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, but no substitute for legal advice in an individual case.

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CMP (Consent Management Platform) A consent management platform (CMP) is a software solution that asks website visitors for consent before non-essential …
Cookie Banner A cookie banner is the notice that informs website visitors about the cookies in use when they first arrive and asks …

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Data Processing Agreement (AVV) A data processing agreement (Auftragsverarbeitungsvertrag, AVV) is a contract required by the GDPR between a company …

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EU Hosting (Data Residency) EU hosting means operating servers and storing data within the European Union or the European Economic Area, in order …

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IP Anonymisation IP anonymisation is the truncation or encryption of IP addresses in analytics and log data, so that individual website …

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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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Privacy Policy A privacy policy is a text required under the GDPR that tells website visitors in plain language which personal data is …

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Right to Erasure The right to erasure (the "right to be forgotten", Article 17 GDPR) allows individuals to request, under certain …

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