Privacy Policy

Privacy Policy

Katty Mieles – Language and Cultural Mediator | English Version

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Last updated: 13 July 2026

1. Controller

Name

Katty Juliana Erdmann

Business name

Katty Mieles – Sprach- und Kulturmittlerin

Address

Freienwalder Str. 17
13055 Berlin
Germany

Telephone: +49 17622313547

Email / website

kontak@kattymieles.com | www.kattymieles.com

2. General information

The protection of your personal data is important to us. We process personal data exclusively in accordance with the applicable legal provisions, in particular the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), the German Federal Data Protection Act (BDSG) and the German Telecommunications and Digital Services Data Protection Act (TDDDG).

This Privacy Policy explains which personal data are processed when you visit our website or contact us through the contact methods provided on the website, the purposes for which they are processed, the legal bases on which the processing is carried out and the rights available to you.

As a general rule, our website can be used without actively providing personal data. If you contact us by email or telephone, we process the data you provide for the purpose of handling your enquiry.

3. Hosting, access data and server log files

Our website is hosted by IONOS SE, Elgendorfer Str. 57, 56410 Montabaur, Germany. When you access the website, data transmitted by your browser to the server are processed for technical reasons.

These data may include, in particular:

IP address of the requesting device

Date and time of access

Page or file accessed

Amount of data transferred

Browser type and browser version

Operating system and device type used

Referrer URL

Information indicating whether the request was successful or unsuccessful

The data are processed to provide the website technically, ensure system security and stability, analyse errors and prevent misuse. The legal basis is Article 6(1)(f) GDPR. Our legitimate interest lies in providing our website securely, reliably and without errors.

According to the information published for the IONOS product used, visitor data are stored for eight weeks and subsequently deleted or anonymised, unless statutory retention obligations or specific security interests require longer storage. Where IONOS processes personal data on our behalf, this is carried out on the basis of a data processing agreement pursuant to Article 28 GDPR.

4. Contact by email or telephone

If you contact us by email or telephone, we process the personal data you provide in order to handle your enquiry. These data may include, in particular, your name, contact details, the date and time of contact and the content of your message.

The legal basis is Article 6(1)(b) GDPR where your contact relates to the initiation or performance of a contract. In all other cases, the processing is based on Article 6(1)(f) GDPR. Our legitimate interest lies in handling and responding to your enquiry appropriately.

The data will be deleted as soon as they are no longer required to process the enquiry and no statutory retention obligations or legitimate interests justify further storage.

Please do not submit identity documents, health information, official decisions or other particularly confidential information as part of an initial appointment enquiry.

We also ask you not to provide special categories of personal data within the meaning of Article 9 GDPR during the initial contact. These include, in particular, health information and details revealing ethnic origin, religious or philosophical beliefs or other specially protected circumstances.

If the processing of such data becomes necessary for a subsequent service, you will receive separate data protection information.

5. Cookies and comparable technologies

Our website uses technically necessary storage technologies where these are required for the operation of the website and for storing your privacy preferences. External services, particularly Google Maps, are loaded only after you have given your prior consent.

Access to information stored on your device, or the storage of information on your device, is based on Section 25(2) TDDDG in the case of technically necessary functions. The related processing of personal data is based on Article 6(1)(f) GDPR. Our legitimate interest lies in providing the website securely and without technical errors.

Services that are not technically necessary are activated only with your consent pursuant to Section 25(1) TDDDG in conjunction with Article 6(1)(a) GDPR. You may withdraw or change your consent at any time with effect for the future through the privacy settings available on the website.

6. Consent management

Our website uses a consent management system that allows you to accept or reject optional services and subsequently change your selection.

The data processed may include, in particular, your selected preferences, the date and time of the selection, browser and device information and a technical identifier used to document your decision.

The storage of technically necessary settings is based on Section 25(2) TDDDG. Processing for the purpose of complying with and documenting data protection obligations is based on Article 6(1)(c) GDPR. In addition, the technically secure management of the settings is based on Article 6(1)(f) GDPR.

7. IONOS WebAnalytics and Performance Copilot

This website uses the IONOS WebAnalytics analysis function integrated into MyWebsite Now. Statistical evaluations are displayed to us within the IONOS user interface under the name “Performance Copilot”.

