1. General Information and Legal Basis

Our website processes personal data. The legal basis for the use of cookies and external services in Austria is Section 165(3) of the Telecommunications Act 2021 (TKG 2021) and Article 6(1)(a) of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) (consent). For services that are technically essential, the processing is based on our legitimate interest (Article 6(1)(f) of the GDPR).

2. Technically Necessary Services (Functional)

These services are strictly necessary for the proper functioning of the website and do not require active consent:

• Complianz: This tool stores the user’s cookie preferences on their device.
• Polylang: Stores the visitor’s preferred language selection.

3. Services Requiring Consent (Statistics & Media)

These services are loaded and executed only after active consent is given via our Complianz cookie banner:

• Jetpack & Jetpack Boost (Automattic Inc., USA): Used to optimize loading times (Core Web Vitals) and for statistical analysis of website usage. Data (e.g., IP address, loading times) is transmitted to Automattic’s servers.
• YouTube (Google Ireland Limited / USA): Content (e.g., videos) from YouTube is embedded on our website. When played, cookies are set by YouTube and data is transmitted to Google’s servers.

4. Security and Contact Services

• Google reCAPTCHA (Google Ireland Limited): To protect our forms against spam and misuse by automated bots. This involves analyzing connection data and user behavior.
• WPForms Lite & WP Mail SMTP: When you submit inquiries to us via the contact form, the information you provide in the form (name, email address, message text) is processed for the purpose of handling your inquiry and securely transmitted via SMTP (Art. 6(1)(b) GDPR).
• UpdraftPlus (Data Backup): To ensure website security, regular backups of the website database are created and stored in encrypted form.

5. Your Rights and Withdrawal of Consent

You may withdraw your consent at any time with future effect. To do so, you have the following options:

• Change your preferences directly via the link in our Complianz cookie banner.
• Delete the cookies in your browser settings.

You generally have the rights to access, rectification, erasure, restriction, data portability, withdrawal, and objection. In Austria, the Data Protection Authority (Datenschutzbehörde, DSB) is responsible for this.