This privacy policy was last updated on July 25, 2026.
The use of our website is possible without providing any personal data. Deviating regulations may apply to the use of individual services on our site, which in such cases are explained separately below. The processing of personal data, such as the name, address, e-mail address, or telephone number of a data subject, is always carried out in accordance with the General Data Protection Regulation and in compliance with the applicable country-specific data protection provisions. Data is considered personal if it can be clearly attributed to a specific natural person. The legal basis for data protection can be found in the Federal Data Protection Act (BDSG) and the Telemedia Act (TMG). By means of this data protection declaration, we would like to inform you about the nature, scope, and purpose of the personal data collected, used, and processed by us. Furthermore, data subjects are informed of their rights by means of this data protection declaration. Our practice has implemented numerous technical and organizational measures to ensure the most complete protection possible of the personal data processed via this website. Nevertheless, internet-based data transmissions can generally have security gaps, so that absolute protection against access by third parties cannot be guaranteed. For this reason, every data subject is free to transmit personal data to us by alternative means, for example by telephone or by post.
Definitions
This data protection declaration is based on the terms used by the European legislator when adopting the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). Our data protection declaration is intended to be easy to read and understand for both the general public and our clients and business partners. To ensure this, we would like to explain the terms used in advance.
In this data protection declaration, we use, among others, the following terms:
a) personal data
Personal data means any information relating to an identified or identifiable natural person (hereinafter "data subject"). An identifiable natural person is one who can be identified, directly or indirectly, in particular by reference to an identifier such as a name, an identification number, location data, an online identifier, or one or more factors specific to the physical, physiological, genetic, mental, economic, cultural, or social identity of that natural person.
b) data subject
Data subject is any identified or identifiable natural person whose personal data is processed by the controller.
c) processing
Processing means any operation or set of operations performed on personal data, whether or not by automated means, such as collection, recording, organization, structuring, storage, adaptation or alteration, retrieval, consultation, use, disclosure by transmission, dissemination, or otherwise making available, alignment or combination, restriction, erasure, or destruction.
d) restriction of processing
Restriction of processing is the marking of stored personal data with the aim of limiting its processing in the future.
e) profiling
Profiling means any form of automated processing of personal data consisting of the use of such personal data to evaluate certain personal aspects relating to a natural person, in particular to analyze or predict aspects concerning that natural person's performance at work, economic situation, health, personal preferences, interests, reliability, behavior, location, or movements.
f) pseudonymization
Pseudonymization is the processing of personal data in such a way that the personal data can no longer be attributed to a specific data subject without the use of additional information, provided that such additional information is kept separately and is subject to technical and organizational measures ensuring that the personal data is not attributed to an identified or identifiable natural person.
g) controller
Controller means the natural or legal person, public authority, agency, or other body which, alone or jointly with others, determines the purposes and means of the processing of personal data. Where the purposes and means of such processing are determined by Union or Member State law, the controller, or the specific criteria for its nomination, may be provided for by Union or Member State law.
h) processor
Processor is a natural or legal person, public authority, agency, or other body that processes personal data on behalf of the controller.
i) recipient
Recipient is a natural or legal person, public authority, agency, or other body to which personal data is disclosed, whether or not it is a third party. However, authorities that may receive personal data in the framework of a particular inquiry under Union or Member State law are not regarded as recipients.
j) third party
Third party is a natural or legal person, public authority, agency, or other body other than the data subject, the controller, the processor, and the persons who, under the direct authority of the controller or processor, are authorized to process personal data.
k) consent
Consent means any freely given, specific, informed, and unambiguous indication of the data subject's wishes, given in the form of a statement or other clear affirmative action, by which the data subject signifies agreement to the processing of personal data relating to him or her.
Data protection officer
For any questions regarding the collection, processing, or use of your personal data, our data protection officer is available to you and can be contacted at the following addresses:
By e-mail: henrichs (at) interpunktion.net
By post: Praxis Henrichs
Christian Henrichs, Dipl.-Psych., M.Phil.
Gierather Str. 15, D-51069 Cologne
Tel.: +49 (0) 221 3679648
Cookies
We use so-called cookies on our website to recognize repeated use of our offering by the same user/internet connection owner. Cookies are small text files that your internet browser stores on your computer. They serve to optimize our website and our offerings. In most cases, these are so-called "session cookies", which are deleted again after your visit ends.
