This privacy notice details how Cabinet Günther Schmalz (Monaco Patents & Trademarks) represented by Dipl.-Ing. Günther Schmalz (data controller) uses and protects the information you provide to the firm via this website.

Cabinet Günther Schmalz (Monaco Patents & Trademarks) is committed to ensuring that your privacy is perfectly protected. In our view providing a contact form introduces additional vulnerability. Cabinet Günther Schmalz (Monaco Patents & Trademarks) therefore decided not to collect any information via their website monaco-patents.com or any landing pages redirecting to this website.

This policy has been updated on 1st January 2023 and will be updated as required on an ongoing basis.

What information do we collect?

Cabinet Günther Schmalz (Monaco Patents & Trademarks) does not collect any information about you via this web site.

How do we use personal information?

Cabinet Günther Schmalz (Monaco Patents & Trademarks) requires your personal information in order to communicate with you when you have contacted us personally, via telephone or via e-mail. We use this information in the following ways:

  • To provide you or any third party that you have instructed to act with us on your behalf with information that has been requested or to provide you or the third party acting on your behalf with information on status and progress of services you or the third party acting on your behalf has instructed us to perform for you;
  • Sharing information where we are required to share your information to fulfill our services you have instructed us to perform on your behalf. The third parties we need to share information to perform our services include especially the Monaco IP office, the European Patent Office, the WIPO, any other regional or national IP office or IP law offices or service providers;
  • Internal record keeping, especially generating and sending out fee notes. 

Apart from the above mentioned legitimate reasons for sharing information, Cabinet Günther Schmalz (Monaco Patents & Trademarks) will not share, rent or sell your personal data.

What legal basis do we have for processing your personal data?

We will only use your personal data for lawful purposes where it is necessary for our legitimate interests and your interests and fundamental rights do not override these interests.

How do we secure your personal data?

Cabinet Günther Schmalz (Monaco Patents & Trademarks) takes the security of your data seriously. It has internal policies and controls in place to ensure that your data is not lost, accidentally destroyed, misused or disclosed, and is not accessed except by our employees in the proper performance of their duties.

Data retention

Cabinet Günther Schmalz (Monaco Patents & Trademarks) will retain your personal data for as long as is necessary through the course of our working relationship with you, or as required by the law.

Your rights

Under GDPR, we respect the right for you to have access and control of your personal data. You have the following rights:

 

  • To access and obtain a copy of your data on request;
  • To require Cabinet Günther Schmalz (Monaco Patents & Trademarks) to change incorrect or incomplete data;
  • To require Cabinet Günther Schmalz (Monaco Patents & Trademarks) to delete or stop processing your data, for example where the data is no longer necessary for the purposes of processing; and
  • To object to the processing of your data where Cabinet Günther Schmalz (Monaco Patents & Trademarks) is relying on its legitimate interests as the legal ground for processing.

 

If you would like to exercise any of these rights, please contact me via e-mail at privacy@monaco-patents.com

You have the right to take any complaints about how we process your personal data to the Data Protection Authority of Monaco (Commission de Contrôle des Informations Nominatives - CCINN)

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All marketing emails, that are sent automatically, will include an option to unsubscribe from future communications. Alternatively, you can contact me via the e-mail privacy@monaco-patents.com