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Your personal assistant will help you with questions about visas and immigration as well as employment law in Germany.
Please note that this service does not constitute legal advice and only provides a general overview of these topics. The answers cannot replace legal advice tailored to a specific situation and individual case.
For a legal assessment of your questions, you are welcome to contact the lawyers at PwC Legal. Please be advised that this may cause additional consulting fees and therefore in advance has to be discussed by you with the HR Department of your Company.
The following data protection information is intended to explain to you in a comprehensible, transparent and clear manner how your personal data is processed by us. However, if you have any questions of understanding or other queries about data protection at PwC, you are welcome to contact our data protection officer at DE_Datenschutz@pwc.com or the other contact details given below.
Responsible
The person responsible for the processing of your personal data within the meaning of Article 4 (7) of the EU Data Protection Regulation (DSGVO) is
PricewaterhouseCoopers Legal Aktiengesellschaft Law firm
Friedrich-Ebert-Anlage 35-37
60327 Frankfurt am Main
E-mail: E-Mail
Tel.: + 49 69 695962-79000
Fax: + 49 69 695962-79100
Data protection officer
PwC has appointed a data protection officer pursuant to Art. 37 DSGVO. You can reach the PwC data protection officer, Dr Tobias Gräber, at the following contact details:
Email contact: E-Mail
Phone: + 49 69 695962-79000
Address for postal contact:
PricewaterhouseCoopers Legal Aktiengesellschaft Rechtsanwaltsgesellschaft
Dr. Tobias Gräber, Data Protection Officer
Friedrich-Ebert-Anlage 35-37
60327 Frankfurt am Main
Rights of data subjects / Your rights under data protection law
You have the following rights vis-à-vis PwC under the applicable data protection legislation with regard to personal data concerning you.
Right to information: You can request information from PwC at any time about whether and what personal data about you is stored by PwC. The provision of information by PwC is free of charge for you.
The right to information does not exist, or exists only to a limited extent, if and to the extent that the information would disclose information requiring secrecy, e.g. information subject to professional secrecy.
Right to correction: If your personal data stored by PwC is incorrect or incomplete, you have the right to request PwC to correct this data at any time.
Right to deletion: You have the right to request PwC to delete your personal data if and to the extent that the data are no longer needed for the purposes for which they were collected or, if processing is based on your consent, you have revoked your consent. In this case PwC must stop processing your personal data and remove it from its IT systems and databases.
There is no right to deletion, as far as
- the data may not be deleted due to a legal obligation or processed due to a legal obligation;
- the data processing is necessary for the assertion, exercise or defence of legal claims.
Right to restrict processing: You have the right to request that PwC restrict the processing of your personal data.
Right to data transferability: You have the right to receive from PwC the data you provide in a structured, common and machine-readable format and the right to have this data transferred to another responsible party. This right exists only if
- you have provided us with the data on the basis of a consent or on the basis of a contract concluded with you;
- the processing is carried out with the aid of automated procedures.
Right to object to processing: If the processing of your data by PwC is based on Art. 6 Para. 1 letter f) DSGVO, you can object to the processing by PwC at any time.
You can assert all of the above-mentioned data subject rights against PwC if you send your specific request to the following contact details:
All of the data subject rights described above may be asserted against PwC by sending your specific request to the following contact information:
By email: E-Mail
By mail:
PricewaterhouseCoopers Legal Aktiengesellschaft Law firm
Dr. Tobias Gräber, Data Protection Officer
Friedrich-Ebert-Anlage 35-37
60327 Frankfurt am Main
Right of appeal to a data protection supervisory authority
In accordance with Art. 77 DSGVO, you have the right to complain to a data protection supervisory authority if you believe that the processing of your personal data violates data protection law.
Description of the data processing on the website and legal basis for the processing
When you visit our website, we collect the data that is technically necessary to display this website. These are the following personal data, which are automatically transmitted to our server by your browser:
- IP address
- Date and time of your request/access to the website (the app)
- Time zone difference to Greenwich Mean Time (GMT)
- Content of the request (information about which specific page was called by you)
- Access status/http status code
- Amount of data transmitted in each case
- Web page from which the request comes
- Browser (information about the browser you use)
- Operating system and its interface (operating system of the computer you use to access the website or app)
- Language and version of the browser software
These personal data are processed on the basis of Art. 6 para. 1 letter f) DSGVO. The website cannot be accessed and offered to users without the use of this data, there is a legitimate interest in making it technically possible to access and use the website. In addition, the data is stored to technically secure the website. The person responsible has an interest in the security and availability of this website.
The information in the log files is stored for 90 days and then deleted.
During a session between the user and the chatbot, the following data must necessarily be stored to enable functionality:
- Status of the conversation for analysis and response by the bot.
This data is deleted as soon as the session is terminated.
Once a conversation has been completed, the user is given the option of sending the chat history as a file attachment by e-mail to a PwC employee. The following data is transferred:
- Chat history of the current session
- Unique key for caller assignment
This will help you to establish better contact with your PwC advisor.
This website is hosted by a service provider [Microsoft Ireland Operations Limited, One Microsoft Place, South County Business Park, Leopardstown, Dublin 18, Ireland] and the data collected on our website is therefore stored on the service provider’s servers. The servers are located in Germany and in other EU countries.
Data is transferred abroad, but only to countries of the European Union or the European Economic Area.
Contact form by e-mail
You can contact us by e-mail.
When you contact us by e-mail, the data you provide us with (in particular your e-mail address, your first and last name and the text of your enquiry and any other details you may have provided in the contact form or by e-mail) will be stored by us in order to process your enquiry and answer your questions.
We will delete the data collected in the course of your enquiry/contact as soon as it is no longer required for processing your enquiry. Insofar as there are legal obligations to retain data, the data will be stored for the duration of the legally prescribed retention period.
If your inquiry about PwC products is aimed at concluding a contract with PwC, the legal basis for data processing is Art. 6 (1) lit. b) DSGVO (pre-contractual measure, performance of contract). If your enquiry/contact is not aimed at the conclusion of a contract, the processing is based on a legitimate interest of PwC within the meaning of Art. 6 (1) lit. f) DSGVO. There is a legitimate economic interest in establishing and maintaining a client relationship with (potential) clients and clients of PwC by responding to your enquiries.