Privacy policy
As of November 2026
This is a translation. The German version is legally binding.
1. Controller
Justus M. Rippert (TaktBase)Antoniusstraße 8, 36093 Künzell, Germany
Email: contact@taktbase.org
2. Overview
We only process personal data to the extent necessary to operate this website, to handle your enquiry, your application for the pilot programme or the newsletter. This website does not set any cookies for advertising or analytics purposes. Third-party content and pages are only loaded when you explicitly click on them: our brand film (section 8) and the appointment booking (section 6). Fonts are loaded from our own server.
3. Visiting the website
When you visit the website, the server processes technically necessary data (IP address, date and time, page visited, browser type). This serves the secure delivery of the website (Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR). The data is not combined with other data and is deleted after a short time.
4. Applications for the pilot programme and contact requests
If you write to us using a form, we process your details (salutation, name, company, job title, email address, optionally your phone number, language, details about your company and your message) in order to handle your request and to get in touch with you. The legal basis is pre-contractual measures taken at your request (Art. 6(1)(b) GDPR).
This is how it works:
- Your details are stored in the TaktBase application (servers in Frankfurt am Main, see section 7).
- The application passes them on to our automation tool n8n. We run n8n ourselves on a rented server; this server is located in the USA (see section 9).
- n8n sends you a confirmation of receipt by email. The email is sent via our Google mailbox (Gmail) as contact@taktbase.org.
- n8n enters applications for the pilot programme in a Google spreadsheet that we use to handle the applications.
- n8n notifies us of the new request via Telegram, with name, company, email address, phone number if given, and your message.
We delete your details when they are no longer needed for handling your request, at the latest twelve months after the last contact, unless statutory retention obligations apply. If you become a pilot customer, we continue to process the details in order to set up your access to TaktBase (Art. 6(1)(b) GDPR).
5. Newsletter
In the application form you can tick, on a voluntary basis, that you would like to receive our newsletter with practical tips and news. You then receive an email with a confirmation link. Only when you click this link do we add you to the newsletter (double opt-in). For this we store your email address, your name, your company and the times of sign-up and confirmation, so that we can prove your consent. The status of your sign-up is kept in the Google spreadsheet mentioned in section 4.
The legal basis is your consent (Art. 6(1)(a) GDPR). You can withdraw it at any time with effect for the future; a short email to contact@taktbase.org is sufficient. We will then stop sending you the newsletter. We keep the record of whether and when you gave and withdrew your consent for as long as we need it to defend against claims (Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR).
6. Appointment booking
After submitting an application you can book an appointment with us directly via a button. The button opens the Google Calendar booking page (Google Ireland Limited, Gordon House, Barrow Street, Dublin 4, Ireland) in a new window. Only then is data transmitted to Google. If you book an appointment, Google processes your name, your email address and the chosen time, and the appointment appears in our calendar. The legal basis is pre-contractual measures taken at your request (Art. 6(1)(b) GDPR). More information in Google’s privacy policy: policies.google.com/privacy.
7. Hosting and service providers
We use these service providers for our operations:
- Hostinger International Ltd. (Cyprus): servers for this website and the TaktBase application in Frankfurt am Main (Germany). Also the server in the USA on which n8n runs.
- Google Ireland Limited (Ireland): sending emails (Gmail), Google spreadsheet for applications and newsletter sign-ups, appointment booking (Google Calendar) and the brand film (YouTube).
- Telegram: notification of new requests (see section 4).
A data processing agreement is in place with Hostinger.
8. Brand film (YouTube)
On the home page we show our brand film via YouTube, a service of Google Ireland Limited, Gordon House, Barrow Street, Dublin 4, Ireland. As long as you do not start the film, no connection to YouTube is made: you only see a preview image from our own server. Only when you click “Play the brand film” is the player loaded in privacy-enhanced mode (youtube-nocookie.com). Your IP address and technical information about your device are then transmitted to YouTube; during playback YouTube may use cookies or similar technologies and may also transfer data to the USA (see section 9). The legal basis is your consent given by the click (Art. 6(1)(a) GDPR, Section 25(1) TDDDG). More information in Google’s privacy policy: policies.google.com/privacy.
9. Transfers to countries outside the EU
Google may also transfer data to Google LLC in the USA. Google LLC is certified under the EU-US Data Privacy Framework; for this, an adequacy decision of the European Commission is in place for the USA (Art. 45 GDPR).
The server on which n8n runs is located in the USA. Telegram also processes data outside the EU.
10. Your rights
You have the right to access, rectification, erasure, restriction of processing, data portability and objection, as well as the right to withdraw any consent you have given. You can also lodge a complaint with a data protection supervisory authority, for example the Hessian Commissioner for Data Protection and Freedom of Information.
11. Data protection contact
Please send any questions about data protection to contact@taktbase.org.