Imprint & Privacy

Last updated: 16 October 2026

Imprint (Impressum)

Information pursuant to § 5 DDG (German Digital Services Act). This website is operated by

Represented by

Tobias Frech, Managing Director

Email

hi@budo.de

Register

Amtsgericht Kempten (Allgäu), HRB 16250

VAT ID

DE314305091, pursuant to § 27 a UStG

Content

The content of this website is for general information. We take care that it is correct and up to date, but we cannot guarantee that it is complete or accurate. Tree Years is a simplified unit for understanding, not a basis for carbon accounting or offsetting.

Links

This website links to sources on other websites. Their operators are responsible for their content. We checked the linked pages when we added the links. If we learn that a linked page breaks the law, we remove the link.

Licence

The Tree Years icon, the texts on this website and the badge code are dedicated to the public domain under Creative Commons CC0 1.0 Universal. You may use, change and share them without asking and without credit. The fonts are licensed under the SIL Open Font License.

Privacy

This website does not track you

No cookies, no analytics, no tracking, no content from other servers. Fonts and images are stored on the same server as the website, hosted by IONOS in Germany. That is why there is no cookie banner: there is nothing to consent to.

The calculator

The calculator runs entirely in your browser. The amounts you type in are not sent anywhere and not stored.

The badge

The badge code contains its icon and style. A website that uses it loads nothing from treeyears.org. Data is only transferred to us when someone clicks the badge and visits this website.

Controller

budo GmbH, Im Ösch 5, 87490 Haldenwang, Germany. Managing Director: Tobias Frech. Email: hi@budo.de. We are not required to appoint a data protection officer and have not done so.

Visiting this website

When you open this website, your browser sends technical data that the server logs: IP address, date and time, the file requested, the amount of data transferred, whether the request succeeded, browser type and operating system, and the page you came from.

This data is necessary to deliver the website and to keep it secure. It is not combined with other data and not used for advertising. We may look at the pages visitors came from to see where Tree Years is being used.

Legal basis: Art. 6 (1) (f) GDPR, our legitimate interest in operating the website securely.

Processor: IONOS SE, Elgendorfer Straße 57, 56410 Montabaur, Germany. Servers in Germany.

Retention: as specified by the provider, usually a few days.

Email

If you write to us, we use your details to reply. Our email system is Google Workspace with data location set to Europe. Processor: Google Ireland Limited, Dublin, Ireland. Legal basis: Art. 6 (1) (f) GDPR. Retention: until your request is settled, then within statutory retention periods.

Your rights

• Access to the data we hold about you (Art. 15 GDPR)
• Rectification of incorrect data (Art. 16)
• Erasure, unless a retention obligation applies (Art. 17)
• Restriction of processing (Art. 18)
• Data portability (Art. 20)
• Objection to processing based on legitimate interests (Art. 21)

An informal message to hi@budo.de is enough.

Right to complain

You can complain to a supervisory authority. The authority responsible for us is the Bayerisches Landesamt für Datenschutzaufsicht, Promenade 18, 91522 Ansbach, Germany.