Privacy policy
What data is processed when you visit DA6IT.de, why it is processed and which choices you have regarding statistics and analytics.
Privacy at DA6IT.de
The person responsible for processing personal data on this private website is:
Daniel “DA6IT” Eschner
Achter de Stadt 9
D-47669 Wachtendonk
Germany
Email: [email protected]
Principles
Personal data is processed only insofar as this is necessary for operation, security, communication or, with your consent, audience measurement.
The legal bases include in particular Art. 6(1)(a), (b) and (f) GDPR and, for access to information on your device, Section 25 TDDDG.
Hosting, servers and log data
Own server in a data center
DA6IT.de runs on server hardware administered by me in a data center operated by WiiT AG in Düsseldorf. WiiT AG provides data-center and network infrastructure.
Where connection data is processed by the infrastructure provider as part of technical service delivery or troubleshooting, this takes place in order to provide the service securely.
Server log files
When the website is accessed, standard technical log data may be processed, including IP address, date and time, requested URL, referrer, browser/user agent, HTTP status, transferred data volume and technical error or security information.
This processing is used to deliver the website, analyze errors, maintain stability and defend against attacks. The legal basis is Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR. Log data is deleted or anonymized once it is no longer required for these purposes; in the event of security incidents, affected data may be retained until the matter has been fully clarified.
Contact and technical functions
Email contact
If you contact me by email, the sender address, technical mail headers and the content of your message are processed in order to answer your request. Depending on the content, the legal basis is Art. 6(1)(b) or (f) GDPR.
The data is deleted once it is no longer required to handle the request, unless legal or security-related reasons require longer retention.
WordPress & necessary storage
WordPress and DA6IT Core may use technically necessary cookies or local browser storage, for example for sessions, administration or to remember your privacy choice. This storage is used solely to provide the function you requested.
External links
DA6IT.de contains links to external websites and services. Once you open such a link, the privacy policy of the respective provider applies to the processing carried out there.
What is processed during QSO training
The QSO Trainer is an optional learning service. Susi is not a real operator but an AI radio partner with a synthetically generated voice.
Microphone, conversation AI & Azure voice output
While you hold PTT, your browser briefly records microphone audio and sends it through DA6IT.de to the voice backend operated by me. The recording is converted to text there using self-hosted speech recognition. The microphone recording is not permanently archived as an audio file and is not sent to Microsoft. The recognised text is processed by the conversation AI running on my server infrastructure so that Susi can respond to your QSO.
For Susi’s synthetic voice, only Susi’s generated reply text is sent server-to-server to Microsoft Azure Speech for real-time speech synthesis. Your browser does not connect directly to Microsoft for this; API credentials remain exclusively in the voice backend. Microsoft states that for the real-time synthesis used here with a prebuilt neural voice, neither the input text nor generated audio output is stored in Microsoft logs. The audio is returned to DA6IT.de, relayed directly to your browser and played through the simulated radio channel.
The recipient of the reply text required for synthesis is Microsoft as part of the Azure Speech service. For the European Economic Area, Microsoft identifies Microsoft Ireland Operations Limited, One Microsoft Place, South County Business Park, Leopardstown, Dublin 18, Ireland. Azure is subject to the Microsoft Products and Services Data Protection Addendum (DPA); where transfers to third countries occur as part of service operation, the safeguards provided there apply. The legal basis for this technically necessary processing in the voluntarily started trainer is Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR; my legitimate interest is to provide an understandable and realistic training function.
For local usage statistics, WordPress stores only technical totals such as character count, TTS request count, errors and latency, plus the number of successfully started training QSOs per calendar day and as a lifetime total. The QSO counter does not store callsigns, session IDs, text or audio. The reply text sent to Azure is not stored for these statistics either. Microsoft Privacy Statement
Text training logs only with your consent
Before each new QSO you are explicitly asked whether the practice contact may be stored as a text log and evaluated to improve the trainer. Only if you select “Yes” are the recognised radio text, entered training details such as callsign, name, QTH or locator, Susi’s replies and technical conversation diagnostics stored permanently on the server infrastructure administered by me. The legal basis is your consent under Art. 6(1)(a) GDPR.
If you select “No”, training works normally but no permanent QSO training log is created for that session. Processing required for the active QSO still takes place while the session is running, and Susi’s reply text is still sent to Azure Speech for voice output. Please do not provide sensitive or confidential information in free conversation unless it is actually needed for a practice QSO.
You can refuse consent for future training logs at any time. If you want an already stored voluntary log deleted, contact [email protected]; targeted deletion is possible where the relevant log can be technically identified from the information you provide. Stored logs are retained only as long as needed for troubleshooting and development and are regularly cleaned up as part of technical maintenance.
Matomo and Google Analytics
Statistics services are technically configured and are loaded only after consent.
Matomo · self-hosted
A self-hosted Matomo instance may be used for audience and usage statistics. Matomo runs in the server environment administered by me. Using Matomo therefore does not, by itself, transfer analytics data to an external analytics hosting provider.
After consent, data such as visited pages, time and duration, referrer, downloads and outbound links, device and browser information, operating system, screen resolution, language, approximate geographic information, campaign parameters, returning-visitor identifiers and, depending on the active Matomo configuration, the IP address may be processed. Matomo may use cookies or comparable browser storage for this purpose.
The legal basis is your consent under Art. 6(1)(a) GDPR and, where information is stored on or read from your device, Section 25(1) TDDDG. Data is retained only as long as necessary for audience analysis and trend comparison and is then deleted or aggregated.
Google Analytics 4 · if enabled
DA6IT.de may use Google Analytics 4 for statistical analysis. DA6IT Core loads the service only after you have explicitly consented to statistics. Before consent, the Core does not load a Google Analytics tag and therefore does not send analytics data to Google.
If enabled, page views, events, referrers, device and browser data, language, approximate location information, technical identifiers and usage information may be transmitted to Google. The provider in the European Economic Area is generally Google Ireland Limited; processing by Google LLC and other Google companies, including outside the EEA, cannot be ruled out.
The legal basis is Art. 6(1)(a) GDPR and, for cookies or comparable access, Section 25(1) TDDDG. According to Google, Google LLC is certified under the EU-US Data Privacy Framework; Google also refers to Standard Contractual Clauses as a transfer mechanism where required.
Wavelog and Google Search Console
Wavelog · wavelog.da6it.de
DA6IT.de may embed content and live data from my own Wavelog instance at wavelog.da6it.de, such as on-air status, recent QSOs or activity views. Wavelog also runs in my own server environment.
Loading this content creates technical connections to the Wavelog subdomain, during which the standard connection and log data of a web request may be processed. This does not result in disclosure to a third-party Wavelog hosting provider.
Google Search Console
Google Search Console may be used for technical search-engine optimization and to analyze the visibility of DA6IT.de. Search Console is not a visitor-tracking script embedded on DA6IT.de. The search and performance data available there comes from Google Search services and from domain verification.
Domain verification may be carried out using DNS or a meta tag, for example. This does not cause DA6IT Core to start any additional analytics tracking for website visitors.
Access, erasure, objection & withdrawal
Subject to the applicable legal requirements, you have in particular the right to obtain information about your personal data, to rectification, erasure, restriction of processing, data portability and to object to certain processing.
Where processing is based on your consent, you can withdraw that consent at any time with effect for the future. The lawfulness of processing carried out before withdrawal remains unaffected.
You also have the right to lodge a complaint with a data-protection supervisory authority.
Contact for privacy requests: [email protected]
Last updated: August 2026