Privacy Policy
Responsible for this website within the meaning of Art. 4 No. 7 GDPR is intelligent piXel GmbH, International Institute of Forensic Expertise (IIFE), Enzianstrasse 4a, 82319 Starnberg, Germany. Managing Director: George A. Rauscher. You can reach us at george@rauscher.xyz and for data protection matters also at my@intelligent-pixel.com.
This website is deliberately minimal from a data protection perspective. We do not use analytics, marketing pixels, profiling, advertising cookies, embedded social widgets, or consent banners for third-party tracking because we do not run that kind of stack here.
For normal public visits, the relevant data processing is limited to technically necessary server communication, locally hosted website assets, and the information you actively submit to us through the contact form or by email.
When you visit this website, the web server automatically processes connection data required to deliver the site and maintain operational security. This typically includes your IP address, date and time of access, requested URL, HTTP status code, referrer, browser information, and similar technical metadata.
The processing is based on Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR. Our legitimate interest is the secure, stable, and abuse-resistant operation of the website, including error analysis, attack detection, and system integrity. Server log data is not used for profiling or marketing and is kept only as long as operationally necessary.
This public website does not use non-essential cookies. We do not use Google Analytics, Matomo, Meta Pixel, remarketing tools, behavioral tracking, or comparable visitor analysis services.
No cross-site tracking takes place. No advertising profiles are created. No data is sold. If you simply browse the public pages, we do not build a dossier about you.
If you use the contact form, we process the information you enter there: your name, email address, optional subject selection, message content, consent confirmation, and technical anti-abuse data such as IP address and submission time.
The form is processed on this website and then relayed directly via Proton Mail SMTP to the responsible mailbox. The mail transport provider is Proton AG, Route de la Galaise 32, 1228 Plan-les-Ouates, Geneva, Switzerland. Switzerland benefits from an adequacy decision of the European Commission under Art. 45 GDPR.
The processing serves the handling of your inquiry, pre-contractual communication, and the protection of the form against abuse. The legal basis is Art. 6(1)(b) GDPR where your request relates to pre-contractual or contractual communication, and otherwise Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR based on our legitimate interest in responding to serious inquiries and defending the contact channel against spam and misuse.
The contact form includes anti-spam and abuse-protection measures such as a honeypot field, timing validation, rate limiting, validation against obvious injection patterns, and security logging for suspicious events. These controls are necessary to protect the integrity of the communication channel and the underlying infrastructure.
Corresponding security processing is based on Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR. We have a legitimate interest in preventing abuse, unauthorized access attempts, automated spam, and manipulation of the contact system.
Inquiry data is stored only for as long as necessary to process the communication and any related follow-up. If a business or case-related relationship results from the inquiry, the data may be retained for the duration of that relationship and for any statutory retention periods that apply under commercial or tax law.
Pure contact requests without further relevance are deleted when continued retention is no longer necessary. Security and server logs are not kept for marketing purposes and are retained only as long as needed for security, stability, and traceability.
The fonts used by this website are hosted locally as part of the theme assets. Your browser does not need to contact Google Fonts or other external font providers to render the public pages.
Aside from the technically necessary mail relay described above when you actively use the contact form, we do not intentionally transfer visitor data to third-party marketing or analytics providers.
Under the GDPR, you have the right to request information about personal data concerning you, to request rectification of inaccurate data, erasure, restriction of processing, and data portability where the statutory requirements are met. You also have the right to object to processing based on Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR.
If processing is based on consent, you may withdraw that consent with effect for the future. To exercise your rights, send a message to my@intelligent-pixel.com or george@rauscher.xyz.
You also have the right to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority. The competent authority for intelligent piXel GmbH in Bavaria is the Bayerisches Landesamt für Datenschutzaufsicht (BayLDA), Promenade 18, 91522 Ansbach, Germany.