Privacy Policy
The purpose of this Privacy Policy is to provide you with information about how we process personal data when you visit this website. We run this site in a way that minimizes data collection: no cookies, no cross-site trackers, and no marketing scripts. To measure website traffic, we use a cookie-free analytics service, which is described in detail below.
Controller
Jetzt Übersetzt LLC523 Jackson Street, Unit #210
Saint Paul, Minnesota 55101, USA
Email: alexander@jetzt-uebersetzt.de
Authorized representative: Alexander Kirsch-Clayton
Server Log Files
When you visit this website, my hosting provider (Hetzner Online GmbH, Industriestr. 25, 91710 Gunzenhausen, Germany) automatically stores information in what are known as server log files. This information includes your IP address, the date and time you accessed the site, the referrer URL, the user agent string, and the page you requested. This data is deleted after a maximum of 14 days.
Hosting
This website is hosted on servers operated by Hetzner Online GmbH in Falkenstein, Germany. Hetzner processes data on my behalf on the basis of a data processing agreement (Art. 28 GDPR). I also use Cloudflare, Inc. (101 Townsend St, San Francisco, CA 94107, USA) as a content delivery network and to protect against attacks. Data transfers to the United States take place on the basis of the EU-US Data Privacy Framework and, in addition, the EU Standard Contractual Clauses (Art. 46(2)(c) GDPR).
Geolocation-Based Line in the Hero Section
A welcome message such as “Currently translating documents in Sri Lanka for clients like you in Hamburg and all of Germany” appears at the top of the homepage. The first part (“in Sri Lanka”) comes from my own OwnTracks location, which I actively push to my server. The second part (“in Hamburg and all of Germany”) is determined server-side based on the IP address of your device that accesses my server, but entirely offline: I use a locally stored copy of the MaxMind GeoLite2 City database for this purpose. Your IP address never leaves my server and is not transmitted to MaxMind or any other third parties whatsoever. If the local database does not yield a match, I use the country code transmitted by Cloudflare (CF-IPCountry header) as a fallback. The IP address location is determined once per page view and is never stored.
Automatic Light/Dark Theme
On your first visit, I automatically choose between the light and dark themes based on the local time in your country. To do this, I use the same offline country mapping mentioned in the previous section (MaxMind GeoLite2, or alternatively the CF-IPCountry header)—no additional data is collected. I derive a representative time zone from the country code; between 7:00 AM and 7:00 PM local time, the light theme is set by default, otherwise the dark theme. As soon as your browser executes JavaScript, this default setting is refined with your device’s actual local time—without sending any network requests. Any manual selection you make using the theme switcher in the top-right corner is saved exclusively in your browser’s localStorage and permanently overrides the automatic default. As mentioned above, your IP address never leaves my server and is not transmitted to MaxMind or any other third parties whatsoever.
Contact Form
When you use the contact form, I collect the information you enter (name, email address, message, and optional subject line), as well as your IP address and the time the form was submitted. I process this data in order to reply to your inquiry and, if applicable, to initiate a contractual relationship (Art. 6(1)(b) GDPR). Your data is never shared with third parties beyond the email processing providers named in the subsections below, and is deleted after 12 months at the latest, unless I am under a legal obligation to retain it for longer.
AI Reply Generation and Spam Classification (Anthropic)
To generate the instant acknowledgment reply and to automatically classify your message as a genuine inquiry or unsolicited spam (abuse prevention), I transmit your name, the optional subject line, and your message - BUT NOT YOUR EMAIL ADDRESS - to Anthropic, PBC (548 Market Street, PMB 90375, San Francisco, CA 94104, USA), the provider of the Claude language model. Anthropic processes this data solely to generate the reply or classification; per Anthropic's standard paid API terms, inputs are retained for up to 30 days for abuse monitoring and are NOT used to train their models. A data processing agreement pursuant to Art. 28 GDPR is in place. Data transfer to the United States takes place on the basis of the EU-US Data Privacy Framework and, additionally, the EU Standard Contractual Clauses (Art. 46(2)(c) GDPR). The AI-generated reply is clearly labeled as such in the email you receive. Note: this processing does not transmit any confidential translation documents—the confidentiality rules in the "Confidentiality of Translation Documents" section below remain unaffected.
Email Delivery (Resend)
When you submit the contact form, the notification email to me and the AI-generated acknowledgment reply to you are sent via the email service provider Resend (Plus Five Five, Inc., 2261 Market Street #5039, San Francisco, CA 94114, USA). Transactional email is sent from the dedicated subdomain mail.jetzt-uebersetzt.de to keep sending reputation isolated from my primary mailbox. Resend processes the data you enter (name, email address, subject, message) along with standard email metadata (sender, recipient, timestamp, delivery status). I use Resend's EU region (Ireland) for sending. A data processing agreement pursuant to Art. 28 GDPR is in place. Data transfer to the United States takes place on the basis of the EU-US Data Privacy Framework and, additionally, the EU Standard Contractual Clauses (Art. 46(2)(c) GDPR). For more information, see Resend's privacy policy: resend.com/legal.
TidyCal Scheduling Tool
I use TidyCal (Sumo Group, Inc., 1345 E. 6th Street Suite 125, Austin, TX 78702, USA) to schedule appointments. The calendar does not load automatically; it only loads after you actively click the “Load Calendar” button. Only after clicking this button does your browser establish a connection to TidyCal. Any data you enter into the scheduling tool is then processed by TidyCal; please review TidyCal’s Privacy Policy for further information.
Cookies
This website only uses a single technically necessary session cookie when you submit the contact form (for anti-spam protection). This cookie does not contain any personal data, is not shared with third parties, and is deleted when you close your browser. Your theme preference (dark/light) is stored in your browser’s localStorage and remains there. I do not use any tracking, marketing, or analytics cookies whatsoever.
Website Analytics
I use GoatCounter (self-hosted on my own server in Falkenstein) to collect anonymized, aggregated usage statistics such as page views and referrers. No IP addresses, cookies, or personal data are stored or transferred to third parties. For more information, visit goatcounter.com.
No Other Trackers of Any Kind
Aside from the cookie-free traffic measurement system described above, I do not use Google Analytics, Facebook Pixel, Matomo, Tag Manager, or any other third-party trackers that set cookies or create user profiles. To gain a general understanding of my website traffic, I also analyze the server log files, which are deleted after 14 days, as described above.
Confidentiality of Translation Documents
Source and target documents from ongoing or completed translation projects remain on my own infrastructure. I use only contract-tier AI services with explicit no-storage and no-training-on-inputs terms—currently DeepL Pro (for machine translation assistance) and Claude Max (for research and drafting tasks that do not contain confidential client content). Free-tier or consumer AI tools (ChatGPT free, DeepL web, Google Translate, and the like) never receive client content. I will sign any non-disclosure agreement (NDA) you provide upon request.
Your Rights Under the GDPR
You have the right of access (Art. 15 GDPR), rectification (Art. 16), erasure (Art. 17), restriction of processing (Art. 18), data portability (Art. 20), and to object to processing (Art. 21). Simply send an email to alexander@jetzt-uebersetzt.de. You also have the right to lodge a complaint with a data protection supervisory authority—in Germany, this is the authority responsible for your federal state. An official list of the respective German data protection authorities and their contact information can be found here: datenschutzkonferenz-online.de.
Amendments / Updates
This Privacy Policy was last updated on April 20, 2026 (addition of the AI Reply Generation and Email Delivery subsections documenting the Anthropic and Resend processors now behind my contact form, plus earlier correction of the AI / LLM paragraph to reflect contract-tier service usage). I will keep visitors informed of any significant privacy-related changes to my site here.