Data protection

This data protection declaration explains the type, scope and purpose of the processing personal data (hereinafter referred to as “data”) within our online offering and with it associated websites, functions and content as well as external online presences, such as our social media profiles (hereinafter collectively referred to as “online offer”). With regard to the terms used, such as “personal data” or their “processing”, we refer to the definitions in Article 4 of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).

Name/Company: AUSTRIAN FIBERS INSTITUTE
Street No.: Kolingasse 1/1/5
Zip code, city, country: A-1090 Vienna, Austria
Managing Director: Andreas Dorner
Telephone number: +43 664 6216703
Email address: office@dornbirn-gfc.com

• Inventory data (e.g., names, addresses).
• Contact details (e.g., email, telephone numbers).
• Usage data (e.g. websites visited, interest in content, access times).

No special categories of data are processed.

• Visitors and users of the online offering.
• Speakers, authors of the lectures at the Dornbirn GFC

Below we refer to the affected persons collectively as “users”.

• Provision of the online offer, its contents and functions.
• Service and customer care.
• Answering contact requests and communicating with users.

November 9, 2023

In accordance with Art. 13 GDPR, we will inform you of the legal basis for our data processing. If the legal basis is not stated in the data protection declaration, the following applies: The legal basis for obtaining consent is Article 6 Paragraph 1 Letter a and Article 7 GDPR, the legal basis for processing to fulfill our services and implement contractual measures as well Answering inquiries is Art. 6 Para. 1 lit. b GDPR, the legal basis for processing to fulfill our legal obligations is Art. 6 Para. 1 lit. c GDPR, and the legal basis for processing to protect our legitimate interests is Art 6 Paragraph 1 Letter f GDPR. In the event that the vital interests of the data subject or another natural person require the processing of personal data, Art. 6 Para. 1 lit. d GDPR serves as the legal basis.

We ask you to regularly inform yourself about the content of our data protection declaration. We will adapt the data protection declaration as soon as changes to the data processing we carry out make this necessary. We will inform you as soon as the changes require your cooperation (e.g. consent) or other individual notification.

3.1) In accordance with Art. 32 GDPR, we take into account the state of the art, the implementation costs and the type, scope, circumstances and purposes of the processing as well as the different probability of occurrence and severity of the risk for the rights and freedoms of natural persons, appropriate technical and organizational measures to ensure a level of protection appropriate to the risk; The measures include, in particular, ensuring the confidentiality, integrity and availability of data by controlling physical access to the data, as well as the access, input, distribution, ensuring availability and its separation. We have also set up procedures that ensure the exercise of the rights of those affected, the deletion of data and the response to threats to data. Furthermore, we take the protection of personal data into account when developing or selecting hardware, software and processes, in accordance with the principle of data protection through technology design and through data protection-friendly default settings (Art. 25 GDPR).

3.2) Security measures include, in particular, the encrypted transmission of data between your browser and our server.

4.1) If, as part of our processing, we disclose data to other people and companies (processors or third parties), transmit it to them or otherwise grant them access to the data, this only takes place on the basis of legal permission, you have consented, a legal obligation this provides or on the basis of our legitimate interests (e.g. when using agents, web hosts, etc.).

4.2) If we commission third parties to process data on the basis of a so-called “order processing contract”, this is done on the basis of Art. 28 GDPR.

If we process data in a third country (i.e. outside the European Union (EU) or the European Economic Area (EEA)) or if this occurs as part of the use of third-party services or disclosure or transmission of data to third parties, this will only occur if it is done to fulfill our (pre-)contractual obligations, on the basis of your consent, on the basis of a legal obligation or on the basis of our legitimate interests. Subject to legal or contractual permissions, we only process or have the data processed in a third country if the special requirements of Art. 44 ff. GDPR are met. This means that the processing is carried out, for example, on the basis of special guarantees, such as the officially recognized determination of a data protection level that corresponds to the EU (e.g. for the USA through the “Privacy Shield”) or compliance with officially recognized special contractual obligations (so-called “standard contractual clauses”).

6.1) You have the right to request confirmation as to whether the data in question is being processed and to receive information about this data as well as further information and a copy of the data in accordance with Art. 15 GDPR.

6.2) You have accordingly. Art. 16 GDPR gives you the right to have the data concerning you completed or to request the correction of incorrect data concerning you.

6.3) In accordance with Article 17 GDPR, you have the right to request that the relevant data be deleted immediately, or alternatively a restriction in accordance with Art. 18 GDPR to request processing of the data.

6.4) You have the right to request that the data concerning you that you have provided to us in accordance with Article 20 of the GDPR and to request that it be transmitted to other responsible persons.

6.5) In accordance with Article 77 of the GDPR, you also have the right to lodge a complaint with the responsible supervisory authority to submit.

You have the right to revoke your consent in accordance with Article 7 Paragraph 3 of the GDPR with effect for the future.

You can object to the future processing of your data at any time in accordance with Art. 21 GDPR. The objection can in particular be made against processing for direct advertising purposes.

We use temporary and permanent cookies, i.e. small files that are stored on users' devices (for an explanation of the term and function, see the last section of this data protection declaration). Some of the cookies serve security purposes or are necessary to operate our online offering (e.g. to display the website) or to save the user decision when confirming the cookie banner. In addition, we or our technology partners use cookies to measure reach and for marketing purposes, which users will inform about over the course of the process Privacy policy will be informed.

