Privacy Policy

1. Controller

Marcel Verkooyen, Pilgramsweg 31a, 52134 Herzogenrath
E-Mail: marcel@verkooyen.de

2. Hosting

This website is hosted on a server of IONOS SE, Elgendorfer Str. 57, 56410 Montabaur. The provider automatically collects server log files (IP address, browser type, date/time) in accordance with Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f GDPR (legitimate interest in technical operation).

3. Fonts (locally hosted)

This website uses the font „Inter". The font files are hosted locally on our own server and not loaded from external CDN servers (such as Google Fonts). No personal data is transmitted to third parties in connection with fonts.

4. Cookies & External content

A cookie banner appears on first visit. There are two options:

Necessary cookies only: No external content is loaded. No personal data is transmitted to third parties. YouTube videos are shown as plain links.

Accept all: The following external services are activated:

• YouTube (Google LLC, USA) – Embedding of videos and video thumbnails. Google may set cookies and transfer data to the USA. The privacy-friendly domain youtube-nocookie.com is used.
• Facebook/Meta (Meta Platforms Inc., USA) – Embedding of posts (Facebook posts, page plugins). Meta may set cookies and transfer data to the USA.

Legal basis: Consent (Art. 6 para. 1 lit. a GDPR). Consent can be withdrawn at any time by deleting the cookie „cookie_consent".

Notice: YouTube video thumbnails are only loaded after consent. Without consent, a neutral placeholder is shown.

5. Your rights

You have the right to information (Art. 15 GDPR), rectification (Art. 16), erasure (Art. 17), restriction of processing (Art. 18), data portability (Art. 20) and objection (Art. 21). Please direct complaints to the competent supervisory authority (Landesbeauftragte für Datenschutz NRW, Kavalleriestr. 2-4, 40213 Düsseldorf, poststelle@ldi.nrw).

6. No analytics tools

This website does not use tracking or analytics tools (no Google Analytics, no Facebook Pixel). Only technically necessary data is processed.

7. Contact

When contacting us by email, your data is stored for the purpose of processing (Art. 6 para. 1 lit. b GDPR). It is not passed on to third parties and is deleted after processing is completed.

8. SSL encryption

For security reasons and to protect the transmission of confidential content, this website uses SSL/TLS encryption. You can recognise an encrypted connection by the fact that the address bar of your browser changes from „http://" to „https://" and by the padlock symbol in your browser bar.