1. Controller
Till Kandelhard Buchsbaumweg 14 22299 Hamburg Germany
2. Overview of processing
DepotScaler is a calculator and information service. You do not need a user account. We do not store your calculator inputs in a database.
- The calculators compute the results in your browser.
- Your browser stores a scenario only if you save it yourself.
- Messages sent through the contact form reach us as emails in our mailbox.
- When you visit the website, our hosting provider Cloudflare processes technically necessary connection data.
- We use no cookies and no analytics or advertising services.
3. Website delivery by Cloudflare
We run the website with Cloudflare, Inc., 101 Townsend St., San Francisco, CA 94107, USA. Cloudflare delivers the website through a worldwide network of data centers and protects it against attacks.
Data processed
With every request, Cloudflare processes the data that your browser transmits for technical reasons. This includes your IP address, the date and time, the requested address including any calculator inputs, the previously visited page and information about your browser and operating system.
Purposes and legal basis
This serves to deliver the website securely and reliably, to defend against attacks and, where necessary, to find errors. The legal basis is Art. 6 Abs. 1 lit. f DSGVO (GDPR). Our legitimate interest lies in operating the website securely and reliably.
Processing on our behalf and transfers to third countries
Cloudflare processes this data on our behalf. For this purpose we have concluded a data processing agreement with Cloudflare under Art. 28 DSGVO. Processing may also take place in the USA and in other countries outside the EU. Cloudflare, Inc. is certified under the EU-U.S. Data Privacy Framework. Transfers to Cloudflare in the USA are therefore based on the European Commission's adequacy decision (Art. 45 DSGVO). For transfers to other third countries, and in case this basis ceases to apply, the European Commission's standard contractual clauses agreed with Cloudflare apply (Art. 46 Abs. 2 lit. c DSGVO). You can obtain a copy on request via our contact address.
Cloudflare also uses some connection data under its own responsibility to protect its network and improve its services. You can find more information in the Cloudflare privacy policy.
Retention period
We do not keep our own logs of page requests. If we temporarily switch them on to find errors, Cloudflare stores them on our behalf for no more than seven days. They may contain the requested address including any calculator inputs.
4. Calculator inputs, links and saved scenarios
The calculators compute the results in your browser. We do not store your calculator inputs in a database.
Saved scenarios
If you save a scenario in the Altersvorsorgedepot calculator, your browser stores the address with your calculator inputs, a short preview and the time in local storage. Your browser reads these entries to show you your save slots. They remain on your device until you delete them in the calculator or remove the site data in your browser.
Calculator inputs in links
Your inputs appear as parameters in the page address. This lets you share a scenario or open it again later. When you open such an address or reload the page, Cloudflare receives the full address as part of the request. This also applies when someone opens your link. Anyone who receives the link can see all the information in it. This may include your year of birth, savings amounts, income, marital status and information about children and the payout. When you copy the link, it goes to your clipboard. When you share it, your browser passes it to the app you choose. If you move on to another website, that website receives at most our domain.
Only share calculator links with people who may see this information.
5. Storage in your browser and cookies
Display
If you choose light or dark mode, your browser stores this choice in local storage. Without a choice, the display follows your device setting. In that case we store nothing. Your choice remains stored until you change it or remove the site data in your browser.
Reloading after an update
After the website has been updated, your browser may note in the tab's session storage which page should be reloaded once. The entry contains the page address and technical page data. It disappears at the latest when you close the tab.
These storage operations and reading your saved scenarios are permitted without consent because they are strictly necessary for the function you requested (§ 25 Abs. 2 Nr. 2 TDDDG).
Cookies
The website does not set any cookies.
6. Contact form and email
If you write to us through the contact form or by email, we process your email address, your message and, if provided, your name. Only the email address and message are required, because otherwise we cannot reply. Calculator inputs, saved scenarios and the current page address are not sent.
Purpose and legal basis
We use the information solely to handle and answer your inquiry. The legal basis is Art. 6 Abs. 1 lit. f DSGVO. Our legitimate interest is being able to answer inquiries. If your inquiry aims at concluding or performing a contract, the legal basis is Art. 6 Abs. 1 lit. b DSGVO.
Process and recipients
The form transmits your details in encrypted form to the server on which DepotScaler runs at Cloudflare. The server creates an email from them and hands it over in encrypted form to our mailbox at Hetzner Online GmbH. DepotScaler does not store the details in a database in the process. The message remains stored in our mailbox at Hetzner until we delete it. If you email us directly, your message goes to our mailbox at Hetzner without passing through Cloudflare.
Our mailbox is operated on our behalf by Hetzner Online GmbH, Industriestr. 25, 91710 Gunzenhausen, in data centers in the EU. For this purpose we have concluded a data processing agreement with Hetzner under Art. 28 DSGVO. Section 3 also applies to the transmission through the form.
Protection against misuse
To protect against misuse, the server checks the origin, size and format of the submitted details. No cookies are set and no third-party services are used for this.
Retention period
We delete your message and our related correspondence no later than three months after your inquiry has been completed. We keep a message longer only if the law requires it or if we need it to resolve legal claims. Hetzner stores technical delivery data for up to seven days. Backup copies of the mailbox remain available at Hetzner for up to 14 days.
7. Links to other websites
DepotScaler links to external websites. Only when you open such a link do you connect to the respective third party. From that point on, the third party processes data under its own responsibility in accordance with its privacy policy.
8. No analytics and no advertising
We do not use any analytics, tracking or advertising services. We do not create profiles and do not make automated decisions.
9. Deletion and retention period
Saved scenarios and your display choice remain in your browser until you delete them. Section 3 applies to connection data. Section 6 applies to messages.
10. Your rights
Where the legal requirements are met, you have in particular the following rights against the controller:
- access to the personal data processed (Art. 15 DSGVO),
- rectification of inaccurate data (Art. 16 DSGVO),
- erasure (Art. 17 DSGVO),
- restriction of processing (Art. 18 DSGVO),
- data portability (Art. 20 DSGVO).
An email to us is sufficient for your request.
Right to object
If we process data on the basis of Art. 6 Abs. 1 lit. f DSGVO, you may object at any time on grounds relating to your particular situation (Art. 21 DSGVO). An informal email to us is sufficient.
11. Right to lodge a complaint
Under Art. 77 DSGVO, you have the right to lodge a complaint with a data protection supervisory authority, in particular in the member state of your residence, your place of work or the place of the alleged infringement.
The authority responsible for us is the Hamburg Commissioner for Data Protection and Freedom of Information (Der Hamburgische Beauftragte für Datenschutz und Informationsfreiheit), Ludwig-Erhard-Str. 22, 20459 Hamburg.
Version of November 2026