Privacy Policy

1. An overview of data protection

General information

The following information will provide you with an easy to navigate overview of what will happen with your personal data when you visit our website. The term “personal data” comprises all data that can be used to personally identify you. For detailed information about the subject matter of data protection, please consult our Data Protection Declaration, which we have included beneath this copy.

Data recording on our website

Who is the responsible party for the recording of data on this website (i.e. the “controller”)?

The data on this website is processed by the operator of the website, whose contact information is available under section “General information and mandatory information” on this website.

How do we record your data?

We collect your data as a result of your sharing of your data with us. This may, for instance be information you enter into a form.

Our IT systems automatically record other data when you visit our website. This data comprises primarily technical information (e.g. web browser, operating system or time the site was accessed). This information is recorded automatically when you access our website.

What are the purposes we use your data for?

A portion of the information is generated to guarantee the error free provision of the website. Other data may be used to analyse your user patterns.

What rights do you have as far as your information is concerned?

You have the right to receive information about the source, recipients and purposes of your archived personal data at any time without having to pay a fee for such disclosures. You also have the right to demand that your data are rectified, blocked or eradicated. Please do not hesitate to contact us at any time under the address disclosed in section “General information and mandatory information” on this website if you have questions about this or any other data protection related issues. You also have the right to log a complaint with the competent supervising agency.

Moreover, under certain circumstances, you have the right to demand the restriction of the processing of your personal data. For details, please consult the Data Protection Declaration under section “Right to demand processing restrictions”.

2. General information and mandatory information

Data protection

The operators of this website and its pages take the protection of your personal data very seriously. Hence, we handle your personal data as confidential information and in compliance with the statutory data protection regulations and this Data Protection Declaration.

Whenever you use this website, a variety of personal information will be collected. Personal data comprises data that can be used to personally identify you. This Data Protection Declaration explains which data we collect as well as the purposes we use this data for. It also explains how, and for which purpose the information is collected.

We herewith advise you that the transmission of data via the Internet (i.e. through e-mail communications) may be prone to security gaps. It is not possible to completely protect data against third party access.

Information about the responsible party (referred to as the “controller” in the GDPR)

The data processing controller on this website is:

Name and Address

Arens & Gerstner GbR

Marienallee 35

24937 Flensburg

Germany

Email Address

[email protected]

Phone Number

+49 461 40787177

The controller is the natural person or legal entity that single-handedly or jointly with others makes decisions as to the purposes of and resources for the processing of personal data (e.g. names, e-mail addresses, etc.).

Storage duration

Unless a more specific storage period has been specified in this privacy policy, your personal data will remain with us until the purpose for which it was collected no longer applies. If you assert a justified request for deletion or revoke your consent to data processing, your data will be deleted, unless we have other legally permissible reasons for storing your personal data (e.g., tax or commercial law retention periods); in the latter case, the deletion will take place after these reasons cease to apply.

Information on data transfer to the USA and other non-EU countries

Among other things, we use tools of companies domiciled in the United States or other from a data protection perspective non-secure non-EU countries. If these tools are active, your personal data may potentially be transferred to these non-EU countries and may be processed there. We must point out that in these countries, a data protection level that is comparable to that in the EU cannot be guaranteed. For instance, U.S. enterprises are under a mandate to release personal data to the security agencies and you as the data subject do not have any litigation options to defend yourself in court. Hence, it cannot be ruled out that U.S. agencies (e.g., the Secret Service) may process, analyze, and permanently archive your personal data for surveillance purposes. We have no control over these processing activities.

Revocation of your consent to the processing of data

A wide range of data processing transactions are possible only subject to your express consent. You can also revoke at any time any consent you have already given us. To do so, all you are required to do is sent us an informal notification via e-mail. This shall be without prejudice to the lawfulness of any data collection that occurred prior to your revocation.

Right to object to the collection of data in special cases; right to object to direct advertising (Art. 21 GDPR)

In the event that data are processed on the basis of Art. 6 Sect. 1 lit. e or f GDPR, you have the right to at any time object to the processing of your personal data based on grounds arising from your unique situation. This also applies to any profiling based on these provisions. To determine the legal basis, on which any processing of data is based, please consult this Data Protection Declaration. If you log an objection, we will no longer process your affected personal data, unless we are in a position to present compelling protection worthy grounds for the processing of your data, that outweigh your interests, rights and freedoms or if the purpose of the processing is the claiming, exercising or defence of legal entitlements (objection pursuant to Art. 21 Sect. 1 GDPR).

