Privacy Policy

We use cookies and similar technologies on our website https://putzstingl.at and process your personal data (e.g. IP address) in order, for example, to personalize content and ads, to integrate third-party media or to analyze access to our website. Data processing can also only take place as a result of cookies being set. We share this data with third parties that we designate in the privacy settings.

You can view and edit these settings at any time in the footer of our website under the menu item Change privacy settings.

From a data protection point of view, we divide our services into the following groups:

Essential: This group contains only technically necessary services that cannot be objected to
Functional: These contain features that go beyond the basic functionality of the website, such as Google Maps or loading media from our Tumblr blog.
Statistics: Statistics services such as Google Analytics are required to collect pseudonymised data about visitors to the website. The data allows us to better understand visitors and to improve the website

Essential Services

Essential services are based on the lawful basis of legitimate interest and cannot be opted out.

Wordfence

Purpose
To protect our website and our users’ data, we use the free version of the Wordfence plugin from Defiant, Inc., 800 5th Ave Ste 4100, Seattle, WA 98104, USA. We refer to our legitimate interest in protecting our website from attacks and data theft in order to keep our website running.

This plugin offers a web application firewall and a virus scanner. It detects and blocks malicious traffic by checking it against a set of security rules that must be continuously updated centrally. Regular scans of all files protect us against malicious modification of our files.

Storage of personal data
The following data is stored on our server: search queries, date and time of the query, the web address from which the visitor came to the site, the IP address, information about the device (model, operating system), information about the network in which where the visitor is located, Internet service provider, browser type and language used, country and time zone in which the device is located.

This data is automatically deleted after 30 days, unless the data is needed for further investigation of a malicious attack, in which case this data will be retained as long as malicious activity is determined to be associated with it.

Disclosure of personal data
We have disabled sharing with Defiant, Inc.’s Real Time Network and therefore do not share visitor information with that company.

Cookies
Wordfence only stores cookies in your browser in order to

to grant a user the necessary rights when he logs into our website and
report the login of another administrator to the administrator of the website.

For more information on this topic, see https://www.wordfence.com/help/general-data-protection-regulation/.

Polylang

Purpose
Polylang is a multi-language system for WordPress websites. The cookies store the user’s language and can redirect the user to the version of the website that corresponds to the language of the user’s browser.

Real cookie banners

Purpose
Real Cookie Banner asks visitors to our website for consent to the setting of cookies and the processing of personal data. For this purpose, each website visitor is assigned a UUID (pseudonymous identification of the user), which is valid until the cookie used to store the consent expires. Cookies are used to test whether cookies can be set, to store reference to the documented consent, to store which services from which service groups the visitor has consented to. As part of the obligation to explain according to the GDPR, the consent given is fully documented. The entire documentation can be called up by every user at any time in the footer under the menu item Privacy settings history. Consent is collected once per language.

Functional Services

Functional services require the visitor’s consent. The consent can be revoked at any time and then given again. To do this, you can use the Change privacy settings menu item in the website footer, or withdraw all consent given by clicking on Revoke consents.

Google Maps

Purpose
Google Maps displays maps on the website as an iframe as part of the website. No cookies in the technical sense are set on the user’s client device, but technical and personal data such as the IP address are sent from the client to the server of the service provider to enable the use of the service.

Lawful Use of:
Consent

Provider:
Google Ireland Limited
Gordon House
Barrow Street
Dublin 4, Ireland

US data processing:
Yes

Tumblr Blog

Purpose
To display our Tumblr blog, images are loaded from the Tumblr server and displayed on our website. We do not pass on any data, but your browser will be prompted to contact tumblr.com directly inorder to load the images. Tumblr, Inc. thus processes personal data such as your IP address, browser data and device data.

Provision of links
By using the “Read more” link, our company logo or our blog name, you will leave our website and be taken directly to Tumblr. Likewise, contact with this service takes place when you press the “Follow” button.

Lawful Use of:
Consent

Provider:
Tumblr, Inc.
60 29th Street #343
San Francisco
CA 94110, USA

US data processing:
Yes

Statistics

Statistics services require the consent of the visitor. The consent can be revoked at any time and then given again. To do this, you can use the Change privacy settings menu items, or withdraw all consents given via Revoke consents.

Google Analytics

Purpose
Google Analytics is a service for compiling detailed statistics about user behavior on the website. The cookies are used to distinguish users, throttle the request rate, store campaign-related information from and for the user, and associate data from multiple page views.

