Identity of this website
Our website address is: https://www.joachimostermann.com. This website is operated by the individual identified on the site and their service providers. You may contact us using the contact form on this website for privacy-related inquiries.
Data collection and retention
We do not sell, rent, or use your personal information for third-party marketing purposes. Personal information is collected through web forms, cookies, and email communication. We process personal data on the basis of your consent and our legitimate interest in responding to inquiries and operating this website. Where processing is based on consent, you may withdraw your consent at any time.
When visitors fill out a form on the website, we collect the data shown in the form, as well as metadata which may be useful for spam detection such as the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string. When you contact us using the website contact form, we collect your email address and the message you submit. This information is used solely to respond to your inquiry and for personal correspondence with you. This website does not use personal information for automated decision-making or profiling.
We may retain your email address for future direct communication related to this website. In rare cases, this may include sending a general announcement or update to multiple recipients. You may opt out of such communications at any time. Form submissions and email correspondence may be retained for as long as reasonably necessary to respond to inquiries and maintain relevant communication history, unless you request deletion.
Use of cookies
This website uses cookies primarily for functional and performance purposes. Cookies may be set for reasons including but not limited to:
- ensure basic site functionality
- improve performance and caching
- support form submission and email delivery
- assist with search engine optimization
- help protect the site from abuse or automated traffic
These cookies do not knowingly collect personal information for advertising or profiling purposes. You can control or disable cookies through your browser settings. Disabling cookies may affect how some parts of the website function.
Third parties
We do not sell or share personal data with third parties for marketing purposes.
Email messages sent through the contact form may be delivered using an SMTP email delivery service, and message contents may be temporarily processed or stored by that service for delivery purposes. These messages may be processed by email servers located outside your country of residence, depending on the email service provider used. Reasonable safeguards are used to protect data during transmission.
Form submissions may be checked through an automated spam detection service.
Embedded external content
Pages on this website may include embedded content (such as videos or images). Embedded content from other websites behaves in the same way as if you visited those websites directly. These external websites may collect data about you, use cookies, or track your interaction with their embedded content, according to their own privacy policies.
Service provider accounts
This website does not support public user account registration. Service providers working in collaboration with the website owner may be invited to register for a user account in order to contribute to its maintenance and improvement. We store the personal information that these users provide in their profile. All users can see, edit, or delete their personal information at any time (except they cannot change their username). Website administrators can also see and edit that information.
If you visit our login page, we may set a temporary cookie which contains no personal data and is discarded when you close your browser to determine if your browser accepts cookies. When you log in, we may also set up several cookies to save your login information which may last up to two days, and your screen display choices which may last up to a year. If you select “Remember Me”, your login may persist for two weeks. If you log out of your account, the login cookies will be removed. If you request a password reset, your IP address will be included in the reset email.
If you edit or publish an article, an additional cookie may be saved in your browser. In that case, this cookie includes no personal data and simply indicates the post ID of the article you just edited, and it expires after 1 day. If you upload images to the website, you should avoid uploading images with embedded location data (EXIF GPS) included. Visitors to the website can download and extract any location data from images on the website.
For users with accounts, an anonymized string created from your email address (also called a hash) may be provided to the Gravatar service to see if you are using it. The Gravatar service privacy policy is available here: https://automattic.com/privacy/. Your profile picture may be visible to the public in the context of your published content.
Personal data rights
If you have contacted us through this website, you may request:
- access to the personal data we hold about you
- correction of inaccurate information
- deletion of your personal data
The person responsible for the protection of personal information is the website owner, who can be contacted using the contact form. We may retain certain information where required for administrative, legal, or security purposes.
You also have the right to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority in your place of residence, workplace, or where an alleged infringement occurred. Where applicable, you may also request restriction of processing or portability of your personal data.
Changes to this policy
This privacy policy may be updated from time to time to reflect changes to the website or applicable legal requirements. Updates will be posted on this page.