Last updated: 09.07.2026
1. General information
This privacy policy explains how personal data is processed when you visit and use this website:
https://neuro-divergence.com
The protection of your personal data is important to me. This website is operated from Germany and is intended to comply with the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), the German Federal Data Protection Act (BDSG), and the German Telecommunications Digital Services Data Protection Act (TDDDG), where applicable.
2. Controller
The controller responsible for data processing on this website is:
Edda Mia Löhr
Lessingstraße 18
41372 Niederkrüchten
Germany
Email: freyahermanns@gmail.com
3. What personal data means
Personal data means any information that can identify you directly or indirectly. This may include your name, email address, IP address, device information, browser information, usage data or cookie identifiers.
4. Hosting
This website is hosted by:
IONOS SE
Elgendorfer Str. 57
56410 Montabaur
Germany
When you visit this website, the hosting provider processes technical data that is necessary to deliver the website securely and reliably. This may include:
– IP address
– date and time of access
– requested URL
– referrer URL
– browser type and version
– operating system
– amount of data transferred
– server status codes
The processing is necessary to make the website available, maintain technical stability, prevent misuse and ensure security.
Legal basis:
Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR – legitimate interest in the secure and reliable operation of the website.
A data processing agreement with the hosting provider should be in place where required by Art. 28 GDPR.
5. Access logs and server log files
When you access this website, server log files may be created automatically. These logs are used for technical security, error analysis and protection against attacks.
The data is not used to personally identify visitors unless this is necessary to investigate misuse, security incidents or unlawful activity.
Legal basis:
Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR – legitimate interest in website security, stability and misuse prevention.
6. WordPress
This website is operated with WordPress. WordPress is used to create, manage and publish website content.
Depending on your interaction with the website, WordPress may process technical data necessary for displaying the website, maintaining user sessions, preventing spam or securing the website.
Legal basis:
Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR – legitimate interest in operating and managing the website.
7. Cookies and similar technologies
This website uses cookies and similar technologies. Cookies are small text files stored on your device. Similar technologies may include local storage, pixels or scripts.
Some cookies are technically necessary for the website to function. Others, such as analytics cookies, are only used if you give your consent.
Technically necessary cookies are used on the basis of Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR and § 25(2) TDDDG.
Non-essential cookies, especially analytics or marketing cookies, are only used on the basis of your consent according to Art. 6(1)(a) GDPR and § 25(1) TDDDG.
You can change or withdraw your consent at any time via the cookie settings on this website.
8. Cookie consent management
This website uses a cookie consent tool to obtain, manage and document your consent to non-essential cookies and third-party services.
The consent tool stores information about your consent choices, such as:
– selected cookie categories
– consent status
– time of consent
– technical information necessary to document consent
This processing is necessary to comply with legal obligations regarding consent management.
Legal basis:
Art. 6(1)(c) GDPR – legal obligation
Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR – legitimate interest in legally compliant consent documentation
Cookie consent tool:
Complianz / GDPR Cookie Consent
9. Google Analytics 4
This website uses Google Analytics 4, a web analytics service provided by:
Google Ireland Limited
Gordon House
Barrow Street
Dublin 4
Ireland
Google Analytics helps understand how visitors use this website. This includes, for example:
– which pages are visited
– how long visitors stay on pages
– how visitors navigate through the website
– which content performs well
– technical information such as browser, device type and approximate location
Google Analytics may use cookies or similar technologies. Google may process data on servers outside the European Union, including in the United States.
Google Analytics is only activated if you give consent through the cookie banner.
Legal basis:
Art. 6(1)(a) GDPR – consent
§ 25(1) TDDDG – consent for storing or accessing information on your device
You can withdraw your consent at any time via the cookie settings on this website.
Google Analytics data retention:
User-level and event-level data in Google Analytics will be configured with a limited retention period. The intended retention period is 14 months, unless a shorter period is chosen in the Google Analytics settings.
Google Signals, demographic data and interest reports:
This website may use Google Analytics features that provide aggregated demographic and interest-based insights, such as age groups, gender categories or interest categories, where available and only if consent has been given. These reports are used to better understand the audience and improve the accessibility, relevance and quality of the content.
Personalized advertising:
This website does not display third-party advertising. If Google Ads is used in the future, it will be used to promote this website externally, not to display advertising on the website itself. Advertising-related tracking or personalization will only be used where legally permitted and only after valid consent.
More information about Google’s data processing can be found in Google’s privacy documentation.
10. Google Consent Mode
This website may use Google Consent Mode v2. Consent Mode allows Google tags to adjust their behavior based on your consent choices.
Depending on your consent, the following consent signals may be used:
– analytics_storage: consent for analytics cookies
– ad_storage: consent for advertising-related storage
– ad_user_data: consent for sending user data related to advertising to Google
– ad_personalization: consent for personalized advertising
By default, non-essential consent categories should be denied until you actively give consent.
Google Consent Mode does not replace the cookie banner. It is used to communicate your consent choices to Google services.
11. Google Search Console
This website uses Google Search Console to monitor and improve visibility in Google Search.
Google Search Console helps understand how the website appears in search results, whether pages are indexed and whether technical search issues exist. Google Search Console does not set cookies on this website for visitors.
Legal basis:
Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR – legitimate interest in search engine optimization and technical website monitoring.
12. Rank Math SEO
This website uses Rank Math SEO to optimize content and technical metadata for search engines.
