Privacy Policy Website/Cookies/Contact
It is extremely important for us to protect your personal data.
We therefore comply with the applicable legal regulations for the protection, lawful handling and secrecy of personal data as well as data security, in particular the Data Protection Act as amended (“DSG”) and the General Regulation on Data Protection (“GDPR”). The following information describes which personal data we will process if necessary when you visit our website at www.verbundx.com (“website”).
1. Name and address of the Data Controller
The Data Controller responsible for the processing of your personal data in accordance with the data protection regulations is:
VERBUND AG
Am Hof 6a
1010 Vienna
(hereinafter “VERBUND”, “we”, “us”)
The contact details of the data protection officer are as follows:
Email: datenschutz@verbund.com
2. Processing in the context of “website”
2.1. What kind of personal data will we process?
During your visit to our website, we will automatically collect the following personal data:
Date and time of access to a page of our website
Data about your device (device ID)
IP address
Name and version of your internet browser
Session ID
For information about the cookies used when you visit our website, please see our Cookies policy in point 4.
2.2. Legal basis and purpose of the data processing
Where the data of your visit to our website are concerned, we justify the processing on the basis of our legitimate interest in accordance with Art. 6 (1) (f) GDPR, which consists of giving our website a user-friendly design and protecting our website against attacks.
We process your data relating to the visit to our website for the following purposes:
in order to make our website and its functions available to you, and to improve and develop this website further;
in order to be able to compile statistics on the use of our website;
in order to be able to identify, prevent and investigate attacks on our website;
in order to show personalised page suggestions.
2.3. Duration of storage
We will generally store your data relating to the visit to our website for a period of three months. A longer storage period will apply only to the extent this is required to investigate identified attacks on our website and beyond that only until the end of the relevant limitation periods, statutory retention periods or any legal disputes.
2.4. Data recipients
We will not forward personal data collected on the basis of your use of the website to third parties, unless this is required for the fulfilment of our obligations or is mandatory for legal or official reasons.
However, in order to operate and administer the website, we regularly use IT service providers which, in accordance with our orders and instructions, may under certain circumstances also have access to personal data in order to be able to render the commissioned IT services.
3. Processing in the context of “making contact/enquiries”
3.1. What kind of personal data will we process?
When you contact us by email or telephone, we will process the personal data you give us (email, name, telephone number, as well your enquiry or the associated documents) for the purposes of processing your enquiry and respond to you accordingly. In case you contact WhatAVenture, a partner of VERBUND within the VERBUND X Accelerator Program, your provided data will be processed by WhatAVenture as an independent controller (details on www.whataventure.com).
3.2. Legal basis and purpose of the data processing
The legal basis for the processing of the data is our legitimate interest in accordance with Art. 6 (1) (f) GDPR, which lies in processing and dealing with your enquiry.
3.3. Duration of storage
Your data will be stored until your enquiry has been dealt with and beyond that for a period of three months. A longer storage period will apply only to the extent this is required to fully process your concerns and beyond that only until the end of the relevant limitation periods, statutory retention periods or any legal disputes.
3.4. Data recipients
In order to process the personal data, we use service providers (e.g. IT service providers) which, in accordance with our orders and instructions, may under certain circumstances also have access to personal data in order to be able to render the commissioned services.
