Privacy Policy

This English version of the Privacy Policy is provided for informational purposes only. In case of discrepancies or legal interpretation issues, the German version shall prevail.

1. Controller

Responsible for the processing of personal data on this website:

Detlef Meyer-Eltz / t2t-soft
Burggarten 16
20535 Hamburg
Germany

E-Mail: dme [at] texttransformer.de

Legal Notice:
https://www.texttransformer.de/Impressum_ge.html
https://www.texttransformer.com/Impressum_en.html

2. General Information About Data Processing

The protection of your personal data is important to us. Personal data is processed on this website only to the extent technically necessary and for the purpose of handling contact requests.

Personal data means any information relating to an identified or identifiable natural person, such as name, e-mail address, or IP address.

3. Types of Processed Data

Depending on your use of this website, the following data may be processed:

• Inventory data (e.g. name)
• Contact data (e.g. e-mail address)
• Content data (e.g. messages submitted via the contact form)
• Technical connection data (e.g. IP address, browser information, access timestamps)

4. Purpose of Processing

Data processing is carried out in particular for the following purposes:

• Providing and operating the website
• Responding to contact requests
• Communication with users and interested parties
• Security measures and abuse prevention
• Technical administration

5. Legal Basis

The processing of personal data is based in particular on the following provisions of the GDPR:

• Art. 6 para. 1 lit. b GDPR (handling inquiries and pre-contractual measures)
• Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f GDPR (legitimate interests)

Our legitimate interest lies in the secure and stable operation of the website and in efficient communication with users and interested parties.

6. Hosting

This website is hosted by an external hosting provider. Technically necessary data may be processed in this context, especially:

• IP addresses
• Access timestamps
• Browser and system information
• Server log files

The processing is carried out on the basis of our legitimate interest in the secure and reliable operation of the website pursuant to Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f GDPR.

7. Contact Form

If you contact us using the contact form, the data you provide will be processed for the purpose of handling your inquiry.

The following data may in particular be processed:

• Name
• E-mail address
• Message content
• Technical metadata such as IP address and timestamp

We use the Web3Forms service to provide the contact form.

Provider:
Web3Forms
https://web3forms.com

The data is used exclusively for transmitting and processing your request.

The use of the contact form is based on our legitimate interest in simple and secure communication pursuant to Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f GDPR and, where applicable, for pre-contractual measures pursuant to Art. 6 para. 1 lit. b GDPR.

To reduce spam, we use technical protection mechanisms such as honeypot fields. No Google reCAPTCHA integration is used.

8. Transfer to Third Countries

It cannot be excluded that personal data may be processed outside the European Union when using external services.

If data is transferred to third countries, this is done exclusively in compliance with Art. 44 et seq. GDPR and using appropriate safeguards such as standard contractual clauses or comparable protection mechanisms.

9. Cookies

According to the current state of this website, no own cookies are used for analytics, tracking, or advertising purposes.

However, technically necessary connection data may temporarily be processed by the hosting provider or integrated external services.

If your browser nevertheless stores cookies, these are limited to technically necessary browser or infrastructure functions.

10. Storage Duration

Personal data is stored only as long as necessary for the respective purposes or as required by statutory retention obligations.

Contact requests are deleted once processing has been completed and no legal retention obligations apply.

11. Rights of Data Subjects

Under the GDPR, you have in particular the following rights:

• Right of access pursuant to Art. 15 GDPR
• Right to rectification pursuant to Art. 16 GDPR
• Right to erasure pursuant to Art. 17 GDPR
• Right to restriction of processing pursuant to Art. 18 GDPR
• Right to data portability pursuant to Art. 20 GDPR
• Right to object pursuant to Art. 21 GDPR
• Right to withdraw consent pursuant to Art. 7 para. 3 GDPR

12. Right to Lodge a Complaint

You have the right to lodge a complaint with a data protection supervisory authority regarding the processing of your personal data.

13. Security Measures

We implement technical and organizational measures pursuant to Art. 32 GDPR to protect personal data against loss, manipulation, and unauthorized access.

14. Changes to This Privacy Policy

We reserve the right to modify this Privacy Policy to ensure ongoing compliance with current legal requirements or to reflect changes to our services.