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Privacy (Datenschutz)

The legally binding version is the German Datenschutzerklärung. This page is a brief English orientation only.

What we process and why

Wahrgut GmbH i. Gr. (a company in formation, represented by Matthias Gerhard Witt) is the controller. We process personal data to perform our contracts, to meet legal obligations (including anti-money-laundering duties), and on the basis of legitimate interests; special categories of data in an inheritance or care context are handled only with consent.

How the site works

• Hosting is provided by IONOS in Germany; content delivery uses Cloudflare as an IONOS sub-processor; the content management system (Storyblok) is run within the EU.
• E-mail and legally compliant e-mail archiving run on IONOS in Germany; contact requests reach us initially by e-mail and are later moved into Wahrgut's own CRM, hosted on IONOS in Germany.
• Reach measurement uses Umami, which is cookieless and storageless, self-hosted in the EU, and therefore runs without consent (§ 25(2) TDDDG); it stores no personal data permanently and sets no cookie banner. Search and reach analysis uses Google Search Console.
• The internal assistant "Mathilde" runs on the EU-sovereign IONOS AI Model Hub and makes no automated decisions about you.
• Where providers process personal data on our behalf, data-processing agreements under Art. 28 GDPR are in place. Some providers use sub-processors, in part with corporate seats or data centres outside the EU; transfers rely on Chapter V GDPR safeguards (in particular the EU Standard Contractual Clauses).
• Witt’s Generationen-Post (our weekly letter): sent only after you confirm by e-mail. We process your address, the time of signup and confirmation, delivery status and the times you open a letter — not click times, name or address. Opening is measured with an invisible pixel (§ 25(1) TDDDG together with your consent). Dispatch is handled by Lettermint B.V. (NL); the list itself stays on our own server at IONOS SE (DE). No transfer outside the EU. Every letter carries a one-click unsubscribe link.

When you engage us today

The family-clarification service is the one we already offer. For it:

• If you never contacted us yourself. In inheritance matters we regularly receive names and addresses of co-heirs from another member of the community of heirs. If that is you, we tell you where we got your data, what we hold, and why — at the latest one month after receiving it, and always before passing it on. A single e-mail is enough to object (Art. 14 and Art. 21 GDPR).
• Referrals. Where your matter needs legal or tax advice, we name several lawyers, notaries or tax advisers. Your data goes to them only if you expressly ask us to, and we accept no payment from those we name.

Once we are licensed to broker property

Not yet in force. Property brokerage begins only when the licence under § 34c GewO has been granted, and it has not been (see the Impressum). We set this out in advance so that you know it before you have to decide. It becomes binding when the licence is granted.

• Your property. Photographs of lived-in rooms show more than walls. We will photograph by arrangement, remove or obscure personal items on request, and show you the selection before publication. Full particulars will go only to named enquirers, never as an anonymous download.
• If you are a buyer. We will ask for a self-declaration and proof of finance only when matters become serious, not at first contact. A credit check will be made only with your explicit consent. No automated system will decide whether you get a viewing.
• Identification. German anti-money-laundering law will require us to identify both parties to a sale — seller as well as buyer — once there is serious interest in the transaction and both sides are sufficiently determined (§ 10(6) GwG). These records are kept for five years from the end of the calendar year in which the relationship ends and are used for nothing else.

Retention and your rights

Data is kept for the periods required by law, and statutory retention takes precedence over a request to delete. You have rights of access, rectification, erasure, restriction, portability, objection, and withdrawal of consent. Where we rely on legitimate interests, you may object at any time (Art. 21 GDPR); against direct marketing you may object without giving reasons.

You may lodge a complaint with any data protection supervisory authority. The one responsible for us is: Der Landesbeauftragte für den Datenschutz Niedersachsen, Prinzenstraße 5, 30159 Hannover, poststelle@lfd.niedersachsen.de.

We have not appointed a data protection officer. Your contact for all data protection matters is Matthias Gerhard Witt personally.

Authoritative version: Datenschutzerklärung (Deutsch).

Last updated: 8 September 2026.