Responsible for this website:

S.I.M. - Special Interest Magazines Zeitschriftenverlagsges.m.b.H
Registered office of the company: Tuchlauben 7a, A-1010, Vienna, Austria
Editorial office: Reisenbauer Ring 5/3/3, A-2351 Wiener Neudorf, Austria
E-mail: [email protected]

The protection of your personal data is of particular concern to us. We therefore process your data exclusively on the basis of the statutory provisions (GDPR, TKG). In this privacy policy, we inform you about data processing on our website.

Which data we process

In the course of your visit to this website, we will receive 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 web page (URL) you visited before accessing this website, certain cookies (see there) and that information which you yourself provide by contacting us.

There is no obligation to actually provide the data that we ask you to provide on our website. However, if you do not do so, you will not be able to use all the functions of the website.

Purposes of data processing

We will process your personal data for the following purposes:

  • to make this website available to you and to further improve and develop this website;
  • to be able to show you location-based cultural offers;
  • to be able to create usage statistics;
  • to detect, prevent and investigate attacks on our website;
  • to respond to your inquiries;
  • to be able to carry out marketing measures;

Legal basis of the processing

The legal basis for the processing of your personal data is our overriding legitimate interest (pursuant to Art. 6 (1) (f) of the EU General Data Protection Regulation), which is to achieve the above-mentioned purposes.

If a purpose makes it necessary, your express consent will be obtained.

Contact us

If you contact us by e-mail, the data you provide will be processed by us for the purpose of processing the request and in the event of follow-up questions. We will not pass on this data without your consent.

Cookies

This website uses cookies. These are small files that are stored on your end device with the help of the browser. Cookies are generally used to provide users with certain functions on a website. For example, they can be used to make it easier for you to navigate a website, to enable you to continue using a website where you left it and/or to save your preferences and settings when you visit the website again. Cookies cannot access, read or modify any other data on your computer.

Most of the cookies on this website are so-called session cookies. They are automatically deleted when you leave our website. Persistent cookies, on the other hand, remain on your computer until they expire or you delete them manually in your browser. We use such persistent cookies to recognize you the next time you visit our website.

If you do not want this, you can set up your browser so that it informs you about the setting of cookies and you only allow this in individual cases. If you deactivate cookies, the functionality of our website may be restricted.

You can change your cookie settings here.

Competitions

SIMs Kultur organizes competitions on an irregular basis. The personal data you provide for participation will be stored, processed and used by S.I.M. Special Interest Magazines Zeitschriftenverlagsges. m. b. H. for the purpose of conducting and handling the competition. You can object to this storage, processing and use of your data at any time by sending a letter to S.I.M. Special Interest Magazines Zeitschriftenverlagsges. m. b. H., Tuchlauben 7A, 1010 Vienna, Austria or by sending an e-mail to [email protected]. In this case, your data will be deleted immediately. In this case, your data will be deleted immediately - further participation in the competition is then unfortunately no longer possible.

Your personal data will not be transferred to third parties beyond this, unless this is necessary for the purpose of processing the competition, e.g. to a shipping service provider for the purpose of delivering the prize.

Your personal data will be deleted at the end of the competition.

Hosting and log files

To operate this website, we require hosting services such as infrastructure and platform services, computing capacity, storage space, database services, security and maintenance services. We or our hosting service provider process data of our website visitors such as contact data, content data, usage data, meta and communication data due to our legitimate interest in a satisfactory and secure website offering. For the same reason, we or our hosting service provider process so-called server log files (e.g. website accessed, file, time of access, data volume, browser and operating system information, referrer website, IP address, user provider). Log files are stored for a maximum of 12 months for security reasons (investigation of misuse or fraud). If it is necessary for evidentiary purposes due to an incident, data may be stored for longer. We have concluded an order data processing contract with our hosting provider.

