Privacy Policy

The protection of your personal data is of particular concern to us. We process your data exclusively on the basis of the legal provisions (GDPR, Data Protection Act, Telecommunications Act 2021). In this privacy policy, we inform you about the most important aspects of data processing within the scope of our website. Additionally, we inform you about your rights as an affected person of data processing. We kindly ask you to read this privacy policy carefully.

Every access to our website and every retrieval of a file stored on this website is automatically logged. The following information is logged:

• Name of the accessed file
• Date
• Time of access
• Web browser
• Requesting domain
• IP address of the requesting computer

These data cannot be attributed to specific individuals without checking additional data sources and are only used for internal system-related and statistical purposes and are not further evaluated as long as there is no unlawful use of the website.

The use of IP addresses is based on the legal basis of "legitimate interest," which corresponds to the legal provisions of Art. 6 para. 1 lit f (legitimate interest) of the GDPR. Our legitimate interest within the meaning of the GDPR is to improve our offer and our website presence.

Personal data that you transmit to us electronically on this website, such as name, email address, or other personal information, will only be used by us for the purpose specified (to carry out the contact request you initiated), securely stored, and not disclosed to third parties/only disclosed to third parties in necessary cases (to whom, if applicable, why).

If you contact us via the form on the website or by email, the data you provide will be stored by us for the purpose of processing the request and in case of follow-up questions for six months. This data will not be disclosed to third parties without your consent.
We ask for your assistance in protecting your data by not sending us confidential information via unencrypted communication channels. 

The data processing is carried out on the basis of the legal basis of 'legitimate interest,' which corresponds to the legal provisions of Art. 6 para. 1 lit f (legitimate interest) of the GDPR. Our legitimate interest within the meaning of the GDPR is to improve our services and our website presence.

We would like to point out that we use cookies when you visit our website. These are small data units that are stored on the end device of users when they visit our website.

We use cookies to make our offer user-friendly. Some of these cookies are transferred from our server to your computer system, these are session cookies. They are automatically deleted from your hard drive after the end of the browser session. Others, permanent (tracking) cookies remain on your computer system and enable us to recognize your computer on your next visit.

Cookies can be deleted at any time via the appropriate settings of your web browser. Furthermore, cookies can be generally deactivated via the respective browser settings, although this may lead to restrictions in the usability of our website in some cases. If you are unsure how to change the settings in your browser or delete cookies, please refer to the instructions provided by your browser (under 'Help' in the browser menu). 

Our website includes scripts and web beacons (also called pixel tags) that are used to track visitors to our website. This allows us to determine when and from where a specific website is accessed from a particular computer. Additionally, for the optimization of our services, we use the analytics software Matomo, which is self-hosted by us. The data collected through this software is not shared with third parties.

This software allows us to analyze online behavior in terms of time, geographical location, and usage of this website. This information is collected via web beacons and/or cookies. The information obtained from the web beacons and/or cookies is anonymized and aggregated into pseudonymous usage profiles. IP addresses are anonymized (IP masking), making it impossible to associate them with individual users.

You can revoke your consent at any time by deleting the cookies in your browser or changing your privacy settings.

In processing our data, we are supported by some partners, known as data processors. These have been selected with the utmost care and in terms of integrity and reliability, and appropriate GDPR-compliant contracts have been concluded.

On this website, there are maps provided by https://basemap.at on some pages. basemap.at is a freely available mapping provider based on OpenStreetMap. The integration of the map on our website is done through JavaScript or by fetching the so-called tiles (map images) from the provider's server. As a result, your IP address and possibly other data about your visit to this website are transmitted to the basemap.at server.

According to their own statements, personal data within the meaning of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) is neither collected, processed, nor displayed by basemap.at. basemap.at is based on a cooperation of the GIS authorities of the federal states (geoland.at) with the partners Austrian Association of Cities and Towns, ÖVDAT, and the BEV.

In embedding the map data, we rely on Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f GDPR, i.e., as website operators, we have a legitimate interest in improving the user-friendliness of our website. 

To ensure sufficient data security when submitting forms, we use the reCAPTCHA service provided by Google Inc. in certain cases. This is primarily used to distinguish whether the input is made by a natural person or is being misused by automated processing. The service includes the transmission of the IP address and, if necessary, other data required by Google for the reCAPTCHA service. The separate privacy policies of Google Inc. apply to this. For further information on Google Inc.'s privacy policies, please visit https://www.google.com/intl/en/policies/privacy/.