Data Protection

Data Protection Information - CRAVEzero

The following pertains to the use of this website. As the party responsible for the data processing (controller), we process the personal data collected via our website and store them for the period, which is required to achieve the specified purpose and to comply with the statutory requirements. The following text informs you of the data we collect and the way we process the collected data. We also inform you about on data privacy rights as they pertain to the use of our website.

Pursuant to Article 4 No. 1 GDPR, personal data are all data referring to a specific or identifiable natural person.

Content

  1. Name and contact information of the person who signs responsible for the data processing (controller) and of the society’s data protection officer
  2. Processing of Personal Data and Purposes of the Data Processing
  3. Transfer of Personal Data to Third Parties
  4. Cookies
  5. Web analysis/Tracking
  6. Social Plugins
  7. YouTube
  8. OpenStreetMap
  9. Your Rights as Affected Person
  10. Data Security
  11. Timeliness of the Data and Amendments to this Data Protection Information
  12. Severability

  1. Name and contact information of the person who signs responsible for the data processing (controller) and of the society’s data protection officer

 

This data protection information shall apply to the processing of data on our website www.cravezero.eu by the project coordinator, the:

 

AEE INTEC

AEE - Institute for Sustainable Technologies

Feldgasse 19

A-8200 Gleisdorf

 

Ph.: 0043-3112-5886-0

Fax: 0043-03112-5886-18

E-mail: office@aee.at

Internet: www.aee-intec.at

 

(in the following referred to as „AEE INTEC“)

E-Mail: office@aee.at

You can reach the data protection representative of the AEE INTEC at the above address c/o Data Protection Officer or at office@aee.at

Please feel free to contact the data protection officer directly at any time with your questions concerning your data protection rights and/or your rights as affected person.

 

  1. Processing of Personal Data and Purposes of the Data Processing

a) During your Website Visit

Every time you visit our web pages, our website servers save a protocol of your device accessing our website. This storage is temporary and lasts only until the automated deletion.

Our website server saves the following access data until their automated deletion:

The IP address of the requesting device

Access date and time

Name and URL of the accessed data

The transmitted data volume

The message whether the access was successful

The used browser and operating system

Name of the Internet Provider (ISP)

The referring website (referring URL)

The server processes these data for the following purposes:

To enable the use of the website (link connection [forward setup])

Administration of the network infrastructure

Appropriate technical and organisational measures to ensure IT systems and data security commensurate with the available state of the art technology

Fault Analysis and Threat Mitigation

To offer user-friendly service

To optimize the Internet offering

Legal foundations for the above processing purposes:

Processing in response to a website visitor according to numbers 1-2:

Article 6 para. 1, page1, lit. b (Requirement for compliance with provisions of the website user contract),

Processing pursuant to numbers 3-4:

Article 6 para. 1, page 1, lit. c GDPR (legal obligation to implement technical and organisational measures to ensure secure data processing according to Article 32 GDPR and

Article 6 para. 1, page 1, lit. f GDPR (legitimate interests in data processing for the network and information security) as well as

Data processing pursuant to numbers 5-6:

Article 6 para. 1, page1 lit. f GDPR (legitimate interests) - our legitimate interests in the processing of data are based in our desire to offer user-friendly optimised web pages. Our legitimate interests also include direct advertising.

After the specified period of 30 days, our web server automatically deletes the above-mentioned data. To the extent that data are processed longer for purposes according to numbers 2–6, we will anonymise or delete the data as soon as their storage no longer serves the respective purpose(s).

Furthermore, we place cookies on the devices of our website visitors and use analytical services. For more information on the use of cookies and analytical services, please see Sections 4 and 5 of this Data Protection Statement.

 

b) Visitor Registration for Events

Paid Events

In the course of accepting the registration for fee-based seminars, workshops, symposia or conferences, we collect the following required data:

Last name, first name

Address

Payment information, dependent on the selected payment procedure (e.g. credit card, bank account) and

E-Mail address.

Furthermore, we may collect additional voluntary data.

