This is a courtesy English rendering of the legally binding German Datenschutzerklärung. In case of any discrepancy, the German version prevails.
The protection of your personal data matters to me. This website is deliberately built to minimise data: no cookies, no tracking, no analytics tools, no external font or advertising services. Below I explain the processing of personal data in accordance with the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).
The controller responsible for data processing on this website is:
Elias Höfer
Deutz-Mülheimer Straße 213
51063 Köln, Germany
Email: [email protected]
This website is hosted by Cloudflare (Cloudflare, Inc., 101 Townsend St, San Francisco, CA 94107, USA, as well as Cloudflare Germany GmbH). Cloudflare provides the delivery of the website along with security and performance functions (including protection against attacks and a content delivery network). When the website is accessed, Cloudflare processes technically necessary connection data (see server log data). The legal basis is Art. 6 (1) (f) GDPR (legitimate interest in secure and stable provision). A data processing agreement is in place with Cloudflare. For any transfer to the USA, Cloudflare relies among other things on the EU-US Data Privacy Framework and/or standard contractual clauses.
When this website is accessed, the hosting provider automatically processes information that your browser transmits. This includes in particular:
This data serves technical delivery, security and error analysis and is not merged with other data sources. The legal basis is Art. 6 (1) (f) GDPR.
This website sets no cookies and uses no analytics, tracking or marketing tools. No user profiling takes place.
The fonts used (Montserrat and Instrument Serif) are served locally from this server. There is no connection to Google Fonts or other external providers; no data is transmitted to third parties when the fonts are loaded.
This website links to external profiles (e.g. LinkedIn, X/Twitter). Only when you click such a link are you forwarded to the respective provider, and its privacy terms then apply. No data is transmitted to these providers before you click (no social media plug-ins or tracking pixels are embedded).
If you contact me by email, I process the data you provide in order to handle your request (Art. 6 (1) (b) or (f) GDPR). The data is deleted once it is no longer required and no statutory retention obligations apply.
Within the scope of the statutory provisions, you have the right to:
An informal message to the email address above is sufficient to exercise these rights.
You have the right to lodge a complaint with a data protection supervisory authority. The competent authority is:
Landesbeauftragte für Datenschutz und Informationsfreiheit Nordrhein-Westfalen (LDI NRW)
Kavalleriestraße 2–4, 40213 Düsseldorf, Germany
For security reasons, this website uses SSL/TLS encryption. You can recognise an encrypted connection by the "https://" in your browser's address bar.