1. Controller

The controller for data processing on this website is:

TIMS Taunus International Montessori School e.V.

Email: info@tims-frankfurt.com

Phone: +49 6171 9133 10

Fax:+49 6171 9133 17

2. Scope of This Policy

This Privacy Policy explains what personal data we process when you visit our website, contact us, and use website features. We process personal data in accordance with applicable data protection laws, including the GDPR where applicable.

3. Server Logs

When you visit the website, the hosting environment may automatically process technical access data (for example: IP address, date/time, requested URL, referrer, browser and operating system). This processing is used to ensure security, stability, and proper operation of the website.

Legal basis: Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR (legitimate interests in secure and reliable website operation).

4. Cookies and Local Storage

Our website uses a consent banner and stores your consent choice in local browser storage under tims_cookie_consent_v1. We also use a locale preference cookie (cleancms_locale) to remember your language selection.

You can remove cookies or local storage entries via your browser settings at any time.

5. Google Maps Embed

We use an embedded Google Maps service to display our location. The map is loaded only after consent or explicit user action on the map placeholder. When the map is loaded, data (including your IP address and technical metadata) may be transmitted to Google.

Provider: Google Ireland Limited, Gordon House, Barrow Street, Dublin 4, Ireland (or affiliated Google entities, where applicable).

Legal basis: Art. 6(1)(a) GDPR (consent), and optionally Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR for service functionality where permitted.

6. Google Analytics

We use Google Analytics, a web analytics service provided by Google, to understand how visitors use our website. Google Analytics is loaded only after you actively consent via our cookie banner (select "Accept all"). If you decline, or only accept essential cookies, no Google Analytics script, cookie, or request is loaded or sent.

When active, Google Analytics may set cookies (for example _ga) and transmit data such as your (anonymized/regionalized) IP address, pages visited, referrer, and device/browser information to Google.

Provider: Google Ireland Limited, Gordon House, Barrow Street, Dublin 4, Ireland (or affiliated Google entities, where applicable).

Legal basis: Art. 6(1)(a) GDPR (consent). You can withdraw your consent at any time (for example via your browser’s local storage/cookie settings), which stops further data collection and removes existing Google Analytics cookies.

7. Contact Form

If you contact us via the website form, we process the information you submit (typically name, email address, and message) to handle your request. Messages are sent to us via our Microsoft 365 email service.

Legal basis:

• Art. 6(1)(b) GDPR if your request relates to pre-contractual or contractual matters.

• Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR for general communication and request handling.

• Art. 6(1)(a) GDPR where consent is required.

8. Recipients and Processors

We may share personal data with service providers that support website operations (for example: hosting provider, email/SMTP provider), strictly to the extent needed for the listed purposes and under data processing agreements where required.

• Hosting provider: Hostinger.com

• Email provider: Microsoft 365 (Microsoft Ireland Operations Limited)

• Maps provider: https://maps.google.com/

• Analytics provider: Google Analytics (Google Ireland Limited)

• Search Console: Google Search Console (Google Ireland Limited) — used to monitor and improve our website’s presence in Google Search; verified via a DNS TXT record, and does not collect data from website visitors.

9. International Data Transfers

If personal data is transferred to countries outside the EEA/UK, we use appropriate safeguards (for example adequacy decisions, Standard Contractual Clauses, or other lawful transfer mechanisms).

10. Retention Periods

We retain personal data only as long as necessary for the purposes described in this policy, unless longer retention is required by law (for example tax, commercial, or regulatory obligations).

11. Data Subject Rights

Subject to legal requirements, you have the right to: access, rectification, erasure, restriction of processing, data portability, and objection to processing. Where processing is based on consent, you may withdraw consent at any time with future effect.

To exercise your rights, contact us at: info@tims-frankfurt.com.

12. Right to Lodge a Complaint

You have the right to lodge a complaint with a competent data protection supervisory authority, especially in your country of residence, workplace, or the place of an alleged infringement.

13. Security

We implement appropriate technical and organizational measures to protect personal data against unauthorized access, loss, misuse, or alteration.

14. Changes to This Policy

We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time. The latest version will always be published on this page with the effective date.