{"id":8418,"date":"2025-02-24T13:23:57","date_gmt":"2025-02-24T12:23:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.donau-schule.at\/privacy-policy\/"},"modified":"2025-02-24T13:23:57","modified_gmt":"2025-02-24T12:23:57","slug":"privacy-policy","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.donau-schule.at\/en\/privacy-policy\/","title":{"rendered":"Privacy policy"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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PRIVACY POLICY<\/strong><\/h1>\n
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General information<\/strong><\/h3>\nDefinitions of the terms used (e.g. “personal data” or “processing”) can be found in Art. 4 GDPR.\n\nThank you for your interest in our website. This\nprivacy policy is intended to inform users of this website about the type,\nscope and purpose of the collection and use of personal data\nby us. \n\nThe protection of your privacy is very important to us.\nIt goes without saying that we treat your personal data\nconfidentially and in accordance with the statutory provisions. Below\nwe inform you in detail about the handling of your data. \n\nLast updated on: 31.10.2018.\n

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Access data and hosting<\/strong><\/h3>\nYou can visit our website without providing any personal data at\n. Each time a website is accessed, the web server\nmerely automatically saves a so-called server log file, which contains, for example, the name\nof the requested file, your IP address, date and time of access,\nsource page, amount of data transferred and the requesting provider\n(access data) and documents the access. \n\nThis access data is evaluated solely for the purpose of ensuring the trouble-free operation of\nand improving our\nwebsite. This serves to safeguard\nour legitimate\ninterests in the correct presentation of our information and\nour offer, which predominate in the context of a balancing of interests. All access data will be deleted no later than four weeks after\nthe end of your visit to the site. \n\nData may also be stored for\nsecurity reasons, e.g. to investigate cases of misuse.\nIf data must be retained for evidentiary reasons, it is exempt from deletion until the incident has been finally clarified.\n\n

Data collection and use for contract processing and when opening a customer account<\/strong><\/h3>\nWe collect personal data if you voluntarily provide it to us in the context of\nyour order, when contacting us (e.g. via\ncontact form or email) or when opening a customer account\n. Mandatory fields are marked as such, as\nin these cases we need the data to process the contract or\nto process your contact or open the customer account\nand you cannot complete the order and\/or open the\naccount or send the contact\nwithout providing it. Which data is collected can be seen from the respective\ninput forms. We use the\ndata provided by you to process the contract and your inquiries. After\ncomplete processing of the contract or deletion of your customer account\n, your data will be restricted for further processing and deleted after\nexpiry of the retention periods under tax and commercial law,\nunless you have expressly consented to further use of your data\nor we reserve the right to use\ndata beyond this, which is permitted by law and about which we\ninform you in this declaration. Deletion of your customer account\nis possible at any time and can be done either by sending a message to the\ncontact option described below or via the\nfunction provided for this purpose in the customer account. \n

Data transfer<\/strong><\/h3>\nIn order to fulfill the contract, we pass on your data to the shipping company commissioned with the delivery\nand to our group companies\n, insofar as this is necessary for the delivery of ordered goods or for the processing\nof inquiries. Depending on which\npayment service provider you select in the ordering process, we will pass on the payment data collected for this purpose to the credit institution commissioned with\nthe payment and, if applicable, to\npayment service providers commissioned by us or to the selected payment service for\nthe processing of payments.\nIn some cases, the selected payment service providers also collect this data themselves\nif you create an account there. In this case, you must\nlog in to the\npayment service provider with your access data during the ordering process. In this respect, the\nprivacy policy of the respective payment service provider applies. \n

E-mail advertising with newsletter registration<\/strong><\/h3>\nIf you subscribe to our newsletter, we will use the data required by\nor provided separately by you to regularly send you our e-mail newsletter\non the basis of your consent\n.\nUnsubscribing from the newsletter is possible at any time and can be done either at\nby sending a message to the contact option described below or at\nvia a link provided for this purpose in the newsletter. After you unsubscribe from\n, we will delete your email address unless you have expressly consented to\nto further use of your data or we reserve the right to use\ndata beyond this, which is permitted by law\nand about which we inform you in this declaration.\nThe newsletter is sent as part of processing on our behalf\nby a service provider to whom we pass on your email address\nfor this purpose.\nThis service provider is located within a country of the European Union or the European Economic Area. \n

Postal advertising and your right to object<\/strong><\/h3>\nIn addition, we reserve the right to use your first and last name and\nyour postal address for our own advertising purposes, e.g. to send\ninteresting offers and information about our products by\nletter post. This serves to safeguard our legitimate interests, which predominate in the context of a\nbalancing of interests, in an\nadvertising approach to our customers.\nThe advertising mailings are provided by a service provider as part of processing on our behalf\n, to whom we pass on your data for this purpose\n.\nYou can object to the storage and use of your data for these purposes\nat any time by sending a message to the\ncontact option described below. \n

