Information on the processing of personal data on the STAHL website.
We are pleased that you are visiting our website and are interested in our firm. During your visit, we process your personal data to a limited extent only. This privacy information explains how and for what purpose we do so.
We take the confidentiality and protection of your personal data very seriously. We therefore process your personal data only insofar as this is permitted on the basis of statutory provisions, in particular the EU General Data Protection Regulation (“GDPR”) and the German Federal Data Protection Act (“BDSG”).
If you have any questions about how we handle your personal data, you can contact us at any time.
I. Responsibilities and contact details
The controller responsible for processing your personal data is:
II. Processing of personal data when you visit our website
1. General
When you visit our website for information about our firm and our expertise, we collect only the personal data in log files that your browser transmits to our server.
This includes the type of web browser, the operating system used, the domain name of the internet service provider, the IP address of the computer used, the website from which you visit us, the pages you visit on our site, and the date and duration of the visit. We need this information to display our website to you and to ensure its stability and security. The legal basis is Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR.
2. Cookies
We use cookies to ensure the functionality of our website (e.g. to use your browser’s back function). Cookies are small text files that store information about usage behaviour when visiting a website and are placed on the user’s computer so that they are available for later visits. Such cookies do not harm your computer and do not contain viruses.
We use the information stored in cookies to enable the operation and use of our website and to maintain our IT security. The legal basis for this processing is Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR.
Information obtained from cookies is not linked to your IP address. No further personal data is collected.
You can also visit our website without cookies if you disable cookie storage in your browser’s system settings. However, this may mean that you cannot use all functions of our website.
Further information on cookies and how to disable them is available on the website of the German Federal Office for Information Security here .
III. External links
Our website may contain links to third-party websites. Compliance with data protection requirements is solely the responsibility of the third party operating the respective site. Further information can be found in the respective privacy notices and statements.
IV. Erasure
We erase your personal data in the log files after 8 weeks unless longer storage is required to achieve the processing purposes described above. In that case, we erase your personal data after one year at the latest. We also usually erase session cookies when the respective internet session ends.
V. Your rights
Subject to the statutory requirements, which must be assessed in each individual case, you have the right to obtain information about your personal data and to request the rectification or erasure of your personal data or restriction of processing, and to receive your personal data in a structured, commonly used and machine-readable format (data portability).
Subject to the statutory requirements, which must be assessed in each individual case, you also have the right to object to the processing of your personal data.
You also have the right to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority regarding the processing of your personal data. For further information, you can contact your local data protection authority.
VI. Security
We implement technical and organisational measures to protect the personal data we process.
VII. Changes to this privacy information
This privacy policy is dated April 2026. Further development of our website or changes to legal or regulatory requirements may make it necessary to amend this privacy information. The current version is available on the website and can be printed.
VIII. Contact
If you have any questions about the processing of your personal data via our website, you can contact our data protection officer at info@stahl.legal at any time.