Privacy policy

Principles

byteskate respects your privacy. This website serves only research and educational purposes and we are generally not interested in storing any personal data or sharing any personal data with other parties.

Nevertheless, to protect our website from abuse and to defend against attacks we store information such as IP addresses for a short period of time.

Your data is sent and handled only through encrypted connections and secure servers, ensuring the highest level of safety possible.

In case you have any questions, feel free to contact us at any time: webtracking@byteskate.de.

Hosting and Data Storage

We host our website on a cloud virtual machine (VM) provided by Hetzner Online GmbH, Industriestr. 25, 91710 Gunzenhausen, Germany. This means that data submitted through our website is stored and processed on servers operated by Hetzner, but under our direct control and management.

We use these services on the basis of our legitimate interests in providing a reliable and secure website (Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR).

Hetzner acts as our data processor and does not have direct access to your personal data beyond what is necessary to provide the infrastructure service. We have implemented appropriate technical and organizational measures to ensure the protection of your data.

For more information about Hetzner's data protection practices, you can refer to their privacy policy at https://www.hetzner.com/legal/privacy-policy.

Your rights to data protection, including the right to access, rectify, or request deletion of your personal data, remain unaffected by our use of this hosting service.

Website Protection

Whenever a user accesses a page or a file on this website, our web server stores and processes data about this process in a log file. In particular, the following data is stored for each request:

  • IP address of the requesting computer
  • date and time of the request
  • accessed page/name of the accessed file
  • amount of data transferred
  • status of the request
  • size of the request body
  • user agent used

Cookies

We do not use or store any cookies.

Emails

We keep your information, including your email address, when you contact us by emails. But only as much as we need to reply to you. Be aware that if you send an unencrypted message by email, it could potentially be accessed or altered by others while in transit.