Privacy Policy

Data protection declaration

Unless stated otherwise below, the provision of your personal data is neither legally nor contractually obligatory, nor required for conclusion of a contract. You are not obliged to provide your data. Not providing it will have no consequences. This only applies as long as the processing procedures below do not state otherwise.
“Personal data” is any information relating to an identified or identifiable natural person.

Server log files

You can use our websites without submitting personal data.

Every time our website is accessed, user data is transferred to us or our web hosts/IT service providers by your internet browser and stored in server log files. This stored data includes for example the name of the site called up, date and time of the request, the IP address, amount of data transferred and the provider making the request. The processing is carried out on the basis of Article 6(1) f) GDPR due to our legitimate interests in ensuring the smooth operation of our website as well as improving our services.

Contact

Responsible person
Contact us at any time. The person responsible for data processing is: Jens Puhlmann, David-Gilly-Str. 1, 14469 Potsdam Deutschland, 030/69207236, [email protected]

Proactive contact of the customer by e-mail

If you make contact with us proactively via email, we shall collect your personal data (name, email address, message text) only to the extent provided by you. The purpose of the data processing is to handle and respond to your contact request.

If the initial contact serves to implement pre-contractual measures (e.g. consultation in the case of purchase interest, order creation) or concerns an agreement already concluded between you and us, this data processing takes place on the basis of Article 6(1)(b) GDPR.

If the initial contact occurs for other reasons, this data processing takes place on the basis of Article 6(1)(f) GDPR for the purposes of our overriding, legitimate interest in handling and responding to your request. In this case, on grounds relating to your particular situation, you have the right to object at any time to this processing of personal data concerning you and carried out on the basis of Article 6(1)(f) GDPR.

We will only use your email address to process your request. Your data will subsequently be deleted in compliance with statutory retention periods, unless you have agreed to further processing and use.

Collection and processing when using the contact form

When you use the contact form we will only collect your personal data (name, email address, message text) in the scope provided by you. The data processing is for the purpose of making contact.

Registration

Registration

Our website gives you the option to register by providing your personal data. On registration we collect your personal data in the scope shown there. Your registration is required for the creation of comments and contributions on our website. The processing will be carried out on the basis of art. 6 (1) lit. a GDPR with your consent. You can withdraw your consent at any time by contacting us without affecting the legality of the processing carried out with your consent up to the withdrawal. This will end your registration, and your data saved in the course of the registration will then be deleted.

Cookies

Our website uses cookies. Cookies are small text files which are saved in a user’s internet browser or by the user’s internet browser on their computer system. When a user calls up a website, a cookie may be saved on the user’s operating system. This cookie contains a characteristic character string which allows the browser to be clearly identified when the website is called up again.

Cookies will be stored on your computer. You therefore have full control over the use of cookies. By choosing corresponding technical settings in your internet browser, you can be notified before the setting of cookies and you can decide whether to accept this setting in each individual case as well as prevent the storage of cookies and transmission of the data they contain. Cookies which have already been saved may be deleted at any time. We would, however, like to point out that this may prevent you from making full use of all the functions of this website.
Using the links below, you can find out how to manage cookies (or deactivate them, among other things) in major browsers:
Chrome Browser: https://support.google.com/accounts/answer/61416?hl=en
Microsoft Edge: https://support.microsoft.com/de-de/microsoft-edge/cookies-in-microsoft-edge-lB6schen-63947406-40ac-c3b8-57b9-2a946a29ae09
Mozilla Firefox: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/enable-and-disable-cookies-website-preferences
Safari: https://support.apple.com/de-de/guide/safari/manage-cookies-and-website-data-sfri11471/mac

technically necessary cookies
Insofar as no other information is given in the data protection declaration below we use only these technically necessary cookies cookies to make our offering more user-friendly, effective and secure. Cookies also allow our systems to recognise your browser after a page change and to offer you services. Some functions of our website cannot be offered without the use of cookies. These services require the browser to be recognised again after a page change.

The use of cookies or comparable technologies is carried out on the basis of Art. 25 para. 2 TDDDG. Processing is carried out on the basis of art. 6 (1) lit. f GDPR due to our largely justified interest in ensuring the optimal functionality of the website as well as a user-friendly and effective design of our range of services.
You have the right to veto this processing of your personal data according to art. 6 (1) lit. f GDPR, for reasons relating to your personal situation.

