PRIVACY POLICY

This privacy policy describes how Festung News & Media GmbH, Mariahilfer Straße 123, 3rd floor, A-1060 Vienna (hereinafter also referred to as "we") processes your personal data in connection with the use of this website.

We take the protection of your personal data very seriously and process your personal data exclusively in accordance with the statutory provisions and this data protection declaration.

The use of the website is generally possible without providing personal data. However, for the use of certain functions (e.g. registration, contact form), the necessary personal data is collected and processed.

Which of your personal data we process

a. Website

When using the website without certain functions (e.g. registration, contact form), we do not process any personal data from you.

b. Registration

When you register on our website, we collect the following categories of personal data:

• Name
• Title
• Gender
• Date of birth
• Contact details (address, e-mail, telephone number)

Please note that in principle there is no obligation to provide us with the personal data we ask for. However, you will then not be able to register on our website.

c. Contact form

When you use the contact form on our website, we collect the following categories of personal data:

• Name
• Title
• Gender
• Date of birth
• Contact details (address, e-mail, telephone number)

Please note that there is basically no obligation to provide us with the personal data we ask for. However, you will then not be able to use the function of the contact form.

d. Direct advertising (e.g. newsletters)

In the context of direct advertising, we collect the following categories of personal data:

• Name
• Title
• Gender
• Date of birth
• Contact details (address, e-mail, telephone number)

Direct marketing will only take place on the basis of your express consent to do so. You have the right to object to the use of your personal data for the purpose of direct marketing at any time by sending a written notice (to [email protected]). In the event of an objection, your personal data will no longer be processed for the purpose of direct advertising.

 Purposes of data processing

We process your collected personal data for the following purposes:

• Provision and operation of this website;
• Processing enquiries via the contact form;
• Carrying out direct advertising;
• Further development and improvement of this website;

 Legal basis of the data processing

The processing of your personal data is carried out on the basis of

• the fulfilment of a contract concluded with you or the implementation of pre-contractual measures, insofar as this is necessary (Art 6 para 1 lit b DSGVO),
• in particular when registering on our website and using the contact form
• our overriding legitimate interest, which is to achieve the purposes stated under point 3 (Art 6 (1) (f) DSGVO),
• the necessity of fulfilling legal obligations to which we are subject (Art 6 (1) (c) DSGVO), and
• your express consent to data processing (Art 6 para 1 lit a DSGVO).
• in particular in the case of direct advertising

Transmission of your personal data

Where necessary for the above purposes, we will transfer your personal data to the following categories of recipients:

• "Trend Analytical News Agency" Limited Liability Company (State Registration Office of Legal Entities Reg. No. 1300262771), 69 Fuzuli Street, Yasamal District, AZE-1014 Baku.- IT service provider.

Some of the recipients listed above are located outside your country or process your personal data there. The level of data protection in other countries may not be the same as in your country. However, we only transfer your personal data to countries for which the EU Commission has decided that they have an adequate level of data protection or we take steps to ensure that all recipients have an adequate level of data protection. For this purpose we conclude as an example standard contractual clauses.

Storage Period

We will only retain your personal data for as long as is necessary to achieve the purposes set out above.

In any case, we store your personal data as long as (i) legal obligations to retain data exist or (ii) any legal claims for the assertion or protection of which the personal data are required have not yet become time barred.

Your rights in connection with personal data

Under applicable law, you are entitled to (if the relevant requirements of the applicable law are met),

• request confirmation as to whether and which of your personal data we are processing and to receive copies of such data,
• request the rectification or erasure of your personal data,
• request us to restrict the processing of your personal data,
• object to the processing of your personal data,
• withdraw consent previously given for processing, if any (withdrawal of your consent will not affect the lawfulness of processing carried out on the basis of your consent prior to its withdrawal),
• request data portability, and
• lodge a complaint with the data protection authority (Barichgasse 40-42, A-1030 Vienna, [email protected]).

Our contact details

If you have any further questions or concerns about the processing of your personal data, please contact us:

Festung News & Media GmbH
Mariahilfer Strasse 123,
3rd floor,
A-1060 Vienna

Other services used

When you visit our website, your IP address, start and end of the session are recorded for the duration of this session. This is for technical reasons and thus constitutes a legitimate interest within the meaning of Art 6 (1) f DSGVO. Unless otherwise stipulated below, this data will not be further processed by us.

The Newsgrabb information portal uses:

• Cookies

Our website uses so-called cookies. These are small text files that are stored on your end device with the help of the browser. They do not cause any damage. We use cookies to make our website user-friendly. Some cookies remain stored on your end device until you delete them. They enable us to recognize your browser on your next visit. If you do not wish this, you can set your browser so that it informs you about the setting of cookies and you only allow this in individual cases. If you deactivate cookies, the functionality of our website may be limited.

• Google Analytics

We also use Google (Google LLC, 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway Mountain View, CA 94043, USA) as a web analysis service provider. We use Google Analytics exclusively with IP anonymization activated. This means that the IP address does not allow any conclusions to be drawn about you as a user. Google Optimize is linked to Analytics and offers the possibility to carry out A/B tests to optimize our website. Google guarantees a level of data protection adapted to the European Union through standard contractual clauses. In the case of Google Analytics, the information generated by the cookies used is transferred to Google's servers in the USA and stored there. Google uses this information to evaluate the website usage of our community for us. This data processing is profiling. You can object to this processing at any time by using the opt-out option provided in the cookie attachment. For more information, please refer to Google's privacy policy.

• Google Recaptcha

We integrate the function for the recognition of bots, e.g. for entries in online forms ("ReCaptcha") of the provider Google Ireland Limited, Gordon House, Barrow Street, Dublin 4, Ireland. Privacy policy: https://www.google.com/policies/privacy/,

Opt-out: https://adssettings.google.com/authenticated.

We use privacy-safe social media buttons on the website.

Social media buttons with data protection (Shariff)

Articles on these pages can be shared quickly and easily on social networks such as Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, VK, WhatsApp or Telegram. For this purpose, we have created the possibility to use these services with our social buttons - but still protect your privacy.

Normally, these social plugins result in every visitor to a page being immediately recorded by these services with their IP address and their further activities on the internet being logged. This happens even if the user does not click on one of the buttons.

To prevent this, we use the Shariff method. Our social buttons only establish direct contact between the social network and the visitor when the latter actively clicks on the share button. If the user is already logged in to a social network, this is done without another window for Facebook and Google+. On Twitter, a pop-up window appears in which the text of the tweet can still be edited.

Users can therefore post page content on social networks without the latter being able to create complete surfing profiles.

Links to the data protection settings of the social services used

• https://www.facebook.com/about/privacy/
• https://twitter.com/privacy?lang=de
• https://www.google.com/intl/de/policies/
• https://www.whatsapp.com/legal/#Privacy
• https://telegram.org/privacy
• https://www.linkedin.com/legal/privacy-policy?_l=de_DE

Last updated 01.12.2022