Privacy Policy

Responsible Entity in Terms of Data Protection Laws, Especially the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) The responsible party for data processing is the website operator Maximilian Rohowsky, as indicated in the imprint. In case of discrepancies between the German and English version, the German version prevails.

Your Rights as a Data Subject

You can exercise the following rights at any time by simply contacting us (via email at maxdevthings[at]gmail[dot]com):

Information about the personal data we store and its processing,
Rectification of inaccurate personal data,
Deletion of your personal data stored by us,
Restriction of data processing, if we are not allowed to delete your data due to legal obligations,
Objection to the processing of your data by us, and
Data portability, provided you have consented to the data processing or have entered into a contract with us.

If you have given us consent, you can withdraw it at any time with effect for the future.

You can also contact the relevant supervisory authority to file a complaint. The competent supervisory authority is determined by the state where you reside, work, or where the alleged infringement occurred. A list of supervisory authorities (for the non-public sector) with their addresses can be found at: https://www.bfdi.bund.de/DE/Infothek/Anschriften_Links/anschriften_links-node.html.

Purposes of Data Processing by the Responsible Party and Third Parties We process your personal data only for the purposes mentioned in this privacy policy. We do not transfer your personal data to third parties for purposes other than those specified. We only share your personal data with third parties if:

You have given your explicit consent,
The processing is necessary to fulfill a contract with you,
The processing is necessary to comply with a legal obligation,
The processing is necessary to safeguard legitimate interests,
and there is no reason to assume that you have a prevailing interest in preventing the disclosure of your data.

Deletion or Blocking of Data

We adhere to the principles of data minimization and data avoidance. Therefore, we store your personal data only as long as necessary to achieve the purposes outlined here or as required by statutory retention periods. Once the purpose no longer applies or the retention periods have expired, the relevant data will be routinely blocked or deleted according to legal regulations.

Collection of General Information When Visiting Our Website

When you access our website, information of a general nature is automatically collected via cookies. This information (server log files) includes, for example, the type of web browser, the operating system used, the domain name of your Internet service provider, and similar data. These are purely technical details that do not allow any conclusions about your person.

This information is technically necessary to correctly deliver the requested content of websites and is mandatory when using the internet. It is processed for the following purposes:

Ensuring a smooth connection to the website, Ensuring smooth use of our website, Evaluating system security and stability, and For other administrative purposes. The processing of your personal data is based on our legitimate interest in the aforementioned purposes of data collection. We do not use your data to draw conclusions about your identity. The recipients of the data are only the responsible party and, if applicable, processors.

Such anonymous information may be statistically evaluated by us to optimize our internet presence and the underlying technology.

Use of the Tracking Tool Google Analytics

Type and Purpose of Processing

If you have given your consent, Google Analytics 4, a web analysis service of Google Ireland Limited (Google Building Gordon House, 4 Barrow St, Dublin, D04 E5W5, Ireland), is used on this website.

Google Analytics uses cookies that allow analysis of your website usage. The collected information is usually transferred to a Google server in the USA and stored there.

By default, IP anonymization is activated in Google Analytics. With IP anonymization enabled on this website, Google truncates your IP address within EU member states or other contracting states of the EEA. Only in exceptional cases will the full IP address be transmitted to a Google server in the USA and truncated there. According to the information available from Google, the IP address transmitted by your browser within the framework of Google Analytics is not merged with other data from Google.

During your visit to our website, your user behavior is recorded in the form of so-called events, such as:

Page views
Session starts
Duration of stay
User engagement
First visit to a website
Scroll events (when a visitor scrolls 90% to the bottom of the page)
Clicks on external links
Ads viewed or clicked
Internal searches
Interaction with video content
Downloads
Language settings

Additional information collected includes:

Approximate location (region)
Your IP address (in truncated form)
Technical information such as browser, internet provider, device, and screen resolution
Referrer URL (source) of your visit (i.e., which website or advertisement led you to us)

Further information on the terms of use and privacy policy can be found at https://www.google.com/analytics/terms/en.html and https://policies.google.com/?hl=en.

On behalf of the operator of this website, Google uses this information to evaluate your use of the website, compile reports on website activities, and provide other services related to website and internet usage.

Legal Basis

The legal basis for this data processing is your consent according to Art. 6(1)(a) of the GDPR.

Recipients

We use technical service providers for the operation and maintenance of our website and for the analysis of cookies who act as our processors.

Another recipient of the data is Google Ireland Limited (Google Building Gordon House, 4 Barrow St, Dublin, D04 E5W5, Ireland). Google Ireland Limited uses Google LLC in the USA (1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA) as a service provider.

Storage Duration

The data sent by us and linked to cookies will be automatically deleted after 2 years.

The maximum lifespan of Google Analytics cookies is two years. The deletion of data whose retention period has been reached occurs automatically once a month.

Transfer to Third Countries

Since Google’s headquarters are in the USA, it cannot be ruled out that the data is processed on Google servers in the USA. This means there is a risk that your data may be processed by US authorities for control and surveillance purposes without you having legal recourse. To ensure an adequate level of data protection, we have concluded EU Standard Contractual Clauses with Google, which can be viewed here: https://business.safety.google/adscontrollerterms/sccs/eu-c2c/

You can withdraw your consent at any time in the cookie settings for the future.

Additionally, you can prevent Google Analytics tracking on our website by clicking on this link. This will install an opt-out cookie on your device. This will prevent data collection by Google Analytics for this website and browser as long as the cookie remains in your browser.

Alternatively, you can prevent the collection of data generated by the cookie about your website usage (including your IP address) and the processing of this data by Google by installing a browser plugin to deactivate Google Analytics.

Cookies

Like many other websites, we also use so-called “cookies.” Cookies are small text files transferred by a website server to your hard drive. These allow us to automatically collect certain data, such as your IP address, browser used, operating system, and your internet connection.

Cookies cannot be used to start programs or transmit viruses to a computer. The information contained in cookies allows us to facilitate navigation and ensure the correct display of our website.

In no case will the data we collect be shared with third parties or linked with personal data without your consent.

You can generally view our website without cookies. Internet browsers are usually set to accept cookies. You can, however, disable the use of cookies at any time through your browser settings. Please use the help functions of your browser to learn how to change these settings. Please note that certain features of our website may not function if you disable cookies.

Embedded YouTube Videos

Some of our webpages embed YouTube videos. The operator of the relevant plugin is YouTube LLC, 901 Cherry Ave., San Bruno, CA 94066, USA. When you visit a page with the YouTube plugin, a connection to YouTube's servers is established. This informs YouTube about the pages you visit. If you are logged into your YouTube account, YouTube can assign your browsing behavior to your personal profile. You can prevent this by logging out of your YouTube account before visiting the page.

When a YouTube video is started, the provider sets cookies that collect information about user behavior.

Those who have disabled cookies for Google Ads will not be affected by such cookies when watching YouTube videos. However, YouTube may also store non-personal usage information in other cookies. If you want to prevent this, you must block the storage of cookies in your browser.

For more information on data protection at YouTube, please refer to the provider’s privacy policy: https://www.google.de/intl/en/policies/privacy/

Changes to Our Privacy Policy

We reserve the right to adjust this privacy policy to ensure it always complies with current legal requirements or to implement changes to our services in the privacy policy, for example, when introducing new services. The new privacy policy will apply for your next visit.

Questions to the Data Protection Officer

If you have questions about data protection, please simply send me an email (I am not a company with more than 9 employees and do not process particularly sensitive data, so I do not need a separate data protection officer).

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