PRIVACY POLICY

We are delighted by your interest in our website. Protecting your privacy is very important to us. Below, we provide detailed information about how your data is processed.

This privacy policy applies to www.patrickfuerst.com. This website is operated by Patrick Fürst, Austria hereinafter referred to as “I” and “the Company.” This privacy policy describes what data is collected when you visit this website and for what purpose it is used.

I therefore ask that you read the following privacy policy carefully before consenting and continuing to use the website.

 

Basic information on the handling of personal data

You may visit my website without providing any personal information. Each time the website is accessed, usage data is transmitted by the respective internet browser and stored in log files, known as server log files. These include information such as the date and time of access, the name of the page accessed, the amount of data transferred, and the requesting provider. This data cannot be linked to a specific individual and is used solely to ensure the smooth operation of our website and to improve our services.

As part of contacting us (e.g. by email or contact form), personal data is collected. What data is collected in the case of a contact form is evident from the respective form. This data is stored and used exclusively for responding to your enquiry and for the technical administration involved in doing so. Your data will be deleted once your request has been fully processed, provided you request this and no legal retention obligations prevent deletion.

Use of Email Address for Sending Newsletters

We use your email address independently of any contractual relationship solely for our own marketing purposes to send newsletters, provided you have given explicit consent. The consent statement for this purpose is as follows: “Subscribe to the newsletter” or “I would like to receive regular email updates on special offers.”

You can unsubscribe from the newsletter at any time using the link provided in the newsletter or by sending us a message. Your email address will then be deleted.

Scope of this Privacy Policy

This privacy policy informs you, as a user of this website, about the nature, scope, and purposes of the collection and use of personal data – such as cookies – on this website.

What Are Cookies?

A “cookie” is a sequence of text characters that is transmitted by the web server to the cookie file of your browser on your computer’s hard drive. This allows the website to recognise you again when a (new) connection is established between the web server and your browser. The primary purpose of a cookie is therefore to identify visitors to the website and to support analytical evaluation of non-personal data in order to gain insights about time, geographical location, and usage of our website. I therefore use both “session cookies”, which are stored temporarily until you leave the website, and “persistent or tracking cookies”, which remain in your browser’s cookie file for a longer period to transmit information back to the server upon your return.

What Cookies and Data are stored on this Website?

This website stores so-called “first-party cookies” to enable the measurement and optimisation of user behaviour on this website based on (non-)personal data.

Web Analytics via WP Statistics

This website uses the WordPress analytics plugin WP Statistics. The provider of this plugin is wp-statistics.com. Simple statistics are generated from the data in anonymized form. No user profiles are created, and no cookies are set.

All data collected by WP Statistics is fully anonymized and stored on this web server. Personal identification of a visitor is therefore not possible, even retroactively.

Use and Disclosure of Data

  1. The data you provide is only shared with third parties if necessary to comply with a court or official order, or if you request it yourself. Otherwise, your data – especially for marketing purposes – will not be shared with third parties.
  2. Your data will be retained – unless otherwise specified in this privacy policy for specific data sets – as long as necessary for fulfilling contractual obligations or due to legal requirements.
  3. The personal data you submit via this website will, on the one hand, be used to enhance your experience during your visit and for bug fixing. On the other hand, your data will be used to analyse and evaluate user behaviour on this website via Google Analytics. In any case, your data will not be processed for contact or marketing purposes. For such purposes, a separate consent is required, which must be given at the appropriate point (e.g., when subscribing to the newsletter).

Links to Other Websites and Social Media

  1. This website contains links to other websites, which are provided for informational purposes only. These websites are not under my control and are therefore not covered by this privacy policy. If you activate one of these links, it is possible that the operator of the respective website may collect data about you and use it in accordance with their own privacy policy, which may differ from ours.
  2. This website also offers the possibility to interact with social networks via plugins, specifically:
  • Facebook, operated by Facebook Ireland Ltd., 4 Grand Canal Square, Grand Canal Harbour, Dublin 2, Ireland
  • Instagram, provided by Instagram Inc., 1601 Willow Road, Menlo Park, CA 94025, USA

When you click on one of these social media plugins, it will be activated and a connection to the respective network’s server will be established. I have no influence over the scope or content of the data transmitted to the respective social network provider through this interaction.

If you wish to obtain information about the type, scope, and purpose of the data collected by the operators of these social networks, I kindly request that you read the privacy policies of the respective social network.

Google Fonts

On our website, we use Google Fonts to display external fonts. This is a service provided by Google LLC, 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA, hereinafter referred to as “Google.”

By being certified under the EU-U.S. Privacy Shield
https://www.privacyshield.gov/participant?id=a2zt000000001L5AAI&status=Active,
Google guarantees compliance with EU data protection standards even when processing data in the USA.

To enable the display of certain fonts on our website, a connection to a Google server in the USA is established when you access our website.

The legal basis for this is Art. 6 (1)(f) GDPR. Our legitimate interest lies in the optimisation and economical operation of our website.

Through the connection established with Google when our site is accessed, Google can determine from which website your request originated and to which IP address the font must be delivered.

Google provides additional information at

https://adssettings.google.com/authenticated

https://policies.google.com/privacy

particularly regarding the options available for preventing the use of data.

Rights of Data Subjects

You have the right to request information from the data controller about your stored personal data, as well as the right to rectification, deletion, or restriction of processing, the right to object to processing, and the right to data portability. You also have the right to file a complaint with the Austrian Data Protection Authority: https://www.dsb.gv.at.

Information and Contact

If you wish to receive information about the personal data stored about you, its origin, recipients, and the purpose of storage, or if you have any other questions, comments, or requests regarding this website, please contact me at the following address:

Fürst GmbH
Wiesmannsreith 16
3643 Maria Laach am Jauerling
+43 664 2428072
office@patrickfuerst.com
www.patrickfuerst.com

 

Last Updated: May 2025