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Privacy policy

This is my personal website. It uses no cookies, no tracking and no third-party content. Personal data is only processed where this is necessary to run the site or to handle your enquiry. This English version is provided for convenience; the German version is legally binding.

1. Controller

Benedikt Rübcke-von Veltheim
Karl-Marx-Straße 180, 12043 Berlin, Germany
Email: kontakt@brvv.de

2. Hosting

This website runs on my own server, which I rent from IONOS SE, Elgendorfer Str. 57, 56410 Montabaur, Germany, in a data centre in Germany. IONOS provides the hardware and network connection. The data processing agreement pursuant to Art. 28 GDPR is part of the IONOS terms and conditions.

3. Server log files

When you visit the website, technically necessary data is automatically stored in log files:

The purpose is the secure and stable operation of the website, in particular defending against attacks. The legal basis is Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR (legitimate interest in security and functionality). Log files are deleted after 14 days at the latest unless they are needed to investigate a specific security incident.

4. Cookies, tracking and external content

This website sets no cookies and uses no analytics or tracking tools. Fonts, images and scripts are loaded exclusively from this server; no data is transferred to third parties. The background image is by Pawel Czerwinski via Unsplash and is also hosted on this server.

The website stores something on your device in one case only: if you enter a name for the game leaderboard, your browser remembers it until you close the tab (session storage) so you don’t have to type it again. This is necessary for the function you asked for (Section 25(2) No. 2 TDDDG) and never leaves your device.

The same applies to the blog: posts, images and videos are hosted on this server. Videos are only loaded when you start them; this creates nothing beyond the server log files described in section 3. There is no comment function. You fetch the RSS feed with your own feed reader; all I learn from it is what appears in the server log files.

5. Contact form and email

If you contact me via the contact form or by email, I process your name, your email address and the content of your message in order to answer your enquiry. The legal basis is Art. 6(1)(b) GDPR where the enquiry concerns a contract or pre-contractual steps, otherwise Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR (legitimate interest in answering).

The form is processed on my own server and forwarded to me by email. To prevent abuse, your IP address is held briefly in memory (for one hour at most) and is not stored. To fight spam I use a simple arithmetic question generated and checked by my own server; no third-party captcha services are used. If a message cannot be delivered by email immediately, it is stored temporarily on the server and deleted after 30 days at the latest. A push service that also runs on my own server notifies me of new enquiries; only a technical signal without any content is sent to the phone’s notification service.

Emails are stored with my email provider IONOS SE, Elgendorfer Str. 57, 56410 Montabaur, Germany. I delete enquiries once they have been dealt with, unless statutory retention obligations apply.

6. The game “Ackerlauf” and leaderboard

The small game runs entirely in your browser. Only if you voluntarily enter a name after a round do I store this name together with your score and the date on my server and display it publicly on the leaderboard (top ten entries). Please use a nickname rather than your full name. If you are under 16, please only enter a name with your parents’ permission. The legal basis is your consent (Art. 6(1)(a) GDPR), which you can withdraw at any time by writing to kontakt@brvv.de; I will then delete the entry. Entries that drop out of the top ten are deleted automatically. To prevent abuse, your IP address is held briefly in memory and is not stored.

7. Links to LinkedIn and YouTube

This site contains a simple link to my LinkedIn profile. No data is transferred to LinkedIn when you visit this site. Only when you click the link are you taken to LinkedIn (LinkedIn Ireland Unlimited Company, Wilton Place, Dublin 2, Ireland), where LinkedIn's privacy policy applies.

For longer videos, the blog links to YouTube. The videos are not embedded: you only see a preview image from this server and a link. Only when you click it are you taken to YouTube (Google Ireland Limited, Gordon House, Barrow Street, Dublin 4, Ireland), where Google's privacy policy applies.

8. Login and private services

The “Login” link leads to id.brvv.de. Only people I have invited sign in there to use my private services (for example photos, files or the game servers at panel.brvv.nl). There is no public registration. For invited people I process name, email address and the stored sign-in credentials (passkeys or password) to provide the account and to send invitations or password links by email. The legal basis is Art. 6(1)(b) GDPR (use of the service you asked me for). Only after you sign in do these services set a strictly necessary session cookie (Section 25(2) No. 2 TDDDG). On request I delete the account and its data. Playing on the game servers leaves your player name and IP address in their logs; these logs serve security and troubleshooting (Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR) and are deleted after 30 days at the latest, as is the panel’s activity log.

9. Encryption

The connection to this website is encrypted using TLS (HTTPS).

10. 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 legitimate interests (Art. 21). You can withdraw consent at any time with effect for the future (Art. 7(3)). Just write to kontakt@brvv.de.

You can also lodge a complaint with a data protection supervisory authority, for example the one responsible for me: Berliner Beauftragte für Datenschutz und Informationsfreiheit, Alt-Moabit 59–61, 10555 Berlin, Germany.

Last updated: November 2026