Privacy notice

Updated: October 30, 2026

Controller

The operator identified in our legal notice is responsible for this website. Privacy enquiries: [email protected].

Hosting and security

Cloudflare, Inc., 101 Townsend Street, San Francisco, CA 94107, USA, delivers this website. IP addresses, request times, requested URLs, browser information and technical connection data are processed to deliver pages and protect against attacks. The legal basis is Article 6(1)(f) GDPR: our legitimate interest in operating a functional, secure website. Cloudflare may process data outside the EU. Its privacy policy explains processing, retention and international transfer safeguards.

YouTube thumbnails and external links

Current thumbnails of our channel videos are delivered through our website where possible. These copies are hosted by Cloudflare. Other thumbnails, and fallback images if a website copy cannot load, load from i.ytimg.com, a Google/YouTube service. Loading an image from that service transmits your IP address and technical connection data to it. The images connect our written reviews with the published videos, based on our legitimate interest under Article 6(1)(f) GDPR. External video links open the respective provider’s website. See Google's privacy policy.

YouTube players loaded with consent

Some articles include a YouTube player that is initially disabled. This player does not connect to YouTube before your explicit consent. Clicking “Agree & load YouTube player” embeds the video using youtube-nocookie.com in Privacy Enhanced Mode. The provider is Google Ireland Limited, Gordon House, Barrow Street, Dublin 4, Ireland. This mode does not prevent all data transfers to Google.

After loading, Google receives your IP address, browser and connection information, and information about loading and using the player. Cookies or other access to your device’s storage may occur. If you are signed in to Google, Google may associate your use with your account. Data may be processed outside the EU, including in the USA. For details about processing, retention and international transfer safeguards, see Google's privacy policy.

The legal basis for processing through this embed is your consent under Article 6(1)(a) GDPR and, where information is stored on or accessed from your device, Section 25(1) of Germany’s TDDDG. Consent applies only to the selected video during the current page visit; we do not store your choice permanently. “Disable player / withdraw consent” removes the player and withdraws consent for future processing. This does not retroactively delete data already transferred. Alternatively, you can use the external video link, where the respective provider’s privacy notice applies.

Amazon affiliate links

Links marked as advertising lead to Amazon. Clicking them transmits our affiliate identifier in the URL, allowing qualifying purchases to be attributed to us. We do not embed Amazon scripts or product images on this website. Subsequent processing on Amazon is governed by the privacy notices for Amazon.de or Amazon.com.

Contact form and email

When you contact us using the form or email, we process your name, email address, message and any other supplied information to respond. The form securely transmits your details to Cloudflare, which sends them by email to our STRATO mailbox. Your IP address is processed to limit abusive form submissions. The form application does not store messages in a separate database or log message contents. Article 6(1)(b) GDPR applies to contractual enquiries; otherwise Article 6(1)(f) GDPR applies. Messages are deleted when they are no longer needed, unless statutory retention obligations or legitimate reasons require continued retention.

Cookies, analytics and search

We use Cloudflare Web Analytics to measure page views, referrers, countries and technical performance. The service does not use cookies for this measurement or create individual user profiles. We also count page views and clicks on Amazon affiliate links. For each event, we store the page path without query parameters, a broad referral category, the Amazon market where relevant, and counters in Cloudflare Analytics Engine. These statistics do not store a visitor ID, IP address, browser identifier, or full referring address. The counts describe events and pages, not distinct people. Configured owner browsers and known checks are excluded. Earlier statistics may include our own visits and cannot be cleaned retrospectively. Browser blocking or service interruptions may leave gaps in the figures. Cloudflare currently retains Analytics Engine event data for three months. We use these statistics to improve our editorial service, based on Article 6(1)(f) GDPR. See Cloudflare Web Analytics. We do not use advertising tracking scripts. Search runs in your browser; search terms may appear in the page URL and consequently in server requests. Necessary security mechanisms provided by the hosting service may be used during security checks.

Your rights

Subject to the relevant legal conditions, you can request access, rectification, erasure, restriction of processing and data portability. You may object to processing based on legitimate interests on grounds relating to your particular situation. Where processing is based on consent, you can withdraw it for the future. You may complain to a data protection authority, including the data protection authority of Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany.