Privacy policy

The Bundesnotarkammer (hereinafter referred to as “BNotK” or “we”) takes the protection of your personal data, e.g. information on personal and factual relationships of an identified or identifiable natural person, very seriously. In this privacy policy, we would like to inform you in detail on the data we process when you use our website as well as on the purposes of their processing.

1. Controller

The BNotK is responsible for the collection, processing and use of your personal data as laid down in data protection law. You can contact us as follows:

Bundesnotarkammer K.d.ö.R.
Mohrenstraße 34
10117 Berlin

Phone: +49 (0)30 – 38 38 66 0
Fax: +49 (0)30 – 38 38 66 66
e-mail: bnotk[at]bnotk.de   

2. Data Protection Officer

You can contact the Data Protection Officer of the BNotK as follows:

Data Protection Officer
c/o Bundesnotarkammer
Mohrenstraße 34
10117 Berlin

Phone: +49 (0)30 – 38 38 66 0
Fax: +49 (0)30 – 38 38 66 66
e-mail: datenschutz[at]bnotk.de

3. Processing of personal data

The collection, processing and use of your personal data is made in strict compliance with the provisions laid down in the European General Data Protection Regulation 2016/679 (hereinafter referred to as “GDPR”). When you visit our website, personal data is therefore only collected, processed and used to the extent that this is permitted by law. This also applies to the transfer of personal data. The processing of your personal data is carried out exclusively in our data centres located in Germany.

Each time you visit our website, your web browser transfers the following data:

  • date and time of the request,
  • name of the requested file,
  • page from which the file was requested,
  • access status (file transferred, file not found, etc.),
  • web browser and operating system used,
  • complete IP address of the requesting computer,
  • amount of data transmitted.

We process these usage data in order to make our website accessible to you, to identify and rectify any technical problems that may occur as well as to prevent and, if necessary, track any misuse of our services.

The legal basis for the processing of your usage data are Article 6(1) lit. f GDPR and Sections 78 et seqq. of the Federal Code for Notaries (Bundesnotarordnung, BNotO).

The storage period of your usage data does not exceed 30 days.

4. Cookies

We only use cookies that are absolutely necessary in accordance with Article 25, para. 2, No. 2 TDDDG on our website so that we can enable you to use the notarial online procedure.

 

Name

Function

Duration

Cookie "ovgr_contrast"saves the contrast setting so that it can be used for the web application (and vice versa).30 days (average time required for the formation of a company)
ovgrApprovedPrivacyPolicy

saves the user's consent to the terms of use in the browser for the purposes of registration.

until the end of session or the browser closing
Signatureapprovedagb und signatureapprovedprivacypolicy  

saves the user's consent to the terms of use and conditions for creating the remote signature in the browser for the purposes of  registration and creation of a signature.

until the end of session or the browser closing t
signatureCreation und signatureReadInstructions

enables the application for the electronic signature by allowing the system to recognise whether a signature has been requested and the relevant brochure has been acknowledged.

until the end of session or the browser closing
jwt-token

enables the authentication of users in order to be able to use the system.

until the end of session or the browser closing
room

identification of the room ID for the videoconference.

until the end of session or the browser closing

audiodevicePreference/

videodevicePreference

saves the audio and webcam device selection for the videoconference.

until the end of session or the browser closing
JitsiMeetId

enables the assignment to the current/last videoconference room.

until the end of session or the browser closing
lock

enables the creation of a signature.

until the end of session or the browser closing
SESSION

enables the system to identify the user: technical reference of the user's current session. This allows the logged-in user to be recognised/identified for successive requests.

until the end of session or the browser closing
lastSignatureTokenRefresh

prevents the user from being unable to sign in the videoconference 60 minutes after requesting the remote signature.

until the end of session or the browser closing
ovgr_login_state

shows whether the user is logged in

15 minutes
XSRF-TOKEN

technical measure against CSRF attacks (cross-site request forgery). The user is protected against CSRF attacks.

until the end of session or the browser closing

 

5. Transfer of your personal data to third parties

This website is operated in the data centre of Rockenstein AG, Ohmstraße 12, 97076 Würzburg, Germany. The service provider has been contractually obligated to ensure the protection of your personal data through technical and organisational measures in accordance with Article 28 of the GDPR.

6. Your rights 

You have the following rights regarding the processing of your personal data by the

Bundesnotarkammer:

  • Right of access (Art. 15 GDPR),
  • Right to rectification (Art. 16 GDPR),
  • Right to erasure (Art. 17 GDPR),
  • Right to restriction of processing (Art. 18 GDPR),
  • Right to object (Art. 21 GDPR) in cases where we process your personal data on the basis of Art. 6(1) lit. e GDPR.

Please contact us at support-online-verfahren@bnotk.de if you have any questions or comments. Our supervisory authority for filing a complaint is:

Federal Commissioner for Data Protection and Freedom of Information
Graurheindorfer Straße 153
53117 Bonn

Simply go to the notary online

Contact support
In case of technical issues, we can be contacted by e-mail. If you wish to, please call us free of charge on Monday to Friday from 08:00 to 17:00.