Data protection information
Privacy
Privacy is part of how ATQS is built. You can visit the public pages without an account, visitor analytics, advertising, or behavioural tracking. Some technical connection data is still needed to deliver the website securely.
If you choose to join ATQS UPDATES or contact ATQS, the information you provide is handled for that purpose. Any limited later retention is explained below. This notice describes these forms of processing in plain language. The precise legal references are collected in the Legal notes at the end.
1. Who is responsible
The person responsible for ATQS and for the processing described on this page is identified in the Imprint. *
If you have a question about privacy or want to exercise one of your rights, you can write directly to privacy@atqs-transmission.com .
2. Where this notice applies
This notice applies to the ATQS pre-launch website at atqs-transmission.com and to the public subscription and service pages for ATQS UPDATES at theory.atqs-transmission.com.
The public website has no user accounts, comments, visitor analytics, advertising, or publicly accessible editorial areas. During the pre-launch phase, the public part of THE THEORY is limited to the pages needed to join, confirm, and leave ATQS UPDATES and to use the related mailing-list services.
3. Hosting and technical connection data
ATQS keeps the website, the systems that operate it, the mailing-list database, and its email mailboxes within one hosting environment provided by ALL-INKL.
When you open an ATQS page, the hosting infrastructure needs to process a small amount of technical connection data so that the page can reach your device and the service can remain available and secure. Depending on the request, this may include your IP address, the date and time, the requested page or resource, the request method and response status, the amount of data transferred, referrer information supplied by your browser, and information about your browser, operating system, or other software. Error records may contain some of the same information when a request cannot be processed normally.
ALL-INKL keeps these system-side records for no longer than seven days. ATQS has disabled the creation of additional access and error logs within its own hosting account and does not generate visitor statistics there.
This limited processing is used to provide the website reliably, keep it secure, and investigate technical faults or misuse. *
4. Tracking, cookies, and external resources
ATQS does not measure how you move through the website or how you respond to an email. The public website and ATQS UPDATES do not use visitor analytics, advertising pixels, fingerprinting, heatmaps, open tracking, click tracking, conversion tracking, or individual activity profiles. These tools are not part of the current ATQS technical design.
The public pages do not use optional tracking or marketing cookies and do not use browser local storage for those purposes. Because no optional tracking or marketing technologies are active, no consent banner is shown.
The website uses fonts already available on your device. It does not download fonts from Google Fonts, Adobe Fonts, or another external font service.
The website links to the ATQS profile on Bluesky, but does not embed a Bluesky feed, script, image, or tracking component. Your browser connects to Bluesky only if you actively follow the external link. What happens on the destination website is then governed by that provider's own privacy information.
5. ATQS UPDATES
You can join ATQS UPDATES at theory.atqs-transmission.com/subscribe/ . The only personal information required is an email address. Before sending the request, you must actively select the checkbox that gives consent to receive occasional ATQS UPDATES and confirms that you have read this privacy notice. Joining is voluntary. Without the email address, consent, and later confirmation, no subscription is activated.
ATQS UPDATES is used for occasional information about substantial developments, works, publications, presentations, and the launch of the ATQS web divisions.
The subscription uses a double-opt-in process. After you submit the form, a confirmation email is sent to the address you entered. The address remains inactive until you follow the personal link in that message.
To operate the subscription, the system stores your email address, subscription status, relevant registration, confirmation, and withdrawal times, and the technical tokens needed for confirmation, unsubscription, and resubscription. The mailing-list system is configured not to store subscriber IP addresses. The hosting infrastructure may still process an IP address briefly when a subscription page or a personal confirmation or unsubscription link is opened, as described in section 3.
The mailing-list system and subscriber database run within the ATQS hosting environment at theory.atqs-transmission.com. Messages are created there and sent through the mail infrastructure included with the ATQS webhosting account. No external newsletter service, email-marketing platform, or separate newsletter-delivery provider is used. ATQS UPDATES is not monitored through open or click tracking.
An unconfirmed request remains inactive. Requests are reviewed once a month and deleted at the next review after they have been unconfirmed for more than 30 days.
