We have written this privacy policy (version 05.09.2020-211132883) to explain to you, in accordance with the requirements of the General Data Protection Regulation (EU) 2016/679, what information we collect, how we use data, and what choices you have as a visitor to this website.
Unfortunately, such explanations tend to sound very technical by nature, but we have made every effort to describe the most important things as simply and clearly as possible.
Rights under the General Data Protection Regulation
Under the provisions of the GDPR and the Austrian Data Protection Act (DSG), you are generally entitled to the following rights:
- Right to rectification (Article 16 GDPR)
- Right to erasure (“right to be forgotten”) (Article 17 GDPR)
- Right to restriction of processing (Article 18 GDPR)
- Right to notification – obligation to communicate in connection with the rectification or erasure of personal data or restriction of processing (Article 19 GDPR)
- Right to data portability (Article 20 GDPR)
- Right to object (Article 21 GDPR)
- Right not to be subject to a decision based solely on automated processing — including profiling (Article 22 GDPR)
If you believe that the processing of your data violates data protection law or that your data protection rights have otherwise been infringed, you may lodge a complaint with the supervisory authority, which in Austria is the Data Protection Authority, whose website can be found at https://www.dsb.gv.at/.
YouTube Privacy Policy
We have embedded YouTube videos on our website in order to present interesting videos to you directly on our site. YouTube is a video portal that has been a subsidiary of Google since 2006. The video portal is operated by YouTube, LLC, 901 Cherry Ave., San Bruno, CA 94066, USA. When you visit a page on our website that has an embedded YouTube video, your browser automatically connects to YouTube’s or Google’s servers. In doing so, various data is transmitted (depending on your settings). Google Ireland Limited (Gordon House, Barrow Street Dublin 4, Ireland) is responsible for all data processing within the European area.
Below, we would like to explain in more detail what data is processed, why we have embedded YouTube videos, and how you can manage or delete your data.
What is YouTube?
On YouTube, users can watch, rate, comment on, and upload videos for free. Over the years, YouTube has become one of the most important social media channels worldwide. To display videos on our website, YouTube provides a code snippet that we have embedded on our site.
Why do we use YouTube videos on our website?
YouTube is the video platform with the most visitors and the best content. We strive to offer you the best possible user experience on our website, and interesting videos are of course an important part of that. Through our embedded videos, we provide you with additional helpful content alongside our texts and images. Furthermore, our website is more easily found on Google’s search engine thanks to the embedded videos. And when we run advertisements via Google Ads, Google can — thanks to the collected data — show these ads only to people who are genuinely interested in our offerings.
What data does YouTube store?
As soon as you visit one of our pages that has an embedded YouTube video, YouTube sets at least one cookie that stores your IP address and our URL. If you are logged into your YouTube account, YouTube can usually assign your interactions on our website to your profile using cookies. This includes data such as session duration, bounce rate, approximate location, and technical information such as browser type, screen resolution, or your internet service provider. Additional data may include contact details, any ratings, sharing of content via social media, or adding content to your YouTube favorites.
If you are not logged into a Google account or a YouTube account, Google stores data with a unique identifier linked to your device, browser, or app. For example, your preferred language setting is retained this way. However, many interaction data points cannot be stored, as fewer cookies are set.
In the following list, we show cookies that were set during a test in a browser — both cookies set without a logged-in YouTube account and cookies set with a logged-in account. This list cannot claim to be exhaustive, as user data always depends on interactions on YouTube.
