Privacy Policy
Last updated: 30 September 2026
1. Controller
The controller responsible for processing personal data on this website is:
David Betzold
Betzold Enterprise AI
Kriegerstr. 52
82110 Germering
Germany
Email: contact@david-betzold.com
2. Hosting and server access logs
This website is hosted using services provided by Hostinger. The server region used for the website is Frankfurt, Germany.
When the website is accessed, technical server data may be processed automatically. This may include, in particular:
- the IP address of the requesting device;
- date and time of the request;
- the requested resource and request method;
- browser and device information transmitted with the request;
- country information derived from the IP address;
- response status, response size and response time.
The purpose of this processing is to provide the website securely and reliably, maintain technical operation, detect faults and misuse, and protect the website and its infrastructure.
The legal basis is Article 6(1)(f) GDPR. The stated legitimate interests are the secure, stable and efficient operation of the website and the prevention and investigation of misuse and security incidents.
The hosting service is provided by Hostinger International Limited. Hostinger may use authorized subprocessors in accordance with its data-processing terms. Where personal data is transferred outside the European Economic Area, Hostinger provides for appropriate safeguards, including Standard Contractual Clauses where applicable.
Retention
Access-log data is retained only for as long as required for technical operation, security, incident investigation and applicable legal or contractual requirements.
3. Business enquiries by email or website contact form
You may contact Betzold Enterprise AI by email or through the contact form on our Contact page.
Contact-form data
The website contact form is provided using the Contact Form 7 WordPress plugin and is limited to the following fields:
- Name — required;
- Work email — required;
- Company / organization — optional;
- Message — required.
The form is not designed to collect telephone numbers, files, newsletter or marketing consent, appointment-booking information, payment information or account-registration data.
Please do not submit unnecessary sensitive or confidential personal information through the contact form.
Purpose
Information submitted by email or through the contact form may be processed to:
- receive and respond to the enquiry;
- understand the business context described by the sender;
- handle requested pre-contractual or contractual communication where applicable;
- maintain necessary records of legitimate business correspondence where required.
Legal basis
Where communication concerns a contract with the sender personally or measures requested by the sender before entering into a contract, the legal basis is Article 6(1)(b) GDPR.
For other legitimate B2B communications, the legal basis is Article 6(1)(f) GDPR. The stated legitimate interest is receiving, responding to and documenting legitimate business enquiries and professional communications.
Submitting an enquiry through the website form does not by itself make consent the legal basis for processing.
Contact Form 7 processing and storage
Under Contact Form 7’s documented default configuration, the plugin itself does not store submitted personal data in the WordPress database, send submitted data to external servers, use cookies, or perform stealth tracking.
This website does not use a message-storage extension such as Flamingo, and the form is configured with the Contact Form 7 option not to store submissions (do_not_store).
Technical submission path
Form submissions are sent by email via WordPress to contact@david-betzold.com.
The submitted work email address is used as the Reply-To address.
Mail metadata minimization
The form email does not include Contact Form 7 special mail-tags for the sender’s IP address or browser user agent.
Ordinary server/access-log processing remains governed separately by the hosting/server-log section above.
Spam protection and external integrations
The contact form does not use:
- reCAPTCHA;
- Cloudflare Turnstile;
- Akismet;
- Brevo;
- Constant Contact;
- Stripe;
- any other external spam, marketing, CRM, payment or analytics integration.
Notice near the form
We use the information you submit to respond to your business enquiry. See our Privacy Policy for details.
No consent checkbox is used for the processing described above.
The notice is informational only and is not a request for consent.
Retention of enquiry data
Contact Form 7 does not store submissions in the WordPress database on this website.
The delivered enquiry may nevertheless exist in the receiving email system as ordinary business correspondence.
Enquiry correspondence is retained for as long as necessary to deal with the communication and may be retained longer where required for contractual documentation, statutory retention obligations, establishment or defence of legal claims, or other applicable legal requirements.
4. LinkedIn
This website contains a simple external link to the LinkedIn profile of David Betzold.
No LinkedIn content is embedded into the website.
If a visitor follows the LinkedIn link, the visitor leaves this website and LinkedIn’s own processing applies.
If Betzold Enterprise AI receives a business enquiry through LinkedIn, the content of that enquiry may also be processed for handling the business communication under the legal bases described above.
5. Cookies and similar technologies
Contact Form 7’s published privacy notice states that the plugin itself, in its default configuration, does not use cookies or send submitted data to external servers.
This website does not use:
- analytics;
- advertising;
- scheduler functionality;
- CAPTCHA;
- external spam services;
- CRM/marketing integrations;
- third-party embeds;
- consent-dependent marketing features.
Accordingly, this website does not use a cookie banner or consent-management platform.
Technical storage or access that is strictly necessary to provide a service requested by the user may be used where legally permitted without consent.
If consent-requiring technologies are introduced, this Privacy Policy will be updated and any required consent obtained before use.
6. Website contact form and scheduling service
This website provides one Contact Form 7 business-enquiry form on the Contact page.
The form uses the minimal field set described above.
The contact form does not include any appointment-scheduling function.
7. Third-party content
No YouTube, Vimeo, map, social-media or comparable third-party content is embedded into the website.
If this changes, this Privacy Policy will be updated before such content is activated.
8. Security
Appropriate technical and organizational measures are used with the aim of protecting personal data against accidental or unlawful destruction, loss, alteration, unauthorized disclosure or access.
No method of electronic transmission or storage can guarantee absolute security.
9. Your rights
Subject to the applicable legal requirements, data subjects may have rights including:
- access;
- rectification;
- erasure;
- restriction of processing;
- data portability where applicable;
- objection to processing based on legitimate interests.
Requests may be sent to:
10. Right to complain
Data subjects have the right to lodge a complaint with a data-protection supervisory authority.
For a private-sector controller established in Bavaria, the generally competent authority is the Bayerisches Landesamt für Datenschutzaufsicht (BayLDA).
11. Automated decision-making
The current website does not use automated decision-making or profiling within the meaning of Article 22 GDPR.
The website contact form does not involve automated decision-making or profiling.
12. Changes to this Privacy Policy
This Privacy Policy may be updated if the website, services, processing activities, form implementation, processors, mail transport, retention practices, runtime behavior or applicable legal requirements change.