Data protection

The protection of your personal data is of particular concern to us. We therefore process your data exclusively on the basis of the legal regulations (DSGVO, TKG 2003). In this data protection information we inform you about the most important aspects of data processing on our website.

Responsibility

Club Alpbach Steiermark – Club Alpbach für Europäische Kultur (ZVR 469696781).

Club Alpbach Steiermark
c/o Ass.Prof. Dr. Klaus Poier
Universitätsstraße 15/C3
8010 Graz/Austria

club@castmk.at bzw. 0316/380-3380

Contact

If you contact us personally, per phone, via contact form provided or e-mail, the data you provide will be stored for six months for the purpose of processing your enquiry and in the event of follow-up questions. We will not pass on this data without your consent.

Legal basis

The legal basis for the processing of personal data in the case of contact in electronic form is Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f GDPR.

Duration of data storage

The personal data of the person concerned will be deleted or blocked as soon as the purpose of storage ceases to apply. Furthermore, data may be stored if this has been provided for by the European or national legislator in EU regulations, laws or other provisions to which the person responsible is subject. The data will also be blocked or deleted if a storage period prescribed by the aforementioned standards expires, unless there is a requirement for further storage of the data for the conclusion or fulfilment of a contract.

Cookies

Our website uses so-called cookies. These are small text files that are stored on your mobile device using the browser. They’re not doing any damage.

We use cookies to make our website user-friendly. Some cookies remain stored on your device until you delete them. They enable us to recognize your browser the next time you visit us.

If you do not wish this, you can change your browser settings so that it informs you about the setting of cookies and you only allow this in individual cases. When cookies are deactivated, the functionality of our website may be limited.

Legal basis

The legal basis for the processing of personal data using cookies is Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f GDPR.

Duration of data storage

Cookies are stored on the user’s computer and transmitted to our site. Therefore, as a user you have full control over the use of cookies. You can deactivate or restrict the transmission of cookies by changing the settings in your Internet browser. Cookies that have already been saved can be deleted at any time.

Webpage display

Every time our homepage is accessed, the IP address of the calling computer is automatically recorded on the server.

Legal basis

The legal basis is our legitimate interest in maintaining and guaranteeing the security of our information technology systems in accordance with Art. 6 Para. 1 lit. f GDPR.

Duration of data storage

The server-side log files are deleted automatically after 7 days.

Google Fonts

We use external fonts (web fonts) provided by Google (https://fonts.google.com/about) to make the presentation of our homepage user-friendly and visually appealing. The provider is Google
Inc, 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway Mountain View, CA 94043, USA.

These web fonts are integrated by a server call to a Google server in the USA. This transmits the IP address of the terminal to Google. Google Fonts are transferred to your browser’s cache to avoid multiple loading. More information on how Google handles user data can be found in Google’s privacy policy: https://policies.google.com/?hl=en

Legal basis

The legal basis is our legitimate interest to present this homepage as user-friendly and appealing as possible, according to art. 6 par. 1 lit. f GDPR.

Duration of data storage

The data is exclusively collected by Google for aggregated statistics and then deleted.

Google reCAPTCHA

We use “Google reCAPTCHA” (hereinafter “reCAPTCHA”) on our websites. This service is provided by Google Inc., 1600 Amphitheater Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA (“Google”).

reCAPTCHA is used to check whether the data entered on our website (such as on a contact form) has been entered by a human or by an automated program. To do this, reCAPTCHA analyzes the behavior of the website visitor based on various characteristics. This analysis starts automatically as soon as the website visitor enters the website. For the analysis, reCAPTCHA evaluates various information (e.g. IP address, how long the visitor has been on the website, or mouse movements made by the user). The data collected during the analysis will be forwarded to Google.

The reCAPTCHA analyses take place completely in the background. Website visitors are not advised that such an analysis is taking place.

Data processing is based on Art. 6 (1) (f) DSGVO. The website operator has a legitimate interest in protecting its site from abusive automated crawling and spam.

For more information about Google reCAPTCHA and Google’s privacy policy, please visit the following links: https://www.google.com/intl/de/policies/privacy/ and https://www.google.com/recaptcha/intro/android.html.

Legal basis

The legal basis is our legitimate interest to present this homepage as user-friendly and appealing as possible, according to art. 6 par. 1 lit. f GDPR.

Duration of data storage

The data is exclusively collected by Google for aggregated statistics and then deleted.

Google Analytics and AdWords

This website uses functions of the web analysis service Google Analytics. The provider is Google Inc, 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway Mountain View, CA 94043, USA.

Google Analytics uses “cookies”, which are text files placed on your computer, to help the website analyze how users use the site. Google Analytics uses “cookies”, which are text files placed on your computer, to help the website analyze how users use the site. The information generated by the cookie about your use of this website (including your
IP address) will be transmitted to and stored by Google on servers in the United States. In order to protect the interests of users in the protection of their personal data, this is done by anonymizing the data. Your IP address is thus already unrecognizable and transmitted to Google.You may refuse the use of cookies by selecting the appropriate settings on your browser, however please note that if you do this you may not be able to use the full functionality of this website. You can also prevent Google from collecting the data generated by the cookie and relating to your use of the website (including your IP address) and from processing this data by Google by downloading and installing the browser plug-in
available under the following link: https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=en

More information on how Google Analytics handles user data can be found in Google’s privacy policy: https://policies.google.com/?hl=en

This website uses the online advertising program “Google AdWords” and in the context of this the conversion tracking. The conversion tracking cookie is set when a user clicks on an ad served by Google. These cookies expire after 30 days and are not used for personal identification. If the user visits certain pages of this website and the cookie has not yet expired, we and Google can see that the user has clicked on the ad and has been redirected to this page. Each Google AdWords customer receives a different cookie. Cookies cannot therefore be traced through the websites of AdWords customers. The information collected using the conversion cookie is used to generate conversion statistics for AdWords customers who have opted for conversion tracking.
Customers see the total number of users who clicked on their ad and were redirected to a page with a conversion tracking tag. However, you will not receive any information that personally identifies users. Users who do not wish to participate in tracking can easily deactivate the Google Conversion Tracking cookie via their Internet browser under User Settings. These users are not included in the conversion tracking statistics.

Purpose of processing

Passing on the anonymized IP address to Google serves to increase the efficiency of our website and for anonymous evaluations of visitor behaviour in this respect.

Legal basis

The legal basis for the processing of the data is our legitimate interest in increasing the efficiency of the website, pursuant to Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f GDPR.

Contract data processing

We have concluded a contract with Google for the processing of your data.

Personal data will be transferred to the USA under the EU-US Privacy Shield on the basis of the European Commission’s adequacy decision. You can download the certificate here.

Duration of data storage

The data sent by us and linked with cookies, user IDs are automatically deleted after 14 months. Data whose retention period has been reached is automatically deleted once a month.

Your rights

You have the rights to information, correction, deletion, restriction, data transferability, revocation and objection. If you have any questions or concerns about the privacy policy, please contact us. datenschutz@castmk.at (or per mail at Club Alpbach Steiermark, c/o Ass.Prof. Dr. Klaus Poier, Universitätsstraße 15/C3, 8010 Graz).