According to Article 5 of »TMG« (»Telemediengesetz«, Germany’s Internet Media Act), all liability for the content of this website lies with me as the site operator:

Rolf Albert
Steubenstrasse 16
99947 Bad Langensalza
Germany
Mobile: +49 151 41269395
E-mail: helmsman [at] akka-the-boat [dot] eu

Liability for links

I cannot be held liable for the content of external websites that are accessed by a link.

Copyright

On all pages of this website, the content created by me as the site operator is subject to German copyright law. Any reproduction, processing, distribution or other form of utilization requires my prior written consent.

Use of my website

In the context of »DSGVO« (»Datenschutz-Grundverordnung«), the German General Data Protection Regulation, I am obliged to point out to visitors of my website that it gathers automatically personal data of visitors – so-called log data – regardless of whether I want to use them or not: It is my website provider, STRATO Aktiengesellschaft, Berlin, who offer to share those data with me in anonymized shape – that is, if I want to use them.

Log data are data that STRATO gather and store via their servers when users access STRATO’s own website under the URL http://www.strato.de. Likewise, the STRATO servers record the log data of the visitors to my website »akka-the-boat.eu«, regardless of whether I intend to make use of those data or not. For example, STRATO log a user’s access to an image or to an *.html file in my website when that user clicks on the link leading to that file. All those data are collected by STRATO in a so-called log file – a file that records all those processes.

Why do STRATO gather log data? They give this explanation: For one, STRATO use the log data to create a statistical analysis of the surfing characteristics of visitors to my website. If I wanted to, I could make use of that analysis. I could also use an external tool to evaluate those data or consign them to an archive that I could keep, for which purpose I would be allowed by STRATO to download the log files of my website from my personal customer area at STRATO’s website. However, I have never used my website’s log data in the years that this site has been online; due to lack of interest, I also do not intend to use those log data in the future.

In addition to the statistical analysis of my website, STRATO store those data for the purpose of optimizing their services and in order to detect and counter attacks on their own STRATO website and on the websites of STRATO customers – of which I am one.

What information do STRATO collect from you while you visit my website »akka-the-boat.eu«? STRATO state that they use a log file format that has become standard in the industry. It is called »Apache Combined Log Format«. That log file format stores the following information:

• Customer domain: STRATO record the name of the domain that is being accessed by surfers. In the case of your visiting my website »akka-the-boat.eu«, that would be the domain name »akka-the-boat.eu«
• Anonymized client IP: STRATO collect IP addresses of surfers so that STRATO – in the event of an attack on their servers – can trace where the attack came from. STRATO store those IP addresses for a maximum of seven days, which is the industry standard. After those seven days, the IP addresses thus collected are anonymized. However, for privacy reasons, I as the operator of my website »akka-the-boat.eu« am never given access to those IP addresses in the IP address log file: I can only view IP addresses in their anonymized shape. An example: The visitor’s IP address »123.456.789.001« becomes »anon-123-456-165-41.invalid«. That is all I get to see, provided I want to see it
• Timestamp: This log records the date and time at which any visitor accesses my website
• Request line: This log records the path that a visitor’s computer has to take to reach the destination address below the domain-name level. Example: If a visitor to my website sees a photo with the file name »winch.jpg«, its full internet address – the uniform resource locator (URL) of that photo – is »akka-the-boat.eu/winch.jpg«. However, the request line log records just »/winch.jpg«
• Status code: Surely you’ve seen a »404 error page« before. Such a »404 error page« is displayed to a surfer whenever he tries to access a page or file that does not exist in a website. »404« is the status code that tells me as the website operator that, e. g., I forgot to upload a certain file to my website or that I misspelled its address within my website. – Status codes are defined by the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority. There are a variety of other status codes that are useful for error analysis: »200«, for example, means »O. K.! The requested page could be accessed correctly!«
• Size of the »response body«: When a visitor surfs to my website, he temporarily downloads data to his computer or mobile device. Those data are, for example, the pictures and texts that he can see in his browser. The »response body size« log indicates how much data was thus downloaded by a surfer
• Referer sent by the client: This log tells me from which previous site a visitor surfed to my website
• User agent sent by the client: In this special log I can, for example, find information about the type and version of the internet browser (INTERNET EXPLORER, FIREFOX, SAFARI, GOOGLE CHROME etc.) as well as the operating system that the visitor uses on his computer or device (WINDOWS, MacOS, iOS, iPadOS, ANDROID, LINUX etc.)
• Remote user data are not collected by STRATO via my website because my website does not use any signing-on process, as do the websites of Internet companies like AMAZON or EBAY.

If I wanted to, I could download, as a text file, the STRATO log file containing the above data and evaluate them. Due to lack of interest, I have not done that so far and, as yet, have no intention of doing so in the future.

So much for your personal visitor data that STRATO collect and offer, in anonymized shape, to customers like me. In addition to those personal-but-anonymized visitor data you also provide me with non-anonymized personal data. That happens when, on the basis of my website, you contact me via e-mail, by letter or by telephone. The same applies if you contact my website administrator, to whom I have entrusted the maintenance of my website.

No proliferation of data

I do not pass on to other persons or to companies any personal data – such as your name, address, telephone number or e-mail address – that you provide me with by contacting me. Neither does my website administrator, should you contact him.

By way of exception, I or my website administrator or the STRATO company hosting my website may be required by law or court order to disclose your personal data to government agencies. In that case you can trust that I will thoroughly check whether such a disclosure is lawful. The same applies to my website administrator, and, I am sure, to STRATO themselves – although, as their customer, I have no means of making sure they do: Their handling of the data they gather lies entirely within their own legal responsibility.

Data stored by me

Please contact me if you want to find out if, in the context of my making this website available on the Internet, I store any of your personal data, and what those personal data are.

Warnings

Should any content or the technical design of individual pages of this website violate the rights of third parties or statutory provisions, I request that in accordance with section 8 (4) UWG (Gesetz gegen den unlauteren Wettbewerb, Germany’s Unfair Competition Act) you send me a prompt and sufficiently explanatory message without invoice. I guarantee that within a reasonable period of time and without necessitating the involvement of a lawyer, the rightfully incriminated passages or elements of this website will be removed or adapted to fulfill the legal requirements.

The involvement of a lawyer in order to bring about a warning, which would incur costs for me as the site operator, does not correspond to my presumed or actual will and would therefore constitute a violation of the aforementioned section 8 (4) UWG and a violation of the obligation to minimise costs otherwise incurred by irrelevant objectives as the dominant motive for initiating proceedings, in particular the objective to generate costs as the actual motivation behind the warning.

© Rolf Albert, 2018-2025

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