Privacy policy

This English version is provided for information. Only the German version is legally binding.

1. Controller

Secure Society GmbH, Alan-Brooke-Weg 6, 33102 Paderborn, Germany, represented by its managing director, Alexander Bittner. Email: kontakt@secure-society.com, phone: +49 5251 7875060.

2. Hosting and server logs

When the website is visited, we store the IP address and the request for the operation and security of the website and to determine the number of visits. To protect against attacks, requests are checked automatically on the server for attack patterns; conspicuous IP addresses are blocked temporarily. Legal basis: legitimate interest, Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR. The data is deleted after 30 days at the latest. Hosting: Hetzner Online GmbH, Germany, as processor under Art. 28 GDPR.

3. Contact form and email

For inquiries via the form or by email, the details provided are processed to handle the inquiry; in the form, these are the name and email address and, if provided, the company, preferred times and message. Legal basis: Art. 6(1)(b) GDPR for inquiries relating to a contract, otherwise Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR. The technical service provider for sending is EmailLabs (Vercom S.A.), as processor under Art. 28 GDPR. Emails and form messages are processed in Microsoft 365 (Microsoft Ireland Operations Limited); a transfer to the USA cannot be ruled out, and Microsoft is certified under the EU-US Data Privacy Framework. The data is stored for as long as needed to handle the inquiry; statutory retention obligations remain unaffected.

4. Cookies

This website does not set any cookies. No services of other providers are used apart from those named above.

5. Rights of data subjects

Information about the stored data is provided on request (Art. 15 GDPR). The rights to rectification, erasure, restriction of processing and data portability also apply (Art. 16 to 18 and 20 GDPR). An informal message to kontakt@secure-society.com is sufficient.

Right to object: processing based on Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR may be objected to at any time on grounds relating to one's particular situation (Art. 21 GDPR).

A complaint may be lodged with a data protection supervisory authority (Art. 77 GDPR), for example the State Commissioner for Data Protection and Freedom of Information of North Rhine-Westphalia (Landesbeauftragte für Datenschutz und Informationsfreiheit Nordrhein-Westfalen).

Last updated: October 2026