PRIVACY POLICY

STOP • WAITING

Last updated: August 2026

Who We Are

The controller responsible for processing personal data through this website is:

Controller: Trendguide KG – Kurt F. Gassner

Address: Neugasse 8, A-6365 Kirchberg in Tirol, Austria

Email: gassner@stopwaiting.world.

Phone: +43 676 84 18 36 10

Data Protection Officer:

No separate Data Protection Officer has been formally appointed; please contact the controller directly using the details above.

Purposes and Legal Bases

We process personal data only where there is an appropriate legal basis.

Website operation and security

We may process technical data to deliver the website, maintain stability, detect abuse and protect our systems.

Legal basis: our legitimate interests in providing a secure and functional website, and where applicable performance of a service requested by the user.

Contact enquiries

Where you contact us, we process the information you provide in order to respond.

Legal basis: steps taken at your request, performance of a contract where relevant, or our legitimate interest in answering communications.

Newsletter or marketing communications

Where we offer a newsletter, we process your email address and related subscription information only where an appropriate legal basis exists, normally your consent. You may withdraw consent at any time.

Analytics

If analytics technologies that require consent are used, they will operate only after the relevant consent has been given. Legal basis: consent.

Embedded media and third-party services

Where services such as YouTube, Vimeo, Instagram, Facebook, Spotify or similar platforms are embedded, information may be transmitted to those providers when the service is activated. Where legally required, these services will be blocked until consent is given.

Scope of this Privacy Policy

This Privacy Policy explains how we collect and process personal data when you:

visit the STOP • WAITING website;
contact us;
submit information through a website form;
subscribe to communications, if available;
interact with embedded videos, social media or other third-party services;
use website functions that process personal information.

Cookies and Similar Technologies

We use cookies and similar technologies as described in our separate Cookie Policy.

Strictly necessary technologies may operate without consent where they are genuinely required for the service requested by the user.

Analytics, advertising and similar tracking technologies requiring consent will not be activated before consent is obtained.

Hosting

Hosting provider: United-domain.de

Provider address/country:Neugasse 8, A-6365 Kirchberg in Tirol, Austria.

The hosting provider may process technical information necessary to operate and secure the website. Where required, appropriate data-processing agreements are maintained.

Third-Party Services

Depending on the final website configuration, we may use services including:

Google Analytics
YouTube
Instagram / Facebook
Brevo
locally hosted fonts
Contact form provider

This section must be adapted to the actual services installed on the STOP • WAITING website.

Data We May Process

Depending on how you use the website, we may process:

Technical and access data

IP address, browser type, device information, operating system, date and time of access, pages requested, referring website, server log information.

Contact information

name, email address,
information included in your message.

Newsletter information, if offered

email address, name (if requested), subscription status, consent records, interaction with newsletters where permitted.

Cookie and preference information

cookie consent status, analytics identifiers, language or preference information, information generated by permitted analytics or embedded services.

International Data Transfers

Some technology providers may process data outside the European Economic Area.

Where personal data is transferred outside the EEA, we will rely on an appropriate transfer mechanism where required, such as:

an adequacy decision;
EU Standard Contractual Clauses;
another legally recognised safeguard.

Retention

We retain personal data only for as long as necessary for the relevant purpose or as required by law.

Typical periods may include:

server logs: 7–30 days, confirm with host;
contact correspondence: for as long as reasonably needed to deal with the enquiry and any resulting relationship;
newsletter data: until consent is withdrawn or subscription is terminated, subject to necessary suppression records;
consent records: for as long as reasonably necessary to demonstrate compliance;
contractual or accounting information: for applicable statutory retention periods.

Actual periods should be aligned with the website’s technical configuration and business processes.

Your Rights

Subject to the conditions of the GDPR, you may have the right to:

obtain information about the processing of your personal data;
access your personal data;
correct inaccurate data;
request deletion;
request restriction of processing;
object to processing based on legitimate interests;
receive certain data in a portable format;
withdraw consent at any time where processing is based on consent.

Withdrawal does not affect processing that was lawful before withdrawal.

Complaints

You also have the right to lodge a complaint with a competent data-protection authority. For an Austrian controller, this will normally include the Austrian Data Protection Authority.

Automated Decision-Making

Unless expressly stated otherwise, we do not use personal data collected through this website to make decisions producing legal or similarly significant effects solely by automated means.

Security

We use reasonable technical and organisational measures designed to protect personal data against unauthorised access, loss, alteration or disclosure.

No internet transmission or storage system can, however, be guaranteed to be completely secure.

Children

STOP • WAITING is intended for a general adult audience.

We do not intentionally seek to collect personal data from children through the website.

Changes to this Policy

We may update this Privacy Policy if our services, technologies or legal obligations change.

The latest version will always be available on this page.

Contact

Privacy enquiries and requests:

gassner@stopwaiting.world

+43 676 84 18 36 10

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