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Privacy Policy

Last updated: 01.08.2024

This Privacy Policy describes Our policies and procedures on the collection, use, and disclosure of Your information when You use the Website and informs You about Your privacy rights and how the law protects You.

 

​Definitions

For the purposes of this Privacy Policy:

  • Account means a unique account created for You to access our Website or parts of our Website.

  • Company (referred to as either "the Company", "We", "Us" or "Our" in this Agreement) refers to Social Cooling.

  • Cookies are small files that are placed on Your computer, mobile device, or any other device by a website, containing details of Your browsing history on that website among its many uses.

  • Data Controller refers to the Company as the legal entity which determines the purposes and means of the processing of Personal Data.

  • Data Subject is any living individual who is the subject of Personal Data.

  • Personal Data is any information that relates to an identified or identifiable individual.

  • Service refers to the Website.

  • Usage Data refers to data collected automatically, either generated by the use of the Website or from the Website infrastructure itself (for example, the duration of a page visit).

  • Website refers to Social Cooling, accessible from https://www.social-cooling.com

  • You means the individual accessing or using the Website, or the company, or other legal entity on behalf of which such individual is accessing or using the Website, as applicable.

 

Collecting and Using Your Personal Data

While using Our Website, We may ask You to provide Us with certain personally identifiable information that can be used to contact or identify You. Personally identifiable information may include, but is not limited to:

  •  Email address

  •  First name and last name

  •  Phone number

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Purposes of Processing:

  • To manage our customer relations and communications.

  • To handle contract initiation and pre-relationship communication.

  • To provide you with information regarding our services and events.

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Sources of Personal Data:

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We collect your personal data either (i) directly from you, in the course of our communication or business relationship, (ii) from public sources (e.g., public internet or other sources, social media), or (iii) through our employees who are in contact with you. Kindly note that you are under no obligation to provide us with the data we ask for you.

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Legal Basis for Processing:

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We process your personal data based on our overriding legitimate interest according to Article 6 para 1 lit f GDPR to be able to enter into new business relationships as well as maintain and manage existing business relationships.

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Newsletter Subscription: When you subscribe to our newsletter at www.social-cooling.com, we process your personal data (e.g., email address) for the purpose of sending you regular updates on data privacy and related topics. This processing is based on your consent in accordance with Article 6(1)(a) GDPR.

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We use a double opt-in process to confirm your subscription, ensuring that no one else can subscribe you without your permission. You will receive an email asking you to confirm your subscription by clicking on a link. If you do not confirm your subscription, your data will be deleted.

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You have the right to withdraw your consent and opt out of the newsletter at any time by clicking the "unsubscribe" link in any newsletter or by contacting us directly. Your data will be deleted immediately after you unsubscribe.

 

Data Sharing:

To achieve the purposes set out above, we may transfer your personal data to IT service providers that we use, legal representatives, banks for the management of payment transactions, auditors for the performance of audits, courts and public authorities, contract partners or business partners who are or should be participating in the performance of the delivery or service, and companies that are part of our corporate group.

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Third-Party Links:

Our website may contain links to third-party websites for reference or informational purposes. However, we are not responsible for the privacy practices or content of those external sites. We encourage you to review the privacy policies of any third-party websites you visit.

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Data Retention:

We will retain your personal data for as long as we are in a business relationship with you or as long as we are in the phase of entering into a business relationship (as the case may be), and thereafter as long as required under statutory retention obligations or as long as potential legal claims (where personal data is needed to raise or defend against the claim) are not yet time-barred.

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Usage Data

 

Usage Data is collected automatically when using the Website. Usage Data may include information such as Your Device's Internet Protocol address (e.g., IP address), browser type, browser version, the pages of our Website that You visit, the time and date of Your visit, the time spent on those pages, unique device identifiers, and other diagnostic data.

 

Tracking Technologies and Cookies

 

We use Cookies and similar tracking technologies to track the activity on Our Website and store certain information. Tracking technologies used are beacons, tags, and scripts to collect and track information and to improve and analyze Our Website.

  • bSession

  • Ssr-caching

  • CookieConsent

  • Hs

  • XSRF-Token

  • svSession

  • fedops.logger.sessionid

You can instruct Your browser to refuse all Cookies or to indicate when a Cookie is being sent. However, if You do not accept Cookies, You may not be able to use some parts of our Website.

 

 

Your Rights Regarding Your Personal Data

 

Subject to various limitations set out in the GDPR, you have the right to:

  • Obtain information as to whether and what kind of personal data we store about you and to request copies of such data;  

  • Request to have your personal data corrected, restricted, or deleted;  

  • Object to the processing of your personal data;  

  • Request data portability; and  

  • Lodge a complaint before the Austrian data protection authority (“Datenschutzbehörde”).

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If you wish to exercise any of these rights, or if you have any concerns about our processing of your personal data, please contact us in any of the ways listed in the section “How to contact us” below.

 

Our Contact Information

The protection of your data is especially important to us. We are available at the contact details below at any time for your questions or withdrawal requests.

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Social Cooling 

Kafkastraße 9

1020 Vienna

Austria  

T +43 677644129122

E contact@social-cooling.com

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