We collect the required data in order to identify you as participant of the event, to check the provided information for plausibility, to reserve a place for the participant in the event and to establish a contract with you. We also want to supply the participant with information during and after the event, offer the participant an optimal participation and allow us to plan and execute a smooth running event.

c) Subscriptions to our Newsletter

We will send our newsletter to your email address on a regular basis providing you agree explicitly to our use of your email address as recipient address for our newsletter according to Article 6 para. 1, page 1 lit. a GDPR. The newsletters inform you about our institute and other facilities and events. To receive our newsletter, we ask you to provide us with the following required data:

E-Mail address,

Assurance of perusal and acceptance of the data protection policy,

Selection of topics

You may volunteer to provide us with additional information about you (first name, last name, title, academic title and company/research institution). We use this information to address you personally in our newsletter.

Upon receiving your subscription, we will email you a subscription notice. Please confirm the receipt of this notice. We need this confirmation to send our newsletter to you. This process is known as double opt-in procedure. Your response shows us that you are indeed the person who requested our newsletter.

You may unsubscribe from our newsletter at any time. You find an ‘unsubscribe’ link at the end of every one of our newsletters.

Upon receiving your unsubscribe notice, we will delete your email address immediately.

d) The Use of Contact Forms

We offer website visitors the opportunity to contact us via a form on our website. To enable you to communicate with us via this form, we request the following data:

E-Mail address

Message

We need these required data to learn who contacted us and to process the user request.

You may volunteer to provide us with additional information about you (title, first name, last name).

We use your data to send you answers to your questions and information per mail if you explicity request it.

Once we have satisfied the enquiry via contact form, we will delete the collected personal data.

  1. Transfer of Personal Data to Third Parties

With exception of the above-mentioned cases of data processing by service providers on our behalf (Registration for events, registration for a newsletter, use of contact forms) we give your personal data only to third parties (i.e. to natural and legal persons other than you, the affected person), the controller or the service provider or his/her vicarious agents under the following circumstances::

Data transmission to the mail order firm which will deliver the goods you ordered

Payment data transmission to payment service providers and credit institutes for payment transactions

Giving your data to third parties is required to exercise, enforce or defend legal claims, and there is no reason to assume that you as affected person could have an overriding interest worth protecting in the non-transfer of your personal data. Such a data transfer to government and/or law enforcement authorities may occur in cases of attacks on our IT systems.

Third parties may use the transferred data only for the above-mentioned purposes.

Our websites are hosted by the AEE INTEC, Feldgasse 17, 8200 Gleisdorf, Austria

The transfer/transmission of personal data to countries outside the EU or an international organisation shall be excluded.

  1. Cookies

We use server-side cookies. Cookies are small files, which are automatically created by the browser of the user device and stored in your device (PC, laptop, tablet, smartphone or similar device) when you visit our website. Cookies do not harm your computer, and they do not contain viruses, Trojans or other malware. Cookies contain information pertaining to the specific device, which accessed our website. However, this does not give us direct knowledge of your identity.

One reason for us to use cookies is making the use of our website more convenient for you. We use session cookies to allow session controls such as controls for inserting data into forms or saving shopping carts. At the latest, session cookies are deleted when you close your browser.

We also use temporary cookies to optimise the user-friendliness of our website. Your device stores these cookies temporarily for a specific time. The next time you visit our website, our server will recognise your device as prior visitor and remembers your settings and preferences. You will not have to enter these parameters again.

We also use cookies to gather data for our website statistics. This helps us to evaluate and optimise our web offerings (see Section 5). These cookies allow us to recognise repeat visits from your device. These cookies will be deleted automatically after a specific time.

The data obtained with the help of cookies serve us to pursue our legitimate interests as website owners and serve the legitimate interests of third parties.

Most browsers accept cookies automatically. However, you are able to configure your browser in such a way that the application does not store cookies on your computer or always shows an alert before storing new cookies. The complete deactivation of cookies may prevent you from using all functions on our website.

