Imprint & Privacy

Information according to § 5 DDG

Marcel Fortmann
Reisental 1A
32689 Kalletal
Germany

Contact

by email at
by mail to the address listed above.

Responsible for content according to § 18 Abs. 2 MStV

Marcel Fortmann

Liability for contents

As a service provider, we are responsible for our own content on these pages according to § 7 para.1 DDG. According to §§ 8 to 10 DDG, however, we are not obliged to monitor transmitted or stored third-party information or to investigate circumstances that indicate illegal activity.

Liability for links

Our offer contains links to external websites of third parties, on whose contents we have no influence. Therefore, we cannot assume any liability for these external contents. The respective provider or operator of the pages is always responsible for the contents of the linked pages.

Copyright

The content and works created by the site operators on these pages are subject to German copyright law. Duplication, processing, distribution, and any kind of exploitation outside the limits of copyright require the written consent of the respective author or creator.

Privacy Policy

Controller

The controller responsible for data processing on this website is Marcel Fortmann, Reisental 1A, 32689 Kalletal, Germany. Contact: hello@thewhiskyedition.com.

General

The protection of your personal data is important to us. This website processes personal data only to the extent technically necessary and in accordance with applicable data protection laws, in particular the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).

This website does not use tracking cookies, profiling, or personalized advertising.

Hosting

This website is hosted by STRATO AG, Otto-Ostrowski-Straße 7, 10249 Berlin, Germany. As a data processor, Strato processes connection data generated during your visit (e.g. IP address, time of access) as part of providing the server infrastructure. The legal basis is Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR (legitimate interest in the reliable provision of the website).

Server Log Files

When visiting this website, information is automatically collected by the web server (e.g. browser type, operating system, referrer URL, time of access). This data cannot be assigned to specific individuals and is not merged with other data sources. The legal basis is Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR (legitimate interest in the technical provision and security of the website). Server log files are automatically deleted after 30 days.

Cookieless Usage Statistics

We collect anonymous, cookieless usage statistics (e.g. pageviews, referrers, device type, language version). IP addresses are stored exclusively as irreversible SHA-256 hashes; the plaintext IP is never persisted. The legal basis is Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR (legitimate interest in anonymous audience measurement). Statistics data is automatically deleted after 30 days.

Contact by Email

If you contact us by email, the transmitted data (email address, message content) will be used exclusively to process your request and will not be passed on to third parties. The legal basis is Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR (legitimate interest in responding to inquiries). Email correspondence is deleted once the inquiry has been fully resolved.

Affiliate Links (Amazon EU Associates Program)

This website contains affiliate links to the Amazon EU Associates Program. When you click on such a link, you will be redirected to Amazon. Amazon may set cookies and process personal data (e.g. IP address, purchase behaviour) in this context. We have no influence over this processing by Amazon. For details, please refer to Amazon's privacy policy.

Rate Limiting

To protect against abusive use of our API endpoints, we employ rate limiting that temporarily stores hashed IP addresses (SHA-256) on the file system. The legal basis is Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR (legitimate interest in protecting the infrastructure). This data is automatically deleted after a few minutes.

Your Rights

Under the GDPR, you have the following rights regarding your personal data:

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 (Art. 21 GDPR): Where processing is based on Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR, you have the right to object at any time on grounds relating to your particular situation. Please direct your objection to hello@thewhiskyedition.com.

Right to Lodge a Complaint

You have the right to lodge a complaint with a data protection supervisory authority. The competent authority is the Landesbeauftragte für Datenschutz und Informationsfreiheit Nordrhein-Westfalen, Postfach 20 04 44, 40102 Düsseldorf, Germany, www.ldi.nrw.de .

API Licensing

We provide a public, read-only API for whisky data. The API is offered as-is without guaranteed availability or support response times.

Unless otherwise stated, API responses follow the same licensing model as this website content (Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International). Attribution with source link is required when reusing content.

Technical API documentation and endpoint details are available on the Whisky API page.

Licence

Unless otherwise stated, the content of this website is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Licence.