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What you need to know:

Information obligation statement
Protecting your personal data is a matter of particular importance to us. We therefore process your data exclusively on the basis of the applicable legal provisions (GDPR, TKG 2003). In this privacy policy, we inform you about the most important aspects of data processing in connection with our website.

Contacting us
If you contact us via a form on the website or by email, the data you provide will be stored by us for six months for the purpose of processing your inquiry and in case of follow-up questions. We do not pass on this data without your consent.

Cookies
Our website uses so-called cookies. These are small text files that are stored on your device via your browser. They do not cause any harm.
We use cookies to make our website more user-friendly. Some cookies remain stored on your device until you delete them. They allow us to recognize your browser on your next visit.

If you do not wish this, you can configure your browser to inform you about the setting of cookies and allow this only in individual cases. Disabling cookies may limit the functionality of our website.

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Web analytics
Our website uses functions of the web analytics service Google Analytics. The provider is Google Inc., 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA. Cookies are used for this purpose, which enable an analysis of website usage by its users. The information generated in this way is transmitted to and stored on the provider’s server.

You can prevent this by configuring your browser so that no cookies are stored. We have concluded a corresponding data processing agreement with the provider.

Google Analytics privacy policy
We use the analytics tracking tool Google Analytics (GA) from the American company Google Inc. on our website. For the European region, Google Ireland Limited (Gordon House, Barrow Street, Dublin 4, Ireland) is responsible for all Google services. Google Analytics collects data about your actions on our website. For example, when you click a link, this action is stored in a cookie and sent to Google Analytics.

Using the reports provided by Google Analytics, we are able to better adapt our website and services to your needs. Below, we explain the tracking tool in more detail and inform you in particular about what data is stored and how you can prevent this. For Universal Analytics properties, a data retention period of 26 months is set by default. After this period, your user data is deleted.

IP anonymization
We have activated the IP anonymization function on this website. As a result, your IP address is shortened by Google within member states of the European Union or in other contracting states to the Agreement on the European Economic Area before being transmitted to the USA. Only in exceptional cases is the full IP address transmitted to a Google server in the USA and shortened there.

On behalf of the operator of this website, Google will use this information to evaluate your use of the website, compile reports on website activity, and provide other services related to website and internet usage to the website operator. The IP address transmitted by your browser as part of Google Analytics will not be merged with other Google data.

Google reCAPTCHA privacy policy
Our top priority is to secure and protect our website as well as possible for you and for us. To ensure this, we use Google reCAPTCHA from Google Inc. For the European region, Google Ireland Limited (Gordon House, Barrow Street, Dublin 4, Ireland) is responsible for all Google services.

reCAPTCHA allows us to determine whether you are a real person and not a robot or other spam software. By spam we mean any unsolicited information sent to us electronically. With traditional CAPTCHAs, you usually had to solve text or image puzzles. With Google reCAPTCHA, we generally do not need to bother you with such tasks. In most cases, it is sufficient to simply check a box to confirm that you are not a bot. With the new Invisible reCAPTCHA version, you may not even need to check a box. How this works exactly, and especially which data is used for this purpose, is explained further in this privacy policy.

Browser Plugin
You can prevent the storage of cookies by adjusting your browser software settings; however, please note that in this case you may not be able to fully use all functions of this website. You can also prevent Google from collecting the data generated by the cookie and related to your use of the website (including your IP address), as well as the processing of this data by Google, by downloading and installing the browser plugin available at the following link: https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout

Demographic features in Google Analytics
This website uses the “demographic features” function of Google Analytics. This allows reports to be generated containing information about the age, gender, and interests of website visitors. This data comes from interest-based advertising by Google as well as visitor data from third-party providers. This data cannot be assigned to a specific person.

You can deactivate this function at any time via the ad settings in your Google account or generally prevent the collection of your data by Google Analytics as described in the section “Objection to data collection.”

Your rights
You generally have the right to information, rectification, erasure, restriction of processing, data portability, withdrawal of consent, and objection. If you believe that the processing of your data violates data protection law or that your data protection rights have otherwise been infringed, you may lodge a complaint with the supervisory authority. In Austria, this is the Data Protection Authority.