Privacy Policy
Last updated: September 2026
1. Data Protection at a Glance
General Information
The following information provides a brief overview of what happens to your personal data when you visit this website. Personal data means any information that can be used to identify you personally.
More detailed information can be found in the sections below.
Who Is Responsible for Data Collection?
The controller responsible for processing personal data on this website is:
ÄN.SO.MEDIA
Owner: Anna-Marie Fruth
Rosenstr. 32
71732 Tamm
Germany
Email: [hello@aen-so-media.de](mailto:hello@aen-so-media.de)
Phone: +49 176 81475154
How Is Your Data Collected?
Some data is provided directly by you. This includes information you enter into the contact form or send to us by email.
Other data is collected automatically or after you have given your consent when visiting the website. This primarily includes technical information such as your browser, operating system, IP address, device information and the time at which you accessed the website.
How Is Your Data Used?
Your data may be processed for the following purposes:
* To provide and securely operate this website
* To respond to enquiries
* To prepare or fulfil photography service agreements
* To analyse website traffic and visitor behaviour
* To improve the website and its content
* To comply with legal obligations
What Rights Do You Have?
You have the right to request information about your stored personal data, its origin, recipients and purpose. You may also request the correction or deletion of your data, the restriction of its processing or, where applicable, the transfer of your data.
If processing is based on your consent, you may withdraw that consent at any time with effect for the future.
You also have the right to lodge a complaint with the competent data protection supervisory authority.
2. Controller
The controller within the meaning of the General Data Protection Regulation (“GDPR”) is:
ÄN.SO.MEDIA
Anna-Marie Fruth
Rosenstr. 32
71732 Tamm
Germany
Email: [hello@aen-so-media.de](mailto:hello@aen-so-media.de)
Phone: +49 176 81475154
The controller is the natural or legal person who determines the purposes and means of processing personal data.
3. Website Hosting and Squarespace
This website is created and hosted using Squarespace.
When you visit this website, Squarespace may collect and process information including:
* Your IP address
* Information about your browser, network and device
* The pages you visit on this website
* The website you visited before accessing this website
* Dates and times of access
* Information necessary to ensure the security and proper functioning of the website
Squarespace processes this information to provide, protect and improve its platform and hosting services.
The processing of technically necessary data is based on Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR. Our legitimate interest lies in providing a secure, reliable and efficient website.
Where personal data is transferred outside the European Economic Area, Squarespace states that it uses recognised safeguards, including the European Commission’s Standard Contractual Clauses.
Further information is available in the [Squarespace Privacy Policy](https://www.squarespace.com/privacy).
4. SSL/TLS Encryption
This website uses SSL or TLS encryption to protect the transmission of confidential information.
You can recognise an encrypted connection by the address in your browser changing from “http://” to “https://” and by the lock icon displayed in the browser bar.
When SSL or TLS encryption is active, data transmitted through this website cannot generally be read by third parties during transmission.
5. Cookies and Similar Technologies
This website uses cookies and similar technologies. Cookies are small files or pieces of text stored on your device when you visit a website.
Necessary Cookies
Necessary cookies are required for the secure and proper operation of the website. They cannot normally be disabled through the website.
The use of necessary cookies is based on our legitimate interest in providing a secure and functional website pursuant to Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR and, where applicable, the relevant provisions of German telecommunications and data protection law.
Analytics and Performance Cookies
Analytics and performance cookies help us understand how visitors use this website. These cookies are only used after you have given your consent through the cookie banner.The processing is based on your consent pursuant to Art. 6(1)(a) GDPR. You may withdraw your consent at any time through the cookie settings on this website. Withdrawal does not affect the lawfulness of processing carried out before consent was withdrawn.
You can also configure your browser to notify you when cookies are placed, permit cookies only in individual cases or automatically delete cookies when closing the browser. Disabling cookies may limit certain functions of the website.
6. Squarespace Analytics
This website uses Squarespace Analytics to understand website traffic and activity.
Squarespace Analytics may process information including:
* Your browser, network and device information
* Your IP address
* The website you visited before accessing this website
* Pages viewed
* Links and buttons clicked
* Searches performed on the website
* Scrolling activity
* Dates and times of access
We use this information to understand how visitors use the website and to improve its content and performance.
Where analytics cookies or comparable technologies are used, processing is based on your consent pursuant to Art. 6(1)(a) GDPR. You may withdraw this consent at any time through the cookie settings.
Further information is available in the [Squarespace Privacy Policy](https://www.squarespace.com/privacy).
7. Google Analytics
This website uses Google Analytics 4, a web analytics service provided by Google.
For users in the European Economic Area, the relevant service provider is generally:
Google Ireland Limited
Gordon House
Barrow Street
Dublin 4
Ireland
Google Analytics helps us understand how visitors interact with this website. It may process information including:
* The pages you visit
* The approximate duration of your visit
* Interactions with the website
* Technical information about your browser and device
* Your approximate geographic location
* Referral information
* Date and time information
* Randomly generated identifiers stored in cookies or similar technologies
Google states that IP addresses are not logged or stored in Google Analytics 4. However, an IP address is technically transmitted to Google when the Analytics service is accessed and may be used temporarily to determine approximate geographic information.
