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DATA PROTECTION
STATEMENT

1. Data protection at a glance

General information

The following information provides a simple overview of what happens to your personal data when you visit our website. All data with which you can be personally identified are personal data. Please see our data protection statement for further information on data protection.

 

Data collection on our website

Who is responsible for the data capture on this website?

The data processing on this website is carried out by the website owner. Please refer to the imprint of this website for the website owner’s contact data.

How do we collect your data?

Firstly, your data are collected when you disclose them to us. These can for example be data which you enter into a contact form.
 

Other data are automatically collected by our IT systems when you visit the website. These are especially technical data (e.g. internet browser, operating system or time of your website access). These data are collected automatically as soon as you access our website. 

 

For which purpose do we use your data?

Some data are collected to ensure the faultless provision of the website. Other data may be used to analyse your user behaviour. Finally, we use the e-mail addresses for sending our monthly tax news.

Which rights do you have regarding your data?

You have the right to obtain information free of charge regarding the origin, recipient and purpose of your stored personal data at any time. You also have the right to request the rectification, blocking or deletion of these data. In this regard and for further questions relating to data protection, you can contact us at any time at the address given in the imprint. Furthermore, you have the right to appeal to the relevant supervisory authority.

2. General information and compulsory information

Data protection

The owners of this website take the protection of your personal data very seriously. We treat your personal data confidentially and in accordance with the statutory data protection regulations as well as this data protection statement.

Various personal data are collected if you use this website. Personal data are data with which you can be personally identified. The present data protection statement explains which data we collect, for which purpose we use them as well as how this is done.

We point out that that the data transmission on the internet (e.g. during communication by e-mail) may have security gaps. Complete data protection against access by third parties is not possible.

 

Information about the responsible office

The responsible office for the data processing on this website is:

Steiner Tax Consultants (Pty) Ltd

De Waterkant Centre | 9 Somerset Road

ZA-8001 Cape Town

Telephone: +27 (0) 21 300 2290

E-Mail: info@steiner-taxconsultants.com

The party responsible is the natural or legal person determining the purposes and means of processing personal data (e.g. names, e-mail addresses or the likes) alone or jointly with others.

Revocation of your consent to data processing

Many data processing operations are only possible with your consent. You may revoke consent already given at any time. To do this, an informal communication to us by e-mail will suffice. The legality of the data processing effected until the revocation will not be affected by the revocation.

Right to appeal to the competent supervisory authority

In the case of breaches of data protection, the affected party has the right to appeal to the competent supervisory authority. The competent supervisory authority in data protection issues is the Federal Data Protection Commissioner of the federal state in which our company has its registered office. A list of the data protection officers as well as their contact details is available under the following link: https://www.bfdi.bund.de/DE/Infothek/Anschriften Links/anschriften links-node.html.

 

Right to data portability

You have the right to be handed data which we automatically process based on your consent or in fulfilment of a contract to yourself or to a third party in a conventional machine-readable format. As far as you request direct transmission of the data to another responsible person, this will only be done if it is technically possible.

SSL or TLS encryption

For security reasons and for the protection of transmission of confidential contents, for example orders or requests which you send to us as website operator, this website uses SSL or TLS encryption. You can recognise an encrypted connection from the fact that the address line of the browser changes from  "http://" to "https://" and from the lock symbol in your browser line.

If the SSL or TLS encryption is activated, the data which you transmit to us cannot be ready by third parties.

Information, blocking, deletion

You have the right to obtain information free of charge regarding the origin, recipient and purpose of the data processing of your stored personal data at any time, and, if applicable, a right to rectification, blocking or deletion of these data. In this regard and for further questions relating to data protection, you can contact us at any time at the address given in the imprint.

Objection to promotional e-mails

The use of contact details published within the framework of the imprint obligation for the transmission of not expressly solicited advertising and information material is herewith prohibited. The operators of the website expressly reserve the right to take legal action in the case of unsolicited sending of advertising information such as through spam mail.

3. Data protection officer

Legally prescribed data protection officer

We have appointed a data protection officer for our company.

Steiner Tax Consultants (Pty) Ltd

Datenschutzbeauftragter

De Waterkant Centre | 9 Somerset Road

ZA-8001 Cape Town

Telefon: +27 (0) 21 300 2290

E-Mail: datenschutz@steiner-taxconsultants.com

4. Data collection on our website

Server log files

The provider of the website automatically collects and stores information in so-called server log files which your browser automatically transmits to us. These are:

  • browser type and browser version

  • operating systems used

  • referrer URL

  • host name of the accessing computer

  • time of the server request

  • IP address

A consolidation of these data with other data sources is not carried out.

The basis for processing data is art. 6 par. 1 (f) of the General Data Protection Regulation that allows the processing of data for the performance of a contract or pre-contract measures.

 

Status: 01/06/2019

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