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Data Protection

In the “Bioeconomy Austria” project, the Ecosocial Forum Austria & Europe, ZVR number: 759206393, Herrengasse 13, A-1010 Vienna, is in charge of external communication. The Ecosocial Forum Austria & Europe is the media owner of the website “www.bioeconomy-austria.at”. Due to the media ownership, the General Terms and Conditions of the Ecosocial Forum Austria & Europe apply: www.oekosozial.at/allgemeine-geschaeftsbedingungen-agb/.

The Ecosocial Forum Austria & Europe only collects and uses your personal data with your consent for the purposes agreed with you or if there is another legal basis in accordance with the GDPR; this is in compliance with the provisions of data protection and civil law.

Only personal data that you have voluntarily provided will be processed. Your personal data will not be processed for purposes other than those covered by your consent or otherwise by a provision in accordance with the GDPR. This excludes the use for statistical purposes, provided that the data provided has been anonymised.

Personal data are all data that contain individual information about personal or factual circumstances, such as name, address, email address, telephone number, etc., and are processed for statistical purposes.

Newsletter & Personal Data Protection

We use Sendinblue as our marketing platform. By completing and submitting the registration form, you confirm that we may process the personal data you provide for the purpose of sending (promotional) information as well as transfer it to Sendinblue for processing. To avoid spam, we use reCAPTCHA v3 from Google.

The following data is collected as part of the newsletter: First name, last name, email address, organisation and stakeholder group. The Ecosocial Forum respects the privacy of its users. All data will be treated confidentially in accordance with the applicable data protection regulations. Data will not be passed on to third parties (except to project and network partners and subcontractors and only within the framework of the “Bioeconomy Austria” project). In addition, the website offers the possibility to contact individual project or network partners directly via a form. In this way, the website www.bioeconomy-austria.at assumes a bridging function and forwards the data. The purpose is activities in the context of building a network in preparation for an Austria-wide bioeconomy cluster, as well as information measures and invitations to events in the field of the bioeconomy. The Ecosocial Forum collects personal data only to the extent necessary for communication with users. The data will not be used for any purpose incompatible with this. The legal basis for the collection of data is your consent.

Other project partners in the “Bioeconomy Austria” project (consortium & partner organisations) to whom the aforementioned personal data is (may be) transferred for the purpose of information transfer and event arrangements are:

Consortium: 
ecoplus. Niederösterreichs Wirtschaftsagentur (Konsortialführer)
Business Upper Austria
Innovation Salzburg
Holzcluster Steiermark
proHolz Tirol
Österreichische Energieagentur
BOKU – Zentrum für Bioökonomie
Ökosoziales Forum Österreich & Europa

Partner organisations: 
BioBASE
Umweltbundesamt

If you contact us via the contact form on the website or via email, the data you provide will be stored by us for six months for the purpose of processing the enquiry and in the event of follow-up enquiries. Data is only transferred to third parties to the aforementioned project partners or the provider. The data processing is carried out for the implementation of pre-contractual measures on the basis of your enquiry or on the basis of any consent given.

Your rights

In connection with the processing of your data, you have the rights to:

  • Information
  • rectification
  • Deletion (“right to be forgotten”)
  • Restriction of processing
  • data portability
  • Objection or revocation (in the case of consent)
  • Complaint to the data protection authority

If you have any questions regarding the collection, processing or use of your personal data, for information, correction, blocking or deletion of data as well as revocation of consent granted, please contact:

Gottfried Hebenstreit
office@bioeconomy-austria.at
+43 1 253 63 50

Photos/Videos

Photographs and films may be taken at the events on behalf of the project partners. The photos and/or videos taken may be used by the project partners for publication and dissemination in connection with the event without any time or place limit. By attending the event, the participants consent to the publication free of charge, without the need for an explicit declaration by the person concerned. The consent includes in any case the publication of the recordings in print media, in social media, on the websites of the project partners and the dissemination via the distribution lists of the project partners as part of an event review.

In the case of recordings that focus on individual persons, the participants have the right and the opportunity to inform the photographer or videographer at any time that they do not wish to be recorded. Should this not be possible or not (be able to) be taken into account, the project partners undertake to prevent publication if they are informed of this in writing and within two days of the event at the latest.

Presenters agree to the taking of photographs and film footage as well as their publication in social media, on the websites of the project partners and dissemination via the distribution lists of the project partners as part of the event follow-up. They have the right to prevent publication, provided they give valid reasons.

Disclaimer

The Ecosocial Forum compiles the information on this website with care. Nevertheless, we cannot accept any liability for the content. Errors, incompleteness and changes to the website cannot be excluded. The Ecosocial Forum accepts no responsibility for the content of linked websites. If you have any problems with linked websites or comments, in particular if they contain criminal, racist, sexist, discriminatory, pornographic, national socialist or offensive content, please inform us by e-mail office@bioeconomy-austria.at.