Privacy policy

The short version

• We don't sell your data or use it for advertising.
• Google Analytics runs only if you click Accept in the cookie banner.
• If you contact us, we use what you send only to reply.
• You can ask what we hold about you, and have it corrected or deleted, at any time.

Who is responsible

Kraus Advisors, LLC is responsible for the personal data processed on this website (the “controller” under the EU General Data Protection Regulation, GDPR).

United States: 3140 S Ocean Drive, Suite 2808, Hallandale Beach, FL 33009
Europe: Rietzestr. 19, 10409 Berlin, Germany
Email: daniel@krausadvisors.com
Phone: +1 (941) 264-8669 · +49 (0) 151 61340498

Send any privacy question or request to the email address above. We reply within one month.

Visiting the site

The site is hosted by Netlify, Inc. in the United States. When you open a page, Netlify’s servers automatically process the technical data needed to deliver it and keep the site secure: your IP address, the date and time, the page or file requested, your browser and operating system, and the page you came from.

We don’t use this data to identify you or combine it with other data. Legal basis: our legitimate interest in running a secure, working website (Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR). Netlify keeps these logs for a limited period under its own policy: netlify.com/privacy.

Fonts are served from this site, so loading a page does not contact Google Fonts or any other font service.

Contact form and email

If you use the contact form, we receive your first and last name, email address, company (optional) and message. Netlify processes and stores the form for us and screens submissions for spam. If you email us, we receive your email address and whatever you write.

We use this only to answer you and follow up on your inquiry. Legal basis: steps you ask for before a possible contract (Art. 6(1)(b) GDPR) and our legitimate interest in replying to messages (Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR).

We delete inquiries once they are dealt with and no longer needed, unless an inquiry becomes an engagement and the law requires us to keep business records for longer.

Cookies and analytics

On your first visit, a banner asks whether you accept analytics cookies. Until you click Accept, no analytics code is loaded and no analytics cookies are set.

Necessary. Your choice is saved in your browser (local storage, key ka_cookie_consent) for 12 months, so the banner doesn’t return on every page. It holds only the choice and the date it was made. Legal basis: § 25(2) of the German TDDDG and Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR.

Google Analytics, only if you accept. We use Google Analytics 4, provided by Google Ireland Limited, Gordon House, Barrow Street, Dublin 4, Ireland. It sets cookies (_ga and _ga_<ID>, lasting up to two years) and records how the site is used: pages viewed, time on page, the site you came from, device and browser type, and approximate location derived from your IP address. Google Analytics 4 does not store IP addresses. We use the results only to see which content is useful and to improve the site. Advertising features are switched off.

Legal basis: your consent (Art. 6(1)(a) GDPR and § 25(1) TDDDG). Analytics data is kept for at most 14 months. Google’s privacy policy: policies.google.com/privacy.

You can withdraw consent at any time with the button below or the Cookie settings link at the bottom of every page. Withdrawing deletes the Analytics cookies. It does not affect processing that took place before.

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Data sent outside the EU

Kraus Advisors, Netlify and Google are US companies, so data may be processed in the United States. Google LLC is certified under the EU-U.S. Data Privacy Framework. Where a recipient is not certified, transfers rely on the European Commission’s Standard Contractual Clauses.

Links to other sites

Our pages link to LinkedIn and other sites but don’t embed their content. Those sites receive no data from us. Once you click through, their own privacy policies apply.

Your rights

Under the GDPR you can ask us to:

• tell you what personal data we hold about you and give you a copy (Art. 15)
• correct it (Art. 16) or delete it (Art. 17)
• restrict how we use it (Art. 18)
• give it to you in a portable format (Art. 20)
• stop using it where we rely on our legitimate interest (Art. 21)

You can also withdraw consent at any time (Art. 7(3) GDPR). To make a request, email daniel@krausadvisors.com. We honour the same requests wherever you live.

You also have the right to complain to a data protection authority, for example the one where you live or, for our Berlin office, the Berliner Beauftragte für Datenschutz und Informationsfreiheit (datenschutz-berlin.de).

What we don’t do

We don’t sell or rent personal data, share it for advertising, or use it for automated decision-making or profiling. You never have to give us personal data to use this site.

Changes

We update this page when the site or the law changes. The date at the top shows the current version.