Privacy policy

Short version: Ravaran sets no cookies, uses no third-party analytics, loads nothing from third-party servers and does not know who you are unless you write to us.

Visitor count

An exception to what this page otherwise says about outside services: every page loads a small counting script from analytics.axaix.app, the network's own statistics server. It is hosted in a data centre in Frankfurt am Main, Germany, and the data is not passed on to third parties.

The script sets no cookies and stores nothing in your browser. It records the page viewed, the page the visit came from, screen width and language, the broad device type, browser and operating system, and clicks on downloads and on links to other websites. Your IP address is used only briefly to determine country and city and to form a daily hash, then discarded and never stored. The hash changes every day, so a visitor cannot be recognised from one day to the next. Raw data is deleted after twelve months. If your browser sends “Do Not Track”, the visit is not counted.

The legal basis is our legitimate interest in measuring the reach of these pages with as little data as possible (Art. 6 (1) (f) GDPR).

Advertising

Through the counting script, every page also loads the advertising script ad.member.show/axaix.js. On the network’s magazines it shows labelled ads from members of the member.show network, and the banner images are served from banner.member.show. Both addresses belong to the network itself and are hosted by the provider Hostinger. No data is passed on to advertisers or any other third parties.

The advertising script sets no cookies, stores nothing in your browser and builds no user profiles. Which ad appears depends only on the page viewed and its language. Impressions and clicks are counted solely as totals per ad, page and day, and your IP address is not stored for this. A click on an ad passes briefly through ad.member.show and then on to the advertiser.

The legal basis is our legitimate interest in funding the magazines through advertising and showing advertisers the reach of their ads (Art. 6 (1) (f) GDPR).

1. Controller

NexTao GmbH, Königsallee 27, 40212 Düsseldorf, Germany, e-mail info@ravaran.com, telephone +49 1577 5588 888.

2. Hosting and server logs

This site is hosted in the European Union. The web server writes the usual access log for each request: the shortened IP address, the date and time, the page requested, the referring page, the status code and the browser identification. These entries serve the security and stability of the service, are based on Article 6(1)(f) GDPR and are deleted after seven days at the latest. They are not merged with other data and are not used to profile visitors.

3. No cookies, no tracking

We set no cookies of any kind. There is no third-party analytics software, no tag manager, no advertising pixel and no social media plug-in. No fonts, scripts, maps or images are loaded from third-party servers; everything on this site except the contact and field notes forms is served from our own domain, the forms from formdialog.com, our own form service (see section 5). That is why you never see a consent banner here.

4. Local storage for the tools

The tools and the quiz store your inputs in the local storage of your own browser, under keys beginning with ravaran:, so that a pack list or a payload calculation survives a page reload. This data never leaves your device, is not readable by us and can be deleted at any time in your browser settings. If your result appears in the address bar as a link, that link is generated in your browser and is only shared if you send it to somebody.

5. Contact form and e-mail

The contact form and the sign-up for the field notes come from formdialog.com, the form service of NexTao GmbH. It runs on its own server at Hostinger in Frankfurt am Main, sets no cookies and loads nothing from third parties. With the form it learns on which Ravaran page it is shown.

When you write to us through the contact form, we process the details you enter (name, e-mail address, subject, message) in order to answer you, on the basis of Article 6(1)(b) GDPR. The message is delivered to our editorial team by e-mail, stored in the form service and deleted once it is no longer needed. To fend off abuse we keep the IP address of every submission for 14 days, on the basis of Article 6(1)(f) GDPR. E-mail you send us directly stays in our mailbox and is deleted once it is dealt with and no retention period requires otherwise.

6. Field notes by e-mail

The field notes use double opt-in: after signing up you receive an e-mail with a confirmation link, and only the click on it subscribes you. Unconfirmed sign-ups are deleted after 30 days. As proof of your consent we store the time and IP address of the sign-up and of the confirmation. Your e-mail address stays on our list until you unsubscribe, which is possible with the link in every issue; the legal basis is your consent under Article 6(1)(a) GDPR. We do not pass data from the forms on to third parties.

7. Reader polls

Votes in a reader poll are stored without an identifier. To limit obvious multiple voting we save a shortened, one-way hash of your IP address together with the current month, from which your address cannot be recovered. The legal basis is Article 6(1)(f) GDPR.

8. Your rights

You have the right to information, correction, deletion, restriction of processing, data portability and to object to processing based on legitimate interests, and you may withdraw consent at any time with effect for the future. Write to info@ravaran.com. You also have the right to complain to a supervisory authority, for us the Landesbeauftragte für Datenschutz und Informationsfreiheit Nordrhein-Westfalen.

9. Changes

We update this policy when the site changes. This version is from September 2026.