Privacy Policy
1. General Information
This website serves as a portfolio and only collects necessary data. Protecting your personal data is an important concern for us. We treat your personal data confidentially and in accordance with applicable data protection laws and this privacy policy.
2. Hosting
This website is hosted via Firebase Hosting (Google Ireland Limited, Gordon House, Barrow Street, Dublin 4, Ireland). When visiting the website, technical access data (e.g., IP address, browser, time) is automatically recorded in server logs. This is done based on Art. 6 Para. 1 lit. f GDPR (legitimate interest in the secure and efficient operation of the website). Logs are deleted after a maximum of 30 days.
3. Contact Form
When you use the contact form on this website, the following data is collected: name, email address, project description, problem statement, and optionally: AI tools used and timeline. This data is stored in Google Firestore (Google Ireland Limited, Gordon House, Barrow Street, Dublin 4, Ireland) and forwarded as a notification to the website operator via the Telegram service (Telegram Messenger Inc.). The legal basis is Art. 6 Para. 1 lit. b GDPR (pre-contractual measures). Data will be deleted once your inquiry has been fully processed or upon your explicit request.
4. Analytics, Cookies & Local Storage
This website uses Umami Analytics (Umami Software, Inc., USA), a privacy-friendly web analytics service. No cookies are set, no IP addresses are stored, and no personal data is collected. Only anonymized usage statistics are captured (e.g., pages viewed, device type). The anonymized data is processed on servers of Umami Software, Inc. (USA). The legal basis is Art. 6 Para. 1 lit. f GDPR (legitimate interest in improving the website). No cookie consent is required. This website does not use any tracking cookies. Only one technically necessary entry (i18nextLng) is stored in the browser's local storage to remember the user's language preference. This storage is technically required and is based on § 25 Para. 2 No. 2 TDDDG. No consent is required for this.
5. Your Rights
You have the right to access, rectification, erasure, and restriction of processing of your data in accordance with the GDPR. You also have the right to data portability and the right to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority. Competent authority: Landesbeauftragte für Datenschutz und Informationsfreiheit Nordrhein-Westfalen (LDI NRW), Postfach 20 04 44, 40102 Düsseldorf, Germany.
6. AI Chat Assistant
This website provides an AI-powered chat assistant. Your messages are transmitted to the Anthropic API (Anthropic, PBC, 548 Market Street, San Francisco, CA 94104, USA) for processing and response generation. Anthropic acts as a data processor in accordance with Art. 28 GDPR. Messages are not permanently stored on our servers. If you share personal contact details (email address, phone number, WhatsApp) in the chat, the full chat history will be forwarded to the website operator via the Telegram service (Telegram Messenger Inc.) for the purpose of follow-up contact. The legal basis is Art. 6 Para. 1 lit. b GDPR (pre-contractual measures).
7. Radar Newsletter
On the Radar page of this website, you can subscribe to the free Radar newsletter. Only your email address is collected. It is transmitted via webhook to the self-hosted automation service n8n, which runs on a server provided by DigitalOcean, Inc. (USA). Newsletter emails are sent via Resend (Resend Inc., 2261 Market Street #5496, San Francisco, CA 94114, USA). The legal basis for processing is Art. 6 Para. 1 lit. a GDPR (consent through active submission of the email address). You can unsubscribe at any time by sending an email to hello@webchemist.io.