Data protection – Effective date 01.03.2025
Area of application
The operator of these pages, http://owllab.at, takes the protection of your personal data very seriously. owl lab e.U. Mag. (FH) Anja Herberth offers its services in Austria in accordance with the Trade Regulation Act for management consulting, advertising and market communication.
We treat your personal data confidentially and in accordance with the statutory data protection regulations and this privacy policy. As a rule, it is possible to use our website without providing personal data. Insofar as personal data (e.g. name, address or email addresses) is collected on our website, this is always done on a voluntary basis as far as possible. This data will not be passed on to third parties without your express consent.
We would like to point out that data transmission over the Internet (e.g. when communicating by e-mail) can have security gaps. Complete protection of data against access by third parties is not possible.
If you wish to use the (personalised) offers and services (e.g. email newsletter) offered on the website, we may require further information from you in order to provide these services and for billing purposes.
This includes, in particular, your name, your email address and, if necessary, further information (address, telephone number) that allows us to verify that you are the owner of the email address provided or that the owner agrees to receive the relevant services in order to provide the services you have requested.
Server log files
The provider of the pages automatically collects and stores information in so-called server log files, which your browser automatically transmits to us. These are:
• Browser type and browser version
• Operating system used
• Referrer URL
• Host name of the accessing computer
• Time of the server request
This data cannot be assigned to specific persons. This data is not merged with other data sources. We reserve the right to check this data retrospectively if we become aware of specific indications of illegal use.
Right to information, deletion, blocking
You have the right to obtain information free of charge at any time about your stored personal data, its origin and recipients, and the purpose of data processing, as well as the right to correct, block or delete this data. You can revoke your consent to the storage of your personal data and its use for the provision of the respective services at any time. If you have any questions about this or other issues relating to personal data, you can contact us at any time at anja@owl-lab.at.
Furthermore, objecting to further use of your data means that you may no longer be able to use the services you have purchased and that we will immediately discontinue the provision of the respective service. Your personal data will be deleted in this context and will no longer be available in our database.
Your data may be disclosed
_ To our external service providers who provide services such as website hosting, data analysis, infrastructure provision, IT services, customer service, email delivery services, auditing services and other similar services to enable them to offer our services to you as a customer.
_ To a third party in the event of a reorganisation, merger, sale, joint venture, transfer, assignment or other disposition of all or any portion of the business, our assets or our inventory (including in connection with any bankruptcy or similar proceedings).
• under applicable law,
• to comply with legal process,
• to comply with requests from public or governmental authorities, including public or governmental authorities outside the country in which you reside,
• to protect our operations,
• to protect our rights, our safety, our privacy, or our property, and to enable us to pursue available remedies or limit the damages we may sustain.
Sensitive information
We ask that you do not send us sensitive personal data (e.g. information relating to your ethnic origin, political opinions, religious or other beliefs, health, criminal background or trade union membership) on this site or in any other way, and that you do not disclose such information.
Objection to (further) data processing and use Please note that even after you have objected to the use and/or storage of your data, we may still process your data to the extent necessary for billing purposes.
Surveys
Occasionally, owl lab e.U. Mag. (FH) Anja Herberth will ask for data to be provided in the context of surveys. Participation in such surveys and the provision of data are voluntary. The data subject is therefore free to decide whether he or she wishes to provide the relevant information and consent to the collection and processing of this data. The survey data is always encrypted. The information you provide in the interview will be recorded and processed and evaluated anonymously, separately from your contact details. In order to be able to randomly check at a later date whether the interview was conducted properly by our employees, your contact details will be stored temporarily, separately from your answers. It is therefore possible that an employee of our communications consultancy may contact you again by telephone for internal review purposes.
In rare cases, you will be asked whether your information and/or data may be forwarded by us to the client. We may only do so if you have given your specific permission.
Use of the site by minors
The site is not intended for minors and we ask that minors do not provide any personal data through the site; participation in surveys is only possible once you have reached the age of majority.
Objection to advertising emails
We hereby object to the use of contact details published in accordance with the legal notice requirement for the purpose of sending unsolicited advertising and information materials. The operators of the website expressly reserve the right to take legal action in the event of unsolicited advertising information being sent, for example via spam emails.
Updating our privacy policy
We may amend this privacy policy. Please refer to the ‘Effective Date’ statement at the top of this page to see when this privacy policy was last revised.
All changes will take effect when we publish the revised privacy policy on the site. Your use of the site after these changes means that you accept the amended privacy policy.
Copyright notices
The content and programmes on this website are protected by our copyright. We reserve all rights to them. Parts of this website may contain images, text or sounds that are subject to third-party copyright. In such cases, the copyright notices are noted in the appropriate places or collected together. All image material is – unless otherwise expressly stated: shutterstock.com. The portraits of Mag. (FH) Anja Herberth were staged by Bill Lorenz.
Information on this website, texts, images and sound may not be reproduced, transferred, distributed or stored without the written permission of the publisher, unless expressly stated otherwise. Modifications to the content of this website are expressly prohibited. The download of texts for personal, private and non-commercial use is permitted.
Information on external links
We hereby expressly distance ourselves from all content on all linked pages on our homepage and do not adopt this content as our own. This declaration applies to all links included in this project (on this website).
