Picture: Thomas Abel at his desk in front of the computer with a phone in his hand

Imprint and data protection

Tax information




    


  • German tax ID: 89112704351

  • Bank details: N26 * IBAN: DE33 1001 1001 2624 1515 69 * BIC: NTSBDEB1XXX


External links

  • In its judgment of May 12, 1998 – 312 O 85/98 – "Liability for links", the Hamburg Regional Court (LG) ruled that the inclusion of a link may entail co-responsibility for the content of the linked page. According to the LG, this can only be prevented by expressly distancing oneself from these contents. I hereby expressly distance myself from all contents of all linked pages on my website and do not adopt these contents as my own. This declaration applies to all external links included in this project (on this website).


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General information




The following data protection information explains how your personal data is collected and processed when you use this website. This privacy policy also covers the collection and processing of your data on external websites or online services that are linked to this website (e.g. my social media sites).




Personal data




The term „personal data“ generally refers to all information that can be used to draw conclusions about a natural person or to identify a natural person. A natural person is considered identifiable if they can be clearly identified by means of an identifier (e.g. a name), a number, a specific location of an online marker (e.g. a cookie) or other special characteristics (e.g. physical, psychological, genetic, economic, cultural or social characteristics).

Responsibility for data protection




The body responsible for data collection and data processing on this website under data protection law, hereinafter referred to as „we“, „the practice“ or „the operator“, is the:


    


  • Practice Diplompsychologe Thomas Abel

  • Gervinusstraße 22, 10629 Berlin-Charlottenburg, Germany
  • Phone: +49303138736
  • E-mail: info@praxis-abel.de

  • In addition to the operator of this website, our respective cooperation partners are also jointly responsible under data protection law for some of the data processing mentioned below. You can therefore also exercise some rights directly against the respective cooperation partner. You will find the relevant information in the corresponding section of this privacy policy.

Web host




Our website is operated on server systems of Strato AG, Pascalstraße 10, 10587 Berlin. Strato operates two data centers located in Germany. The company is certified according to DIN ISO 9001 and DIN ISO 27001. The ISO 27001 certificate demonstrates adequate security management, data security, confidentiality of information and the availability of IT systems. As part of our cooperation, we do not pass on any personal data about your visit to our website directly to Strato. However, Strato may at least potentially gain access to personal data, e.g. in the course of maintenance work. In such a case, the protection of your personal data is also ensured by corresponding data protection agreements.

Type and scope of data collected




When you access our website, various information about your visit is collected. This information includes usage data such as the web pages you visit, the content you read, access times, device information, information about your operating system and web browser, and IP addresses. If you use services such as a contact form, a comment function or any other function that requires you to enter your data on our website in addition to simply accessing our pages, further information is collected and processed in addition to the data already mentioned. This includes inventory data such as your name or address, contact data such as your telephone number or e-mail address and content data such as texts entered or media sent. 
Data collection when using contact forms on our website
If you would like to contact us, you can use the contact forms on our website to do so. If you do this, we require the following categories of data from you: Title, name, e-mail address, your message. If you contact us, your data may be stored in a CRM (Customer Relationship Management System) or other software program. As soon as your inquiry data is no longer required for order or contract fulfillment, it will be deleted, provided that no other legal requirements require your data to be stored beyond this.

Automatic data collection during the use of our website




    


  • Technically required data: When you access our website, information of a general nature is automatically collected by us and/or our hoster. The collection and processing of this data is based on our legitimate interest within the meaning of Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f. GDPR. The information collected (so-called server log files) includes the type of your web browser, the operating system used, the domain name of your Internet service provider, the IP address, the time and duration of access, the pages requested, the amount of data transferred and the referrer URL of the previously visited website. This is exclusively information that is not used to draw conclusions about your person. This information is technically necessary in order to correctly deliver the website content requested by you and is mandatory when using the Internet. Anonymized information of this kind is statistically evaluated by us in order to optimize our website and the technology behind it. The purpose of processing this information is to provide our online offering, including its functions and content, to measure the reach of our offering, to respond to inquiries and to communicate with you and, if necessary, to implement security measures.
  • Cookies: Like many other websites, we use so-called „cookies“. Cookies are small text files that are transferred from a web server to your computer. In this way, we automatically receive certain data such as IP address, browser used, operating system via your computer and your connection to the Internet. Temporary cookies or so-called „session cookies“ contain information that relates to the current visit to our website. This may be your login status, for example. Temporary cookies are deleted at the end of your visit to our website or when you close your browser. Permanent cookies usually contain information about your login status or your interests on our website, which are used to measure reach or for other marketing purposes. Permanent cookies remain stored on your computer even after you close your browser. If we provide or use third-party services on our website (e.g. Google Analytics), these third-party providers also store cookies on your computer. Cookies cannot be used to launch programs or transfer viruses to a computer. We can use the information contained in cookies to make navigation easier for you and to enable our websites to be displayed correctly. Under no circumstances will the data processed by us be passed on to third parties or linked to personal data without your consent. Of course, you can also view our website without cookies. Internet browsers are generally set to accept cookies. You can deactivate the use of cookies at any time via your browser settings. You also have the option of deleting cookies already stored on your computer. Please use the help functions of your Internet browser to find out how you can change your cookie settings or delete cookies that have already been saved. If you wish to raise a general objection to the use of cookies for marketing purposes, you can do so with various online service providers – for example, with http://www.aboutads.info/choices in the USA or http://www.youronlinechoices.com in the EU.
  • Analytics & marketing services: We would like to use the following analytics and marketing services to track your behavior on our website in order to improve our service and/or show you interest-based offers. You can object to the data processing as described in the following sections.