If your personal data is being processed in order to engage in direct advertising, you have the right to at any time object to the processing of your affected personal data for the purposes of such advertising. This also applies to profiling to the extent that it is affiliated with such direct advertising. If you object, your personal data will subsequently no longer be used for direct advertising purposes (objection pursuant to Art. 21 Sect. 2 GDPR).

Right to log a complaint with the competent supervisory agency

In the event of violations of the GDPR, data subjects are entitled to log a complaint with a supervisory agency, in particular in the member state where they usually maintain their domicile, place of work or at the place where the alleged violation occurred. The right to log a complaint is in effect regardless of any other administrative or court proceedings available as legal recourses.

Right to data portability

You have the right to demand that we hand over any data we automatically process on the basis of your consent or in order to fulfil a contract be handed over to you or a third party in a commonly used, machine readable format. If you should demand the direct transfer of the data to another controller, this will be done only if it is technically feasible.

SSL and/or TLS encryption

For security reasons and to protect the transmission of confidential content, such as purchase orders or inquiries you submit to us as the website operator, this website uses either an SSL or a TLS encryption programme. You can recognise an encrypted connection by checking whether the address line of the browser switches from “http://” to “https://” and also by the appearance of the lock icon in the browser's address line.

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

Information about, blockage, rectification and eradication of data

Within the scope of the applicable statutory provisions, you have the right to at any time demand information about your archived personal data, their source and recipients as well as the purpose of the processing of your data. You may also have a right to have your data rectified, blocked or eradicated. If you have questions about this subject matter or any other questions about personal data, please do not hesitate to contact us at any time at the address provided in section “General information and mandatory information”.

Right to demand processing restrictions

You have the right to demand the imposition of restrictions as far as the processing of your personal data is concerned. To do so, you may contact us at any time at the address provided in section “General information and mandatory information”. The right to demand restriction of processing applies in the following cases:

In the event that you should dispute the correctness of your data archived by us, we will usually need some time to verify this claim. During the time that this investigation is ongoing, you have the right to demand that we restrict the processing of your personal data.
If the processing of your personal data was/is conducted in an unlawful manner, you have the option to demand the restriction of the processing of your data in lieu of demanding the eradication of this data.
If we do not need your personal data any longer and you need it to exercise, defend or claim legal entitlements, you have the right to demand the restriction of the processing of your personal data instead of its eradication.
If you have raised an objection pursuant to Art. 21 Sect. 1 GDPR, your rights and our rights will have to be weighed against each other. As long as it has not been determined whose interests prevail, you have the right to demand a restriction of the processing of your personal data.

If you have restricted the processing of your personal data, these data – with the exception of their archiving – may be processed only subject to your consent or to claim, exercise or defend legal entitlements or to protect the rights of other natural persons or legal entities or for important public interest reasons cited by the European Union or a member state of the EU.

3. Recording of data on our website

Cookies

In some instances, our website and its pages use so-called cookies. Cookies do not cause any damage to your computer and do not contain viruses. The purpose of cookies is to make our website more user friendly, effective and more secure. Cookies are small text files that are placed on your computer and stored by your browser.

You can adjust the settings of your browser to make sure that you are notified every time cookies are placed and to enable you to accept cookies only in specific cases or to exclude the acceptance of cookies for specific situations or in general and to activate the automatic deletion of cookies when you close your browser. If you deactivate cookies, the functions of this website may be limited.

Where cookies are strictly necessary to transmit a message or provide a function you explicitly request, storage or access is based on Section 25(2) TDDDG. Where personal data are processed, this processing is based on Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR. Other cookies are used only with your consent under Section 25(1) TDDDG and, where personal data are involved, Art. 6(1)(a) GDPR.

Local storage in your browser

The Java, Bedrock, and proxy configurators save the current draft in your browser's session storage while the active session continues. This can include form settings, the service name, and the edited Compose draft. This session data is deleted when the browser tab is closed.

