Privacy Policy of the Website
With this privacy policy we would like to inform our visitors what data we store and how we use your data on this website mickbitsoftware.com.
Visiting our website
If you visit this website, your browser / your computer will send a request to a server which then will deliver the requested web page back to you. For the server to know where it should send the web page to, it needs to know your IP address. The internet wouldn’t work without IP addresses.
Therefore, your IP address will be transmitted to the servers our website mickbitsoftware.com is running on.
The web application is a WordPress-based website hosted on servers of our hosting provider World4You.
It has to be distinguished between us, the publisher of the website mickbitsoftware.com, and the hosting provider World4You, who provides the technical services and infrastructure (servers etc.) for publishing and delivering the website to you, the user. World4You is data processor according to GDPR.
Our hosting provider World4You is based in Linz, Austria and complies with the regulations of GDPR (DSVGO). Servers are located in Linz, Austria.
We, as publishers of mickbitsoftware.com, do not process or store any personal data about our page visitors after request has beed handled by the server. Our hosting provider, however, may save log files which contain the IP addresses of the clients making requests to their servers, the date of access and more related data, as described in World4You’s privacy policy.
All communication with our hosting provider’s servers is secured (encrypted) with SSL (https), which means that messages from and to the servers cannot be listened to or manipulated by an unauthorized 3rd party by current security standards.
Cookies
Cookies are text files that are stored on the visitor’s computer. This can contain information which enables a web server to recognize a user and to save settings. A cookie is bound to a specific domain (in this case: mickbitsoftware.com), the information can only be read from this domain again at a later time.
The only cookie we use on mickbitsoftware.com is a cookie to save your language preferences for our website (English or German). The cookie is stored locally on your computer only and sent to the web server with each request. The language cookie is required for the website to work properly and thus cannot be deactivated. The language cookie is set by polylang, a WordPress plugin for multilingual websites. The cookie’s name is “pll_language” and has the value “en” or “de”, depending on the selected language.
You may delete the cookies stored by your browser at any time. Every common browser provides this functionality in its browser settings.
Note: we do not show Cookie banners because the only cookie we are using is not a tracking cookie, but is required by the website to function properly.
You can contact us anytime via . Of course, if you send us an email, we will receive your email address. Our email server is located in Linz, Austria and hosted by World4You. After we have successfully processed your request(s) you sent us via email, we will delete your emails within one month. We will not use your email address to sent you promotional or other unwanted messages and we will not hand out your email address to unauthorized third parties.
What we are NOT using
To protect the privacy of our page visitors as much as possible, we do not use (Google) Analytics and we do not display ads from ad networks on our website. So there are no cookies from these kinds of services. We do not load fonts from Google Fonts. Instead, we are hosting the fonts ourselves. You cannot log in to or upload or send content via our website. So there are no cookies or other data stored or processed related to these operations. We do not embed content from other websites, such as videos. So there is no content loaded from other domains without your knowledge. We do not integrate active share or like buttons from social networks such as Facebook or Twitter. So there are no requests made to social networks without your explicit interaction. However, there are static links to social networks which bring you to their pages when you click them. In this case you are actively clicking the link which means that you deliberately decided to visit the linked page.
Links to external websites
On our website, we link to external websites from third parties, for example to Google Play. We are not responsible for the content and privacy on these external sites, so please check the privacy policies of these third party websites in case you visit them.
Your rights
According to the GDPR you have the right to:
- information about the processing of your personal data;
- obtain access to the personal data held about you;
- ask for incorrect, inaccurate or incomplete personal data to be corrected;
- request that personal data be erased when it’s no longer needed or if processing it is unlawful;
- object to the processing of your personal data for marketing purposes or on grounds relating to your particular situation;
- request the restriction of the processing of your personal data in specific cases;
- receive your personal data in a machine-readable format and send it to another controller (‘data portability’);
- request that decisions based on automated processing concerning you or significantly affecting you and based on your personal data are made by natural persons, not only by computers. You also have the right in this case to express your point of view and to contest the decision.
If you believe that the processing of your data violates data protection law or that your data protection claims have been violated in any other way, you can complain to the supervisory authority.
Please find more information on your rights and the GDPR in general on the website of the European Commission, section Data Protection.
Apps
The above privacy policy is valid for our website. The mobile apps and other standalone applications we offer, provide their own privacy policies. These privacy policies can be reviewed on first start of the app. For being able to use the app, the privacy policy has to be accepted on first start of the app. All functions transmitting data across the internet are deactivated on first start so the privacy policy can be read before any data is sent.
Contact
Publisher of this Website / responsible for data processing:
Michael Brodacz-Geier
Address: Radegunder Strasse 6a/18, 8045 Graz, Austria