Lawful Use of:
Consent

Provider:
Google Ireland Limited
Gordon House
Barrow Street
Dublin 4, Ireland

US data processing:
Yes

Other Services

Google Fonts

For the uniform display of text content, we use Google Fonts on our website, a service provided by Google Ireland Limited (“Google”). This integration usually takes place through an external server call at Google in the USA, whereby it can be assumed that more extensive information – such as IP addresses – is also recorded, stored and analyzed. For data protection reasons, we therefore refrain from such direct integration and make these fonts available locally via the web server we use. If your browser does not support web fonts, one of the standard fonts on your computer will be used automatically.

Share with social media

There is a “Share” button under each individual news post so that our articles can be distributed via social media. For this we use the Shariff solution developed by Heise.

How the Shariff solution works

In contrast to the usual “Share” buttons on social networks, the social media do not collect user information when the page is called up, but only after the button is pressed. This allows the visitor’s privacy to be maintained when the page is called up.

In addition, the social media collect information about the number of shares for each article. Shariff prevents that information about the user can be collected by not displaying the number directly from the social media in the browser but fetching it centrally via the server and then making it available to the browser. This ensures the anonymity of the visitor.

More about the Shariff project can be found in magazine c’t.

Facebook

As soon as a user actively shares content, a direct connection to the Facebook servers is established, user data is processed and cookies are set in your browser. User profiles of the visitor can also be created. In this case, we have no influence on the scope of the processed data.

The purpose and scope of the data collection and the further processing and use of the data by Facebook as well as the relevant rights and setting options for protecting the privacy of users can be found in Facebook’s data protection information: https://www.facebook.com/about/privacy/ .

Further settings and objections to the use of data for advertising purposes can be found in the Facebook profile settings https://www.facebook.com/settings?tab=ads or via the US site http://www.aboutads.info/choices/ or the EU site http://www.youronlinechoices.com/.

For the European Economic Area and Switzerland, the operating company Facebook Ireland Ltd., 4 Grand Canal Square, Grand Canal Harbour, Dublin 2, Ireland is responsible for data processing. No data is exchanged between our website and LinkedIn.

LinkedIn

The purpose and scope of the data collection and the further processing and use of the data by LinkedIn and information about the rights of users can be found in https://de.linkedin.com/legal/cookie-policy. For the European Economic Area and Switzerland, the operating company LinkedIn Ireland Unlimited Company, Wilton Place, Dublin 2, Ireland is responsible for data processing. No data is exchanged between our website and LinkedIn.

Data transfer to the United States

The Google Maps, Google Analytics and Tumblr services process personal data in the USA. WIth your opt-in to these services, you also agree to the processing of your data in the USA in accordance with Art. 49 (1) lit. a GDPR. The USA is regarded by the ECJ as a country with an insufficient level of data protection according to EU standards. In particular, there is a risk that your data will be processed by US authorities for control and monitoring purposes – possibly without the possibility of a legal remedy.

E-Mail Contact

If you contact us via an email address listed on our website, we will only use the data you send to process your request. This data will not be passed on to third parties without your consent. In some cases, however, it is necessary for us to process your data and collect it separately. Your emails will be stored for six months in order to answer the request and in the event of follow-up questions.

Unsolicited Applications

We usually keep unsolicited applications received electronically for longer in the interests of the applicants, but not beyond the period of 12 months.

Log Data / Server Logs

Each time our website is accessed, usage data is transmitted through the internet browser you are using and stored in log files (server log files) on the web server we are using. These files include the following information: name / URL of the accessed website, host name of the requesting provider, date and time of the server request, browser type and version, operating system and the URL of the previously visited page (referrer URL). The log data is only used for statistical evaluations for the purpose of the operation, security and optimization of our website. This log data is not merged with other data sources. We reserve the right to check this data retrospectively if there are reasonable grounds to suspect illegal use.

Admin Area / Log In

In addition to the freely accessible user area (front end), our website also has its own admin area (back end). This is not part of the official menu structure and is reserved exclusively for our administrators for the purpose of managing the content of the website. Of course, we have an increased and legitimate interest in protecting this area from unauthorized access. We use special security measures to do this, including the temporary storage of IP addresses or, if necessary, permanent blocking them from access if they have made several incorrect and / or unauthorized login attempts (e.g. by entering incorrect access data).

Your rights

In principle, you have the right to information, correction, deletion, restriction, data portability, revocation and objection. If you believe that the processing of your data violates data protection law or your data protection claims have otherwise been violated, you can complain to the supervisory authority. In Austria this is the data protection authority.

Contact

If you have any questions in connection with data protection, please do not hesitate to contact us at Tel. +43 (0) 2236 23424 0 or by e-mail at .