Privacy

This notice applies to vanarcktunes.com and rudi-van-arck.de. Updated September 2026.

Controller

Wilhelm Rüdiger Wolfgang van Acken
Kiehlufer 125
12059 Berlin
Germany

Accessing the website and hosting

This website is hosted in Germany by netcup GmbH, Emmy-Noether-Straße 10, 76131 Karlsruhe. Accessing the website involves processing technically necessary connection data, particularly your IP address, the time and destination of the request, browser and operating system, potentially the previously visited page, response status and amount of data transferred.

This supports website delivery, troubleshooting and protection against attacks. The legal basis is Article 6(1)(f) GDPR, with the legitimate interest of secure, reliable operation. netcup receives hosting data as the hosting provider. Retention of technical logs depends on the hosting configuration and security purposes. See the provider’s information on log files.

Fonts, cookies and analytics

Fonts and images are loaded from this website’s own server. The website uses no analytics or advertising scripts and does not itself set cookies or entries in browser local storage. Music and video players are not embedded.

Contact by email

If you write to me, I process your email address, message and any details you voluntarily provide to handle your enquiry. Depending on its purpose, this is based on preparation or performance of a contract under Article 6(1)(b) GDPR, or my legitimate interest in responding to enquiries under Article 6(1)(f) GDPR.

The listed mailbox uses Google’s Gmail service. Processing outside the EU or EEA may occur. See Google’s privacy policy. Enquiries are deleted once fully dealt with and where no statutory retention obligations or legitimate reasons for further retention remain. Where obligations apply, retention follows the applicable statutory period.

Links to music and social platforms

Links lead to services including Spotify, Apple Music, YouTube, Instagram, Facebook and editorial websites. Your browser connects to those destinations only when you open a link. Each provider is responsible for processing on its own service. These services are not automatically loaded on this website.

Your rights

Subject to statutory requirements, you have rights of access, rectification, erasure, restriction of processing and data portability. Where processing is based on consent, you may withdraw it for the future.

Right to object: You may object to processing based on legitimate interests on grounds relating to your particular situation. Please contact the email address above.

You may lodge a complaint with a data protection supervisory authority, such as the Berlin Commissioner for Data Protection and Freedom of Information. Providing contact details is voluntary. Without a reachable contact address, it may not be possible to answer your enquiry. No automated decision-making, including profiling, takes place.