1. Introduction
Welcome to patrick-berger.com (“we,” “our,” “us”). We are committed to protecting your privacy and ensuring your personal data is handled responsibly. This Privacy Policy explains how we collect, use, and share your personal information in accordance with the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).
2. Data Controller
The data controller responsible for your personal information is:
Patrick Berger, Rebengasse 14, 2700 Wiener Neustadt, Austria
3. Data Collection
We collect the following types of personal data:
* Identity Data: Name, username, or similar identifier.
* Contact Data: Email address, postal address, phone numbers.
* Technical Data: IP address, browser type and version, time zone setting, browser plug-in types and versions, operating system and platform, and other technology on the devices you use to access this website.
* Usage Data: Information about how you use our website, products, and services.
* Marketing and Communications Data: Your preferences in receiving marketing from us and your communication preferences.
4. How We Collect Data
We use different methods to collect data from and about you including:
* Direct Interactions: You may provide personal data by filling in forms or by corresponding with us by post, phone, email, or otherwise.
* Automated Technologies: As you interact with our website, we may automatically collect Technical Data about your equipment, browsing actions, and patterns. We collect this personal data by using cookies, server logs, and other similar technologies.
* Third Parties: We may receive personal data about you from various third parties, including analytics providers, advertising networks, and search information providers.
5. How We Use Your Personal Data
We will only use your personal data when the law allows us to. Most commonly, we will use your personal data in the following circumstances:
* To register you as a new customer.
* To process and deliver your order.
* To manage your relationship with us.
* To administer and protect our business and this website.
* To deliver relevant website content and advertisements to you and measure or understand the effectiveness of the advertising we serve to you.
* To use data analytics to improve our website, products/services, marketing, customer relationships, and experiences.
* To make suggestions and recommendations to you about goods or services that may be of interest to you.
6. Legal Basis for Processing
We rely on the following legal bases to process your personal data:
* Consent: Where you have given us explicit consent to process your data.
* Contract: Where processing is necessary for the performance of a contract with you.
* Legal Obligation: Where we need to comply with a legal obligation.
* Legitimate Interests: Where processing is necessary for our legitimate interests (or those of a third party), provided your interests and fundamental rights do not override those interests.
7. Data Sharing
We may share your personal data with:
* Service Providers: Third parties who provide IT and system administration services.
* Professional Advisers: Including lawyers, bankers, auditors, and insurers who provide consultancy, banking, legal, insurance, and accounting services.
* Regulatory Authorities: HM Revenue & Customs, regulators, and other authorities who require reporting of processing activities in certain circumstances.
8. International Transfers
Your data may be transferred to and processed in countries outside the European Economic Area (EEA). We ensure your personal data is protected by requiring all our group companies to follow the same rules when processing your personal data. These rules are called “binding corporate rules.”
9. Data Security
We have put in place appropriate security measures to prevent your personal data from being accidentally lost, used, or accessed in an unauthorized way, altered, or disclosed. In addition, we limit access to your personal data to those employees, agents, contractors, and other third parties who have a business need to know.
10. Data Retention
We will only retain your personal data for as long as necessary to fulfill the purposes we collected it for, including for the purposes of satisfying any legal, accounting, or reporting requirements.
11. Your Legal Rights
Under certain circumstances, you have rights under data protection laws in relation to your personal data, including the right to:
* Request access to your personal data.
* Request correction of your personal data.
* Request erasure of your personal data.
* Object to processing of your personal data.
* Request restriction of processing your personal data.
* Request transfer of your personal data.
* Withdraw consent.
If you wish to exercise any of the rights set out above, please contact us.
12. Changes to this Privacy Policy
We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time. We will notify you of any changes by posting the new Privacy Policy on this page. You are advised to review this Privacy Policy periodically for any changes.
This Cookie Policy explains how patrick-berger.com (“we”, “us”, “our”) uses cookies and similar technologies to recognize you when you visit our website at patrick-berger.com (“Website”). It explains what these technologies are and why we use them, as well as your rights to control our use of them.
1. What Are Cookies?
Cookies are small data files that are placed on your computer or mobile device when you visit a website. Cookies are widely used by website owners to make their websites work, or to work more efficiently, as well as to provide reporting information.
Cookies set by the website owner (in this case, patrick-berger.com ) are called “first-party cookies”. Cookies set by parties other than the website owner are called “third-party cookies”. Third-party cookies enable third-party features or functionality to be provided on or through the website (e.g., like advertising, interactive content, and analytics). The parties that set these third-party cookies can recognize your computer both when it visits the website in question and also when it visits certain other websites.
2. Why Do We Use Cookies?
We use first-party and third-party cookies for several reasons. Some cookies are required for technical reasons for our Website to operate, and we refer to these as “essential” or “strictly necessary” cookies. Other cookies enable us to track and target the interests of our users to enhance the experience on our Website. Third parties serve cookies through our Website for advertising, analytics, and other purposes. This is described in more detail below.
3. Types of Cookies We Use
Essential Cookies
These cookies are strictly necessary to provide you with services available through our Website and to use some of its features, such as access to secure areas.
Performance and Functionality Cookies
These cookies are used to enhance the performance and functionality of our Website but are non-essential to their use. However, without these cookies, certain functionality (like videos) may become unavailable.
Analytics and Customization Cookies
These cookies collect information that is used either in aggregate form to help us understand how our Website is being used or how effective our marketing campaigns are, or to help us customize our Website for you.
Advertising Cookies
These cookies are used to make advertising messages more relevant to you. They perform functions like preventing the same ad from continuously reappearing, ensuring that ads are properly displayed for advertisers, and in some cases selecting advertisements that are based on your interests.
4. Your Choices Regarding Cookies
You have the right to decide whether to accept or reject cookies. You can exercise your cookie preferences by clicking on the appropriate opt-out links provided in the cookie banner.
Browser Controls
You can set or amend your web browser controls to accept or refuse cookies. If you choose to reject cookies, you may still use our Website though your access to some functionality and areas of our Website may be restricted. As the means by which you can refuse cookies through your web browser controls vary from browser to browser, you should visit your browser’s help menu for more information.
Disabling Most Interest-Based Advertising
Most advertising networks offer you a way to opt out of interest-based advertising. If you would like to find out more information, please visit:
Google Analytics Opt-Out: Google Analytics Opt-Out Browser Add-on
Network Advertising Initiative (NAI) Opt-Out: NAI Consumer Opt-Out
Digital Advertising Alliance (DAA) Opt-Out: DAA WebChoices Tool
European Interactive Digital Advertising Alliance (EDAA) Opt-Out: Your Online Choices
5. Updates to This Cookie Policy
We may update this Cookie Policy from time to time to reflect changes to the cookies we use or for other operational, legal, or regulatory reasons. Please revisit this Cookie Policy regularly to stay informed about our use of cookies and related technologies.The date at the top of this Cookie Policy indicates when it was last updated.
6. More Information
If you have any questions about our use of cookies or other technologies, please contact us.
