Privacy Policy

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Effective date: 02.16.2026

This Privacy Policy explains how Vintage Public Domain Cinema collects, uses, stores, and protects personal data when you visit this website, contact me, submit a message, leave a comment, or interact with advertising, consent tools, and external content connected to this website.

This policy is intended for visitors worldwide. For visitors located in the European Economic Area (EEA), the United Kingdom, or Switzerland, this policy also provides information required under applicable data protection laws, including the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).

1. Controller

The controller responsible for data processing on this website is:

Benno Gabbey
Friedrichstr. 114A
10117 Berlin
Germany
Phone: 033439 420030
Email: Pietwien@gmail.com

2. General information about data processing

I process personal data only where there is a valid legal basis to do so. Depending on the situation, this may include:

  • your consent,
  • the performance of pre-contractual communication or requested communication,
  • compliance with legal obligations,
  • or legitimate interests in operating, securing, improving, and monetizing this website.

Personal data means any information relating to an identified or identifiable natural person.

3. Data collected automatically when you visit the website

When you access this website, technical information may be collected automatically by the server or hosting environment. This may include:

  • IP address,
  • date and time of access,
  • browser type and browser version,
  • operating system,
  • referrer URL,
  • requested page or file,
  • access status / HTTP status code,
  • and other technical log data required for website delivery and security.

This data is processed to ensure the stable operation of the website, maintain security, detect abuse, troubleshoot technical issues, and defend against attacks.

Legal basis: legitimate interests in secure and technically reliable website operation.

4. Hosting

This website is hosted by:

[Hosting Provider Name]
[Hosting Provider Address]

The hosting provider processes personal data on my behalf to the extent necessary for providing server infrastructure, website delivery, backup services, and technical security.

A data processing agreement should be in place with the hosting provider where required by law.

5. Contact requests and email communication

If you contact me by email or through the contact form on this website, the data you provide will be processed in order to handle your request, answer your message, and, where necessary, follow up on the matter.

This may include:

  • your name,
  • your email address,
  • your subject line,
  • your message content,
  • and any other information you voluntarily provide.

Providing this information is voluntary. However, without the required contact details, I may not be able to respond.

Legal basis: your consent, your request for communication, and legitimate interests in responding to inquiries.

6. Contact form

When you use the contact form, the information entered by you is transmitted to me and/or to the technical service used to deliver website messages.

If your contact form plugin or delivery method involves a third-party service provider, please insert the following information before publishing:

Contact form service provider: [Insert provider name, address, and, if applicable, country]

If spam-protection tools, anti-bot services, or security filters are used in connection with the contact form, they should also be disclosed here:

Spam / anti-bot provider (if any): [Insert provider name and details]

7. Comments and user submissions

If commenting is enabled on parts of the website, the data you enter when submitting a comment may be processed and published on the website. This may include:

  • the name you provide,
  • the email address you provide,
  • the content of your comment,
  • the date and time of submission,
  • and, where technically necessary, IP-related data and browser metadata for security and anti-abuse purposes.

Comments may remain publicly visible until they are removed, edited, or the relevant page is deleted. I reserve the right to moderate, edit, or remove comments that are unlawful, abusive, spam-like, infringing, misleading, or otherwise inappropriate.

Legal basis: legitimate interests in operating an interactive website and, where applicable, your consent to submit public content.

8. Cookies, local storage, and consent technology

This website may use cookies, similar technologies, local storage, and consent signals for the following purposes:

  • technically necessary website functions,
  • security and fraud prevention,
  • saving user preferences,
  • managing consent choices,
  • serving and measuring advertisements,
  • and, where applicable, loading external content.

Some of these technologies are strictly necessary for the operation of the website. Others are only used if you give consent where required by law.

For visitors in jurisdictions that require prior consent for non-essential technologies, non-essential cookies and similar technologies should only be used after a valid opt-in through the website’s consent tool.

9. Consent Management Platform

This website uses or is intended to use a consent management solution in order to request, store, and manage user choices regarding cookies, advertising technologies, and similar tools.

Consent solution / CMP: [Insert CMP Name]
Provider: [Insert provider name and address]

Your consent decisions may be stored in order to document your choices and avoid repeatedly asking for the same permissions.

10. Google AdSense and advertising

This website uses or is intended to use Google AdSense, a service provided by Google, to display advertisements and support the operation of this project.

