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Privacy policy

This website works without tracking, without advertising cookies and without external fonts. I process personal data only as far as is necessary to run the website, answer your enquiry or carry out a booking. This page explains which data that is, what I use it for and which rights you have.

1. Controller

Benjamin Fazio
DJ Ben Faze
Calle Gran Bretaña 12B
35508 Costa Teguise
Lanzarote (Spanien)

Telefon: +34 699 566 177
E-Mail: [email protected]

Further details are in the legal notice. No data protection officer has been appointed, as there is no legal obligation to do so.

2. Hosting and server log files

This website is hosted on servers of Hetzner Online GmbH, Industriestr. 25, 91710 Gunzenhausen, Germany. A data processing agreement under Art. 28 GDPR is in place with Hetzner; the data is processed in the data centre in Helsinki, Finland, and thus within the EU.

On every visit the server automatically records access data: the page requested, date and time, the amount of data transferred, browser type and version, operating system, the page you came from (referrer) and your IP address. This data is used to deliver the page, to keep the system stable and secure and to investigate faults or attacks. The legal basis is my legitimate interest in secure operation (Art. 6 (1) (f) GDPR). Log files are deleted after 14 days at the latest and are not combined with other data.

3. Cookies and local storage

Without your consent the website only sets technically necessary cookies: a session cookie and a cookie that protects the forms against forged submissions (CSRF). Neither contains data about you, neither is used for tracking, and both expire when the session ends. The legal basis is Section 25 (2) no. 2 of the German TDDDG and Art. 6 (1) (f) GDPR.

Your choice in the privacy settings (see section 6) is kept in your browser's local storage, not in a cookie. You can change it at any time via "Cookie settings" in the footer of every page.

Only if you agree to the "Statistics" category in the privacy settings does Google Analytics set cookies of its own in addition; details are in section 7.

4. Contact form, email and phone

You can send me an enquiry through the contact form. I then process the details you provide: type of event, date, venue, number of guests, how you found me, your name, email address and optionally your phone number. The same applies to enquiries by email or phone.

I use this data solely to answer your enquiry, to send you a quote and to carry out a booking. The legal basis is Art. 6 (1) (b) GDPR (steps prior to and performance of a contract) and, for general questions, my legitimate interest in answering them (Art. 6 (1) (f) GDPR). Form data is stored on the website's server, forwarded to my mailbox and deleted from the website automatically no later than 12 months after the enquiry. If a booking is made, I keep the data required for the contract and for accounting for the statutory retention periods (up to ten years). The data is not passed on to third parties, apart from my email provider and, if you wish, a saxophonist or technical partner I bring in for your event.

5. WhatsApp

The website contains a link to WhatsApp that lets you message me directly. If you use it, you communicate through the service of WhatsApp Ireland Limited, 4 Grand Canal Square, Dublin 2, Ireland (part of Meta Platforms). WhatsApp receives your phone number, usage data and metadata and may transfer data to the USA; this is based on the EU-US Data Privacy Framework, under which Meta is certified. Using it is voluntary; you can just as well reach me by email or through the form. The legal basis for my processing of your message is Art. 6 (1) (b) GDPR. Details are in WhatsApp's privacy policy.

6. External media (videos, music, maps)

On some pages I embed content from external providers, such as YouTube videos. This content is not loaded automatically: at first you only see a preview image served from my own server. Only when you click "Load content" or allow the "External media" category in the privacy settings does your browser connect to the provider. The provider then receives your IP address and details about your browser and may set its own cookies.

Providers that may appear on this website:

  • YouTube (Google Ireland Limited, Gordon House, Barrow Street, Dublin 4, Ireland), embedded in privacy-enhanced mode via youtube-nocookie.com
  • Vimeo (Vimeo.com, Inc., 330 West 34th Street, New York, NY 10001, USA)
  • SoundCloud (SoundCloud Global Limited & Co. KG, Rheinsberger Str. 76/77, 10115 Berlin, Germany)
  • Mixcloud (Mixcloud Limited, London, United Kingdom)
  • Spotify (Spotify AB, Regeringsgatan 19, 111 53 Stockholm, Sweden)
  • Google Maps (Google Ireland Limited, Gordon House, Barrow Street, Dublin 4, Ireland)

The legal basis is your consent (Art. 6 (1) (a) GDPR, Section 25 (1) TDDDG), which you can withdraw at any time via "Cookie settings" in the footer. Providers based in the USA or the United Kingdom may transfer data to a third country; such transfers rely on the EU-US Data Privacy Framework or the adequacy decision for the United Kingdom and on standard contractual clauses.

