Privacy Policy
This Privacy Policy outlines Inspiring Leaders e.U.’s (“we”, “our” or “the Company”) practices with respect to information collected from users who access our website at www.inspiringleaders.at (“Site”), or otherwise share personal information with us (collectively: “Users”).
Version 1.0 last modified 12 November 2021
The protection of your personal data is of particular concern to us.
Inspiring Leaders e.U., as the responsible party, processeses your personal data exclusively on the basis of the legal provisions.
1. Legal basis and purposes of data processing
Inspiring Leaders e.U. processes personal data that you provide to us or that we collect from you
to fulfill contractual obligations (Art 6 para 1 lit b GDPR),
on the basis of legal obligations (Art 6 Abs 1 lit c GDPR),
on the basis of your consent (Art 6 para 1 lit a GDPR as well as Art 9 para 2 lit a GDPR)
to protect our legitimate interests (Art 6 para 1 lit f GDPR).
Grounds for data collection
Processing of your personal information (meaning, any information which may potentially allow your identification with reasonable means; hereinafter “Personal Information” is necessary for the following purposes:
- To initiate business concerning our range of services
- For the performance of our contractual obligations towards you and providing you with our services
- For maintaining the business relationship and personal contact
When you use the Site, you consent to the collection, storage, use, disclosure and other uses of your Personal Information as described in this Privacy Policy.
We encourage our Users to carefully read the Privacy Policy and use it to make informed decisions.
2. Recipients of personal data
For data processing, we use order processors such as cloud and software providers.
We disclose your personal data to the following categories of recipients only to fulfill contractual obligations, based on legal obligations, based on your consent, and to protect our legitimate interests:
- Contractual or business partners involved in the delivery of goods or services
- External IT service providers such as cloud services and software providers
- Suppliers of the responsible party
- Customers or interested parties of the responsible party
- Banks for payment transactions
- Legal representatives in the event of an incident
- Accountants, tax advisors and auditors
- Courts in the event of an incident
- Competent administrative authorities in the event of an incident
- Collection agencies in the event of an incident
- Insurances in case of an event
International data transfers
Some of the recipients listed above may be located outside of Austria or the EU or may process your personal data there. The level of data protection in other countries may not correspond to that in Austria. However, we only transfer your personal data to countries for which the EU Commission has decided that they have an adequate level of data protection or we take measures to ensure that all recipients have an adequate level of data protection. For example, we conclude standard contractual clauses (2010/87/EC and/or 2004/915/EC) for this purpose.
3. Privacy information regarding our website
Contact us
If you contact us by mail, the data you provide will be stored by us for the purpose of processing your request and further communication. We will not share this data without your consent.
Video conferencing
For video conferencing and online training, we use software such as Zoom, MS Teams or Skype. In order for you to use all the functionalities of the apps, the respective program will need to access some features and data on your device, such as the device camera and microphone: this technically requires that you grant the program certain access permissions. If you do not grant these permissions, you will not be able to use some functionalities.
Zoom's privacy policy can be viewed at https://zoom.us/privacy.
Microsoft's privacy policy can be found here: https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/privacy/privacystatement
Newsletter
You have the possibility to subscribe to our newsletter. For this we need your e-mail address and your declaration that you agree to receive the newsletter and / or invitations to exclusive events.
Once you have subscribed to the newsletter, we will send you an email with a link to confirm your subscription.
You can cancel your subscription to the newsletter at any time. You will find an unsubscribe link in each of our mailings. We will then immediately delete your data in connection with the newsletter mailing.
Facebook page
When you visit our Facebook page, personal data (documentation of usage behavior) is processed by Facebook using cookies. From this information, anonymized statistical data about page activity is created and automatically provided to us (Insights). We are jointly responsible with Facebook for this data processing in accordance with Article 26 of the General Data Protection Regulation. In doing so, we rely on our legitimate interests. Without the processing of this data, we would not be able to maintain the presence and optimization of our offer on Facebook. You can find more information on the Facebook information page.
Our Xing pages use functions of the XING network. The provider is XING AG, Dammtorstraße 29- 32, 20354 Hamburg, Germany. Each time one of our pages containing XING functions is called up, a connection to XING servers is established.
For further information on data protection and the XING Share button, please refer to XING's privacy policy at: https://privacy.xing.com/en/privacy-policy
Our LinkeIn page uses functions of the LinkedIn network. The provider is LinkedIn Corporation, 2029 Stierlin Court, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA. Each time one of our pages containing LinkedIn functions is accessed, a connection to LinkedIn servers is established. LinkedIn is informed that you have visited our web pages with your IP address. If you click the "Recommend Button" of LinkedIn and are logged into your account at LinkedIn, it is possible for LinkedIn to assign your visit to our website to you and your user account. We would like to point out that we, as the provider of the pages, have no knowledge of the content of the transmitted data or its use by LinkedIn. For more information, please refer to the privacy policy of LinkedIn at:
https://www.linkedin.com/legal/privacy-policy
YouTube
Our website uses plugins from the YouTube site operated by Google. The operator of the pages is YouTube, LLC, 901 Cherry Ave, San Bruno, CA 94066, USA. When you visit one of our pages equipped with a YouTube plugin, a connection to the YouTube servers is established. This tells the YouTube server which of our pages you have visited.
