Privacy Policy
Preamble
With this Privacy Policy, S&C Holding GmbH, 1070 Vienna, Halbgasse 1a registered in the commercial register of the Vienna Commercial Court under FN 366123 t (hereinafter referred to as “S&C Holding”), explains which personal data is processed during a visit to the website https://www.boutiqueapartments-vienna.com.
Personal data includes all information that can be used to identify a person and that can be traced back to them, such as name, email address, phone number, and IP address. S&C Holding treats personal data confidentially and in accordance with the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), the Data Protection Act (DSG), the Telecommunications Act (TKG), the E-Commerce Act (ECG), and other applicable regulations.
It should be noted that data transmission over the internet can generally be subject to security vulnerabilities. Complete protection from third-party access is not feasible.
Legal Basis
The legal basis for data processing is our business license for trading, except for regulated trades, where automatic data processing is required. S&C Holding collects, uses, and shares personal data only if it is permitted by law, necessary for contractual purposes, or if the data subject consents to the data processing.
Additional legal bases for data processing include:
(i) Pre-contractual measures, contract acceptance, and performance pursuant to Art. 6 (1) (b) GDPR, allowing us to process inquiries or orders,
(ii) Consent pursuant to Art. 6 (1) (a) GDPR as part of registration,
(iii) Legal obligations pursuant to Art. 6 (1) (c) GDPR, e.g., for the retention of order records or invoices (business correspondence),
(iv) Legitimate interest pursuant to Art. 6 (1) (f) GDPR, particularly for marketing and advertising purposes.
Data Collection and Processing
We process personal data provided to us through the use of our website (including all subpages) by visitors or registered users, either through mere browsing, an advertisement, an inquiry or message, a contract, or communication.
The main purposes of processing include providing the services available on www.boutiqueapartments-vienna.com. We offer the following services:
– Rental of boutique apartments in Vienna
Other purposes of data processing include:
(i) Provision, troubleshooting, and improvement of services,
(ii) Recommendations and personalization of features, products, and services,
(iii) Communication with visitors and account holders,
(iv) Compliance with various legal obligations (such as related to billing and contract data),
(v) Verification of asserted rights or obligations,
(vi) Management, maintenance of security, fraud prevention, and continuous improvement of services on www.boutiqueapartments-vienna.com and mobile applications.
A company processing data on behalf of S&C Holding is referred to as a data processor. When working with data processors, we ensure that data processing agreements are in place, defining how data can be processed.
Generally, such agreements stipulate that the data processor may only process personal data on behalf of S&C Holding and for clearly defined purposes.
Data Controller
The data controller is S&C Holding GmbH, 1070 Vienna, Halbgasse 1a, registered in the commercial register of the Vienna Commercial Court under FN 366123 t, email: info@boutiqueapartments-vienna.com,
Types of Users
Our website is aimed at both registered users (“registered visitors”) and unregistered users (“visitors”).
Registered visitors: To make purchases in the webshop, customers are required to provide their contact details, such as address, first and last name, and email address, to complete a remote contract transaction. The data storage duration is limited to the valid consent to data processing. After revocation of consent (which can be done at any time), personal data will be deleted promptly and completely, unless prohibited by legal obligations.
Visitors: Certain data from visitors is also processed via server log files (visited website, time of access, amount of data transmitted in bytes, referrer/source from which you reached the page, browser used, operating system used, IP address). The collected data is used solely for statistical analysis and website improvement. All data is processed anonymously, making it impossible to identify a natural person.
User Rights
You can contact S&C Holding at any time to exercise your legal rights under the General Data Protection Regulation. These include:
(i) Right to access your stored personal data, its origin, recipients, and the purpose of data processing,
(ii) Right to rectification,
(iii) Right to deletion of inaccurate or unlawfully processed data,
(iv) Right to object,
(v) Right to withdraw consent,
(vi) Right to restrict processing and block data,
(vii) Right to data portability.
If your personal data changes, please inform us accordingly.
Requests for information, deletion, correction, objection, and data transfer (in the latter case, provided that it does not cause disproportionate effort) should be sent via email to S&C Holding.
Please include clear and understandable proof of identification so that we can ensure a compliant response to the actual data subject. S&C Holding will respond to your request within one month and provide justification for any potential denial. In the case of a legitimate deletion or correction request, this will also be communicated to the recipients of personal data for automated implementation.
Right to Lodge a Complaint with the Supervisory Authority
If you believe that the processing of your personal data by us violates applicable data protection law or that your data protection rights have been infringed in another way, you can lodge a complaint with the competent supervisory authority.
In Austria, the competent authority is the Data Protection Authority, Barichgasse 40-42, 1030 Vienna; Tel: +43 1 531 15-202525; Fax: +43 1 531 15-202690; email: dsb@dsb.gv.at; https://www.dsb.gv.at/.
