Privacy Policy

Data protection policy

Thank you for considering HPS and our training courses. We are committed to protecting your personal rights and to treating any personal information with the utmost care and confidentiality, as we do in our training courses. We handle and store any personal information gathered when you visit our websites in accordance with the current statutory provisions pertaining to the protection of personal data under the applicable General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).

How we use your personal information

When you view our website, our web servers store standard technical data such as the computer’s IP address that requested the data, any objects accessed or downloaded from our website, as well as the date and time of the request. However, such data does not make a specific person identifiable. We will only store any of your personal information if this is absolutely necessary for the purpose you determined and if you yourself entered this information, for example if you subscribe to our newsletter, fill in a form or register for one of our training courses.

We will transfer the information provided by you only to our associated partner companies (in Austria) MD Holding GmbH (En GardE Verhandlungstraining GmbH, Intomedia Medientraining GmbH, fifty1 GmbH, sonicboom GmbH.) (in Germany) Vogt Training Group GmbH (HPS Deutschland GmbH, Engarde Deutschland GmbH, REEVE GmbH) but never to any other third parties. Your information will of course neither be sold to commercial data users nor made available to them for their use.

If you have any questions about data processing, your rights or the data protection declaration, our data protection officer for Germany, Carolin Vogt, will be happy to assist you. You can reach her at: carolin.vogt@hps-training.de. Peter Hinterhölzl and Schien Ninan are responsible for data processing in Austria - you can reach them at: headoffice@hps-training.com.

How you can modify and erase personal information

You may at any time ask us in writing to be informed about whether we have stored any of your personal information and if yes, which of it has been stored.You can also object to the use of your data. If you wish to do so, please email us to headoffice@hps-training.com.

Cookies

We use cookies on our website to make our site easier and more effective to use and safer. Cookies are small text files that are stored on your computer and in your browser. Most of the cookies we use are so-called "session cookies". They are automatically deleted after the end of your visit. Cookies do not cause any damage to your computer and do not contain viruses.

Data security

We guarantee to protect your personal information with state-of-the-art programs in order to prevent unauthorised access, manipulation or loss by other parties. Our network administrator regularly checks that your information is secure. However, we cannot accept any liability for hacker attacks or viruses running on programs for which no protection is available yet.

Web analytics

Our website uses some features of Google Analytics. To this end, cookies are used that allow the analysis of users’ use of our website. The information collected will be transferred to the provider’s servers and stored there. If you do not agree to our use of information in this way, you can set your browser settings to block cookies.
Google Analytics Opt-out: https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=de

We have concluded an agreement with the data analytics provider. Your IP address will be collected but immediately pseudonymised, allowing only a very rough tracking of users’ locations. Our relationship to the data analytics provider is in accordance with the EU-US Privacy Shield Framework’s requirements.

This site uses Matomo, https://matomo.org/.

Data processing is based on the statutory provisions under Section 96 para. 3 of the Austrian Telecommunications Act (TKG) as well as on Article 6(1)(a) to (f) of GDPR. Our legitimate interest, in accordance with the GDPR, is to improve our services and our web presence.

Contact form

You can contact us using the contact form on the website.
We store the data you provide there, such as title, first and last name, e-mail address, telephone number, company name and the message.

This data is processed on the basis of Art 6 (1) lit b DSGVO for the fulfilment of the contract.

Know-how-letter

You may subscribe to our newsletter via our website. For this purpose, we need your e-mail address, title, first name and surname as well as your declaration that you agree to receive the Know-how-letter. You may unsubscribe from our newsletter at any time. If you wish to unsubscribe, please click "unsubscribe" in the Know-how-letter, or email us to headoffice@hps-training.com. We will then immediately erase any data stored in connection with sending newsletters.

Your rights

You are always entitled to the following rights: right of access, right to rectification, right to erasure, right to restriction of processing, right to data portability, right to withdraw consent and right to object.
If you have any queries, please contact us as follows:
HPS Hierhold Presentation Services GmbH, Mariahilfer Straße 34, A-1070 Wien, Tel.: +43-1-522 40 50-0, headoffice@hps-training.com