Franz S. Hlinka

Privacy statement

This English text is a convenience translation. The German version is authoritative. Only the German privacy statement is binding.

1. Controller

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E-mail: franz.hlinka@gmail.com

2. In brief

This website sets no cookies, uses no tracking, no analytics or advertising services, and loads no content from third-party servers (no external fonts, maps or videos). There is no contact form and no shop.

3. Hosting and server logs

The website is operated on a server of Hetzner Online GmbH, Industriestr. 25, 91710 Gunzenhausen, in a data center in Germany. When a page is requested, the web server necessarily processes: IP address, date and time, address requested, amount of data transferred, status code, referrer (previously visited page) and browser identification (user agent).

Purpose: delivery of the website, stability and defense against attacks. Legal basis: Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR (legitimate interest in secure operation). The logs are deleted automatically after 14 days at the latest. A data-processing agreement under Article 28 GDPR is in place with Hetzner Online GmbH.

4. Visitor statistics without cookies

Once a day, a simple count is produced from the server logs (for example number of page views per day, retrievals by search engines, referring websites as a domain name, and views of the German and English pages). No IP addresses, no full browser identifications and no profiles are stored; it is not possible to infer individual visitors. No cookies are set and no data are passed on to third parties. Legal basis: Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR (interest in knowing whether and how the website is used). The counts are stored on the server.

5. Contact by e-mail

If you write an e-mail, your details (e-mail address, name, content) are used to handle your inquiry. Legal basis: Art. 6(1)(b) GDPR (inquiry about a work, pre-contractual) or (f) (general inquiries). The mailbox is provided by Google (Gmail). The provider is Google Ireland Limited, Gordon House, Barrow Street, Dublin 4, Ireland; transfers to the United States are possible and are safeguarded by the EU-US Data Privacy Framework (adequacy decision of the European Commission of 10 July 2023) and standard contractual clauses. Messages are deleted when they are no longer needed and no statutory retention duties apply.

6. Storage in the browser

If you switch the color scheme (light/dark), your browser stores this setting locally (localStorage). It is not transmitted to the server and is used only for the presentation you have chosen. You choose the language via the address of the page (for example /en/); nothing is stored for this, in particular no cookie.

7. Your rights

You have the right of access (Art. 15 GDPR), rectification (Art. 16), erasure (Art. 17), restriction of processing (Art. 18), data portability (Art. 20) and to object to processing based on Art. 6(1)(f) (Art. 21). You may also lodge a complaint with a data protection supervisory authority, for example the Bavarian Data Protection Authority (Bayerisches Landesamt für Datenschutzaufsicht), Promenade 18, 91522 Ansbach, Germany.

As of: November 2026