Last updated: June 20, 2026
Protecting your personal data is important to me. This Privacy Policy informs you, in accordance with Articles 13 and 14 of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), which personal data is processed when you visit this website (walter-a-jablonowski.github.io), for what purpose and on what legal basis.
This website is a static profile and business site. There is no own web analytics, no tracking and no advertising profiling. No tracking or marketing cookies are set.
The controller responsible under the GDPR is:
Walter A. Jablonowski
Am Anger 9
96135 Stegaurach
Germany
E-mail: walter.a.jablonowski@gmail.com
Phone: +49 (0) 176 67 25 99 59
A data protection officer is not legally required and has not been appointed.
This website is hosted on GitHub Pages, a service of GitHub Inc., 88 Colin P Kelly Jr St, San Francisco, CA 94107, USA (a subsidiary of Microsoft Corporation).
When you access the website, the host automatically collects information transmitted by your browser and stores it in so-called server log files. This may include:
This data is processed to deliver the website and to ensure stability and security. The legal basis is the legitimate interest under Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR in a technically sound and secure operation. I myself have no direct access to these log files; no tracking is performed by me.
This processing may involve a transfer to the USA. GitHub/Microsoft is certified under the EU-US Data Privacy Framework; in addition, EU Standard Contractual Clauses (Art. 46 GDPR) serve as appropriate safeguards for the third-country transfer.
The fonts (Google Fonts "Roboto" and "Source Code Pro") and the icons used (Font Awesome) are served locally from this server. When the website loads, no connection is made to servers of Google, Cloudflare or any other third party; in particular, no IP addresses are transmitted to Google or font CDNs.
This website does not use tracking cookies. It only uses your browser's
localStorage to remember technically necessary settings:
waj:homepage:cookieConsent): stores that you
have acknowledged the notice banner so it is not shown again.waj:homepage:langHintDismissed,
waj:homepage:siteVisited): control whether hints or the loading screen appear again.These entries serve solely the function and convenience of the site, contain no personal profiles and are not transmitted to third parties. The legal basis for technically necessary storage is § 25(2) TDDDG and Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR. You can delete these entries at any time via your browser settings.
If you use the contact form or send me an e-mail, I process the data you provide (name, e-mail address, subject and the content of your message) in order to handle and respond to your request.
The contact form is sent via the service EmailJS (EmailJS Inc., USA), which technically delivers the message to my e-mail inbox. In doing so, the data you enter is transmitted to EmailJS and may be processed in the USA; EU Standard Contractual Clauses (Art. 46 GDPR) serve as an appropriate safeguard. Transmission is encrypted (TLS).
The legal basis is Art. 6(1)(b) GDPR (initiation or performance of pre-contractual measures) where your request relates to a contract, otherwise Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR (legitimate interest in handling requests). Providing the data is voluntary; however, without your name, e-mail address and message I cannot process your request.
The website optionally offers an AI-based voice assistant. It only becomes active when you explicitly start it (by clicking the microphone icon) and grant your browser microphone permission. Without this active step, no audio data is captured.
Once started, your voice input is processed in real time. For this, the audio data is transmitted via a relay service operated by me (a Cloudflare Worker) to the Google Live API (Google AI Studio / Gemini), processed and transcribed there, and the answer is returned as audio. The recipients involved are Cloudflare Inc. (USA) and Google LLC (USA); processing takes place in the USA. Both providers are certified under the EU-US Data Privacy Framework; in addition, EU Standard Contractual Clauses (Art. 46 GDPR) apply.
I do not store the voice content permanently myself; it serves only to immediately answer your request during the session. Google's privacy terms additionally apply to processing by Google. The legal basis is your consent under Art. 6(1)(a) GDPR, which you give by starting the assistant and granting microphone permission and which you can withdraw at any time by ending the session.
The home page embeds an interactive map in the contact area to show my location. The map software Leaflet is served locally from this server. The map material (the individual map tiles), however, is retrieved from the servers of OpenStreetMap when the page loads. It is operated by the OpenStreetMap Foundation, St John's Innovation Centre, Cowley Road, Cambridge, CB4 0WS, United Kingdom.
When the map loads, your IP address is transmitted to OpenStreetMap, as this is technically necessary to deliver the map tiles to your browser. The legal basis is my legitimate interest in an appealing presentation of my location under Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR. For the United Kingdom, an adequacy decision of the European Commission is in place. Further information can be found in OpenStreetMap's privacy policy: wiki.osmfoundation.org/wiki/Privacy_Policy.
Your data is only shared to the extent described above. Recipients or categories of recipients are:
Where data is transferred to the USA, the transfer is based on the European Commission's adequacy decision under the EU-US Data Privacy Framework or on EU Standard Contractual Clauses pursuant to Art. 46 GDPR. For transfers to the United Kingdom, an adequacy decision of the European Commission is in place.
Server log files are stored by the host only for a limited period. I retain data from contact requests for as long as is necessary to handle your request and within the scope of statutory retention obligations; thereafter it is deleted. On request, I will delete your enquiry at any time, unless legal obligations prevent this.
Under the GDPR you have, in particular, the following rights regarding your personal data:
To exercise these rights, an informal message to the contact details above is sufficient.
You have the right to lodge a complaint with a data protection supervisory authority. The authority responsible for me is:
Bayerisches Landesamt für Datenschutzaufsicht (BayLDA)
Promenade 18, 91522 Ansbach, Germany
www.lda.bayern.de
This website contains links to external third-party websites (e.g. LinkedIn, GitHub, X, YouTube, Google Maps). When you click these links you are taken to the respective providers' sites, over whose data processing I have no influence. The privacy terms of the respective providers apply.
I will update this Privacy Policy whenever changes to the features offered or to the legal framework make this necessary. The current version published here applies in each case.
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