  • Google Analytics: This website uses Google Analytics (Google Inc.). Google Analytics uses „cookies“, which are text files placed on your computer, to help the website analyze how users use the site. The information generated by the cookie about your use of this website is usually transferred to a Google server in the USA and stored there. However, due to the activation of IP anonymization on this website, your IP address will be shortened beforehand by Google within member states of the European Union or in other contracting states of the Agreement on the European Economic Area. Only in exceptional cases will the full IP address be transmitted to a Google server in the USA and truncated there.on behalf of the operator of this website, Google will use this information for the purpose of evaluating your use of the website, compiling reports on website activity and providing other services relating to website activity and internet usage to the website operator. The IP address transmitted by your browser as part of Google Analytics will not be merged with other Google data.
    You can prevent the storage of cookies by selecting the appropriate settings in your browser software.


  • You can also prevent Google from collecting the data generated by the cookie and relating to your use of the website (including your IP address) and from processing this data by Google by downloading and installing the browser plug-in available at the following link: BrowserAdd On to deactivate Google Analytics

  • Google provides further information on its websites about the use of data by Google as well as your setting and objection options. Information on data use by Google when you use websites or apps from Google partners can be found here.
  • Information on data use for advertising purposes can be found here. 

  • To manage your information that Google uses to display advertising, visit this page.

  • In addition, you have the option to globally deactivate cookies for reach measurement and advertising purposes. You can do this either on this website or on the English website.

  • Integration of third-party services and content: We may use third-party services on our website – for example, to display videos, maps, fonts (web fonts) or other content. The provision of this content makes it necessary to transmit your IP address to the respective third-party provider so that they can deliver the content in question correctly to your browser. We endeavor to include as little external content as possible on our website and only include content whose providers only use your IP address to provide the requested content. However, we would like to point out that third-party providers may also use so-called „pixel tags“ or „web beacons“ to statistically evaluate information such as the number of users on websites visited. Such information may be stored in pseudonymous form in cookies on your computer. This includes information about your browser or the operating system of your computer, information about referring websites, visit times and duration and the pages visited on our website. This data may be combined with information from other sources. Please refer to the help information of your web browser to find out how you can prevent the use of cookies or delete cookies already stored on your computer.
  • The following third-party services and content are integrated on our website: 

      


    • Google Services: We use interactive maps from Google Maps on our website. These are a service provided by Google LLC, 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA. You can find Google’s privacy policy hereandinformation about your opt-out options here.

    • Youtube: Our websites may include videos that are hosted on the YouTube platform of the provider Google LLC, 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA. You can find the data protection information on the use of these videos here. 

    • Disclosure of your data to third parties: Your data will only be disclosed to third parties if this is permitted or required under European data protection law. This is the case if you have expressly consented to the transfer of your data and/or the transfer is necessary for the performance of the contract. The disclosure of your data is also permitted under data protection law if the enforcement of regulations of other laws (e.g. criminal law regulations) requires the disclosure and there is nothing to prevent this disclosure from a data protection perspective. The disclosure of your data is also legal if we have a legitimate interest in disclosing the relevant information (e.g. when placing an order with a third party, when using an agent or a web host). The transfer of your data within the framework of an order processing contract takes place exclusively on the basis of Art. 28 GDPR. You can rest assured that we will always have the possible transfer of personal data to third parties checked in advance in accordance with data protection law.
    • Transfer of your data to third countries: If we process personal data in a third country (i.e. a country outside the European Union or the European Economic Area) or have it processed by third parties, e.g. in the context of the use of a service, this is done solely for the purpose of fulfilling our contractual obligations, with your consent or on the basis of a corresponding legal obligation. Your data will only be transferred to or processed in third countries if such transfer or processing is legally and/or contractually lawful and if the special requirements of Art. 44 et seq. of the GDPR are met. Special conditions exist, for example, if the third country is officially recognized as having a level of data protection equivalent to that of the EU. Relevant guarantees or the agreement of officially recognized contractual obligations (so-called standard contractual clauses) also constitute special conditions for the transfer of data to third countries.

    Your rights as a data subject

    


    At this point, we would like to briefly inform you about the data protection rights that you can exercise vis-à-vis our practice.


      


    • Right of access / right to rectification: You have the right to receive information about your personal data stored by us or to request copies of this data at any time. Please send us an email to info@praxis-abel.de . We may only process accurate personal data relating to you. If you discover – for example by exercising your right to information – that a piece of data about you is inaccurate or incomplete or has become inaccurate/incomplete, we are generally obliged to correct it immediately.

    • Right to erasure / right to block: We only process your data for the purposes stated in this privacy policy. We initially only need this data to process the data you have requested (e.g. processing your message, checking your request). In some cases, we may be legally obliged to store your data for a certain period of time. If we do not need your data during this period, we will block it. However, you have the right to request the immediate deletion of your data or to request that the processing of your data be restricted. You also have the right to have the data we have stored about you transferred to yourself or to another controller before it is deleted.

    • Right to object / right to withdraw consent: If you have a statutory right to object to the data processing described in this privacy policy, we will inform you of this at the appropriate point. You also have the option of exercising your right to object at the relevant points. In addition, you have the right to revoke any consent you have already given to the collection or processing of your data with effect for the future or to object to the future collection and processing of your personal data at any time in advance. This objection can be made in particular if the processing of your data serves the purpose of direct advertising.
    • If you do not agree with our handling of your personal data, you can lodge a complaint with the competent supervisory authority.

    • Change of the data protection information: We reserve the right to occasionally adapt parts of this privacy policy so that they always comply with current legal requirements or to implement changes to our services in the privacy policy, e.g. when introducing new services. The new privacy policy will then apply to your next visit. If your prior consent is required for the introduction of a new service, we will inform you accordingly in good time and ask for your consent.
    • This privacy policy is dated 13.01.2025