This website is operated by Guardian GmbH., registered in the Companies’ Register of the Vienna Commercial Court under registration number FN 534252s, with its seat in Vienna and its registered address in Barichgasse 38/1/5, 1030 Vienna (hereinafter also referred to as “we” or “us”). This notice describes how we, as a controller in terms of data protection, process your personal data in connection with this website.
We take the protection of your data very seriously. We treat your personal data as confidential and in accordance with the statutory rules on data protection and in accordance with this data protection notice.
Please note that the transfer of data via the internet (e.g. via e-mail communication) may involve security gaps. Complete protection of the data from third party access is impossible.
The term definitions in this data protection notice are subject to the General Data Protection Regulation (Regulation (EU) 2016/679) (hereinafter also referred to as “GDPR”).
Which of your data we process
Data collection while visiting the website
We will collect the following information: the date and time of your access to a page on our website, your IP-address, the name and version of your web-browser, the website (URL) that you have visited prior to your access to our website, certain cookies (see point 1.1.1and such information that you have provided us with in the course of your registration via waiting list or by booking a call on our website.
There is no obligation to actually indicate the data that we ask you to indicate. If you, however, choose not to do so, it will not be possible for you to use all the functions of the website (e.g. booking a call). Should the provision of your personal data be mandatory by law, we will inform you separately thereof.
Cookies
This website uses so-called cookies. A cookie is a small file which may be stored on your computer in case you visit a website. Cookies are generally used to offer users additional functionalities on a website. They may, for example, be used in order to facilitate the navigation on a website, to allow you to continue the use of a website where you have left it and/or to save your preferences and settings if you revisit the website. Cookies can neither access, nor read, nor change other data on your computer.
Most cookies on this website are so-called session cookies. They are automatically deleted when you leave our website. Permanent cookies, however, stay on your computer until you manually delete them in your browser. We use permanent cookies in order to identify you when you visit our website the next time.
In case you want to control cookies on your browser, you can adjust your settings in a way that you receive a notification in case a website wants to save cookies. You can also block or delete cookies if they have already been saved on your computer. In case you wish to know which steps you should take, use the “help” function in your browser.
Please note that the blocking or deletion of cookies may compromise your online experience and may hinder you from completely using this website.
As far as cookies are necessary for the electronic communication or for the provision of certain functions which have been requested by you (such as the shopping cart function), they are saved based on Article 6 section 1 lit f GDPR. As website operator, we have a legitimate interest in the storage of cookies technically error-free and optimized provision of our services.
Server-log-files
The provider of the sites automatically collects and saves information in so-called server-log-files which your browser automatically transfers to us. These are:
Browser type and browser version
Used operating system
Referrer URL
Host name of the accessing computer
Time of the server request
These data are automatically deleted from our provider after three months.
SSL-encryption
This website uses an SSL-encryption for security reasons and to protect the transmission of confidential content, such as requests which you send to us as website operators. You may identify an encrypted connection by the switch in the address line of the browser from "http://" auf “https://” and by the lock icon in your browser line.
If the SSL encryption is activated, the data which you transfer to us cannot be read by third parties. All your requests to us are automatically treated as SSL-encrypted.
Data collection via contact form | waiting list
If you enquire with us via the contact form or register yourself via our waiting list, your details from the contact form (your request) or waiting list, including the contact data you provide there (e.g. e-mail address), will be stored by us for the purpose of processing the enquiry and in the event of follow-up questions.
The processing of the data entered in the contact form is carried out in accordance with article 6 section 1 lit b GDPR for the purpose of carrying out pre-contractual measures which are carried out in response to your enquiry or serve to fulfil a contract. If the processing of your data is based on your consent in accordance with article 6 section 1 lit a GDPR, you can revoke this consent at any time (see point 6).
The data which you have entered into the contact form remain stored with us until you request us to delete them, you withdraw your consent to storing them or if the reason for the storage of data ceases to exist (e.g. end of counselling). Mandatory statutory provisions shall remain unaffected, this particularly concerns storage periods.
Analysis tools – Google Analytics
This website uses Google Analytics, a web analytics service provided by Google, Inc., 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA („Google“). Google Analytics uses so-called "cookies", which are text files placed/stored on your computer to help the website analyse how visitors use the website.
The information generated by the cookie about your use of the website (including your IP address and the URLs of the accessed website) will be transferred to and stored by Google on servers in the United States of America. We do not store any of your data which is collected in connection with Google Analytics.
