Privacy Policy / Datenschutzerklärung
1. Data Protection at a Glance
General Information
The following notes provide 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 identify you personally.
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. You can find their contact details in the "Information pursuant to § 5 TMG" section of this privacy policy.
How do we collect your data?
Your data is collected, on the one hand, by you providing it to us. This could, for example, be data you enter into a contact form. Other data is collected automatically by our IT systems when you visit the website. This is mainly technical data (e.g., internet browser, operating system, or time of page access).
What do we use your data for?
Some of the data is collected to ensure error-free provision of the website. Other data may be used to analyze your user behavior.
What rights do you have regarding your data?
You have the right to receive information about the origin, recipient, and purpose of your stored personal data free of charge at any time. You also have the right to request the correction or deletion of this data. If you have given your consent to data processing, you can revoke this consent at any time for the future. You also have the right to request the restriction of the processing of your personal data under certain circumstances.
2. Hosting
Cloudflare Pages
This website is hosted on Cloudflare Pages. The provider is Cloudflare, Inc., 101 Townsend St., San Francisco, CA 94107, USA (hereinafter referred to as "Cloudflare").
When you visit our website, Cloudflare collects various logfiles including your IP addresses. For details, please refer to Cloudflare's privacy policy: https://www.cloudflare.com/privacypolicy/
3. General Information and Mandatory Information
Data Protection
The operators of these pages take the protection of your personal data very seriously. We treat your personal data confidentially and in accordance with the statutory data protection regulations and this privacy policy.
Contact Form
When you use our contact form, we collect and process the following personal data:
- Name: To address you personally in our response
- Email address: To send our reply to you
- Message content: To understand and respond to your inquiry
Purpose and Legal Basis
We process this data solely for the purpose of responding to your inquiry. The legal basis for processing is your consent, which you provide by actively checking the consent checkbox before submitting the form (Art. 6(1)(a) GDPR).
Data Processing
When you submit the contact form, your data is:
- Processed through our serverless function hosted on Cloudflare Pages
- Sent to our email address (info@matthiassalamon.com) via MailChannels email service
- Not stored in any database - emails are only stored in our email inbox
- Protected by Cloudflare Turnstile to prevent spam and abuse
Recipients of Data
Your data is transmitted to the following service providers who act as processors on our behalf:
- Cloudflare, Inc. (USA) - Hosting and serverless function execution
- Resend.com, Inc. (USA) - Email delivery service
- Google LLC (USA) - Email inbox provider (Gmail)
We will not share your data with any third parties for marketing purposes or sell your data to anyone.
Data Retention
We retain your contact form submissions (emails) only as long as necessary to process your inquiry and any follow-up communication. Typically:
- Active inquiries: Until the matter is resolved
- Completed inquiries: Up to 6 months for reference purposes
- You may request deletion at any time by contacting us
Spam Protection (Cloudflare Turnstile)
Our contact form uses Cloudflare Turnstile, a privacy-friendly CAPTCHA alternative, to protect against spam and automated abuse. Turnstile analyzes technical information about your browser and device to determine if you are a human user. This process happens automatically and is usually invisible. For more information, see Cloudflare's Turnstile documentation: https://developers.cloudflare.com/turnstile/
Your Consent
By checking the consent checkbox and submitting the form, you explicitly consent to the processing of your personal data as described above. You can withdraw your consent at any time by contacting us, which will not affect the lawfulness of processing based on consent before its withdrawal.
4. Your Rights
You have the following rights:
- Right to information about your stored data
- Right to correction of incorrect data
- Right to deletion of your data
- Right to restriction of data processing
- Right to data portability
- Right to object to data processing
If you have any questions about data protection, please contact us at: info@matthiassalamon.com