Privacy Policy

This is the privacy policy for this website.

You can get all necessary information about us and our project on the chatmail website. However, it is only fair that you know which personal data is processed when you use our service at all times.

The following information also serves to provide you with information about this and how we protect your personal data from manipulation, loss, destruction or misuse.

If you have any further questions about data protection, please contact us via e-mail: delta-privacy@merlinux.eu

1. Name and contact information of the data controller

Responsible for the processing of your personal data is

merlinux GmbH  
Represented by the managing director Holger Krekel  
Reichsgrafen Str. 20  
79102 Freiburg  
Germany

mail: office@merlinux.eu

Our data protection officer: Prof. Dr. Fabian Schmieder, lexICT UG (limited), Ostfeldstr. 49, 30559 Hannover. You can contact him at info@lexict.de Keyword: DeltaChat.

2. Processing when using the website

When you visit our website, the browser used on your end device automatically sends information to the server of our website. This information is temporarily stored in a so-called log file. The following information is collected and stored until it is automatically deleted (usually 7 days):

  • used type of browser,
  • used operating system,
  • access date and time as well as
  • country of origin and IP address,
  • the name of the file,
  • the amount of data transferred,
  • the access status (file transferred, file not found, etc.) and
  • the page from which the file was requested.

This website is hosted by an external hoster (Hetzner GmbH). The personal data collected on this website is stored on the hoster’s servers. Our hoster will process your data only to the extent necessary to fulfill its obligations to perform under our instructions. In order to ensure data protection-compliant processing, we have concluded data processing agreement with our hoster.

The aforementioned data is processed by us for the following purposes:

  • Ensuring a reliable connection setup of the website,
  • Ensuring a convenient use of our website,
  • checking and ensuring system security and stability, and
  • for other administrative purposes.

The legal basis for the data processing is Art.6 (1) lit.f GDPR. Our legitimate interest results from the aforementioned purposes of data collection. We will not use the collected data for the purpose of drawing conclusions about your person.

3. Transfer of data

We do not transfer your personal data to third parties for purposes other than those listed below. We will only share your personal data with third parties if:

  1. you have given your explicit consent in accordance with Art.6 (1) lit.a GDPR,
  2. the disclosure is necessary for the establishment, exercise or defense of legal claims pursuant to Art.6 (1) lit.b GDPR and there is no reason to assume that you have an overriding interest worthy of protection in the non-disclosure of your data,
  3. in the event that a legal obligation exists for the disclosure pursuant to Art.6 (1) lit.c GDPR, as well as
  4. it is legally permitted and necessary according to Art.6 (1) lit.b GDPR for the processing of contractual relationships with you
  5. it is carried out by a service provider acting on our behalf and on our exclusive instructions, whom we have carefully selected (Art.28 (1) GDPR) and with whom we have concluded a corresponding data processing agreement (Art.28 (3) GDPR), which obligates our contractor to implement, in particular, appropriate security measures and grants us comprehensive control powers.

4. Donations

You can make payments (donations) to us in different ways.

a) Open Collective

We also use services from Open Collective, 340 S. Lemon Avenue, #3717 Walnut, CA 91789, USA. The service enables donations to be made to us. For this purpose, Open Collective collects data such as the e-mail address, name and, if applicable, account information for payment processing. We do not have access to this data ourselves. Open Collective’s privacy policy can be found under https://opencollective.com/privacypolicy.

Depending on the payment service provider and the type of transfer, we process the name, email address, account number, credit institution, time and amount of the transfer. The legal basis for this is found in Art. 6 (1) lit. c and f GDPR. Our legitimate interest is the administration of our donations.

5. Rights of the data subject and right to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority

As a data subject of a processing of personal data, you have the right to

  1. request information about your personal data processed by us in accordance with Art.15 GDPR. In particular, you can request information about the purposes of processing, the categories of personal data, the categories of recipients to whom your data has been or will be disclosed, the envisaged period for which the data will be stored, the existence of a right to rectification, erasure, restriction of processing or objection, the existence of a right of complaint, the origin of your data, if it was not collected by us, as well as the existence of automated decision-making, including profiling and, if applicable, meaningful information about its details;
  2. demand the immediate rectification of inaccurate or incomplete personal data stored by us, in accordance with Art.16 GDPR;
  3. request the erasure of your personal data stored by us in accordance with Art.17 GDPR, unless the processing is necessary for the exercise of the right to freedom of expression and information, for compliance with a legal obligation, for reasons of public interest, or for the establishment, exercise or defense of legal claims;
  4. demand the restriction of the processing of your personal data in accordance with Art.18 GDPR, insofar as the accuracy of the data is disputed by you, the processing is unlawful, but you oppose its erasure and we no longer need the data, but you need it for the establishment, exercise or defence of legal claims or you have objected to the processing in accordance with Art.21 GDPR;
  5. receive the personal data that you have provided to us in a structured, commonly used and machine-readable format, or to request the transfer to another controller, in accordance with Art.20 GDPR;
  6. withdraw your consent at any time in accordance with Art.7 (3) GDPR. As a result, we may no longer continue the data processing that was based on this consent in the future, and
  7. complain to a supervisory authority in accordance with Art.77 GDPR. You can therefore usually contact the supervisory authority of your usual place of residence or workplace or our registered office. The supervisory authority responsible for our place of business is The State Commissioner for Data Protection and Freedom of Information of Baden-Württemberg in 70173 Stuttgart.

To exercise your data protection rights or your right to lodge a complaint, simply send an e-mail to delta-privacy@merlinux.eu.

6. Data security

We use the SSL procedure (Secure Socket Layer) in connection with the highest encryption level supported by your browser when visiting the website. This is usually a 256-bit encryption. If your browser does not support 256-bit encryption, we use 128-bit v3 technology instead. To see whether an individual page of our website is encrypted, click on the closed key or lock symbol in the lower status bar of your browser.

We use appropriate technical and organizational security measures to protect your data against accidental or intentional manipulation, partial or complete loss, destruction or against unauthorized access by third parties. We continuously adapt our security measures in line with technological developments.

7. Up-to-dateness and modification of this data protection declaration

This data protection declaration is valid as of March 2025. Due to the further development of our website and offers or due to changed legal or official requirements, it may become necessary to revise this data protection declaration from time to time.