Privacy

Our privacy policy is not long. That is not an accident and not laziness. It is the point.

Most privacy policies are long because they have a lot to hide. Layers of legal language protecting companies from the consequences of what they actually do with your data. Tracking pixels justified in paragraph twelve. Behavioral profiling buried in subsection four. Consent manufactured through pre-checked boxes and walls of text designed to exhaust you into clicking accept. We have none of that to justify, so we do not need the paragraphs.

Here is what actually happens when you contact us.

You fill out the contact form. Your message travels encrypted, directly to our ProtonMail inbox. ProtonMail is end-to-end encrypted by design, operated by Proton AG, Route de la Galaise 32, 1228 Plan-les-Ouates, Geneva, Switzerland, a country that the European Commission has formally recognized as providing an adequate level of data protection under Article 45 GDPR. Your message is processed there solely for the purpose of responding to your inquiry. The legal basis for this processing is Article 6(1)(b) GDPR, which covers processing necessary for the performance of pre-contractual measures taken at your request, and Article 6(1)(f) GDPR, which covers our legitimate interest in being able to respond to people who reach out to us.

Your message is read by a human being. It is not processed by an algorithm, not fed into a CRM, not used to build a profile, not sold, not shared, not retained longer than the correspondence requires. We keep your contact data only for as long as necessary to handle your inquiry and for a reasonable period afterward in case of follow-up questions, typically no longer than twelve months unless an ongoing business relationship develops, in which case standard commercial retention obligations under German law apply.

We do not use cookies. There is no tracking code on this website, no analytics dashboard somewhere counting your visit, no retargeting pixel following you across the internet after you leave. You came here, you read this, and when you close the tab that is where it ends.

We do not use Google Analytics, Facebook Pixel, or any similar service. We do not embed third-party content that phones home. We do not fingerprint your browser. We do not know your name unless you tell us. No personal data is collected through the act of visiting this website.

The only personal data we hold is what you choose to send us through the contact form. Your data is not passed to third parties, with the sole exception of ProtonMail as the encrypted delivery infrastructure described above, which acts as a processor under appropriate data processing terms consistent with GDPR requirements.

Under the General Data Protection Regulation, you have the right to request access to the personal data we hold about you, to have it corrected if it is inaccurate, and to have it deleted if there is no longer a legitimate reason for us to hold it. You also have the right to restrict how we process your data, to object to processing based on legitimate interests, and to receive your data in a portable format where technically feasible. None of these rights require you to argue, explain yourself, or wait unreasonable amounts of time. Send a request to my@intelligent-pixel.com and it will be acted on promptly.

If you believe your rights under data protection law have not been respected, you have the right to lodge a complaint with the competent supervisory authority. For intelligent piXel GmbH, based in Starnberg, Bavaria, that authority is the Bayerisches Landesamt für Datenschutzaufsicht, Promenade 18, 91522 Ansbach, Germany.

This website is operated by intelligent piXel GmbH, Enzianstraße 4a, 82319 Starnberg, Germany, registered at the Munich District Court under HRB 207 679, VAT ID DE291416044. Managing Director: George A. Rauscher. All data protection inquiries: my@intelligent-pixel.com

We are subject to the General Data Protection Regulation of the European Union. But we want to be honest with you: GDPR compliance is the floor, not the ceiling. We hold ourselves to a standard that a regulation cannot fully capture, because privacy for us is not a legal obligation. It is a professional conviction built over 25 years of working with intelligence services, prosecutors, and institutions where the wrong data in the wrong hands ends careers, ends freedom, and sometimes ends lives.

We understand what is at stake. That is precisely why we built things this way.