  1. Web analysis/Tracking

The provider processes the statistical data based on our legitimate interests in the optimisation of our online offerings and our web presence according to Article 6 para.1 lit. f GDPR. Wiredminds processes the data on our behalf, and we have entered into an order processing agreement with Wiredminds . Wiredminds agrees to process the data on our behalf and in compliance with the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). Wiredminds also agrees to protect the rights of the affected persons.

In case you reject the collection of data and the analysis of your user activities, please use our opt-out cookie to prevent the installation of our cookies. This will prevent the future collection of data when you use our website. The opt-out cookie in your device works only in the used browser and applies only to our website. If you delete the cookies in the computer’s cookie folder, you have to install the opt-out cookie again.

  1. Social Plugins

We use social plug-ins (media buttons) on our website. These are small box-like buttons. Click on them to place the content of our website under your profile in social network sites.

If you click on such a button, a link will be established between our website and the social network to which you subscribe. Aside from the respective content, the social network provider will receive other personal information. This includes the information that you visit our website at that time.

For the integration of the social plug-in we use a solution, which prevents your device from creating a link to the social network merely because you visit a website featuring a social plug-in button without clicking on it. This means that a link is only established if a when you click on the social plug-in button .

We integrate the following social plug-in on our website:

a) Facebook Sharing of Facebook Ireland Limited

Sometimes, information is transmitted to the US domicile of the parent company Facebook Inc. This company complies with the data protection regulations of the ‘US Privacy Shield’ and is registered with the US Privacy Shield Program of the US Department of Commerce.

Purpose and scope of the data collection and further processing and use of the data by Facebook and your user rights in your relationship with Facebook as well as your ability to influence your privacy rights by changing your browser settings are subject to your privacy agreement with Facebook. Please consult the Facebook Data Protection Statement.

b) Twitter Sharing by the Twitter International Company

Sometimes, information is transmitted to the US parent company Twitter Inc. The Twitter International Company complies with the data protection regulations of ‘US Privacy Shield’. Twitter Inc. is registered with the US Privacy Shield Program of the US Department of Trade.

Please find more information on the data protection in the Twitter Data Protection Statement.

c) Google + Sharing Google LLC

Google complies with the Data Protection Regulations of ‘US Privacy Shield’ and is registered with the US Privacy Shield Program of the US Department of Trade.

Please find more information on Google data protection in the Google Data Protection Declaration.

d) Xing Sharing by Xing SE

Please find more information on Xing data protection in theXing SE Data Protection Declaration.

e) LinkedIn Sharing of LinkedIn Ireland Unlimited Company

Please find more information on LinkedIn data protection in the LinkedIn Data Protection Declaration.

  1. YouTube

Based on the agreement according to Article 6 Para. 1, page 1 lit. f GDPR, we use components (videos) of YouTube, LLC, 901 Cherry Avenue, 94066 San Bruno, CA (USA) (in the following referred to as ‘YouTube’), a company of Google Inc., Amphitheatre Parkway, 94043 Mountain View (USA), (in the following referred to as ‘Google’).

In the process, we use the ‘extended data protection mode’ option provided by YouTube.

When you access one of our websites with an embedded video, our website does not connect you to the YouTube server. Instead, a preview is first shown, which we call up from our webserver.

When you move over the preview with the mouse, a notice appears saying if you click the link, then data will be sent to YouTube and DoubleClick and that the data protection regulations of Google apply.

If you click on the hint or video, the content will be transmitted to your browser and displayed immediately.

According to the information provided by YouTube, in the ‘extended data protection mode’, your data will be transmitted to the US YouTube servers only while you watch the video. The transmitted data include the Internet page you just viewed and device-specific data including your IP address. By clicking ‘run’ on the video you agree to this mode of transmission.

Should you be logged into your YouTube account at the same time, YouTube will associate these collected data with your member account. You are able to prevent this by logging out of your YouTube account.

Google complies with the data protection regulation of US Privacy Shield and is registered with the US Privacy Shield Program of the US Department of Trade.

You find further information on the data protection in context with YouTube and DoubleClick in the Google Data Protection Regulations.