Rank Math may process website content, metadata, URLs, sitemap data and technical SEO information. Depending on configuration, Rank Math may connect to external services such as Google Search Console or Google Analytics.
Legal basis:
Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR – legitimate interest in search engine optimization and website improvement.
13. NitroPack and performance optimization
This website may use NitroPack or similar performance optimization tools to improve loading speed, caching, image optimization and technical performance.
Depending on configuration, technical data such as IP address, browser information, requested URLs and performance-related metadata may be processed.
Legal basis:
Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR – legitimate interest in improving website performance, accessibility and technical reliability.
14. Anti-spam and security plugins
This website uses anti-spam and security-related plugins to protect the website from spam, misuse, automated attacks and malicious activity.
Currently or potentially used plugins include:
– Akismet Anti-Spam
– Anti-Spam Bee
– security or maintenance plugins
These tools may process technical data such as IP address, browser information, comment or form metadata, timestamps and request data.
At the moment, comments are disabled. If comments or forms are enabled in the future, additional information may be processed for spam prevention.
Legal basis:
Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR – legitimate interest in protecting the website from spam, misuse and attacks.
15. Contact by email
If you contact me by email, the personal data you provide will be processed to respond to your message. This may include:
– your email address
– your name, if provided
– the content of your message
– date and time of communication
Legal basis:
Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR – legitimate interest in responding to inquiries
Art. 6(1)(b) GDPR – if the communication relates to pre-contractual or contractual matters
Please do not send sensitive health, diagnostic, psychological or other special category data by email unless absolutely necessary.
16. Contact forms
A contact form is not currently active. If a contact form is added in the future, this privacy policy will be updated before the form is activated.
Potential future contact forms may process:
– name
– email address
– message content
– technical metadata such as IP address and timestamp
17. Comments
Comments are currently disabled on this website.
If comments are enabled in the future, this privacy policy will be updated before activation.
18. Newsletter
This website does not currently offer a newsletter subscription.
If a newsletter is added in the future, this privacy policy will be updated before activation and a consent-based subscription process will be implemented.
19. Sensitive topics and health-related content
This website discusses neurodivergence, ADHD, autism, emotional regulation, sensory experience, mental health-adjacent topics and everyday functioning.
The website does not currently collect health data, diagnostic information or special category personal data from visitors through accounts, tests, forms, comments or community features.
Please do not send medical, diagnostic, psychological or therapeutic information by email unless you consciously decide to do so.
The content on this website is for informational and educational purposes only and does not replace professional medical, psychological, psychotherapeutic or psychiatric advice, diagnosis or treatment.
20. External links
This website may contain links to external websites. If you click an external link, you leave this website. The privacy practices of external websites are outside my control.
Please review the privacy policies of external websites before using them.
21. Social media links and sharing
This website may link to social media or messaging services such as WhatsApp, Telegram, Signal, Instagram or other platforms.
Simple links do not automatically transfer data to these platforms when you visit this website. Data may be processed by the respective third-party provider only when you click the link or use the relevant service.
If social sharing plugins are added in the future, this privacy policy will be updated before activation.
22. External media
This website does not currently embed external media such as YouTube videos, Instagram feeds, TikTok content, Spotify players, Google Maps or similar third-party embeds.
If such external media are added in the future, they will be integrated in a privacy-conscious way where possible, for example with prior consent or a two-click solution.
23. Google Fonts
This website may use Google Fonts.
If Google Fonts are loaded externally from Google servers, your browser may connect to Google servers when you visit the website. In that case, Google may receive technical information such as your IP address and browser data.
The intended setup is to use fonts locally where possible in order to reduce third-party data transfers and improve performance.
Legal basis for locally hosted fonts:
Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR – legitimate interest in a consistent and accessible website design.
If fonts are loaded externally and are not technically necessary, consent may be required depending on the implementation.
24. Affiliate links and future collaborations
This website does not currently use affiliate links, paid partnerships or sponsored content.
If affiliate links, sponsored content or collaborations are added in the future, they will be marked transparently and this privacy policy will be updated where necessary.
25. Data transfers to third countries
Some services used on this website, especially Google services, may transfer personal data to countries outside the European Union or the European Economic Area, including the United States.
Where data is transferred to third countries, the transfer is based on applicable legal safeguards, such as an adequacy decision, standard contractual clauses or your consent, where required.
26. Storage duration
Personal data is only stored for as long as necessary for the purposes described in this privacy policy or as required by law.
Server logs are usually stored for a limited technical period and then deleted or anonymized, unless longer storage is necessary for security reasons.
Consent records are stored as long as necessary to document consent.
Analytics data is stored according to the retention settings configured in Google Analytics.
27. Your rights
Under the GDPR, you have the following rights, subject to the legal requirements:
– right of access, Art. 15 GDPR
– right to rectification, Art. 16 GDPR
– right to erasure, Art. 17 GDPR
– right to restriction of processing, Art. 18 GDPR
– right to data portability, Art. 20 GDPR
– right to object, Art. 21 GDPR
– right to withdraw consent at any time, Art. 7(3) GDPR
If processing is based on consent, you can withdraw your consent at any time with effect for the future.
28. Right to lodge a complaint
You have the right to lodge a complaint with a data protection supervisory authority if you believe that the processing of your personal data violates data protection law.
You may contact the supervisory authority responsible for your place of residence, workplace or the place of the alleged infringement.
29. Changes to this privacy policy
This privacy policy may be updated when the website changes, new services are added, plugins are changed or legal requirements change.
Please check this page regularly for the current version.