Data Protection Information
Last updated on November 30, 2023
We would like to inform you about the personal data we collect and how we use it for our business activities.
1 Controller and Scope
This data protection information applies to the internet offering of Decision Advisory Group, which is accessible under the domain https://de.decision-advisory.com/, as well as the LinkedIn page of Decision Advisory Group.
The data controllers are:
Mag. Daniel Dantine, MBA and Mag. Heinz Nusser
Döblergasse 4/6
A-1070 Vienna
phone: +43 1 905 11 10
office@decision-advisory.com
Changes in the law or changes in our internal processes may require an adaptation of this data protection information. You can access, read, save, and print the data protection information at any time.
2 Principles of Data Processing
Personal data refers to any information relating to an identified or identifiable natural person. This includes information such as your name, age, address, telephone number, date of birth, email address, IP address, or user behavior. Information that cannot be attributed to your person (or only with disproportionate effort), for example, by anonymizing the information, is not personal data.
The processing of personal data (such as collection, querying, use, storage, or transmission) always requires a legal basis or your consent. Processed personal data will be deleted as soon as the purpose of processing has been achieved and there are no longer any legally required retention obligations.
An IP address is the address that an internet user uses on the internet. In the vast majority of cases, IP addresses are "dynamically assigned," which means that the assignment of a real person to an IP address only exists for a certain period of time. Internet providers regularly delete these tables in which these assignments are stored after a few weeks. It is then no longer possible to trace who was using a specific IP address at a specific time.
A customer can generally visit our website without providing any personal information. If the customer wants to subscribe to our newsletter or use certain functions of our website, personal data will be collected. These will be stored and processed by us with the help of automation, but will not be disclosed to third parties.
If we process your personal data for the provision of certain services, we will inform you below about the specific processes, scope, and purpose of data processing, the legal basis for processig, and the respective storage period.
3 When you contact us
If you contact us via the form on our website or by email, we will store your provided data (name, email address) in our contact database.
The legal basis is Art. 6 para. 1 lit. b GDPR - it serves the fulfillment of a contract or pre-contractual measures. In other words, we process your data for the purpose of processing your request and for follow-up questions.
Storage period: We clean up this list of contacts annually and delete the "prospects" who have not become "customers" in the meantime.
You can request that we delete or correct this data at any time by simply sending an email to office@decision-advisory.com.
4 When you visit our website
Our website is hosted by Squarespace (Squarespace Ireland Limited, Le Pole House, Ship Street Great, Dublin 8, D08N12C, Ireland). You can read the Squarespace Privacy Policy here.
When you use our website, Squarespace collects the following data that is technically necessary to display our website to you:
· IP address
· Type of browser, as well as its language and version
· Operating system
· Access status/HTTP status code
· Date and time of the request, as well as the time zone
· Content of the request and website from which it comes
· Transferred data volume
This data automatically transmitted by your browser is stored by Squarespace in so-called log files.
There is a contact form on the website that visitors can use. We ask for names and email addresses. The form sends the information to us via email.
Our website uses Google Fonts. Squarespace does not provide us with the option to disable this usage. Therefore, fonts and web analytics are automatically integrated or provided by Squarespace.
Visitors can voluntarily leave comments on blog posts. They have to enter their email address for this.
Information about the display of cookies stored on your device can be found at The cookies used by Squarespace.
These functional and necessary cookies are always used so that Squarespace, our hosting platform, can securely provide you with this website. These analytics and performance cookies are only used on this website if you confirm our cookie banner. This website uses analytics and performance cookies to display website traffic, activities, and other data.
The legal basis is Art. 6 para. 1 lit. b GDPR - it serves the fulfillment of a contract or pre-contractual measures. Without the above-mentioned data, we cannot provide you with the content of our website. By concluding the contract, we have also agreed to the DPA (Data Processing Agreement) of Squarespace.
Storage period: Squarespace stores the IP addresses of website visitors indefinitely. The collection of the IP address for the provision of the website and the storage of the data in log files is mandatory for the operation of the website. Therefore, the user does not have the option to object.
5 When you use social media
Our website offers you the opportunity to share links to our content on social media platforms using so-called "social bookmarks," initially without transmitting any personal data to these providers.
Only when you click on the social media (LinkedIn) icon, personal data will be transmitted: By accessing the website of the respective social media provider, data is automatically transmitted to the respective service provider and stored there (including American providers in the USA). We have no influence on the data collected and the data processing operations, nor do we know the full extent of data collection, purposes, and storage periods.
For more information about the purpose and scope of data collection and processing by the respective social media service, please refer to the privacy policies of these providers. There you will also find further information on your rights and options for protecting your privacy.
· Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/legal/privacy-policy
The legal basis is Art. 6 para. 1 lit. a GDPR - the consent of the data subjects, i.e., you.
Storage period: Your data shared via social media is not stored by us.
6 When you subscribe to our newsletter
If you have expressly consented or are a customer of ours, we will use your email address to send you our newsletter. Once you have subscribed to the newsletter, you will receive an email with a link to confirm your registration. Only when you click on this confirmation (double opt-in) will you actually receive the newsletter.
You can unsubscribe from the newsletter at any time and also adjust your preferences. To do this, please use the personalized links found in the footer of each newsletter. Alternatively, you can also send your unsubscribe request to office@decision-advisory.com. We will then immediately delete your data related to the newsletter delivery.
Our newsletter is also hosted by Squarespace (Squarespace Ireland Limited, Le Pole House, Ship Street Great, Dublin 8, D08N12C, Ireland). You can read the Squarespace Privacy Policy here.
Legal basis: We send our newsletter based on your consent (Art. 6 para. 1 lit. a GDPR) or due to legal provisions for existing customers (sending the newsletter as a result of the sale of goods or services, in Austria § 96 para. 3 TKG).
Storage period: Your data will remain stored in the newsletter system until you unsubscribe or request deletion.
7 How we protect your personal data
We maintain current technical measures to ensure data security, especially to protect your personal data from risks during data transmission and from third-party access. In particular, our website uses encrypted transmission via SSL (Secure Socket Layer) or TLS (Transport Layer Security) when you access our website at the following address: https://de.decision-advisory.com/
8 Your rights
As a data subject, you have the following rights: right to information (Article 15 GDPR), right to rectification (Article 16 GDPR), right to erasure (Article 17 GDPR), right to restriction of processing (Article 18 GDPR), right to data portability (Article 20 GDPR), and right to object (Article 21 GDPR).
You can exercise the aforementioned rights by sending an email to office@decision-advisory.com or alternatively by mail to our postal address (see above).
If you have reason to complain about the processing of your data by us, we invite you to first write to us directly so that we can try to resolve the matter together:office@decision-advisory.com
However, you can also contact the Austrian Data Protection Authority as the supervisory authority at any time with your concerns: Barichgasse 40-42, 1030 Vienna, Tel .: +43 1 52152-0, Email: dsb@dsb.gv.at, Website: https://www.dsb.gv.at/