Privacy PolicyInformation obligation pursuant to Art. 13 GDPR

Protecting your personal data is important to us. We process your data exclusively on the basis of the applicable legal provisions (GDPR, Austrian Telecommunications Act). This privacy policy informs you about the most important aspects of data processing on this website.

Controller

Stephan Lenhart
Donatisiedlung 36
8101 Gratkorn
Austria

Further details can be found in the imprint.

Access data / server log files

When you visit this website, technically necessary access data (e.g., IP address, date and time of access, browser type) is processed to ensure the secure and stable operation of the website. Processing is carried out on the basis of our legitimate interest pursuant to Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR.

Contact form

If you contact me via the contact form on this website, the data you provide (name, email address, message) will be used exclusively to process your enquiry – for example a support question, a feature request or a request to be notified about Vatigo Pro. Your data will be stored for six months and will not be passed on to third parties without your consent.

Legal basis: Art. 6(1)(b) GDPR (pre-contractual measures) and, where you ask to be notified about Vatigo Pro, your consent pursuant to Art. 6(1)(a) GDPR, which you can withdraw at any time.

Cookies

This website uses only technically necessary cookies that are required for the basic functionality of the website. These cookies are set on the basis of our legitimate interest pursuant to Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR. No analytics, tracking, or marketing cookies are used.

Website security (Wordfence)

To protect this website against attacks, we use the security plugin Wordfence by Defiant Inc., 1700 Westlake Ave N Ste 200, Seattle, WA 98109, USA. Wordfence analyses requests to this website, including the IP address, the requested URL, browser information and the time of access, in order to detect and block malicious activity. This data is stored on our web server. To check IP addresses against known threats, IP addresses may be transmitted to Defiant servers in the USA.

Processing is carried out on the basis of our legitimate interest pursuant to Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR in the security of this website.

Further information: https://www.wordfence.com/privacy-policy/

Cloudflare Turnstile

To protect this website from automated abuse and spam, we use Cloudflare Turnstile, a service provided by Cloudflare Inc., 101 Townsend St., San Francisco, CA 94107, USA. Turnstile helps us verify whether a request comes from a human visitor. In this context, certain technical data (such as IP address, browser information, and interaction data) may be processed.

Processing is carried out on the basis of our legitimate interest pursuant to Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR in protecting our website from spam and automated attacks. Cloudflare may process data outside the European Union. Cloudflare states that appropriate safeguards pursuant to Art. 46 GDPR are in place.

Further information: https://www.cloudflare.com/privacypolicy/

Google Search Console

This website is registered with Google Search Console, a service provided by Google Ireland Limited, Gordon House, Barrow Street, Dublin 4, Ireland. Google Search Console enables us to monitor the technical performance and visibility of our website in Google Search. In this context, Google may process aggregated search query-related data (e.g., search queries, impressions, clicks). In connection with Google Search Console, no tracking code or cookies are set on this website.

Google Search Console is used on the basis of our legitimate interest pursuant to Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR in optimising the technical stability and search visibility of the website.

Further information: https://policies.google.com/privacy

This website links to the Vatigo plugin page and support forum on WordPress.org. These are plain links; no data is transmitted to WordPress.org until you click them. After that, the privacy policy of WordPress.org applies.

Using the Vatigo plugin

This privacy policy covers this website only. The free Vatigo plugin validates VAT identification numbers entirely on the server of the website where it is installed. It does not send any data to us or to third parties and does not store VAT IDs.

Your rights

Under the GDPR, you have the following rights:

  • Right of access
  • Right to rectification
  • Right to erasure
  • Right to restriction of processing
  • Right to data portability
  • Right to withdraw consent
  • Right to object

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

Competent supervisory authority

Austrian Data Protection Authority
https://www.dsb.gv.at

Contact for data protection matters

Website owner: Stephan Lenhart

If you have any questions about data protection or wish to exercise your rights under the GDPR, please use the contact form on this website.