If you consent to 30-day draft recovery in a configurator, recoverable configuration settings are also placed in your browser's local storage. Drafts are deleted automatically after 30 days. You can turn recovery off at any time in the configurator; doing so deletes the persistently stored Java, Bedrock, and proxy drafts.

API keys, passwords, management secrets, and unchecked raw content from imported Compose files are not stored persistently. The MOTD and server icon area can also store MOTD, preview, and icon data locally. All of this data remains on your device and is not sent to us or third parties.

Session storage required for the active feature you explicitly use is based on Section 25(2)(2) TDDDG and, where personal data are processed, Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR. The 30-day configurator recovery is based on your consent under Section 25(1) TDDDG and, where personal data are processed, Art. 6(1)(a) GDPR.

Server log files

The provider of this website and its pages automatically collects and stores information in so-called server log files, which your browser communicates to us automatically. The information comprises:

The type and version of browser used
The used operating system
Referrer URL
The hostname of the accessing computer
The time of the server inquiry
The IP address

This data is not merged with other data sources.

This data is recorded on the basis of Art. 6 Sect. 1 lit. f GDPR. The operator of the website has a legitimate interest in the technically error free depiction and the optimization of the operator’s website. In order to achieve this, server log files must be recorded.

Hosting and delivery via Cloudflare

We use Cloudflare Pages and the Cloudflare network to host and deliver this website. The provider is Cloudflare, Inc., 101 Townsend St, San Francisco, CA 94107, USA ("Cloudflare"). Cloudflare helps us provide static content and supports the stability and security of our online offering.

In this context, Cloudflare may process personal data to the extent technically necessary to deliver the website. This may include in particular IP addresses, request and log data, routing information, system configuration data, browser and device information, referrer information, and timestamps.

Cloudflare is used on the basis of Art. 6 Sect. 1 lit. f GDPR. Our legitimate interest lies in the secure, high-performance, and reliable provision of this website as well as in the prevention of misuse and attacks.

Where Cloudflare transfers personal data from the European Economic Area, Switzerland, or the United Kingdom internationally, Cloudflare states that it relies on applicable adequacy decisions, Standard Contractual Clauses, and supplementary safeguards. For more information, please refer to Cloudflare's privacy policy: https://www.cloudflare.com/privacypolicy/

Sending Email via Cloudflare

We use Cloudflare Email Service for transactional email delivery after a purchase is completed. The provider is Cloudflare, Inc., 101 Townsend St, San Francisco, CA 94107, USA ("Cloudflare").

In this context, the recipient's email address, the content of the email, and technical metadata (e.g., time of purchase) are transmitted to Cloudflare's servers.

Cloudflare is used on the basis of Art. 6 Sect. 1 lit. f GDPR. Our legitimate interest lies in ensuring the secure, fast, and reliable delivery of system-critical emails to our customers.

Storing invoices and reversal invoices in Cloudflare R2

We store the small-business invoices generated after a purchase as well as reversal invoices generated for full refunds or lost payment disputes in a private Cloudflare R2 bucket. The provider is Cloudflare, Inc., 101 Townsend St, San Francisco, CA 94107, USA ("Cloudflare").

The documents may contain the customer's email address, GitHub username, invoice amount and currency, issue and reversal dates, and Stripe Checkout and transaction references. Complete payment data such as credit card numbers is not stored there. Access to the documents is restricted to us.

The processing serves compliance with statutory retention obligations and the performance and documentation of the contract and is based on Art. 6 Sect. 1 lit. b and c GDPR.

Where Cloudflare transfers personal data from the European Economic Area, Switzerland, or the United Kingdom, Cloudflare states that it relies on applicable adequacy decisions, Standard Contractual Clauses, and supplementary safeguards. For more information, please refer to Cloudflare's privacy policy: https://www.cloudflare.com/privacypolicy/

Providing and revoking access through GitHub

We provide the purchased digital content through a private repository on GitHub. The provider is GitHub, Inc., 88 Colin P. Kelly Jr. Street, San Francisco, CA 94107, USA ("GitHub").

For this purpose, we transmit the GitHub username entered during checkout and repository information to the GitHub API. Access is granted after successful payment and revoked after a full refund or a lost payment dispute.

