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Personal data

We, the Austrian Frederick and Lillian Kiesler Private Foundation, Vienna, collect, process and use your personal data only with your consent for the purposes agreed with you or if there is another legal basis in accordance with the GDPR; this is done in compliance with data protection and civil law provisions. Only personal data that is necessary for the performance and processing of our services or that you have voluntarily provided to us is collected. Personal data is any data that contains individual details about personal or factual circumstances, such as name, address, email address and telephone number.

Information and deletion

You have the right to obtain information at any time about your stored personal data, its origin and recipients, and the purpose of data processing, as well as the right to correction, data transfer, objection, restriction of processing, and blocking or deletion of incorrect or inadmissibly processed data. If there are any changes to your personal data, please notify us accordingly. You have the right to revoke your consent to the use of your personal data at any time. Your request for information, deletion, correction, objection and/or data transfer, in the latter case provided that this does not involve disproportionate effort, can be sent to the contact address office@kiesler.org.

If you believe that our processing of your personal data violates applicable data protection law or that your data protection rights have been violated in any other way, you have the option of complaining to the competent supervisory authority. In Austria, the Data Protection Authority is responsible for this.

Data security

Your personal data is protected by appropriate organisational and technical measures. These precautions relate in particular to protection against unauthorised, unlawful or accidental access, processing, loss, use and manipulation. Regardless of our efforts to maintain an appropriately high standard of care, it cannot be ruled out that information you disclose to us via the Internet may be viewed and used by other persons. Please note that we therefore accept no liability whatsoever for the disclosure of information due to errors in data transmission and/or unauthorised access by third parties (e.g. hacking of email accounts or telephones, interception of faxes) that are not caused by us.

Use of data

We will not process the data provided to us for purposes other than those covered by your consent or otherwise by a provision in accordance with the GDPR. This does not include use for statistical purposes, provided that the data provided has been anonymised.

Transfer of data to third parties

Your data will only be forwarded on the basis of the GDPR, in particular to fulfil your order or on the basis of your prior consent. Some of the above-mentioned recipients of your personal data are located outside your country or process your personal data there. The level of data protection in other countries may not be the same as in Austria. However, we only transfer your personal data to countries for which the EU Commission has decided that they have an adequate level of data protection, or we take measures to ensure that all recipients have an adequate level of data protection, for which we conclude standard contractual clauses (2010/87/EC and/or 2004/915/EC).

Disclosure of data breaches

We endeavour to ensure that data breaches are detected at an early stage and, if necessary, reported to you or the competent supervisory authority without delay, including the respective data categories that are affected.

Data retention

We will not retain data for longer than is necessary to fulfil our contractual or legal obligations and to defend against any liability claims.

Cookies

This website uses ‘cookies’ to make our offering more user-friendly, effective and secure. A ‘cookie’ is a small text file that we transfer via our web server to the cookie file of your browser on your computer’s hard drive. This enables our website to recognise you as a user when a connection is established between our web server and your browser. Cookies help us to determine the frequency of use and the number of users of our website. The content of the cookies we use is limited to an identification number that no longer allows any personal reference to the user. The main purpose of a cookie is to recognise visitors to the website.

Two types of cookies are used on this website:

• Session cookies: These are temporary cookies that remain in your browser’s cookie file until you leave our website and are automatically deleted at the end of your visit.

• Permanent cookies: For better user-friendliness, cookies remain stored on your device and allow us to recognise your browser the next time you visit.

You can set your browser so that you are informed about the setting of cookies and only allow cookies in individual cases, exclude the acceptance of cookies for certain cases or in general, and activate the automatic deletion of cookies when you close your browser. Deactivating cookies may restrict the functionality of this website.

Newsletter

We offer you the opportunity to subscribe to our free email newsletter. We will only send you this newsletter with your consent. The newsletter is not sent directly by us, but by Newsletter2Go GmbH, Köpenicker Str. 126, 10179 Berlin (https://www.newsletter2go.at/impressum), which we have commissioned to process orders, with servers located in Germany. However, Newsletter2Go does not use your data to contact you itself.

The data will not be passed on to third parties in connection with data processing for the purpose of sending newsletters.

Your consent will be obtained for the processing of this data for the purpose of sending newsletters, and reference will be made to this privacy policy. We use the so-called double opt-in procedure for the registration process. After registering, you will receive an email in which you must click on a link to confirm your registration. This prevents unauthorised third parties from registering using your email address.

The data you provide will be stored for as long as your subscription to the newsletter is active. You can cancel your subscription at any time. For this purpose, each newsletter contains a corresponding unsubscribe link. This also allows you to revoke your consent. The legal basis for the processing of your data when you have given your consent to receive newsletters is Art. 6 (1) lit. a GDPR.