The following information may be statistically evaluated in particular:

Number of visitors and page views

Pages accessed

Approximate duration of visits

Source or referrer

Browser used

Operating system used

Device type

Date and time of access

According to IONOS, IONOS WebAnalytics does not use cookies. Visitors’ IP addresses are anonymised during transmission and processed without reference to an identifiable person. The evaluation is used exclusively for statistical analysis, technical optimisation and improvement of our website.

The legal basis is Article 6(1)(f) GDPR. Our legitimate interest lies in statistical evaluation, technical optimisation and designing our website according to users’ needs.

The provider is:

IONOS SE
Elgendorfer Straße 57
56410 Montabaur
Germany

Further information about data processing by IONOS is available at:

https://www.ionos.de/hilfe/datenschutz/datenverarbeitung-durch-ihr-ionos-produktes/webanalytics/

We do not use IONOS WebAnalytics Plus.

8. Google Maps

A Google Maps service is embedded on our website. For users in the European Economic Area, the provider is Google Ireland Limited, Gordon House, Barrow Street, Dublin 4, Ireland.

Google Maps is loaded only after you have given your consent. No connection to Google Maps is established before consent is given. When the map service is loaded, your IP address, device and browser information, location information and usage data may be transmitted to Google.

The legal basis for accessing information stored on your device is Section 25(1) TDDDG. Personal data are processed on the basis of your consent pursuant to Article 6(1)(a) GDPR. You may withdraw your consent at any time with effect for the future through the privacy settings.

Processing by Google LLC and affiliated companies in the United States or other countries outside the European Economic Area cannot be ruled out. According to Google, transfers to third countries are based, in particular, on applicable adequacy decisions, including the EU-US Data Privacy Framework, and, where appropriate, on the European Commission’s Standard Contractual Clauses.

Further information:

https://policies.google.com/privacy

9. External links

Our website may contain links to external websites or services. When you click on such a link, you leave our website. The respective provider is generally responsible for the subsequent processing of personal data. Please refer to the privacy information provided by the respective provider.

10. Recipients of personal data

Recipients of personal data may include technical service providers used for hosting, maintenance, security or the provision of individual website functions.

Where these service providers process personal data on our behalf, they are engaged on the basis of an agreement pursuant to Article 28 GDPR.

Personal data will be disclosed to other recipients only where such disclosure is legally permitted or required, or where you have given your consent.

11. Storage period

Unless a specific period is stated in this Privacy Policy, we store personal data only for as long as they are required for the relevant purpose.

They will subsequently be deleted or anonymised, unless statutory retention obligations, the establishment, exercise or defence of legal claims or specific security interests justify further storage.

12. Data security

We take appropriate technical and organisational measures to protect personal data against loss, alteration, unauthorised access or other unlawful processing.

The website is transmitted in encrypted form using HTTPS. However, complete protection during data transmission over the internet cannot be guaranteed.

13. No automated decision-making

No decision based solely on automated processing, including profiling within the meaning of Article 22 GDPR, takes place in connection with visits to this website.

14. Your rights

Subject to the applicable legal requirements, you have, in particular, the following rights:

The right to obtain information about your personal data pursuant to Article 15 GDPR

The right to rectification of inaccurate data or completion of incomplete data pursuant to Article 16 GDPR

The right to erasure of personal data pursuant to Article 17 GDPR

The right to restriction of processing pursuant to Article 18 GDPR

The right to data portability pursuant to Article 20 GDPR

The right to object to processing based on Article 6(1)(e) or (f) GDPR pursuant to Article 21 GDPR

The right to withdraw consent at any time with effect for the future pursuant to Article 7(3) GDPR

The right to lodge a complaint with a data protection supervisory authority pursuant to Article 77 GDPR

To exercise your rights, you may contact the controller named in Section 1.

15. Right to lodge a complaint and competent supervisory authority

You have the right to lodge a complaint with a data protection supervisory authority. The following authority is particularly competent for the controller established in Berlin:

Berlin Commissioner for Data Protection and Freedom of Information
Alt-Moabit 59–61
10555 Berlin
Germany

https://www.datenschutz-berlin.de/

16. Updates to this Privacy Policy

We will update this Privacy Policy if the website, the services used or the legal requirements change. The version published on this website at the relevant time shall apply.

Last updated: 13 July 2026