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Kite-Engineer

Privacy policy

1. Controller
Stefan Merthan
Kite-Engineer
Hauptstraße 6
84107 Weihmichl
Germany
Email: stefan@kite-engineer.de

2. General notes on data processing
We take the protection of your personal data seriously. Personal data is treated confidentially and in accordance with the applicable data protection laws and this privacy policy.

3. Collection and processing of personal data

a) When visiting the website
When you access our website we automatically collect the following log data:

IP address
Date and time of access
Requested page/file
User-Agent (browser type and version and operating system)
Referrer URL

These data are used to ensure trouble-free operation and are not used to identify individuals. They are stored as long as needed for secure operation and troubleshooting; automated deletion after a fixed period is not currently in place. Legal basis: Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR (legitimate interest in the stability and security of the website).

b) Analysis of website visits
To analyse visits and improve our site we use the self-hosted analytics software Umami, which does not use cookies. We thereby collect sessions of website visits in a data-minimising way, as well as anonymous feature events (e.g. map load, package selection, form success) without names, emails, or message content. IP addresses are processed only in anonymised form (hash with a daily rotating salt) and are not stored permanently. The resulting analytics and event data remain in our database until we delete them; automated deletion after a fixed period is not currently in place.

Legal basis: legitimate interest under Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR. Our legitimate interest is the optimisation of our online offering and website.

The generated data are processed and stored exclusively in the EU (Germany), including backups with a German provider. They are not used for other purposes, combined with other data, or disclosed to third parties for their own purposes. Consent under § 25(1) TDDDG is not required because no information is stored on or read from your terminal device (cookieless measurement). The analytics admin interface is not publicly reachable.

You may object to processing for reach measurement at any time under Art. 21 GDPR. Please send your objection to stefan@kite-engineer.de.

c) Contact form / inquiry
If you use the inquiry form, we process the data you provide (name, email, chosen package, preferred timeframes, number of coached riders, requested coaching days and hours, kite level and goals, and optional messages) to answer your inquiry. Legal basis: Art. 6(1)(b) and/or (f) GDPR. Data is sent to us by email via our email service provider StackForge UG (haftungsbeschränkt), Bergstr. 4, 84107 Weihmichl, and retained as long as needed to handle the inquiry and any follow-up, subject to statutory retention periods.

d) OpenStreetMap (on demand)
On the landing page you can optionally load an interactive map (“Load map”). Only after that action are map tiles fetched from OpenStreetMap Foundation tile servers. Your IP address and technical connection data (e.g. user agent) may then be transmitted to the OpenStreetMap Foundation. Legal basis: Art. 6(1)(a) GDPR (consent by activating the map). More information: https://wiki.osmfoundation.org/wiki/Privacy_Policy

e) External links
Links to third parties (e.g. Signal, WhatsApp, Matrix, Instagram, www.kite-engineer.de) are subject to their privacy policies.

4. Your rights
You have rights of access, rectification, erasure, restriction, portability, and objection where provided by law, and the right to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority.

5. Currency
This policy applies to coaching.kite-engineer.dev (Kite-Engineer Trip).