Imprint & Privacy

Attorney at Law Martin Heynert
Law office and registered business address:
Hegelstraße 39 (ECOS-Center)
39104 Magdeburg
Phone: +49 391 5982-243
E-mail: martin@heynert.com

Additional office address (branch):
Hohenstaufenring 64
31141 Hildesheim

Person responsible for the content of this website: Martin Heynert

Member of the Bar Association of the Federal State of Saxony-Anhalt
(Rechtsanwaltskammer Sachsen-Anhalt),
Gerhart-Hauptmann-Str. 5, 39108 Magdeburg, Phone +49 391 2527210

Professional title: “Rechtsanwalt” (Attorney at Law), conferred in the Federal Republic of Germany.

Professional regulations

The following professional regulations, among others, apply:

• Bundesrechtsanwaltsordnung – Federal Lawyers’ Act (BRAO)
• Berufsordnung für Rechtsanwälte – Professional Code of Conduct for Lawyers (BORA) – PDF
• Berufsregeln der Rechtsanwälte in der EU – Code of Conduct for European Lawyers (CCBE Rules) – PDF
• Rechtsanwaltsvergütungsgesetz – German Lawyers’ Remuneration Act (RVG)

On 18 May 2010 the German Regulation on Service Providers’ Duty to Provide Information (Dienstleistungs-Informationspflichten-Verordnung) entered into force. Further information to be made available under this regulation – such as details of professional liability insurance – can be inspected on the premises of the law office before a mandate is granted. VAT ID is available on request.

When you visit this website, only those “cookies” are set to which you have explicitly consented when entering the site. No personal data is stored except for:

• the IP address from which you visit the website, the date and time and the names of our pages that you access. Where these are not dynamic but static addresses, this constitutes personal data. This data is necessary to ensure our IT security against attacks.
• the information that you provide voluntarily and knowingly in one of our forms (e.g. “Tipster portal” or “Contact”) after you have clicked the “Submit” button.

Personal data and information on facts which give rise to a professional duty of confidentiality (for example under section 203(1) no. 3 of the German Criminal Code in the version of 17 July 2017 or later) and which you have disclosed to us are stored for an unlimited period. This is essential in order to be able to recognise and exclude any conflict of interest (for example under section 43a(4) of the Federal Lawyers’ Act) in the event of later enquiries from other persons.

The risk of conflicts of interest cannot be limited in time. It is not permissible, for example, to act against a former client in the same matter after some sort of “limitation period” of five years. And even if this were legally permissible, we would never do so for reasons of our own professional ethics, which place unconditional and unlimited client protection above everything else.

Given the large number of enquiries we receive, it is not possible to exclude this risk purely on the basis of the personal recollection of the lawyer. This is only possible by way of unlimited electronic storage of your data and the facts disclosed. For overriding legal reasons, it is therefore not possible for us to delete the data you have transmitted to us in connection with an enquiry after a certain period of time or at your request. The lawyer himself cannot simply “forget” the facts communicated to him on command. If you do not agree to the unlimited storage of your personal data and the facts of your case, please refrain from making an enquiry.

Our law office does not meet the size thresholds that would require the appointment of an independent data protection officer. This function is performed by Attorney at Law Martin Heynert.

Right of access under Article 15 GDPR

If you have submitted personal data via one of our forms, you have a right of access under Article 15 of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR):

The data subject has the right to obtain from the controller confirmation as to whether or not personal data concerning him or her are being processed, and, where that is the case, access to the personal data and the following information:

• the purposes of the processing;
• the categories of personal data concerned;
• the recipients or categories of recipient to whom the personal data have been or will be disclosed, in particular recipients in third countries or international organisations;
• where possible, the envisaged period for which the personal data will be stored, or, if not possible, the criteria used to determine that period;
• the existence of the right to request from the controller rectification or erasure of personal data or restriction of processing of personal data concerning the data subject or to object to such processing;
• the right to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority;
• where the personal data are not collected from the data subject, any available information as to their source;
• the existence of automated decision-making, including profiling, referred to in Article 22(1) and (4) GDPR and, at least in those cases, meaningful information about the logic involved, as well as the significance and the envisaged consequences of such processing for the data subject.

Where personal data are transferred to a third country or to an international organisation, the data subject shall have the right to be informed of the appropriate safeguards pursuant to Article 46 GDPR relating to the transfer.

The controller shall provide a copy of the personal data undergoing processing. For any further copies requested by the data subject, the controller may charge a reasonable fee based on administrative costs. Where the data subject makes the request by electronic means, and unless otherwise requested, the information shall be provided in a commonly used electronic form.

The right to obtain a copy shall not adversely affect the rights and freedoms of others.

Restriction of rights in individual cases

These rights may, in individual cases, be restricted in accordance with Article 23 GDPR in conjunction with section 29 of the German Federal Data Protection Act (BDSG) as a necessary and proportionate measure to safeguard, inter alia:

• national security;
• defence;
• public security;
• the prevention, investigation, detection or prosecution of criminal offences or the execution of criminal penalties, including the safeguarding against and the prevention of threats to public security;
• other important objectives of general public interest of the Union or of a Member State, in particular an important economic or financial interest of the Union or of a Member State, such as in monetary, budgetary and taxation matters and in the area of public health and social security;
• the protection of judicial independence and judicial proceedings;
• the prevention, investigation, detection and prosecution of breaches of ethics for regulated professions;
• monitoring, inspection or regulatory functions connected, even if only occasionally, with the exercise of official authority in the cases referred to in the preceding points;
• the protection of the data subject or the rights and freedoms of others;
• the enforcement of civil law claims.

As a result, opposing parties in ongoing investigations or court proceedings will generally not be granted access to the facts established about them in the course of clarifying the matter, but only to their personal correspondence data stored here. Anyone who does not agree with this can file a complaint with the data protection officers of the federal states of Saxony-Anhalt or Lower Saxony as well as with the Bar Association of Saxony-Anhalt in Magdeburg.

All stored data are protected against unauthorised access by third parties by means of modern IT security measures. These measures are continuously reviewed and further developed.