Date: 20th March 2026
Privacy Policy
Cookies:
Our website does not use third-party marketing add-ons. In order for views to work on your device, certain technical conditions must be in place, such as the setting of cookies.
A cookie is a small text file that your browser automatically creates and stores on your device. Cookies do not cause any damage to your device and do not contain viruses, Trojans or other malware. The cookie enables our website to recognise you as a user when a connection is established between our web server and your browser.
Cookies help us to determine the frequency of use and the number of users of our website. The content of the cookies we use is limited to an identification number that does not allow any personal reference to the user. The main purpose of a cookie is to recognize visitors to the website. Two types of cookies are used on our website to optimize the user experience.
Session cookies:
These are temporary cookies that remain in the cookie file of your browser until you leave our website and are automatically deleted after your visit.
Persistent cookies:
For better user-friendliness, cookies are stored on your device and enable us to recognize your browser the next time you visit. These cookies are automatically deleted after a defined period of time. Most browsers automatically accept cookies. However, you can configure your browser so that you are informed about the setting of cookies and decide individually whether to accept them or exclude the acceptance of cookies for certain cases or delete cookies in general and already set cookies. However, if you disable cookies, the functionality of our website may be limited.
The use of our website is generally possible without any indication of personal data. If personal data (e.g. name, address or telephone number) is collected on our pages, this is always done on a voluntary basis as far as possible. This data will not be passed on to third parties without your express consent. We would like to point out that data transmission on the Internet (e.g. when communicating by e-mail) may have security gaps. It is not possible to completely protect the data from access by third parties.
Privacy and rules
Additional information that may be stored. We collect information from you when you register on our website, subscribe to a newsletter, fill out a form, enter information on our website, give us feedback and on external online properties through which we also advertise book authors and artists registered with us.
Purpose of processing:
Provision of our online offer and user-friendliness, security measures, feedback, profiles with user-related information, public relations work for the preservation of culture and art, support for book authors and artists and the associated workflows.
GDPR Consent (Art. 6 para. 1 sentence 1 lit. a) GDPR): The data subject has given his or her consent to the processing of personal data concerning him or her for a specific purpose or purposes. Performance of a contract and pre-contractual enquiries (Art. 6 para. 1 sentence 1 lit. b) GDPR): The processing is necessary for the performance of a contract to which the data subject is a party or for the implementation of pre-contractual measures taken at the request of the data subject.
Legitimate interests (Art. 6 para. 1 sentence 1 lit. f) GDPR): The processing is necessary to safeguard the legitimate interests of the controller or a third party, provided that the interests, fundamental rights and freedoms of the data subject that require the protection of personal data do not prevail. In addition to the data protection regulations of the GDPR, national regulations on data protection apply in Germany. These include, in particular, the Act on Protection against Misuse of Personal Data in Data Processing (Federal Data Protection Act – BDSG).
artdesign88 does not use third-party marketing or user profiling. This makes artdesign88 one of very few online presences that respects the privacy of its visitors.
Securing online connections with TLS/SSL encryption technology (HTTPS): In order to protect the data of users transmitted via our online services from unauthorized access, we rely on TLS/SSL encryption technology. Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) and Transport Layer Security (TLS) are the cornerstones of secure data transmission on the Internet. These technologies encrypt the information transmitted between the website or program and the user's browser (or between two servers), thus protecting the data from unauthorized access. TLS, as the evolved and more secure version of SSL, ensures that all data transfers meet the highest security standards. If a web page is secured by an SSL/TLS certificate, this is signaled by the display of HTTPS in the URL. This serves as an indicator for users that their data is being transmitted securely and encrypted.
Note: portals of artdesign88 are consistently rated with the highest awards. Both from security services and from visitors and members!
We delete personal data in accordance with the legal provisions as soon as the underlying consents are revoked or there are no other legal grounds for processing. Exceptions to this regulation exist if legal obligations or special interests require longer storage or archiving of the data. Data that must be retained for commercial or tax law reasons or the storage of which is necessary for legal prosecution or to protect the rights of other natural or legal persons may be an exception.
When we store personal data, you have the following options: Right to object: You have the right to object at any time to the processing of personal data concerning you that is carried out on the basis of Art. 6 (1) (e) or (f) GDPR. Right to withdraw consent: You have the right to revoke consents that have been given. In such a case, all deleteable content about you will be removed. Content that cannot be deleted, such as messages, remains unaffected.
Right of access: You have the right to request confirmation as to whether the data in question is being processed, and to information about this data, as well as to further information and a copy of the data in accordance with the legal requirements, as long as the effort for artdesign88 does not exceed the benefit. Right to rectification: In accordance with the legal requirements, you have the right to request the completion of the data concerning you or the correction of the inaccurate data concerning you. In addition, you have the option of changing all the information about yourself in your member account.
Right to erasure and restriction of processing: You have the right to request that data concerning you be deleted or, alternatively, to request a restriction of the processing of the data in accordance with the legal requirements. The texts you transmit to artdesign88 remain unaffected.
Online services • Artificial intelligence • Generative AI • AI services of all kinds We prohibit any operator and developer of AI from scanning our websites without the appropriate license and from processing, storing or even selling content from them. In any case, we are entitled to claim damages of €20,000. In the event of repeated violations, the amount per case will be increased to €200,000.
Licenses of our texts on this portal and all subpages can be obtained via our basket.
Anyone who copies content from this site without a license is committing a criminal offense. In particular, AI services when content is used for the purpose of further processing and/or training in other environments without consent.
Liability for external links:
Our offer contains links to external websites of third parties, the content of which we have no influence on. Therefore, we cannot assume any liability for this third-party content. The respective provider or operator of the pages is always responsible for the content of the linked pages. The linked pages were checked for possible violations of the law at the time of linking. At the time of linking, no illegal content was recognizable. A permanent control of the content of the linked pages is not reasonable without concrete indications of a violation of the law. If we become aware of any violations of the law, we will remove such links immediately.
External links to author pages/author content:
Authors are fully responsible for the links placed on their pages. In general, the same rule applies as under "Liability for external links".