Legal
Privacy policy
In short: this website sets no cookies, uses no tracking or analytics services, loads nothing from third-party servers and has no contact form. Visiting it only generates technically necessary server logs. The German version of this policy is authoritative.
1. Controller
Kevin Benning – KL Charcoal
Schloßstraße 18
33161 Hövelhof, Germany
Phone: +49 151 21261895
Email: info@kl-charcoal.com
2. Hosting
This website runs on a server we manage, operated by DigitalOcean, LLC, 101 Avenue of the Americas, 10th Floor, New York, NY 10013, USA. The server is located in a data centre in Frankfurt am Main, Germany (DigitalOcean region FRA1), so access data is processed within the European Union. As our processor, DigitalOcean processes the connection data generated when the website is accessed. A data processing agreement incorporating the EU Standard Contractual Clauses is in place with DigitalOcean.
The legal basis is Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR; our legitimate interest is the secure and reliable operation of this website.
3. Server log files
When you access the website, the web server automatically records the following data in log files:
- IP address of the requesting device
- date and time of access
- requested page or file and transferred data volume
- HTTP status code, referrer URL, browser type and operating system (user agent)
This processing serves to keep the site running, analyse errors and defend against attacks (Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR). Log files are deleted automatically after 14 days at the latest. They are not merged with other data or evaluated for marketing purposes.
4. No cookies, no tracking
This website sets no cookies, uses no analytics or marketing tools and loads no fonts, scripts or other resources from third parties. A cookie banner is therefore not required.
5. Contacting us
If you contact us by email, phone or WhatsApp, we process the data you provide (name, contact details, content of your enquiry) to handle your request. The legal basis is Art. 6(1)(b) GDPR (steps prior to entering into, or performing, a contract) or Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR (legitimate interest in answering enquiries). We delete this data once it is no longer needed to handle your request, unless statutory retention obligations (in particular under commercial and tax law) require otherwise.
6. WhatsApp
This website links to WhatsApp (wa.me). Only when you click such a link does WhatsApp open – a service of WhatsApp Ireland Limited, 4 Grand Canal Square, Dublin 2, Ireland (part of the Meta group). WhatsApp's own privacy policy applies to processing there. Merely visiting our website transfers no data to WhatsApp or Meta.
7. Your rights
Regarding your personal data, you have the following rights against us:
- right of access (Art. 15 GDPR)
- right to rectification (Art. 16 GDPR)
- right to erasure (Art. 17 GDPR)
- right to restriction of processing (Art. 18 GDPR)
- right to data portability (Art. 20 GDPR)
- right to object to processing (Art. 21 GDPR)
You also have the right to lodge a complaint with a data protection supervisory authority (Art. 77 GDPR). The authority responsible for us is the State Commissioner for Data Protection and Freedom of Information of North Rhine-Westphalia (LDI NRW), Kavalleriestraße 2–4, 40213 Düsseldorf, Germany, www.ldi.nrw.de.
8. No automated decision-making
No automated decision-making, including profiling, takes place.
Last updated: August 2026