Privacy Policy

1. An Overview of Data Protection

General Information

The following notes provide a simple overview of what happens to your personal data when you visit this website. Personal data is any data with which you can be personally identified.

Data Collection on This Website

Who is responsible for the data collection on this website?
The data processing on this website is carried out by the website operator. You can find the operator’s contact details in the “Information about the Responsible Party” section of this privacy policy.

How do we collect your data?

Data you communicate to us (e.g., entered into a contact form).
Data collected automatically or after your consent by our IT systems (e.g., technical data such as internet browser, operating system, or time of page access).

What do we use your data for?
Part of the data is collected to ensure the error-free provision of the website. Other data can be used to analyze your user behavior.

What rights do you have regarding your data?
You have the right to receive information about the origin, recipient, and purpose of your stored personal data at any time free of charge. You also have a right to request the correction or deletion of this data.

2. Hosting and Content Delivery Networks (CDN)

External Hosting: Lima-City

Our website is hosted by an external service provider:

Provider: TrafficPlex GmbH, Konsul-Smidt-Straße 90, 2817 Bremen, Germany (hereinafter “Lima-City“).
Data Processed: Personal data collected on this website is stored on the hoster’s servers. This includes IP addresses, contact requests, meta and communication data, page views, and other data generated via a website.
Legal Basis: The use of Lima-City is based on Art. 6 (1) (f) GDPR. We have a legitimate interest in a secure, fast, and efficient provision of our website by a professional provider.
Server Log Files: Lima-City automatically collects and stores information in server log files, which your browser automatically transmits to us. These are: IP address, unique ID of the access, and the User-Agent-Header (browser type/version, operating system). These server logs are stored for up to 7 days for security reasons and are then anonymized or deleted.
Data Processing Agreement: We have concluded a Data Processing Agreement (AVV) with Lima-City in accordance with Art. 28 GDPR to ensure compliant data handling.

3. General Notes and Mandatory Information

Information about the Responsible Party (Controller)

The responsible party for data processing on this website is:

FlorianMeixnerDEV
Email: florianmeixnerdev@gmail.com

Storage Duration

Unless a specific storage period has been specified in this privacy policy, your personal data will remain with us until the purpose for data processing no longer applies. If you assert a legitimate request for deletion or revoke your consent, your data will be deleted unless we have other legally permissible reasons for storing it.

Rights of the Data Subject

You have the right to:

Information (Art. 15 GDPR): Request details about your processed data.
Rectification (Art. 16 GDPR): Request immediate correction of incorrect data.
Erasure (Art. 17 GDPR): Request deletion of your personal data.
Restriction of Processing (Art. 18 GDPR): Request restrictions on data usage.
Data Portability (Art. 20 GDPR): Receive your data in a machine-readable format.
Revocation of Consent (Art. 7 (3) GDPR): Revoke any previously granted data consent.
Right to Lodge a Complaint (Art. 77 GDPR): File a complaint with a data protection supervisory authority.

4. Plugins and Tools

Jetpack (WordPress-Stats and Security)

We integrate the plugin Jetpack on this website.

Provider: Automattic Inc., 60 29th Street #343, San Francisco, CA 94110, USA.
Purpose and Data Collection: Jetpack uses cookies and tracking technologies to analyze visitor behavior, measure traffic (Jetpack Stats), and provide security functions (such as brute force protection). When you visit a page, technical data (such as your IP address, browser type, referrer URL, and time of access) as well as your interactions on the site may be transmitted to servers in the USA.
Data Transfer to the USA: Automattic Inc. is certified under the EU-US Data Privacy Framework, meaning an adequate level of data protection is guaranteed for data transfers to the US.
Legal Basis: The use of Jetpack analytics features requires your explicit consent via our cookie banner (Art. 6 (1) (a) GDPR). The use of Jetpack security features is based on Art. 6 (1) (f) GDPR, as we have a legitimate interest in protecting our website against cyberattacks.
Opt-Out: Visitors can object to the tracking of usage data by clicking the opt-out link provided in Automattic’s Cookie Policy.

5. Data Collection and WordPress-Specific Features

Cookies

Our website uses “cookies”. Cookies are small text files that do not cause any damage to your device. They are either stored temporarily for the duration of a session (session cookies) or permanently (permanent cookies) on your device.

WordPress Core Cookies: WordPress sets technical cookies that are strictly necessary for the core functionality of the website (e.g., storing your login status or your chosen language).
Lima-City Security Cookies: Our hoster Lima-City may set essential cookies (such as _lcp, _lcp2, _lcp3) as part of a bot block or brute-force protection to keep the server secure.
Legal Basis: The storage of necessary cookies is based on Art. 6 (1) (f) GDPR. We have a legitimate interest in storing cookies for the technically error-free provision of our services. For non-essential cookies (e.g., tracking), processing is based on your explicit consent (Art. 6 (1) (a) GDPR).

WordPress Comments Function

If you use the comment function on this website, your comment, the time of creation, your email address, and your chosen username will be stored alongside your IP address.

Legal Basis: The storage of comments is based on your consent (Art. 6 (1) (a) GDPR). You can revoke your consent at any time for future processing.
Storage Period: Comments and the associated data remain on our website until the commented content has been completely deleted or the comments must be deleted for legal reasons.

Contact Forms

If you send us inquiries via a contact form, your data from the inquiry form, including the contact details you provided there, will be stored by us for the purpose of processing the inquiry.

Legal Basis: The processing of this data is based on Art. 6 (1) (b) GDPR if your request is related to the fulfillment of a contract. In all other cases, the processing is based on our legitimate interest in the effective processing of the inquiries (Art. 6 (1) (f) GDPR).