Privacy Policy
This is a translation for your convenience. If in doubt, the German version applies. Deutsche Fassung
In short
We collect as little as possible. No ad networks, no tracking across sites, no profiles, no social media plugins. Fonts are served from our own server.
Controller
Kevin Blumenstock
Leopoldstr. 34
10317 Berlin
Germany
hello@mitmensch.net
We have not appointed a data protection officer; we are not required to. Questions about data protection go to hello@mitmensch.net.
Visiting the site
The site is hosted by Cloudflare. Each request briefly logs the IP address, time, requested address and details about browser and operating system. We do not analyse this data or combine it with other data.
Legal basis: Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR (secure, stable operation).
Contact by email
If you write to us, we use your email address and your message to reply. Cloudflare Email Routing forwards mail sent to hello@mitmensch.net to our mailbox at Google (Gmail), where it is stored. We delete it once your request has been dealt with, unless statutory retention obligations apply.
Legal bases: Art. 6(1)(b) and (f) GDPR.
Booking a conversation
“Book a conversation” takes you to Calendly, where you pick a time with Kevin. What you enter there (name, email, your answers to the questions, and any guests you add) is processed by Calendly on our behalf so the appointment can happen and we can prepare. If you have already ticked or entered something on the partner page, it is passed along in the link and pre-filled at Calendly; the link goes through mitmensch.net, where we store none of it. Nothing is booked until you confirm the appointment. We delete the details once the conversation and any collaboration that follows are over, unless statutory retention obligations apply.
Legal bases: Art. 6(1)(b) GDPR (steps prior to a contract) and (f) GDPR (preparing a conversation).
Microphone, camera and portrait when trying things out
If you test your microphone at “Alone at the fire”, your browser asks for permission first. The sound is only measured in your browser to show the level. It is neither stored nor transmitted, and the microphone is released again when you close the test.
The same applies to the trial round: your microphone is only measured so that your portrait lights up when you speak. The others in the trial round are simulated; nothing is transmitted. For your portrait you can switch on the camera; your browser turns this into a small still image, and the video itself is neither stored nor sent. Name and portrait stay on your device (see Storage in the browser).
Cookies and storage in the browser
mm-theme: light or dark view, only if you change it.mm-profile: name and portrait picture from the trial round, so you do not have to start again next time. Stays on your device and is not sent to us.mm-lang: your choice of language, if you change it at the bottom of the page. Valid for one year.mm-info-fireandmm-info-desk: that you have opened “Good to know” once, so the small dot on the button goes away. Stays on your device and is not sent to us.mm-entwurfandmm-schatulle: when you write at the desk, the sheet you are writing on, how you have set up the desk (paper, ink, sound), and the letters you have kept (“My letters”). Stays on your device and is not sent to us.
These entries are necessary for functions you explicitly use (§ 25(2) no. 2 of the German Telecommunications Digital Services Data Protection Act, TDDDG). We do not set advertising or analytics cookies. You can delete these entries in your browser at any time.
Service providers (processors)
We have contracts under Art. 28 GDPR with all service providers.
- Cloudflare – hosting and email forwarding
- Google (Gmail) – mailbox for emails to us
- Calendly – booking conversations
Where data is processed in the USA (Cloudflare, Google or Calendly), this is safeguarded by the EU-US Data Privacy Framework and standard contractual clauses.
Retention periods at a glance
| What | How long |
|---|---|
| Server logs | only briefly at Cloudflare; we keep no logs of our own |
| Emails to us | until your request has been dealt with |
| Booked conversations | until the conversation and any collaboration that follows are over |
| Name and portrait from the trial round | on your device, until you delete them |
| Whether you have opened “Good to know” | on your device, until you clear your browser data |
| Draft and kept letters at the desk | on your device, until you throw them away or clear your browser data |
Links to other websites
The site links to other mitmensch offers and to external sites. As long as you do not click a link, no data is transmitted to these sites. Their own privacy notices apply there.
Your rights
You have the right of access (Art. 15 GDPR), rectification (Art. 16), erasure (Art. 17), restriction of processing (Art. 18) and data portability (Art. 20). You can withdraw consent for the future at any time (Art. 7(3)). Where we process data on the basis of legitimate interests, you can object on grounds relating to your particular situation (Art. 21).
Simply write to hello@mitmensch.net.
You can also lodge a complaint with a data protection supervisory authority, for example the Berlin Commissioner for Data Protection and Freedom of Information or the authority where you live.
Changes
If the way the site handles data changes, we update this text first. The date below shows the last change.
Last updated: 22 October 2026