Privacy Policy

Who is responsible for your data?

Mag. Julia Čulen operates this website and is responsible for the personal data described below. You can write to her at Osterleitengasse 7, 1190 Wien, Austria, or email julia@juliaculen.com.

Hosting and website visits

Hetzner Online GmbH hosts the website in Germany. When you visit, the server processes information such as your IP address, the page requested, the time of the request and browser information. We use this information to deliver pages, troubleshoot errors and protect the site. Our legal basis is our legitimate interest in operating a reliable and secure website under Article 6(1)(f) GDPR. Hetzner privacy information

Web server logs are retained on a 30-day schedule. We keep recovery backups for up to seven days under our backup schedule. Google Drive stores the off-site backup copies. The legal basis for these backups is our legitimate interest in restoring the site and its data after a failure under Article 6(1)(f) GDPR.

Email correspondence

EuroDNS is the planned provider for the julia@juliaculen.com mailbox. If you contact us, we use your email address, your message and any details you provide to respond and handle your request. We keep correspondence for as long as needed to resolve the matter and meet any applicable recordkeeping obligations. The legal basis for responding is our legitimate interest in handling correspondence under Article 6(1)(f) GDPR, or Article 6(1)(b) GDPR if your request concerns a contract or steps you ask us to take before entering one.

Newsletter and subscriptions

When newsletter registration is available, you can choose to receive new posts by email. We use your email address, your name if you provide one, and your subscription and confirmation status to manage your subscription. We need your email address to deliver the newsletter. The legal basis for sending the newsletter is your consent under Article 6(1)(a) GDPR.

Some subscription records came from the previous WordPress site. We carry over the subscription status to honour your existing preferences. Paused and unsubscribed records are excluded from newsletter delivery.

You can withdraw your consent at any time using the unsubscribe link in a newsletter or by contacting us. Withdrawal applies to future processing. We keep the subscription record while you are subscribed. After you unsubscribe, we may retain the minimum information needed to honour your opt-out or document your consent for as long as necessary for those purposes. Our legal basis for this limited retention is our legitimate interest in respecting your preferences and documenting compliance under Article 6(1)(f) GDPR.

Sharing articles

The share buttons are links. Choosing Facebook opens Facebook with the article URL. Choosing X opens X with the article URL and title. Opening either link lets that service receive connection information such as your IP address and use its own cookies or account information. The service handles that information under its own privacy policy and may process it outside the European Economic Area. Facebook privacy policy · X privacy policy

Copying a link places the public article URL on your device’s clipboard. Sharing by email opens your email app with the URL. You choose the recipient and send the message from your own app.

Comments

If you post a comment, we process your member profile, the comment text and the time you posted it so we can publish and moderate the discussion. Your display name and comment are public. Some public comments were carried over from the previous WordPress site. Our legal basis is our legitimate interest in hosting and moderating discussion under Article 6(1)(f) GDPR. Contact us to request removal of a comment or ask about your data.

Your rights

You can ask for access to your personal data, correction, deletion or restriction of processing. Where applicable, you can ask to receive your data in a portable format and object to processing based on legitimate interests. Contact julia@juliaculen.com to exercise these rights.

You can also lodge a complaint with the Austrian Data Protection Authority or another competent supervisory authority. Austrian Data Protection Authority