This website uses the IP-anonymization offered by Google Analytics. Your IP-address is therefore shortened/anonymized by Google as soon as Google receives your IP-address. Google will use this information on our instruction in order to evaluate your use of the website, in order to compile reports about activities on the website and in order to provide additional services in connection with the use of the website and of the internet to us. The IP-address transferred by your browser in relation to Google Analytics will not be merged by Google with other data.
You may prevent the storage of cookies by adjusting the respective settings in your browser-software. We may, however, point out that in this case you may not be able to use all functions on this website in its entirety. Further, you may prevent Google from collecting your data in connection with Google Analytics by downloading and installing the browser-plug-in available under the following link: https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=en.
You may also prevent Google from collecting your data in connection with Google Analytics on this website by clicking on the link below. This will set an opt-out-cookie which prevents the collection of your data when visiting this website in the future https://developers.google.com/analytics/devguides/collection/gajs/?hl=de%27disable
We will process your personal data only so far as required for the achievement of the respective purpose. These purposes are the fulfilment of a contractual obligation, compliance with a legal obligation, the collection, processing and execution of your request by booking a call and/or by registering in our contact form/waiting list, carrying out customer analysis, market-and opinion research, making this website available to you and to further improve and develop this website, to compile user statistics, to detect, prevent and examine attacks on our website.
Personal data are collected, processed and used for as long as they are necessary for the content or the change of the legal relationship. This takes place on the basis of article 6 section 1 lit b GDPR which allows the processing of data for the performance of a contract or for pre-contractual measures and in accordance with article 6 section 1 lit f GDPR which allows the processing of data for a legitimate interest of the customer.
We collect, process and use only such personal data on the access of our websites which is necessary to facilitate and invoice the access of the service for the user. The recording of user data is only performed in our legitimate interest, namely for sales promotion and for security purposes for the operation of the website.
Legal basis for the data processing
The legal basis for the processing of your personal data is both the performance of a contract (in accordance with article 6 section 1 lit b GDPR) as well as our overriding legitimate interest (in accordance with article 6 section 1 lit f GDPR) which consists of the purposes as stated under point 2. Further, your consent (in accordance with article 6 section 1 lit a GDPR) may be a valid legal basis for processing.
Please note that the processing of data might also be performed in compliance with legal obligations (in accordance with article 6 section 1 lit c GDPR) and we may rely on other legal grounds for processing your personal data, such as to enforce our legitimate interests in the prevention of fraud. In this connection we may also be obliged to transfer your personal data to the respective competent authority.
Transfer of your personal data
If we commission third parties to process data on the basis of a so-called commissioned data processing contract, this is done on the basis of article 28 GDPR.
A further transmission of your personal data will not take place or only if you have expressly agreed to the transmission. Your personal data will not be passed on without your express consent (for example for advertising purposes of third parties). There will also be no transfer of your personal data to third parties abroad.
This does not affect the disclosure of personal data due to mandatory legal obligations (for example, in the course of disclosure to law enforcement agencies). Please note that in the event of a sale of parts of our company, we would have to pass on your personal data to the buyer.
Duration of storage
We store your personal data until the termination of the business relationship with you, but in any case:
as long as legal retention periods exist and
any legal claims are not yet time-barred, for the assertion of which the personal data are required or for the defence against them.
In particular this means for:
Data collection while visiting the website
We will store your data (such as IP address) determined in the course of the website analysis for a period of three months. Longer storage will only be made to the extent necessary to investigate any attacks on our website.
Data collection during registration in our waiting list and/or booking a call
If you register in our waiting list and/or booking a call via our website, we will store your data as long as required for processing the request and thereafter store it for as long as legal obligations require.
Data collection via contact form
Your data will remain stored by us until you request us to delete it, revoke your consent to storage or the purpose for which the data was stored ceases to apply.
Your rights in connection with personal data
Under statutory law you are, among other matters, entitled
to review whether and which personal data we have stored and to receive copies of these data as well as their origin, receiver and the purpose of the data processing (gratuitous right of access);
to request rectification, completion or erasure of your personal data which are incorrect or not processed in conformity with the law; please note that there may be reasons against the immediate erasure (e.g. statutory storage obligation) (right to rectification and erasure and right to be forgotten);
to request from us to limit the processing of your personal data (right to restriction of processing);
to object to processing of your personal data under certain circumstances (right to object);
to request data portability (right to data portability);
You may withdraw your consent to the data processing at any time. For the withdrawal, an informal e-mail to the e-mail address as indicated under point 7 is sufficient (right to withdraw);
In the case of a violation of data protection provisions you may lodge a complaint to the competent supervisory authority (Austrian Data Protection Authority; right to lodge a complaint).
