Privacy Policy

Maximilian Sydow Architectural Photography processes personal data only where necessary and on the basis of the GDPR. Privacy and transparency are an integral part of working with architects, developers, and project leaders.

Data Controller

Maximilian Sydow — Architectural Photography
Ickstattstraße 2b, 80469 Munich, Germany
Email: mail@maximilian-sydow.de
Phone: +49 175 167 156 7
VAT ID: DE271429386
Supervisory authority: Bavarian State Office for Data Protection Supervision (BayLDA)

Your rights under GDPR

You have the right at any time to: access (Art. 15), rectification (Art. 16), erasure (Art. 17), restriction of processing (Art. 18), data portability (Art. 20), and objection (Art. 21). You may lodge a complaint with the supervisory authority (Art. 77). Requests are processed within statutory deadlines.

Data collected when visiting this website

When you visit, technical data is logged by the hosting provider (IONOS SE, Montabaur, Germany): anonymised IP address, date and time, requested page, user agent. Legal basis: Art. 6 (1) (f) GDPR (legitimate interest in security and stability). Storage period: up to 30 days.

Cookies & Consent Mode

Cookies are only set after your explicit consent via the cookie banner. Before consent, no analytics trackers are loaded (Google Consent Mode v2, analytics_storage: denied as default). You can revoke your consent at any time by clearing your browser's local storage for this domain.

Google Analytics 4 (GA4)

Provider: Google Ireland Limited, Gordon House, Barrow Street, Dublin 4, Ireland
Purpose: reach measurement, usage analysis to improve site usability
Legal basis: Art. 6 (1) (a) GDPR (consent)
Data: anonymised IP, device and browser info, time on page, click events, scroll depth
Storage: 14 months
Data transfer to the USA is based on EU Standard Contractual Clauses and the EU-US Data Privacy Framework. More: policies.google.com/privacy.

Microsoft Clarity

Provider: Microsoft Ireland Operations Limited, One Microsoft Place, South County Business Park, Leopardstown, Dublin 18, Ireland
Purpose: heatmaps and anonymised session recordings to improve user experience
Legal basis: Art. 6 (1) (a) GDPR (consent)
Data: clicks and mouse movement, scroll behavior, anonymised IP, device class
Privacy: privacy.microsoft.com

Contact form

Data entered in the contact form (name, email address, message) is used exclusively to process your inquiry. Legal basis: Art. 6 (1) (b) GDPR (pre-contractual measures) and (f) (legitimate interest in responding to inquiries). Data is stored until the correspondence is closed, but no longer than 6 months after the last contact, unless a contractual relationship arises. A technical spam guard (honeypot) is in use.

Fonts (Google Fonts)

This site uses web fonts from Google Fonts. When you load a page, your IP address is transmitted to Google to deliver the fonts. Legal basis: Art. 6 (1) (f) GDPR (legitimate interest in consistent presentation). A server-local alternative is available on request.

External links / sister brands

This site links to maxsydow.de, alumus.de, and clickclickboom.de — all sister brands of Maximilian Sydow. Each has its own privacy policy. For external third-party sites (social profiles, EU ODR platform), the privacy notices of the respective provider apply.

Status & updates

This privacy policy was last updated in May 2026. We reserve the right to adapt it to changes in law and technology.