In some cases, however, these cookies provide information that allows us to automatically recognize you again. This recognition is based on the IP address stored in the cookies. The information obtained in this way is used to optimize our offerings and to make it easier for you to access our site. You can prevent the setting of cookies by our website at any time through the appropriate settings in the internet browser used, thereby permanently objecting to the setting of cookies. Furthermore, cookies that have already been set can be deleted at any time via an internet browser or other software programs. This is possible in all common internet browsers. If the data subject disables the setting of cookies in the internet browser used, some functions of our website may not be fully usable.
Server data
For technical reasons, the following data, among others, transmitted by your internet browser to us or to our web space provider, is collected (so-called server log files):
This anonymous data is stored separately from any personal data you may have provided and therefore allows no conclusions to be drawn about a specific person. It is evaluated for statistical purposes in order to optimize our website and our offerings.
Embedded icons
For the flag icons used in the language selector, we load a small CSS file from the provider jsDelivr (a CDN service). In doing so, your browser technically transmits your IP address to jsDelivr's servers. No cookies are set in this process, and no further personal data is processed.
SSL encryption
For security reasons and to protect the transmission of confidential content, such as inquiries you send to us as the site operator, this site uses SSL encryption. You can recognize an encrypted connection by the fact that the address line of the browser changes from "http://" to "https://" and by the lock symbol in your browser bar. When SSL encryption is activated, the data you transmit to us cannot be read by third parties.
Use of Google Analytics with anonymization function
We use Google Analytics, a web analytics service provided by Google Inc., 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043 USA, hereinafter "Google", on our website. Google Analytics uses so-called "cookies", text files that are stored on your computer and that enable an analysis of your use of the website. The information generated by these cookies, such as the time, place, and frequency of your visits to the website, including your IP address, is transmitted to Google in the USA and stored there. We use Google Analytics on our website with an IP anonymization function. In this case, your IP address is shortened by Google beforehand within member states of the European Union or in other states party to the Agreement on the European Economic Area, and is thereby anonymized. Google will use this information on our behalf to evaluate your use of our website, to compile reports on website activity, and to provide us with further services related to website and internet usage. Google may also transfer this information to third parties where required by law or where third parties process this data on Google's behalf. According to its own statements, Google will not associate your IP address with any other data held by Google. You can prevent the storage of Google cookies through the appropriate settings in your browser software; however, we point out that in this case you may not be able to use all functions of this website to their full extent. Furthermore, Google offers a deactivation option for the most common browsers, giving you more control over which data is collected and processed by Google. If you activate this option, no information about your website visit will be transmitted to Google Analytics. However, activation does not prevent information from being transmitted to us or to other web analytics services we may use. For more information on the deactivation option provided by Google, and on how to activate it, please follow this link: https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=en
Use of Google Ads
We also use the Google advertising tool "Google Ads" to promote our website. As part of this, we use the analytics service "conversion tracking" from Google Inc., 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043 USA, hereinafter "Google", on our website. If you arrived at our website via a Google ad, a cookie is stored on your computer. Cookies are small text files that your internet browser stores on your computer. These so-called "conversion cookies" expire after 30 days and do not serve to identify you personally. If you visit certain pages of our website and the cookie has not yet expired, we and Google can recognize that you, as a user, clicked on one of our ads placed on Google and were forwarded to our site.
The information gathered using "conversion cookies" is used by Google to generate visit statistics for our website. This allows us to learn the total number of users who clicked on our ad and which pages of our website were subsequently visited by the respective user. However, neither we nor other advertisers using "Google Ads" receive any information that would allow users to be personally identified. You can prevent the installation of "conversion cookies" through the appropriate settings in your browser, for example by disabling the automatic setting of cookies in general, or by specifically blocking cookies from the domain "googleadservices.com". The relevant data protection declaration from Google can be found at the following link: https://services.google.com/sitestats/de.html
Use of Google AdSense
We use Google AdSense on our website. Google AdSense is a service provided by Google Inc., 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043 USA, for embedding advertisements. Google AdSense uses so-called "cookies", text files that are stored on your computer and that enable an analysis of your use of our website. Google AdSense also uses so-called web beacons. These web beacons allow Google to evaluate information such as visitor traffic on our site. This information, together with your IP address and the recording of the advertising formats displayed, is transmitted to Google in the USA, stored there, and may be passed on by Google to contractual partners. However, Google does not merge your IP address with other data stored by you. You can prevent the installation of the cookies through the appropriate settings in your browser; however, we point out that in this case you may not be able to use all functions of this website to their full extent. By using our website, you consent to the processing of the data collected about you by Google in the manner and for the purpose described above.
