Data protection notice

Data protection information 

Schultze & Braun homepage  (www.schultze-braun.de)

(Status: June 2025)

1. Parties responsible for data collection (the controller)

Schultze & Braun GmbH & Co. KG

in joint responsibility with:

Schultze & Braun Rechtsanwaltsgesellschaft für Insolvenzverwaltung mbH

Schultze & Braun GmbH Rechtsanwaltsgesellschaft Wirtschaftsprüfungsgesellschaft

Schultze & Braun GmbH Rechtsanwaltsgesellschaft

Schultze & Braun GmbH Steuerberatungsgesellschaft Wirtschaftsprüfungsgesellschaft

Schultze & Braun Managed Exit GmbH

Contact details

Eisenbahnstraße 19-23

77855 Achern

Tel: +49 7841 7080

E-mail: mail@schultze-braun.de

2. Data Protection Officer

Contact details

Eisenbahnstraße 19-23

77855 Achern

Tel: +49 7841 7080

dsb@schultze-braun.de

3. Collection and processing of personal data when visiting the Schultze & Braun website

We are glad you are visiting our website and appreciate your interest in our services. The protection of your personal data is very important to us. In this privacy policy, we explain how we collect your personal data, what we do with it, for what purposes and on what legal bases this occurs, and what rights and claims you have in this regard.

Our privacy policy does not apply to activities on the websites of social networks or other providers that you can access via links on our website. You can find out about the data protection provisions of the individual providers on their respective websites. 

3.1 Public website

When you visit our website, anonymous web server logs are generated, which we store for statistical purposes (e.g. number of visits, error tracking). 

The legal basis for this processing is Schultze & Braun's legitimate interest in processing your data (Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR). 

Further evaluation of your usage data will not take place without your consent.

The following user information about the browser and operating system you are using will be stored:

• IP address and name of your Internet service provider (stored for security reasons, in particular to prevent and detect attacks on our websites or attempts at fraud, for a period of seven days) 

• Language and version of the browser software

• Date and time of your visit

• Access status (e.g. whether you were able to call up a website or received an error message)

• Use of website functions

• Search terms entered

• Website from which you accessed our website

• Website you are visiting from our website (either by clicking on links on our website or by entering a domain directly into the input field of the same tab (or the same window) of your browser in which you opened our website)

• Content of the request (specific page)

• Amount of data transferred

Other personal data will only be processed if you provide this data, e.g. as part of a registration or in a contact form, etc., and even then only to the extent that we are permitted to do so based on your consent or in accordance with applicable legal provisions.

You are not legally or contractually obliged to provide your personal data. However, it is possible that your use of certain functions of our website depends on the provision of your personal data. If you do not provide personal data in these cases, this may result in functions not being available or only being available to a limited extent.

3.2 Personal entries

Furthermore, your personal data, including your e-mail address, will only be stored if you provide this information voluntarily. 

The Schultze & Braun website contains contact forms that can be used to contact us electronically. If you use this option, the data entered in the input mask will be transmitted to us and stored.

Schultze & Braun processes the personal data from the input mask for further processing in connection with establishing contact. 

Alternatively, you can contact us via the e-mail address provided. In this case, the personal data transmitted with the e-mail will be stored. 

To contact us, please click here: Contact

The legal bases for this data processing are your consent (Art. 6(1)(a) GDPR), for the performance of a contract (Art. 6(1)(b) GDPR), due to legal obligations (Art. 6(1)(c) GDPR) or to fulfil the legitimate interests of Schultze & Braun (Art. 6 (1)(f) GDPR).

4. Intended uses

We use the personal data collected during your visit to our website to make the website as user-friendly as possible for you and to protect our IT systems from attacks and other illegal activities.

If you provide us with further personal data, e.g. as part of a registration, in a contact form or for the execution of a contract, we will use this data for the stated purposes.

We also use personal data to the extent that we are legally obliged to do so (e.g. storage for the fulfilment of commercial or tax-related retention obligations, disclosure in accordance with official or court orders, e.g. to a law enforcement authority).

5. Cookies

Cookies may be used when you visit our website. Cookies are small files that are stored on your desktop, notebook or mobile device during your visit to a website and are read out later. They can be used, for example, to recognise whether there has already been a connection between your device and our website, to take your preferred language or other settings into account, to offer you certain functions or to identify your interests based on your usage. Cookies may also contain personal data.

Whether and which cookies are used when you visit our website depends on which areas and functions you use and whether you agree to the use of cookies that are not absolutely necessary, i.e. typically for technical reasons. 