In connection with AdSense, Google and its partners may process personal data and use cookies, local storage, or similar technologies to:

  • display advertisements,
  • limit ad frequency,
  • detect fraud and abuse,
  • measure ad performance,
  • deliver contextual or personalized advertising,
  • and support ad reporting.

Depending on your location and your consent choices, ads may be personalized or non-personalized.

For users in the EEA, the UK, and Switzerland, consent is required where applicable for the use of cookies or other local storage and for the collection, sharing, and use of personal data in connection with personalized advertising. Even non-personalized ads may rely on certain storage or device-level technologies for fraud prevention, frequency capping, and reporting.

Google may receive information such as:

  • your IP address,
  • page URL,
  • browser and device information,
  • consent signals,
  • approximate location derived from technical data,
  • and interaction data related to ad delivery and measurement.

Please add the following before publishing:

  • a link to Google’s Privacy Policy,
  • a link to Google’s ad settings / advertising controls,
  • and, where applicable, a link to your CMP vendor list or provider details page.

Google provider details:
Google Ireland Limited, Gordon House, Barrow Street, Dublin 4, Ireland
and/or affiliated Google entities depending on your region and the service architecture used.

11. Third-party vendors and advertising partners

If third-party vendors or ad technology partners other than Google are used, they must be identified either in this Privacy Policy or through the consent platform and linked provider details page.

Please insert if applicable:

Other ad technology providers / partners: [Insert partner list or reference to CMP provider list page]

12. External links and third-party platforms

This website may contain links to external third-party websites, including YouTube and archive-related sources. If you click such a link, the privacy policies and terms of the external provider apply.

I am not responsible for the content, availability, or data processing practices of third-party websites that are not under my control.

13. Embedded content

If this website later uses embedded third-party content such as YouTube videos, social widgets, or external media players, personal data may be transferred to the relevant third-party provider when the content is loaded.

Where required by law, such embedded content should only be loaded after prior user consent.

If YouTube embeds are used, please add the exact implementation details before publishing.

14. Legal bases for processing under GDPR

Where the GDPR applies, personal data is processed on one or more of the following legal bases:

  • consent,
  • performance of requested communication,
  • compliance with legal obligations,
  • and legitimate interests in operating, securing, maintaining, documenting, and monetizing this website.

15. Data retention

Personal data is retained only for as long as necessary for the relevant purpose, unless a longer retention period is required by law.

Typical retention periods may include:

  • server log data: [Insert retention period],
  • contact form submissions / emails: [Insert retention period],
  • comments: until deletion by the operator or removal of the relevant content,
  • consent records: for as long as needed to document consent decisions and comply with accountability obligations.

16. Recipients of personal data

Personal data may be disclosed to the following categories of recipients where necessary:

  • hosting providers,
  • technical maintenance providers,
  • consent platform providers,
  • email service providers,
  • anti-spam or security service providers,
  • advertising technology providers,
  • legal or regulatory authorities where required,
  • and professional advisers where necessary for legal compliance or rights protection.

17. International data transfers

Because this website may use international service providers, personal data may be transferred to countries outside your own jurisdiction, including countries outside the EEA, UK, or Switzerland.

Where required by law, such transfers are based on appropriate safeguards, such as adequacy decisions, standard contractual clauses, or comparable legal mechanisms.

18. Your rights

Where applicable under data protection law, you may have the right to:

  • request access to your personal data,
  • request correction of inaccurate data,
  • request deletion of your data,
  • request restriction of processing,
  • object to certain processing,
  • withdraw consent at any time with effect for the future,
  • and request data portability where legally applicable.

To exercise your rights, contact: Pietwien@gmail.com

19. Right to lodge a complaint

If you believe that the processing of your personal data violates applicable law, you may lodge a complaint with a competent supervisory authority, especially in the country of your habitual residence, place of work, or the place of the alleged infringement.

20. Security

Reasonable technical and organizational measures are taken to protect personal data against unauthorized access, loss, misuse, manipulation, or unlawful disclosure. However, no internet-based transmission or storage system can be guaranteed to be completely secure.

21. Changes to this Privacy Policy

I may update this Privacy Policy from time to time to reflect legal, technical, or operational changes. The current version published on this website is the version that applies.