Legal information

Imprint (Legal Notice)

Information according to § 5 TMG (German Telemedia Act)

This website and the associated Phronon simulations are operated by a private individual:

Purpose: Phronon provides classroom simulations for practical judgment, operated for educational and organisational purposes to support teaching in academic and executive-education settings. It may additionally be used for academic research, subject to separate participant consent within each tool.

Disclaimer for links: Despite careful content control, we assume no liability for the content of external links, including links to the individual Phronon tools. Operators of linked pages are solely responsible for their content.

Cookie Policy

This umbrella site uses only strictly necessary cookies:

• Administration session cookie — set only inside the private administration area, to keep an administrator signed in. It is not used on the public pages.

No tracking. The public pages use no analytics, advertising, or tracking cookies, and no third-party scripts. Because only strictly necessary cookies are used, no consent banner is required under GDPR Article 6(1)(f). The individual tools may set their own strictly necessary cookies to run a session — see each tool’s notice.

Privacy Policy (Data Protection)

Who is the data controller?

Urs Müller, [Street and number], [Postal code and city], [Country] — info@phronon.org

What data does this umbrella site collect?

• Server log files — when you visit, the server automatically records the IP address, date and time, the page requested, referrer, and browser/OS identifiers. This is used solely to operate the site securely and reliably and is not combined with other data or used to identify you.
• Contact by email — if you write to info@phronon.org, the details you provide are stored to handle your enquiry and are not passed on without your consent.
• Administrator credentials — for backoffice sign-in; the password is stored only as a salted hash, never in plain text.

This umbrella site does not collect questionnaire responses, demographic data, or participant emails — that processing happens inside the individual tools, each of which has its own privacy policy describing it.

Legal basis

Operating the site, keeping server logs for security, and answering enquiries rest on our legitimate interest in providing and securing the service — Article 6(1)(f) GDPR.

How is your data protected?

• Hosted on [Your VPS provider, e.g. Hetzner], EU data centre.
• All transmission is encrypted using HTTPS/TLS.
• Web fonts are served from our own server — no fonts are loaded from third-party CDNs (e.g. Google Fonts), so no data is sent to third parties when fonts load.
• Administrator passwords are stored as salted hashes.
• No data is sold, shared, or transferred to third parties.

Your rights under GDPR

You have the right to access, correction, deletion, restriction, data portability, and to object to processing based on legitimate interest. To exercise these rights, contact info@phronon.org.

You also have the right to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority. In Germany:

Terms of Use

Permitted use

• Phronon and its tools are for educational and organisational use within academic courses and executive programmes.
• Educators must handle participant data responsibly and in line with their institution’s data-protection policies.
• Misuse (spam, unauthorised access, harassment, attempts to disrupt the service) is prohibited.

Intellectual property

The Phronon name, wordmark, logo, the simulations, their scenarios and design are protected by copyright. Commercial use or redistribution without prior written permission is prohibited. The web fonts used (Source Serif 4 and Source Sans 3) are licensed under the SIL Open Font License.

Limitation of liability

These tools are provided for reflective and educational purposes. They are not validated psychometric or diagnostic instruments and must not be used for hiring, promotion, or any personnel decision-making. We are not liable for decisions made on the basis of results, for data loss due to technical failures, or for third-party access resulting from security breaches beyond our control.

Governing law

These terms are governed by German law. Place of jurisdiction is Berlin, Germany.

Contact for legal & data-protection matters

For questions about your data, to exercise your rights, or for legal inquiries:

Email: info@phronon.org
Response time: we aim to respond .