Schultze & Braun uses the open source software Matomo (www.matomo.org) on its website. When you call up our website, the data specified in section 3.1 is stored. We require this data to carry out a statistical analysis of visitor traffic in order to optimise the website and its user-friendliness. The data collected is stored exclusively on our servers. The data is not passed on to third parties. The stored anonymised data from Matomo will be deleted at the latest after one year. 

If you do not wish to support us with the pseudonymised analysis of our website, you can object to this data processing by clicking the button below and changing your settings. Your visits to this website will then no longer be recorded by the website analysis. 

Further information and decision options are available by clicking the following button:

Furthermore, a cookie must be set for the login function if you are logging in to the Schultze & Braun website using a specific user ID and password (e.g. to attend an event offered by Schultze & Braun). 

The use of cookies also depends on the settings of the web browser you are using (e.g. Microsoft Edge, Google Chrome, Apple Safari, Mozilla Firefox). Most web browsers are pre-set to automatically accept certain types of cookies, but you can usually change this setting. You can delete existing cookies at any time. You can delete Web/DOM storage and local shared objects separately. Please refer to the manufacturer's instructions for information on how this works in the browser or device you are using.

Consent (= agreement) to, rejection or deletion of cookies are linked to the device used and also to the web browser used in each case. If you are using several devices or web browsers, you can make different decisions or settings for each one.

If you decide against the use of cookies or delete them, you may not be able to use all the functions of our website or may only be able to use some of them to a limited extent. 

6. Transfer of personal data to third parties; social plug-ins; use of service providers

Our website may also contain offers from third parties. If you click on such an offer, we will transfer data to the respective provider to the extent necessary (e.g. the information that you found this offer on our website and, if necessary, further information that you have already provided on our website).

6.1 Social plug-ins

If we use what are known as social plug-ins from social networks such as LinkedIn on our website, we integrate them as follows:

When you visit our website, the social plug-ins are deactivated, i.e. no data is transferred to the operators of these networks. If you wish to use one of the networks, click the respective social plug-in to establish a direct connection to the server of the respective network.

If you have a user account with the network and are logged in there at the time of activating the social plug-in, the network can assign your visit to our website to your user account. If you would like to avoid this, please log out of the network before activating the social plug-in. 

When you activate a social plug-in, the network transfers the content that becomes available directly to your browser, which then integrates it into our website. In this situation, data transfers initiated and controlled by the respective social network may also take place. The data protection provisions of the respective network apply exclusively to your connection to a social network, the data transfers that take place between the network and your system, and your interactions on this platform.

The social plug-in remains active until you deactivate it or delete your cookies.

If you click on a link to an offer or activate a social plug-in, personal data may be transferred to providers in countries outside the European Economic Area that, from the perspective of the European Union (“EU”), do not guarantee an “adequate level of protection” for the processing of personal data in accordance with EU standards. 

6.2 Use of service providers

We also use qualified service providers (e.g. IT service providers) to operate, optimise and secure our website. We only pass on personal data to these service providers if this is necessary for the provision and use of the website and its functions, to pursue legitimate interests, to fulfil legal obligations or if you have consented to this. 

You can access the online creditor information system GIS (STP Business Information GmbH) via our website. When you click the GIS button, your browser establishes a direct connection to the STP server. Information about data collection and data use by STP can be found in their privacy policies at https://www.insolvenz-portal.de/datenschutz-datensicherheit. 

You can call up the careers page, which includes job vacancies among other things, via the Schultze & Braun website. Clicking the Unsolicited application button or calling up one of the job vacancies will redirect you to the Schultze & Braun applicant portal, which is operated on the server of the service provider BITE GmbH. 

Your browser establishes a direct connection with the BITE server. Information about data collection and data use by BITE can be found in their privacy policies at https://www.b-ite.de/legal-notice.html. Applications can then be made via another button (e-mail application or online application). 

Further information on data collection and data use for applicants to Schultze & Braun can be found at https://www.schultze-braun.de/rechtliches/datenschutz-bewerber. 

7. Video integration via YouTube

Videos from YouTube are embedded on our website. This is done using what is known as a 2-click solution, which means that the standard data is only transferred to Google when you click on the video. 

The following data may be transferred:

• IP address

• The specific address of the page you visited on our website, possibly the page from which you reached us

• The transmitted browser ID

• System date and time of the visit

Google may receive additional data via cookies that have already been stored. Google is responsible for this data. If you are not accessing pages with embedded videos, data is not transferred to YouTube or Google.

