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Privacy Policy

Last Updated: 29 September 2025

German Inheritance Law by Nicola Casper-Hösl (“the Firm,” “we,” “our” or “us”) respects your privacy. This Privacy Policy (“Policy”) describes how we collect, use, and disclose personal information in connection with the provision of our legal services (the “Services”) and your use of our websites, applications, client portals, and other platforms that link to this Policy (collectively, the “Site”).

Please read this Policy carefully to understand our practices regarding your personal information.

Personal Information We Collect

We collect several categories of Personal Information. “Personal Information” means information that uniquely identifies, relates to, describes, or is reasonably capable of being associated with or linked to you.

The types of Personal Information we collect may include:

Client Information – Our clients may provide us with Personal Information from time to time in the course of our representation of them. Information obtained from or relating to clients or former clients is further subject to the terms of any engagement letter or other similar letters or agreements with the client, the Rules of Professional Conduct, and applicable laws and professional standards.
Contact Information – If you submit an inquiry, or provide information on our Site we may collect your contact information. This may include your name, email address, demographic information, phone number, company, and job title.
Usage Information – When you use our Site we may automatically record information, including your Internet Protocol address (IP address), browser type, referring URLs (e.g., the site you visited before coming to our websites), domain names associated with your internet service provider, information on your interaction with our websites, and other such information.
Employment Information – If you apply for employment with us, we will collect Personal Information related to your potential employment, including your education and employment history, address and contact information, demographic information, and any other information included in your resume or application.
Communication Information – We may collect Personal Information contained within your communications with us, including audio, electronic, or visual information, screen sharing views, and any files uploaded, emailed or otherwise provided to us.

How We Collect Information

Directly From You – We collect Personal Information that you provide to us. For example, if you request information from us, register for an event, or sign up to receive updates.
From Our Clients – We collect Personal Information from our clients during the course of rendering our Services or otherwise representing our clients.
From Third Parties – We may collect Personal Information from third parties, including but not limited to business partners recruiters and job application portals, and background check providers.
Through Online Tracking Technologies – We use cookies and similar technologies to collect Personal Information related to activity on our websites. For additional information regarding our use of these technologies, see the Cookies and Tracking Technologies section below.

How We Use Personal Information

To the extent permitted by applicable law, we use Personal Information:

To provide our Services, such as representing our clients in accordance with our legal and ethical obligations, to identify and authenticate access to parts of our Services (e.g. client portals and extranet), and as otherwise required by us for our legal and ethical compliance obligations.
For internal research and development, such as testing and verifying the quality of our Services, improving the quality of our Services, and creating new Services.
For marketing, including using your information to send you messages, notices, newsletters, surveys, promotions, or event invitations about our own or third parties’ goods and Services that may be of interest to you. We also use Personal Information to conduct interest-based advertising as discussed in the Cookies and Other Tracking Technologies section below. You can also unsubscribe from any marketing emails or text messages that we may send you by following the instructions included in the email or text correspondence or emailing us.
For communicating with you, such as responding to your questions and comments or notifying you of changes to our Site or Services.
For legal, security, or safety reasons, such as protecting our and our users’ safety, property, or rights; complying with legal requirements; enforcing our terms, conditions, and policies; detecting, preventing, and responding to security incidents; and protecting against malicious, deceptive, fraudulent, or illegal activity.
As part of a corporate transaction, such as in connection with the sale of part or all of our assets or business, the acquisition of part or all of another business or another business’ assets, or another corporate transaction, including bankruptcy.
To fulfill any other purpose for which you provide it, including purposes described when you provide the information or give your consent.

If you are applying for employment with us, we also use Personal Information to process your job application, to verify the information you have provided in your application, conduct interviews, perform background and reference checks, to communicate with you and answer your questions, to confirm your eligibility for employment, and improve our recruiting processes. We may also save your Personal Information for future employment opportunities with us.

How We Share Personal Information
We may share Personal Information in limited circumstances:

Our Clients – We may disclose Personal Information to our clients as necessary in the course of rendering our Services.
With Service Providers – e.g., IT support, secure hosting, document management, accountants.
Business Partners – We may disclose Personal Information with trusted business partners. For example, we may disclose your Personal Information to a CPA assisting in the case.
With Courts, Authorities, and Counterparties – When required in the course of legal representation.
For Legal or Security Reasons – To comply with laws or protect rights and safety.
With Your Consent – If you explicitly authorize disclosure.

