Privacy Policy

Last updated: October 2026

1. An Overview of Data Protection

General Information

The following gives a simple overview of what happens to your personal information when you visit our website www.clayfield.law. Personal information is any data with which you could be personally identified.

Who is responsible for data collection on this website?

The data processing on this website is carried out by the website operator. You can find the contact details in the section “Information about the Responsible Party” below.

2. Hosting

We host our website with Vercel. The provider is Vercel Inc., 440 N Barranca Ave #4133, Covina, CA 91723, USA.

When you visit our website, Vercel collects various log files including your IP address. This is necessary to deliver the website and to ensure its security and stability. The processing is based on Art. 6 (1) lit. f GDPR (legitimate interest in secure and reliable website operation). Vercel processes your data on our behalf (Art. 28 GDPR). Where data is transferred to the USA, the transfer is based on the EU Commission’s Standard Contractual Clauses or a certification under the EU-US Data Privacy Framework.

For more details, please refer to Vercel’s Privacy Policy: https://vercel.com/legal/privacy-policy

3. General Information and Mandatory Information

Data Protection

We treat your personal data confidentially and in accordance with the statutory data protection regulations and this privacy policy. As a law firm, we are also bound by attorney-client confidentiality (§ 43a (2) BRAO).

The Responsible Party (Controller)

The responsible party for data processing on this website is:

Christopher Hildebrandt, Attorney at Law (Rechtsanwalt)

Oderberger Str. 21

10435 Berlin

Email: christopher@clayfield.law

The responsible party is the natural or legal person who alone or jointly with others decides on the purposes and means of processing personal data (e.g., names, email addresses, etc.).

4. Data Collection on Our Website

No cookies, no tracking

We do not use cookies for analytics or marketing purposes and do not use any tracking or analytics tools on this website. Our fonts are hosted on our own server and are not loaded from third parties.

Contact Form

If you send us an inquiry via the contact form, we process the details you provide (name, title, company, email address and your message) to handle the inquiry and any follow-up questions. The form transmits your details by email to our mailbox via a Google service (Google Apps Script). We manage our email with Google Workspace, provided by Google Cloud EMEA Limited, 70 Sir John Rogerson’s Quay, Dublin 2, Ireland, acting on our behalf (Art. 28 GDPR). A transfer to third countries, in particular the USA, cannot be ruled out; it is based on the EU Commission’s Standard Contractual Clauses or the EU-US Data Privacy Framework.

The processing is based on Art. 6 (1) lit. b GDPR where your inquiry relates to the performance of a contract or pre-contractual measures, and otherwise on Art. 6 (1) lit. f GDPR (our legitimate interest in effectively handling inquiries addressed to us).

Booking via Cal.com

We use Cal.com to book initial calls. The provider is Cal.com, Inc., USA. When you book a call, available times are retrieved from Cal.com and your details (name, email address, selected time, time zone and, optionally, your message) are transmitted to Cal.com. Cal.com adds the appointment to our calendar and sends the invitation with the video conference link.

The processing is based on Art. 6 (1) lit. b GDPR (pre-contractual measures at your request). Cal.com processes the data on our behalf (Art. 28 GDPR). The transfer to the USA is based on the EU Commission’s Standard Contractual Clauses or the EU-US Data Privacy Framework. For more details, please refer to Cal.com’s Privacy Policy: https://cal.com/privacy

Homepage animation (Unicorn Studio, jsDelivr)

The animated background on our homepage is rendered with Unicorn Studio. To display it, your browser loads a script via the jsDelivr content delivery network and the graphics data from Unicorn Studio’s servers when you open the homepage. Your IP address is transmitted to these providers because this is technically necessary to deliver the content. Processing outside the EU, in particular in the USA, cannot be ruled out.

The processing is based on Art. 6 (1) lit. f GDPR; our legitimate interest lies in an appealing presentation of our website.

5. Storage Period

We store personal data only for as long as necessary for the respective purpose:

• Contact requests and bookings: until the inquiry or appointment has been completed and no follow-up is expected, unless statutory retention periods apply. If an engagement results, the retention periods under professional rules apply.
  
  
  

• Server log files: only as long as required for the secure operation of the website, in line with our hosting provider’s retention periods.
  
  
  

6. Your Rights regarding Your Data

Within the scope of the applicable law, you have the right at any time to access your stored personal data, its origin, recipients and the purpose of processing (Art. 15 GDPR), and the right to rectification (Art. 16 GDPR), erasure (Art. 17 GDPR), restriction of processing (Art. 18 GDPR) and data portability (Art. 20 GDPR). If you have given your consent to data processing, you can revoke this consent at any time for the future.

Right to object: Where we process data on the basis of Art. 6 (1) lit. f GDPR, you may object to the processing at any time on grounds relating to your particular situation (Art. 21 GDPR).

You also have the right to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority, in particular the Berlin Commissioner for Data Protection and Freedom of Information, which is responsible for us.

Please contact us at christopher@clayfield.law if you have any questions about this or other data protection issues.