Rights of persons affected and storage duration

Duration of Storage
The data will be stored under consideration of legal retention periods and then deleted after expiration of the period, unless you have not agreed to further processing and use.

Rights of the affected person

If the legal requirements are fulfilled, you have the following rights according to art. 15 to 20 GDPR: Right to information, correction, deletion, restriction of processing, data portability. You also have a right of objection against processing based on art. 6 (1) GDPR, and to processing for the purposes of direct marketing, according to art. 21 (1) GDPR.

Right to complain to the regulatory authority

You have the right to complain to the regulatory authority according to art. 77 GDPR if you believe that your data is not being processed legally.

You can lodge a complaint with, among others, the supervisory authority responsible for us, which you may reach at the following contact details:Landesbeauftragte für den Datenschutz und für das Recht auf Akteneinsicht
Stahnsdorfer Damm 77
14532 Kleinmachnow
Tel.: +49 33203 3560
Fax: +49 33203 35649
E-Mail: [email protected]

Right to object

If the data processing outlined here is based on our legitimate interests in accordance with Article 6(1)f) GDPR, you have the right for reasons arising from your particular situation to object at any time to the processing of your data with future effect.

If the objection is successful, we will no longer process the personal data, unless we can demonstrate compelling legitimate grounds for the processing that outweigh your interests or rights and freedoms, or the processing is intended for the assertion, exercise or defence of legal claims.

Third Parties

Cloudflare (website delivery and protection)
Our website is delivered through the network of Cloudflare, Inc., 101 Townsend St, San Francisco, CA 94107, USA (“Cloudflare”). All requests to the website pass through Cloudflare’s servers and are forwarded from there to our server in encrypted form. In doing so, Cloudflare processes the data of your request, in particular your IP address, the requested address, date and time and technical information about your browser (see “Server log files”), and protects the website against attacks and overload. Cloudflare acts as our processor for this purpose (Article 28 GDPR). The processing is carried out on the basis of Article 6(1)(f) GDPR due to our legitimate interest in providing our website securely and reliably. Data may be transferred to the USA in the process. Cloudflare is certified under the EU-U.S. Data Privacy Framework (adequacy decision of the European Commission, Article 45 GDPR); in addition, the European Commission’s standard contractual clauses apply.
Cloudflare privacy policy

Cloudflare Turnstile (protection against automated requests)
To protect against spam and automated requests, we use Cloudflare’s Turnstile service for registration and some other forms (address see above). Your browser loads Turnstile from Cloudflare’s servers. Turnstile evaluates technical characteristics of your request, such as your IP address, your browser identifier (user agent) and characteristics of the encrypted connection, in order to recognise whether a human is using the form. Turnstile does not receive what you enter in the form. According to Cloudflare, the data are not used to identify individuals, build profiles or serve advertising. Cloudflare processes the data as our processor for the detection and as an independent controller for improving the detection. The legal basis is Article 6(1)(f) GDPR, our legitimate interest in protecting the website against misuse. Access to information on your device is based on Section 25(2) no. 2 TDDDG, as it is strictly necessary for this protection. Regarding the transfer to the USA, the information given above for Cloudflare applies.
Turnstile privacy addendum

Push notifications (push services of browser vendors)
If this feature is offered, registered members can choose to be informed about new posts, replies and other events via push notifications in their browser. The feature is voluntary and only active if you switch it on in your notification settings and confirm your browser’s prompt. In this case, we store with your member account the address that your browser’s push service assigns to your device, the associated keys and a device identifier. The push message itself only contains an encrypted identifier; your browser then retrieves the content of the notification directly from us. We keep the content available only briefly and usually delete it after two days at the latest. The message is delivered via the push service of your browser’s vendor, for example Google (Chrome), Mozilla (Firefox), Apple (Safari) or Microsoft (Edge). The push service learns that and when a message is delivered to your device, but not its content. These providers may be based outside the EU, in particular in the USA. The legal basis is your consent (Article 6(1)(a) GDPR, Section 25(1) TDDDG). You can withdraw your consent at any time by switching off push notifications in your notification settings or in your browser; this does not affect the lawfulness of the processing carried out before the withdrawal.

Spam Defense (Invision Community)
The IPS Spam Defense Service passes the email address and IP address of the registering member to the service to determine the likelihood a registering account is a spam source.
Invision Community privacy policy

last update: 15.11.2026

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