DATA PRIVACY POLICY
The protection of your personal data is of particular concern to us. Therefore, we process your personal data only in accordance with the applicable data protection laws (GDPR, Austrian Telecommunications Act 2003). We take careful precautions to protect your data from loss, manipulation, and unauthorised access. The precautions are in accordance with the current state of technology. In this Data Privacy Policy, we inform you about the most important aspects in the context of data processing on our website.
1. Data processed
We process various categories of your personal data, which are dependent on whether you visit our website, whether you subscribe to our newsletter, whether you agree to the use of cookies and which you allow, or if you enter into a business relationship with us.
1.1 Data processed when you visit our website
You can visit our website without providing any information about yourself, and we only save the initial access data in a log. We understand initial access data to mean the date and time of access, the IP address in anonymous form (the last three digits are not displayed), the session ID, the pages accessed on our website and for how long it was accessed, the name of the website from which our website was accessed and information about the browser used. We evaluate this data to improve our website- Other data may be used to analyse your user patterns. You can also disable the storage of this data via opt-out.
1.2 Processed data with consent to cookies
If you agree to the use of cookies, note that each cookie processes different data about you (e.g. IP address, location, browser language, user behaviour, etc.). You can find more detailed information about the cookies we use under Section 8 of this Data Privacy Policy and in our Cookie Policy.
1.3 Processed data when contacting us
If you contact us by e-mail or a contact form on the website, we will log the date and time of receipt, the sender and recipient, and the subject line if it is an e-mail. The data you give us will be stored for processing of the request and in the event of follow-up questions, and transferred to the responsible department, but only within AXIS Flight Training GmbH.
1.4 Processed data for business relationship
Customers are persons purchase an AXIS product. Vendors and external service providers are persons who provide products or services to the company and invoice them accordingly. Both enter into a business relationship with AXIS. For this purpose personal data will be processed for marketing and order handling purposes. Interested parties are persons who are interested in an AXIS product and/or service and wish to be updated regularly. For this purpose personal data will be processed for marketing purposes. The consent of the customer / interested party forms the legal basis for processing personal data.
In addition, we will assign you an internal customer or supplier number. Your data will be stored as long as is necessary for the fulfilment of the contract or the performance of pre-contractual measures. If your personal data is processed by our accounting system, as in the case of a contract being concluded, it will be stored until the end of the prescribed period under the statutory obligations of retention. Per applicable tax regulations this period is 7 years. For the purposes of product liability, we store selected data (name, address, goods and date) for 10 years.
1.5 Data processing when applying for a job
Applicants are all persons who apply for a vacant position in the company or by means of an unsolicited application. By submitting your application to us, you agree that the data collected as part of the application and the data contained in the documents sent with the application, as well as data obtained in the course of any interview (hereinafter collectively referred to as “data”) may be stored by AXIS in an applicant database for the purpose of coordinating and processing the application.
2. Period of retention
In principle, we only store your data for as long as it is needed. By default, your data is stored as long as specified in the respective sections. In individual cases, however, a shorter or longer retention period may apply, e.g. due to legal obligations that AXIS must comply with.
3. Purpose of processing
We process the data collected from you primarily for the purpose of contract fulfilment or to carry out pre-contractual procedures. Furthermore, we are subject to statutory obligations to process data, e.g. for reasons of applicable tax and commercial law provisions, as well as anti-corruption and anti-money laundering regulations. We process data, such as your name and e-mail address, that you have voluntarily made available to us, on the basis of your consent or our legitimate interest for the purpose of customer service, for our own advertising purposes, such as sending out promotional offers, advertising brochures and newsletters (in paper and electronic form), as well as for the purpose of referring to an existing or previous business relationship with the customer (reference notice). Such data processing takes place on the basis of the applicable statutory provisions as well as on the basis of your consent and for the purpose of fulfilling the contract.
4. Our principles in connection with the processing of your personal data
It is important to us that we comply fully with all statutory data protection regulations. Your personal data is processed on the basis of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and the national laws derived from it. Your personal data is secure with us. Your data will not be sold, loaned or rented by us or transferred to third parties in any manner or form, without your express consent. In certain cases, however, your personal data will be transferred to contract data processors, if they provide sufficient guarantee of lawful and secure use of data and if they are contractually obligated to comply with the principles described in this Data Privacy Policy and statutory regulations. We reserve the right to transfer your personal data to another company as part of business restructuring or company mergers, provided that this company undertakes to comply with our principles in connection with the processing of personal data and has its registered office either within the European Union or in a third country with appropriate data protection. We also reserve the right to transfer your personal data to third parties if we are required to do so by law, by a final judgement of the relevant court or by an order of the relevant authority. We also reserve the right to transfer your personal data if, as a result of acts or omissions on your part, we are forced to protect or have our rights, property or assets protected by the relevant authorities. We limit our data processing to a necessary and reasonable extent. We also explain to you the purpose for we collect and process your data. If your personal data is no longer required for use, it will be deleted.
