Cookie Policy

Cookies are small text files that websites visited by users send to the users’ computers or mobile devices. They are stored there before they are returned to the same websites at the next visit. Cookies enable the website to remember users’ actions and preferences (such as login details, the language selected, font size, other display settings, etc.) so that they do not need to be entered again when users revisit the website or browse from one page to another. Cookies are therefore used for IT authentication, session monitoring and the storage of information about the users’ activities when a website is accessed. Cookies from web servers or websites other than the website visited (“third-party cookies”) may be placed on computers or mobile devices when users visit a website. 

Different types of cookies exist that may remain on users’ computers or mobile devices for various lengths of time depending on their properties and functions: session cookies, which are automatically deleted when the browser is closed, and persistent cookies, which remain on the users’ devices for a predetermined period of time.

The website uses the following cookie categories:

• Technically necessary cookies are absolutely necessary for the proper functioning of the website, the management of your consents, data security and the prevention of misuse, and enable you to use the content and services you have requested properly and securely. That is why it is not possible to deactivate these cookies. You will be requested not to use the website should you not wish this category of cookies to be installed on your device. 
  Data processing is based on our legal obligations in accordance with Art. 6 (1) (c) GDPR in conjunction with Section 165 (3) TKG 2021 and/or our legitimate interests in accordance with Art. 6 (1) (f) GDPR in conjunction with Section 165 (3) TKG 2021.
   
• Analytics/statistics cookies enable us to understand how you and other users are using the website and help us improve the functionality of our website. 
  Data processing is effected on the basis of your voluntary consent in accordance with Art. 6 (1) (a) GDPR in conjunction with Section 165 (3) TKG 2021. You may revoke your consent at any time without reason with effect for the future, e.g. by clicking the “Cookie settings” button in the website’s footer. You may customize your cookie settings individually through the use of the sliders and by clicking the “Save” button. 
   
• Profiling and marketing cookies enable us to track users and their behavior. The aim is to display advertising that is relevant and appealing to users. 

Data processing is based on your voluntary consent in accordance with Art. 6 (1) (a) GDPR in conjunction with Section 165 (3) TKG 2021. You may revoke your consent at any time without reason with effect for the future, e.g. by clicking the “Cookie settings” button in the website’s footer. You may customize your cookie settings individually by clicking the cookies and then clicking the “Save” button. 

You will find a complete list of cookies in the cookie banner . The cookie banner is displayed automatically when you visit our website. It is also possible to access the cookie banner at any time by way of the “Cookie settings” button in the website’s footer. 

You may change your settings at any time and revoke your consent at any time without reason with effect for the future, e.g. by clicking the “Cookie settings” button in the website’s footer. You may customize your cookie settings individually by clicking the cookies and then clicking the “Save” button. 

Your personal data may be transferred to countries outside the European Union (EU) or the European Economic Area (EEA) that provide an adequate level of data protection as determined by adequacy decisions by the European Commission (https://ec.europa.eu/info/law/law-topic/data-protection/international-dimension-data-protection/adequacy-decisions_en).

Your personal data will only be transferred to countries that are not part of the EU/EEA and that do not guarantee an adequate level of protection if the controller and the recipients of the data have concluded the European Commission’s Standard Contractual Clauses (SCCs) as appropriate safeguards for the protection of your personal data, have carried out a Transfer Impact Assessment and have implemented supplemental security measures or you have given your express voluntary consent.

We have implemented corresponding technical and organizational security measures within the meaning of Art. 32 GDPR to ensure the confidentiality and security of your personal data.

We have implemented corresponding technical and organizational security measures within the meaning of Art. 32 GDPR to ensure the confidentiality and security of your personal data.

You have a right to information about your personal data that we have processed as the controller (Art. 15 GDPR). You also have the right to rectification of incorrect data and erasure of your data (“right to be forgotten”) (Art. 16 and 17 GDPR). You may also have the right to restrict the processing of your data (Art. 18 GDPR) and the right to receive the data you have provided in a structured, commonly used and machine-readable format (“data portability”, Art. 20 GDPR). You may also revoke your voluntarily granted consent to the processing of personal data at any time with effect for the future, e.g. by email to datenschutz@tqw.at (Art. 7 (3) GDPR). 

You also have the right to object at any time to direct marketing measures and data processing for reasons arising from your particular situation (Art. 21 GDPR). In this case, we will refrain from processing your personal data further unless we are able to demonstrate compelling legitimate grounds for such processing which override the interests, rights and freedoms of the data subject and if such processing serves the establishment and exercise of or defense against legal claims.

If you believe that we are processing your personal data unlawfully, you also have the right to lodge a complaint with the competent supervisory authority or to seek a judicial remedy (Art. 77 GDPR). In Austria that is: 

Österreichische Datenschutzbehörde (Austrian Data Protection Authority)
Barichgasse 40-42
1030 Vienna
Email: dsb@dsb.gv.at

You may also lodge a complaint with the supervisory authority in the EU country in which you have your habitual residence or work, or with the supervisory authority in the place where the alleged infringement took place. 

You may contact us at any time to exercise these rights, e.g. by sending an email to datenschutz@tqw.at.

The continuous development of our activities may lead to changes in the characteristics of the processing of your personal data described above. This Cookie Policy may therefore be subject to changes and additions over time, which may also be necessary with regard to new laws governing the protection of personal data.

It is possible to access the current version of the Cookie Policy at any time using the “Cookie settings” button in the website’s footer.