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.

a) Usage data

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.

b) Matomo 

Our website uses the open source web analysis service Matomo. Matomo employs technologies that enable cross-page user recognition in order to analyse user behaviour. This enables the collection of the number of page views and user-related information for statistical and analytical purposes. We immediately anonymise the IP addresses so that no personal reference can be made. Matomo collects the following user-related information from us, provided you have consented to this:

  • date and time of visiting the website, 
  • title and URL of the page visited, 
  • referer URL, 
  • downloads,
  • link history, 
  • country of origin and -region, 
  • used operating system and browser and, if applicable, device type for mobile devices
  • Average charging time
  • screen resolution

We only use your data for the purpose of carrying out analyses and compiling statistics that enable us to obtain feedback on user behaviour and to improve your user experience on our website. We do not disclose your data. Our website can also be used in unrestricted form without Matomo. You can withdraw your consent at any time without any disadvantages. This analysis tool is used pursuant to Art. 6 para. 1 lit. a) GDPR in conjunction with your consent.

4. Cookies

Name

Funktion

Laufzeit

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
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
Matomo  
consent_settings

stores the user's selection made in the cookie banner so that the user is not repeatedly asked for cookies every time a web page is accessed

365 days
_pk_id

random hash value to determine a user's repeated visits, provided the user consents to the use of Matomo. The cookie identifies users and checks whether a session is already active and calculates cross-session metrics such as the number of visits until the target is reached, number of visits or days since the last visit.

395 days
_pk_ses

numerical value that is used to assign the user's active session if the user consents to the use of Matomo. When the cookie is not available and the last recorded visit of the website was more than 30 days ago, the visitor counter in the cookie pk_id is increased.

30 minutes

The legal basis of the data processing is for the German Federal Chamber of Notaries Art. 25 para. 1 TDDDG, Art. 6 para. 1 lit. a) GDPR and Art. 25 para. 2 no. 2 TDDDG, Art. 6 para. 1 lit. e) GDPR in conjunction with Art. 3 BDSG and with Art. 78 para. 1 sentence 2 number 10), Art. 78p BNotO.

5. Use of third-party services

Your personal data will only be transferred to the third parties listed below for the following purposes:

  • Rockenstein AG, Ohmstraße 12, 97076 Würzburg, which operates our data centre, 
  • Goldland Media GmbH, Immanuelkirchstraße 12, 10405 Berlin, which is commissioned with the website realisation and maintenance.

Pursuant to Art. 28 GDPR, all processors are contractually obliged to take technical and organisational measures so as to ensure the protection of your personal data.

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) 
  • Revocation (Art. 7 (3) GDPR) of consent to the use of Matomo


You have the option to prevent actions you take here from being analyzed and linked. This will protect your privacy, but will also prevent the owner from learning from your actions and improving usability for you and other users.

 

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.