Our newsletters may contain so-called ‘tracking pixels’, which are pixel-sized files that are retrieved from our server or the Newsletter2Go server when the newsletter is opened. These tracking pixels do not contain any personal data and are only used for statistical purposes to determine whether and which links contained in the newsletters are clicked on. This information cannot be assigned to individual newsletter recipients.

Server log files

In order to optimise this website in terms of system performance, user-friendliness and the provision of useful information about our services, the website provider automatically collects and stores information in so-called server log files, which your browser automatically transmits to us. This includes your Internet Protocol address (IP address), browser and language settings, operating system, referrer URL, your Internet service provider and date/time. This data is not merged with personal data sources. We reserve the right to check this data retrospectively if we become aware of specific indications of illegal use.

Our contact details

The protection of your data is particularly important to us. You can contact us at:

Austrian Frederick and Lillian Kiesler Private Foundation, Vienna
Kenyon Pavilion at Sophienpark
Apollogasse 21/Top 3
1070 Vienna, Austria
Tel: +43 1 5130775
office@kiesler.org

We are available at any time to answer your questions or receive your revocation.

Accessibility statement

The Austrian Friedrich and Lillian Kiesler Private Foundation, Vienna (Kiesler Foundation) endeavours to ensure that its website complies with the Web Accessibility Act (WZG) as amended to implement Directive (EU) 2016/2102 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 26 October 2016 on the accessibility of the websites and mobile applications of public sector bodies (Official Journal L 327 of 2 December 2016, p. 1).

This accessibility statement applies to the website kiesler.org.

Status of compliance with requirements

Due to the following incompatibilities and exceptions, this website is partially compliant with conformity level AA of the ‘Web Content Accessibility Guidelines – WCAG 2.1’ and with the applicable European standard EN 301 549 V2.1.2 (2018-08).

Non-accessible content

The content listed below is not accessible for the following reasons:

a) Incompatibility with accessibility regulations

The website contains links with identical link text that lead to different destinations. This means that WCAG success criterion 2.4.4 (link purpose in context) is not met. We plan to revise the link texts in the content of the affected web pages.

The colour contrasts of the controls in the photo carousel on the home page do not fully meet the requirements (WCAG 1.4.3. Minimum Contrast) in the desktop view and on tablets.

On some pages, the hierarchy of the header headings has not been adhered to (WCAG 2.4.10 Section Headings).

On the overview page of the foundation’s activities and the overview page of the Kiesler Prize articles, the link text is too general (WCAG 2.4.9 Link Purpose) – likewise, the contrast of the links in the tag cloud is too low (WCAG 1.4.6 Contrast).

We plan to take these requirements into account in the next development cycles in 2021.

b) The content does not fall within the scope of the applicable legislation

Some older PDF documents (press releases) are not accessible. For example, these PDF documents are not tagged, meaning that they cannot be accessed and used by screen reader users, or only to an insufficient extent. This means that WCAG success criterion 4.1.2 (name, role, value) is not met.

Third-party content, such as catalogues, studies, posters or presentation materials from external persons/organisations that are not within the Kiesler Foundation’s sphere of influence, are exempt from Directive (EU) 2016/2102. No statement can be made regarding the compatibility of this third-party content with accessibility regulations.

Preparation of this accessibility statement

This statement was prepared in December 2020.

The website’s compliance with the WZG for implementing the requirements of Directive (EU) 2016/2102 was assessed in December 2020 in the form of a self-test according to WCAG 2.0 at conformity level AA. The home page, an overview page, an activities page, the search function and the search results were checked. Individual page content is regularly checked by the web editorial team when new content is published.

Feedback and contact details

The offers and services on this website are continuously improved, replaced and expanded. Usability and accessibility are very important to us.

If you notice any barriers that prevent you from using our website – problems that are not described in this statement, deficiencies in compliance with accessibility requirements – please let us know by email.

We will review your request and contact you as soon as possible.

Please send all messages and suggestions to office@kiesler.org with the subject line ‘Reporting a barrier on the kiesler.org website’. Please describe the problem and provide the URL(s) of the affected web page or document.

Contact:
Web editorial team
Email: office@kiesler.org

Enforcement procedure

If you are not satisfied with the response you receive from the above contact, you can lodge a complaint with the Austrian Research Promotion Agency (FFG). The FFG accepts complaints electronically via the contact form.

Contact form for the complaints office

The FFG will examine the complaints to determine whether they relate to violations of the provisions of the Web Accessibility Act, in particular deficiencies in compliance with accessibility requirements, by an institution attributable to the federal government. If the complaint is justified, the FFG must issue recommendations for action to the legal entities concerned and propose measures to remedy the deficiencies.

Further information on the complaints procedure