A general objection to the use of cookies used for online marketing purposes can be made for a large number of services, especially in the case of tracking, via the US website http://www.aboutads.info/choices/ or the EU website http://www.youronlinechoices.com/ can be explained. Furthermore, the storage of cookies can be achieved by switching them off in the browser settings. Please note that not all functions of this online offer may then be able to be used.

10.1) The data processed by us will be deleted or its processing restricted in accordance with Articles 17 and 18 GDPR. Unless expressly stated in this data protection declaration, the data stored by us will be deleted as soon as they are no longer required for their intended purpose and the deletion does not conflict with any legal retention obligations. Unless the data is deleted because it is required for other legally permissible purposes, its processing will be restricted. This means that the data will be blocked and not processed for other purposes. This applies, for example, to data that must be retained for commercial or tax reasons.

10.2) According to legal requirements, storage takes place in particular for 7 years in accordance with Section 132 Paragraph 1 BAO (accounting documents, receipts/invoices, accounts, receipts, business papers, list of income and expenses, etc.), for 22 years in connection with real estate and for 10 years for documents relating to electronically provided services, telecommunications, radio and television services that are provided to non-entrepreneurs in EU member states and for which the Mini-One-Stop-Shop (MOSS) is used.

11.1) We process inventory data (e.g. names and addresses as well as contact details of users), contract data (e.g. services used, names of contact persons, payment information) in order to fulfill our contractual obligations and services in accordance with Article 6 Paragraph 1 lit b. GDPR. The entries marked as mandatory in online forms are required for the conclusion of the contract.

11.2) Users as part of the lecture registration must create a user account. As part of registration, the required mandatory information is provided to users. User accounts are not public and cannot be indexed by search engines. If users have canceled their user account, their data relating to the user account will be deleted. We are entitled to irretrievably delete all user data stored during the term of the contract.

11.3) As part of the registration and use of our online services, we store the IP address and the time of the respective user action. The storage is based on our legitimate interests, as well as the user's protection against misuse and other unauthorized use. In principle, this data will not be passed on to third parties unless it is necessary to pursue our claims or there is a legal obligation to do so in accordance with Article 6 (1) (c) GDPR.

11.4) Deletion takes place after statutory warranty and comparable obligations have expired; the necessity of storing the data is checked every three years; In the case of legal archiving obligations, deletion occurs after their expiry (end of commercial law (6 years) and tax law (10 years) retention obligations); Information in the customer account remains until it is deleted.

12.1) When contacting us (via contact form or email), the user's information will be processed to process the contact request and process it in accordance with Article 6 Paragraph 1 Letter b) GDPR.

12.2) User information can be stored in our customer relationship management system (“CRM system”) or comparable inquiry organization.

12.3) We delete the requests if they are no longer necessary. We review the necessity every two years; We permanently store inquiries from customers who have a customer account and refer to the customer account details for deletion. In the case of legal archiving obligations, deletion occurs after their expiry (end of commercial law (6 years) and tax law (10 years) retention obligations).

13.1) Based on our legitimate interests within the meaning of Article 6 Paragraph 1 Letter f of the GDPR, we collect data about every access to the server on which this service is located (so-called server log files). The access data includes the name of the website accessed, file, date and time of access, amount of data transferred, notification of successful access, browser type and version, the user's operating system, referrer URL (the previously visited page), IP address and the requesting provider .

13.2) Log file information is stored for security reasons (e.g. to investigate acts of abuse or fraud) for a maximum of seven days and then deleted. Data whose further storage is necessary for evidentiary purposes is excluded from deletion until the respective incident has been finally clarified.

14.1) We maintain online presences within social networks and platforms in order to be able to communicate with customers, interested parties and users active there and to inform them about our services. When accessing the respective networks and platforms, the terms and conditions and data processing guidelines of their respective operators apply.

14.2) Unless otherwise stated in our data protection declaration, we process users' data if they communicate with us on social networks and platforms, e.g. write posts on our online presence or send us messages.

15.1) Cookies are information that is transmitted from our web server or third-party web servers to the users' web browsers and stored there for later retrieval. Cookies can be small files or other types of information storage.

15.2) We use “session cookies”, which are only stored for the duration of the current visit to our online presence (e.g. to save your login status). A randomly generated unique identification number is stored in a session cookie, a so-called session ID. A cookie also contains information about its origin and the storage period. These cookies cannot store any other data. Session cookies are deleted when you have finished using our online offering and, for example, log out or close the browser.

15.3) Users will be informed about the use of cookies as part of pseudonymous reach measurement in the context of this data protection declaration.

15.4) If users do not want cookies to be stored on their computer, they are asked to deactivate the corresponding option in the system settings of their browser. Saved cookies can be deleted in the browser's system settings. The exclusion of cookies can lead to functional restrictions of this online offer.

15.5) You can use cookies that are used to measure reach and for advertising purposes via the deactivation page of the Network Advertising Initiative (http://optout.networkadvertising.org/) and also the US website (http://www.aboutads.info /choices) or the European website (http://www.youronlinechoices.com/uk/your-ad-choices/).