Since the author of this website is a German citizen and the web servers are also located in Germany, this website is subject to German law and needs a so-called Impressum and a Datenschutzerklärung. Lawyers, please head over to the German version. For other visitors, here is a summary of the items which may be of interest for you.
The photographs on this website are taken by me, Roman Eisele. I have published most of them (and many more photos) under a free license in the free media file repository Wikimedia Commons. For each photo, there is a link to the complete description page on Commons (including a high-resolution version of the photo) and a link to the photo’s license.
The web fonts used on this website are licensed under the SIL Open Font License (OFL) and are used according to the terms of that license.
If you like my photos, please enjoy them, if you don’t like them, please look elsewhere. Don’t bug me and I will not bug you.
The photos on this website are not in the public domain; they are protected by copyright. But you can use each photo free of charge if you fulfill the conditions of the photo’s free license. There are further explanations about this on the individual photo’s page on Wikimedia Commons, and in the text of the linked license.
If you discover a copyright infringement or any other legal violations on this website, please notify me. As soon as I become aware of a concrete infringement, I will remove the affected content. However, I can only do this as soon as I become aware of a definite infringement; therefore, liability is only possible from the time I became aware of the infringement.
Just in case you have not noticed it yet: you can visit and use this website without creating a user account and without providing personal data such as name, e-mail address, etc. The website does not set any cookies and does not use any other tracking techniques.
When you visit this website for the first time (and generally every time the website is visited without a language=... parameter in the URL), the website utilizes information provided by your browser about the preferred languages (the so-called Accept-Language request HTTP header) to guess in which language this website should be displayed. The browser’s information is not stored in any form, it is only used internally temporarily for that purpose.
The server on which the data of this website is stored, automatically saves information in its log files that your browser transmits to the server. (As it is the case with virtually any website.) According to my web hosting service, the IP addresses of visitors are recorded and stored in log files for up to seven days. The storage of such data is generally considered indispensable for the operational security of the servers. The servers on which this website is located, and on which the data is temporarily stored, are located in Germany.
Since the data is not linked to data from other sources, I do not consider it as personal data and therefore not as relevant to privacy protection. If you disagree, you are welcome file a test claim, but please not with me — this issue applies to virtually all websites in the world, as previously written.