Privacy Policy

• This website sets no cookie at all. Your choice of language sits in the address (/ for German, /en for English) and nowhere else.
• There are no analytics, advertising or tracking services on this site — no Google Analytics either.
• No fonts, scripts or images are loaded from other companies’ servers. Everything sits on our own server.
• The site is served from a data centre in Germany.

ForumSphere LLC, 8 The Green, Suite A, Dover, DE 19901, United States of America.
E-mail: info@forumsphere.com. Full details in the legal notice.

The company is established in the United States. Staff there may access enquiries that reach us through this website. See «Transfers to the United States» below.

When you open a page, our hosting provider processes the technical details your browser sends, in a server log:

• the address requested, and the date and time of the request
• the IP address of the requesting device
• the volume of data transferred and whether the request succeeded
• the browser identification (user agent) and, if sent, the page you came from

Purpose: operating the server and keeping it stable and secure, in particular defending against attacks.
Legal basis: Article 6(1)(f) GDPR. Our legitimate interest is secure, uninterrupted operation.
Retention: the host deletes these logs automatically after a short period (after a few weeks).

This data is not combined with any other source and is not used to identify you as a person.

This website sets no cookies — neither its own nor anybody else’s, neither for analytics nor for audience measurement nor for advertising.

We do not even need one for the language: German lives at /, English at /en. Which version you are reading is in the address and is stored nowhere.

For the same reason there is no cookie banner here. There is nothing to decline.

This website includes no web analytics, no advertising networks, no social media widgets and no crash reporting services.

Fonts are not loaded from someone else’s server either: they are bundled when the site is built and sit as files on our own server. Visiting this website therefore tells no third party that you were here.

This is enforced technically by a content security policy: the browser is only permitted to load content from our own server. What this policy says is therefore not merely a promise but a setting on the server.

The website uses locally hosted images and animations. Their movement is computed entirely in your browser. No data is transmitted to us or to anybody else, and nothing is fetched from an outside server.

If your device or system asks for reduced motion, we show a still image instead of the movement.

You can write to us using the form on the contact page. It collects: first name, last name, e-mail address, telephone number (optional), company (optional), the subject you choose and your message.

What you send is delivered to us as an e-mail. It goes out through our own mail server, and a confirmation is sent to the address you gave. Nothing is stored as a file on the web server.

Purpose: handling and answering your enquiry.
Legal basis: Article 6(1)(b) GDPR where your enquiry is aimed at a contract, otherwise Article 6(1)(f) GDPR (legitimate interest in answering enquiries).
Retention: we delete enquiries once they are dealt with and no statutory retention period applies. You can ask for deletion at any time.

To keep machines from abusing the form we check a field invisible to people, the time between opening and sending, and the number of submissions from the same connection. Nothing is stored permanently for this.

The same applies if you e-mail us directly.

We do not pass your data to third parties for marketing purposes and we do not sell it.

Our hosting provider has access as part of running the service. The servers are located in Germany. A data processing agreement under Article 28 GDPR is in place with the provider. Our hosting provider is Linevast (Droptop GmbH), data centre in Nuremberg, Germany.

The controlling company is established in the United States. Enquiries you send us may therefore be read and answered from there. That is a transfer to a third country within the meaning of the GDPR.

Where it is necessary to answer your enquiry, it takes place on the basis of Article 49(1)(b) GDPR.

The website itself is served from Germany; the server logs do not leave the EU.

You have the right to

• access the data we hold about you (Article 15)
• rectification of inaccurate data (Article 16)
• erasure (Article 17)
• restriction of processing (Article 18)
• data portability (Article 20)
• object to processing based on legitimate interests (Article 21)

An informal message to info@forumsphere.com is enough.

You may also lodge a complaint with a data protection supervisory authority (Article 77 GDPR). The authority where you live or work is competent.

For people in Switzerland the revised Swiss Data Protection Act (FADP) applies in addition. The rights of access, rectification and erasure described above are available to you in comparable form. The supervisory authority is the Federal Data Protection and Information Commissioner (FDPIC) in Bern.

We do not sell personal information and we do not «share» it for cross-context behavioural advertising. A «Do Not Sell or Share My Personal Information» link is therefore not required.

In the preceding twelve months we have not sold or shared any personal information. Beyond the categories described above (server logs, form contents) we collect no categories of personal information.

You have the right to know what we hold about you, to request its deletion or correction, and not to be discriminated against for exercising those rights. Please write to info@forumsphere.com. An authorised agent may submit the request on your behalf.

This website is aimed at businesses and adults. We do not knowingly collect data from children.

The Orbit Taxi app has its own, more detailed policy: Orbit Taxi privacy policy. In short: the app collects no personal data whatsoever.

For AuroraCalm, see the policy on auroracalm.ch.

If something about the website changes that affects this policy, we change the policy with it. The version published here, with the date shown above, is the one that applies.