Legal Notice and Privacy Policy
Convenience translation. The German legal notice and privacy policy remain authoritative.
Legal notice
Information pursuant to Section 5 DDG: Dirk Kartes, Apianstraße 7, 80796 Munich, Germany. Phone: +49 176 52438010. Email: info@dirkkartes.de. Responsible for editorial content pursuant to Section 18(2) MStV: Dirk Kartes at the same address.
Professional activity
Dirk Kartes works as an independent professional. Services include mentoring, coaching, mediation, consulting, analysis, concept development, and academic, artistic, and writing activities.
Image credit
Mathias Remmlig.
Liability for content and links
Website content was prepared with great care, but no guarantee is given for accuracy, completeness, or timeliness. External linked websites are the responsibility of their respective providers. Mentoring, coaching, and mediation support reflection and development; they do not replace legal, tax, medical, or psychotherapeutic advice, and no particular personal, financial, or legal outcome is owed.
1. Controller
The controller for data processing is Dirk Kartes at the address and contact details above.
2. General information
Personal data is processed only as needed to provide this website, communicate with users, or handle inquiries. Processing is based on the GDPR, particularly Article 6(1)(b) for pre-contractual or contractual communication, Article 6(1)(c) for legal obligations, and Article 6(1)(f) for legitimate interests in secure and reliable website operation. Information duties arise particularly under Article 13 GDPR.
3. Hosting by Lovable
This website is provided through Lovable. Technical access data may be processed, including date and time, pages viewed, browser and operating-system information, and IP address. The legal basis is Article 6(1)(f) GDPR and the legitimate interest in secure, stable, technically reliable hosting.
4. Contact
If you contact me by email or phone, I process the information you provide to handle your inquiry. The legal basis is Article 6(1)(b) GDPR where the inquiry concerns possible or existing work together, and Article 6(1)(f) GDPR for general communication.
5. Cookies and external services
This website currently uses no consent-requiring cookies, cookie-consent management, or Spotify embeds. This privacy notice will be updated if external services, embedded content, analytics tools, or consent-requiring cookies are introduced.
6. Social-media links
This website may link to external platforms such as LinkedIn, WhatsApp, and Wikipedia. Clicking such a link takes you away from this website; the respective provider is responsible for data processing there.
7. Retention
Personal data is retained only as long as needed for its purpose or as required by statutory retention obligations.
8. Your rights
Subject to legal requirements, you have rights to access, rectification, erasure, restriction of processing, data portability, objection to certain processing, and withdrawal of consent.
9. Version
Version: May 2026. This privacy notice will be updated when legal requirements or the technical design of this website change.