Privacy

This notice describes the English edition of Werkstücke at was-eigenes.de, intended for readers in the United States. Privacy questions can be sent to info@was-eigenes.de.

Reading the site

The site serves locally stored article text and images. It has no accounts, public comments, checkout, newsletter form or embedded social media. This version does not run advertising pixels or audience analytics. Hosting systems may process IP addresses, requested URLs, timestamps, browser information and error records to deliver pages, maintain availability and investigate misuse.

Choosing a language

When you open the root address without a valid saved language choice, your browser requests a country result from IPWHOIS at ipwho.is. That service receives your IP address and ordinary connection information. The request asks only for a success flag and country code; it does not send an article history or email address. A German country result opens the German edition. Other countries, a failed request or a five-second timeout open English. Direct links beginning with /de/ or /en/ do not trigger this lookup.

IP addresses indicate a network location, not a person's language. VPNs and shared networks can produce a different result. You can always use the language links. IPWHOIS handles information under its privacy policy and may process it in countries different from yours.

Information kept in your browser

A manual language choice is stored in local storage for 365 days under the key werke-language. The German edition also stores its privacy choice for 180 days under werke-consent. These are first-party browser preferences, not advertising identifiers. The English edition does not display a consent panel or load optional tracking. Expired choices are not used. You can remove them using your browser's site-data controls; a private browsing session may discard them automatically.

Email and service providers

If you email the site, the sender address, message and any attachments are used to answer and follow up on your request. Hosting and email providers may process this information as needed to provide their services. Messages are kept while needed for the correspondence or applicable recordkeeping obligations, then deleted or minimized. Technical logs are retained only as needed for operation, security and applicable obligations; the host's configured retention can be clarified on request.

Your choices

This version does not sell personal information or share it for cross-context behavioral advertising. You can ask about, correct or request deletion of information supplied by email, subject to applicable exceptions. Use the address above; include enough context to locate your message without sending unnecessary identity documents.

If data collection or commercial tools change, this notice will be updated before those features are enabled. External sites linked from articles apply their own privacy practices.