Contact
In case you have questions or concerns regarding the processing of your personal data, please refer to:
This website is operated by Guardian GmbH., registered in the Companies’ Register of the Vienna Commercial Court under registration number FN 534252s, with its seat in Vienna and its registered address in Barichgasse 38/1/5, 1030 Vienna (hereinafter also referred to as “we” or “us”). This notice describes how we, as a controller in terms of data protection, process your personal data in connection with this website.
We take the protection of your data very seriously. We treat your personal data as confidential and in accordance with the statutory rules on data protection and in accordance with this data protection notice.
Please note that the transfer of data via the internet (e.g. via e-mail communication) may involve security gaps. Complete protection of the data from third party access is impossible.
The term definitions in this data protection notice are subject to the General Data Protection Regulation (Regulation (EU) 2016/679) (hereinafter also referred to as “GDPR”).
Which of your data we process
Data collection while visiting the website
We will collect the following information: the date and time of your access to a page on our website, your IP-address, the name and version of your web-browser, the website (URL) that you have visited prior to your access to our website, certain cookies (see point 1.1.1and such information that you have provided us with in the course of your registration via waiting list or by booking a call on our website.
There is no obligation to actually indicate the data that we ask you to indicate. If you, however, choose not to do so, it will not be possible for you to use all the functions of the website (e.g. booking a call). Should the provision of your personal data be mandatory by law, we will inform you separately thereof.
Cookies
This website uses so-called cookies. A cookie is a small file which may be stored on your computer in case you visit a website. Cookies are generally used to offer users additional functionalities on a website. They may, for example, be used in order to facilitate the navigation on a website, to allow you to continue the use of a website where you have left it and/or to save your preferences and settings if you revisit the website. Cookies can neither access, nor read, nor change other data on your computer.
Most cookies on this website are so-called session cookies. They are automatically deleted when you leave our website. Permanent cookies, however, stay on your computer until you manually delete them in your browser. We use permanent cookies in order to identify you when you visit our website the next time.
In case you want to control cookies on your browser, you can adjust your settings in a way that you receive a notification in case a website wants to save cookies. You can also block or delete cookies if they have already been saved on your computer. In case you wish to know which steps you should take, use the “help” function in your browser.
Please note that the blocking or deletion of cookies may compromise your online experience and may hinder you from completely using this website.
As far as cookies are necessary for the electronic communication or for the provision of certain functions which have been requested by you (such as the shopping cart function), they are saved based on Article 6 section 1 lit f GDPR. As website operator, we have a legitimate interest in the storage of cookies technically error-free and optimized provision of our services.
Server-log-files
The provider of the sites automatically collects and saves information in so-called server-log-files which your browser automatically transfers to us. These are:
Browser type and browser version
Used operating system
Referrer URL
Host name of the accessing computer
Time of the server request
These data are automatically deleted from our provider after three months.
SSL-encryption
This website uses an SSL-encryption for security reasons and to protect the transmission of confidential content, such as requests which you send to us as website operators. You may identify an encrypted connection by the switch in the address line of the browser from "http://" auf “https://” and by the lock icon in your browser line.
If the SSL encryption is activated, the data which you transfer to us cannot be read by third parties. All your requests to us are automatically treated as SSL-encrypted.
Data collection via contact form | waiting list
If you enquire with us via the contact form or register yourself via our waiting list, your details from the contact form (your request) or waiting list, including the contact data you provide there (e.g. e-mail address), will be stored by us for the purpose of processing the enquiry and in the event of follow-up questions.
The processing of the data entered in the contact form is carried out in accordance with article 6 section 1 lit b GDPR for the purpose of carrying out pre-contractual measures which are carried out in response to your enquiry or serve to fulfil a contract. If the processing of your data is based on your consent in accordance with article 6 section 1 lit a GDPR, you can revoke this consent at any time (see point 6).
The data which you have entered into the contact form remain stored with us until you request us to delete them, you withdraw your consent to storing them or if the reason for the storage of data ceases to exist (e.g. end of counselling). Mandatory statutory provisions shall remain unaffected, this particularly concerns storage periods.
Analysis tools – Google Analytics
This website uses Google Analytics, a web analytics service provided by Google, Inc., 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA („Google“). Google Analytics uses so-called "cookies", which are text files placed/stored on your computer to help the website analyse how visitors use the website.
The information generated by the cookie about your use of the website (including your IP address and the URLs of the accessed website) will be transferred to and stored by Google on servers in the United States of America. We do not store any of your data which is collected in connection with Google Analytics.
