Privacy Policy
This page is provided for convenience. The German-language Datenschutzerklärung is the legally binding version under German and EU law.
Overview
This website was deliberately built to minimise data collection: no analytics or marketing cookies are set, no external review widgets and no video embeds are loaded, and no fonts are fetched from Google's servers — all fonts are hosted locally.
Exactly one area requires your consent: the interactive map and route planning. It is not loaded automatically — only after you explicitly agree. Your location is requested only if you click “Calculate route from my location” or “Show route from my location” yourself and then allow it in your browser’s own dialog. See the section below.
Hosting
This website is hosted by IONOS SE, Elgendorfer Str. 57, 56410 Montabaur, Germany. IONOS collects technically necessary server log files, including your IP address, to provide the service reliably (Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR).
Data controller
Fatih Aslan
Dickswall 79–83, 45468 Mülheim an der Ruhr, Germany
Phone: +49 208 43 761 250
Email: info@mh-gutachter.de
Contact form
If you contact us via the contact form, your details are stored to process your enquiry (Art. 6(1)(b)/(f) GDPR). Submissions are transmitted via Formspree(Formspree, Inc., USA) to our email address. Seeformspree.io/legal/privacy-policy.
Your rights
You have the right to access, rectify, or erase your personal data, to restrict or object to processing, and to data portability. You may lodge a complaint with a data protection supervisory authority at any time.
Cookies and local storage
This website does not use analytics, marketing or tracking cookies. On your first visit a cookie banner asks whether you consent to the map with route planning and (on the German home page) our Google reviews. You can accept all, allow only necessary storage or choose individually; nothing is preselected. Your decision is stored in your browser's local storage (which services you consented to and when). It never leaves your device and is not shared with third parties. You can change it at any time via “Cookie settings” in the footer or the control below.
Map and route planning (requires consent)
The map uses the open-source library MapLibre GL, served from our own server. The map tiles themselves come from OpenFreeMap; the underlying data is from OpenStreetMap. Loading tiles necessarily transmits yourIP address to that provider, along with the requested map area and usual connection data. Legal basis: your consent (Art. 6(1)(a) GDPR, § 25(1) TDDDG).
Before you consent, only a purely local placeholder with our address and phone number is shown — no connection to the map provider takes place.
Your location is only determined if you click “Calculate route from my location”(this loads the map and starts the route in one step, as the note next to the button explains) or “Show route from my location”. Your browser then asks for permission through its own dialog; if you decline, no location is determined. “Show map only” never requests your location. Your coordinates are held in memory only for as long as the page is open: they are not stored in cookies, local storage or session storage, not logged, not sent to analytics, not stored on our side and not linked to any other data about you.
The road route itself is calculated by a relay service operated by us. Only your starting coordinates and our office coordinates are transmitted, plus your IP address as an unavoidable consequence of establishing the connection — once per route request. Legal basis: your consent (Art. 6(1)(a) GDPR).
You may withdraw your consent at any time with effect for the future. Withdrawal takes effect immediately: the map is removed, any displayed route deleted, pending requests aborted and your coordinates discarded.