Privacy Policy

This website is operated by LEC GmbH, Inffeldgasse 19, A-8010 Graz, Austria (“we” or “us”). Protecting your personal data is a matter of great concern to us. We process your data in accordance with the legal requirements (in particular GDPR, DSG, Telecommunications Act 2003). In compliance with Article 13 of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), this privacy policy statement provides you with information about how we process your personal data in connection with this website.

1. Data about you that we process

We collect the following information during your visit to this website: the date and time you access a page of our website, your IP address, the name and version of your web browser, the website (URL) you visited before you accessed this website, certain cookies (see point 2 below) and other information that you provide as a user and/or customer [e.g., in an inquiry or as part of registration at our website]. When a contract is concluded, we save the following data for the purpose of executing the contract: contact information such as name, address, email address, job title and bank account.

As long as the processing of your personal data is not required to fulfill the terms of a contract, you are not obligated to provide the data requested by our website.

2. Cookies

This website uses cookies. A cookie is a small text file that can be saved on your computer when you visit a website. Cookies are used to provide additional features to website users. For example, they can be used to facilitate navigation of a website, to enable you to continue to use a website that you have already left and/or save your preferences and settings for when you visit the website again. Cookies cannot access, read or change any data on your computer.

We use cookies to make our website user friendly. Most cookies on this website are session cookies. They are automatically deleted when you leave our website. Permanent cookies remain on your device until you delete them manually from your browser. We use permanent cookies to identify you when you visit our website again.

If you want to monitor the cookies on your computer, you can set your browser to notify you when a website attempts to save a cookie. You can also block or delete cookies that have already been saved on your computer. If you would like to find out more about how to take these steps, please use the “help” function in your browser. Please note that blocking or deleting cookies may detrimentally affect your online experience and prevent you from taking full advantage of this website.

3. Purpose of data processing

We process your personal data for the following purposes:

To provide and continue to improve and develop this website;
To compile usage statistics;
To be able to detect, prevent and investigate website attacks;
To engage in marketing and advertising (Note: We would like to inform you as an interested party about our latest innovations and products)
To respond to your inquiries;
To be able to execute our contract with you (to your complete satisfaction) (including actions leading up to the contract);
To send you a newsletter or other information about upcoming events.

4. Lawfulness of data processing

The legal basis for the processing of your personal data is provided by:

Our (predominantly) legitimate interest (according to Art. 6 par. 1 (f) GDPR), which is to achieve the purposes referred to in point 4 above;
Your consent (according to Art. 6 par. 1 (a) GDPR) by signing up;
The necessity of entering into and performing a contract (according to Art. 6 par. 1 (b) GDPR)

5. Transfer of your personal data

We transfer your personal data to the following recipients for the purposes referred to above:

IT service providers we have employed;
Banking institutions/payment service providers;
Tax accountants.
Some of these recipients are maybe located or process your personal data outside your country. The level of data protection in other countries may not correspond to that of your country. We transfer your personal data only to countries that the EU Commission has decided provide an adequate level of data protection.

6. Duration of storage

In the case of a contact inquiry, your data will be stored for six months.

In the event a contract is concluded, all data concerning the contractual relationship is stored until the end of the tax record retention period (i.e. seven years), and in addition to this until any legal disputes in which the data is required as evidence are resolved.

7. Your rights in connection with personal data

You have the right to the following:

To check whether we have saved personal data about you and if so what kind and to obtain copies of this data
To request the rectification, completion or erasure of your personal data if it is false or has not been processed in accordance with the law;
To request that we restrict the processing of your personal data;
To request data portability;
To object to the processing of your personal data under certain circumstances or to revoke previous consent for its processing;
To know the identity of third parties to whom your personal data has been transferred;
To lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority (in Austria: the Austrian Data Protection Authority) if you believe that the processing of your data infringes the data protection regulation or your data protection rights have been violated in any other way. In this connection, please refer to the Austrian Data Protection Authority homepage at https://www.dsb.gv.at.

8. Our contact information

If you have questions or concerns regarding the processing of your personal data, please contact:

LEC GmbH
A-8010 Graz, Inffeldgasse 19
Austria
Tel.: +43 316 873 30101
Email: office@lec.tugraz.at