The processing is necessary to perform and reverse the contract pursuant to Art. 6 Sect. 1 lit. b GDPR. GitHub also processes data in the United States and states that it relies in particular on the EU-US Data Privacy Framework and Standard Contractual Clauses for international transfers. For more information, please refer to GitHub's privacy statement: https://docs.github.com/en/site-policy/privacy-policies/github-general-privacy-statement

Plausible Analytics

We use the self-hosted Plausible Community Edition to analyze how our website is used so that we can continuously improve its content and technology. Plausible is a trademark of Plausible Insights OÜ, Västriku tn 2, 50403 Tartu, Estonia. Plausible Insights OÜ provides the software but does not operate our analytics instance and does not receive analytics data from us.

Plausible follows a data-minimizing approach to analyzing your visit. For this purpose, we process in particular the following information:

Date and time of your visit
Title and URL of the visited pages
Referrer URL
The country derived from the IP address
Browser, operating system, and device type information derived from the User Agent
Categorized interactions with configurators, free tools, offers, and checkout (for example import, export, copy, download, check, view, or click) together with predefined context such as tool, action, edition, success status, and approximate output size
Successful purchases with product, amount, currency, and categorized usage context such as edition and entry point

Plausible does not use cookies or access local storage on your device for analytics. The IP address and User Agent transmitted with the request are processed only for analysis and to create a visitor identifier that changes daily. A daily salt, the website domain, the IP address, and the User Agent are hashed for this purpose. The salt is rotated and deleted every 24 hours; the raw IP address and raw User Agent are not stored. The identifier cannot be used to recognize a visitor across different days. Configuration contents, server addresses, uploaded images, error message text, payment session identifiers, usernames, email addresses, and other free-form input are not sent to Plausible.

We operate Plausible Community Edition at pls.setupmc.com on our own server in Germany. Analytics data remains on this self-hosted instance and is not transmitted to Plausible Insights OÜ. Analytics data is not disclosed to third parties for their own purposes.

For more information on data protection at Plausible Analytics, please visit https://plausible.io/data-policy.

Processing is based on Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR. Our legitimate interest is privacy-conscious audience measurement and the content-related and technical improvement of our website, configurators, tools, and offers. Analytics data is retained for 24 months and then deleted.

Processing of data (customer and contract data)

We collect, process and use personal data only to the extent necessary for the establishment, content organization or change of the legal relationship (data inventory). These actions are taken on the basis of Art. 6 Sect. 1 lit. b GDPR, which permits the processing of data for the fulfilment of a contract or pre-contractual actions. We collect, process and use personal data concerning the use of our website (usage data) only to the extent that this is necessary to make it possible for users to utilize the services and to bill for them.

The collected customer data shall be eradicated upon completion of the order or the termination of the business relationship. This shall be without prejudice to any statutory retention mandates.

Data transfer upon closing of contracts for services and digital content

We share personal data with third parties only if this is necessary in conjunction with the handling of the contract; for instance, with the financial institution tasked with the processing of payments, or with the company providing the digital goods.

Any further transfer of data shall not occur or shall only occur if you have expressly consented to the transfer. Any sharing of your data with third parties in the absence of your express consent, for instance for advertising purposes, shall not occur.

The basis for the processing of data is Art. 6 Sect. 1 lit. b GDPR, which permits the processing of data for the fulfilment of a contract or for pre-contractual actions.

4. Payment Service Provider

Stripe

We offer payment via Stripe on our website. The provider of this payment processing service is Stripe, Inc., 510 Townsend Street, San Francisco, CA 94103, USA (hereinafter referred to as “Stripe”).

When you make a payment, the data you enter (in particular your email address, GitHub username, name and address where applicable, payment data, invoice amount, currency, and order reference) is transmitted to Stripe. We retrieve the order and transaction data required for contract performance, reversals, and invoicing from Stripe on the server side. In Stripe metadata, we additionally store only technical fulfillment and document references, not complete payment data such as credit card numbers.

The processing is necessary to perform and, where applicable, reverse the contract pursuant to Art. 6 Sect. 1 lit. b GDPR and to comply with statutory retention obligations pursuant to Art. 6 Sect. 1 lit. c GDPR.

You can find more information about Stripe's data protection at https://stripe.com/privacy.