We value your privacy and want to ensure transparency regarding how we use your data. Below, you’ll find information on how we use cookies and a summary of our Privacy Policy.
Cookies and Their Usage
Cookies are small text files placed on your device to enhance your experience on our website. They allow us to remember your preferences, provide essential website functionality, and help us analyze our site traffic.
Types of Cookies We Use:
- Technical Cookies (Required):
These cookies are necessary for the website to function properly. They support essential features like secure logins, navigation, and ensuring the website operates as intended. - Marketing Cookies (Optional):
These cookies help us tailor content and ads to your interests. They track your browsing activities to build a profile of your preferences, allowing us to provide you with personalized experiences. You can opt in or out of these cookies at any time.
Privacy Policy Overview
When you visit our website, we may collect personal data to improve our services, communicate with you, or provide tailored experiences. Here’s a summary of how we handle your data:
- Data Collection:
We may collect data such as your name, email address, IP address, and browsing behavior. This information helps us understand how you use our site and allows us to enhance your user experience. - Data Usage:
Your data may be used for various purposes, including providing services, improving website functionality, delivering personalized content, and analyzing site traffic. We do not sell your personal data to third parties. - Legal Basis for Processing:
We process your data based on one or more of the following legal grounds: your consent, our legitimate interests, or the necessity to fulfill contractual obligations. - Data Sharing:
We may share your data with trusted third-party service providers who assist us in operating our website and providing services to you. These parties are obligated to protect your data and use it only for the purposes we specify. - Your Rights:
You have the right to access, correct, or delete your personal data. You may also withdraw your consent for data processing or object to how we handle your data. For a more detailed explanation of your rights, please see our full Privacy Policy. - Data Retention:
We retain your data only for as long as necessary to fulfill the purposes for which it was collected, or as required by law.
Sharing Your Story
On the page Share Your Story you can send us your experience with toxic leadership. Here is what happens with the data you enter there:
- What we process:
your first name or initials (optional), your email address, your story, whether you are open to a conversation, and the time you gave your consent. We do not store your IP address. To prevent spam, an irreversibly encrypted (hashed) form of it is kept for a maximum of one hour. - Purpose:
to read your story, to contact you about it and, only with your separate written approval, to prepare an anonymized version for publication. Names, companies and identifying details are always changed. - Legal basis:
your consent (Art. 6(1)(a) GDPR). If your story contains information about your health, your consent also covers this information (Art. 9(2)(a) GDPR). You can withdraw your consent at any time with effect for the future. - Other people in your story:
please avoid full names of other people or companies. If your story contains them anyway, we use this information only to understand your experience and never publish it. - Where your data is stored:
in the database of this website on the servers of our hosting provider World4You (Austria). In addition, a notification with your message is sent to our mailbox via the email service Brevo (Sendinblue SAS, France). Our mailbox is hosted by Google (Gmail); Google may process data in the USA and is certified under the EU-US Data Privacy Framework. - How long we keep it:
until you withdraw your consent, or at the latest 12 months after our last contact if your story is not published. If you approve a publication, we keep your approval and the agreed text for as long as the story is published. - Your rights:
you can ask us at any time for access to, correction or deletion of your data. Simply send an email. You also have the right to lodge a complaint with a data protection supervisory authority; in Austria this is the Datenschutzbehörde (dsb.gv.at).
Managing Your Preferences
You can manage your cookie preferences by selecting “Save Settings” or “Deny” on our cookies banner, or by adjusting your browser settings. You can also update your preferences or withdraw your consent at any time.
Contact Us
If you have any questions about our cookie practices or how I handle your personal data, please drop me an email.