Data privacy

ver­ti­cal farm insti­tute GmbH takes the pro­tec­tion of your per­son­al data very seri­ous­ly. We treat your per­son­al data con­fi­den­tial­ly and in accor­dance with the pro­vi­sions of data pro­tec­tion law.
This data pro­tec­tion dec­la­ra­tion is intend­ed to inform the users of this web­site in accor­dance with the Data Pro­tec­tion Reg­u­la­tion (DSGVO) and the Fed­er­al Data Pro­tec­tion Act (BDSG) about the nature, scope and pur­pose of the col­lec­tion and use of per­son­al data by us as the web­site oper­a­tor during

• the use of the website,
• the estab­lish­ment of con­tact with us,
• the estab­lish­ment of a client rela­tion­ship with us,
• the par­tic­i­pa­tion as a third par­ty or oppos­ing par­ty in a man­date or
• a job appli­ca­tion with us.

Responsible person

Respon­si­ble per­son in the sense of data pro­tec­tion law:

ver­ti­cal farm insti­tute GmbH
Döb­ler­gasse 2/17, 1070 Wien
office@verticalfarminsititute.com
www.verticalfarminstitute.com

Data pro­cess­ing to enable the use of our website

When you vis­it our web­site, we col­lect per­son­al data to enable you to use it (usage data). This includes your IP address and data about the begin­ning, end and sub­ject of your use of the web­site. This also includes the tech­ni­cal data trans­mit­ted by your brows­er, such as brows­er type / brows­er ver­sion, the web­site pre­vi­ous­ly vis­it­ed (refer­rer URL), mon­i­tor res­o­lu­tion, oper­at­ing sys­tem, device infor­ma­tion (e.g. device type), etc., if applic­a­ble. We process this usage data in our legit­i­mate inter­est (Art. 6 para. 1 p. 1 lit. f DSGVO) for the pur­pose of pro­vid­ing this web­site and design­ing it to meet our needs.

Cookies and web analysis

When vis­it­ing our web­site, infor­ma­tion may be stored on your ter­mi­nal device in the form of cook­ies. A cook­ie is a small text file that is sent to your brows­er by a web serv­er and stored on your ter­mi­nal device. When you next vis­it our web­site, cook­ie data will again be trans­mit­ted to our web serv­er. In this way, we can recog­nise you, for exam­ple, and take your indi­vid­ual set­tings into account when dis­play­ing the web­site. There are cook­ies that are absolute­ly nec­es­sary to guar­an­tee the tech­ni­cal func­tion­al­i­ty of the web­site. The legal basis for the use of tech­ni­cal­ly nec­es­sary cook­ies is our legit­i­mate inter­est in pro­vid­ing our web­site in accor­dance with Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f DSGVO.

Oth­er cook­ies may be used in the con­text of web ana­lyt­ics. They can be com­bined with fur­ther infor­ma­tion about your activ­i­ties on our web­site and are processed in pseu­do­ny­mous usage pro­files. This helps us to analyse infor­ma­tion about web traf­fic and to improve our web­site in order to adapt it to the needs of users. We use this infor­ma­tion for sta­tis­ti­cal analy­sis only. The legal basis for the use of oth­er cook­ies and web ana­lyt­ics is your con­sent in accor­dance with Art. 6 para. 1 lit. a DSGVO. Your con­sent also cov­ers any data trans­fers to the USA that may be asso­ci­at­ed with the use of cook­ies (see also Clause 14).

We dis­play a ded­i­cat­ed ban­ner in which we indi­cate the use of cook­ies. Only if you agree to the set­ting of all cook­ies used by us, we set non-essen­tial cook­ies. Before you give your con­sent, only tech­ni­cal­ly nec­es­sary cook­ies are set.

In addi­tion to our cook­ie ban­ner, you can lim­it the con­tent of your con­sent to the set­ting of cook­ies entire­ly or in part by con­fig­ur­ing your brows­er set­tings accord­ing­ly and deac­ti­vat­ing the set­ting of cook­ies either entire­ly or in part. Addi­tion­al­ly, you may install a pri­va­cy pro­tec­tion plu­g­in in your brows­er that offers the option to pre­vent web ana­lyt­ics - e.g., AdBlock, Ghostery or NoScript (please refer to the pri­va­cy notices of the respec­tive plu­g­in provider). Some web ana­lyt­ics providers are also mem­bers of indus­try asso­ci­a­tions whose web­sites allow you to cen­tral­ly pre­vent usage-based online adver­tis­ing and web ana­lyt­ics by their respec­tive mem­bers. Below you will find the web­sites of these asso­ci­a­tions for con­ve­nient cross-provider web ana­lyt­ics pre­ven­tion. In this way, you can also pre­vent the cre­ation of pseu­do­ny­mous usage profiles.

