The Adress of my website is: https://buerohofmann.com.

When visitors comment on the website, I collect the data, which is shown in the comment-form, also the IP-adress of the visitor and User-Agent-String (for identifying the browser), to support the recognition of spam.

It possible to create an anonymous character String from your E-Mail adress (also called hash) to be given to the Gravatar-Service, to check if you use this. The privacy policy of the Gravatar-Service is to be found here: https://automattic.com/privacy/. After your comment has been released, your profile picture is to be seen public in context to your comment.

If you are a registered user and post photos to this website, you should avoid to upload photos with EXIF-GPS-Location. Visitors of this website could download photos, saved on this website, and extract location information from them.

If you write a comment on my website, this can be a consent, to save your name, E-Mail adress and website in cookies. That is a comfort function, so you do not have to input your data again in case you want to write another comment. These cookies will be saved for one year.

If you have an account and login to this website, a temporary cookie will be set, to determine, wether your browser accepts cookies or not. This cookie contains no personal data and will be discarded, when you close your browser.

When you login, several cookies will be set up, to save your login information and display options. Login cookies expire after two days and cookies for display options after one year. If, while logging in, you select »Stay logged in«, your login will be maintained for two weeks. With logging out of your account, your login cookies will be deleted.

When you edit or publish an article, an additional cookie will be saved in your browser. That cookie contains no personal data and refers only to the post-id of the article, you are editing. The cookie expires after one day.

Posts on this website can contain embedded content from other websites (e.g. videos, pictures, posts etc.). Embedded content from other websites behave in the same manner, as if visitors would have visited the other website.

These websites can collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third party tracking-services and record your interactions with this embedded content, including your interaction with the embedded content, if you have an account and are logged in to that website.

If you apply for reseting your password, your IP-adress will be included in the E-Mail for reseting.

When you write a comment, it will be saved for an unlimited amount of time, including metadata. This way, following comments can be recognized and released automatically, instead of holding onto them in a moderation waiting loop.

For users, that register on my website, I additionally save their personal data, related to their user profiles. All users can see into their personal informations, change or delete them (the user name cannot be changed) at anytime. Admins of the website can also see into those informations and change them.

If you own an account on this website or have written any comments, you can request your personal data to be exported, including all data, that you have shared on this website. Furthermore you can request for all of your personal data, that is saved on this website, to be deleted. That does not include the data which I have to save because of administrative, legally or security relevant necessities.

Visitor comments can be searched by an automated spam-recognition service.