Privacy Policy

The careful handling and protection of your personal data is an important concern to us. We process your data exclusively based on legal regulations, particularly regarding the GDPR and the Austrian Data Protection Act (Datenschutzgesetz, short DSG).

This privacy policy serves as information about the data processing carried out by us, its nature, scope and purposes and your related rights.

When you visit our website, your IP address, as well as the start and end of the session will be recorded for the duration of that session. This is due to technical reasons and thus represents a legitimate interest based on Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f GDPR. Unless afterwards otherwise regulated, we do not process this data further.

The use of contact data, published by third parties within the imprint, regarding the sending of not expressly requested advertising and information material is hereby explicitly prohibited. H. Fuchs GesmbH reserves the right to take legal action in the event of the unsolicited sending of advertising information, such as spam e-mails.

We would like to point out that data transmission through the Internet (e.g. communication by e-mail) can be subject to security vulnerability. A complete protection of data against access by third parties is not possible.

Legal Validity of these Terms of Use

These terms of use are to be regarded as part of the Internet presentation, from which you have been referred to this page. If sections or individual terms of this statement do not, not anymore or not completely apply to the actual legal situation, the content or validity of the other parts of this document remain uninfluenced by this fact.

Contact via Contact Form, E-mail, Letter, Telephone or Fax

In case that you contact us, the information and data you provide (name, contact details, specific information regarding your request) will be stored by us during six months for the processing of your inquiry and for the possibility of follow-up questions. We will not transfer this data to third parties without your consent. The data generated in this context will be deleted immediately, unless a contractual relationship is established.

Should you wish to contact us by e-mail, we would like to emphasize that the confidentiality of the transmitted information is not guaranteed. The content of e-mails can be viewed by third parties due to their technical conception, unless special technical security measures are taken. Therefore, please do not send any confidential information by e-mail.

Links to Other Websites

Our websites may contain links to websites of other providers. We would like to point out that this privacy policy applies exclusively to the websites of H. Fuchs GesmbH. We have no influence on and cannot control whether other providers comply with the applicable data protection regulations.

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. We use cookies to better understand how you use our website, in order to make our web presentation more user-friendly. They enable us e.g. to recognize your browser on the next visit.

Here you can find an overview of all cookies used. You can give your consent to whole categories or you can ask for the displaying of further information and thus select only certain cookies:

  • Essential – Essential cookies enable basic functions and are necessary for the proper functioning of the website.
    • Name: Borlabs Cookie; Provider: Fuchs GesmbH; Purpose: saving the settings of visitors that have been selected in the cookie box; Cookie Name: borlabs-cookie; Cookie duration: 1 year.
  • Statistics – Statistics cookies collect information anonymously. This information helps us to understand how our visitors use our website.
    • Name: Google Analytics; Provider: Google LLC; Purpose: Cookie from Google for website analysis. Generates statistical data about how visitors use the website.; Privacy policy: https://policies.google.com/privacy?hl=de; Cookie name: _ga,_gat,_gid; Cookie duration: 2 years.

If you do not wish any of this, you can set up your browser to inform you about the setting of cookies and to allow it only in individual cases. If you deactivate cookies, the functionality of our website may be limited.

Google Analytics

We use Google Analytics on our website, a web analytics service provided in Europe by Google Ireland Ltd (Gordon House, Barrow Street, Dublin 4, Ireland).

Google uses the gathered information collected on our behalf to evaluate your use of the website, to compile reports on website activities and to provide further services to the website operator regarding website and Internet use. For this purpose, Google processes cookie information about the use of the website, e.g. regarding the browser type and version, the used operating system, the previously visited website, the IP address of the computer, the time of the server inquiry.

Here we would like to emphasize that we use Google Analytics only with active IP anonymization. This means that the IP address of the user has been shortened by Google within member states of the European Union (EU) or the European Economic Area (EEA). Only in exceptional cases will the full IP address be transferred to a Google server in the USA and shortened there. Due to this shortening, the there is no longer any personal reference to your IP address. According to the information provided by Google, the IP address transmitted by your browser will not be combined with other data from Google.

This data can only be processed with your consent (Art. 6 para. 1 lit a GDPR), which you have explicitly given us on the basis of your cookie settings. You can withdraw this consent at any time, but this withdrawal does not affect the legality of the data processing carried out up to that point.

The information generated by the cookie regarding your use of this website is usually transferred to a Google server in the USA and stored for a period of 14 months.

You can find more detailed information on Google’s use of data, settings and objection options in Google’s privacy policy under https://marketingplatform.google.com/about/analytics/terms/us/ or https://policies.google.com/privacy?hl=en.

Furthermore, you can use a browser plug-in to prevent that information collected by cookies (including your IP address) is being sent to and used by Google. The following link will take you to the corresponding plug-in: https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=en.

Data Security

We undertake the necessary and appropriate technical and organizational security measures to protect your personal data from loss, destruction, falsification, manipulation, misuse, and unauthorized access. Your data is stored in a secure, state-of-the-art operating environment.

The access to our website is secured by HTTPS in case your browser supports SSL. This means that the communication between your end device and our server is encrypted.

The personal data you enter or disclose is protected from unauthorized access by encrypted transmission, access-protected storage that is not accessible from the outside and by physical security measures for the servers. The security measures are continuously being revised in accordance with technological developments. Such measures include SSL encryption, regular software and hardware updates, permanent server monitoring and backup management.

Your Rights

With regards to your data stored by us, you have the basic Right of access, Right to rectification, Right to erasure, Right to restriction of processing, Right to data portability, Right to withdrawal and Right to object.

If you are of the opinion that your personal data is not being processed in accordance with legal regulations, you also have the right to lodge a complaint with the Austrian Data Protection Authority against the data processing.

We are also available to you for general questions and concerns regarding data protection. You can reach us under the following contact details:

H. Fuchs GesmbH, Großmarktstraße 16, AT-1230 Wien, office@sped-fuchs.at