Legal notice and privacy

Legal notice

Information pursuant to § 5 DDG (German Digital Services Act)

Alex Vierdag
Offdesk (sole proprietorship)
Italiëlei 11
2000 Antwerp
Belgium

Email: hello@offdeskgroup.com
Contact form: on our home page

VAT: as a small business under § 19(1) UStG (German VAT Act), we do not charge VAT.

Responsible for the content: Alex Vierdag, address as above.

Dispute resolution: we are neither willing nor obliged to take part in dispute resolution proceedings before a consumer arbitration board.

Privacy notice

Last updated: November 2026

Who is responsible

Alex Vierdag, trading as Offdesk, Italiëlei 11, 2000 Antwerp, Belgium. Email: hello@offdeskgroup.com.

This website

This site is hosted by Cloudflare, Inc. (USA, certified under the EU-US Data Privacy Framework). To deliver the page and keep it secure, Cloudflare processes the technical data your browser sends: IP address, date and time, the page requested, and browser and operating system. The legal basis is our legitimate interest in a secure, working website (Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR). The site sets no cookies and uses no analytics or tracking. Fonts are part of the page itself, so opening it sends no data to Google Fonts or any other third party.

If you use our contact form or write to us

We use your name, work email, firm, team size and message to reply and, if you book with us, to plan your events. Form entries go to our own database, which Cloudflare hosts for us, and a copy goes to our mailbox. Our email runs on Google Workspace (Google Ireland Limited). We do not store IP addresses with your entries. The legal basis is the steps you ask us to take and our legitimate interest in answering inquiries (Art. 6(1)(b) and (f) GDPR). We keep this correspondence only as long as needed or as required by law.

If we emailed you

We contact companies one by one to offer our services. For this we use business contact details that are publicly available: your name, role, company, business email address and city, taken from your company's website and other public business sources. The legal basis is our legitimate interest in offering our services to other businesses (Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR). We write at most twice without an answer. If no conversation develops, we delete your details no later than 12 months after our last message. You can object at any time: reply to our email or write to hello@offdeskgroup.com. We then delete your details and keep only your email address on a list of addresses we never write to again.

If you book an event

To run your events we share what each vendor needs with that vendor only: the date, address, access instructions, number of guests and dietary needs, and the name of your contact person. Vendors receive no guest lists unless your building requires one. Payments are processed by Stripe Payments Europe, Limited (Ireland) under its own privacy notice; we never see full card or bank account numbers. The legal basis is our agreement with you and our legitimate interest in running it (Art. 6(1)(b) and (f) GDPR). We keep records as long as tax and commercial law require.

Your rights

You can ask for access to your data, correction, deletion, restriction of processing and a copy of your data, and you can object to processing based on legitimate interest (Art. 15 to 21 GDPR). You also have the right to lodge a complaint with a data protection supervisory authority, for example the State Commissioner for Data Protection and Freedom of Information of North Rhine-Westphalia.