Confirmed subscription data is kept until you withdraw consent, otherwise end the subscription, or ATQS UPDATES is discontinued. You can leave at any time by using the personal unsubscribe link in a mailing or by writing to privacy@atqs-transmission.com . Once the withdrawal is processed, the address is excluded from future mailings.
A limited record of the email address, the former consent, and the withdrawal is then kept only to show that consent once existed, respect the withdrawal, prevent further mailings, and handle possible legal claims. It is not used to send ATQS UPDATES. The record is normally deleted after the applicable three-year limitation periods have expired, unless a specific dispute or another legal obligation requires it for longer. *
6. Contact by email
If you write to privacy@atqs-transmission.com , ATQS receives your email address, the content of your message, basic technical delivery information, and any attachments. This information is used to understand, handle, and answer your request.
The mailbox is kept within the same ALL-INKL hosting environment. Messages are not automatically forwarded to another provider, and access is limited to the person responsible for ATQS.
Messages are deleted once the request has been fully resolved and the information is no longer needed. A message may be kept for longer if this is necessary to show that a legal obligation was met or to establish, exercise, or defend a legal claim. It is deleted when those reasons no longer apply and the relevant limitation periods have expired. *
7. Your rights
Depending on the situation, you can ask what personal information ATQS holds about you, have inaccurate information corrected, ask for information to be deleted or its use restricted, receive data you provided in a portable format, or object to processing. You can withdraw consent at any time for the future.
Where processing relies on a legitimate interest, you can object for reasons arising from your particular situation. You can make any of these requests by writing to privacy@atqs-transmission.com .
You also have the right to lodge a complaint with a competent data-protection supervisory authority. ATQS does not use automated decisions or profiling. *
8. Changes to this notice
This notice will be updated when the website, ATQS UPDATES, hosting configuration, or another relevant processing activity changes.
Last updated: 8 August 2026
The formal references behind the text above
Legal notes
These notes are part of this privacy notice. They collect the formal roles, legal bases, and statutory references behind the plain-language account above.
Responsibility
The provider identified in the Imprint is the controller within the meaning of Article 4(7) of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). This information is provided in accordance with Articles 12 and 13 GDPR. Return to section 1.
Hosting and technical connection data
ALL-INKL.COM, Neue Medien MünnichHauptstraße 68
02742 Friedersdorf
Germany
ALL-INKL processes personal data on behalf of the controller under a data-processing agreement pursuant to Article 28 GDPR. According to that agreement, the processing covered by the hosting service takes place in Germany. ALL-INKL uses Neue Medien Münnich GmbH, Germany, as an authorised subprocessor for the covered services.
The legal basis for processing the system-side connection and error data described in section 3 is Article 6(1)(f) GDPR. The legitimate interest is the secure, reliable, and technically functional provision of the website, including the investigation of faults and misuse. Return to section 3.
ATQS UPDATES
The email address and active subscription data are processed on the basis of consent under Article 6(1)(a) GDPR. Article 7 GDPR governs the conditions for consent and its withdrawal. Withdrawal takes effect for the future and does not affect the lawfulness of processing carried out before it.
After withdrawal, the limited record described in section 5 is retained on the basis of Article 6(1)(c) in conjunction with Articles 5(1)(a), 5(2), and 7(1) GDPR, and Article 6(1)(f) GDPR. The legitimate interest is compliance documentation and the establishment, exercise, or defence of legal claims. The regular civil limitation period is three years under section 195 of the German Civil Code (BGB); its commencement is governed by section 199 BGB. Other statutory periods may apply in a specific dispute. Return to section 5.
Contact by email
If a message concerns the exercise of data-protection rights or another legal obligation, the legal basis is Article 6(1)(c) GDPR. For other privacy-related inquiries, the legal basis is Article 6(1)(f) GDPR. The legitimate interest is answering and documenting the inquiry. Any longer retention for legal claims is limited to what is necessary for that purpose. Return to section 6.
Your rights
The rights described in section 7 arise, subject to their statutory conditions, from Articles 15 to 21 GDPR. The right to withdraw consent is set out in Article 7(3) GDPR. The right to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority is set out in Article 77 GDPR. Return to section 7.