Last updated: July 14, 2025
1. What cookies are
Cookies are small text files stored on your device when you visit a website. We also use local storage, pixels and SDKs, and call all of them "cookies" here.
2. Your consent
Under the ePrivacy rules and § 25 TDDDG in Germany, we may store cookies that are strictly necessary without asking you. Everything else — analytics, preferences, marketing — requires your prior, informed, opt-in consent. You give or refuse it through our cookie banner. Refusing is as easy as accepting and does not stop you from running a check. You can change your choice at any time via "Cookie settings" in the footer.
3. Cookies we use
Strictly necessary — always active, no consent required
| Name | Purpose | Duration | Provider |
|---|---|---|---|
| [session_id] | Maintains your session | Session | VictimCheck |
| [csrf_token] | Protects against cross-site request forgery | Session | VictimCheck |
| [cookie_consent] | Remembers your cookie choices | [6 months] | VictimCheck |
| [rate_limit] | Prevents automated abuse of the search function | [24 hours] | VictimCheck |
Preferences — consent required
| Name | Purpose | Duration | Provider |
|---|---|---|---|
| lang | Remembers your language selection | 12 months | VictimCheck |
Analytics and marketing
We do not use analytics or marketing cookies, and we do not run advertising or tracking pixels on this site. If that ever changes, we will list the cookies here and ask for your consent before setting them.
4. Third-party cookies and transfers
We do not currently embed third-party services that set cookies on this site.
Where a provider transfers data outside the EEA, we rely on the safeguards described in our Privacy Policy.
5. Withdrawing consent
Through "Cookie settings" on this site, or through your browser settings, which allow you to block or delete cookies — instructions differ by browser, so check the help pages for Chrome, Firefox, Safari or Edge. Blocking strictly necessary cookies may prevent parts of the Service from working.
6. Do Not Track and Global Privacy Control
We honour Do Not Track and Global Privacy Control signals: where such a signal is present, we treat it as a refusal of any non-essential cookies.
7. Changes
We will update this policy when our use of cookies changes, and ask for renewed consent where the law requires it.
8. Contact
privacy@victimcheck.com — VictimCheck GmbH, Mainzer Landstraße 150, 60327 Frankfurt am Main, Germany.