Privacy policy

This is a translation provided for your convenience. The German versionis the legally binding one.

The essentials in brief

We do not use cookies, tracking or analytics tools on this website. Personal data is only processed where it is technically necessary – when delivering the site and its images – and when you write to us yourself. Below we explain exactly what happens.

Controller

Phone: +49 7276 5030928
Email: hallo@suedlicht.studio

We have not appointed a data protection officer, as we are not legally required to do so.

Hosting

This website is hosted by Vercel Inc., 440 N Barranca Ave #4133, Covina, CA 91723, USA. When you visit the site, Vercel automatically processes data transmitted by your browser and stores it in so-called server log files:

• IP address
• date and time of the request
• page or file requested
• referrer URL (the page visited before)
• browser type, operating system and device (user agent)

This is necessary to deliver the website, keep it running reliably and protect it against misuse. The legal basis is Art. 6 (1) (f) GDPR; our legitimate interest lies in a secure and functioning website. Vercel processes the data on our behalf on the basis of a data processing agreement. Vercel is certified under the EU-U.S. Data Privacy Framework, which ensures an adequate level of data protection for transfers to the USA (Art. 45 GDPR). More information:Vercel's privacy policy.

Images and videos

We manage the content of this website in the content management system Sanity (Sanity AS, Oslo, Norway). Images and videos are delivered via its content delivery network (cdn.sanity.io). For technical reasons, your IP address is transmitted to Sanity or its CDN service providers so that the files can be sent to your browser. The legal basis is Art. 6 (1) (f) GDPR; our legitimate interest is a fast, reliable display of the website. Where data is transferred to the USA in the process, this takes place on the basis of the EU-U.S. Data Privacy Framework or the standard contractual clauses of the EU Commission. More information:Sanity's privacy policy.

Fonts

The fonts on this website are stored on our own server. No connection to Google Fonts or other font providers is established when the site loads.

Cookies and local storage

We do not set any cookies. When you move between pages, your browser at most briefly remembers which section to scroll to (in so-called session storage). This entry contains no personal data, does not leave your browser and is deleted as soon as you close the tab. It is strictly necessary for the site to function (§ 25 (2) no. 2 TDDDG).

Contact by email and contact form

When you submit the contact form, your details (name, email address, optionally company and budget, and your message) are transmitted in encrypted form to our hosting provider Vercel (see “Hosting”) and forwarded from there, without being stored, as an email to our mailbox. Our mailbox is hosted by mailbox.org (Heinlein Hosting GmbH, Schwedter Str. 8/9a, 10119 Berlin, Germany), where the message is stored like any other email sent to us.

If you write to us via the form or by email, or call us, we process your details (e.g. name, email address, company, budget and your message) in order to answer your inquiry and prepare a possible project. The legal basis is Art. 6 (1) (b) GDPR if your inquiry is aimed at a contract, otherwise Art. 6 (1) (f) GDPR (our interest in answering inquiries). We delete the data as soon as it is no longer needed for this purpose, unless statutory retention obligations (for example under commercial or tax law) prevent this.

Links to other websites

On this website we link to projects we have worked on. You only leave our site once you click such a link; the respective operator is responsible for data processing there.

Encryption

For security reasons, this website uses SSL/TLS encryption. You can recognize an encrypted connection by “https://” in your browser's address bar.

Your rights

You have the right at any time to

• access the data we hold about you (Art. 15 GDPR),
• have inaccurate data corrected (Art. 16 GDPR),
• have data erased (Art. 17 GDPR),
• have processing restricted (Art. 18 GDPR),
• data portability (Art. 20 GDPR),
• object to processing based on our legitimate interest (Art. 21 GDPR),
• withdraw consent you have given, with effect for the future (Art. 7 (3) GDPR).

An informal message to hallo@suedlicht.studio is all it takes.

You can also lodge a complaint with a data protection supervisory authority. The authority responsible for us is the State Commissioner for Data Protection and Freedom of Information of Rhineland-Palatinate (Der Landesbeauftragte für den Datenschutz und die Informationsfreiheit Rheinland-Pfalz), Hintere Bleiche 34, 55116 Mainz, Germany (datenschutz.rlp.de).