Privacy

The short version

This website sets no cookies, uses no tracking, no analytics or audience-measurement services and no advertising. The page loads nothing from external servers — the typeface, styles and graphics all come from this site itself. There is no contact form, no newsletter, no login and no social media embed. Beyond your browser’s technically necessary cache, nothing is stored on your device and no device fingerprint is created.

When you open this page, the only personal data processed is what your browser unavoidably sends to the web server in order to deliver the page. That is described below, together with the company that hosts the site for us. If you write to us or call us, the data you give us yourself is added to that; see “Getting in touch”.

Controller

Gloria Königs
Ulmenweg 2
79189 Bad Krozingen
Germany
info@archandground.com
+49 152 33976718

No data protection officer has been appointed; the conditions of Art. 37 GDPR and § 38 BDSG are not met.

Hosting and server log files

This website is hosted by IONOS SE, Elgendorfer Straße 57, 56410 Montabaur, Germany, on servers in Germany. IONOS acts as our processor; a data processing agreement under Art. 28 GDPR is in place.

When you open this site, your browser transmits technical data to that server, which records it in log files:

• IP address of the requesting device
• date and time of the request
• the page or file requested
• browser type, version and operating system
• the referring page, if any

This data is required to deliver the website and to keep the server secure and stable. The legal basis is Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR; our legitimate interest is the technically reliable and secure operation of this site. The data is not merged with any other data and is not used to identify you.

Retention: log files are deleted after 7 days at the latest. Access statistics that our provider makes available to us in our own webspace are kept for no longer than 8 weeks; the visitor IP addresses they contain are stored in anonymised form only.

Transfers to third countries

Our hosting provider engages further processors of its own. For the products we use — web hosting and email — two of them are at present established in the USA: Cloudflare Inc. (operation of a content delivery network) and SiteLock LLC (protection against malware); the processing of our email takes place entirely within the EU. The complete, current list — which also names processors for products we do not use — is maintained by our hosting provider in Annex 2 to its data processing agreement; we are sent it whenever it changes. We have not activated the content delivery network, so this site is delivered directly from the provider’s data centres in Germany. Should a transfer to a third country nevertheless occur, it takes place on the basis of the EU standard contractual clauses under Art. 46(2)(c) GDPR. A copy of those clauses is available on request at the email address given above.

Cookies and local storage

None are used. This site sets no cookies, uses neither the local nor the session storage of your browser, and creates no device fingerprint.

Only two pieces of information your browser offers of its own accord are taken into account: your system setting “reduce motion”, so that the opening animation on the home page is skipped if you have asked for that, and where your visit came from, so that the animation does not run again as you move between our own pages — it is part of how the home page is presented, not an additional feature. Both are evaluated in your browser alone; neither is stored nor transmitted to us.

Both are strictly necessary in order to present this site the way you requested it. No consent under § 25 TDDDG is therefore required (§ 25(2) no. 2 TDDDG), and no cookie banner is shown.

Getting in touch

If you write to us, we process your email address, your name and the content of your message in order to reply. The legal basis is Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR, or Art. 6(1)(b) GDPR where your enquiry concerns a possible future business relationship. We keep such correspondence only for as long as it is needed, and delete it once the matter is closed and no retention obligation applies. Where the correspondence is business correspondence, tax and commercial retention periods of up to ten years may apply (§ 147 AO, § 257 HGB); in that case processing is restricted to storage.

Our mailbox is provided by IONOS SE (address above), which engages 1&1 Mail & Media GmbH, Elgendorfer Straße 57, 56410 Montabaur, and Open-Xchange GmbH, Olper Hütte 5f, 57462 Olpe, as further processors. All of them operate within the EU. A spam and virus filter is part of the service. Messages are deleted no later than 7 days after we delete them; log files of the mail service are kept for a maximum of 28 days.

If you call us, we process your number and the content of the conversation in order to deal with your enquiry. Your number appears in the call list of the mobile phone used, unless you withhold it. Calls are not recorded, and no announcement, voice menu or third-party voicemail is placed in between. The legal basis and the retention period are as stated above. The connection data for your call is also processed by our mobile network operator — as a controller in its own right under telecommunications law, not as our processor. We have no influence over that.

Is providing your data required?

There is nothing you have to provide. The technical data listed above is transmitted by your browser automatically and cannot be avoided if the page is to be delivered at all. Writing to us or calling us is voluntary; without your message we simply cannot reply. There is no statutory or contractual obligation to give us any data, and no disadvantage arises from not doing so.

No automated decision-making

We use no automated decision-making and no profiling within the meaning of Art. 22 GDPR.

Your rights

Under the GDPR you have the right to access your data (Art. 15), to have it corrected (Art. 16) or erased (Art. 17), to restrict its processing (Art. 18) and to data portability (Art. 20). To exercise any of these, an email to the address above is enough.

You also have the right to lodge a complaint with a data protection supervisory authority. The authority responsible for us is the State Commissioner for Data Protection and Freedom of Information of Baden-Württemberg (Der Landesbeauftragte für den Datenschutz und die Informationsfreiheit Baden-Württemberg), Heilbronner Straße 35, 70191 Stuttgart, Germany (www.baden-wuerttemberg.datenschutz.de).

Encryption

This site is delivered over an encrypted TLS connection (HTTPS), which you can recognise by the lock symbol in your browser’s address bar.

Status

This notice is current as of August 2026. If the site changes — for example if a contact form, a shop, statistics or an embedded map are added — it will need to be updated.