Privacy Policy
Last updated: 16 October 2026
This notice (Adatkezelési tájékoztató) explains how HorGe processes personal data collected through this website, on what legal basis, for how long, and what rights you have. It is written to meet Articles 13–14 of the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).
1. Data controller
The controller of your personal data is:
- Name and form: Madarász-Gép Vince, egyéni vállalkozó (Hungarian sole trader), trading as HorGe
- Registered seat (székhely): 2500 Esztergom, Magyary László utca 3, Hungary
- Sole trader registration number (egyéni vállalkozói nyilvántartási szám): 62792839
- Tax number (adószám): 92363247-1-31
- Email: cousinspree@horgebv.com
- Phone: +36 30 241 6869
HorGe has assessed the requirement to appoint a Data Protection Officer under Article 37 GDPR. Because our core activities do not involve large-scale systematic monitoring or large-scale processing of special categories of data, no DPO is appointed. Data protection questions go to the email address above.
2. What we process, why, and on what legal basis
| Purpose | Data | Legal basis | Retention |
|---|---|---|---|
| Responding to consultation requests sent through the form on this site and to enquiries by email or phone, and preparing a possible engagement | Name, work email, company, company size, message and preferred call times (form); otherwise the details you give by email or phone; timestamp | Steps prior to entering a contract, Art. 6(1)(b); and our legitimate interest in answering business enquiries, Art. 6(1)(f) | Deleted 24 months after the last contact, unless an engagement begins |
| Website analytics (only after you accept analytics cookies) | Pseudonymised usage data, truncated IP, device and browser information | Consent, Art. 6(1)(a), via the cookie banner | Up to 14 months (Google Analytics default), or until you withdraw consent |
| Invoicing and accounting, once an engagement exists | Billing name, address, tax data, payment records | Legal obligation, Art. 6(1)(c), under Hungarian accounting law | 8 years, as required by Act C of 2000 on Accounting |
3. Recipients and processors
We share personal data only with service providers who process it on our behalf, under Article 28 agreements:
- Email: Google LLC (Gmail / Google Workspace). Enquiries you send by email are received and stored in our mailbox. Data may be transferred outside the EEA; Google is certified under the EU–US Data Privacy Framework, and standard contractual clauses apply as a fallback safeguard.
- Hosting: Netlify, Inc., 101 2nd Street, San Francisco, CA 94105, United States (privacy@netlify.com). Personal data may be transferred outside the EEA; Netlify is certified under the EU–US Data Privacy Framework and its UK and Swiss extensions, and applies the European Commission’s standard contractual clauses as a fallback safeguard.
- Contact form: Netlify, Inc. (Netlify Forms) receives and stores what you send through the consultation form and forwards it to our mailbox. Netlify screens submissions for spam using Akismet, a service of Automattic Inc. (United States). Personal data may be transferred outside the EEA.
- Analytics: Google Ireland Ltd. (Google Analytics 4), only after consent. Data may be transferred to the United States under the EU–US Data Privacy Framework.
We do not sell personal data. We disclose it to authorities only where the law requires.
4. Your rights
Under the GDPR you may, at any time:
- request access to the personal data we hold about you (Art. 15);
- request rectification of inaccurate data (Art. 16);
- request erasure (Art. 17);
- request restriction of processing (Art. 18);
- receive your data in a portable format (portability, Art. 20);
- object to processing based on legitimate interest (Art. 21);
- withdraw consent at any time, without affecting the lawfulness of processing before withdrawal (Art. 7(3)).
Send any request to cousinspree@horgebv.com. We respond within 30 days.
5. Complaints
You may lodge a complaint with the Hungarian supervisory authority:
Nemzeti Adatvédelmi és Információszabadság Hatóság (NAIH)
1055 Budapest, Falk Miksa utca 9–11., Hungary
Postal address: 1363 Budapest, Pf. 9.
Website: www.naih.hu · Email: ugyfelszolgalat@naih.hu
You may also seek a judicial remedy before the competent Hungarian court.
6. Automated decision-making
We do not use your personal data for automated decision-making or profiling within the meaning of Article 22 GDPR.
7. Security
We apply proportionate technical and organisational measures: transport encryption (HTTPS) on this site, access to enquiry data limited to the people who handle it, two-factor authentication on the accounts involved, and deletion on the schedules above. No internet service can promise absolute security; we do not claim certifications we do not hold.
8. Changes
We update this notice when our processing changes. The date at the top always reflects the current version.