A clear explanation of what we do with your data, and what we deliberately leave alone.
English translation. See the German original.
We do not chase you around with advertising. This website sets no advertising cookies and builds no profile about you. We do process a few things so the website works and stays secure, so we can see which content is useful and so we can reply to you. The details are set out here in plain language.
The controller responsible for this website is PIRATE GmbH, Brabanter Str. 53, 50672 Köln. Full contact and representation details are in our legal notice.
If you have a privacy question, just write to us. A real person will reply.
To deliver the website to you, our hosting provider ALL-INKL.com (Neue Medien Münnich, with servers in Germany) temporarily stores technical access data in server log files: browser type and version, operating system, the page previously visited, hostname, time of the request and your IP address.
We need this to deliver the website securely and reliably and to detect misuse. The legal basis is our legitimate interest in operating a functional website (Article 6(1)(f) GDPR). We do not combine this data with other sources and delete it after a short time.
We want to understand which content is useful to you and which is not so we can improve. For this we use Umami, a privacy-conscious analytics tool that we run on our own infrastructure (analytics.internals.pirate.builders). Your data stays with us and is not sent to an advertising network or another third party. Umami works without cookies and stores nothing on your device.
This gives us only anonymous, aggregated figures, such as how often a page was viewed, which source brought you here and broad information about browser, operating system and country. Your IP address is processed briefly only to infer the country at a broad level; it is not stored. We cannot identify individual visitors. The legal basis is our legitimate interest in privacy-conscious reach measurement (Article 6(1)(f) GDPR). Because we set no cookies and store nothing on your device, we do not need consent under Section 25 TDDDG for this purpose.
Our contact form is protected by Cloudflare Turnstile (Cloudflare, Inc., USA). It checks whether a real person, rather than a bot, is submitting the form without making you solve irritating puzzles. Technical information such as your IP address and browser data is sent to Cloudflare.
This protects both of us from spam and misuse. The legal basis is our legitimate interest in keeping the form free from abuse (Article 6(1)(f) GDPR). As Cloudflare is a US provider, the transfer is based on the EU Standard Contractual Clauses and/or the EU-US Data Privacy Framework.
If you use our contact form or email us, we process the information you provide, such as your name, company, email address and message, to respond to your enquiry. Form data is processed on our own server and delivered to us by email; it is not passed on to a third party.
The legal basis is taking steps before entering into or performing a contract (Article 6(1)(b) GDPR) and our interest in responding to your enquiry (Article 6(1)(f) GDPR). We keep this data for as long as needed to handle your enquiry and beyond that only where statutory retention periods require it.
It is your data, and you remain in control. You have the right at any time to access the data stored about you, have it corrected or deleted, restrict its processing, request data portability and object to processing based on our legitimate interests. You may withdraw consent at any time with effect for the future.
A short message is enough, and we will take care of it. If you believe something is not right, you can also complain to a data protection supervisory authority, for example the authority responsible for North Rhine-Westphalia.
This website is delivered over an encrypted connection (SSL/TLS), shown by the lock symbol in your browser. This protects information you send to us while it is in transit.
If the website develops or the law changes, we will update this notice. The version published here applies. Last updated: July 2026.
