Privacy Policy
Data use, browser storage and your rights. Updated 20 October 2026.
Privacy inquiries
The English edition of schmid-entertainment.de is intended for readers in the United States. For questions about data use or a privacy request, contact info@schmid-entertainment.de. This policy describes the features currently included in this edition.
Delivery and security
Loading a page involves processing your IP address, request time, requested address and technical browser and connection information. The operator and technical hosting or security service providers use these details to deliver pages and investigate disruptions. Server logging, retention periods and processing locations depend on the actual hosting configuration; the static website files do not determine them. Contact us for details. We do not assert a fixed log retention period or storage exclusively in one country.
Email inquiries
If you email us, your sender address, message and information you choose to include are used to answer your inquiry. Email delivery and mailbox services process these messages. Correspondence is needed while an inquiry or follow-up remains open; legal duties or specific legal claims may require further retention. Opening the email link alone does not send a message.
Automatic language selection
Only the language-neutral entry address queries IPWHOIS at https://ipwho.is/?fields=success,country_code when no language preference is saved. The service receives your IP address and technical request data. The returned country code selects German for Germany, Austria, Switzerland and Liechtenstein, and English otherwise. A failure or five-second timeout selects English. Direct addresses containing /de/ or /en/ bypass this query.
External processing for language selection
IPWHOIS describes possible storage in different countries and retention linked to its processing purposes. A specific processing country, fixed API log retention period or particular transfer safeguard cannot be confirmed from the information available for this integration. Its privacy policy is linked below. You can avoid the query by opening the English home page directly.
Cookies and browser storage
This edition currently sets no HTTP cookies and loads no analytics or advertising pixels. A manual language selection saves schmid-language in local storage until you delete it through your browser’s site-data controls. There is no cookie consent popup or cookie settings panel in this edition. If you previously visited the German edition, a schmid-consent entry may already exist on the same domain for up to 180 days. English pages neither read nor create that entry and do not treat it as permission to run tracking. You can delete it using your browser’s site-data controls.
Optional services
No affiliate tracking service is currently integrated. Omitting a popup does not enable optional tracking. Any later integration requires updated information about its actual data use and any applicable privacy choices before it is activated.
Search, local content and links
Search and topic filters run in your browser across the full article collection. Terms and filters can appear in the URL and consequently in shared links, browser history or server requests on reload. Images, fonts and scripts do not require additional external content services: the site uses local files and system fonts. External source and licence links lead to their respective services when opened. There are no accounts, newsletter forms, embedded videos or payment functions.
Privacy requests
You can contact the email address above to ask about information associated with your visit or correspondence and request access, correction or deletion. The rights and exceptions that apply depend on your location and applicable law. Please describe your request without sending passwords or payment details. Reasonable verification may be needed before information is disclosed or changed.