Privacy policy
1. Controller
Sebastian Arnold
Am Bürgergarten 8
06571 Roßleben-Wiehe
Germany
Email: mail@herr-a-autor.de
2. Website provision and hosting
When you access this website, technically necessary connection data is processed. This may include your IP address, date and time of access, page visited, browser type, operating system and referrer. Processing serves the secure, stable and error-free provision of the website. The legal basis is Article 6(1)(f) GDPR. The legitimate interest is the secure operation of this website.
The website is provided through ChatGPT Sites. The platform provider for users in the European Economic Area is OpenAI Ireland Limited, 1st Floor, The Liffey Trust Centre, 117–126 Sheriff Street Upper, Dublin 1, D01 YC43, Ireland. The platform provider may engage additional service providers for provision, security and maintenance. According to OpenAI, processing may also take place outside the European Economic Area, particularly in the USA. OpenAI identifies adequacy decisions and EU standard contractual clauses as possible bases for transfers. Further information is available in the OpenAI privacy policy and the OpenAI cookie policy.
The website operator has no direct access to the technical server logs. Their retention period is governed by the platform provider's rules and the security and retention purposes stated there.
3. Cookies and analytics
The operator does not use its own analytics, advertising or tracking services and does not load external fonts. The technical platform provider may use cookies or similar technologies where necessary for provision, security and technical functions. Information is available in the cookie policy linked above.
4. Contact by email
If you contact us by email, your sender address, message and other information you voluntarily provide are processed to handle your enquiry. Depending on the enquiry, the legal basis is Article 6(1)(b) or (f) GDPR. The legitimate interest is responding to enquiries.
Email communication uses Gmail, a service of Google Ireland Limited, Gordon House, Barrow Street, Dublin 4, Ireland. Processing by affiliated companies or service providers outside the European Economic Area cannot be ruled out. Further information is available in the Google privacy policy.
Email data is deleted once it is no longer needed to handle the enquiry and no statutory retention obligations or legitimate interests, such as legal defence, require its retention.
5. External links, WhatsApp channel and downloads
This website links to books offered by Books on Demand (BoD) and Amazon, the author's Instagram profile, the “Herr A. – Wochenfragen” WhatsApp channel and specialist sources from other publishers. These are simple links; these providers' content is not embedded. Merely displaying the links does not establish a connection to the linked providers. Their services open only when you click. The respective provider then processes, in particular, your IP address and technical connection data. Each provider is responsible for its own data processing.
Further information is available in the BoD privacy policy, the Amazon privacy policy and the Instagram privacy policy.
Following the WhatsApp channel is voluntary, takes place directly on WhatsApp and can be ended there. This website has no registration form for it; no phone numbers or subscriber data are collected here or transmitted to WhatsApp. Use of the channel is subject to the WhatsApp privacy policy, including the additional information for Status and Channels.
The Lean working materials can be downloaded without registration. Downloads generate the technical connection data described in Section 2. Information you later enter into downloaded files on your device is not transmitted to the operator by this website.
Amazon purchase links marked as affiliate links contain my partner ID. After a click, Amazon can attribute purchases to that ID and may use cookies or other attribution technologies. I receive a commission for qualifying sales. No Amazon scripts or content are embedded on this website for this purpose. Further processing takes place at Amazon; see the Amazon privacy policy linked above.
6. Your rights
Subject to the applicable legal requirements, you have rights of access, rectification, erasure, restriction of processing and data portability. You may also object to processing based on Article 6(1)(f) GDPR. Where processing is based on consent, you may withdraw it at any time with effect for the future.
7. Right to complain
You have the right to complain to a data protection supervisory authority. The authority responsible at the controller's place of residence is the Thuringian State Commissioner for Data Protection and Freedom of Information. You may also contact another competent supervisory authority.
8. Obligation to provide data and automated decisions
You are not obliged to provide personal data. However, the website cannot be delivered without the technically necessary connection data. The operator does not carry out automated decision-making, including profiling.
9. Updates
This privacy policy is updated when the website, the services used or legal requirements change.
Last updated: 6 October 2026