  1. OpenStreetMap

This website utilizes map services provided by the OpenStreetMap Foundation, 132 Maney Hill Road, Sutton Coldfield, West Midlands B72 1JU, United Kingdom (short OSMF).

Your Internet browser or application will connect to servers operated by the OSMF located in the United Kingdom and in other countries. The operator of this site has no control over such connections and processing of your data by the OSMF. You can find more information on the processing of user data by the OSMF in the OSMF privacy policy.

  1. Your Rights as Affected Person

You have the following rights:

According to Article 7 para. 3 GDPR, you have the right to revoke any consent declaration at any time, which you may have given to us before. This has the consequence that we are no longer privileged to continue the respective activity.

According to Article 15 GDPR, you have the right to demand information on your personal data, which we have processed. In particular, you have the right to information on the following:

Purposes of the data processing

The categories of personal data

The categories of recipients to which we transmitted/disclosed or will transmit yourdata

The planned storage periods of data

The existence of the right to correction, deletion, restriction of processing and objection

The right to appeal

The right to know the origin of data in the event that we did not collect these data

The right to meaningful and detailed information on the existence on automated decision-making including profiling

According to Article 16 GDPR, you have the right to the correction of incorrect and/or the completion of incomplete personal data in storage at the AEE INTEC

According to Article 17 GDPR, you have the right to the deletion of your personal data providing the deletion does not interfere with the execution of the right to the free expression of opinions and with the compliance with legal obligations, providing the deletion is not against public interest and providing the deletion does not hamper the enforcement, execution or defence of legal claims

According to Article 18 GDPR, you have the right to restrict the processing of your personal data if you contest or challenge the accuracy of these data, the processing of the data is illegal but you reject the deletion of these data and we no longer need the data while you still need the data to enforce, execute or defend legal claims or you have raised an objection against the data processing according to Article 21 GDPR

According to Article 20 GDPR, you have the right to receive the personal data you provided to us in a structured, well-established and machine-readable format or to demand the transmission to another authority and

According to Article 77 GDPR, you have the right to complain to a superior authority. As a rule, you may find such authority at your place of residence, your workplace or our company domicile.

Information on your Right of Objections according to Article 21 GDPR

You have the right to object at any time against the processing of your personal data, based on Article 6 para. 1, lit. f GDPR (data processing in the public interest) and Article 6, para. 1, lit. e GDPR (data processing based on fair balancing) for reasons, which arise from your specific situation. This shall also apply to the profiling as prescribed by Article 4 No. 4 GDPR, which is supported by this provision.

Once you file an objection, we will no longer process your personal data unless we can establish compelling evidence, which is worthy of protection and outweighs your interests, rights and privileges, or unless the processing serves the enforcement, exercise or defence of legal claims.

To the extent that your objection addresses the processing of data for direct advertising, we will stop the processing immediately. In this case, citing a special situation is not required. This shall also apply to profiling in as far as it does not relate to such direct advertising.

  1. Data Security

We transmit all your personal data using the generally used and secure encryption standard TLS (Transport Layer Security). The TLS protocol is a proven and secure standard. Bankers use the standard for online banking transactions. You recognise a secure TLS connection by the s following the http (https://…) in your browser URL or by the lock symbol in the lower section of your browser.

By the way, we use suitable technical and organisational safety procedures to protect your data against inadvertent or wilful manipulation, partial or complete loss, destruction or against the unauthorised access by third parties. We constantly improve these security measures as the technology advances.

  1. Timeliness of the Data and Amendments to this Data Protection Information

This data protection information as amended on June 20, 2018.

Due to improvements of our website and website offers or based on statutory or government standard, it may become necessary to amend this data protection information. You find the latest applicable data protection information by clicking the link on this website:

Data Protection

You may read or print this updated and amended version at any time.

  1. Severability

Should individual provisions of this data protection declaration be or become invalid either in part or in its entirety or prove infeasible at any time, this shall not affect the remaining provisions of this data protection declaration. This shall apply accordingly to gaps in this declaration.