Privacy policy
This privacy policy informs you about the nature, scope and purpose of the processing of personal data on this website (the 'Website') in accordance with Art. 13 GDPR.
Controller
Steuber Ludwig Steuerberater Partnerschaft mbB, Goltsteinstraße 56, 50968 Cologne, Germany. Phone: +49 (0) 221 95019567. Email: info@steuberludwig.de.
Hosting (Vercel)
This website is hosted by Vercel Inc., 440 N Barranca Avenue #4133, Covina, CA 91723, USA. When you access the page, technically necessary data is processed (e.g. IP address, timestamp, requested resource, browser type). Legal basis: Art. 6 (1) (f) GDPR (legitimate interest in operating the website). A data processing agreement with EU Standard Contractual Clauses (SCC) is in place with Vercel to safeguard data transfer to the USA.
Contact form and email
When you send us an enquiry via the contact form, we process the data you provide (name, email, phone, message, audience selection) to handle your enquiry. Legal basis: Art. 6 (1) (b) GDPR (pre-contractual measures) or Art. 6 (1) (f) GDPR. Data is deleted as soon as it is no longer needed to handle your enquiry, at the latest after expiry of statutory retention periods. Please do not send confidential or particularly sensitive data via the contact form. Contacting us via the form does not yet establish a mandate; professional confidentiality under § 203 of the German Criminal Code only arises upon engagement. For transmitting confidential documents we will arrange a secure channel with you.
Email delivery (Brevo)
We use the service Brevo (Brevo SAS, 106 boulevard Haussmann, 75008 Paris, France) to deliver contact form and confirmation emails. Processing takes place on servers within the European Union; no transfer to a third country occurs. A data processing agreement under Art. 28 GDPR is in place; Brevo processes the contents solely to deliver the email. Please also note the notice in the contact form asking you not to transmit confidential or particularly sensitive data.
Spam protection (Cloudflare Turnstile)
To protect the contact form against abuse we use Cloudflare Turnstile (Cloudflare, Inc., 101 Townsend St, San Francisco, CA 94107, USA). Turnstile works without cookies and processes IP address and browser characteristics for bot detection. Legal basis: Art. 6 (1) (f) GDPR. EU Standard Contractual Clauses are in place with Cloudflare.
Fonts (self-hosted)
This website uses the Inter typeface. The font files are loaded once from Google at build time and are subsequently served exclusively from our own server (Vercel). When you access the site no connection to Google servers is established and no personal data (in particular no IP address) is transmitted to Google.
Your rights
You have the right to access (Art. 15 GDPR), rectification (Art. 16), erasure (Art. 17), restriction of processing (Art. 18), data portability (Art. 20) and to object to processing (Art. 21). You may complain to the competent supervisory authority — for our firm this is the State Commissioner for Data Protection and Freedom of Information of North Rhine-Westphalia.
Last updated: June 2026