We do not sell your personal information.

Cookies & Tracking

We and our service providers may use cookies and similar technologies to collect usage and browser information about how you use our websites. We process the information collected through such technologies, which may include or be combined with Personal Information, to help operate certain features of our websites, to enhance your experience through personalization, and to help us better understand the features of our websites that you and other users are most interested in

We use analytics services, including Google Analytics, to assist us with analyzing our website traffic. These services utilize cookies and other technologies that collect your Personal Information. To learn more about how Google uses data, visit Google`s Privacy Policy and Google’s page on “How Google uses data when you use our partners’ websites or apps.”

Most browsers provide you with the ability to block, delete, or disable cookies, and your mobile device may allow you to disable transmission of unique identifiers and location data. If you choose to reject cookies or block device identifiers, some features of our websites may not be available. Please review the help pages of your browser or mobile device for assistance with changing your settings. We do not respond to Do Not Track (“DNT”) signals sent to us by your browser at this time.

How Long Do We Keep Your Personal Information
We will retain each category of your Personal Information for as long as necessary to fulfill the purposes described in this Privacy Notice, unless otherwise required by applicable laws. Criteria we will use to determine how long we will retain your Personal Information include whether we need your Personal Information to provide you with our Services you have requested; we continue to have a relationship with you; you have requested information or Services from us; we have a legal right or obligation to continue to retain your Personal Information; we have an obligation to a third party that involves your Personal Information; our retention or recordkeeping policies and obligations dictate that we retain your Personal Information; we have an interest in providing you with Personal Information about our Services; or we have another business purpose for retaining your Personal Information.

How We Protect Your Personal Information
We use commercially reasonable efforts to protect the confidentiality and security of Personal Information. However, despite these efforts to store Personal Information in a secure environment, we cannot guarantee the security of Personal Information during its transmission or its storage on our systems.

International Use of our Services
Our websites are hosted in the United States. If you are visiting our websites from outside of the United States, please note that by providing your Personal Information, it is being transferred to, stored, collected, and processed in the United States, where our servers are located and operated.

Children’s Privacy
We do not knowingly collect or solicit any Personal Information from children under the age of 13 without verified written parental consent. In the event that we have inadvertently collected Personal Information from a child under the age of 13, we will promptly take steps to delete that information. If you are a parent or legal guardian and think your child has given us their Personal Information, you can email us.

Links to Third Party Websites
We are not responsible for the practices employed by any websites or services linked to or from our websites, including the information or content contained within them. We encourage you to investigate and ask questions before disclosing Personal Information to third parties because any Personal Information disclosed will handled in accordance with the applicable third party’s privacy notice.

In some cases, we offer links to social media platforms (like Facebook, Instagram, X (formerly known as Twitter) and LinkedIn that enable you to easily connect with us or share information on social media. Any content you post via these social media pages is subject to the Terms of Use and Privacy Policies for those platforms.

Colorado Residents
If you are a resident of Colorado, you have additional privacy rights under the Colorado Privacy Act (CPA):

Right to Access – You may request to know whether we process your Personal Information and obtain a copy of it.
Right to Correction – You may request that we correct inaccuracies in your Personal Information.
Right to Deletion – You may request that we delete your Personal Information, subject to legal or ethical retention obligations.
Right to Data Portability – You may request a portable copy of certain Personal Information.
Right to Opt-Out – You may opt out of the processing of your Personal Information for targeted advertising, sale, or certain profiling activities. We do not sell your Personal Information or engage in profiling producing legal or similarly significant effects.

If you wish to exercise these rights, please contact us at contact@germaninheritancelaw.us. We will respond within the time required by law (generally 45 days). You may also appeal any decision by contacting us using the same details, and if unsatisfied, you may contact the Colorado Attorney General’s Office.

Changes to this Policy
We may update this Policy from time to time. Updates will be posted on this page with a revised “Last Updated” date.

Contact
For questions about this Policy, please contact us.

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