Privacy policy
Welcome to sandragerth.com, where your privacy is as important to me, Sandra Gerth, as providing authors with a comprehensive platform that offers valuable insights into writing, editing, marketing, and productivity!
As the owner of sandragerth.com, based in Germany, I take privacy very seriously and am committed to protecting your personal information.
This statement governs my privacy policies with respect to all visitors of the website.
Sandra Gerth
Emma-Herwegh-Str. 14
79114 Freiburg
Germany
Email: sandra@sandragerth.com
What personal information I collect
At sandragerth.com, I don’t collect any personally identifiable information from my visitors unless you explicitly give them to me!
Personally identifiable information
refers to any information that identifies or can be used to identify, contact, or locate the person to whom such information pertains, including, but not limited to, name, address, phone number, fax number, email address, financial profiles, social security number, and credit card information. Personally Identifiable Information does not include information that is collected anonymously (that is, without identification of the individual user) or demographic information not connected to an identified individual.
I respect your privacy and don’t use any tracking cookies or other tools that could identify you or track your activities on my website.
Instances where you give me personally identifiable information would be, for example:
- when you leave a comment on my blog and type in your email address and your name (Your email address won’t be visible to any blog visitors, just to me)
- when you send me an email
Non-personally identifiable information
refers to data that cannot be used on its own to trace or identify a person. Examples include but are not limited to, your partially or fully masked IP address or which pages you visit on my website.
I only use the non-personally identifiable information I collect to analyze how visitors use my website and improve my content. I don’t share this information with anyone else.
Hosting provider
What personal information does the hoster collect
sandragerth.com is hosted by
webgo GmbH,
Heidenkampsweg 81,
20097 Hamburg,
Germany
Phone: 040 605 900 399
Email: support@webgo.de
When visiting my website, anonymized data on your website visit (see below) are stored on servers managed by webgo.
For this purpose, we entered into a data processing agreement according to Art. 28 EU General Data Protection Regulation with webgo. For further information, please review webgo’s privacy policy.
If you have any questions regarding data protection, please contact their data protection officer
S-CON GmbH & Co. KG,
Kriegerstraße 44,
30161 Hannover,
Germany
Email: datenschutzteam173@s-con.de
Stored data
As mentioned above, I do not log any personally identifiable visitor information myself. However, the following information on website visitors is logged automatically by my hosting provider and stored on my server:
- name of the requested file (e.g. page, image, pdf),
- date and time of the request,
- transferred data size,
- status code of the request,
- visitor’s operating system,
- browser (user agent),
- the referring website
- masked IP address of the visitor
Newsletter
Newsletter data
If you would like to receive the newsletter offered on the website, I require an e-mail address from you. Further data is not collected unless you provide it on a voluntary basis. For the handling of the newsletter, I use the newsletter service provider, which is described below.
MailerLite
This website uses MailerLite to send newsletters. The provider is UAB “MailerLite”, J. Basanaviciaus 15, LT-03108 Vilnius, Lithuania (hereinafter referred to as MailerLite).
MailerLite is a service that, among other things, can be used to organize and analyze the sending of newsletters. The data you enter to subscribe to the newsletter is stored on MailerLite’s servers.
If you do not want MailerLite to analyze your data, you must unsubscribe from the newsletter. For this purpose, I provide a corresponding link in every newsletter message.
Data analysis by MailerLite
MailerLite enables me to analyze my newsletter campaigns. For example, I can see whether a newsletter message was opened and which links were clicked on, if any. In this way I can determine which links were clicked on particularly often and what topics are of interest to my subscribers.
Detailed information on the functions of MailerLite can be found here.
The MailerLite privacy policy can be found here.
Legal basis
Data processing is based on your consent (Art. 6(1)(a) GDPR). You can revoke this consent at any time for the future.
Storage period
The data you provide me with for the purpose of subscribing to the newsletter will be stored by me or the newsletter service provider until you unsubscribe from the newsletter and deleted from the newsletter distribution list after you unsubscribe from the newsletter or after the purpose has ceased to apply. I reserve the right to delete or block e-mail addresses from my newsletter distribution list at my own discretion within the scope of my legitimate interest in accordance with Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR. This does not affect data stored by me for other purposes.
After you have been removed from the newsletter distribution list, your e-mail address may be stored by me or the newsletter service provider in a blacklist, if such action is necessary to prevent future mailings. The data from the blacklist will only be used for this purpose and will not be merged with other data. This serves both your interest and my interest in compliance with the legal requirements when sending newsletters (legitimate interest in the sense of Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR). There is no time limit on storage in the blacklist. You can object to the storage if your interests outweigh my legitimate interest.
Data processing
I have concluded a data processing agreement (DPA) for the use of the above-mentioned service. This is a contract mandated by data privacy laws that guarantees that they process personal data of my website visitors only based on my instructions and in compliance with the GDPR.
Third-party websites
Security
- I use malware scanning regularly.
- Your personal information is contained behind secured networks and is only accessible by a limited number of persons who have special access rights to such systems, and are required to keep the information confidential.
- I take all necessary measures to protect your information from unauthorized access, use, or disclosure.
- I regularly update my security software to ensure the safety of my website.
- SSL or TLS encryption: for security reasons, this site uses SSL or TLS encryption. You can recognize an encrypted connection by the fact that the address line of the browser changes from “http://” to “https://” and by the lock symbol in your browser line. If SSL or TLS encryption is activated, the data you transmit to me cannot be read by third parties.
Your rights
You have the right to know what personal information I hold about you and to ask me to delete it if you wish. To request this information or ask me to delete your personal information, please contact me by sending me an email.
Changes to my privacy policy
I may update my privacy policy from time to time to reflect changes in my website or privacy practices. I encourage you to check back periodically to review any changes.
Contact
If you have any questions about this privacy policy, please contact me by sending me an email.
Last updated: February 2025