1. GENERAL 

The protection of your personal data (hereinafter "data") is of particular concern for us. For the purposes of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), "personal data" means any information relating to an identified or identifiable natural person.

Your data will be processed by us as the responsible party as well as by the consignee we commission with the processing of personal data (e.g. our web space provider) exclusively on the basis of the applicable European and Austrian legal provisions (in particular, these are the Data Protection Act, the General Data Protection Regulation and the Telecommunications Act).

In this data protection declaration (version of 04/13/2022), we inform you about the most important aspects of data processing within the scope of our online information services (website, social media) and about the rights to which you are entitled under data protection law. For all personal designations, the chosen form applies to both genders. 

2. CONTACT DATA OF RESPONSIBLE PARTY

For questions regarding data protection, please find below the contact details of the responsible person in the sense of the GDPR and other national data protection laws of the Member States as well as other data protection regulations:

Invisible Starfall Books, Vienna, Austria, E-mail: info@invisiblestarfallbooks.com

Website imprint: invisiblestarfallbooks.com/imprint-privacy 

3. PURPOSE AND LEGAL BASIS OF DATA PROCESSING

We process your data for the provision of our services and as part of our administration and business operations . These processing operations are carried out on the legal basis of Art 6 para 1 lit b GDPR (contract performance) and on the basis of our legitimate interest in proper and efficient business management as wel as in managing and optimizing the selection of our contractual partners and thus on the legal basis of Art 6 para 1 lit f GDPR. 

4. CATEGORIES OF DATA AND CONSIGNEES OF DATA PROCESSING

4.1. Website

As part of the operation of our website, which is carried out via a web server of our data processing consignee, server logs are created and analyzed and cookies are used, which ensure the technical operation of our website and allow us to improve our web services. The use of server logs (web analysis) and cookies for data processing purposes is described in detail below.

For purposes of hosting our website (operating a web server), we use the services of the Austrian processor easyname GmbH (Canettistraße 5/10, 1100 Vienna, Austria). The data hosted by easyname is located in Austria - it is processed in data centers in Vienna. 

Transport encryption of data on the Internet

For data security on the web, our website uses the secure hypertext transfer protocol (HTTPS): by means of an SSL certificate, the data exchange between your web browser and our web server is encrypted and thus protected from third-party access. Our website is thus accessible via https:// (instead of via http://), which is also marked accordingly in the browser as a secure connection.

Data on the use of our website (server logs, web analysis)

Each time our website is called up, data and information from your end device (e.g. computer, tablet, smartphone) is automatically recorded on the server of our order processor easyname GmbH as part of server logs. This data about the use of our website enables us to continuously improve the user-friendliness of our website and optimize our services. No cookies are stored on your end device for the collection of this data on the use of our website.

As a web analytics service, our processor easyname GmbH provides the software AWStats. AWStats is a free web analysis tool that evaluates and visualizes the logs that the web server of our order processor creates based on user calls to our website. Web statistics show, among other things, how many users have called up our web pages, which sub-pages have been opened most frequently or at what time this has happened more often. The data is not used to personally identify visitors to our website. In contrast to comparable tools, AWStats does not transmit any data to third-party servers. Visitors to our website agree to the use of the AWStats analysis tool by Invisible Starfall Books.

The following data is collected on the server of our data processing consignee by means of a server protocol from the calling end device of the user and evaluated by means of AWStats (storage of this data together with other personal data of the user does not take place):

• Browser type and browser version
• Operating system (including its version)
• Unresolved IP address: In the course of recording your web activities, the IP address assigned to you is anonymized, which means that there is no possibility of assigning a user to an IP address (so-called unresolved IP addresses).
• Origin of the website call (external pages, search engines, social media).
• Entry and exit pages: Page of our website via which the user accessed our website, as well as page of our website via which the user left our website again
• Date and time of access as well as duration of stay
• Transferred file types (images, videos, HTML text, etc.) and data volume
• Downloads from our website

Use of cookies

Cookies are pure text files that are stored on your end device by your browser. Our website does not use any cookies.  

4.2. E-mail

For the purposes of handling e-mails (hosting of e-mail mailboxes, e-mail addresses, etc.), we use the services of the Austrian processor easyname GmbH (Canettistraße 5/10, 1100 Vienna, Austria). When you contact Invisible Starfall Books by e-mail directly or via the contact form on our website, we collect and process your e-mail address and the request you have communicated and, if applicable, any additional data you provide or which you make available to us by attaching documents. The purpose of the data processing is to respond to your contact request. The data processing is based on our legitimate interest in communicating with existing and potential customers as well as with business partners. 

5. DATA RECIPIENTS

Your data will only be passed on by us if there is a valid legal basis for the transfer. In any case, we will only disclose your data to the extent required for the respective purpose, required by the respective legal regulation, covered by any legitimate interest or, in the case of consent, specified by you. Possible recipients of data in case of need are in particular: tax advisors and auditors, legal representatives, financial authorities, banks, insurance companies, courts and authorities, service and IT companies. 

6. DURATION OF DATA STORAGE

In principle, your data will only be used for as long as is necessary for the purpose for which it was collected. If a contractual relationship exists between you and Invisible Starfall Books, we will retain your data exclusively for the duration or fulfillment of the contractual relationship. In addition, we are obliged to retain data beyond the contractual relationship, as required by tax law, for example. Furthermore, we may retain your data as long as legal claims can be asserted in connection with your contract. In the event of pending official or judicial proceedings, your data will be retained in any case until the end of the respective proceedings. 

7. YOUR RIGHTS

As we process your data in our legitimate interests, you generally have the right to object to this processing if you have grounds for objecting to it. You are generally entitled to the rights of information, correction, deletion, restriction, data portability, objection and revocation. To do so, please contact us, for example, by e-mail at info@invisiblestarfallbooks.com. In the event of a revocation, the lawfulness of the data processing up to the time of the revocation will not be affected. If you believe that the processing of your data violates data protection law or your data protection rights have otherwise been violated in any way, you can complain to the supervisory authority. In Austria, the responsible party is the data protection authority; contact information can be found on their website at www.dsb.gv.at/ueber-die-website/kontakt.html.