Dr. Blanca Schäfer Speech & Language Therapist · Frankfurt

Privacy Policy

Last updated: October 2026. This is a translation for convenience; the German version is legally binding.

In short

  • This website sets no cookies and uses no analytics or tracking services.
  • Fonts, images and the video on the home page are loaded from this website’s own server, not from third parties.
  • Embedded videos (Vimeo, YouTube) are only loaded after you click them.
  • The web server keeps no access logs.

Controller

Dr. Blanca Schäfer
Praunheimer Landstraße 11
60488 Frankfurt am Main, Germany
Phone: +49 (0)69 – 714 153 46
Email: mail@blancaschaefer.de

Visiting the website and hosting

The website runs on a server of Hetzner Online GmbH (Industriestr. 25, 91710 Gunzenhausen, Germany) in a data centre in Germany. Hetzner processes data as a processor under Art. 28 GDPR.

For your browser to display the pages, the server necessarily processes your IP address, the requested address, date and time, and information about your browser and operating system. This data is only used to deliver the page; the web server keeps no access logs and does not store it. The connection is encrypted with TLS (HTTPS).

The legal basis is Art. 6 (1) (f) GDPR; my legitimate interest is providing the website securely and reliably.

Cookies and local storage

This website sets no cookies and stores no information on your device, which is why there is no cookie banner.

Contact by email or phone

If you email or call me, I process the information you provide (e.g. name, email address, phone number and the content of your enquiry) in order to answer it. The legal basis is Art. 6 (1) (b) GDPR where your enquiry concerns therapy, a workshop or a contract, and otherwise Art. 6 (1) (f) GDPR (legitimate interest in answering enquiries).

My mailbox is provided by Proton AG (Route de la Galaise 32, 1228 Plan-les-Ouates, Switzerland). Switzerland is covered by an adequacy decision of the European Commission. Emails are encrypted in transit but usually not end-to-end encrypted. Please avoid sending detailed health information by email – we can discuss that in the initial consultation.

I delete your enquiry once it has been dealt with, unless statutory retention obligations apply (e.g. the documentation duty under § 630f BGB if therapy takes place).

Embedded videos (Vimeo and YouTube)

Some pages include videos from Vimeo or YouTube. Until you click “Play video”, no connection is made to these providers. Only when you click is the video loaded from the provider; this transmits in particular your IP address, the page you are on and technical information about your device, and the provider may use cookies or similar technologies.

  • Vimeo: Vimeo.com, Inc., USA. The video is loaded with the “do not track” parameter. Information: https://vimeo.com/privacy
  • YouTube: Google Ireland Limited, Gordon House, Barrow Street, Dublin 4, Ireland. The video is loaded via youtube-nocookie.com (“privacy-enhanced mode”). Information: https://policies.google.com/privacy

The legal basis is your consent given by clicking (Art. 6 (1) (a) GDPR, § 25 (1) TDDDG). Data may be transferred to the USA by either provider; such transfers rely on the EU-U.S. Data Privacy Framework where the provider is certified under it, and otherwise on your consent (Art. 49 (1) (a) GDPR). Consent applies only to that video; on your next page view nothing is loaded until you click again.

If you follow a link to another website (e.g. ResearchGate), that provider’s privacy policy applies.

Your rights

You have the right of access (Art. 15 GDPR), rectification (Art. 16), erasure (Art. 17), restriction of processing (Art. 18) and data portability (Art. 20), and the right to object to processing based on Art. 6 (1) (f) GDPR (Art. 21). You can withdraw any consent at any time with effect for the future (Art. 7 (3) GDPR). An informal message to the address above is sufficient.

You may also lodge a complaint with a data protection supervisory authority (Art. 77 GDPR), for example the authority responsible for me:
Der Hessische Beauftragte für Datenschutz und Informationsfreiheit, Gustav-Stresemann-Ring 1, 65189 Wiesbaden, Germany, https://datenschutz.hessen.de