This website is hosted in Germany, but its audience are English-speaking visitors.
Hence, the privacy policy is in English, but aims to be compliant with German privacy laws.

Who I am

Andreas Hennings
Drupal consulting & development
Turpinstraße 136
52066 Aachen

andreas(at)dqxtech(dot)net

Data collected by this website is stored on a server located in Germany operated by Host Europe.
You may find their privacy policy here.

Personal data we collect from all visitors

When you visit this website, the request we receive may contain information such as

• your IP address, and information about your internet service provider (ISP).
• information about your browser and operating system.
• a referrer url, if you visit this website by clicking a link.
• If you visited our website in the past, the request may contain cookies that were set in previous visits.

The information will be processed when handling the request and building the response (web page).

Some or all of this information may be stored in log files stored on the server.
These log files allow to monitor activity on the website and detect e.g. malfunction or hacking attempts.

In some cases, this information might be sent to an administrator as part of an error report.
We review these mechanisms to minimize the amount of personal information in such reports.

The data in your web request will also be exposed to the hosting provider (hosteurope), and other machines that are involved in transmitting the request.

We process data out of legitimate interests to

• operate this website
• monitor stability and security.
• prevent malfunction or disruptions.
• prevent abuse, spam or hacking attempts.
• learn about general visitor behavior, with the goal to improve our content and presentation accordingly.

Embedded resources from other websites.

Some pages within this website may contain embedded content or resources from other websites.
When you visit these pages, your client (browser) will perform a request to the other website.

The other website will receive the same or similar information from the request as mentioned above, such as the IP address, your ISP, your operating system etc.
Typically, the other website will also learn where the content was embedded, revealing your browsing activity on dqxtech.net to the other website.

Some of those external services may use cookies to track visitors, especially if you are logged in to their service while visiting dqxtech.net.

We attempt to only embed external resources from providers that deal with this data responsibly and according to law.
If you suspect this to be not the case, please email us using the contact details provided above.

We may provide two-click solutions for some of these embedded resources to enhance privacy.
In such a case, the request to the other website would be made once you click the plugin, not directly when visiting the page.

Google Web Fonts

Our theme uses Google Web Fonts for a pleasant appearance.
We request these directly from Google (instead of a local version), to provide a faster loading time.
This qualifies as a "legitimate interest" in the sense of Art. 6 Abs. 1 lit. f DSGVO / GDPR.

If your browser does not support Google Web Fonts, the text will be displayed with a default native font.

When you visit a page, your browser will make requests to servers operated by Google, to download the fonts.
Google will see the IP address and other metadata that may be sent with this request.

More information about Google Web Fonts: https://developers.google.com/fonts/faq
Google privacy policy: https://www.google.com/policies/privacy/

Youtube

On some of our pages we may embed Youtube videos.
These are operated by YouTube, LLC, 901 Cherry Ave., San Bruno, CA 94066, USA.

If a page you visit contains an embedded Youtube video, a request will be made to servers of Youtube.
This will reveal to Youtube which pages you are visiting on dqxtech.net.

If you are logged into your Youtube account while visiting dqxtech.net, Youtube can associate your browsing acitivty on dqxtech.net with your Youtube account. You may prevent this by logging out of your Youtube account.

More information about privacy on Youtube can be found in the Google privacy policy,
https://www.google.de/intl/de/policies/privacy/

Personal data we collect upon request

Currently all functionality that would collect further personal information is disabled.
The following statements apply in case we re-enable some of this functionality.

Upon your request and expression of consent, we collect the following data for the purpose of providing services to you. Your data is not used for any other purposes or shared with third parties. It is removed upon your withdrawal of consent/request to terminate these services.

Comments

Comments are currently disabled.

When visitors leave comments on the site, we collect the data shown in the comments form, and also the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to help spam detection.

If you leave a comment on our site, you may opt-in to saving your name, email address and website in cookies. These are for your convenience so that you do not have to fill in your details again when you leave another comment. These cookies will be saved on your computer for one year or until you delete them.

If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely. This is so we can recognise and approve any follow-up comments automatically instead of holding them in a moderation queue.

Contact form

The contact form is currently disabled.

External links

Some pages contain links to other websites.
Your browser can show the link destination before clicking it.

We are not responsible for privacy on external websites.

SSL / HTTPS

The website does currently not use SSL / HTTPS.
For this reason, we disabled the comment and contact form functionality, until SSL is set up.

Your rights pertaining your data

If you have left comments on this site, you can request to receive an exported file of the personal data we hold about you, including any data you have provided to us. You can also request that we rectify or erase any personal data we hold about you.

• The right to withdraw consent
• The right of access
• The right to erasure
• The right to rectification
• The right to data portability
• The right to object
• Notification of data breaches
• The right to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority

Changes of this privacy policy

We reserve the right to change and adjust this privacy policy to comply with laws and to reflect changes in the website functionality.

For your new visit, the updated privacy policy applies.

Privacy-related questions and requests

Questions regarding privacy (as well as any other questions) can be emailed to andreas(at)dqxtech(dot)net.

Credits

This privacy policy contains modified pieces from different sources.
Parts of it are from https://juliareda.eu/privacy/, which to my understanding explicitly permits copying.