Legal / personal data

Privacy

This notice explains the information involved in reading the website and contacting the editorial desk.

Controller and contact

Shuttermangotrov Medien GmbH, Hafenstraße 24, 20457 Hamburg, Germany, is responsible for the website’s processing of personal data. Registration: Amtsgericht Hamburg, HRB 184726. For privacy enquiries, email [email protected].

Browsing the website

Your browser sends technical information needed to request pages, such as your IP address, requested resource, request time and browser information. Hosting infrastructure may process this information in access and security logs to deliver the site, investigate faults and protect against misuse. The legal basis is our legitimate interest in operating a secure and reliable website under Article 6(1)(f) GDPR.

The supplied site code does not include analytics, advertising pixels, third-party fonts or third-party image requests. Following an external link takes you to a service with its own privacy practices.

The message drafting tool

Name, email and message fields are processed locally in your browser to assemble a plain-text draft. The tool does not submit these fields to our server and does not intentionally store them in cookies or localStorage. Your browser may independently offer autofill or form restoration according to your settings.

Choosing Copy message places the draft on your device’s clipboard if your browser permits it. Choosing Download text creates a file on your device. You control that file and any clipboard history. Neither action sends the draft to the editorial desk.

If you send an email

If you send a message using your email service, we receive the information you include, your email address and associated delivery metadata. We use this to assess and respond to enquiries, investigate corrections and maintain relevant correspondence. Processing is generally based on our legitimate interest in handling correspondence under Article 6(1)(f) GDPR, or Article 6(1)(b) where necessary for contractual steps you request.

Do not include unnecessary sensitive information. We do not use editorial enquiries as automatic newsletter subscriptions or sell contact details for advertising.

Recipients and retention

Hosting and email service providers may process information as needed to provide their services. Information may also be disclosed when required by law or necessary to establish, exercise or defend legal claims. Correspondence is kept only as long as needed for its purpose and any applicable legal obligations; relevant legal or business records may require longer retention than routine enquiries.

Where a service involves a transfer outside the European Economic Area, applicable data-protection requirements must be met, including appropriate safeguards where required.

Your rights

Subject to the conditions in the GDPR, you may request access, rectification, erasure, restriction and data portability, and object to processing based on legitimate interests. Where processing relies on consent, you may withdraw it without affecting earlier lawful processing. We may need proportionate information to verify a request.

You may complain to a competent supervisory authority, including the Hamburg Commissioner for Data Protection and Freedom of Information. You do not need to contact us first to exercise that right.

Browser storage and updates

See Cookies for the storage behaviour of the supplied site components. This notice may be updated when website functions or legal requirements change.