By activating the enhanced data protection mode, Schultze & Braun sets the YouTube function ”no-cookies” (i.e. videos are not called up via youtube.com, but via youtube-nocookie.com). This function is provided by YouTube itself and ensures that initially no cookies are stored on users' devices. As soon as the playback of an embedded video is started when a user clicks on it, thanks to the enhanced data protection mode, YouTube only stores cookies on the user's device that do not contain any personally identifiable data, unless the user is currently logged in to a Google service. These cookies can be prevented by adjusting your browser settings and extensions accordingly. 

Further information on data protection at YouTube, in particular on the forwarding of user 

data, can be found in the provider's privacy policy at 

https://www.google.de/intl/de/policies/privacy/.

8. Newsletter

If you subscribe to a newsletter offered on our website, the data provided when you register for the newsletter will only be used for sending the newsletter, unless you consent to further use. You can end the subscription at any time using the unsubscribe option provided in the newsletter.

Your data will be stored until you revoke your consent to receive the newsletter. The e-mail address will remain stored in order to log the revocation.

Click here to Subscribe to the newsletter.

9. Legal bases for data processing

We collect your personal data when you contact us, in particular when you register for our online services (such as newsletters) or contact us by e-mail or telephone.

We process personal data to the extent specified on the basis of your granted consent (cf. Art. 6 para. 1 lit. a) GDPR). If you have given your consent to the processing of personal data for specific purposes (e.g. newsletter registration), the legality of this processing is based on your consent. Consent that has been given can be revoked at any time without giving reasons.

Please note that a revocation only applies to the future Processing that took place before the revocation is not affected.

The processing of personal data for the provision of our services, in particular for the implementation of pre-contractual measures, is based on the legal basis for the fulfilment of contractual obligations (cf. Art. 6 (1) (b) GDPR).

Your personal data may be processed by Schultze & Braun on the basis of other legal obligations, e.g. if this is required by law (cf. Art. 6 (1) (c) GDPR) or is in the public interest (cf. Art. 6 (1) (e) GDPR).

Where necessary, Schultze & Braun will process your data beyond the actual fulfilment of the contract within the scope of a balancing of interests to protect our legitimate interests or those of third parties (cf. Art. 6 (1) (f) GDPR). Examples of this include ensuring IT security and IT operations (e.g. transmission protocols), reviewing and optimising procedures for needs analysis, and asserting legal claims and defending against legal disputes.

10. Links to other websites

If you call up an external website from our site (external link), the external provider may receive information from your browser about which page you came from. The external provider is responsible for this data. 

Like every other provider, we are not in a position to influence this process.

11. Transfer of personal data to a third country

In the context of remote maintenance of standard IT components, it cannot be ruled out that, in individual cases, an IT service provider from a third country (e.g. the USA or India) may, in rare cases, be granted controlled and limited access to personal data for the purpose of troubleshooting. Personal data will only be transferred to Microsoft or other service providers outside the European Economic Area (EEA) if the third country has been confirmed by the EU Commission as having an adequate level of data protection or if other appropriate data protection guarantees are in place (e.g. self-certification under the Trans-Atlantic Data Privacy Framework, EU standard contractual clauses with additional safeguards, if required on the basis of a transfer impact assessment, or if there are binding internal data protection regulations).

12. Deletion of your personal data

We delete your IP address and the name of your Internet service provider, which we store solely for security reasons, after seven days. 

Otherwise, we delete your personal data as soon as the purpose for which we collected and processed the data no longer applies. Beyond this point, your data will only be stored to the extent required by the laws, regulations or other legal provisions to which we are subject in the EU or in accordance with the legal provisions of third countries if an adequate level of data protection is ensured there. 

If deletion is not possible in individual cases, the relevant personal data will be marked with the aim of restricting its future processing.

13. Rights of data subjects

As a data subject, you have the right to information (Art. 15 GDPR), rectification (Art. 16 GDPR), erasure (Art. 17 GDPR), restriction of processing (Art. 18 GDPR) and data portability (Art. 20 GDPR).

You have the right to object at any time, on grounds relating to your particular situation, to the processing of personal data concerning you, provided that such processing is carried out within the scope of a balancing of interests or in the public interest. You may object to the use of your personal data for direct marketing purposes at any time without providing reasons. 

If you have consented to us processing your personal data, you have the right to revoke your consent at any time. The legality of the processing of your personal data until the point of revocation remains unaffected by the revocation. Further processing of this data on another legal basis, such as to fulfil legal obligations, remains unaffected.