Google Analytics and Google services:
This website uses the ‘Google Analytics’ service, which is offered by Google Inc. (1600 Amphitheatre Parkway Mountain View, CA 94043, USA), on the basis of our legitimate interests in optimising and analysing our online offering within the meaning of Art. 6 (1) lit. f. GDPR. The service (Google Analytics) uses ‘cookies’ – text files that are stored on your device. The information collected by the cookies is usually sent to a Google server in the USA and stored there.
Google LLC complies with European data protection law and is certified under the Privacy Shield Agreement: https://www.privacyshield.gov/participant?id=a2zt000000001L5AAI&status=Active
IP anonymisation is used on this website. The IP address of users within the member states of the EU and the European Economic Area and in the other contracting states of the agreement is truncated. Only in individual cases is the IP address first transmitted in full to a Google server in the USA and truncated there. This truncation removes the personal reference from your IP address. The user’s IP address transmitted by the browser is not combined with other data stored by Google.
As part of the agreement on commissioned data processing that we as website operators have concluded with Google Inc., Google uses the collected information to evaluate website usage and website activity and to provide services related to internet usage.
The data collected by Google on our behalf is used to evaluate the use of our online offering by individual users, e.g. to create reports on website activity in order to improve our online offering.
You can prevent cookies from being stored on your device by adjusting your browser settings accordingly. There is no guarantee that you will be able to access all functions of this website without restrictions if your browser does not allow cookies.
Furthermore, you can use a browser plugin to prevent the information collected by cookies (including your IP address) from being sent to Google Inc. and used by Google Inc. The following link will take you to the relevant plugin: https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=de
Alternatively, you can prevent Google Analytics from collecting data about you within this website by clicking on the opt-out link. By clicking on the link, you will download an ‘opt-out cookie’. Your browser must therefore allow cookies to be stored. If you delete your cookies regularly, you will need to click on the link again each time you visit this website.
Here you will find further information on data usage by Google Inc.:
· https://policies.google.com/privacy/partners?hl=de (data collected by Google partners)
· https://adssettings.google.de/authenticated (settings for advertising displayed to you)
· https://policies.google.com/technologies/ads?hl=de (use of cookies in advertisements)
Please note: We accept no liability for any services that are not accessible to us. http://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=de
Disclaimer
The information on this website is intended as ‘statements in themselves’ without any implied guarantees of any kind. The information provided on this website has been carefully checked and is regularly updated. However, no guarantee can be given that all information is complete, correct and up to date at all times. This applies in particular to all links to other websites that are referred to directly or indirectly. All information may be supplemented, removed or changed without prior notice.
Furthermore, it is not our responsibility to take precautions against destructive programmes or programme components such as viruses, worms, Trojan horses or similar, which are located on web servers that may be accessed via links from our website.
Employees of owl lab e.U. Mag. (FH) Anja Herberth
The employees and contractual partners of owl lab e.U. Mag. (FH) Anja Herberth are subject to the confidentiality obligations of the Telecommunications Act and the confidentiality obligations of the Data Protection Act. Content data may be stored if absolutely necessary for billing purposes. However, content data will not be stored beyond the minimum technically necessary and will not be evaluated under any circumstances.
Violation of business or trade secrets and misuse of entrusted documents in accordance with § 11 UWG
(1) Any employee of a company who, during the term of their employment, discloses to others without authorisation business or trade secrets that have been entrusted to them or otherwise become accessible to them by virtue of their employment for the purpose of competition shall be punished by the court with imprisonment of up to three months or a fine of up to 180 daily rates. (Federal Law Gazette No. 120/1980, Art. I Z 6)
(2) The same penalty shall apply to anyone who, for the purposes of competition, unauthorisedly exploits or discloses to others business or trade secrets which they have obtained through one of the disclosures referred to in paragraph 1 or through their own actions in violation of the law or public morality.
(3) Prosecution shall only take place at the request of the injured party.
Contractual partners of owl lab e.U. Mag (FH) Anja Herberth
The contractual partners of owl lab e.U. Mag. (FH) Anja Herberth are subject to the confidentiality obligations of the Telecommunications Act and the confidentiality obligations of the Data Protection Act. Content data may be stored if this is absolutely necessary for the billing or processing of the contractual relationship. However, content data will not be stored beyond the minimum technically necessary and will not be evaluated under any circumstances.
Collection, processing and use of data
Security of processing in accordance with Art. 32 (4) GDPR
The controller and the processor shall take steps to ensure that natural persons under their authority who have access to personal data do not process them except on instructions from the controller, unless they are required to do so by Union or Member State law.
The controller and his or her processors must ensure an appropriate level of protection by means of appropriate technical and organisational measures, which may be demonstrated, inter alia, by approved codes of conduct (Article 40) or approved certification procedures (Article 42).
Data secrecy pursuant to Section 6 DSG
The controller(s), the processor(s) and their employees – i.e. employees (servants) and persons in an employee-like (servant-like) relationship, e.g. interns – must keep personal data from data processing that has been entrusted to them or made accessible to them exclusively on the basis of their professional employment confidential, without prejudice to other legal confidentiality obligations, unless there is a legally permissible reason for transferring the personal data entrusted to them or made accessible to them (data confidentiality).
We are subject to regulations that guarantee the utmost care in handling your information. Please contact us with any further questions regarding data: Anja/ät/ owl-lab.at
Kind regards
Mag (FH) Anja Herberth
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