Use of Weglot

Our website uses the "Weglot" translation service of Weglot SAS, 7 cité Paradis, 75010 Paris, France, to provide multilingual content. When you load a page, your IP address is transmitted to Weglot's servers to provide the corresponding language version. Weglot's servers are located within the European Union in data centers that comply with EU data protection regulations.

Web analysis and analysis cookies

Our website uses functions of the web analysis service "Google Analytics" provided by Google Ireland Limited, Gordon House, Barrow Street, Dublin 4, Ireland.
If you consent to processing, Google Analytics will set cookies and your IP address will be transmitted to Google servers located in the EU, where it will be determined whether a website visit originates from the EU and thus falls within the scope of the GDPR (location determination via IP address). As a result, the device IP addresses of EU citizens are anonymized. Further processing of detailed measurement data (website usage data, location and device data) only takes place in connection with the anonymized IP address. These data records are transferred to Google in the USA. See also https://support.google.com/analytics/answer/12017362?hl=de
Opt-out: https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout
The permissibility of data transfer to the USA is based on the EU adequacy decision of July 10, 2023 (EU-U.S. Data Privacy Framework). Google is certified under this framework: https://www.dataprivacyframework.gov/list
Data processing is carried out on the basis of the legal provisions of § 96 (3) TKG and Art. 6 (1) lit. a (consent) and/or f (legitimate interest) of the GDPR. Our concern within the meaning of the GDPR (legitimate interest) is to improve our offering and our website. We have concluded a corresponding contract with the provider for commissioned data processing.

You can change your cookie settings here.

Social media

Wir betreiben Unternehmensseiten (Fanpages) auf den Plattformen „Facebook“ und „Instagram“ des Unternehmens Meta Platforms Ireland Ltd., 4 Grand Canal Square, Grand Canal Harbour, Dublin 2, Ireland, und sind im Sinne der DSGVO gemeinsame Verantwortliche für die Datenerhebung. Das Unternehmen Meta garantiert auf Basis von Standardvertragsklauseln, das europäische Datenschutzrecht einzuhalten. Wir weisen darauf hin, dass das Unternehmen Meta beim Aufrufen unserer Fanpages eine Vielzahl von Daten erfasst, unter anderem die IP-Adresse, Informationen über Endgerät, Browser, Herkunft und Nutzerverhalten. Diese Daten werden gegebenenfalls in Länder außerhalb der Europäischen Union übertragen. Facebook- bzw. Instagram-Nutzer haben für diese Datenverarbeitungsprozesse ihre Einwilligung erteilt bzw. ist dies Vertragsbestandteil ihrer Nutzungsvereinbarung mit Facebook oder Instagram.

Wir betreiben diese Fanpages für Marketing- und Kommunikationszwecke auf der Grundlage unseres berechtigten Interesses (Art. 6 Abs. 1 lit. f DSGVO). Angaben des Unternehmens über Datenerfassung und -verwendung finden Sie hier: https://www.facebook.com/about/privacy

Integration of third-party services and/or content

Third-party services are used, e.g. to integrate videos.

For this purpose, these third-party providers require the IP addresses of the website users, as otherwise they cannot deliver the integrated content to the user devices. In addition, the third-party providers may set cookies on the end user's devices, which store, for example, which video has already been viewed and for how long, in order to be able to continue at this point. Furthermore, the cookies may contain technical information about the user's browser and operating system as well as information about website references, visiting time, etc.

We integrate the following third-party services:

Videos from YouTube: Google Ireland Limited, Gordon House, Barrow Street, Dublin 4, Ireland. Privacy policy: https://www.google.com/policies/privacy/. Opt-out: https://adssettings.google.com/authenticated
Videos from Vimeo: Vimeo Inc., 555 West 18th Street New York, New York 10011, USA. Privacy policy:https://vimeo.com/privacy. Data is transferred to the USA on the basis of standard contractual clauses.

Your rights

You have the right to information, correction, deletion, restriction, data portability, revocation and objection. You have the right to lodge a complaint with the supervisory authority responsible for you. In Austria, this is the data protection authority.

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