Privacy Policy

Consortium of companies indicated in Imprint section of the website (hereinafter: "Controller" or "we") respects your privacy and is committed to protecting it during and after your visit to this website (hereinafter: "Website"), visiting our business locations and when you use any of our products or services. We have set up appropriate physical, electronic and management procedures to protect the processing of personal data. By accessing the Website, entering our business locations and purchasing any of our products or using our services, you accept this Privacy Policy and understand and acknowledge that we collect and use your personal data as specified in this Policy. As a Controller, we process your personal data in accordance with the applicable rules on personal data protection, in particular in accordance with the General Data Protection Regulation (EU) 679/2016 (GDPR) and Austrian Data Protection Act (DSG).

As a Controller we process your personal data, that is information that can directly or indirectly identify you, in particular through identifiers such as your first name, last name, email address, phone number, IP address and other personal information, especially when: • you contact us via e-mail or website form • make comments or ask questions • we process your message • you access our Website • you are a visitor to our business locations • we send the newsletter • we issue an invoice for products/services • we cooperate with you as our suppliers and business partners We process personal data on the basis of your consent, legitimate interest, for the performance of a contractual obligation, and on the basis of a legal obligation.

Through the Newsletter, we provide you with information related to events that we organize independently or in cooperation with business partners. Each Newsletter recipient is provided with a simple and quick unsubscribe with the one-click unsubscribe feature included in each Newsletter. We send the newsletter on the basis of either consent or legitimate interest. Data is kept until the respondent withdraws consent or objects to the sending of the Newsletter.

We process Personal data only for the time necessary to achieve the purpose of processing them. We only process personal data that we process on the basis of consent until you withdraw your consent, while you can object to the processing of personal data on the basis of legitimate interest. At the end of the term, we will destroy stored personal data printed on paper in a safe way, while we will irreversibly delete data in electronic form.

Your Personal Data may be disclosed in the following cases: • entities necessary for the execution of the event • authorized PR and marketing agencies • entities that maintain our IT systems • entities that we have authorized to process Personal Data (e.g. bookkeeping service) • law enforcement services and public authorities when required by applicable law • to our legal advisors in case of the need for legal procedures • to business partners in accordance with appropriate legal grounds

Cookies are text files that are stored in the computer system via the internet browser. Our Website uses cookies to provide you with the service and fulfil legal obligations. We may, with your consent, use cookies to analyse traffic on our pages or to provide support. You can prevent the setting of cookies at any time by adjusting your browser settings. On its Websites, the controller has integrated Google Analytics components (with anonymization function). The operator of the Google Analytics service component is Alphabet Inc. For web analytics, the IP address is shortened and anonymized.

You have the following rights regarding your personal data: a) Right to correction: You can ask us to correct or supplement incomplete or incorrect data at any time. b) Right of access: You have the right to receive a confirmation about whether we process your personal data or not. c) Right to erasure: You can ask us to delete your personal data if we have processed them illegally. d) Right to restriction of processing: You can ask us to limit the processing of your data. e) The right to data portability: You can ask us to deliver the data in a structured form, in the usual machine-readable format. f) The right to object: You can file a complaint against data processing. g) The right to complain: You have the right to file a complaint with the Austrian Data Protection Authority (Barichgasse 40-42, 1030 Wien, https://www.dsb.gv.at/).

If you wish to exercise any of the above rights, please contact us using our contact details in this privacy policy. We reserve the right to change or update this Privacy Policy at any time and without prior notice.