Privacy policy

1. Controller

WL Artworld Solutions GmbH Weydingerstraße 6 10178 Berlin Germany Phone: +49 30 1208 6092 Email: info@wrklst.art

The controller is the natural or legal person who alone or jointly with others decides on the purposes and means of processing personal data. Further company details are in the imprint.

2. What happens when you visit this site

The pages of this site are delivered as finished files. A plain visit sets no cookies; there is no advertising and no embedded third-party content, and the visitor statistics (section 3) work without cookies and without storing anything on your device. The typeface (Manrope, SIL Open Font License) is served from our own server; no connection to a font provider is made.

If you change the light or dark appearance, your choice is stored in your browser (cookie "appearance" and local storage) so the site looks the way you chose on your next visit. If you switch the language in the header, the browser remembers that too (cookie "lang", one year); without such a choice, the English pages show the German edition to a browser set to German. This storage is necessary for a function you have expressly requested (§ 25 (2) no. 2 TDDDG).

3. Our own cookieless visitor statistics

We analyse the use of this website with statistics of our own, which we run ourselves. We record the pages viewed and how long they were visible, the website you came from (its domain only), the campaign details in the address of the first page (so-called utm parameters), whether you came through an ad (only the kind of click identifier, not the identifier itself), clicks on email and phone links, the sending of the inquiry form, the language of the page, the device class (computer, tablet, smartphone), and country and city.

We set no cookies for this and store nothing on your device. Your IP address and your browser's identification (user agent) are not stored. Country and city are determined at the moment of the visit from a database on our own server, without third parties. To count the visits of a day, we form a hash from the IP address and user agent together with a random key that is created anew each day and deleted after 48 hours at the latest. Once the key is deleted, the hash can no longer be attributed to anyone; visits on different days are not linked.

The statistics are received by our own server at registration.wrklst.com, operated by WL Artworld Solutions GmbH at Hetzner Online GmbH in Germany (backups in Finland, see section 4). The data is not passed on to third parties and is deleted after 365 days. If your browser sends a "Do Not Track" or "Global Privacy Control" signal, we record nothing.

The legal basis is Art. 6 (1) (f) GDPR. We have a legitimate interest in knowing how our website is used, in order to improve it. You may object to this processing at any time under Art. 21 GDPR, for example by enabling "Do Not Track" or "Global Privacy Control" in your browser.

4. Hosting

This website is hosted by Hetzner Online GmbH, Industriestr. 25, 91710 Gunzenhausen, Germany ("Hetzner"). The servers are located in Germany. For details see Hetzner's privacy policy: hetzner.com/legal/privacy-policy.

The use of Hetzner is based on Art. 6 (1) (f) GDPR. We have a legitimate interest in presenting our website as reliably as possible. We have concluded a data processing agreement (DPA) with Hetzner.

5. Server log files

The web server automatically records information in server log files that your browser transmits: browser type and version, operating system, referrer URL, host name of the accessing computer, time of the request and IP address. This data is not merged with other sources and is deleted after 14 days at the latest.

The data is collected on the basis of Art. 6 (1) (f) GDPR. We have a legitimate interest in the technically error-free presentation and the security of our website.

6. Inquiry form ("Start a project")

If you send us a project inquiry through the form, we process what you enter there: name, email address, optionally organisation and website, the kind of endeavour, your description of the situation and the goal, budget range and timeline. This website is static and has no server of its own: the form sends the entries to our server at registration.wrklst.com, operated by WL Artworld Solutions GmbH at Hetzner Online GmbH in Germany (backups in Finland). There they are stored in our database and delivered to us by email at the same time (section 7). Of the request we store the country it came from, not your IP address.

Processing is based on Art. 6 (1) (b) GDPR where your inquiry relates to entering into a contract, and otherwise on our legitimate interest in answering the inquiries addressed to us (Art. 6 (1) (f) GDPR). We keep the entries until your inquiry has been dealt with and no follow-up is to be expected, or until you ask us to delete them; statutory retention periods remain unaffected.

The form is protected against automated submissions by a computational puzzle (ALTCHA) that your browser solves and that the same server issues. No third-party service is called and no cookie is set; the puzzle contains no personal data. Our server remembers a solved puzzle for ten minutes so it cannot be reused, and accepts at most three inquiries from one email address in fifteen minutes.

7. Email communication

Our business mailboxes are operated at Infomaniak Network AG, Rue Eugène Marziano 25, 1227 Les Acacias, Switzerland. If you email us or your form inquiry reaches us, the messages and the personal data they contain are stored on Infomaniak's servers. Switzerland holds an adequacy decision of the European Commission; we have concluded a data processing agreement with Infomaniak. Privacy policy: infomaniak.com/en/legal/confidentiality-policy.

The legal bases are Art. 6 (1) (b) GDPR (initiation and performance of a contract) and Art. 6 (1) (f) GDPR (legitimate interest in reliable business communication). Emails are kept for as long as needed to handle the matter in question, and at least for the duration of statutory retention periods.

8. Encryption

For security and to protect the transmission of confidential content, this site uses SSL or TLS encryption. You recognise an encrypted connection by the address line of your browser starting with "https://" and showing a lock symbol.

9. Your rights

You have the right at any time to free information about the origin, recipients and purpose of your stored personal data (Art. 15 GDPR), to rectification (Art. 16), erasure (Art. 17), restriction of processing (Art. 18) and data portability (Art. 20 GDPR). Consent you have given can be withdrawn at any time with effect for the future.

Where we process data on the basis of Art. 6 (1) (f) GDPR, you have the right to object at any time, on grounds relating to your particular situation (Art. 21 GDPR). We will then no longer process the data concerned unless we can demonstrate compelling legitimate grounds that override your interests, rights and freedoms, or the processing serves to assert, exercise or defend legal claims.

You also have the right to lodge a complaint with a data protection supervisory authority (Art. 77 GDPR). The authority responsible for us is the Berlin Commissioner for Data Protection and Freedom of Information, Alt-Moabit 59–61, 10555 Berlin, datenschutz-berlin.de. For any question about data protection, write to info@wrklst.art.

10. Changes

We update this policy when the website or the legal situation changes. The version published here applies.