Name: YSC Value: b9-CV6ojI5Y211132883-1 Purpose: This cookie registers a unique ID to store statistics of the video viewed. Expiry: at end of session
Name: PREF Value: f1=50000000 Purpose: This cookie also registers your unique ID. Google uses PREF to obtain statistics on how you use YouTube videos on our website. Expiry: after 8 months
Name: GPS Value: 1 Purpose: This cookie registers your unique ID on mobile devices to track GPS location. Expiry: after 30 minutes
Name: VISITOR_INFO1_LIVE Value: 95Chz8bagyU Purpose: This cookie attempts to estimate the bandwidth of users on our websites (with embedded YouTube video). Expiry: after 8 months
Additional cookies set when you are logged into your YouTube account:
Name: APISID Value: zILlvClZSkqGsSwI/AU1aZI6HY7211132883- Purpose: This cookie is used to create a profile of your interests. The data is used for personalized advertisements. Expiry: after 2 years
Name: CONSENT Value: YES+AT.de+20150628-20-0 Purpose: This cookie stores the status of a user’s consent to the use of various Google services. CONSENT also serves security purposes, to verify users and protect user data from unauthorized attacks. Expiry: after 19 years
Name: HSID Value: AcRwpgUik9Dveht0I Purpose: This cookie is used to create a profile of your interests. This data helps to display personalized advertising. Expiry: after 2 years
Name: LOGIN_INFO Value: AFmmF2swRQIhALl6aL… Purpose: Information about your login data is stored in this cookie. Expiry: after 2 years
Name: SAPISID Value: 7oaPxoG-pZsJuuF5/AnUdDUIsJ9iJz2vdM Purpose: This cookie works by uniquely identifying your browser and device. It is used to create a profile of your interests. Expiry: after 2 years
Name: SID Value: oQfNKjAsI211132883- Purpose: This cookie stores your Google account ID and your last login time in digitally signed and encrypted form. Expiry: after 2 years
Name: SIDCC Value: AN0-TYuqub2JOcDTyL Purpose: This cookie stores information about how you use the website and what advertising you may have seen before visiting our site. Expiry: after 3 months
How long and where is the data stored?
The data that YouTube receives and processes from you is stored on Google’s servers. Most of these servers are located in America. You can see exactly where Google’s data centers are located at https://www.google.com/about/datacenters/inside/locations/?hl=de. Your data is distributed across servers, making it faster to retrieve and better protected against manipulation.
Google stores the collected data for varying lengths of time. Some data can be deleted by you at any time, other data is automatically deleted after a limited period, and still other data is stored by Google for a longer period. Some data (such as items from “My Activity”, photos or documents, products) stored in your Google account will remain stored until you delete it. Even if you are not logged into a Google account, you can delete some data linked to your device, browser, or app.
How can I delete my data or prevent data storage?
In general, you can manually delete data in your Google account. With the automatic deletion function for location and activity data introduced in 2019, information is stored for either 3 or 18 months — depending on your choice — and then deleted.
Regardless of whether you have a Google account or not, you can configure your browser to delete or disable cookies from Google. Depending on which browser you use, this works in different ways. The following guides show how to manage cookies in your browser:
- Chrome: Delete, enable, and manage cookies in Chrome
- Safari: Manage cookies and website data with Safari
- Firefox: Delete cookies to remove data that websites have stored on your computer
- Internet Explorer: Delete and manage cookies
- Microsoft Edge: Delete and manage cookies
If you generally do not want cookies, you can set your browser to always notify you when a cookie is about to be set. This way, you can decide for each individual cookie whether to allow it or not. Since YouTube is a subsidiary of Google, there is a shared privacy policy. If you would like to learn more about how your data is handled, we recommend reading the privacy policy at https://policies.google.com/privacy?hl=de.
SoundCloud Privacy Policy
We use functions (widgets) of the social media network SoundCloud, operated by SoundCloud Limited, Rheinsberger Str. 76/77, 10115 Berlin, Germany, on our website. You can recognize the widgets by the well-known orange logo. By using features such as playing music, data is transmitted to, stored by, and processed by SoundCloud. In this privacy policy, we explain what data is involved, why we use SoundCloud, and how you can manage or prevent your data or data transmission.
What is SoundCloud?
The social media network SoundCloud is an online music platform used for sharing and distributing audio files. On SoundCloud, musicians or podcasters offer their audio files for download. Additionally, SoundCloud allows audio files to be embedded in other websites — which is exactly what we have done. Typical features of SoundCloud include the graphical waveform display of audio files and the comment bar, allowing logged-in users to listen to and comment on tracks and podcasts at any time.
