Last updated: 24.2.2026

Part I – Legal Notice (Impressum)

Inform­a­tion pur­su­ant to § 5 Ger­man Tele­media reg­u­la­tions.

Web­site Name:
The Image Chron­icle

Respons­ible for con­tent accord­ing to § 18 MStV:
Ger­hard Groebe
Im Wirtskrämer 9
72119 Ammer­buch
Ger­many

Liability for Content

As a private indi­vidu­al, I am respons­ible for my own con­tent on this web­site in accord­ance with gen­er­al laws. How­ever, I am not oblig­ated to mon­it­or trans­mit­ted or stored third-party inform­a­tion or to invest­ig­ate cir­cum­stances indic­at­ing unlaw­ful activ­ity.

Liability for Links

This web­site may con­tain links to extern­al web­sites of third parties. I have no influ­ence on the con­tents of those web­sites and there­fore can­not assume any liab­il­ity for such extern­al con­tent. The respect­ive pro­vider or oper­at­or of the linked web­sites is always respons­ible for their con­tent.

Copyright

The con­tent and works cre­ated by the site oper­at­or on these pages are sub­ject to Ger­man copy­right law. Duplic­a­tion, pro­cessing, dis­tri­bu­tion, or any form of com­mer­cial­iz­a­tion of such mater­i­al bey­ond the scope of copy­right law shall require pri­or writ­ten con­sent.

Part II – Privacy Policy

1. Controller

The con­trol­ler respons­ible for data pro­cessing on this web­site is:

Ger­hard Groebe
Im Wirtskrämer 9
72119 Ammer­buch
Ger­many

2. General Information on Data Processing

I take the pro­tec­tion of your per­son­al data ser­i­ously. This web­site pro­cesses per­son­al data only to the extent neces­sary to provide a func­tion­al and secure web­site.

Per­son­al data means any inform­a­tion relat­ing to an iden­ti­fied or iden­ti­fi­able nat­ur­al per­son.

3. Hosting

This web­site is hos­ted by:

Het­zn­er Online GmbH
Indus­triestr. 25
91710 Gun­zen­hausen
Ger­many

When you vis­it this web­site, the host­ing pro­vider auto­mat­ic­ally col­lects and stores inform­a­tion in serv­er log files. These may include:

  • IP address
  • Date and time of access
  • Browser type and ver­sion
  • Oper­at­ing sys­tem
  • Refer­rer URL
  • Pages accessed

This data is pro­cessed for the fol­low­ing pur­poses:

  • Ensur­ing the sta­bil­ity and secur­ity of the web­site
  • Pre­vent­ing mis­use
  • Tech­nic­al troubleshoot­ing

The leg­al basis for this pro­cessing is Art­icle 6(1)(f) GDPR (legit­im­ate interest in secure and stable web­site oper­a­tion).

Serv­er log data is stored only as long as neces­sary for secur­ity and tech­nic­al pur­poses and is then auto­mat­ic­ally deleted.

A Data Pro­cessing Agree­ment (DPA) has been con­cluded with the host­ing pro­vider in accord­ance with Art­icle 28 GDPR.

4. Cookies

This web­site does not use track­ing tools or ana­lyt­ics ser­vices.

Only tech­nic­ally neces­sary cook­ies may be used to ensure the prop­er func­tion­ing of the web­site. These cook­ies do not require user con­sent under applic­able data pro­tec­tion laws.

5. Data Sharing

Per­son­al data is not sold, ren­ted, or oth­er­wise dis­closed to third parties unless required by law.

6. Your Rights Under the GDPR

If you are loc­ated in the European Uni­on, you have the fol­low­ing rights under the GDPR:

  • Right of access (Art. 15 GDPR)
  • Right to rec­ti­fic­a­tion (Art. 16 GDPR)
  • Right to eras­ure (Art. 17 GDPR)
  • Right to restric­tion of pro­cessing (Art. 18 GDPR)
  • Right to data port­ab­il­ity (Art. 20 GDPR)
  • Right to object to pro­cessing (Art. 21 GDPR)

To exer­cise your rights, please con­tact me using the con­tact details above.

7. Right to Lodge a Complaint

You have the right to lodge a com­plaint with a data pro­tec­tion super­vis­ory author­ity, in par­tic­u­lar in the EU Mem­ber State of your res­id­ence, place of work, or place of the alleged infringe­ment.

The com­pet­ent super­vis­ory author­ity in Baden-Württem­berg is:

State Com­mis­sion­er for Data Pro­tec­tion and Free­dom of Inform­a­tion Baden-Württem­berg
Lautensch­la­ger­straße 20
70173 Stut­tgart
Ger­many

8. Changes to This Privacy Policy

I reserve the right to update this Pri­vacy Policy to com­ply with leg­al require­ments or to reflect changes to the web­site.