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Etienne Thierry
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PRIVACY POLICY
In the following Privacy Policy, you’ll find information about if and how the owner of this website evaluates the data of your visit to this website. The evaluation is generally made anonymously, and cannot be linked to you personally based on your behaviour on this website. Also, you can find out more about how to disagree with the evaluation of visitor data.
Rights in accordance with the General Data Protection Regulation
You are granted the following rights in accordance with the provisions of the GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation) and the Austrian Data Protection Act (DSG):
- right to rectification (article 16 GDPR)
- right to erasure (“right to be forgotten“) (article 17 GDPR)
- right to restrict processing (article 18 GDPR)
- righ to notification – notification obligation regarding 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 think that the processing of your data violates the data protection law, or that your data protection rights have been infringed in any other way, you can lodge a complaint with your respective regulatory authority. For Austria this is the data protection authority, whose website you can access at https://www.data-protection-authority.gv.at/.
Cookies
This website uses HTTP-cookies (stricly necessary cookies) to store user-specific data.
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What exactly are cookies?
Every time you surf the internet, you use a browser, for example Chrome, Safari, Firefox, Internet Explorer and Microsoft Edge. Most websites store small text-files in your browser. These files are called cookies.
What should not be dismissed, is that cookies are very useful little helpers. Nearly all websites use cookies. More accurately speaking, these are http-cookies, since there are also different cookies for other uses. Http-cookies are small files which a website (like this) stores on your computer. These cookie files are automatically put into the cookie-folder, which is like the “brain” of your browser. A cookie consists of a name and a value. Moreover, to define a cookie, one or multiple attributes must be specified.
Cookies save certain parts of your user data, such as e.g. language or personal page settings. When you re-open a website (like this), your browser submits these “user specific” information back to the respective site. Thanks to cookies, a website (like this) knows who you are and offers you the settings you are familiar to. In some browsers every cookie has its own file, in others all cookies are stored in one single file.
There are both first-party cookies and third-party cookies. First-party cookies are created directly by this site, while third-party cookies are created by partner-websites (if any). Every cookie is individual, since every cookie stores different data. The expiration time of a cookie also varies – it can be a few minutes, or up to a few years. Cookies are no software-programs and contain no computer viruses, trojans or any other malware. Cookies also cannot access your PC’s information.
This is an example of how cookie-files can look:
name: _ga
value: GA1.2.1326744211.152111733322-9
purpose: differentiation between website visitors
expiration date: after 2 years
A browser should support these minimum sizes:
- at least 4096 bytes per cookie
- at least 50 cookies per domain
- at least 3000 cookies in total
Which types of cookies are there?
What exact cookies are used, depends on the used services. Here you’ll find a brief explanation of the different types of HTTP-cookies.
There are 4 different types of cookies:
Essential Cookies
These cookies are necessary to ensure the basic function of a website. They are needed when a user for example puts a product into their shopping cart, then continues surfing on different websites and comes back later in order to proceed to the checkout. Even when the user closed their window priorly, these cookies ensure that the shopping cart does not get deleted.
Purposive Cookies
These cookies collect info about the user behaviour and record if the user potentially receives any error messages. Furthermore, these cookies record the website’s loading time as well as its behaviour within different browsers.
Target-orientated Cookies
These cookies care for an improved user-friendliness. Thus, information such as previously entered locations, fonts or data in forms stay saved.
Advertising Cookies
These cookies are also known as targeting-Cookies. They serve the purpose of delivering individually adapted advertisements to the user.
Upon your first visit to a website you are usually asked which of these cookie-types you want to accept. Furthermore, this decision will of course also be saved in a cookie.
How can cookies be deleted?
You yourself take the decision if and how you want to use cookies. Thus, no matter what service or website cookies are from, you always have the option to delete, deactivate or only partially allow them. Therefore, you can for example block cookies of third parties but allow any other cookies.
If you want to change or delete cookie-settings and would like to determine which cookies have been saved to your browser, you can find this infomation in your browser-settings:
Chrome: Clear, enable and manage cookies in Chrome
Safari: Manage cookies and website data in Safari
Firefox: Clear cookies and site data in Firefox
Internet Explorer: Delete and manage cookies
Microsoft Edge: Delete cookies in Microsoft Edge
If you generally do not want to allow any cookies at all, you can set up your browser in a way to notify you whenever a potential cookie is about to be set. This gives you the opportunity to manually decide to either permit or deny the placement of every single cookie. The settings for this differ from browser to browser.
Data protection
The “cookie policy” has been in place since 2009. It states that the storage of cookies requires the user’s consent. In Austria the guidelines have been implemented in § 96 section 3 of the Telecommunications Act (TKG). In Germany: implemented in § 15 section 3 of the Telemediengesetz (TMG).
Automatic data retention
Every time you visit a website nowadays, certain information is automatically created and stored, just as it happens on this website. This data should be collected as sparingly as possible, and only with good reason. By website, we mean the entirety of all websites on a domain, i.e. everything from the homepage to the very last subpage (like this one here).
Even while you are currently visiting this website, the used web server – this is the computer where this website is stored on, usually automatically retains data such as (e.g. for operational security etc.):
- the full address (URL) of the accessed website
- browser and browser version
- the operating system used
- the address (URL) of the previously visited site
- the host name and the IP-address of the device the website is accessed from
- date and time
- in so-called web server log files
Generally, these files are stored for two weeks and are then automatically deleted. These data are not passed to others, but the possibility that these data may be looked at by the authorities in case of illegal conduct cannot be excluded. Your visit of this website is logged by the provider (company that runs our website on servers), but your data are not passed without your consent.
TLS encryption with https
This website uses HTTPS (Hypertext Transfer Protocol Secure) to securely transfer data on the Internet.
This means that the entire transmission of all data from your browser to the used web server is secured – nobody can “listen in”.
This is an additional layer of security and meets privacy requirements through technology design Article 25 Section 1 GDPR). With the use of TLS (Transport Layer Security), which is an encryption protocol for safe data transfer on the internet, the protection of confidential information is ensured.
You can recognise the use of this safeguarding tool by the little lock-symbol, which is situated in your browser’s top left corner in the left of the internet address, as well as by the display of the letters https (instead of http) as a part of this web address.
Privacy Policy
This privacy policy provides you with information in accordance with the requirements of the General Data Protection Regulation (EU) 2016/679 as well as an explanation what information this website collects, how data is used and what choices you have as a visitor to this website.
For further questions, please follow the links above or contact the website’s responsible person. For more detailed information see also the German version of this privacy policy.
Contact information:
Responsible for this website: Etienne Thierry
E-mail: mail@etiennethierry.net
The duplication, processing, distribution and any kind of exploitation outside the limits of copyright law require the written consent of the respective author or creator (Etienne Thierry). Downloads and copies of this website as well as the contents of this website are only permitted for private, non-commercial use.
Thus, as the content on this site was created by the author and not by the website provider/ host, the copyrights of third parties are observed. In particular, contents of third parties are marked as such. This website contains links to other websites that are not operated by the website’s responsible person. If you click on a third party link, you will be directed to that third party's site. It is strongly advised that you review the privacy policy of every site you visit. The author has no control over and assumes no responsibility for the content, privacy policies or practices of any third party sites or services.
The content on this website (texts, photos, images and videos if applicable, data, design, etc.) is copyright protected. All rights reserved by the author/ respective creator, and they are not subject to change.
For more details go to the German version.