Transfer to Third Parties / Recipients in Third Countries
To fulfill our business purposes, we will also forward your data to third parties (such as banks, shipping companies for webshop purchases, authorities, courts, tax advisors, IT service providers, financial authorities, providers, website hosting companies, insurance companies, and others we use and provide data to), provided that we need this data to fulfill our services. A lawful transfer of your data is made solely based on the GDPR.
Customers of S&C Holding are entitled to cancel their registration or delete their account at any time. In such cases, S&C Holding will immediately delete all data of the respective customer.
S&C Holding does not request sensitive data as defined in Art. 9 (1) GDPR.
Consent to Data Use as per the Privacy Policy
By agreeing to the registration process, the customer consents to the use of their personal data according to the privacy policy.
Newsletter
If you subscribe to our newsletter and give us your consent (Art. 6 (1) (a) GDPR), we process your name and email address for the purpose of sending our newsletter. Your personal data will be stored until you unsubscribe from the newsletter or withdraw your consent. S&C Holding currently does not publish a newsletter, so no periodic time frame for receipt can be specified. You can revoke your consent or unsubscribe from the newsletter at any time by sending an email to info@boutiqueapartments-vienna.com.
Social Media Plug-in Use
We use plugins from the following social networks (Instagram, Twitter, YouTube, Facebook), which are operated by the following companies: Meta Platforms Inc., YouTube LLC, Twitter Inc. Their addresses can be found at the end of this section. We use a two-step procedure, in which you can give your consent in accordance with Art. 6 (1) (a) GDPR for data processing by the social network operator. Data is only transferred to the social network operator when users click on one of the displayed icons, thereby agreeing to the data transfer to the social network operator. Only after such consent will a connection from your browser to the respective social network be established. The social network receives information via the plugin about your visit to our websites. If you are logged into Instagram, Twitter, YouTube, or Facebook, your visit can be linked to your social network account. Any interactions with the plugin can be saved by the network operator. Information about the use of data collected by each social network can be found on the company’s website in the “Privacy” section at the URL provided below:
Meta Platforms Inc., 1601 Willow Road, Menlo Park, CA 94304, USA, www.facebook.com / Privacy Policy: https://www.facebook.com/privacy/policy
YouTube LLC, 901 Cherry Ave., San Bruno, CA 94066, USA, www.youtube.com / Privacy Policy: https://policies.google.com/privacy?hl=en-US
Twitter Inc., 795 Folsom St., Suite 600, San Francisco, CA 94107, USA, www.twitter.com / Privacy Policy: https://twitter.com/de/privacy
Cookie Usage
During your visit to our website, we collect personal data to the necessary extent (name of the retrieved file, date and time of access, transmitted data volume, report on successful retrieval, browser type and version, user’s operating system, referrer URL, and requesting provider). This data cannot be assigned to specific individuals by us and is not merged with data from other sources.
Please note that cookies are used during your visit to our website. Cookies are small files or other types of information storage transmitted from our web server or third-party web servers to users’ web browsers and stored for later retrieval. The cookies used during your visit to our website serve solely to simplify the purchasing process (e.g., by saving items placed in a shopping cart) and enable the use of certain functions in our webshop. The cookies we use are deleted from your hard drive after closing your browser (session cookies). The collection of this data is based on §
96 (3) TKG.
We also use cookies for the statistical evaluation of the use of our website as part of the web analytics service Google Analytics (see below). The collection of this data is based on Art. 6 (1) (f) GDPR. If you have consented to this use in advance according to Art. 6 (1) (a) GDPR, third-party cookies will be used during your visit to our website to collect and evaluate your usage behavior. Consent to the use of these cookies is provided through the display of a banner explaining the type and extent of the cookie use, and you can agree to or reject the use of cookies. No such cookies are used without your prior consent. If you do not accept cookies, the functionality of our website may be limited.
Use of Google Analytics
We use Google Analytics, a web analytics service provided by Google LLC (“Google”), 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA. As part of “Google Analytics,” cookies are placed on your computer to statistically evaluate your use of our website. We have entered into a data processing agreement with Google. The information generated by these cookies about your use of this website (including your IP address) is anonymized before being stored on Google servers, so it can no longer be associated with a computer. Only in exceptional cases will the full IP address be transmitted to a Google server in the USA and shortened there. Google uses this information to evaluate your use of the website, compile reports on website activity for website operators, and provide other services related to website activity and internet usage. The IP address transmitted by your browser as part of Google Analytics is not merged with other Google data. For more information about how Google handles user data, please refer to Google’s privacy policy:
https://support.google.com/analytics/answer/6004245?hl=en
You can prevent the collection of the data generated by the cookies and related to your use of the website, as well as the processing of this anonymized data by Google, by downloading and installing the browser plugin available at the following link: https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=en
However, please note that if you do this, you may not be able to use all the functions of this website to their full extent.
