Privacy Policy

Last updated: 12 November 2026 · Deutsche Fassung

Who is responsible

Mehmet Ali Turushan Aktay
Luruper Chaussee 39
22761 Hamburg
Germany
Email: turushande@gmail.com

The simulator stores no personal data

Layoff Simulator runs in your browser. There is no account, no sign-up and no form. The cases are fictional and are generated from a random number. Your moves never leave your device. Your album of discovered rights, your sound setting and a note that you have seen the first-case tips live only in your browser's local storage.

Data processed when you visit

When you open the website, the hosting provider automatically processes information your browser sends: IP address, date and time of access, browser and operating system, the page requested, the amount of data transferred and the response status code.

The legal basis is Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR. The legitimate interest is the stable and secure operation of the website.

Hosting

This website is delivered by Cloudflare, Inc. (101 Townsend Street, San Francisco, CA 94107, USA). Cloudflare processes technically necessary data, in particular the IP address, to deliver the content and to protect against attacks. A data processing agreement with Cloudflare is in place. Transfers to the USA rest on the EU Standard Contractual Clauses. More information: cloudflare.com/privacypolicy.

Cookies and local storage

This website sets no analytics, tracking or marketing cookies. Your chosen language is kept in your browser's local storage, so the simulator starts in the same language next time. That is necessary for the function you asked for (§ 25(2) no. 2 TDDDG). Fonts are loaded from this website itself, not from a third party.

Visit counting with Umami

This website counts page views with Umami, an open-source analytics tool. I run Umami myself, on my own server in Helsinki, Finland, inside the EU. The server is hosted by Hetzner Online GmbH, Industriestr. 25, 91710 Gunzenhausen, Germany. The data is not shared with third parties.

Umami sets no cookies and stores no IP addresses. It records the page viewed, the referring page, the country, the browser, the operating system and the device type. To count visits, Umami builds a salted hash from the IP address, the browser identifier and a secret value that changes daily. The IP address cannot be recovered from that hash. No user profile is created. Umami also counts anonymous usage events: the start of a case (with the language and the screen layout), its end (with the type of result, the score, the language and the screen layout), dealing a case, opening a sheet (album, best line, amounts, what the simulator covers, settings, share), sharing a result (with the kind of share), and switching the sound. The case you played and your moves are not sent.

The legal basis is Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR. The legitimate interest is measuring reach. No consent banner is needed: Umami stores nothing on your device and reads nothing from it, so § 25 TDDDG does not apply.

Anonymous result statistics

At the end of a case, the simulator sends three values to this website: the number of the case played, the type of ending and the score. They feed counters that every player sees at the end, such as the average score. Only those counters are stored. Your IP address is checked once on sending, to limit abuse, and is not stored. The legal basis is Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR.

Contact by email

If you contact me by email, your details are stored to handle the request. The legal basis is Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR. Email runs on Google (Gmail, Google Ireland Limited). Details: policies.google.com/privacy. Your message is deleted once its purpose has ended and no legal retention duty applies.

Your rights

Under the GDPR you have the right of access (Art. 15), rectification (Art. 16), erasure (Art. 17), restriction of processing (Art. 18), data portability (Art. 20) and objection (Art. 21). To use them, write to the contact details above.

Right to complain

You may complain to a data protection authority. The authority responsible for Hamburg is:

Der Hamburgische Beauftragte für Datenschutz und Informationsfreiheit
Ludwig-Erhard-Straße 22, 7. OG
20459 Hamburg
datenschutz-hamburg.de

Not legal advice

Layoff Simulator is an educational simulator with fictional cases. It does not replace legal advice for your situation. If a layoff affects you, talk to an employment lawyer, your union or your Betriebsrat.

Changes

This policy is updated when the law or the website's technology changes. The current version is always on this page.