Privacy

Privacy notice

Datenschutzerklärung nach Art. 13 DSGVO. This notice is written in English; German law applies.

1. Controller

Hussein Akar, c/o online imprint 11872, Europaring 90, 53757 Sankt Augustin, Germany. Email: contact@hussein-akar.com.

2. What this site does and does not do

This site sets no cookies, runs no analytics, embeds no social media widgets, and loads no fonts or scripts from third parties. Everything the page needs is served from this domain. The only data that leaves this domain is what you type into the contact form or a newsletter box and choose to send (sections 4 and 5).

3. Hosting and server logs

The site is a set of static files stored and delivered by Amazon Web Services (AWS). The AWS contracting entity for customers in the EU is Amazon Web Services EMEA SARL, 38 Avenue John F. Kennedy, L-1855 Luxembourg. The files are stored in the AWS region Frankfurt (eu-central-1) and delivered through Amazon CloudFront, a content delivery network with servers around the world, so that a page reaches you from a server near you, which may be outside the EU. When you open a page, your browser sends your IP address, the page requested, the time and your browser type to that server so that the page can be delivered. Access logging is switched off; AWS processes this connection data only to deliver the content and to protect its network against attacks. The legal basis is my legitimate interest in operating a fast and secure website (Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR). AWS processes data on my behalf under the AWS Data Processing Addendum, and Amazon Web Services, Inc. is certified under the EU-US Data Privacy Framework as part of Amazon.com, Inc. See AWS's privacy notice.

4. Newsletter

If you enter your email address in one of the signup boxes, it is sent to the newsletter provider named on the confirmation page, and you receive a confirmation email first (double opt-in). I use the address only to send you the stories you asked for. Every email contains an unsubscribe link, and you can also unsubscribe by writing to me. The legal basis is your consent (Art. 6(1)(a) GDPR), which you can withdraw at any time. If no provider is configured, the signup boxes are not shown and no address is collected.

5. Contact by email or through the contact form

If you write to me, I keep your message and address for as long as it takes to answer you and for as long as I am legally required to keep correspondence. The legal basis is Art. 6(1)(b) GDPR where you contact me about a contract or purchase, and otherwise Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR, my legitimate interest in answering you.

The contact form is part of this site. When you press Send, your entries (name, email address and message) are transmitted over an encrypted connection to a small function that runs on Amazon Web Services in Frankfurt, which sends them to my mailbox as an email through Amazon Simple Email Service and keeps no copy. The function does not record your entries or your IP address. Nothing is transmitted before you press Send. AWS processes this data on my behalf under the same terms as the hosting (section 3). If you prefer, write to me directly at the address above.

6. Links to other sites

Links to Amazon, LinkedIn, YouTube, Udemy and other sites take you to those providers, whose own privacy notices apply from the moment you arrive there. The Amazon link is chosen in your browser from your time zone and language settings so that it opens the store for your country; this happens entirely on your device, and nothing is sent to me or to anyone else to do it. The link carries no tracking parameter.

7. Your rights

You have the right to access the personal data I hold about you, to have it corrected or erased, to restrict or object to its processing, and to data portability (Art. 15 to 21 GDPR). You also have the right to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority, for example the Landesbeauftragte für Datenschutz und Informationsfreiheit Nordrhein-Westfalen.

8. Changes

I will update this notice if the way the site works changes, for example when a newsletter provider or analytics tool is added.