Use of Google Maps
We use the "Google Maps" component from Google Inc., 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043 USA, hereinafter "Google", on our website.
Each time the "Google Maps" component is accessed, Google sets a cookie in order to process user settings and data when displaying the page on which the "Google Maps" component is integrated. As a rule, this cookie is not deleted when the browser is closed, but expires after a certain period, unless it is deleted manually beforehand.
If you do not agree to this processing of your data, you have the option of deactivating the "Google Maps" service and thereby preventing the transmission of data to Google. To do so, you must deactivate JavaScript in your browser. Please note, however, that in this case you will not be able to use "Google Maps", or only to a limited extent. The use of "Google Maps" and the information obtained via "Google Maps" is subject to Google's terms of use.
http://www.google.de/intl/de/policies/terms/regional.html
as well as the additional terms and conditions for "Google Maps"
https://www.google.com/intl/de_en/help/terms_maps.html.
Use of JavaScript
External content and/or processing of data outside the EU: On our website, we use active JavaScript content from external providers. By visiting our website, these external providers may receive personal information about your visit to our site. In this context, processing of data outside the EU is possible. You can prevent this by installing a JavaScript blocker such as the browser plugin "NoScript" (www.noscript.net) or by disabling JavaScript in your browser. This may result in functional restrictions on websites you visit.
By activating IP anonymization within the Google Analytics tracking code of this website, your IP address is anonymized by Google prior to transmission. This website uses a Google Analytics tracking code that has been extended by the operator gat._anonymizeIp(); to allow only an anonymized collection of IP addresses (so-called IP masking). On behalf of the operator of this website, Google will use this information to evaluate your visit to this website, to compile reports on website activity, and to provide further services related to website and internet usage to the website operator. The IP address transmitted by your browser as part of Google Analytics is not merged with other data held by Google. You can prevent the storage of Google cookies through the appropriate settings in your browser software. However, we point out that in this case you may not be able to make full use of all functions of this website. You can furthermore prevent the collection of data generated by the Google cookie and related to your use of the website (including your IP address), as well as the processing of this data by Google, by downloading and installing the browser plugin available at the following link (http://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=en). Google's security and data protection principles for Google Analytics can be found at http://www.google.com/intl/de/analytics/learn/privacy.html.
Specifically, we use:
Google: On our site, JavaScript code from the company Google Inc., 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA (hereinafter: Google) is loaded. If you have JavaScript enabled in your browser and have not installed a JavaScript blocker, your browser may transmit personal data to Google. We are not aware of what data Google links with the data received, or for what purposes Google uses this data. To prevent the execution of Google JavaScript code entirely, you can install a JavaScript blocker (e.g. www.noscript.net).
Use of Facebook
We use components of the company Facebook on our website. Facebook is a social network. A social network is an online meeting place, an online community that generally enables users to communicate with one another and interact in a virtual space. A social network can serve as a platform for exchanging opinions and experiences, or it enables the internet community to provide personal or business-related information. Among other things, Facebook allows users of the social network to create private profiles, upload photos, and network via friend requests.
Facebook is operated by Facebook, Inc., 1 Hacker Way, Menlo Park, CA 94025, USA. If a data subject lives outside the USA or Canada, the party responsible for the processing of personal data is Facebook Ireland Ltd., 4 Grand Canal Square, Grand Canal Harbour, Dublin 2, Ireland.
