This page explains which personal data this site processes when you read it, and why. In short: it sets no cookies, stores nothing in your browser and counts page views without recording who reads what.
Who is responsible
The controller under the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) is Dr. Raphael A. Bauer, Friedrich-Klausing-Str. 8a, 14469 Potsdam, Germany, r@raphaelbauer.com.
Hosting
The site runs on a server rented from Hetzner Online GmbH, Industriestr. 25, 91710 Gunzenhausen, Germany, in its data centre in Nuremberg. Hetzner processes data on the publisher’s behalf under a data processing agreement (Art. 28 GDPR). No data is transferred to countries outside the European Union.
What the server processes when you read a page
To deliver a page, the web server has to process the IP address of your device and the request itself: the address of the page, the time, and what your browser sends along with it (such as its name and preferred language). This is necessary to send you the page (Art. 6 (1)(f) GDPR; the legitimate interest is running the site).
Access logs are switched off: the web server keeps no record of who read which page. Only when the server itself runs into a fault does it write an entry to its error log, which can contain an IP address. Error logs are deleted after 15 days at the latest.
Cookies and other servers
The site sets no cookies and stores nothing in your browser. There is no advertising. Fonts and images come from this server like everything else on the page. The only other server a page contacts is Privatracker’s, which counts page views (see the next section). The search page downloads its index once and searches it inside your browser; what you type is sent nowhere, and the page-view counter is not loaded on the search page at all.
Counting page views with Privatracker
To see which stories are read, the site counts page views with Privatracker (www.privatracker.com), a web analytics service run by the publisher of this paper. It runs on a server at Hetzner in Nuremberg, so no data leaves the European Union, and none is passed on to anyone else.
When a page loads, a short script sends the address of the page, the page you came from and your browser’s time zone setting to the Privatracker server. Like any request, this also delivers your IP address and your browser’s identification to that server. Privatracker sets no cookies, stores nothing in your browser and stores no IP addresses, so the counts it keeps cannot be traced back to anyone.
The legal basis is Art. 6 (1)(f) GDPR; the legitimate interest is knowing which stories are read. Anyone who prefers not to be counted can block app.privatracker.com in the browser; the site works the same without it.
Links to other sites
Stories link to their sources. When you follow such a link, you leave this site, and the other site’s own privacy rules apply.
Emails to the editor
If you write to the editor by email, your address and your message are processed in order to read and answer it (Art. 6 (1)(f) GDPR). They are deleted once they are no longer needed, unless the law requires keeping them. The mail server for this address is also rented from Hetzner and stands in its data centre in Nuremberg, Germany, so messages do not leave the European Union.
RSS feed
Fetching the RSS feed is a request like any other and is processed in the same way as reading a page.
Your rights
You have the right to information about the data processed about you (Art. 15 GDPR), to its correction (Art. 16), erasure (Art. 17) and the restriction of its processing (Art. 18), and to data portability (Art. 20). Where processing rests on Art. 6 (1)(f), you may object to it at any time on grounds relating to your particular situation (Art. 21). A message to the address above is enough.
You also have the right to lodge a complaint with a data protection supervisory authority (Art. 77 GDPR), for example with the authority responsible for Brandenburg: Die Landesbeauftragte für den Datenschutz und für das Recht auf Akteneinsicht Brandenburg, Stahnsdorfer Damm 77, 14532 Kleinmachnow, Germany.
Language and date
The German version of this page is authoritative; this English version is a translation. Last updated: 28 September 2026.