If you are logged into your YouTube account, you enable YouTube to assign your surfing behavior directly to your personal profile. You can prevent this by logging out of your YouTube account.
For more information on the handling of user data, please refer to YouTube's privacy policy at: https://www.google.de/intl/de/policies/privacy
Google Maps
Our website uses the product Google Maps. The provider is Google Inc, 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway Mountain View, CA 94043, USA. By using this website, you consent to the collection, processing and use of automatically collected data by Google Inc, its representatives and third parties.
The terms of use of Google Maps can be found under "Additional Terms of Use for Google Maps / Google Earth": https://www.google.com/intl/de_de/help/terms_maps.html
Google Web Fonts
This site uses so-called web fonts provided by Google for the uniform display of fonts. When you call up a page, your browser loads the required web fonts into its browser cache in order to display texts and fonts correctly.
For this purpose, the browser you are using must connect to Google's servers. This enables Google to know that our website has been accessed via your IP address. If your browser does not support web fonts, a standard font will be used by your computer. You can find more information about Google Web Fonts at https://developers.google.com/fonts/faq and in Google's privacy policy: https://www.google.com/policies/privacy/
Cookies
Our website uses so-called cookies. These are small text files that are stored on your terminal device with the help of the browser. They do not cause any damage.
We use cookies to make our offer user-friendly. Some cookies remain stored on your end device until you delete them. They enable us to recognize your browser on your next visit.
If you do not wish this, you can set up your browser so that it informs you about the setting of cookies and you only allow this in individual cases.
If you disable cookies, the functionality of our website may be limited.
TLS/SSL encryption
For security reasons and to protect the transmission of confidential content, our website uses TLS/SSL encryption. You can recognize an encrypted connection by the fact that the address line of the browser changes from "http://" to "https://" and by the lock symbol in your browser line.
If SSL encryption is activated, the data you transmit to us cannot be read by third parties.
Web analysis
Our website uses functions of the web analysis service Google Analytics. The provider is Google Inc, 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway Mountain View, CA 94043, USA. Google Analytics uses such target-oriented cookies. More information on how Google Analytics handles user data can be found in Google's privacy policy: https://support.google.com/analytics/answer/6004245?hl=de.
You can prevent this by setting up your browser so that no cookies are stored. We have concluded a corresponding contract with the provider for order data processing. Your IP address is recorded, but immediately pseudonymized. This means that only a rough localization is now possible.
The data processing is carried out on the basis of the legal provisions of § 96 para 3 TKG as well as Art 6 para 1 lit a (consent) and/or f (legitimate interest) of the GDPR.
Our concern in terms of the GDPR (legitimate interest) is the improvement of our offer and our web presence. Since the privacy of our users is important to us, the user data is pseudonymized. The user data is stored for a period of at least 25 months.
4. Duration of data storage
Your personal data will only be processed by us for as long as the above-mentioned purposes require. In any case, we process your personal data until the termination of the business relationship or until the expiry of the warranty, guarantee, limitation and statutory retention periods applicable to the responsible party. In addition, we process your personal data until the termination of any legal disputes in which the data is required as evidence. Furthermore, we only store your personal data in those cases where the effort to delete individual personal data is too high (e.g. within project documents), in order to avoid economic disadvantages for the responsible party.
5. Reference to data subject rights
In principle, you are entitled to the rights of information, correction, deletion, restriction, data portability and objection. For this purpose, please contact us.
Since we process the personal data in our legitimate interests, you generally have the right to object if you have reasons arising from your particular situation that speak against this processing.
Since we (also) process the personal data for direct marketing purposes, you may object to this processing for direct marketing purposes at any time.
The personal data that you have voluntarily provided to us on the basis of consent can be revoked at any time. A revocation will result in us no longer processing your data for the above-mentioned purposes from that point on.
If you believe that the processing of your data violates data protection law or that your data protection rights have otherwise been violated in some way, you can complain to the supervisory authority. In Austria, the data protection authority is responsible authority
6. updating of this data protection declaration
We reserve the right to adapt this data protection declaration to technical developments as well as legal changes if necessary or to update it in connection with the offer of new services or products.
7. How to contact us
If you have any general questions about the Site or the information we collect about you and how we use it, you can contact us at:
Inspiring Leaders e.U.
Hani El Sharkawi, BSc, MA
Nußwaldgasse 22A/4/4
1190 Vienna
Tel: +43 664 501 47 15
E-mail: hani@inspiringleaders.at
Annex 1: Processed personal data of customers, suppliers, business partners and interested parties
- Contact data (including name or company name or designation, address, telephone number, e-mail address and other information required for addressing purposes, resulting from modern communication technology, year of birth, birthday and month of birth, contact persons)
- Company register data, UID number
- Subject of the delivery or service
- Third parties involved in the provision of the service
- Terms and conditions of delivery and service
- Financing and payment terms
- Bank details, credit card numbers and companies
- Data on the payment or performance behavior of the person concerned
- Contract texts and business correspondence
- Publicly accessible data, insofar as this is relevant for the maintenance of the relationship