4. Cookies policy
Cookies and how they work
Our website uses cookies and similar web storage technologies, such as
scripts, web beacons, tracking URLs, pixels or tags (hereinafter jointly
referred to as “cookies"). Cookies are small files that are placed on your
device (e.g. computer, smartphone or tablet) when you visit our website. Every
time you visit our website, cookies and the website "communicate"
with each other in order to be able to recognise your end device. This is
useful for you as well as for us: the purpose of cookies is to enable our
website to function correctly, to expand the website's functionality and to
optimise the website's functions. For example, the website can remember certain
inputs and settings (e.g. language, font size) over a certain period of time,
which means you do not have to perform repeat inputs and settings each time you
visit the website.We use both first-party and third-party cookies. First-party cookies
come directly from our website and send information only to us. However, our
website can also contain technologies from other providers (third parties),
which we integrate into our website for advertising purposes and which may
place their own cookies on your end device.In most cases, the
information in a cookie is pseudonymised or anonymised, as cookies generally do
not identify you as a person, but rather your end device. In some cases, it is
possible to link certain cookies to personal data. Therefore, there are cookies
that require your consent before they can be used on your device and cookies
that can be used without your consent because they are technically required for
us to render our services ("essential cookies"). In the case of
essential cookies, the data processing is required for the purpose of data
security measures, to prevent abuse and to optimise the website and is
therefore based on our legitimate interests pursuant to Art. 6(1) (f) GDPR in
conjunction with Section 165 para. 3 TKG. All other cookies used on our website
via the cookie banner are used solely on the basis of your prior express
consent pursuant to Art. 6(1) (a) GDPR in conjunction with Section 165 para. 3
TKG.
Insofar as the settings you
have made or the voluntary consent you have given also include providers who
transmit data to countries without an adequacy decision in accordance with Art.
45(3) GDPR and without suitable guarantees in accordance with Art. 46 GDPR
(such as, in particular, the USA), your consent in accordance with Art. 49 GDPR
applies to this as well. There is a risk that your data transmitted in this way
may be accessed by authorities in these third countries for control and
monitoring purposes and that no effective legal remedies are available.
Our website also gives you the possibility to accept the use of cookies by clicking on the "Accept all cookies" button or to allow or reject only certain categories of cookies after clicking on "Settings"; this is done through our cookie banner, which automatically appears the first time you visit our website or when changes are made. If you do not select the checkbox and click on "Confirm selection", no cookie-based services requiring your consent will be loaded. A description of the types of cookies we use can be found below.
4.1.Categories of cookies
On the website, VERBUND uses essential cookies, cookies for statistical
purposes or cookies to show you information tailored to your requirements. We
divide data processing into different categories based on function and purpose.
The categories of cookies used in conjunction with the website are described
below:st
4.2.Storage duration
With regard
to the storage duration, a distinction must be made between "session
cookies" and "persistent cookies":Session cookies are automatically deleted when
you leave our website. Persistent cookies, on the other hand, remain on your
terminal device either until the cookies reach an expiry date set by us or you
manually delete them from your browser. We use such persistent cookies to
recognise you on your next visit to our website. You can find the precise
storage duration under point 3.3.
4.3.Deactivating cookies
You can revoke your consent granted to us at
any time with effect for the future by deleting the corresponding cookies and
preventing the saving of cookies. You can also decide at your discretion which
categories of cookies you would like to allow and can change your cookie
settings via the following link in point 4.1.
In addition, you can also make general changes to all cookie settings at any time via your browser. Most browsers accept cookies automatically. The use of certain cookies may also be required to open a website or to save the objection to the use of other cookies. You can delete all cookies that are already on your computer and you can set most browsers to prevent them from being placed or to require your explicit consent before saving a cookie. You can also activate "Block cookies from third parties" separately. As a rule, the Help function in the menu bar of your web browser shows you how to reject new cookies and how to deactivate cookies already received. Learn how by visiting http://www.aboutcookies.org/, for example.In the following, we have summarised links that provide detailed information on the deactivation of cookies in commonly used browsers.
Mozilla Firefox: https://support.mozilla.org/de/kb/cookies-loeschen-daten-von-websites-entfernenInternet
Explorer: https://support.microsoft.com/de-de/help/17442/windows-internet-explorer-delete-manage-cookies
Google Chrome: https://support.google.com/accounts/answer/61416?hl=de
Safari: https://support.apple.com/kb/PH17191?locale=de_AT&viewlocale=de_DE
However, please note that if you deactivate cookies, you may not be able to use all functions of this website to the fullest extent possible. In this case, you may have to manually make a number of settings each time you visit the website and accept that several functions may be impaired.
4.4.Tools
On the basis of your voluntarily granted consent (Art. 6(1) (a) GDPR),
VERBUND uses different tools via the cookie banner.
