Data Protection and Privacy Policy

PRIVACY POLICY

ETHOS.legal – version 22/04/2025

Basic principles

The protection of your privacy is very important to us. This Privacy Policy concerns anyone who uses the website of our law firm ETHOS.legal (Zacherl Schallaböck Proksch Manak Kraft Rechtsanwälte GmbH, A-1010 Vienna, Teinfaltstrasse 8 / Apartment 5.01 (top floor), company register no. FN 490216g, Vienna Commercial Court, P 132295 (Vienna Bar Association) ETHOS, hereinafter referred to as ETHOS). Please find herein information about the nature, scope and purpose of the collection and use of your personal data by our firm. We respect your privacy and are committed to complying precisely with the legal requirements governing the processing of your personal data (EU Regulation no. 679/2016 (GDPR), the Austrian Data Protection Act (DSG) and the Austrian Telecommunications Act (TKG) 2003). All your personal data shall be processed on this basis.
The controller for this data processing is ETHOS, whose data protection officer can be contacted via email: datenschutz@ethos.legal .

Our website

We use the web analysis tool webalizer for our website to collect and store non-personally identifiable data about each visit (in particular, browser type, date, and time of access). Before analyzing visitor behavior, we store the IP address, shortened by the last three digits and thus pseudonymized, on our web server. This eliminates any identifiability relevant to data protection law. Some of this pseudonymized access data is used to optimize the website and to count visitors and downloads. Personal data is therefore not processed.
If you contact us, we shall process your data for contact purpose. By entering your personal data in one of our contact forms, you agree to its transmission to us and processing by us for the duration of the handling of this specific enquiry. This applies in particular to any enquiries you send to us using a contact form, via the chat feature or by email. We need this information to process your enquiry, to provide and improve the ways in which you can use our services, to maintain, protect and improve the services, to develop new services, to protect ETHOS and its users, and for evidence preservation. It shall be stored for as long as it is required to deal with any supplementary or follow-up questions posed by you or us. These data are only transmitted via an encrypted internet connection (https). We do not accept any liability for any loss of data or in the case of access by third parties to your data if we have complied with the security measures required according to the latest technology.
The legal bases for this data processing are your consent, our pre-contractual and contractual obligations to you, our legitimate interests and legal obligations of any kind, and § 96 of the Austrian Telecommunications Act.

Transmission to third parties / obligations of processors

We may, under certain circumstances, transmit your personal data

to processors (e.g. for electronic advertising) who have made a commitment to us to comply with applicable data protection standards, or
to third parties who need to be consulted in order to provide the services requested by you.

If it is not possible to comply with European data protection standards – because, for example, standard contractual clauses, adequacy decisions or certifications are not guaranteed in the present case – we shall explain this to you in good time and obtain the necessary consents from you. For further information, please contact us at datenschutz@ethos.legal .

Your rights as data subject and how to contact us

You can demand access to your personal data which are stored and processed by us at any time. As data subject, you also have a right of objection, access, erasure, rectification, restriction and transfer of your personal data, provided that this does not conflict with a statutory retention obligation on our part.

If and insofar as data processing must be based on your consent and you withdraw this consent, this withdrawal shall not affect other legal bases that permit data processing. However, this may mean that we are no longer able to provide our services for you in full or at all. Claims on the part of ETHOS and third parties shall not be affected by the withdrawal.

For further information on your rights as data subject, please contact us at datenschutz@ethos.legal. We shall be glad to assist you. Any appeals should be addressed to the supervisory authority, which is the Austrian Data Protection Authority (DSB), Wickenburggasse 8-10, 1080 Vienna.

Miscellaneous

We have implemented organisational and technical safeguards, which we continually evaluate and adjust if necessary in order to protect your personal data stored and processed by us.

We encrypt many of our services with the use of SSL/TLS and shall store your data on specially protected servers. Access is limited to only a few specially authorised persons who are responsible for the technical, commercial or editorial maintenance of the servers. To the best of our ability, your data will be protected against loss, destruction, corruption, manipulation, unauthorised access and unauthorised disclosure. However, data transmission via internet is not completely secure and cannot be totally protected from access by third parties.

This Privacy Policy applies exclusively to the website belonging to ETHOS. We reserve the right to revise this Privacy Policy at any time and to adapt it to new developments. The new version shall apply as soon as it is posted on our website. The current version of the Privacy Policy and our Legal Notice can be accessed at any time on our website at https://www.ethos.legal/datenschutz/.