1. Introduction
These data protection conditions apply to the services offered by Empirisch Tech, in particular to those provided with the website www.empirischtech.at and all sub-pages accessible under this domain. We take the protection of your personal data very seriously. Data protection is a matter of trust. When processing your personal data, we carefully observe the legal provisions. We would like you to know which personal data we collect, process, store and use (hereinafter: "processed") for which purpose and, if necessary, pass them on. We therefore also inform you in detail about the data protection of our website and our online services, so that you feel safe when visiting and using our service. Empirisch Tech will process your data exclusively according to the following regulations. If you agree to the transfer of your data, different provisions may apply to the use of your data by the recipient than those contained in these data protection provisions.
2. Responsible party
The controller responsible for the collection, processing and use of your personal data within the meaning of Art. 4(7) of the
General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and the Austrian Data Protection Act (Datenschutzgesetz, DSG)
is Empirisch Tech GmbH (limited liability), Managing Director: Dr. techn. Rao Muhammad Wasif Masood, Rennweg 88, 1030 Vienna Austria.
Email: contact@empirischtech.at
Phone: +43-1-2396082
3.Collection, processing and use of personal data
3.1. Under Art. 4(1) GDPR, personal data means any information relating to an identified or
identifiable natural person, for example name, address and telephone number, including all data you disclose when
registering to take part in the services offered by Empirisch Tech. As an Austrian company we are subject to the
GDPR and, where it allows national rules, to the Austrian Data Protection Act (Datenschutzgesetz, DSG).
Anonymised information is not personal data.
For the provision and individualization of our services to your needs, it is necessary that we process certain personal
data for the following purposes.
3.2. Within the scope of your registration we will process certain personal data (mandatory data).
These are first name, surname, user name, email address and password. For paid and additional services, we may also request other information, such as country,
telephone number, date of birth and payment details. Additionally, we need your email address so that we can communicate with you.
The e-mail address is also used as an alternative to the user name for your identification in the login area. In the course of your
registration, we set up direct access to your stored data (user account) for each user. This access is password protected. In the user
account you can view and manage your uploads, downloads, project details including external links (e.g. YouTube video links), project collaborations (Refetch),
comments, followers, following, notifications, messages, feed activities and project data access control as well as your personal data. The access data
must be treated confidentially and may not be made accessible to unauthorized third parties. We cannot accept any liability for improperly used access data.
We collect, store and process your data for the administration and provision of your participation in the Empirisch Tech services, to improve the services offered
by Empirisch Tech based on the information and feedback of the participants, to effectively answer your questions and to provide services, technical administration
and for our own marketing purposes including e.g. surveys, competitions and contests as well as to send e-mails. The personal data will also be used to send you
information regarding the services offered, the company, product information as well as for updates etc. Empirisch Tech is entitled to use the e-mail address provided
by you during registration. Your data will only be passed on to third parties if this is necessary for the purpose of participation in the services or the
billing of fee-based services, if applicable, or if you have given your prior consent. Within the scope of order processing of chargeable services,
for example, the service providers used by us (for example banks, payment services, credit card institutions) receive the necessary data
for order and order processing. The data passed on in this way may only be used by our service providers for the fulfillment of their tasks. Any other use
of the information is not permitted and will not be made by any of the service providers entrusted by us.
If you use our website for information purposes only, i.e. do not log in, register or otherwise provide us with information, we do not collect
any personal data, with the exception of the data transmitted by your browser to enable you to visit the website.
4. Cookies
Cookies are small text files stored on your device by your browser. They cannot run programs or transmit viruses. We divide the cookies used on this website into two groups.
Strictly necessary. These are needed for the website to function and are set without your consent, on the basis of our legitimate interest under Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR. They are csrftoken, which protects our forms against cross-site request forgery, and a local storage entry named et-consent, which remembers the cookie choice you made so that we do not ask you again on every page. Neither is used to track you and neither is shared with anyone.
Analytics. These measure how the website is used. They are set only after you have actively agreed, on the basis of your consent under Art. 6(1)(a) GDPR and section 165(3) of the Austrian Telecommunications Act. They are _ga and _ga_<container>, set by Google Analytics, and they expire after two years. Details are in section 5 below.
When you first visit this site, a banner asks whether you accept analytics cookies. Until you choose, no analytics cookie is written and no measurement data is sent. If you decline, nothing is written and the website works exactly as it otherwise would. We do not treat continued use of the website as consent.
Changing your mind. You can withdraw or give consent at any time using the Cookie settings link in the footer of every page. Withdrawal takes effect immediately and does not affect the lawfulness of processing carried out before it. You can also delete cookies at any time in your browser settings, and configure your browser to refuse them.
5. Use of Google Analytics
This website uses Google Analytics 4, a web analytics service provided by Google Ireland Limited, Gordon House, Barrow Street, Dublin 4, Ireland ("Google"). We use it to understand which pages are read and which are not, so that we can decide what to keep and what to improve.
Google Analytics is loaded in a consent-gated mode. Before you make a choice, Google Consent Mode is set to deny analytics and advertising storage, which means no analytics cookie is written and no identifier is stored on your device. Measurement begins only once you accept analytics cookies in the banner. The legal basis is your consent under Art. 6(1)(a) GDPR, which you may withdraw at any time through the Cookie settings link in the footer.
Where measurement does take place, we have enabled IP anonymisation, so your IP address is shortened by Google before any further processing. Google processes the data on our behalf as a processor under Art. 28 GDPR. Transfers to the United States are covered by the EU-US Data Privacy Framework, in which Google LLC participates, and by the European Commission's standard contractual clauses. Information Google collects may be stored on servers in the United States.
