We process personal data primarily for the following purposes:
We receive personal data
The provision of your personal data is voluntary. However, business relationships with us will not be possible if the necessary personal data is not available to us. In the same way, we can't guarantee all the functions of our websites if you do not provide the necessary personal data.
Legal bases for our processing of your data are:
For the aforementioned reasons we may forward your personal data to the following recipients:
In some cases, data is also forwarded to recipients outside Austria and, in exceptional cases, to non-secure third countries. In this case, however, we ensure that suitable privacy safeguards are in place, e.g. through binding intra-corporate data protection regulations or EU standard data protection clauses.
Your personal data will only be stored by us for as long as it is reasonably necessary to achieve the aforementioned purposes. We also store your personal data for as long as there are statutory retention obligations or the limitation periods for potential legal claims have not yet expired.
You are entitled (subject to applicable law), among other things, (i) to verify whether and what personal data we have stored about you and to receive copies of this data, (ii) to request the rectification, amendment or deletion of your personal data that is incorrectly or improperly processed, (iii) to request us to limit the processing of your personal data and (iv) to object to the processing of your personal data or revoke the previously given consent for the processing in certain circumstances, (v) to request data portability, (vi) to know the identity of third parties to whom your personal data has been forwarded and (vii) to lodge a complaint with the relevant authority.
So-called cookies are used on our websites. A cookie is a small file that can be stored on your computer when you visit a website. In principle, we use cookies to provide users with additional functions on the website, e.g. to help you navigate a website, to enable you to continue using the website where you left it and/or store your preferences or settings, if you visit the website again. Cookies can't access, read or edit any other data on your computer.
Most of the cookies on our websites are so-called session or temporary cookies. They are automatically deleted when you leave the website. In addition, we use persistent cookies, which remain stored on the hard drive. However, these can be manually deleted in your browser. Otherwise, these cookies last between 1 month and 10 years. We use these persistent cookies to recognise you when you next visit our website in order to make the website more comfortable for you to use and to adapt the website to your requirements in the best possible way.
We also use third-party cookies to help make the website more interesting for you. Therefore, temporary and persistent cookies from third parties are also stored when using the websites, provided we have your consent. The sole purpose of these third-party cookies is to give third party providers the opportunity to address you with targeted advertising. We assume no liability for the lawful use of cookies by third parties.
You can actively consent to the storage of cookies over and above a technically required extent when visiting our websites. You also have the option to enable or disable the storage of only certain types of cookies. If you want to adjust your cookie settings at a later date you can do so in the cookie settings at any time.
Our websites use Google Analytics, a web analytics service from Google Inc. ("Google"), when you have agreed to the use by activating performance cookies in the cookies settings. Google Analytics uses cookies to allow an analysis of the use of the website and to provide us with easy-to-use website access statistics in a cost-efficient way. The information generated by the cookies about the use of our websites is usually transferred to a Google server in the USA and stored there, if you have given your consent.
Our websites use the option offered by Google Analytics for IP anonymisation. This means that the IP address of the user is being shortened by Google within the member states of the European Union or in other contracting states to the Agreement on the European Economic Area. Only in exceptional cases will the full IP address be sent to a Google server in the USA and shortened there. Google will use this information on our behalf to evaluate your use of the websites, compile reports about website activity and to provide us with other services relating to website and internet usage. The IP address provided by the user's browser as part of Google Analytics will not be merged with any other Google data.
You can prevent the collection of data generated by the cookie and relating to use of the website (including your IP address) to Google, as well as the processing of this data by Google, by downloading and installing the browser plug-in available under the following link: http://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=en
Further information about Google's Terms of Use and Google's Privacy Policy can be found at http://www.google.com/analytics/terms/de.html or http://www.google.at/intl/at/policies.
The websites use Google Re-Marketing, when you have agreed to the use by activating marketing cookies in the cookies settings. Google Re-Marketing is an advertising service from Google Inc. that allows us to present you with targeted advertising of suspected interest based on your usage behaviour during previous visits to our websites, if you have given your consent. This advertising only appears on Google advertising spaces, either on advertising space from Google Adwords or the Google Display Network.
You can opt out of Google Re-Marketing in Google Ads Preference Manager or edit your settings.
Occasionally and temporarily we use Hotjar to get a better understanding of the needs of our users and to optimise the website design, when you have agreed to the use by activating performance cookies in the cookies settings. Using Hotjar technology we get a better understanding of our users' experiences with the websites e.g. how much time users need to fill in forms. Hotjar collects information about the user's device, its anonymised IP address, the geographic location, language settings as well as user interactions such as mouse movements, clicks and keyboard input. In addition, Hotjar uses cookies to recognise visitors. The information will not be used by Hotjar or us to identify individual users or be merged with other data about individual users. For more information, Hotjar's Privacy Policy can be found here.
We use "Short.IO" to make our websites accessible via short and meaningful URLs under our own vanity domain. The provider is Short.cm Inc, Delaware, USA.
Short.IO enables the creation and management of so-called short URLs, informative pretty URLs and associated QR codes. When these URLs are accessed, Short.IO carries out a corresponding redirect to the stored target page.
Data processing is carried out on the basis of Article 6 paragraph 1 (f) GDPR. We have a legitimate interest in making our websites accessible via simple and meaningful short URLs.
We are available to answer questions or concerns about the processing of your personal data.
Inquiry regarding the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)