Legal notice and privacy
This English version is provided for your convenience. The German version is legally binding.
Legal notice
Information pursuant to § 5 DDG and § 18(2) MStV (German law)
Handelskolleg
Owner: Michael Spandern
Kiellinie 82
24105 Kiel
Germany
Phone: +49 431 28900924
Email: kontor@handelskolleg.de
VAT ID pursuant to § 27a UStG: DE335868823
Responsible for content: Michael Spandern, address as above
Disclaimer
1. Content
The author accepts no responsibility for the topicality, correctness, completeness or quality of the information provided. Liability claims regarding damage caused by the use of any information provided, including information that is incomplete or incorrect, are therefore excluded. All offers are non-binding and without obligation. Parts of the pages or the complete publication, including all offers and information, may be extended, changed or partly or completely deleted by the author without separate announcement.
2. Links
The author is not responsible for any content linked or referred to from these pages, unless the author has full knowledge of illegal content and would be able to prevent visitors from viewing those pages. If any damage occurs through the use of information presented there, only the author of the respective pages may be liable, not the one who has linked to these pages.
3. Copyright
The author intends not to use any copyrighted material for this publication or, where this is not possible, to indicate the copyright of the respective object. The copyright for any material created by the author is reserved. Any duplication or use of images, diagrams or texts in other electronic or printed publications is not permitted without the author's agreement.
4. Image credits
All photos and graphics were created by us or may be used without any obligation to credit a source.
5. Fonts
This website uses the typefaces PT Serif and PT Sans (© ParaType Ltd.) under the SIL Open Font License 1.1. The font files are hosted on our own server.
6. Validity of this disclaimer
This disclaimer is to be regarded as part of the website from which you were referred to this page. If sections or individual terms of this statement are not legal or correct, the content or validity of the other parts remain unaffected.
Privacy policy
Controller
The controller within the meaning of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) is:
Michael Spandern, Handelskolleg, Kiellinie 82, 24105 Kiel, Germany
Email: kontor@handelskolleg.de
The short version
This website uses no cookies, no analytics or tracking and no third party content (no Google Fonts, no social media plugins, no maps, no videos). Every file, including the fonts, is loaded from our own web server only.
Hosting and server log files
This website is hosted by [NAME AND ADDRESS OF HOSTING PROVIDER]. When you visit the site, the web server automatically stores information sent by your browser in server log files: IP address, date and time of access, the page or file requested, amount of data transferred, status code, referrer URL, and browser type and operating system.
This processing is based on Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR. Our legitimate interest lies in delivering the website reliably and keeping it secure. Log files are deleted after [NUMBER] days. We have a data processing agreement with our hosting provider in accordance with Art. 28 GDPR.
Contacting us by email or phone
If you contact us by email or phone, we process the details you give us (such as your name, email address, phone number and the content of your enquiry) to deal with your enquiry and any follow-up questions. The legal basis is Art. 6(1)(b) GDPR where your enquiry relates to a contract or pre-contractual steps, and Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR otherwise (our legitimate interest in answering enquiries). We delete your data once your enquiry has been fully dealt with, unless statutory retention periods apply.
Sharing data
We only pass your personal data on to third parties if you have expressly consented, if it is necessary to fulfil a contract with you or a legal obligation, or if it is necessary to protect legitimate interests and there is no reason to assume that your interest in keeping the data private outweighs this.
Your rights
You have the right at any time to:
- access the data we hold about you and how it is processed (Art. 15 GDPR),
- have incorrect personal data corrected (Art. 16 GDPR),
- have your data erased (Art. 17 GDPR),
- restrict processing (Art. 18 GDPR),
- object to processing (Art. 21 GDPR) and
- data portability (Art. 20 GDPR).
You can withdraw any consent you have given at any time with effect for the future. Just send us an email.
You also have the right to lodge a complaint with a data protection supervisory authority. The authority responsible for us is the Unabhängiges Landeszentrum für Datenschutz Schleswig-Holstein (ULD), Holstenstraße 98, 24103 Kiel, Germany.
Changes to this privacy policy
We update this privacy policy whenever the website or the legal requirements change. The version published here always applies.
Last updated: October 2026