of personal data after death;
- to lodge a complaint with a data protection supervisory authority in accordance with Article 77 of the GDPR. As a rule, you may contact the supervisory authority for your usual place of residence or place of work. However, we recommend that you always contact us first before lodging a complaint.
5. Right to object
You have the right to object at any time, on grounds relating to your particular situation, to the processing of personal data concerning you based on Article 6, paragraph 1, sentence 1, lit. e) or f) of the GDPR, including profiling based on these provisions. You also have the right to object at any time to your data being processed for commercial prospecting purposes.
To exercise your right to object or to withdraw your consent to the data processing to which you have consented, you can contact us by e-mail (meissner@coliber.legal). You are also welcome to contact us by telephone on (+49 30 322925-0) or by post (COLIBER LEGAL, Kurfürstendamm 194, D-10707 Berlin, Germany).
6. Cookies
We use temporary and permanent cookies on our website. These are small files that your browser automatically creates and which are stored on your terminal (laptop, tablet, smartphone or other) when you visit our site. Cookies do not damage your terminal and do not contain viruses, Trojan horses or other malicious software. The cookie contains information that is linked to the specific terminal used. However, this does not mean that we are directly aware of your identity. One of the purposes of using cookies is to make the use of our services more pleasant for you. For example, we use session cookies to recognise that you have already visited certain pages on our website.
These cookies are automatically deactivated after a set period.
In order to optimise user-friendliness, we use temporary cookies which are stored on your terminal for a specific period. If you visit our site again to use our services, it is automatically recognised that you have already been on our site and what entries and settings you have made so that you do not have to re-enter them.
The data processed by cookies is necessary for the above-mentioned purposes in order to protect our legitimate interests in accordance with Article 6, paragraph 1, sentence 1, lit. f) of the GDPR.
Most browsers automatically accept cookies. However, you can configure your browser so that no cookies are stored on your computer or so that a message is always displayed before a new cookie is created. However, deactivating cookies completely may prevent you from using all the functions of our website.
You can also configure your browser in advance so that cookies are only saved on a case-by-case basis. You can also delete cookies from your terminal via your browser. You can click on the ‘Help’ menu of your browser to find out how to configure your browser preferences with regard to cookies. Please note that you can configure the browsers of all your terminals.
7. Integration of third-party services and content (social networks)
Our site uses plug-ins from social networks, in particular LinkedIn, on the basis of Article 6, paragraph 1, sentence 1, lit. f) of the GDPR in order to facilitate the sharing of content from our site on the various social platforms and to publicise COLIBER LEGAL via this means. The underlying advertising objective is justified by our legitimate interest. Plug-in buttons can be recognised by the logo of the corresponding social network.
When you visit a page on our website that contains such a plugin, your browser establishes a direct connection to the servers of the relevant social network. The content of the plugin is transmitted directly from the social network to your browser and integrated into the website by your browser.
When the plugins are integrated, the social network receives information that your browser has accessed the relevant page on our website, even if you do not have an account with that social network or are not currently logged in. This information (including your IP address) is transmitted directly from your browser to a server belonging to the social network and stored there.
If you are logged in to a social network, it can link your visit to our website directly to your social network account. If you interact with the plugins – for example, by clicking the ‘SHARE’ button – the relevant information is also transmitted directly to a server belonging to the social network and stored there. The information is also published on the social network and displayed to your contacts on that social network.
We have no control over the process used by the social networks to collect information relating to your browsing on our site and associated with the personal data they hold. We invite you to consult the privacy protection policies of these social networks in order to find out how the browsing information they may collect through these application buttons is used, particularly for advertising purposes. These protection policies should enable you to exercise your choices with regard to these social networks, in particular by configuring your user accounts for each of these networks. If you use social media services, it cannot therefore be ruled out that personal data may be transferred to providers in countries outside the European Union.
8. Data security and communication by e-mail
We implement all the technical and organisational means necessary to safeguard your data, in particular by preventing third parties from accessing it.
When you communicate with us by e-mail, this entails risks for the confidentiality of communications. Despite appropriate security measures, it cannot be ruled out that third parties may be able to read or modify communications exchanged by e-mail. If you do not agree to this form of communication, please contact us by post.
9. Modification of information
This data protection information was updated in June 2026. Due to possible updates to our website, as well as changes in the regulations applicable to personal data, we may be required to modify this legal notice. Please therefore check the information in this privacy statement before using our website in order to be informed in the event of changes or updates.