• “Euro­pean Inter­ac­tive Dig­i­tal Adver­tis­ing Alliance” (EDAA): http://www.youronlinechoices.com/de/praferenzmanagement/
• “Dig­i­tal Adver­tis­ing Alliance“ (DAA): aboutads.info/choices/
• “Net­work Adver­tis­ing Ini­tia­tive“ (NAI): http://optout.networkadvertising.org/?c=1

If you do not declare your con­sent to the use of cook­ies or delete cook­ies from your ter­mi­nal device, this may affect your abil­i­ty to use the web­site or indi­vid­ual func­tion­al­i­ties. For detailed infor­ma­tion on the indi­vid­ual cook­ies used on our web­site, please refer to the pri­va­cy settings.

Google Analytics

This web­site uses Google Ana­lyt­ics, a web ana­lyt­ics ser­vice pro­vid­ed by Google LLC, 1600 Amphithe­atre Park­way, Moun­tain View, CA 94043, USA („Google“), if you have giv­en us your con­sent to do so through the cook­ie ban­ner. Google Ana­lyt­ics uses cook­ies (see Clause 3) to enable an analy­sis of your use of the web­site. The infor­ma­tion gen­er­at­ed by the cook­ie about your use of this web­site is usu­al­ly trans­mit­ted to a Google serv­er in the USA and stored there. Your IP address will, how­ev­er, be short­ened before­hand by Google with­in mem­ber states of the Euro­pean Union or in oth­er con­tract­ing states to the Agree­ment on the Euro­pean Eco­nom­ic Area and thus anonymised. Only in excep­tion­al cas­es will the full IP address be trans­ferred to a Google serv­er in the USA and short­ened there (see also Sec­tion 14 on data trans­fers to the USA). On behalf of the oper­a­tor of this web­site, Google will use this infor­ma­tion for the pur­pose of eval­u­at­ing your use of the web­site, com­pil­ing reports on web­site activ­i­ty and pro­vid­ing oth­er ser­vices relat­ing to web­site activ­i­ty and inter­net usage to the web­site oper­a­tor. The IP address trans­mit­ted by your brows­er as part of Google Ana­lyt­ics will not be linked to any oth­er data held by Google. For the pre­ven­tion of pro­cess­ing by Google, see also Clause 3, in par­tic­u­lar the infor­ma­tion in the table. Alter­na­tive­ly, you can revoke your con­sent by click­ing on the “Revoke Google Ana­lyt­ics” but­ton. In this case, we set a tech­ni­cal­ly nec­es­sary cook­ie that recog­nis­es your revo­ca­tion of con­sent when you vis­it our website.

Embedded Vimeo videos

Our web­site con­tains embed­ded videos from the stream­ing ser­vice Vimeo. This ser­vice is oper­at­ed exclu­sive­ly by third-par­ty providers. When you play videos, infor­ma­tion may be trans­mit­ted to these providers. For the play­back of videos, we use the so-called „two-click solu­tion“. This means that when you vis­it our web­site, we do not pass on any per­son­al data. Only when you watch embed­ded videos will data be trans­mit­ted to the respec­tive provider. For infor­ma­tion on the pur­pose and scope of the data col­lec­tion and the fur­ther pro­cess­ing and use of the data by the provider, as well as your rights in this regard and set­ting options for pro­tect­ing your pri­va­cy, please refer to the data pro­tec­tion infor­ma­tion of the respec­tive provider. This infor­ma­tion is avail­able here:

Vimeo, Inc., 555 West 18th Street, New York, New York 10011, USA
https://vimeo.com/privacy

Handling contact data

If you con­tact the web­site oper­a­tor using the con­tact options pro­vid­ed, your details will be stored so that they can be used to process and address your enquiry. If you have a con­trac­tu­al rela­tion­ship with us or are inter­est­ed in our ser­vices, the legal basis for the pro­cess­ing is Art. 6 para. 1 lit. b DSGVO. Oth­er­wise, the legal basis of the pro­cess­ing is our legit­i­mate inter­est in pro­vid­ing means of con­tact with­in the scope of our busi­ness oper­a­tions (Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f DSGVO).

Regular contact in the course of business

In the case of spon­ta­neous busi­ness con­tact data exchanges, includ­ing at events, busi­ness lunch­es or oth­er offi­cial activ­i­ties, e.g. by exchang­ing busi­ness cards, we process your con­tact data (name, address, e-mail or tele­phone num­ber), data about your com­pa­ny (address, field of busi­ness, job descrip­tion, title), data about your input/enquiry (con­tent, time of enquiry, means of com­mu­ni­ca­tion) in order to re-estab­lish con­tact with you and process your enquiry. The legal basis for this is Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f DSGVO.

