PRIVACY POLICY
STOP • WAITING
Last updated: 30 October 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
Google Analytics 4, provided by Google Ireland Limited, is configured for consent-based website measurement. Analytics is loaded only after you accept the Analytics category. It measures pseudonymous public page visits, active reading time, scrolling and selected book-link clicks, together with general browser/device, approximate location and fixed campaign information. This implementation does not send names, email addresses, form contents or site-search terms to Analytics. Google Signals, User-ID and advertising personalisation are disabled. The Analytics cookies are configured for 60 days without automatic renewal. User- and event-level retention is two months; aggregated reports may remain longer. Google may process information outside the European Economic Area. You can withdraw consent at any time through the Cookie Settings / Consent Preferences control; withdrawal stops further Analytics collection and removes this implementation’s Analytics cookies. Legal basis: consent. Google Analytics is active only with your 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-domains GmbH
Provider address/country: Gautinger Straße 10, 82319 Starnberg, Germany.
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
The website uses services including:
- Google Analytics
- YouTube
- Instagram / Facebook
- Brevo
- Google Fonts (external font files)
- Contact form provider
Google Fonts can receive technical connection data when font files are loaded. Embedded audio includes SoundCloud. Website forms process enquiries and submitted stories. External book purchases and accommodation bookings are handled by the linked provider.
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: retained for operation and security according to the hosting provider’s technical configuration;
- 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.
Retention depends on the purpose, the technical configuration and any applicable legal requirements.
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