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Privacy Policy

1. Overview

The protection of your personal data is important to me. This website can be used without providing any personal data. It does not use cookies, analytics or tracking tools of any kind. Personal data is only processed to the extent technically necessary to deliver the website, or when you contact me by e-mail.

2. Controller

The controller responsible for data processing on this website within the meaning of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) is:

Paula L. Schuster
Liebenwalder Str. 16
13347 Berlin
Germany
E-Mail: hello (at) paula-schuster.de

3. Hosting and server log files

This website is hosted by Vercel Inc., 440 N Barranca Avenue #4133, Covina, CA 91723, USA ("Vercel"). When you visit this website, Vercel automatically processes technical information that your browser transmits, such as your IP address, date and time of the request, the requested page, browser type and version, and operating system. This data is required to deliver the website reliably and securely and is not merged with other data sources.

The legal basis for this processing is Art. 6 (1) (f) GDPR — my legitimate interest in the secure and reliable operation of this website. A data processing agreement pursuant to Art. 28 GDPR has been concluded with Vercel. Where data is transferred to the USA, this takes place on the basis of the EU standard contractual clauses and the EU-US Data Privacy Framework. Further information can be found in Vercel's privacy policy at https://vercel.com/legal/privacy-policy.

4. Cookies

This website does not use cookies.

5. Contact by e-mail

If you contact me by e-mail, the data you provide (your e-mail address and the content of your message) will be stored and processed solely for the purpose of handling your enquiry. The legal basis is Art. 6 (1) (b) GDPR where your enquiry relates to a contract, and otherwise Art. 6 (1) (f) GDPR — my legitimate interest in responding to enquiries. This data will not be passed on to third parties and will be deleted once your enquiry has been dealt with, unless statutory retention obligations apply.

6. External links

This website contains links to external websites and profiles (e.g. Instagram, LinkedIn). No data is transferred to these services simply by visiting this website. When you follow such a link, the privacy policy of the respective provider applies.

7. Your rights

Under the GDPR you have the right to obtain information about the personal data stored about you (Art. 15 GDPR), as well as the right to rectification (Art. 16 GDPR), erasure (Art. 17 GDPR), restriction of processing (Art. 18 GDPR), data portability (Art. 20 GDPR) and objection to processing (Art. 21 GDPR). To exercise these rights, please contact me using the address given above.

You also have the right to lodge a complaint with a data protection supervisory authority. The supervisory authority responsible for Berlin is the Berliner Beauftragte für Datenschutz und Informationsfreiheit, Alt-Moabit 59-61, 10555 Berlin, www.datenschutz-berlin.de.

8. Updates to this policy

This privacy policy may be updated to reflect changes to this website or to legal requirements. The current version is always available on this page.

Paula L. Schuster is a design researcher and lecturer exploring prototyping as a tool for speculation and participation in eco-social transformation.

Design Research | prototyping methodology | design ethnography