Privacy policy

Who is responsible

The controller for personal data processed on this website is seismiq GmbH, Helmholtzstrasse 6/7, 14467 Potsdam, Germany. Managing directors: Marius Kriegerowski and Marius Paul Isken. Write to info@seismiq.net or call +49 157 31 83 73 34 with any question about your data.

The short version

• This website sets no cookies and uses no tracking or advertising tools.
• We only receive personal data you send us: through the contact form, by email, or by subscribing to the newsletter.
• Fonts and images are served from our own site. Opening a page sends no request to a third party.

Hosting

The website is hosted on Cloudflare (Cloudflare, Inc., 101 Townsend St., San Francisco, CA 94107, USA). To deliver pages and protect the site against attacks, Cloudflare processes the technical data every browser sends — IP address, date and time, requested address, browser and operating system. For the contact form and the newsletter signup we also use your IP address briefly to limit how many requests one connection can send, which keeps automated abuse out. Logs of these requests are kept for a few days.

The legal basis is our legitimate interest in a secure, working website (Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR). Cloudflare is certified under the EU–US Data Privacy Framework, and we have a data processing agreement with it.

Contact form and email

When you use the contact form we receive your name, email address, organisation (if you give one) and your message. We use them to answer your enquiry and nothing else. The message is delivered to our inbox by Resend (Resend, Inc., 2261 Market Street #5039, San Francisco, CA 94114, USA), which keeps delivery logs for a limited period. The same applies when you email us directly, minus Resend.

The legal basis is the steps you ask us to take before a possible contract, or our legitimate interest in answering enquiries (Art. 6(1)(b) and (f) GDPR). We delete enquiries once they are dealt with, unless we have to keep them for legal retention periods — for example when an enquiry leads to an order.

Newsletter

If you subscribe — in the footer of any page, or with the box on the contact form — we send you our newsletter: field results, product releases and method notes, a few times a year. We only need your email address.

We use double opt-in. After you sign up we send one email with a confirmation link; you are only subscribed once you open it and confirm. Until then we store nothing. When you confirm, we record your email address and the time of confirmation, so that we can show you gave consent.

The newsletter is sent with Resend (see above), which stores your address and subscription status on our behalf and records whether emails are delivered. The legal basis is your consent (Art. 6(1)(a) GDPR).

You can withdraw your consent at any time, without giving a reason: use the unsubscribe link in every issue, or write to info@seismiq.net. After you unsubscribe we send one email confirming it and keep your address marked as unsubscribed, only so that you are not sent the newsletter again. Withdrawal does not affect the lawfulness of what was sent before.

Links to other sites

The site links to our documentation, the SeismiQ Insights platform, GitHub and LinkedIn. None of them is contacted until you follow a link; from then on, that site's own privacy policy applies.

Your rights

You have the right to access the personal data we hold about you, to have it corrected or deleted, to restrict its processing, to receive it in a portable format, and to object to processing based on our legitimate interests (Art. 15–21 GDPR). Where we rely on your consent, you can withdraw it at any time. Write to info@seismiq.net.

You also have the right to complain to a data protection supervisory authority. Ours is the Landesbeauftragte für den Datenschutz und für das Recht auf Akteneinsicht Brandenburg (lda.brandenburg.de).