Privacy Policy
1. Privacy at a Glance
General Information
The following information provides a simple overview of what happens to your personal data when you visit this website. Personal data is any data that can be used to personally identify you.
Data Collection on This Website
Who is responsible for data collection on this website?
Data processing on this website is carried out by the website operator:
Frank Oliver Schmitz
Email: foschmitz@gmail.com
2. Hosting
This website is hosted externally. The personal data collected on this website is stored on the host's servers. This may include IP addresses, contact requests, meta and communication data, contract data, contact details, names, website access, and other data generated via a website.
3. Contact Form
If you send us inquiries via the contact form, your details from the inquiry form, including the contact data you provide there, will be stored by us for the purpose of processing the inquiry and in case of follow-up questions.
Service Provider for the Contact Form:
We use Formspree to process the contact form.
Formspree, Inc.
3500 South DuPont Highway, Suite GR-101
Dover, DE 19901, USA
Website: https://formspree.io
Privacy Policy: https://formspree.io/legal/privacy-policy
When you use the contact form, the following data is transmitted to Formspree:
- Name
- Email address
- Company (optional)
- Area of interest
- Message content
- IP address
- Timestamp of submission
Data processing is based on Art. 6(1)(b) GDPR (contract initiation) and Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR (legitimate interest in responding to inquiries). Formspree is certified under the EU-US Data Privacy Framework.
4. External Fonts (Google Fonts)
This website uses web fonts provided by Google for uniform display of fonts. When you access a page, your browser loads the required web fonts into your browser cache to display texts and fonts correctly.
For this purpose, the browser you use must connect to Google's servers. This gives Google knowledge that this website was accessed via your IP address.
Google Ireland Limited
Gordon House, Barrow Street
Dublin 4, Ireland
Privacy Policy: https://policies.google.com/privacy
The use of Google Fonts is based on Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR. The website operator has a legitimate interest in the uniform presentation of fonts on their website.
5. Your Rights
You have the right at any time to:
- Obtain information about your stored personal data (Art. 15 GDPR)
- Request correction of inaccurate data (Art. 16 GDPR)
- Request deletion of your data (Art. 17 GDPR)
- Request restriction of processing (Art. 18 GDPR)
- Request data portability (Art. 20 GDPR)
- Object to processing (Art. 21 GDPR)
- Lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority (Art. 77 GDPR)
6. SSL/TLS Encryption
For security reasons and to protect the transmission of confidential content, this site uses SSL or TLS encryption. You can recognize an encrypted connection by the fact that the address line of the browser changes from "http://" to "https://" and by the lock symbol in your browser line.
7. Changes to This Privacy Policy
This privacy policy is currently valid as of January 2025. Due to changed legal or regulatory requirements, it may become necessary to adapt this privacy policy.