Privacy Policy
This website is operated by: KWI International Environmental Treatment GmbH, Auengasse 8, 9170 Ferlach, Austria. This notice describes how your personal data will be processed in connection with this website.
To the cookie/privacy settings (revocation of consent)
1. What data we process about you
In the course of your visit to this website, we will collect the following information: The date and time you access a page on our website, your IP address, the name and version of your web browser, the website (URL) you visited before accessing this website, certain cookies (see points below) and the personal data that you provide yourself by filling in the contact form (providing your name and email address) or the content of your email.
2. Cookies and external services
Our website may use cookies. Cookies are data records that are stored in your browser by the website or server when you visit the website and are sent to the server each time you access the website. Cookies make it possible to save data (e.g. language settings, shopping basket content, login or registration status, etc.) in the browser between page calls or recurring visits. This means that the browser remembers the settings from the last call or visit to the website. Cookies can also be used to uniquely identify your browser. Among other things, this can be used to check your authorisation (login or registration status).
We only use so-called essential cookies that are necessary for the operation of the website and its functions. These cookies cannot be refused. This may include the following functions: language settings, shopping basket of an online shop, cookie to check login status and other similar cookies. These cookies are not used to track (trace) the visitor. Most of these cookies are deleted automatically after the browser is closed (session cookies).
Some external services built into our website may use cookies or similar technologies. Before using these services, you will be explicitly asked for your consent to the privacy policy of the respective service. Your consent will be stored in your browser via a cookie for up to 1 year. If you are under 14 years of age and wish to give your consent to the use of any of these services, you must ask your parent or guardian for permission.
Revocation of consent
Here you have the option to revoke your previously given consent:
You have not yet given your consent, or you have revoked all consents.
3. Contact
If you contact us via the contact form on this website, the comments function of the website, by e-mail or telephone, you agree to the transmission of your personal data mentioned under point 1 and to be contacted by e-mail or telephone. Your data will only be used to contact you and will not be passed on by us.
4. Tools and external services used
4.1. Mapbox
This website uses Mapbox, a service of Mapbox Inc. (1714 14th Street NW Washington, DC 20009-4309 United States), to display interactive maps. By calling up this website, information about the use of this website including the IP address is transmitted to Mapbox USA. By establishing a direct connection between your browser and Mapbox, map content from Mapbox is transmitted directly to your browser and from there integrated into the website. Therefore, we have no influence whatsoever on the data collected in this way. Further information on the collection and processing of your data by Mapbox can be found here: https://www.mapbox.com/privacy/.
4.2. YouTube
When visiting our website, you can watch videos embedded by YouTube (a product of Google Ireland Limited, Gordon House, Barrow Street, Dublin 4, Ireland). In order to be able to display YouTube videos, your IP address is recorded by Google, which may be transferred to servers in the USA and stored there. In addition, Google may collect data about your use of YouTube. Please read Google’s privacy policy carefully before using YouTube. You can find the privacy policy and terms of use at https://www.google.com/intl/en/policies/privacy/.
5. Purposes of data processing
We will process your personal data for the following purposes:
- to provide you with this website and to further improve and develop this website
- to be able to compile usage statistics
- to be able to detect, prevent and investigate attacks on our website
- to be able to respond to your enquiry and/or to carry out pre-contractual measures
- to improve technical support for users
- to compile easy-to-use website access statistics in a cost-effective manner
- to better promote our services or products
- to accept applications
6. Legal basis of the processing
The processing of your personal data (see point “What data we process about you”) is carried out exclusively on the legal basis of
- the fulfilment of the contract with you and/or for the implementation of pre-contractual measures (Art 6 para 1 lit b DSGVO);
and/or - our overriding legitimate interest in achieving the purposes stated in the point “Purposes of data processing” (Art 6 para 1 lit f DSGVO).
7. Transmission of your personal data
For the above-mentioned purposes, we will transfer your personal data to the following recipients, in some circumstances also depending on your consent:
- IT service providers used by us
- hosting providers
- to the service providers listed under “Tools and external services” used
8. Duration of storage
We will generally store your data processed by us through your visit to this website for a period of three months. Longer storage will only take place insofar as this is necessary to investigate detected attacks on our website.
If you have transmitted your personal data to us by filling in forms or using other techniques on our website, we will store your data in any case for as long as appears necessary for the completion of your request and as long as required for legal retention periods and/or limitation periods.
9. Your rights
You have the rights to information, correction, deletion, restriction of processing and data portability if the legal requirements are met. If you are of the opinion that your personal data is not being processed lawfully, you can lodge a complaint with the data protection authority (https://www.dsb.gv.at/), Wickenburggasse 8, 1080 Vienna, Austria, dsb@dsb.gv.at.
If you have any questions in connection with this privacy policy or would like to exercise your rights set out therein, please contact us by e-mail at office-at@kwi-intl.com.
10. Disclaimer
This disclaimer is to be regarded as part of the internet publication which you were referred from. If sections or individual terms of this statement are not or no longer legal or correct, the content or validity of the other parts remain uninfluenced by this fact.
10.1. Liability for the content of this website
The contents of this website were created with the greatest possible care. However, we do not assume any liability for the correctness, completeness and up-to-dateness of the contents. As a service provider, we are responsible for our own content on these pages in accordance with general laws. However, we are not obliged to monitor transmitted or stored third-party information or to investigate circumstances that indicate illegal activity. Obligations to remove or block the use of information in accordance with general laws remain unaffected by this. However, liability in this regard is only possible from the point in time at which a concrete infringement of the law becomes known. If we become aware of corresponding infringements, we will remove this content immediately.
10.2. Liability for links on third party websites
Our offer contains links to external websites. We have no influence on the content of these external websites. Therefore, we cannot assume any liability for these external contents. The respective provider or operator of the pages is always responsible for the content of the linked pages. The linked pages were checked for possible legal violations at the time of linking. Illegal contents were not recognisable at the time of linking. However, permanent monitoring of the content of the linked pages is not reasonable without concrete indications of a legal violation. If we become aware of any infringements of the law, we will remove such links immediately.
10.3. Copyright
The operators of this website always endeavour to respect the copyrights of others or to use their own works or works in the public domain. The contents and works on this website created by the site operators are subject to copyright. Contributions by third parties are marked as such. The reproduction, editing, distribution and any kind of exploitation outside the limits of copyright require the written consent of the respective author or creator. Downloads and copies of this site are only permitted for private, non-commercial use.
