Data Privacy Policy

Automatically Processed Data

When you visit this website, certain information is automatically processed for technical reasons, including:

• IP address
• Date and time of access
• Pages visited
• Browser type and operating system
• Referrer URL (the previously visited page)

This data is used exclusively for the technical operation, security, and error analysis of the website.

Contact Form

Beyond the above, personal data is only processed when you voluntarily submit it via the contact form. The following data may be collected:

• First and last name
• Email address
• Area of interest
• Message (optional)

Data submitted through the contact form is used solely to process your enquiry and get in touch with you. Processing is carried out on the basis of Art. 6(1)(b) GDPR (performance of pre-contractual measures) and/or Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR (legitimate interest in processing enquiries). Your data will not be used commercially, sold, or shared for advertising purposes.

Hosting & Form Processing

The protection of personal data and a privacy-conscious technical infrastructure are core principles of this website. When selecting technical service providers, solutions with European server locations are preferred wherever possible.

This website is operated via Hostinger and is preferentially hosted on servers within the European Union. Hostinger processes technically necessary server log data for the purpose of providing and securing the website. Further information: Hostinger Privacy Policy.

Contact enquiries are submitted via the form tool Web3Forms. The data entered in the contact form is processed solely for the purpose of handling your enquiry and is forwarded to Elisabeth Schwab by email. Where personal data is processed outside the European Union in connection with the use of Web3Forms, this is done exclusively on the basis of applicable data protection regulations and appropriate safeguards pursuant to Art. 44 et seq. GDPR. Further information: Web3Forms Privacy Policy.

Cookies

This website does not use any analytics or marketing tools such as Google Analytics and does not create personal user profiles. Only technically necessary cookies are used where required for the operation of the website. Where anonymous website statistics are used, these do not allow any conclusions to be drawn about individual persons.

External Links

This website contains links to external platforms such as LinkedIn. When you click such a link, you leave this website and the privacy policy of the respective provider applies. These providers may process data once you visit their platform. Please refer to the respective provider's privacy policy for further information — for example, the LinkedIn Privacy Policy.

Retention Period

Enquiries submitted via the contact form and the resulting email correspondence are stored solely for the purpose of processing your request and are deleted no later than twelve months after the last contact, unless statutory retention obligations apply.

Your Rights under the GDPR

You have the right to:

• Access to your stored personal data
• Rectification of inaccurate data
• Erasure of your data
• Restriction of processing
• Data portability
• Objection to processing to the extent provided by law

Requests may be directed at any time to hello@elisabethschwab.com.

If you believe that the processing of your data violates data protection law, you have the right to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority. In Austria, this is the:

Austrian Data Protection Authority (DSB)
Barichgasse 40–42, 1030 Vienna
www.dsb.gv.at