Google Analytics is only activated after you have given your consent through the cookie banner. The legal basis is Art. 6(1)(a) GDPR. You may withdraw your consent at any time through the cookie settings on this website.
Information processed by Google may be transferred to and processed in countries outside the European Economic Area, including the United States. Where required, such transfers are protected by recognised legal safeguards, such as the European Commission’s Standard Contractual Clauses or an applicable adequacy framework.
Data collected by Google Analytics is retained in accordance with the retention settings configured for this website and is deleted when it is no longer required for the purposes described above.
You can find more information in:
* [Google’s Privacy Policy](https://policies.google.com/privacy)
* [Google Analytics Data and Privacy Information](https://support.google.com/analytics/answer/12017362)
* [Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-on](https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout)
8. Contact Form and Enquiries
If you contact us through the contact form, we collect the information you enter in order to process and respond to your enquiry.
Depending on the form fields, this may include:
* Your name
* Your email address
* Your telephone number
* Your wedding date
* Your wedding or event location
* Information about your plans and requested photography services
* Your message
* Any other information you voluntarily provide
The information submitted through the form is processed through Squarespace, our website and form service provider.
If your enquiry concerns a potential or existing photography agreement, processing is based on Art. 6(1)(b) GDPR. In other cases, processing is based on our legitimate interest in responding to enquiries pursuant to Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR or, where requested, your consent pursuant to Art. 6(1)(a) GDPR.
We retain your enquiry for as long as necessary to process it. Data may be retained for longer where this is necessary to fulfil a contract, establish or defend legal claims or comply with statutory retention obligations.
Your information will not be shared with unrelated third parties without a legal basis or your consent.
Please do not include sensitive personal information in the contact form unless it is necessary for your enquiry.
9. Communication by Email
If you contact us by email, the information contained in your message, including your email address and any other personal information you provide, will be processed to respond to your enquiry.
The legal basis is Art. 6(1)(b) GDPR where the communication relates to a contract or pre-contractual measures. In other cases, processing is based on our legitimate interest in responding to your message pursuant to Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR.
Email communication may involve security risks. Complete protection against access by third parties cannot be guaranteed.
10. Links to Instagram and Pinterest
This website contains links to our profiles on Instagram and Pinterest.
These are ordinary external links. No Instagram or Pinterest feed, plugin or other social-media content is embedded directly into this website. Therefore, no personal data is transferred to Instagram or Pinterest merely because you visit this website.
When you click one of these links, you leave this website and access the respective third-party platform. The platform may then collect and process personal data in accordance with its own privacy policy. This may occur regardless of whether you have an account with that platform.
Further information is available in the privacy policies of the respective providers:
We have no control over the nature, scope or purpose of data processing carried out by these external platforms.
11. Legal Bases for Processing
Depending on the circumstances, personal data is processed on one or more of the following legal bases:
Art. 6(1)(a) GDPR — consent
Art. 6(1)(b) GDPR — performance of a contract or pre-contractual measures
Art. 6(1)(c) GDPR — compliance with a legal obligation
Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR — legitimate interests
Where processing is based on legitimate interests, those interests generally include securely operating the website, communicating with prospective and existing clients, improving our services and protecting our legal interests.
12. Retention of Personal Data
We retain personal data only for as long as necessary for the purpose for which it was collected.
Data may be retained for a longer period where required by statutory retention obligations or where necessary for the establishment, exercise or defence of legal claims.
Once the relevant purpose no longer applies and no statutory retention obligation exists, the data will be deleted or anonymised.
13. Your Rights
Under the GDPR, you have the following rights where the relevant legal requirements are met:
Right of Access
You have the right to request information about whether and how we process your personal data.
Right to Rectification
You have the right to request the correction of inaccurate personal data and the completion of incomplete data.
Right to Erasure
You may request the deletion of your personal data where there is no legal reason for its continued processing.
Right to Restriction of Processing
You may request that the processing of your personal data be restricted under certain circumstances.
Right to Data Portability
Where processing is based on consent or a contract and is carried out by automated means, you may have the right to receive your data in a structured, commonly used and machine-readable format.
Right to Object
Where processing is based on Art. 6(1)(e) or Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR, you have the right to object at any time on grounds relating to your particular situation.
If personal data is processed for direct marketing purposes, you may object to such processing at any time.
Right to Withdraw Consent
Where processing is based on your consent, you may withdraw that consent at any time with effect for the future. The lawfulness of processing carried out before w
Right to Lodge a Complaint
You have the right to lodge a complaint with a competent data protection supervisory authority.
For businesses established in Baden-Württemberg, the relevant authority is generally the State Commissioner for Data Protection and Freedom of Information of Baden-Württemberg: www.baden-wuerttemberg.datenschutz.de
14. Changes to This Privacy Policy
We may update this Privacy Policy if our website, services, data-processing activities or legal requirements change.
The current version is always available on this website.
