Privacy policy
Short information about current data processing on the Stromata e.V. website.
1. Controller
The controller responsible for data processing on this website is:
Stromata e.V.
Hensenstraße 185
48161 Münster
Deutschland
E-Mail: info@stromata-ev.de
Represented by:
Sofiia Pavlova
2. General information
This policy describes only the processing operations actually used on the current website. The website does not use analytics, marketing tools, user accounts, embedded payment widgets, or embedded third-party services. Donations are made by bank transfer and external payment links.
3. Hosting via Vercel
Our website is hosted via Vercel. When the website is accessed, technical access data may be processed, in particular IP address, date and time of access, requested URL, referrer, user agent, and technical log data. This processing serves the secure, stable, and efficient provision of the website. The legal basis is Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR.
Technical logs may include, in particular:
- IP address
- date and time of access
- requested URL
- referrer
- user agent
- technical log data
We do not use this data for marketing tracking and do not set our own analytics or advertising cookies.
Further information about processing by Vercel is available in Vercel's privacy policy: https://vercel.com/legal/privacy-policy
4. Informational website visit
During a normal website visit without contacting us, we do not collect additional data beyond the technically necessary delivery of pages. Publications are available without registration and without a user account.
5. Contact by email
If you use the public email address, we process the transmitted data only to answer your inquiry and for any necessary subsequent business correspondence.
The legal basis is Art. 6(1)(b) GDPR for contractual or pre-contractual contexts, or Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR for general communication and inquiry administration.
6. Storage period
Emails and related data are stored only for as long as necessary to process the inquiry, comply with legal obligations, or document business correspondence.
7. Cookies and similar technologies
The website currently does not use cookies for analytics, advertising, or user tracking.
If technically necessary platform-level mechanisms are used, they are limited to what is required for secure and stable website operation.
8. External links
The website may contain ordinary links to external resources. A linked service is accessed only if you actively choose to follow that link. From that point onward, the external provider is responsible for data processing, and its own terms and privacy information apply.
9. Payment providers for donations
If you donate via payment providers linked on our website, you will be redirected to the pages of the relevant external payment service provider. The respective provider is responsible for the processing of personal data there. Depending on the selected payment method, payment data, contact data, transaction data, and technical data may in particular be processed.
PayPal: PayPal (Europe) S.à r.l. et Cie, S.C.A., Luxembourg.
Privacy information: https://www.paypal.com/de/legalhub/paypal/privacy-full
Stripe: Stripe Payments Europe, Ltd., Ireland.
Privacy information: https://stripe.com/privacy
To the extent that processing by Stromata e.V. is necessary in connection with redirection or donation handling, it is carried out on the basis of Art. 6(1)(b) GDPR or Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR. Our legitimate interest lies in providing a simple and secure way to financially support our work.
10. Future functions
If new functions involving additional data processing are added later, this policy will be updated before they are made publicly available.
11. Your rights
Within the legal framework, you have in particular the following rights:
- right of access (Art. 15 GDPR)
- right to rectification (Art. 16 GDPR)
- right to erasure (Art. 17 GDPR)
- right to restriction of processing (Art. 18 GDPR)
- right to data portability (Art. 20 GDPR)
- right to object (Art. 21 GDPR)
- right to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority (Art. 77 GDPR)
12. Privacy contact
For data protection questions, you can use the public address:
info@stromata-ev.de
13. Last updated
Last updated: May 2026