This website uses the IP-anonymization offered by Google Analytics. Your IP-address is therefore shortened/anonymized by Google as soon as Google receives your IP-address. Google will use this information on our instruction in order to evaluate your use of the website, in order to compile reports about activities on the website and in order to provide additional services in connection with the use of the website and of the internet to us. The IP-address transferred by your browser in relation to Google Analytics will not be merged by Google with other data.
You may prevent the storage of cookies by adjusting the respective settings in your browser-software. We may, however, point out that in this case you may not be able to use all functions on this website in its entirety. Further, you may prevent Google from collecting your data in connection with Google Analytics by downloading and installing the browser-plug-in available under the following link: https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=en.
You may also prevent Google from collecting your data in connection with Google Analytics on this website by clicking on the link below. This will set an opt-out-cookie which prevents the collection of your data when visiting this website in the future https://developers.google.com/analytics/devguides/collection/gajs/?hl=de%27disable
We will process your personal data only so far as required for the achievement of the respective purpose. These purposes are the fulfilment of a contractual obligation, compliance with a legal obligation, the collection, processing and execution of your request by booking a call and/or by registering in our contact form/waiting list, carrying out customer analysis, market-and opinion research, making this website available to you and to further improve and develop this website, to compile user statistics, to detect, prevent and examine attacks on our website.
Personal data are collected, processed and used for as long as they are necessary for the content or the change of the legal relationship. This takes place on the basis of article 6 section 1 lit b GDPR which allows the processing of data for the performance of a contract or for pre-contractual measures and in accordance with article 6 section 1 lit f GDPR which allows the processing of data for a legitimate interest of the customer.
We collect, process and use only such personal data on the access of our websites which is necessary to facilitate and invoice the access of the service for the user. The recording of user data is only performed in our legitimate interest, namely for sales promotion and for security purposes for the operation of the website.
Legal basis for the data processing
The legal basis for the processing of your personal data is both the performance of a contract (in accordance with article 6 section 1 lit b GDPR) as well as our overriding legitimate interest (in accordance with article 6 section 1 lit f GDPR) which consists of the purposes as stated under point 2. Further, your consent (in accordance with article 6 section 1 lit a GDPR) may be a valid legal basis for processing.
Please note that the processing of data might also be performed in compliance with legal obligations (in accordance with article 6 section 1 lit c GDPR) and we may rely on other legal grounds for processing your personal data, such as to enforce our legitimate interests in the prevention of fraud. In this connection we may also be obliged to transfer your personal data to the respective competent authority.
Transfer of your personal data
If we commission third parties to process data on the basis of a so-called commissioned data processing contract, this is done on the basis of article 28 GDPR.
A further transmission of your personal data will not take place or only if you have expressly agreed to the transmission. Your personal data will not be passed on without your express consent (for example for advertising purposes of third parties). There will also be no transfer of your personal data to third parties abroad.
This does not affect the disclosure of personal data due to mandatory legal obligations (for example, in the course of disclosure to law enforcement agencies). Please note that in the event of a sale of parts of our company, we would have to pass on your personal data to the buyer.
Duration of storage
We store your personal data until the termination of the business relationship with you, but in any case:
as long as legal retention periods exist and
any legal claims are not yet time-barred, for the assertion of which the personal data are required or for the defence against them.
In particular this means for:
Data collection while visiting the website
We will store your data (such as IP address) determined in the course of the website analysis for a period of three months. Longer storage will only be made to the extent necessary to investigate any attacks on our website.
Data collection during registration in our waiting list and/or booking a call
If you register in our waiting list and/or booking a call via our website, we will store your data as long as required for processing the request and thereafter store it for as long as legal obligations require.
Data collection via contact form
Your data will remain stored by us until you request us to delete it, revoke your consent to storage or the purpose for which the data was stored ceases to apply.
Your rights in connection with personal data
Under statutory law you are, among other matters, entitled
to review whether and which personal data we have stored and to receive copies of these data as well as their origin, receiver and the purpose of the data processing (gratuitous right of access);
to request rectification, completion or erasure of your personal data which are incorrect or not processed in conformity with the law; please note that there may be reasons against the immediate erasure (e.g. statutory storage obligation) (right to rectification and erasure and right to be forgotten);
to request from us to limit the processing of your personal data (right to restriction of processing);
to object to processing of your personal data under certain circumstances (right to object);
to request data portability (right to data portability);
You may withdraw your consent to the data processing at any time. For the withdrawal, an informal e-mail to the e-mail address as indicated under point 7 is sufficient (right to withdraw);
In the case of a violation of data protection provisions you may lodge a complaint to the competent supervisory authority (Austrian Data Protection Authority; right to lodge a complaint).
Contact
In case you have questions or concerns regarding the processing of your personal data, please refer to:
