Data Privacy

Processing and transferring personal data in compliance with EU and German law is an important aspect of any company’s compliance program. We support our clients in preparing and implementing data privacy policies and procedures that are practical and in compliance with the law. We advise in all areas of data privacy law.

Protecting personal data is an ever-present issue and challenge for any company, in particular as information becomes increasingly digitalized and network systems become increasingly inter-connected.

With our many years of expertise, we support companies, public-sector institutions, associations, and non-profits in implementing data privacy policies and procedures that comply with the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), Germany’s Federal Data Protection Act, and other state-specific regulations. We, of course, also advise on practice-specific data privacy issues, including labor and employment matters, competition law, and IT law.

We review data processing procedures as requested by our clients and prepare the necessary legal texts and policies. In addition, we support our clients in responding to inquiries from data subjects (e.g., employees asking for information being maintained on them) and represent our clients vis-à-vis regulatory authorities and in litigation. We also offer training courses to our clients on data privacy matters and provide sample forms that our clients may use in their organizations.

Through our subsidiary, SCHIEDERMAIR Beratungsgesellschaft für Datenschutz mbH (SCHIEDERMAIR Consulting Company for Data Privacy with Limited Liability), our data privacy attorneys may also be appointed as an external data privacy officer for your company or organization.