Privacy Notice

1. Who is responsible

The controller for this website under the GDPR is:

Prof. Dr. Brooke A. Gazdag
Hamburg, Germany
Email: hello@schmingo.com

This notice covers brookegazdag.com. Schmingo has its own privacy notice at schmingo.com/legal.html.

2. Visiting this website

This website is hosted by Vercel Inc. (USA). When you visit, the server briefly records technical data such as your IP address, browser, the page you requested and the time. We need this to deliver the website and keep it secure (Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR). Fonts and images are served from this website itself, not from third parties.

3. Cookies and analytics

We use Google Analytics (Google Ireland Limited) to understand how visitors use the site, but only if you click “Accept” in the cookie banner (Art. 6(1)(a) GDPR, § 25 TDDDG). If you decline, Google Analytics is not loaded. Your choice is saved in your browser’s local storage. To change it, clear this site’s data in your browser and the banner appears again.

4. Contact form

If you use the contact form, your name, email address, subject and message are sent to us by email, through Google’s email service (Gmail). We use them only to answer your request and delete them when they are no longer needed (Art. 6(1)(b) and (f) GDPR). To prevent spam, your IP address is held briefly in memory and is not stored.

5. Embedded videos

Some pages show videos from YouTube (Google, in privacy-enhanced mode) and Vimeo (Vimeo.com, Inc., USA). When a page with a video loads, your browser connects to their servers, which receive your IP address and technical data (Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR).

6. Exit Ticket

Answers in the Exit Ticket and the list in its attendance scanner are stored only in your browser on your own device. The scanner uses your camera only on the device. Nothing is sent to us.

7. Purchases

Purchases are handled by Paddle.com Market Limited (UK) as merchant of record. Paddle collects your name, email address, country and payment details under its own privacy notice. We receive the order details we need to deliver your purchase and support you (Art. 6(1)(b) GDPR).

8. Transfers outside the EU

Some providers named above are based in the USA or may process data there. Transfers rely on the EU-U.S. Data Privacy Framework where the provider is certified, and on the EU Standard Contractual Clauses otherwise.

9. Your rights

You have the right to access, correct and delete your data, to restrict or object to its processing, to data portability, and to withdraw consent at any time with effect for the future. Write to hello@schmingo.com. You can also complain to a data protection authority, for example the Hamburg Commissioner for Data Protection and Freedom of Information.