Privacy Policy

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 personally identify you. For detailed information on data protection, please refer to our privacy policy listed below this text.

Data processing on this website is carried out by the website operator:

As a sole proprietor with fewer than 20 people regularly engaged in automated processing of personal data, I am not required to appoint a data protection officer (§ 38 Para. 1 BDSG).

Your data is collected, on the one hand, by you providing it to us. This may be data that you enter in a contact form, for example.

Other data is collected automatically or with your consent when you visit the website through our IT systems. This is primarily technical data (e.g., internet browser, operating system, or time of page access). This data is collected automatically as soon as you enter this website.

This website is hosted by:

The personal data collected through the website itself is held on servers in Belgium (EU). The hosting itself transfers no data to third countries outside the EU. For transfers via Google Analytics and Google Ads, see section 7.

Google Cloud Platform complies with GDPR requirements and has a Cloud Data Processing Addendum (CDPA). Its use is based on Art. 6 Para. 1 lit. f GDPR due to our legitimate interest in a secure and efficient provision of our website.

Emails from the contact form are processed via:

Email processing takes place exclusively within Germany. No transfer to servers outside the EU occurs.

If you send us inquiries via the contact form, your information from the inquiry form, including the contact details you provide there, will be stored by us for the purpose of processing the inquiry and in case of follow-up questions. We will not share this data without your consent.

The processing of this data is based on Art. 6 Para. 1 lit. b GDPR if your inquiry is related to the fulfillment of a contract or is necessary for the implementation of pre-contractual measures. In all other cases, the processing is based on our legitimate interest in effectively handling inquiries directed to us (Art. 6 Para. 1 lit. f GDPR).

Storage Duration

Business correspondence (contact form and emails): 6 years according to tax retention obligations (§ 147 AO, § 257 HGB)

After the legal retention periods expire, your data will be automatically deleted if it is no longer required for contract fulfillment or contract initiation.

You have the following rights at any time:

• Information (Art. 15 GDPR): to receive free information about the origin, recipients and purpose of your stored personal data
• Rectification (Art. 16 GDPR): to request the correction of incorrect data
• Erasure (Art. 17 GDPR): to request the deletion of your data
• Restriction (Art. 18 GDPR): to request a restriction of data processing
• Objection (Art. 21 GDPR): to object to data processing, and to object to direct marketing at any time without giving reasons (Art. 21 Para. 2 GDPR)
• Data portability (Art. 20 GDPR): to request the transfer of your data
• Withdrawal of consent (Art. 7 Para. 3 GDPR): to withdraw consent given at any time

To exercise your rights, please contact: tobias@appbaumeister.de

Right to lodge a complaint with the supervisory authority:

You have the right to lodge a complaint with a data protection supervisory authority about the processing of your personal data. The supervisory authority responsible for us is:

The page provider automatically collects and stores information in so-called server log files, which your browser automatically transmits to us. These are:

• Browser type and version
• Operating system used
• Referrer URL
• Hostname of the accessing computer
• Time of server request
• IP address

Storage duration: Server log files are automatically deleted after 30 days. This storage period is necessary for security monitoring and error diagnosis.

This data is not merged with other data sources. The collection of this data is based on Art. 6 Para. 1 lit. f GDPR. The website operator has a legitimate interest in the technically error-free presentation and optimization of its website.

We set no cookies to operate this website. Your choice in the cookie banner and your selected language are stored in your browser's local storage (localStorage), not in cookies. The only cookies set are those of Google Analytics and Google Ads, and only after you consent. They are listed in detail under "Google Analytics 4" and "Google Ads".

We use Google Analytics 4 to analyze how our website is used. With your consent (Art. 6 Para. 1 lit. a GDPR), Google Analytics sets the cookies _ga and _ga_HKQSV62RJN, which expire two years after your last visit. In the cookie banner this category is called "Analytics". Until you have consented either to it or to "Advertising", the Google script is not loaded at all and no data goes to Google. Both tools share this one script; what it may do in each case is governed by your choice per category. You can change your decision at any time via the cookie icon in the bottom left of every page. Withdrawing consent does not affect the lawfulness of processing carried out beforehand.

With your consent, Google Analytics processes the following data:

• IP address, according to Google used only for approximate geolocation and not stored
• Pages visited, time spent and interactions, such as clicks on the phone number, email address or appointment booking, and submitting the contact form
• Device and browser information
• Approximate location (country, region, city)

Retention: Google deletes event and user data in Google Analytics after 2 months.

Data transfer to the USA: For users in the EEA, Google Analytics is provided by Google Ireland Limited, Gordon House, Barrow Street, Dublin 4, Ireland. During processing, data may be transferred to Google LLC in the USA, which is certified under the EU-US Data Privacy Framework. You can stop collection at any time by withdrawing your consent.

We run ads on Google to draw attention to this website. Those ads appear in Google Search and on other websites, not on this one. We use Google Ads to measure which ads lead to an inquiry and to be able to show you ads for our services again on other websites (remarketing). This happens only with your consent (Art. 6 Para. 1 lit. a GDPR), which you grant or decline under "Advertising" in the cookie banner.

The data transmitted is an identifier for your browser (cookies _gcl_au and _gcl_aw, each with a lifetime of 90 days), the page you opened and the action you triggered, such as submitting the contact form. If you decline "Advertising", Google Ads sets no cookies and does not attribute your visit to an ad. The provider is likewise Google Ireland Limited, Dublin; data may be transferred to Google LLC in the USA. Here too, withdrawing consent does not affect the lawfulness of processing carried out beforehand.

• Hosting: Belgium (Google Cloud europe-west1)
• Email services: Germany (united-domains)
• Fonts and CSS: Locally hosted (no external CDNs)

Using Google Analytics and Google Ads may transfer data to the USA. This happens only with your explicit consent. Google LLC is certified under the EU-US Data Privacy Framework.

This website makes no automated decisions that produce legal effects concerning you (Art. 22 GDPR). For remarketing, Google builds audiences with your consent. No individual decision about you is made on that basis.

The provision of personal data is neither legally nor contractually required. No personal data is required for the use of the website. When contacting us via the contact form, providing an email address is necessary to process your inquiry.

If you have questions about data protection, you can contact us at any time: