Privacy policy

Datenschutzerklärung. This page explains what personal data Closing Note processes, why, and what rights you have under the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).

1. Who is responsible

Julius Falk
Gubener Straße 43, 10243 Berlin
E-mail: julius@buerofalk.de

2. Visiting the website

The site is hosted by Hetzner Online GmbH, Gunzenhausen, Germany. To deliver pages and keep the service secure, the server briefly processes technical data such as your IP address, the time of the request, the page requested and your browser's user agent (Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR, legitimate interest in a working, secure website). Fonts are served from our own server; no third-party fonts or scripts are loaded for this.

3. Visitor statistics

We count page views with Umami, a privacy-friendly analytics tool. It sets no cookies, does not store your IP address and does not build profiles across sites (Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR, legitimate interest in knowing which pages are used).

4. Daily alert and Sunday recap

If you sign up, we store your e-mail address, which list you joined, and when you signed up and confirmed. Sign-up uses double opt-in: nothing is sent until you confirm the link in the first e-mail. The legal basis is your consent (Art. 6(1)(a) GDPR), which you can withdraw at any time with the unsubscribe link in every e-mail.

E-mails are sent through Mailgun (Sinch Mailgun) using its EU region. To keep the list clean we store delivery events reported by Mailgun, such as delivered, bounced or marked as spam. After you unsubscribe we keep your address only on a block list, so that we do not e-mail you again.

5. Paid subscription

Payments are handled by Stripe (Stripe Payments Europe Ltd., Ireland). We do not see or store card details; Stripe tells us a customer ID and whether your subscription is active (Art. 6(1)(b) GDPR, performance of the contract). Billing records are kept as long as tax law requires.

6. Cookies

We set one cookie, session, only when you log in or open the site from one of our e-mails. It keeps you signed in for up to 30 days so you can see subscriber pages. It is technically necessary for that service (§ 25(2) TDDDG) and is not used for tracking.

7. Transfers outside the EU

Stripe and Mailgun belong to groups based in the United States. Where data reaches the US, the transfer is covered by the EU-US Data Privacy Framework or the EU standard contractual clauses.

8. Your rights

You have the right to access your data, to have it corrected or deleted, to restrict or object to its processing, and to receive it in a portable format (Art. 15–21 GDPR). You can withdraw consent at any time, with effect for the future. To use these rights, write to julius@buerofalk.de. You can also complain to a data protection supervisory authority.

9. No automated decisions

We do not use your data for automated decision-making or profiling.