Privacy Notice

1. Introduction

2. Scope

3. Corporate Accounting Services

3.1 Information Collection

• Personal Details (e.g., name, age/date of birth, gender, marital status, country of resident, SSN, ITIN)
• Contact Details (e.g., email address, phone number, postal address)
• Financial Details (e.g., salary, payroll details and other financial-related details such as income,
• investments and other financial interests)

3.4.1 Third Party Organizations

3.4.2 Data Residency

4. Personal Accounting Services

4.1 Information Collection

• Personal Details (e.g., name, age/date of birth, gender, marital status, country of resident, SSN, ITIN)
• Family Details (e.g., dependents and other household information)
• Contact Details (e.g., email address, phone number, postal address)
• Financial details (e.g., salary, payroll details and other financial-related details such as income, investments and other financial interests)

4.2 Information Use

• Providing professional services and products
  
• Security, quality and risk management activities 
  
1.   Personal information may be processed as part of security monitoring that we undertake to detect, investigate and resolve security threats
1.   We monitor the services provided to clients for quality and risk purposes, which may involve processing personal information stored within Rödl & Partner USA’s data environment.
   
2.   We collect and hold personal information as part of our client engagement and acceptance procedures, including carrying out search using publicly available sources.        
• Providing our clients and prospective clients with information about us and our range of services
  
1.   With consent or otherwise in accordance with applicable law, we use client contact details to provide information that we think may be of interest about us and our services.
• Complying with any requirement of law, regulation or professional body of which we are a member
1.   Rödl & Partner USA is subject to legal, regulatory and professional obligations. We retain certain records to demonstrate our compliance with those obligations and those records may contain personal information. 

4.3 Information Retention

4.4 Information Sharing

4.4.1 Third Party Organizations

4.5 Data Residency

5. Websites and Applications

5.1 Information Collection

• Information you provide
• Automatic tracking technologies
  
  

5.1.1 Information you provide

5.1.2 Automatically collected information

5.2 Information Use

• Operating and Improving the Site
• Contacting you per explicit requests
• Maintaining and improving security of the Site
• Preventing and enhancing protection against fraud, spam, harassment, intellectual property infringement, crime and security risks.
• Complying with law and legal obligations
• Responding to inquiries

5.3 Information Sharing

5.3.1 Third Party Organizations

5.3.2 Your Choices

6. Recruitment and Job Postings

We collect and use personal information in connection with career opportunities within Rödl & Partner USA.

All position postings and application processes are provided by a third party, Jobvite. All information provided is stored and processed within Jobvite before being transferred to Rödl & Partner USA. 

6.1 Information Collection

• Contact Details
• Education, academic and professional qualifications
• Employment history
• Areas of interest and specialized knowledge/subject matter
• Other information included within your resume/CV that you choose to submit
  

6.2 Information Use

• To evaluate you for open positions that match your interests and experience throughout Rödl & Partner USA, manage your talent profile, send you email notification and other announcements
• To administer and manage our careers website and communicate with you about careers at Rödl & Partner USA
  
  

7. User Subscribed Mass Communications

7.1  Information Collection

• Contact Details (e.g. Name, Position, Company, Address, Phone, Email Address)

7.2 Information Use

• To evaluate the effectiveness of our marketing, recruiting, and awareness campaigns
• To notify subscribers of new events, products, and services. 

7.3 Information Retention

8. EU-U.S. Data Privacy Framework with UK Extension 

Rödl & Partner complies with the EU-U.S. Data Privacy Framework (EU-U.S. DPF) and the UK Extension to the EU-U.S. DPF. Rödl & Partner USA has certified to the U.S. Department of Commerce that it adheres to the EU-U.S. Data Privacy Framework Principles (EU-U.S. DPF Principles) with regard to the processing of personal data received from the European Union and the United Kingdom in reliance on the EU-U.S. DPF and the UK Extension to the EU-U.S. DPF, the Principles shall govern.  To learn more about the Data Privacy Framework (DPF) program, and to view our certification, please visit https://www.dataprivacyframework.gov/

Rödl & Partner USA is responsible for the processing of personal data it receives, under the DPF, and subsequently transfers to a third party acting as an agent on its behalf.  Rödl & Partner USA complies with the DPF Principles for all onward transfers of personal data from the EU, UK, and Switzerland, including the onward transfer liability provisions.

The Federal Trade Commission [OR U.S. Department of Transportation] has jurisdiction over [Rödl & Partner USA's compliance with the EU-U.S. DPF, the UK Extension to the EU-U.S. DPF, and the Swiss-U.S. DPF. In certain situations, Rödl & Partner USA may be required to disclose personal data in response to lawful requests by public authorities, including to meet national security or law enforcement requirements. 

In compliance with the EU-U.S. DPF, the UK Extension to the EU-U.S. DPF, and the Swiss-U.S. DPF, Rödl & Partner USA commits to refer unresolved complaints concerning our handling of personal data received in reliance on the EU-U.S. DPF, the UK Extension to the EU-U.S. DPF, and the Swiss-U.S. DPF to TRUSTe, an alternative dispute resolution provider based in the United States.  If you do not receive timely acknowledgment of your DPF Principles-related complaint from us, or if we have not addressed your DPF Principles-related complaint to your satisfaction, please visit https://feedback-form.truste.com/watchdog/request for more information or to file a complaint.  These dispute resolution services are provided at no cost to you.

For complaints regarding DPF compliance not resolved by any of the other DPF mechanisms, you have the possibility, under certain conditions, to invoke binding arbitration. Further information can be found on the official DPF website.

9. Access

10. Rödl & Partner USA Contacts

11. Changes to this Policy Notice

Find our data protection and privacy policy here.