PRIVACY.
Controller
Tom Jacob, Ricarda-Huch-Straße 24, 36251 Bad Hersfeld, Germany. Email: hi@tomjacob.de.
Hosting
The website and the contact form run on web hosting from lima-city. The host processes technical connection data, in particular IP address, requested URL, time and browser information, in order to deliver the website and fend off attacks (Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR).
Provider: TrafficPlex GmbH (lima-city), Konsul-Smidt-Str. 90, 28217 Bremen, Germany. More information: lima-city privacy policy.
Contact requests
When you send me a message, I process your name, your email address, the topic you selected and your message to handle your request and any follow-up questions. The data is not used for advertising. The contact form is sent server-side via lima-city’s mail server to my mailbox. To prevent abuse, a hash of your IP address is stored for ten minutes.
Processing is carried out to take pre-contractual steps where your request relates to them, and otherwise in my legitimate interest in handling inquiries (Art. 6(1)(b) and (f) GDPR). Your details are stored for as long as they are needed to handle your request or as required by statutory retention periods.
Local settings
The design grid you switch on is remembered under “animatedGridState” in your browser’s local storage. “tj-intro-seen” remembers for the current browser session whether the intro has already been shown. These values contain no contact details and are not sent to me. You can delete them in your browser settings.
Fonts, images and GIFs
Fonts, images, GIFs and animation scripts are loaded from this website itself. No connections are made to Google Fonts, Giphy or Tenor for this. There are no embedded social media plugins and no advertising trackers. External links only open the provider’s website once you click them.
Visitor statistics with Umami
To see which pages and projects get read, I use Umami Cloud, a privacy-friendly analytics service by Umami Software, Inc. (USA). Umami sets no cookies and stores no identifier on your device. It records the page you visit, the website you came from, browser, operating system, device type, screen size, language, your approximate location (country, region, city, derived from your IP address) and the page’s loading times. It also counts when you click certain links (for example email, LinkedIn, Instagram or the language switch) or successfully send the contact form, without its content. Your IP address is not stored in the statistics. I only see aggregated numbers and can’t tell who you are.
The legal basis is my legitimate interest in analysing and improving the website (Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR). Umami processes the data as a processor under its data processing agreement. The statistics are stored on servers in the European Union. Because Umami is a US company and uses service providers in the USA for parts of its operations, access from the USA can’t be ruled out completely. If you don’t want to be counted, you can block the address cloud.umami.is with a content blocker. You’ll find more information in Umami’s privacy policy.
Your rights
Within the limits of the law, you have the right to access your personal data and to have it corrected, deleted, restricted and transferred. Where processing is based on consent, you can withdraw it for the future. Where data is processed on the basis of legitimate interest, you have a right to object if the legal requirements are met.
You can also lodge a complaint with a data protection supervisory authority. For questions about your data, reach me at hi@tomjacob.de.
