Legal

Privacy policy

Last updated: August 2026

This is a convenience translation of our German Datenschutzerklärung. In the event of any discrepancy, the German version prevails.

1. Data protection at a glance

General information

The following notes provide a simple overview of what happens to your personal data when you visit this website. Personal data is any data by which you can be personally identified. For detailed information on data protection, please refer to our privacy policy set out below.

Data collection on this website

Who is responsible for collecting data on this website?
Data processing on this website is carried out by the website operator. You can find their contact details in the legal notice of this website.

How do we collect your data?
Your data is collected firstly when you provide it to us, e.g. by entering it in a contact form or sending it by email. Other data is collected automatically when you visit the website, through the IT systems of our hosting provider. This is primarily technical data (e.g. internet browser, operating system or the time of the page view).

What do we use your data for?
The data is collected solely to ensure the website is provided without errors and securely, and to answer your enquiries. Your user behaviour is not analysed.

What rights do you have regarding your data?
You have the right at any time to receive information free of charge about the origin, recipients and purpose of your stored personal data. You also have the right to request the correction or deletion of this data. If you have given consent to data processing, you can withdraw that consent at any time with effect for the future. You also have the right, under certain circumstances, to request that the processing of your personal data be restricted. Furthermore, you have the right to lodge a complaint with the competent supervisory authority.

2. Hosting

External hosting

This website is hosted by an external service provider (host). The personal data collected on this website is stored on the host's servers. This may primarily involve IP addresses, contact requests, meta and communication data, contract data, contact details, names, website access data and other data generated via a website.

The host is used for the purpose of fulfilling our contract with our potential and existing customers (Art. 6 (1) (b) GDPR) and in the interest of the secure, fast and efficient provision of our online offering by a professional provider (Art. 6 (1) (f) GDPR).

Our host will only process your data to the extent necessary to fulfil its performance obligations and will follow our instructions with regard to this data.

We use the following host:
Hostinger International Ltd.
61 Lordou Vironos Street, 6023 Larnaca, Cyprus

3. General information and mandatory disclosures

Data protection

The operators of these pages take the protection of your personal data very seriously. We treat your personal data confidentially and in accordance with the statutory data protection regulations and this privacy policy.

When you use this website, various items of personal data are collected. Personal data is data by which you can be personally identified. This privacy policy explains what data we collect and what we use it for. It also explains how and for what purpose this happens.

We would like to point out that data transmission over the internet (e.g. when communicating by email) can have security gaps. Complete protection of data against access by third parties is not possible.

Information on the controller

The controller for data processing on this website is:

Guido Gottwald
appzept
Görreshofstr. 9
50259 Pulheim, Germany

Phone: +49 151 56175264
Email: kontakt@appzept.de

The controller is the natural or legal person who alone or jointly with others decides on the purposes and means of processing personal data (e.g. names, email addresses or similar).

Storage period

Unless a more specific storage period is stated within this privacy policy, your personal data will remain with us until the purpose for processing it no longer applies. If you assert a justified request for deletion or withdraw your consent to data processing, your data will be deleted, unless we have other legally permissible grounds for storing your personal data (e.g. retention periods under tax or commercial law); in the latter case, deletion takes place once those grounds no longer apply.

General information on the legal bases for data processing on this website

If you have consented to data processing, we process your personal data on the basis of Art. 6 (1) (a) GDPR or Art. 9 (2) (a) GDPR, where special categories of data pursuant to Art. 9 (1) GDPR are processed. In the case of explicit consent to the transfer of personal data to third countries, data processing also takes place on the basis of Art. 49 (1) (a) GDPR. Where data processing is necessary for the performance of a contract or for the implementation of pre-contractual measures, we process your data on the basis of Art. 6 (1) (b) GDPR. Furthermore, we process your data where this is necessary to fulfil a legal obligation, on the basis of Art. 6 (1) (c) GDPR. Data processing may also take place on the basis of our legitimate interest pursuant to Art. 6 (1) (f) GDPR.

Withdrawal of your consent to data processing

Many data processing operations are only possible with your express consent. You can withdraw consent you have already given at any time. The lawfulness of the data processing carried out up to the point of withdrawal remains unaffected by the withdrawal.