Data processing upon the establishment of a client relationship

In the event of a man­date being grant­ed, we col­lect and process the fol­low­ing data: Title, first name and sur­name, e-mail address, address, telephone/mobile phone num­ber, infor­ma­tion nec­es­sary for the asser­tion and defence of the client with­in the scope of the man­date or for counselling.

We require these data so that we can iden­ti­fy you as our client, pro­vide you with appro­pri­ate legal advice and rep­re­sen­ta­tion, com­mu­ni­cate with you, for billing pur­pos­es, and so that we can han­dle any lia­bil­i­ty claims that may exist and the asser­tion of any claims against the client.

The data pro­cess­ing is per­formed in response to your request and is required in accor­dance with Art. 6 para. 1 sen­tence 1 lit. b DSGVO for the afore­men­tioned pur­pos­es for the appro­pri­ate pro­cess­ing of the man­date and for the mutu­al ful­fil­ment and com­mit­ment aris­ing from the man­date agree­ment. The col­lec­tion of the data is also a pre­req­ui­site for the accep­tance of the mandate.

The per­son­al data col­lect­ed will be stored until the expiry of the statu­to­ry reten­tion oblig­a­tion for lawyers (6 years after the end of the cal­en­dar year in which the man­date was ter­mi­nat­ed) and then delet­ed, unless ver­ti­cal farm insti­tute is oblig­ed to store the data for a longer peri­od of time pur­suant to Art. 6 para. 1 sen­tence c DSGVO on the basis of tax and com­mer­cial law or pro­fes­sion­al oblig­a­tions to retain and doc­u­ment data (from the Ger­man Com­mer­cial Code (HGB), the Ger­man Crim­i­nal Code (StGB), the Ger­man Tax Code (AO) or the Ger­man Fed­er­al Lawyers‘ Act (BRAO)) or the client has con­sent­ed to fur­ther stor­age pur­suant to Art. 6 para. 1 sen­tence 1 lit a DSGVO.

The above infor­ma­tion does not con­sti­tute an oblig­a­tion to retain information.

Beyond this, we also process data of per­sons with whom there is no (direct) client rela­tion­ship, inso­far as this is nec­es­sary for the ini­ti­a­tion or imple­men­ta­tion of client rela­tion­ships. This means that we can process your data if you are a rep­re­sen­ta­tive, a con­tact per­son or an employ­ee of a com­pa­ny that is our client. In this case, the legal basis is our legit­i­mate inter­est in the ini­ti­a­tion or imple­men­ta­tion of the respec­tive client rela­tion­ship (Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f DSGVO).

Protection of the website

In order to pre­vent unau­tho­rised access to your data by third par­ties, we fol­low the lat­est tech­ni­cal and organ­i­sa­tion­al prac­tices. For this rea­son, we also use SSL encryp­tion for our web­site in all areas to ensure the best pos­si­ble data secu­ri­ty. We express­ly advise you that data trans­mis­sion on the Inter­net (e.g. com­mu­ni­ca­tion by e-mail) may be sub­ject to secu­ri­ty gaps. There is no com­plete pro­tec­tion against access to data.

Duration of storage

We delete your per­son­al data as soon as they are no longer required for the afore­men­tioned pro­cess­ing purposes.

Your Rights

As a data sub­ject, you have the right to obtain con­fir­ma­tion as to whether per­son­al data relat­ing to you is being processed by us and, if so, the right to obtain infor­ma­tion about that per­son­al data (Art. 15 DSGVO), the right to have your inac­cu­rate data cor­rect­ed (Art. 16 DSGVO), the right to have your data delet­ed (Art. 17 DSGVO) and the right to have your data restrict­ed (blocked) (Art. 18 DSGVO).

You may also object to pro­cess­ing on the basis of Arti­cle 6 para. 1 lit. e or f DSGVO (Arti­cle 21 DSGVO), in which case you must pro­vide a spe­cif­ic rea­son, except in the case of direct marketing.

If you have pro­vid­ed your data, you can request the trans­fer of the data (Art. 20 DSGVO). Whether and to what extent these rights exist in indi­vid­ual cas­es and under what con­di­tions they apply is spec­i­fied by law in the des­ig­nat­ed stan­dards. If the pro­cess­ing is based on con­sent with­in the mean­ing of Art. 6 para. 1 lit. a DSGVO, you may revoke this con­sent at any time for the future (Art. 7 para. 3 DSGVO). In addi­tion, you have the right to con­tact the com­pe­tent data pro­tec­tion super­vi­so­ry author­i­ty (Art. 77 DSGVO).

Cur­rent ver­sion: April 2022