Independently of our banner, you can prevent Google Analytics from collecting data by installing the browser add-on available at tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout. Google's own privacy information is at policies.google.com/privacy.
We do not use Google Analytics for advertising, we do not enable advertising features or remarketing, and we do not combine analytics data with any other data about you.
6. Google Web Fonts
For uniform representation of fonts, this page uses web fonts provided by Google. When you open a page, your browser loads the required web fonts into your browser cache to display texts and fonts correctly. When you call up a page of our website that contains a social plugin, your browser makes a direct connection with Google servers. Google thus becomes aware that our web page was accessed via your IP address. The use of Google Web fonts is done in the interest of a uniform and attractive presentation of our website. This constitutes a justified interest pursuant to Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR. If your browser does not support web fonts, a standard font is used by your computer. Further information about handling user data, can be found here and in Google's privacy policy here.
7. Information on the newsletter and consents
With the following information we inform you about the contents of our newsletter as well as the registration, dispatch and statistical evaluation procedure and your rights of objection. By subscribing to our newsletter, you agree to the receipt and the described procedure.
Contents of the newsletter
We only send newsletters, e-mails and other electronic notifications, including promotional information (hereinafter: "newsletters") with the consent of the recipients or a legal permission.
If the contents of a newsletter are specifically described within the scope of a registration, they are decisive for the consent of the users. In addition, our newsletters contain information about our products and services, blog posts,
offers, competitions, updates and any activities related to our platform and our company. The registration for our newsletter takes place in a so-called double opt-in procedure. This means that after registration you will receive an e-mail asking you to confirm your registration. This confirmation is necessary so that nobody can log in with other e-mail addresses. The registration for the newsletter is recorded in order to be able to prove the registration process according to the legal requirements.
This includes the storage of the login and confirmation time, as well as the IP address.
To subscribe to the newsletter, simply enter your e-mail address. The newsletters contain a so-called "web beacon", i.e. a pixel large file,
which is retrieved from the Empirisch Tech server when the newsletter is opened. Within the scope of this retrieval, technical information, information about the browser and your system as
well as your IP address and time of retrieval are initially collected. This information is used to technically improve the service based on the technical data or the target groups and
their reader behavior based on their retrieval locations (which can be determined using the IP address) or access times. For technical reasons, this information can be assigned to
the individual newsletter recipients. However, we do not strive to observe individual users. The evaluations serve us rather to recognize the reading habits of our users and to adapt our contents
to them or to send different contents according to the interests of our users.
Cancellation/Revocation Newsletter
You can cancel the receipt of our newsletter at any time, i.e. revoke your consent. You will find a link to cancel the newsletter at the end of each newsletter.
Legal basis Basic Data Protection Ordinance
In accordance with the provisions of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), we inform you that your consents to the sending of e-mail addresses are based on Art. 6(1)(a), 7 GDPR and § 7 (2) no. 3 and (3) UWG . The statistical surveys and analyses as well as the logging of the application procedure are carried out on the basis of our legitimate interests in accordance with Art. 6 (1)( f) GDPR. We are interested in using a user-friendly and
secure newsletter system that serves both our business interests and the expectations of users.
We would also like to point out that you can object to the future processing of your personal data at any time in accordance with the statutory provisions of Art. 21 GDPR. The objection may be lodged in particularly against processing for direct marketing purposes.
8. Rights of the persons concerned
You have the right to:
request information about your personal data processed by us in accordance with Art. 15 GDPR. In particular, you may request information about the purpose of processing, the category of personal data, the categories of recipients to whom your data have been or will be disclosed, the planned storage period, the existence of a right to rectification, deletion, restriction of processing or objection, the existence of a right of appeal, the origin of your data, if these have not been collected by us, and the existence of automated decision-making including profiling and, if applicable, meaningful information on their details;
in accordance with Art. 16 GDPR, to demand without delay the correction of incorrect or complete personal data stored by us;
to request the deletion of your personal data stored with us in accordance with Art. 17 GDPR, unless the processing is necessary to exercise the right to freedom of expression and information, to fulfill a legal obligation, for reasons of public interest or to assert, exercise or defend legal claims;
in accordance with Art. 18 GDPR, to demand the restriction of the processing of your personal data if you dispute the accuracy of the data, if the processing is unlawful but you refuse to delete the data and if you no longer require the data for the purpose of asserting, exercising or defending legal claims, or if you have lodged an objection against the processing in accordance with Art. 21 GDPR.
in accordance with Art. 20 GDPR, to receive your personal data that you have provided to us in a structured, current and machine-readable format or to request its transfer to another person responsible;
in accordance with Art. 7(3) GDPR, to revoke your consent to us at any time. As a result, we are no longer allowed to continue processing data based on this consent in the future and
to complain to a supervisory authority pursuant to Art. 77 GDPR. As a rule, you can contact the supervisory authority at your usual place of residence or workplace or at our company headquarters.
9. Deletion of data
Your personal data will be deleted if there are no legal storage obligations to the contrary and if you have asserted a claim for deletion, if the data is no longer required to fulfill the purpose for which it was stored or if its storage is inadmissible for other legal reasons.
10. Right of objection
If your personal data are processed on the basis of legitimate interests pursuant to Art. 6(1) sentence 1(f) GDPR, you have the right to object
to the processing of your personal data pursuant to Art. 21 GDPR, provided that there are reasons for this which arise from your particular situation
or the objection is directed against direct advertising. In the latter case, you have a general right of objection, which we will implement without
specifying a particular situation.
If you would like to make use of your right of revocation or objection, simply send an e-mail to:
contact@empirischtech.at