Privacy

How your information is used

This notice explains the limited personal data Battery Market Radar processes when you visit the website, use its traffic measurement, or submit a pilot, contact or support request. It also explains why the data is used, who may receive it, how long it is kept and the rights available to you.

Hosting and infrastructure

Battery Market Radar is delivered through Cloudflare's infrastructure, including its network, application hosting, security services and database platform. When you access the website, Cloudflare may process technically necessary information such as your IP address, the requested page, time of access, routing and request data, system configuration information and security signals. This information is used to deliver the website, prevent abuse, protect the service and maintain its reliability.

For personal data processed on behalf of Battery Market Radar, Cloudflare acts as a service provider under its Data Processing Addendum. Cloudflare operates a global network and may process data, directly or through approved sub-processors, outside the European Economic Area. Its contractual terms provide for the EU Standard Contractual Clauses where required and refer to the EU-U.S. Data Privacy Framework where applicable. Further information is available in Cloudflare's privacy policy.

Website traffic measurement

Battery Market Radar collects limited information about how the website is found and used, such as the page visited, time of access, referring domain and campaign parameters where supplied. External referrer query strings and page fragments are not retained.

A pseudonymous identifier that changes each day is used to estimate daily visitor numbers. Raw IP addresses are not stored in the analytics database. Known automated traffic is filtered where possible. The purpose is to understand which pages and referral sources are useful and to improve the website. Attribution is limited to information available on the page being viewed or submitted and is not carried across pages or sessions.

Public pages check for a first-party browser marker that is set only after that browser has visited the private Admin area. Its sole purpose is to avoid counting Admin browsers in public traffic statistics. Normal public visits do not create the marker, and it contains no referral or campaign information.

No advertising tracking

Battery Market Radar does not use marketing cookies, advertising identifiers, fingerprinting, cross-site tracking or third-party advertising analytics.

Pilot and contact requests

If you submit a pilot request, Battery Market Radar uses your company name, work email, equipment and territory selections, optional notes and the time of your request to assess and respond to it. If you use the contact form, the name, email address, optional company, subject and message you provide are used to review and respond to your inquiry.

Where available on the submitted page, limited source information such as a campaign or referral parameter may also be stored so that Battery Market Radar can understand how the request reached the service. Required form fields are needed to handle the request; without them, the request cannot be processed. Neither form triggers a payment or an automatic email response.

Legal basis

Hosting and security: processing necessary to provide, secure and maintain the website is based on Article 6(1)(f) GDPR. The legitimate interests are reliable website operation, prevention of misuse and protection of the service and its users.

Website traffic measurement: the limited first-party measurement is based on Article 6(1)(f) GDPR. The legitimate interests are understanding how the website is found and used, assessing the usefulness of referral sources and improving the service with proportionate data.

Pilot and product inquiries: where your request concerns a possible pilot or other commercial arrangement, processing is based on Article 6(1)(b) GDPR because it is necessary to take steps at your request before entering into a contract.

Other contact and support: other inquiries are processed under Article 6(1)(f) GDPR. The legitimate interests are responding to messages, providing support and keeping an appropriate record of the communication. A form confirmation timestamp does not by itself make consent the legal basis for unrelated processing.

Retention

Traffic and acquisition records currently have no fixed automatic deletion period and remain stored until they are manually deleted. Introducing a defined, data-minimising retention schedule is under review.

Pilot, contact and support records are retained while they are needed to assess or respond to the request and to document the resulting communication or potential commercial relationship. There is currently no fixed automatic deletion period for these records. They can be manually deleted when no longer needed or following a valid request, unless continued retention is necessary to meet a legal obligation or to establish, exercise or defend legal claims.

Service providers and international transfers

Cloudflare processes the technical and application data needed to host, secure and operate the website and its database. If an approved support response is sent or an email reply is received, Resend (Plus Five Five, Inc.) processes the email address, subject and message content needed to deliver that communication. Resend's Data Processing Addendum provides for the EU Standard Contractual Clauses for relevant transfers to the United States and other countries without an adequacy decision.

Access is otherwise limited to the operator and service providers needed to run the website and handle requests. Battery Market Radar does not provide this information to advertising networks.

Who is responsible

The controller for the processing described in this notice is Luca Rüffert, operating Battery Market Radar, Pippelweg 60, 38120 Braunschweig, Germany. Privacy enquiries and requests can be submitted through the contact form.

Your rights

Subject to the legal conditions, you may request access to your personal data, correction of inaccurate data, deletion, restriction of processing and data portability. You may also lodge a complaint with a data protection supervisory authority, particularly in the country where you live or work or where you believe an infringement occurred.

Where processing is based on legitimate interests under Article 6(1)(f) GDPR, you have the right to object for reasons relating to your particular situation. Processing will then stop unless there are compelling legitimate grounds to continue or the data is needed for legal claims.

Contact

To exercise your rights or ask a privacy question, use the contact form. Additional information may be requested where necessary to verify that a request relates to you.