The protection of your personal data is important to me. This privacy policy explains what data is collected when you visit this website, for what purpose, and what rights you have under the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).

Controller responsible for data processing:

Stefan Kleine Stegemann
Im Gehecht 20
29643 Neuenkirchen
Germany
Email: stefankst@fastmail.fm

This website is hosted by Adobe Inc., 345 Park Avenue, San Jose, CA 95110-2704, USA ("Adobe").

When you visit this website, Adobe automatically collects and processes certain technical data, including: your IP address, Browser type and version, Operating system, Date and time of access, Pages visited, Referrer URL (the page you visited before)

This data is processed by Adobe to ensure the technical operation of the website (legitimate interest, Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR). Adobe may transfer this data to servers in the United States. Adobe participates in the EU–US Data Privacy Framework and is certified accordingly.

For more information, please refer to Adobe's privacy policy:
https://www.adobe.com/privacy/policy.html

Adobe uses New Relic Inc., 188 Spear Street, Suite 1200, San Francisco, CA 94105, USA, to monitor the technical performance of this website. New Relic collects usage data and technical performance data, which may include your IP address, browser information, and browsing behaviour on this site. This data is processed on servers in the United States.

The legal basis is a legitimate interest in the stable and performant operation of the website (Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR). Please note that these performance monitoring cookies are set by Adobe and cannot be deactivated by me as the site operator.

For more information, see: https://newrelic.com/termsandconditions/privacy

This website may use Adobe Fonts, a service provided by Adobe Inc. When the website loads, your browser may connect to Adobe's servers to retrieve font files. This may transmit your IP address to Adobe's servers in the United States.

The legal basis is a legitimate interest in the consistent visual presentation of the website (Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR).

This website uses cookies — small text files stored on your device. In Germany, the use of cookies is governed by the Telekommunikation-Digitale-Dienste-Datenschutz-Gesetz (TDDDG) in conjunction with the GDPR. A cookie banner is displayed on your first visit, allowing you to accept or decline non-essential cookies.

Technically necessary cookies (§ 25(2) TDDDG) are required for the website to function and can be set without prior consent. They do not store personal data beyond what is technically required.

Performance and analytics cookies require your prior consent (§ 25(1) TDDDG) and may be set by Adobe and New Relic (see sections 3 and 4 above). Please be aware that some of these cookies are set by Adobe as the hosting provider and are outside my direct control as site operator.

For more information about cookies used by Adobe Portfolio, see:
https://www.adobe.com/privacy/cookies.html

If you contact me by email (e.g. using the email address provided on the About page), the data you provide (your email address and the content of your message) will be stored solely for the purpose of processing your enquiry and will not be passed on to third parties.

The legal basis for this processing is Art. 6(1)(b) GDPR (processing necessary for the performance of a contract or pre-contractual measures) or Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR (legitimate interest in responding to enquiries).

Your data will be deleted once your enquiry has been fully resolved, unless statutory retention obligations apply.

This website contains a link to my Instagram profile (Meta Platforms Ireland Ltd., 4 Grand Canal Square, Dublin 2, Ireland). When you click this link, you leave this website. Instagram's own privacy policy applies:
https://privacycenter.instagram.com/policy

I have no influence over the data collected by Instagram.

As a data subject, you have the following rights:

Right of access (Art. 15 GDPR): You may request information about the personal data I hold about you.

Right to rectification (Art. 16 GDPR): You may request the correction of inaccurate data.

Right to erasure (Art. 17 GDPR): You may request the deletion of your data, subject to legal retention obligations.

Right to restriction of processing (Art. 18 GDPR): You may request that processing of your data be restricted under certain circumstances.

Right to data portability (Art. 20 GDPR): You may request that data you have provided be transferred to you or a third party in a structured, commonly used format.

Right to object (Art. 21 GDPR): You may object to processing based on legitimate interest at any time.

Right to lodge a complaint (Art. 77 GDPR): You have the right to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority. The competent authority for my place of residence is the Landesbeauftragte für den Datenschutz Niedersachsen (Lower Saxony State Commissioner for Data Protection), Prinzenstraße 5, 30159 Hannover, Germany, www.lfd.niedersachsen.de. You may also contact the supervisory authority of your own place of residence.

To exercise any of these rights, please contact me at: stefankst@fastmail.fm

As described above, Adobe and New Relic process data on servers in the United States. These transfers are based on the EU–US Data Privacy Framework and/or Standard Contractual Clauses approved by the European Commission pursuant to Art. 46(2)(c) GDPR.

I reserve the right to update this privacy policy to reflect changes in legal requirements or in the servi