Privacy policy

1. Data protection at a glance

General information

The following notes provide a simple overview of what happens to your personal data when you visit this website. Personal data is any data with which you can be personally identified. For detailed information on data protection, please refer to our privacy policy listed below this text.

Data collection on this website

Who is responsible for data collection on this website?

Data processing on this website is carried out by the website operator. You can find their contact details in the legal notice of this website.

How do we collect your data?

Your data is collected when you provide it to us. This may be data that you enter into a contact form, for example.

What do we use your data for?

Some of the data is collected to ensure the error-free provision of the website. Other data may be used to analyse your user behaviour if you have expressly consented.

What rights do you have regarding your data?

You have the right to receive information free of charge at any time about the origin, recipient and purpose of your stored personal data. You also have the right to request the correction or deletion of this data. If you have given consent to data processing, you can revoke this consent at any time for the future. You also have the right to request the restriction of the processing of your personal data under certain circumstances. Furthermore, you have the right to lodge a complaint with the competent supervisory authority.

You can contact us at any time regarding this and other questions on the subject of data protection.

2. Data controller

The data controller for data processing on this website is:

Alberto Domínguez Ramírez

Paul-Nießen-Str. 30, 50969 Köln, Deutschland

Email: hello@positive-rate.net

The data controller is the natural or legal person who alone or jointly with others decides on the purposes and means of processing personal data (e.g. names, email addresses, etc.).

3. What data do we collect?

We only collect personal data if you voluntarily provide it to us via the contact form. This includes:

• Name

• Email address

• Company name (optional)

• Website URL (optional)

• Your message

Additionally, Google Analytics may collect usage data if you have given your consent. For more details, see our cookie policy.

4. Purpose of data processing

Your personal data is used exclusively to process your enquiry and to contact you. We do not share your data with third parties. We do not use your data for advertising purposes and do not send newsletters without your express consent.

5. Legal basis for processing personal data

The legal basis for processing your personal data is:

• Art. 6(1)(a) GDPR (consent): You give your consent by activating the consent option in the contact form.

• Art. 6(1)(b) GDPR (contract initiation): If the processing is necessary for the performance of pre-contractual measures taken at your request.

You have the right to revoke your consent at any time. A revocation means that we may no longer continue data processing based on this consent for the future. The lawfulness of the processing carried out until the revocation remains unaffected.

6. Data retention

Your personal data will be stored for as long as necessary for the purpose for which it was collected. After completion of processing your enquiry, the data will be deleted in accordance with statutory retention periods, provided there is no other legal basis for further storage.

If we enter into a business relationship with you, the statutory retention periods apply (e.g. 10 years for commercial documents pursuant to § 257 HGB, 6 years for tax documents pursuant to § 147 AO).

7. Your rights

Within the scope of applicable legal provisions, you have the right at any time to receive information free of charge about your stored personal data, its origin and recipients and the purpose of data processing, and, if applicable, a right to correction or deletion of this data. You can contact us at any time regarding this and other questions on the subject of personal data.

In detail, you have the following rights:

• Right of access (Art. 15 GDPR): You have the right to request confirmation as to whether personal data concerning you is being processed.

• Right to rectification (Art. 16 GDPR): You have the right to request the rectification of inaccurate personal data concerning you.

• Right to erasure (Art. 17 GDPR): You have the right to request the deletion of your personal data, provided the legal requirements are met.

• Right to restriction of processing (Art. 18 GDPR): You have the right to request the restriction of processing of your personal data if certain conditions are met.

• Right to data portability (Art. 20 GDPR): You have the right to receive the personal data concerning you in a structured, commonly used and machine-readable format.

• Right to object (Art. 21 GDPR): You have the right to object at any time, on grounds relating to your particular situation, to the processing of personal data concerning you.

To exercise your rights, please contact: hello@positive-rate.net

Right to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority

Without prejudice to any other administrative or judicial remedy, you have the right to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority, in particular in the Member State of your habitual residence, place of work or place of the alleged infringement, if you consider that the processing of personal data relating to you infringes the GDPR.

8. Hosting

This website is hosted on Cloudflare Pages. The provider is Cloudflare, Inc., 101 Townsend St., San Francisco, CA 94107, USA (hereinafter "Cloudflare").

Cloudflare is the recipient of your personal data and acts as a data processor for us. The use of Cloudflare is based on Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR. We have a legitimate interest in the most reliable presentation of our website possible.

For more information on how user data is handled, please refer to Cloudflare's privacy policy: https://www.cloudflare.com/privacypolicy/

9. Contact form

If you send us enquiries via the contact form, your details from the enquiry form, including the contact details you provide there, will be stored by us for the purpose of processing the enquiry and in case of follow-up questions. We will not pass on this data without your consent.

The processing of this data is based on Art. 6(1)(a) GDPR (consent) or Art. 6(1)(b) GDPR (contract initiation) if your enquiry is related to the performance of a contract or is necessary for the implementation of pre-contractual measures. You can revoke your consent at any time.

10. Analytics and advertising

Google Tag Manager and Google Analytics 4

This website uses Google Tag Manager (GTM) and Google Analytics 4 (GA4) to analyse user behaviour and improve our services.

Google Tag Manager is a tag management solution that allows us to manage and deploy marketing tags (snippets of code or tracking pixels) on our website without modifying the code. Google Tag Manager itself does not collect personal data.

Google Analytics 4 is a web analytics service provided by Google LLC ("Google"). GA4 uses cookies and similar technologies to collect information about how visitors use our website. The information generated includes:

• Pages visited and time spent on pages

• Browser type and version

• Operating system

• Referrer URL

• Approximate geographic location (country/region level)

• IP address (anonymised)

Cookies used by Google Analytics 4:

• _ga — Distinguishes unique users (expires after 2 years)

• _ga_* — Maintains session state (expires after 2 years)

• _gid — Distinguishes unique users (expires after 24 hours)

The data collected is transmitted to and stored by Google on servers in the United States and other countries. Google may also transfer this information to third parties where required by law or where such third parties process the information on Google's behalf.

Legal basis: The use of Google Tag Manager and Google Analytics 4 is based exclusively on your consent pursuant to Art. 6(1)(a) GDPR and § 25(1) TTDSG. Without your consent, no analytics data is collected. You can revoke your consent at any time with effect for the future.

You can prevent the collection of data generated by the cookie and related to your use of the website (including your IP address) to Google and the processing of this data by Google by downloading and installing the browser plugin available at: https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout

For more information about Google's privacy practices, please visit: https://policies.google.com/privacy

Data processing agreement: We have concluded a data processing agreement with Google and fully implement the strict requirements of German data protection authorities when using Google Analytics.

11. Data processing security

We use technical and organisational security measures to protect your personal data against accidental or intentional manipulation, loss, destruction or access by unauthorised persons. Our security measures are continuously improved in line with technological developments.

Data transmission is encrypted via HTTPS.

12. Changes to this privacy policy

We reserve the right to adapt this privacy policy so that it always complies with current legal requirements or to implement changes to our services in the privacy policy. The new privacy policy will then apply to your next visit.

Last updated: February 2026