Data Protection & Law

Here you will find the legal foundations for running a website in Austria and the EU – from GDPR and cookie consent to the duty to publish a legal notice and current developments such as the EU AI Act. Explained in practical terms as information: the legal assessment of your individual case stays with your legal advisers.

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AI Tools & Data Protection (e.g. ChatGPT at Work) AI tools such as ChatGPT are fully subject to the GDPR when a company uses them: entering or processing personal data …

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Honeypot (Spam Protection Without Captcha) A honeypot is a form field that is invisible to people but reachable for automated form bots; if it is filled in, that …

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IP Anonymisation IP anonymisation refers to techniques that truncate or replace IP addresses in analytics and log data before they are …

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Joint Controllership for Tracking Pixels (Meta, Google Ads) Joint controllership under Article 26 GDPR applies where several parties jointly determine the purposes and means of a …

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Legal Notice Requirement (Impressum) The legal notice requirement (Impressum) obliges website operators with a commercial offering to make certain mandatory …

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NIS2 Directive The NIS2 Directive is an EU cybersecurity rulebook succeeding the original NIS Directive, extending mandatory risk …

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Withdrawal button (online withdrawal function) The withdrawal button is a legally required function that lets consumers withdraw from a contract concluded online …