General data protection declaration:

Who we are

We are the Vienna Energy Community – EEG Wien, or https://eegwien.at. Websites with subdomains, e.g., https://abc.eegwien.at, may(!) be maintained by other natural or legal persons or organizations and therefore have a different privacy policy.

comments

When visitors leave comments on the site we collect the data shown in the comment form, and also the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to help spam detection.

An anonymized string created from your email address (also called a hash) may be provided to the Gravatar service to see if you are using it. The privacy policy of the Gravatar service can be found here: https://automattic.com/privacy/. After your comment has been approved, your profile picture will be publicly visible in the context of your comment.

media

If you are a registered user and upload photos to this website, you should avoid uploading photos with an EXIF GPS location. Visitors to this website could download photos stored on this website and extract their location information.

cookies

If you write a comment on our website, this may be a consent to save your name, email address and website in cookies. This is a convenience feature so that you do not have to enter all this data again when you write another comment. These cookies are saved for one year.

If you have an account and log in to this website, we will set a temporary cookie to determine if your browser accepts cookies. This cookie contains no personal data and is discarded when you close your browser.

When you log in, we will set up some cookies to save your login information and display choices. Login cookies expire after two days and display choices cookies expire after one year. If you select "Keep me logged in" when you log in, your login will be maintained for two weeks. When you log out of your account, login cookies will be deleted.

When you edit or publish an article, an additional cookie is stored in your browser. This cookie contains no personal data and only refers to the post ID of the article you just edited. The cookie expires after one day.

Embedded content from other websites

Articles on this website may include embedded content (e.g. videos, images, articles, etc.). Embedded content from other websites behaves exactly as if the visitor has visited the other website.

These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, including tracking your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.

Who we share your data with

If you request a password reset, your IP address will be included in the reset email.

How long we store your data

When you leave a comment, it will be stored indefinitely, including metadata. This way, we can automatically recognize and approve follow-up comments instead of holding them in a moderation queue.

For users who register on our website, we also store the personal information they provide in their user profiles. All users can view, change or delete their personal information at any time (the user name cannot be changed). Website administrators can also view and change this information.

What rights you have to your data

If you have an account on this site, or have left comments, you can request to receive an exported file of the personal data we hold about you, including all data you have provided to us. In addition, you can request to delete any personal data we hold about you. This does not include any data we are obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes.

Where your data is sent

Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service.

What to do

There is nothing more for you to do. By visiting this website you agree to this privacy policy.

Additional privacy policy for our security plugin:

What personal data we collect and why it is collected:

cookies

A cookie is created to track a user's login process and thus implement enhanced security features.

Security protocols

The IP address of visitors, the user ID of logged-in users, and the username during login attempts are logged under certain conditions to detect malicious activity and protect the website from specific attacks. Examples of conditions under which logging occurs include login attempts, logout requests, requests to suspicious URLs, changes to website content, and password updates. This information is stored for 60 days.

Who we share your data with

For users who have set up two-factor authentication for this website, a QR code will be generated. This QR code is generated using an API hosted by the developer of our security plugin. Your username will be sent to the API in the process. This data is not logged.

This website is scanned for potential malware and vulnerabilities by the developer of our security plugin. We do not send any personal data to the scanner. However, the scanner may find publicly available personal data (e.g., in comments) during the scan.

How long do we store your data?

Security logs are stored for 60 days.

Where do we send your data?

This website is part of a network of websites that protect against distributed brute-force attacks. To ensure this protection, the IP address of visitors logging into the website is transmitted to a service provided by the manufacturer of our security plugin.

Additional privacy policy for our statistics plugin:

We use a statistics plugin to analyze the traffic on our website.

This statistics plugin stores the data on our own server and does not share it with third parties. Below, we describe what information we collect with this statistics plugin, why we collect it, and how it is processed.

We do not collect or store any information that can personally identify you. This means:

No cookies:

We do not place tracking cookies or similar identifiers in your browser.

Anonymized IP address:

Your IP address will be anonymized and processed securely (e.g. hashed) so that it cannot be traced back to identify you.

Aggregated statistics:

We only collect general activity data such as page views or the country of access.

Local storage:

All data is stored locally on our server; we never share it with third parties.