Why do we use SoundCloud on our website?
Our goal is to provide you with the best possible service on our website — and that means not only our products or services. Comprehensive customer service also includes how comfortable you feel on our website and how useful it is to you. Through the embedded SoundCloud player, we can deliver audio content directly and conveniently. You don’t need to follow a link first to listen to an audio file; you can start right from our website.
What data is stored on SoundCloud?
As soon as you visit one of our web pages that has a widget (like or share button, or playback function) embedded, your browser connects to a SoundCloud server. Your data may be transmitted to, managed by, and stored by SoundCloud. For example, SoundCloud learns your IP address and which page (in this case ours) you visited and when. If you have a SoundCloud account and are logged in while browsing our website, the collected data will be assigned directly to your account. You can only prevent this by logging out of SoundCloud while visiting our website. In addition to the information mentioned above, cookies also store data about your user behavior. Whenever you click a button, play a track, or pause one, this information is stored in cookies. The widget and SoundCloud are thus able to recognize you, and sometimes the widget is also used to deliver personalized content to you. SoundCloud uses not only its own cookies but also third-party cookies from Facebook or Google Analytics. These cookies help the company obtain more information about your behavior on external websites and its own platform. As website operators, we do not receive any information about your user behavior through the cookies used by SoundCloud. The data transmission and therefore information about your technical devices and behavior on the website takes place directly between you and SoundCloud.
Below we show cookies that were set when visiting a website with embedded SoundCloud features. This list is only an example of possible cookies and cannot claim to be exhaustive. In this example, the user does not have a SoundCloud account:
Name: sc_anonymous_id Value: 208165-986996-398971-423805211132883-0 Purpose: This cookie makes it possible to embed files or other content in websites and stores a user ID. Expiry: after 10 years
Note: The sc_anonymous_id cookie is set immediately when you visit one of our web pages that has a SoundCloud function embedded, even without interacting with the function.
Name: __qca Value: P0-1223379886-1579605792812211132883-7 Purpose: This is a third-party cookie from Quantcast and collects data such as how often you visit the page or how long you stay. The collected information is then passed on to SoundCloud. Expiry: after one year
Name: Sclocale Value: de Purpose: This cookie stores the language setting you have preset. Expiry: after one year
Name: _soundcloud_session Value: / Purpose: We were unable to obtain specific information about this cookie. Expiry: at end of session
Name: _session_auth_key Value: / Purpose: This cookie is used to store session information (i.e., user behavior) and to authenticate a client request. Expiry: after 10 years
In addition, SoundCloud also uses other third-party cookies such as _fbp, _ga, and gid from Facebook and Google Analytics. SoundCloud uses all the information stored in these cookies to improve its own services and to display personalized advertising.
How long and where is the data stored?
In general, the collected data remains stored at SoundCloud for as long as a user account exists or as long as SoundCloud requires it to achieve its business objectives. The exact storage duration varies depending on context and legal obligations. Even if you do not have an account and personal data has been stored, you have the right to request its deletion.
How can I delete my data or prevent data storage?
If you have a SoundCloud account, you can manage data processing or delete your entire account via “Settings.” You can also manage, delete, or disable cookies in your browser according to your preferences. The approach always depends on the browser you use. If you decide to delete or disable cookies, please note that some functions may no longer be available. The following guides explain how to manage, delete, or disable cookies in your browser:
- Chrome: Delete, enable, and manage cookies in Chrome
- Safari: Manage cookies and website data with Safari
- Firefox: Delete cookies to remove data that websites have stored on your computer
- Internet Explorer: Delete and manage cookies
- Microsoft Edge: Delete and manage cookies
We hope we have given you a good overview of data traffic through SoundCloud. If you would like to learn more about SoundCloud’s privacy policy and general data handling, we recommend reading the company’s privacy policy at https://soundcloud.com/pages/privacy.
Source: Created with the Privacy Policy Generator by firmenwebseiten.at in cooperation with Dr. Wallentin