5. Analysis tools and advertising
5.1 Google Tag Manager
We use the Google Tag Manager. The provider Google Inc. (1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA; “Google”)
The Google Tag Manager is a tool that allows us to integrate tracking or statistical tools and other technologies on our website. The Google Tag Manager itself does not create any user profiles, does not store cookies, and does not carry out any independent analyses. It only manages and runs the tools integrated via it. However, the Google Tag Manager does collect your IP address, which may also be transferred to Google’s parent company in the United States.
The Google Tag Manager is used on the basis of GDPR. The website operator has a legitimate interest in the quick and uncomplicated integration and administration of various tools on his website.
You can object at any time to the collection and storage of data for Google with effect for the future by installing a browser plugin by Google (https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=de).
5.2 Google Analytics
This website uses Google Analytics, a web analytics service of Google Inc. (1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA; “Google”).
Google Analytics uses cookies that make it possible to analyse your usage of our website. The information generated by cookies about your use of this website is transferred to a Google server and stored there. We use Google Analytics with the extension “’anonymize_ip’: true” in order to ensure that IP addresses transmitted to Google are processed in abbreviated form so as to exclude any personal identification.
Google uses this information to analyse your use of the website, compile reports about website activity for the website operator and provide further services associated with the use of the website and the Internet. Google may also transmit this information to third parties if this is required by law or in case third parties process this data on behalf of Google. Google will never associate your IP address with other data of Google. You can prevent the installation of cookies for Google Analytics by configuring your browser software. However, please note that you may then not be able to use all features of our website to the fullest extent.
You can object at any time to the collection and storage of data for Google Analytics with effect for the future by installing a browser plugin by Google (https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=de).
Further information about Google Analytics can be found here: (http://www.google.com/intl/de/analytics/learn/privacy.html).
5.3 Google Ads
The website operator uses Google Ads. Google Ads is an online promotional program of Google Inc. (1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA; “Google”).
Google Ads enables us to display ads in the Google search engine or on third-party websites, if the user enters certain search terms into Google (keyword targeting). It is also possible to place targeted ads based on the user data Google has in its possession (e.g., location data and interests; target group targeting). As the website operator, we can analyze these data quantitatively, for instance by analyzing which search terms resulted in the display of our ads and how many ads led to respective clicks.
Data transmission to the US is based on the Standard Contractual Clauses (SCC) of the European Commission. Details can be found here: https://policies.google.com/privacy/frameworks and https://privacy.google.com/businesses/controllerterms/mccs/.
You can object at any time to the collection and storage of data for Google Ads with effect for the future by installing a browser plugin by Google (https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=de).
5.4 Google Ads Remarketing
This website uses the functions of Google Ads Remarketing. The provider of these solutions is Google Inc. (1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA; “Google”).
With Google Ads Remarketing, we can assign people who interact with our online offering to specific target groups in order to subsequently display interest-based advertising to them in the Google advertising network (remarketing or retargeting).
Moreover, it is possible to link the advertising target groups generated with Google Ads Remarketing to device encompassing functions of Google. This makes it possible to display interest-based customized advertising messages, depending on your prior usage and browsing patterns on a device (e.g., cell phone) in a manner tailored to you as well as on any of your devices (e.g., tablet or PC).
If you have a Google account, you have the option to object to personalized advertising under the following link: https://www.google.com/settings/ads/onweb/.
For further information and the pertinent data protection regulations, please consult the Data Privacy Policies of Google at: https://policies.google.com/technologies/ads?hl=en.
Formation of Target Groups with Customer Reconciliation
For the formation of target groups, we use, among other things, the Google Ads Remarketing customer reconciliation feature. To achieve this, we transfer certain customer data (e.g., email addresses) from our customer lists to Google. If the respective customers are Google users and are logged into their Google accounts, matching advertising messages within the Google network (e.g., YouTube, Gmail or in a search engine) are displayed for them to view.
You can object at any time to the collection and storage of data for Google Ads Remarketing with effect for the future by installing a browser plugin by Google (https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=de).
5.5 LinkedIn Insight Tag
This website uses the LinkedIn Insight Tag, a web analysis service of LinkedIn Ireland Unlimited Company (hereinafter referred to as "LinkedIn"), Wilton Place, Dublin 2, Ireland, on the legal basis of pursuing our overriding legitimate interests (website usage analysis) pursuant to the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).
