Privacy policy

Short version: Gavalia sets no cookies and uses no third-party analytics or advertising. The only measurement is an anonymous, cookieless visitor count, described below. Personal data is processed only when you send us a form or an e-mail.

Visitor count

An exception to what this page otherwise says about outside services: every page loads a small counting script from analytics.axaix.app, the network's own statistics server. It is hosted in a data centre in Frankfurt am Main, Germany, and the data is not passed on to third parties.

The script sets no cookies and stores nothing in your browser. It records the page viewed, the page the visit came from, screen width and language, the broad device type, browser and operating system, and clicks on downloads and on links to other websites. Your IP address is used only briefly to determine country and city and to form a daily hash, then discarded and never stored. The hash changes every day, so a visitor cannot be recognised from one day to the next. Raw data is deleted after twelve months. If your browser sends “Do Not Track”, the visit is not counted.

The legal basis is our legitimate interest in measuring the reach of these pages with as little data as possible (Art. 6 (1) (f) GDPR).

Advertising

Through the counting script, every page also loads the advertising script ad.member.show/axaix.js. On the network’s magazines it shows labelled ads from members of the member.show network, and the banner images are served from banner.member.show. Both addresses belong to the network itself and are hosted by the provider Hostinger. No data is passed on to advertisers or any other third parties.

The advertising script sets no cookies, stores nothing in your browser and builds no user profiles. Which ad appears depends only on the page viewed and its language. Impressions and clicks are counted solely as totals per ad, page and day, and your IP address is not stored for this. A click on an ad passes briefly through ad.member.show and then on to the advertiser.

The legal basis is our legitimate interest in funding the magazines through advertising and showing advertisers the reach of their ads (Art. 6 (1) (f) GDPR).

1. Controller

NexTao GmbH, Königsallee 27, 40212 Düsseldorf, Germany, e-mail info@gavalia.com, telephone +49 211 4747575.

2. Hosting and server logs

This website is hosted by Hostinger International Ltd. within the European Union. When you visit a page, the web server stores the requested address, the date and time, the transferred data volume, the browser type and the IP address in a log file for security purposes. Log files are deleted automatically after a short period. The legal basis is our legitimate interest in the secure operation of the site (Art. 6 (1) f GDPR). A data processing agreement is in place with the hosting provider.

3. No cookies, no advertising, no third-party content

Gavalia does not set cookies and does not use third-party analytics or advertising services. Fonts, images, videos, scripts and map graphics are delivered from our own domain. There are only two exceptions: the small counting script of our network’s own statistics server, described in the section on visitor counting, and the newsletter and contact forms from formdialog.com, NexTao GmbH’s own form service, described in section 6.

4. Local storage for the tools

The finders, calculators and the quiz store your last inputs and results in your browser’s local storage so that they are still there when you return. This data stays on your device, is never transmitted to us and can be deleted at any time through your browser settings.

5. Sharing buttons

The sharing buttons are plain links. Nothing is loaded from a social network until you click a button, after which the respective network’s privacy policy applies. The image cards created by the tools are generated on your device.

6. Contact form, concierge request and newsletter

When you send a concierge request, we process the details you enter (name, e-mail address and, where provided, telephone number, budget and message) to answer your request. The data is stored on our server and sent to our editorial mailbox by e-mail. The legal basis is the performance of a contract or pre-contractual measures (Art. 6 (1) b GDPR). We keep concierge data for as long as needed to handle the request and for statutory retention periods. Instead of your IP address we store a short, monthly rotating pseudonym to prevent abuse.

The contact form and the newsletter sign-up come from formdialog.com, the form service of NexTao GmbH. It runs on its own server at Hostinger in Frankfurt am Main, sets no cookies and loads nothing from third parties. With the form it learns on which Gavalia page it is shown.

When you write to us through the contact form, we process the details you enter (name, e-mail address, subject, message) to answer your request (Art. 6 (1) b GDPR). The message is delivered to our editorial mailbox by e-mail, stored in the form service and deleted once it is no longer needed. To fend off abuse we keep the IP address of every submission for 14 days (Art. 6 (1) f GDPR).

The newsletter uses double opt-in: after signing up you receive an e-mail with a confirmation link, and only the click on it subscribes you. Unconfirmed sign-ups are deleted after 30 days. As proof of your consent we store the time and IP address of the sign-up and of the confirmation. Your e-mail address stays on our list until you unsubscribe, which is possible with the link in every issue (Art. 6 (1) a GDPR). We do not pass data on to third parties.

7. Poll

The poll on the home page counts votes anonymously. We store only the vote and the same short pseudonym described above to prevent repeat votes.

8. Your rights

You have the right to access, rectification, erasure, restriction of processing, data portability and objection under Art. 15 to 21 GDPR, as well as the right to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority. To exercise your rights, write to info@gavalia.com.

9. Changes

We update this policy when the site changes. Last revised: September 2026.