7. Analytics and marketing

Cookieless reach measurement (Umami). To see how many visitors the website has and which pages are viewed, I use the open-source software Umami. It runs on my own server (see section 2); the data is not passed on to third parties. Visits are counted on the server when a page is requested: nothing is loaded in your browser for this, no cookie is set, and nothing is stored on or read from your device.

The following is processed: the page requested and the time, the page you came from (without search terms), the language and the identifier of your browser – from which browser, operating system and type of device are derived – and your IP address. Country, region and city are determined from the IP address; together with the browser identifier it is also turned into a short code (hash) by which several page views within one calendar month can be attributed to one visit. The IP address and the browser identifier themselves are not stored and cannot be recovered from the code. If you answer the question about statistics services in the privacy settings, it is additionally counted whether the answer was yes or no.

The legal basis is my legitimate interest in a data-minimising evaluation of how this website is used (Art. 6 (1) (f) GDPR). You can object: if your browser sends the "Global Privacy Control" or "Do Not Track" signal, your visits are not counted.

Google Analytics 4. With your consent I use Google Analytics 4, a web analytics service of Google Ireland Limited, Gordon House, Barrow Street, Dublin 4, Ireland. It shows me in aggregated form how the website is used – which pages are viewed and how visitors find their way here, for example – so that I can improve it.

The service is only loaded after you have agreed to the "Statistics" category in the privacy settings. Without your consent no connection to Google is made and no analytics cookie is set.

The following is processed: the pages you view and the time of the visit, the page you came from, information about your device, browser, operating system, screen size and language, your approximate location, and a pseudonymous identifier that Google Analytics keeps in cookies ("_ga" and "_ga_" followed by this website's ID, lifetime up to two years). Google Analytics 4 does not store your IP address; it is only used to determine the approximate location.

Google processes the data on my behalf. A transfer to Google LLC in the USA cannot be ruled out; Google LLC is certified under the EU-US Data Privacy Framework, and the EU Commission's standard contractual clauses apply in addition. The data is deleted after 14 months at the latest. More information is available in Google's privacy policy.

The legal basis is your consent under Art. 6 (1) (a) GDPR and Section 25 (1) of the German TDDDG. You can withdraw it at any time with effect for the future by deselecting the "Statistics" category via "Cookie settings" in the footer of every page.

Marketing. I currently use no advertising tools. Should that change, it will only happen with your prior consent in the privacy settings, and this policy will be updated accordingly.

8. Links to social networks

The icons for Instagram, Facebook, YouTube, Mixcloud, SoundCloud and Spotify are plain links. No plugins of these networks are embedded, and no data flows to them while you visit this website. Only once you follow a link does the respective provider's privacy policy apply.

9. Fonts and data security

All fonts are served from my own server; there is no connection to Google Fonts or any other font service. The website is delivered over a TLS-encrypted connection (https), so what you enter in the contact form is protected on its way to the server.

10. Your rights

You have the right to obtain information about the data I hold about you (Art. 15 GDPR), to rectification (Art. 16), to erasure (Art. 17), to restriction of processing (Art. 18) and to data portability (Art. 20). You can withdraw any consent you have given at any time with effect for the future (Art. 7 (3)).

Right to object: where I process data on the basis of a legitimate interest, you may object at any time on grounds relating to your particular situation (Art. 21 GDPR). I will then no longer process the data unless there are compelling legitimate grounds or the processing serves to establish, exercise or defend legal claims.

For any of these, an informal message to [email protected] is enough. You also have the right to lodge a complaint with a data protection supervisory authority (Art. 77 GDPR). The authority responsible for me is the Hamburg Commissioner for Data Protection and Freedom of Information (Der Hamburgische Beauftragte für Datenschutz und Informationsfreiheit), Ludwig-Erhard-Str. 22, 20459 Hamburg, Germany; you may also contact the authority where you live.

11. Version

Last updated: November 2026. I will adapt this policy whenever the website or the legal situation changes; the current version is always the one on this page.