Privacy notice

What we collect, and why

• Interest form. If you fill in the join form, we store your display name, email address, optional interests, optional experience level and your optional message. Purpose: contacting you about RouteHack (e.g. first meetups). Legal basis: your consent (Art. 6(1)(a) GDPR).
• Technical abuse protection. To stop spam, we store a salted hash of your IP address with each submission and rate-limit repeat submissions. The hash is not used to identify you and serves only abuse prevention (Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR).
• Cookies. The site uses two technically necessary, non-tracking cookies: a session cookie (the form’s CSRF protection) and — if you use the theme switcher — a rh_theme cookie remembering your light/dark choice for one year. No tracking, no analytics, no advertising cookies.
• Server logs. Like every website, our hosting provider may keep standard access logs (IP, time, requested URL) for operation and security.

What we don’t do

• No analytics or tracking scripts.
• No sharing or selling of your data, ever.
• No public display of submissions — they are visible only to the organizing team.
• No sensitive data. Please don’t send us any.

Under 16?

RouteHack is aimed at young people. If you are under 16, please talk to a parent or guardian before sending us the form (Art. 8 GDPR).

Your rights

You can request access, correction or deletion of your stored data at any time, and withdraw your consent with effect for the future. Until our public contact address is finalized, reply to any email you receive from us and we’ll take care of it. You also have the right to complain to the data-protection authority of North Rhine-Westphalia (LDI NRW).

Retention

Interest-form submissions are kept while the community is being organized and for as long as we need them to contact you about RouteHack. Ask us to delete your entry and it’s gone.