4.4.1.Google Analytics
VERBUND uses Google Analytics, a web analysis
service provided by Google Inc. ("Google"). Google Analytics also
uses cookies, which enable analysis of how you use the website. The information
generated by the cookies about your usage of this website will be transmitted
to a Google server in the USA and stored there. Please note that Google
Analytics has been extended on this website with the code
"gat._anonymizeIp();", in order to assure the anonymised collection
of IP addresses. The IP address of the users is therefore truncated on the
website before it is saved on the Google servers (so-called IP masking). The
full IP address will therefore not be transmitted to a server of Google in the
USA. Only in exceptional circumstances will the full IP address be transmitted
to a server of Google in the USA and truncated there. At the request of
VERBUND, Google will use the information to analyse the use of the website, to
compile reports on the website activities for the website operator, and to
render further services associated with the use of the website and the use of
the internet. You can prevent the installation of cookies by
making the relevant settings in your browser software (so-called "browser
add-on"); however, please note that in this case you may not be able to
use all functions of this website to the fullest extent possible.Furthermore, you can prevent the data generated
by the cookie and referring to your use of the website (incl. your previously
anonymised IP address) being sent to Google as well as the processing of these
data by Google by downloading and installing the browser plugin available via
the link provide below.
The current link is: http://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=de.You can find more information on the Terms of
Use and Privacy Policy of Google at http://www.google.com/analytics/terms/de.html or http://www.google.com/intl/de/analytics/privacyoverview.html.
4.4.2.Google Tag Manager
This
website uses Google Tag Manager of Google Ireland Limited (Google Ireland
Limited, Google Building Gordon House, 4 Barrow Street, Dublin D04 E5W5,
Ireland). Google Tag Manager is a solution that allows marketers to manage
website tags through a single interface. The Tag Manager tool implements the
tags and does not collect any personal data. The tool triggers other tags such
as Google Analytics or Facebook Pixel and controls when they are triggered.
Google Tag Manager itself does not access these data. If a deactivation has been
performed at domain or cookie level, this remains in place for all tracking
tags that are implemented with Google Tag Manager.
4.4.3.Google Signals
VERBUND has activated Google Signals, an
additional service to Google Analytics of Google Ireland Limited (Google
Ireland Limited, Google Building Gordon House, 4 Barrow Street, Dublin D04
E5W5, Ireland). This feature sends aggregated (non-personal) data, such as
interests or demographics of Google users who have activated personalised
advertisements, to Google Analytics. The data are used by VERBUND for
remarketing purposes. Cross-device user behaviour can also be measured. You can
find more information about Google Signals at https://support.google.com/analytics/answer/7532985?hl=de.
4.5.Plugins
We use social media and other 3rd-party plugins
on our website. To ensure optimal protection of your data, we use the services
of Shariff for social media plugins. This program prevents the social media
services from tracking your visit on our website, as long as you do not
actively interact with the social media plugins. Therefore, no direct contact
is established between you as a user of our website and the social media
service. Only when you actively click the button or otherwise interact with the
plugins is the respective social media service able to process your data. In
detail:
4.5.1.Social media plugins used
Facebook:
Meta Platforms
Ireland Ltd (Meta Platforms
Ireland Ltd., 4 Grand Canal Square, Grand Canal
Harbour, Dublin 2, Ireland); more detailed information: http://www.facebook.com/policy.php.
Twitter:
Twitter Inc. (Twitter International Company, One Cumberland Place, Fenian
Street, Dublin 2, D02 AX07, Ireland); more detailed information: http://twitter.com/privacy
4.5.2.Google Maps
Map information is provided on this website via
the function "Google Maps" of Google Ireland Limited (Google Ireland
Limited, Google Building Gordon House, 4 Barrow Street, Dublin D04 E5W5,
Ireland). In the course of using this function, Google also processes data on
how this function is used by visitors to our website. You can find more
information on how Google uses data at https://www.google.com/intl/de/policies/privacy.