Right to object to data collection in special cases (Art. 21 GDPR)

If data processing takes place on the basis of Art. 6 (1) (e) or (f) GDPR, you have the right at any time to object to the processing of your personal data on grounds relating to your particular situation. You can find the respective legal basis on which processing is founded in this privacy policy. If you object, we will no longer process the personal data concerned unless we can demonstrate compelling legitimate grounds for the processing which override your interests, rights and freedoms, or the processing serves to assert, exercise or defend legal claims (objection pursuant to Art. 21 (1) GDPR).

Right to lodge a complaint with the competent supervisory authority

In the event of breaches of the GDPR, data subjects have the right to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority, in particular in the Member State of their habitual residence, their place of work or the place of the alleged breach. This right to complain exists without prejudice to any other administrative or judicial remedies.

Right to data portability

You have the right to have data that we process automatically on the basis of your consent or in the performance of a contract handed over to you or to a third party in a common, machine-readable format. If you request the direct transfer of the data to another controller, this will only take place insofar as it is technically feasible.

Information, correction and deletion

Within the framework of the applicable statutory provisions, you have the right at any time to obtain free information about your stored personal data, its origin and recipients and the purpose of the data processing and, if applicable, a right to correction or deletion of this data. You can contact us at any time regarding this and any further questions on the subject of personal data.

Right to restriction of processing

You have the right to request the restriction of the processing of your personal data. You can contact us at any time regarding this. The right to restriction of processing exists in the following cases:

If you dispute the accuracy of the personal data we hold about you, we generally need time to verify this. For the duration of the verification, you have the right to request the restriction of the processing of your personal data.
If the processing of your personal data happened or is happening unlawfully, you can request the restriction of data processing instead of deletion.
If we no longer need your personal data but you require it to exercise, defend or assert legal claims, you have the right to request the restriction of the processing of your personal data instead of deletion.
If you have lodged an objection pursuant to Art. 21 (1) GDPR, a balance must be struck between your interests and ours. As long as it has not yet been determined whose interests prevail, you have the right to request the restriction of the processing of your personal data.

SSL / TLS encryption

For security reasons and to protect the transmission of confidential content, such as enquiries you send to us as the site operator, this site uses SSL or TLS encryption. You can recognise an encrypted connection by the fact that the browser's address bar changes from "http://" to "https://" and by the padlock symbol in your browser bar.

When SSL or TLS encryption is activated, the data you transmit to us cannot be read by third parties.

4. Data collection on this website

Server log files

The provider of these pages automatically collects and stores information in what are known as server log files, which your browser automatically transmits to us. These are:

browser type and browser version
operating system used
referrer URL
host name of the accessing computer
time of the server request
IP address

This data is not merged with other data sources.

This data is collected on the basis of Art. 6 (1) (f) GDPR. The website operator has a legitimate interest in the technically error-free presentation and optimisation of its website – for this, the server log files must be recorded.

Enquiry by email or contact form

If you contact us by email or contact form, your enquiry including all personal data arising from it (name, enquiry, email address) will be stored and processed by us for the purpose of handling your request. We do not pass this data on without your consent.

This data is processed on the basis of Art. 6 (1) (b) GDPR, provided your enquiry is connected with the performance of a contract or is necessary for the implementation of pre-contractual measures. In all other cases, processing is based on our legitimate interest in the effective handling of enquiries addressed to us (Art. 6 (1) (f) GDPR) or on your consent (Art. 6 (1) (a) GDPR) where this has been requested.

The data you send to us via contact enquiries remains with us until you ask us to delete it, withdraw your consent to storage, or the purpose for storing the data no longer applies (e.g. after your request has been dealt with). Mandatory statutory provisions – in particular statutory retention periods – remain unaffected.

5. Typefaces

This website uses only the system fonts already present on your device. No typefaces are loaded from external servers – in particular, no Google Fonts are used. Opening this website therefore establishes no connection to Google, and your IP address is not transmitted to Google.

6. No cookies, no tracking

This website sets no cookies and embeds no analytics, tracking or advertising services. There is no reach measurement and no profiling. A consent banner is therefore not required.

7. Contact form

The contact form on this website is processed exclusively on our own web space. When you submit it, the data you have entered (name, email address, subject, message) is transmitted to our server and delivered from there to our mailbox by email. No external form or dispatch service is involved, and no transfer to third countries takes place.

Server and mailbox are provided by the hosting provider named under section 2, who processes the data solely on our instructions.

Processing takes place on the basis of Art. 6 (1) (b) GDPR where your enquiry relates to the initiation of a contract, and otherwise on the basis of our legitimate interest in handling enquiries effectively (Art. 6 (1) (f) GDPR).