The purpose of this privacy note is to inform our Users about Personal Data beeing processed when using our webiste. We aim to provide our Users with full transparancy concerning their Personal Data.
We obtain information about Users everytime they are visiting our website. Your browser needs to send a request to a server in order to display our website. This request contains information about, i.e. the browser You use or Your device’s system. Further, like many other websites we use cookies (small text files) which get stored on Your device to analyse the usage of our site.
When You’re visiting this website, following Personal Data gets collected:
We never use this information to identify single persons but only for anonymous statistical analysis in order to improve our website.
Further, if You contact us via email or similar mediums, we collect Your contact data for answering Your request.
The Personal Data collected by us is used for the purposes of this website only. We will retain and evaluate information on Your recent visits to our website and how You move around different sections of our website for analytics purposes to understand how people use our website so that we can make it more intuitive and create blog post which fit the interest of our visitors.
Statistics we obtain from these data are for example:
The legal basis of processing is our legitimate interest (Art. 6 (1) f GDPR) of analysis, and optimization of our website and its content as well as answering questions or contact requests by the User.
In order to analyse our website traffic we use Google Analytics, a web analytics service of the Google Inc. (“Google”), as well as Google’s Google Tag Manager.
For this purpose, data like
is usually sent to Google’s servers in the USA and stored there.
We added a piece of code to this integration of Google Analytics which anonymizes Your IP address. It works by shortening Users’ IP addresses within 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 complete IP address be sent to a Google server and shortened within the US.
Google is certified under the Privacy Shield Program and thus guaranties GDPR compliance including appropriate security measures to protect User data. (https://www.privacyshield.gov/participant?id=a2zt000000001L5AAI&status=Active).
Google will process these data for us in order to provide us with usage statistics as well as reports on activities on our website.
In order to prevent collection and processing of Your website usage data through Google Analytics, You can download and install the browser add on found under this link https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=en.
You will find further information on Google’s data usage and privacy settings in their privacy notice
We process and store data only as long as they are required by the purpose they have been collected for.
Therefore:
Personal Data obtained for the purpose of analytics will be stored for 14 months and either erased or anonymized after that period.
Personal Data obtained by contact requests will be retained as long as needed to answer Your requests.
Once the retention period expires, Personal Data shall be deleted. Therefore, the right to access, the right to erasure, the right to rectification and the right to data portability cannot be enforced after expiration of the retention period.
Users may exercise certain rights regarding their Data processed by us or other Data Controller.
In particular, Users have the right to do the following:
Withdraw their consent at any time. Users have the right to withdraw consent where they have previously given their consent to the processing of their Personal Data.
Object to processing of their Data. Users have the right to object to the processing of their Data if the processing is carried out on a legal basis other than consent.
Access their Data. Users have the right to learn if Data is being processed by the Data Controller, obtain disclosure regarding certain aspects of the processing and obtain a copy of the Data undergoing processing.
Verify and seek rectification. Users have the right to verify the accuracy of their Data and ask for it to be updated or corrected.
Restrict the processing of their Data. Users have the right, under certain circumstances, to restrict the processing of their Data. In this case, the Data Controller will not process their Data for any purpose other than storing it.
Have their Personal Data deleted or otherwise removed. Users have the right, under certain circumstances, to obtain the erasure of their Data from the Data Controller.
Receive their Data and have it transferred to another Data Controller. Users have the right to receive their Data in a structured, commonly used and machine readable format and, if technically feasible, to have it transmitted to another controller without any hindrance. This provision is applicable provided that the Data is processed by automated means and that the processing is based on the User’s consent, on a contract which the User is part of or on pre-contractual obligations thereof.
Lodge a complaint. Users have the right to bring a claim before their competent data protection authority.
Any requests to exercise User rights can be directed to the Data Controller through the contact details provided at the top of this document. These requests can be exercised free of charge and will be addressed as early as possible and always within one month.
The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) (EU) 2016/679 is a regulation in EU law on data protection and privacy for all individuals within the European Union (EU) and the European Economic Area (EEA)
Any information relating to an identified or identifiable natural person (‘data subject’); an identifiable natural person is one who can be identified, directly or indirectly, in particular by reference to an identifier such as a name, an identification number, location data, an online identifier or to one or more factors specific to the physical, physiological, genetic, mental, economic, cultural or social identity of that natural person.
Individuals using this Application who, unless otherwise specified, coincides with the Data Subject.
Natural person to whom Personal Data refers.
The entity that determines the purposes, conditions and means of the processing of personal data
This privacy statement has been prepared based on provisions of multiple legislations, including Art. 13/14 of Regulation (EU) 2016/679 (General Data Protection Regulation)
We reserve the right to make changes to this privacy notice at any time by giving notice to our Users on this page. We strongly recommend to check this page often, referring to the date of the last modification listed at the bottom.
This privacy note has last been modified on 18. July 2018