When visiting our website, software establishes a connection and transmits data to LinkedIn servers, some of which are located in the USA. The LinkedIn Insight Tag also uses cookies to store information about website users and to analyze visitors' use of the website.
According to LinkedIn, the data collected will be used by LinkedIn to evaluate the use of the website, to compile reports on website activity and to provide other services relating to the use of the website and the internet. Furthermore, this information allows us to display relevant offers and recommendations tailored to your interests after you have consulted our website.
LinkedIn may also transfer this information to third parties to the extent that this is required by law or in the case that third parties process this data on behalf of LinkedIn.
Please refer to LinkedIn's privacy policy for further information on the collection and use of data and on your options and rights with respect to the protection of your privacy. Once you have logged in to LinkedIn, you can disable the collection of data at any time. LinkedIn is certified under the Privacy Shield agreement and thus guarantees compliance with European data protection law.
Disabling the LinkedIn Insight Tag
You can disable the collection of your user data on our website by activating the option "do not track" in your web browser. Our website recognizes the "do not track" signal that your web browser then transmits to all websites.
Alternatively, if you wish to disable the use of the LinkedIn Insight Tag only, please click on the following link - an opt-out cookie will be set to prevent the collection of your data when visiting this website in the future: https://www.linkedin.com/psettings/guest-controls/retargeting-opt-out.
6. Youtube
Videos may also be embedded in our web presence, which are provided by the platform “YouTube”, represented by Google Inc. (1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA; “Google”).
Usually, your IP address is already sent to YouTube and cookies are installed on your computer when you access a page with embedded videos. However, we have embedded our YouTube videos with the enhanced data protection mode (in this case YouTube still contacts the service DoubleClick by Google, but personal data is not collected according to the data privacy statement of Google). YouTube does not store information about users unless users actually watch the video. When you click on the video, your IP address is transmitted to YouTube and YouTube learns that you have seen the video. If you are logged in to YouTube, this information will be associated with your user account (you can prevent this by logging out of YouTube prior to accessing the video on YouTube). We have no knowledge and cannot exert any influence on the potential collection and usage of your data by YouTube. Further information about Google’s data privacy statement is available at: https://www.google.com/policies/privacy/. We also refer to our general statement in this data privacy declaration with respect to general processing and deactivation of cookies.
7. Online presence in social media besides Facebook and YouTube
We maintain an online presence within social networks and platforms in order to be able to communicate with active users, interested parties and customers. When calling up these networks and platforms, the terms and conditions and data processing regulations of the respective operators apply. Unless otherwise stated within the context of our data privacy statement, we process the data of users when they communicate with us through social networks and platforms.
8. Cookies
Our website uses cookies to collect personal data, as well as standard internet log data and information on the behavioural patterns of users when visiting our website. When visiting our website you can first choose your cookie settings. You can decide which categories of cookies you allow. We collect different data from you depending on which cookies you allow. This is performed in order to offer you a better user experience, recognise preferences, diagnose technical problems, analyse trends, and make product recommendations matched to your interests. In addition, most browsers let you select whether you wish to allow cookies or not. If you do not want cookies to be stored on your computer, please set your browser preferences before accessing our website so that all cookies are rejected. Please note that this may mean that some functions of our website are not available. Further information on how to check which cookies have been stored and how to manage and delete them can be found under www.allaboutcookies.org. Cookies are text files that websites store on your computer or other terminal device for the purpose of logging and improving functionality. Most cookies are “session cookies” which are deleted from your device after the browser session has ended. Other cookies remain stored on your device and enable us to recognise your device on your next visit (referred to as long-term cookies). We also use third-party cookies on our website. You can read more about which cookies we use and which data they store in our Cookie Policy.
9. Rights
Pursuant to the General Data Protection Regulation, you can contact us free of charge if you have any questions regarding the collection, processing or use of your personal data, or if you wish to rectify, block, delete or object to such data or revoke your consent (the contact details are provided above). Please note that you have the right to have inaccurate data rectified, personal data deleted or data processing restricted if this is not in conflict with statutory storage obligations. You also have the right to appeal to the Austrian Data Protection Authority.
10. Contact information
AXIS Flight Training Systems GmbH
Philipsstrasse 27
8403 Lebring
Austria
office@axis-simulation.com
11. Changes or addenda
Should individual or multiple provisions of this Data Privacy Policy be or become invalid, the validity of the remaining provisions of this Data Privacy Policy remains unaffected.
We reserve the right to modify this Data Privacy Policy within the scope of legal possibility without warning or notification. The current version can be viewed at any time at our website.
