Privacy policy

Privacy and data protection

Controller: Jörg Hoffmann Software & Service, Dipl.-Ing. Jörg Hoffmann, address and email as in the legal notice. Our websites are hosted on infrastructure operated by IONOS SE, Elgendorfer Str. 57, 56410 Montabaur, Germany. IONOS provides hosting-level security and processes technical access information; we remain responsible for our software, access permissions, accounts and customer contracts. For standard IONOS web hosting, IONOS states an eight-week storage period for web access data; other hosting products may differ. Processing is based on GDPR Art. 6(1)(b), (c) or (f), as applicable.

Visits may generate technical logs including IP information, requests, browser type, timestamps and error or security events. Session and language cookies, as well as browser-local storage, may be necessary in individual applications. Some free applications offer ads through Google AdSense; where consent is required, the application’s consent interface provides it and permits withdrawal. The central homepage may also show Google AdSense automatic ads. Depending on consent choices, Google and its advertising partners may process technical connection or device data and use cookies or similar identifiers. Where required, consent is managed through a Google-certified CMP implementing the IAB TCF for this domain; choices can be changed or withdrawn through its privacy and cookie controls. Provider: Google Ireland Limited, Gordon House, Barrow Street, Dublin 4, Ireland. Further information: https://policies.google.com/privacy and https://policies.google.com/technologies/ads.

For HoffAD accounts we process name, email, password hashes and subscription information. PayPal (Europe) S.à r.l. et Cie, S.C.A. processes payments and subscriptions in its own systems; we receive relevant subscription and status identifiers, not full payment card information. See https://www.paypal.com/de/legalhub/paypal/privacy-full.

The HoffAD one-click demo lasts up to 24 hours, includes temporary sample data, and restricts automated use; hashed IP-derived data may be used for abuse prevention. Email and IMAP are disabled in the demo. Users must not enter sensitive or real customer details. In regular HoffAD use, the customer normally controls personal data in its own contact records; Jörg Hoffmann Software & Service acts as a processor subject to an Article 28 GDPR agreement.

Lotte-Finder uses AI locally in the browser to compare photos; selected photos are not uploaded to our server for analysis. Music Manager and Video Manager use AI for analysis, dance styles and metadata; depending on the chosen feature, names, titles, artists or other necessary metadata may be sent to the configured AI service. Using AI does not automatically mean uploading the media files themselves.

CLIP / jsDelivr / Hugging Face: The current Lotte-Finder loads the Transformers library from jsDelivr and the CLIP model from an external model host. These requests may expose technical connection data such as the IP address to those providers. Selected photos are processed locally in the browser and are not uploaded for image analysis.

Personal data are retained as necessary for the stated purposes, applicable laws and legitimate claims. You may request access, rectification, erasure, restriction, portability and object to processing, and may complain to the responsible data protection authority. Details of each app’s integrations and retention policies must reflect the actual deployment.