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Privacy policy

This website sets no analytics or advertising cookies and shows no advertising. Reach is measured with Google Analytics 4 in cookieless mode only — no stored identifiers.

In short: on an ordinary visit this website sets no analytics or advertising cookies and requires no registration. Reach is measured with Google Analytics 4 in cookieless mode only — no cookies, no stored identifiers, aggregated counts only. There is no advertising. All calculators run entirely in your browser — your inputs and the results never leave your device. The final privacy policy will be completed before the official launch.

Controller

This website is a free information service about German traffic fines, points and deadlines. The controller within the meaning of art. 4(7) and art. 13(1)(a) GDPR is the person or company operating it. The controller’s full identity — name, service address and any register details — is not available here yet; it will be published once it is settled and will then match the imprint. For any data-protection question the controller can be reached at info@bussgeldmeter.de.

Controller / service address: to be published once settled (identical to the imprint).

Under § 38 BDSG (the German Federal Data Protection Act) a data protection officer must be appointed only in defined circumstances — for instance above a certain number of people continuously engaged in processing, or where extensive special-category processing takes place. For a small, statically served calculator without such processing, an appointment is likely not required. Should that assessment change in actual operation, a data protection officer will be named here with contact details.

What data is processed

No sign-up is needed to use the calculators. Your inputs — the charged excess speed, the established ‰ reading, your register entries, the amount imposed, the service and finality dates — are processed solely locally in your browser. They are not transmitted to a server, not sent to us, and not stored. That is not a promise about a setting; it follows from how the site is built: the legal tables are shipped with the page and the calculation happens on your device. The site has no endpoint that could receive an input, and no contact form.

As with the operation of any website, the hosting provider acting as a processor (art. 28 GDPR) may temporarily process technical connection data in server logs — typically a truncated IP address, the browser type, the operating system, the page requested and the time of access. That processing is necessary for secure, stable and attack-resistant operation. Log data is not used to identify individual visitors and is not combined with other sources.

Retention period for server logs: the specific retention period at the hosting provider will be added once settled (art. 13(2)(a) GDPR); it follows what is necessary for secure operation.

Purpose and legal basis

Processing is governed by the GDPR and the German Federal Data Protection Act (BDSG). For the individual operations:

Operation and security (server logs) — the legal basis is the legitimate interest in a functioning, secure and stable service under art. 6(1)(f) GDPR.
Calculations in the tools — no processing by us takes place: your inputs never leave your device.
Cookieless reach measurement (Google Analytics 4, see below) — the legal basis is the legitimate interest in reach-limited, cookie-free measurement of how the site is used under art. 6(1)(f) GDPR. Google’s tag sets no cookies and stores or reads no identifiers on your device. Our own measurement code does read your browser on every page view, for the gr_int flag that keeps our own testing out of the figures: a single switch rather than an identifier, written only after a visit with ?internal=1 appended, and described in full in the cookie policy.
Analytics cookies and advertising (not currently used) — the legal basis would be exclusively your consent under art. 6(1)(a) GDPR together with § 25 TDDDG. It is voluntary and can be withdrawn at any time with effect for the future (art. 7(3) GDPR).

Cookies

On an ordinary visit this website sets no analytics or advertising cookies — regardless of where you visit from. The analytics service that is integrated (Google Analytics 4, described in the next section) runs through Google Consent Mode v2 with every storage signal denied by default, and therefore works without cookies and without stored identifiers. The only thing stored is a small, technically necessary entry in your browser's local storage recording whether you dismissed the notice about the other available language; it is not a cookie, carries no identifier, and nothing is transmitted to us.

What exactly is stored, and how to control cookies, is described in the cookie policy. You can delete or block cookies in your browser settings at any time.

Reach measurement with Google Analytics 4

This website uses Google Analytics 4, an analytics service provided by Google Ireland Limited, Gordon House, Barrow Street, Dublin 4, Ireland. The service is integrated through Google Consent Mode v2 so that for every visitor, in every country, with no regional exception every storage signal defaults to denied: without consent, no analytics cookies are set and no identifiers are stored on or read from your device. Measurement is limited to cookieless, aggregated pings, from which Google derives basic figures — such as page views — that do not relate to identified individuals. Your IP address is processed by Google technically to deliver the service, and data may be processed on Google servers; details are in Google's privacy policy at policies.google.com/privacy. The legal basis is the legitimate interest in reach-limited, cookie-free measurement of the use of this service under art. 6(1)(f) GDPR.

There is no advertising on this website: no advertising cookies, no ad network, no cross-site tracking. Should advertising ever be added, for visitors from the EU, the EEA, the United Kingdom and Switzerland advertising cookies would be activated only after your consent (art. 6(1)(a) GDPR together with § 25 TDDDG), and this policy would first be extended with providers, purposes, recipients, retention and third-country transfers. Refusing has no effect on the calculators.

No automated decision-making

No decision based solely on automated processing — including profiling — that produces legal effects concerning you or similarly significantly affects you takes place (art. 22 GDPR). The calculators place your case against published tables and deadlines; they make no decisions about you and do not replace an official or judicial decision.

Your rights

Under the GDPR you have, in particular, the following rights against the controller:

Access (art. 15 GDPR) — to learn whether and which personal data concerning you is processed.
Rectification (art. 16 GDPR) — to have inaccurate data corrected.
Erasure (art. 17 GDPR) — to request deletion of your data.
Restriction (art. 18 GDPR) — to have processing restricted.
Portability (art. 20 GDPR) — to receive your data in a common, machine-readable format.
Objection (art. 21 GDPR) — to object, on grounds relating to your particular situation, to processing based on legitimate interest.

Where you have consented, you may withdraw that consent at any time with effect for the future (art. 7(3) GDPR), without affecting the lawfulness of processing carried out until then. Because we collect no data that directly identifies you, our processing is narrow in practice. There is no obligation to provide data: the calculators work without registration and without mandatory fields (art. 13(2)(e) GDPR).

Please do not send us notices or case numbers

Do not send us fine notices, hearing forms, case numbers, registration plates, licence details or photographs — not even as attachments. A German fine notice contains personal data and a case reference; we need neither and do not want to store either. For a placement, the fields in the calculator are enough, and for feedback the situation in your own words is enough. The same request appears on the contact page.

Right to lodge a complaint

Without prejudice to any other remedy, art. 77 GDPR gives you the right to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority if you consider that the processing of your data infringes data protection law — in particular with an authority in the member state of your residence, your place of work, or the place of the alleged infringement. In Germany data protection is a matter for the federal states; the competent authority is the one for the state in which the controller is established.

Competent supervisory authority: the competent state data protection authority will be named here with its address once settled.

Contact

For any data-protection question, reach us at info@bussgeldmeter.de. Feedback on the content and on individual sources is welcome via the contact page.

Changes to this policy

This policy will be completed once the details still open above are settled — in particular once advertising services are actually used, if the integration of the reach measurement changes, or once the controller's identity and the competent authority are settled. The version published on this page is the one that applies. Last updated: aug 2026.