Each time one of the individual pages of this website that is operated by the responsible party and on which a Facebook component (Facebook plug-in) has been integrated is accessed, the internet browser on the data subject's information technology system is automatically prompted by the respective Facebook component to download a representation of the corresponding Facebook component from Facebook. A complete overview of all Facebook plug-ins can be found at https://developers.facebook.com/docs/plugins/?locale=en_DE. As part of this technical process, Facebook receives information about which specific subpage of our website is visited by the data subject.
If the data subject is logged into Facebook at the same time, Facebook recognizes, with every visit to our website by the data subject and for the entire duration of their stay on our website, which specific subpage of our website the data subject visits. This information is collected by the Facebook component and assigned by Facebook to the data subject's respective Facebook account. If the data subject clicks on one of the Facebook buttons integrated on our website, for example the "Like" button, or leaves a comment, Facebook assigns this information to the data subject's personal Facebook user account and stores this personal data.
Facebook receives information via the Facebook component that the data subject has visited our website whenever the data subject is logged into Facebook at the same time as accessing our website; this occurs regardless of whether the data subject clicks on the Facebook component or not. If the data subject does not want this information to be transmitted to Facebook, they can prevent the transmission by logging out of their Facebook account before visiting our website.
The data policy published by Facebook, available at https://de-de.facebook.com/about/privacy/, provides information on the collection, processing, and use of personal data by Facebook. It also explains the setting options Facebook offers to protect the data subject's privacy. In addition, various applications are available that make it possible to suppress data transmission to Facebook. Such applications can be used by the data subject to suppress data transmission to Facebook.
Contact via the website
Due to legal requirements, our website contains information that enables quick electronic contact with us as well as direct communication with us, which also includes a general address for so-called electronic mail (e-mail address). If a data subject contacts us by e-mail or via one of the other specified channels, the personal data transmitted by the data subject is automatically stored. Such personal data, voluntarily transmitted by a data subject to the party responsible for processing, is stored for the purposes of processing the request or contacting the data subject. This personal data is not passed on to third parties.
Routine deletion and blocking of personal data
The party responsible for processing processes and stores the personal data of the data subject only for the period necessary to achieve the purpose of storage, or to the extent that this is provided for by the European Directive and Regulation Maker or another legislator in laws or regulations to which the party responsible for processing is subject.
If the purpose of storage no longer applies, or if a storage period prescribed by the European Directive and Regulation Maker or another competent legislator expires, the personal data is routinely blocked or deleted in accordance with legal requirements.
Right to confirmation regarding the use of personal data
Every data subject has the right, granted by the European Directive and Regulation Maker, to request confirmation from the party responsible for processing as to whether personal data concerning them is being processed. If a data subject wishes to exercise this right to confirmation, they may contact Praxis Henrichs at any time.
Right to information about the data we have stored about you
You are entitled to request an extract of the data we have stored about you if you wish to check what information we hold about you. The request for this extract is free of charge.
Right to correction of your personal data
You have the right to have incorrect or incomplete data that Praxis Henrichs has stored about you corrected.
Right to erasure ("right to be forgotten") of your personal data
You have the right to request the deletion of your personal data if it is no longer necessary for the purpose for which it was collected. However, we would like to point out that Praxis Henrichs is subject to legal obligations that do not permit us to delete certain information directly. These obligations arise from health, accounting, and tax laws. We can, however, block your personal data and thereby prevent its processing for purposes other than those required by law.
Right to object to the use of your personal data
You furthermore have the right, at any time and without giving reasons, to exercise your right to object and to amend or completely revoke a declaration of consent you have given, with effect for the future. You can send the revocation to us either by post or by e-mail. You will incur no costs other than postage or transmission costs based on the existing basic tariffs.
Right to amend
We reserve the right to change this data protection declaration at any time in order to take account of changes in the law, in our data collection and use practices, or in technological developments. You should review this declaration regularly. You can check whether the data protection declaration has changed since your last visit by looking at the date of the last update at the top of the page.
Right to lodge a complaint with the competent supervisory authority
In the event of a data protection violation, the data subject has the right to lodge a complaint with the competent supervisory authority. The supervisory authority responsible for data protection matters is the data protection officer of the federal state in which our practice is based. A list of data protection officers and their contact details can be found at the following link: https://www.bfdi.bund.de/SharedDocs/Adressen/LfD/NordrheinWestfalen.html?nn=5217144.
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