Cookies <\/strong><\/h3>\nIn order to make your visit to our website attractive and to enable the use of\ncertain functions, to display suitable products\nor for market research purposes, we use so-called cookies on various pages of\n. This serves to safeguard our legitimate interests in an\noptimized presentation of our offer, which predominate in the context of a\nbalancing of interests. Cookies are small\ntext files that are automatically stored on your end device.\nSome of the cookies we use are deleted again at the end of the\nbrowser session, i.e. after you close your browser\n(so-called session cookies). Other cookies remain on your end device\nand enable us to recognize your browser the next time you visit\n(persistent cookies). The duration of storage can be found in the\noverview in the cookie settings of your web browser. You\ncan set your browser so that you are informed about the setting of cookies\nand decide individually about their acceptance or exclude the\nacceptance of cookies for certain cases or in general.\nEach browser differs in the way it manages the\ncookie settings. This is described in the help menu of each\nbrowser, which explains how you can change your\ncookie settings. \n\nThese can be found for the respective browsers under the following links:\nInternet Explorer\u2122:<\/strong> http:\/\/windows.microsoft.com\/de-DE\/windows-vista\/Block-or-allow-cookies<\/a>\nSafari\u2122:<\/strong> https:\/\/support.apple.com\/kb\/ph21411?locale=de_DE<\/a>\nChrome\u2122:<\/strong> http:\/\/support.google.com\/chrome\/bin\/answer.py?hl=de&hlrm=en&answer=95647<\/a>\nFirefox\u2122:<\/strong> https:\/\/support.mozilla.org\/de\/kb\/cookies-erlauben-und-ablehnen<\/a>\nOpera\u2122 :<\/strong> http:\/\/help.opera.com\/Windows\/10.20\/de\/cookies.html<\/a>\n\nIf cookies are not accepted, the functionality of our website may be restricted.\n

Web analysis<\/strong><\/h3>\nThis website uses Google (Universal) Analytics, a web analytics service provided by Google LLC(www.google.de)<\/a>, for website analysis.\nThis serves to safeguard our overriding legitimate interests in an optimized presentation\nof our offer as part of a balancing of interests\n. Google (Universal) Analytics uses methods that enable\nto analyze your use of the website, such as\ncookies. The automatically collected information about your\nuse of this website is usually transmitted to a Google server\nin the USA and stored there. By activating\nIP anonymization on this website, the IP address is shortened before\ntransmission within the member states of the European Union or\nin other contracting states of the Agreement on the European\nEconomic Area. Only in exceptional cases will the full IP address\nbe transmitted to a Google server in the USA and shortened there. The\nanonymized IP address transmitted by your browser as part of Google Analytics\nis not merged with other data from\nGoogle.\nGoogle LLC is headquartered in the USA and is certified under\nthe EU-US Privacy Shield. A current certificate can be viewed here\n. On the basis of this agreement between the USA and the European\nCommission, the latter has established an adequate level of data protection for\ncompanies certified under the Privacy Shield.\nYou can prevent the collection of data generated by the cookie and related to your\nuse of the website (incl. your IP address) by Google and the processing of this data by Google by downloading and installing the browser plug-in available at the following link: .\nyour IP address) to Google\nand the processing of this data by Google by downloading and installing\nthe browser plug-in available at the following link: http:\/\/tools.google.com\/dlpage\/gaoptout?hl=de<\/a>\nAs an alternative to the browser plug-in, you can click on this link<\/a>\nto prevent Google Analytics from collecting data on this website in the future\n. An opt-out cookie will be placed on your computer. This will place an opt-out cookie on your device.\nIf you delete your cookies, you must click the link again. \n

Google Fonts<\/strong><\/h3>\nWe use Google Fonts from Google Inc (1600 Amphitheatre\nParkway Mountain View, CA 94043, USA) on our website. The\nuse of Google Fonts takes place without authentication and no cookies are sent to the Google Fonts API\n. If you have an account\nwith Google, none of your Google account data will be transmitted to Google during\nthe use of Google Fonts. Google only records the\nuse of CSS and the fonts used and stores this data\nsecurely. You can find out more about these and other questions at https:\/\/developers.google.com\/fonts\/faq.<\/a> \n\nYou can find out what data is collected by Google and what this data is used for at https:\/\/www.google.com\/intl\/de\/policies\/privacy\/<\/a>.\n

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Contact details<\/strong><\/h3>\nIf you contact us as the website operator via the\ncontact options offered, your details will be stored,\nso that they can be used to process and respond to your inquiry\n. This data\nwill not be passed on to third parties without your consent. \n

Your rights<\/strong><\/h3>\nYou have a right to free information about the data we have stored about you at\nand, if applicable, a right to rectification,\nrestriction of processing, data portability or erasure\nof this data.\nIf you have any questions regarding the collection, processing or use of your\npersonal data, for information, correction, blocking or\ndeletion of data as well as revocation of consents granted or\nobjection to a specific use of data, please contact us directly at\nusing the contact details provided.\n\nIn addition, you have the right to lodge a complaint with the competent data protection supervisory authority (DPA).\n

Right of objection<\/strong><\/h3>\nInsofar as we process personal data as explained above\nin order to safeguard our legitimate interests, which are overriding in the context of a balancing of interests\n, you can object to this processing with effect for\nthe future. If the processing is carried out for the purposes of\ndirect marketing, you can exercise this right at any time as described above\n. Where processing is carried out for other purposes,\nyou have the right to object only on grounds relating to\nyour particular situation.\nAfter exercising your right to object in whole or in part,\nwill no longer process your personal data for these purposes\nunless we can demonstrate compelling legitimate grounds for\nthe processing which override your interests, rights and freedoms\nor if the processing serves the establishment, exercise or\ndefense of legal claims\nThis does not apply if the processing is carried out for the purposes of direct marketing\n. We will then no longer process your personal data for\nthis purpose.\n\n <\/strong>\n

Person responsible<\/strong><\/h3>\nThe controller pursuant to Art. 4 (7) GDPR is PBS Austria GmbH, Vogelweiderstra\u00dfe 37, 4600 Wels, Austria.\n\nTo contact us please see our imprint: https:\/\/www.pbs-austria.at\/service\/impressum\/<\/a>\n\n<\/div>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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