Terms of use, Cookies and Privacy Policy

Cookies

Our website uses cookies. Cookies are small text files that are stored in the Internet browser or by the Internet browser on a user's computer system. When a user calls up a website, a cookie may be stored on the user's operating system. This cookie contains a characteristic string of characters that enables the browser to be uniquely identified when the website is called up again. We use cookies for the purpose of making our offer more user-friendly, effective and secure. Furthermore, cookies enable our systems to recognize your browser even after a page change and to offer you services. Some functions of our website cannot be offered without the use of cookies. For these, it is necessary that the browser is recognized even after a page change.

We use the following cookies:

  • Session cookies: these are cookies that are temporarily stored exclusively for the duration of your use of our website.
  • Permanent cookies: these are cookies that retain information about visitors who repeatedly access our website. The purpose of using these cookies is to be able to offer an optimal user experience as well as to recognize visitors and present the most attractive website and interesting content possible during repeated use.
  • First party and third party cookie: the next time this website is accessed with the same terminal device, the cookie and the information stored in it will either be sent back to the website that generated it (first party cookie) or sent to another website to which it belongs (third party cookie).

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The processing is based on the Austrian Media Act and E-Commerce Act and Art. 6 (1) lit. f DSGVO from the legitimate interest in the above purposes. The data collected from you in this way is pseudonymized by technical precautions. An assignment of the data to your person is therefore no longer possible. The data will not be stored together with any other personal data relating to you.

You have the right to object at any time to this processing of personal data relating to you based on Art. 6 (1) f DSGVO for reasons arising from your particular situation.

Cookies are stored on your computer. Therefore, you have full control over the use of cookies. By selecting appropriate technical settings in your Internet browser, you can prevent the storage of cookies and transmission of the data they contain. Cookies that have already been stored can be deleted at any time. However, we would like to point out that you may then not be able to use all the functions of this website to their full extent.

Under the links below you can find out how to manage (including disabling) cookies in the main browsers:


Privacy Policy

In this privacy policy we inform you about the processing of your personal data. If you would like to change your privacy settings (give consent or revoke consent already given), click link to change your settings.

Responsible

Frontfinders Exploration Consulting Services e.U., Industriestraße 11, 9400 Wolfsberg, Austria
office@frontfinders.com, +43 6642445432

Hosting Provider

DreamWebHosting.net/

We host our website with our order processor www.dreamwebhosting.net, Dream Technologies Group doo Beograd, ID No: 20556013, Jurija Gagarina 21, 11070 Belgrade, Serbia.

For the purpose of providing and delivering the website, connection data is processed. For the mere purpose of delivery and provision of the website, the data is not stored beyond the call.

The legal basis for the data processing is the absolute technical necessity for the provision and delivery of the service "website" expressly requested by you through your call pursuant to § 165 para. 3 TKG 2021.

For the operation of the website, the connection data and other personal data are additionally processed within the scope of various other functions or services. This is explained in detail in the context of this privacy policy for the individual functions and services.

Contact Form

On our website, you have the option of contacting us directly via a contact form. After sending the contact form, the personal data entered by you will be processed by the responsible party for the purpose of processing your request on the basis of the consent granted by you by sending the form pursuant to Art. 6 para. 1 lit. a DSGVO until revoked. There is no legal or contractual obligation to provide the personal data. The only consequence of not providing it is that you do not submit your request and we cannot process it.

Comment Form

By commenting on our products, contributions, photos or videos, the personal data you provide will be processed for the purpose of displaying your comment on our website as well as for internal documentation on the legal basis of the contract concluded with you pursuant to Art. 6 (1) lit. b DSGVO (free hosting contract for the display of your comment on our website). A publication of your name as well as your comment will be made on our website. Your personal data will be stored until the comment is deleted.

Safety Services

On this website, to avoid non-human and automated input, we use the services of security service providers such as captcha services.

Web Fonts

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Analytics Services – Google Analytics

In case of granting your consent, we process your personal data with the service Google Analytics, Google LLC, Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA, as joint controller, for the purpose of error analysis and statistical evaluation of our website. Not granting consent has no immediate effect on the function of the website, but without statistical data it will be more difficult for us to further develop the website. You can revoke consent you have already given by changing the privacy settings.

We enable the service to collect connection data, data from your web browser and data about the content accessed, as well as to run analysis software and store data on your terminal device. The service anonymizes the collected data immediately after collection and provides us with the anonymous data in the form of statistics for evaluation. We use these statistics for troubleshooting and for the further development of our website. The data on your terminal device is stored for a period of up to two years.

The legal basis for data processing is your consent in accordance with Section 165 (3) TKG 2021. The Google Group transfers your personal data to the USA. The legal basis for the data transfer to the USA is your consent pursuant to Art. 49 para. 1 lit a in conjunction with Art. 6 para. 1 lit a DSGVO. Before giving your consent, you were already informed that the USA does not have a level of data protection that corresponds to the standards of the EU. In particular, US intelligence services can access your data without you being informed and without you being able to take legal action against it. For this reason, the European Court of Justice has declared the previous adequacy decision (Privacy Shield) invalid in a ruling.

Right of Objection

If the processing of your personal data is based on legitimate interest, you have the right to object to this processing. Unless there are compelling legitimate grounds for processing on our part, the processing of your data will cease on the basis of this legal ground. In addition, you have the right to object to the processing of your personal data for the purpose of direct marketing. In the event of an objection, your personal data will no longer be processed for the purpose of direct marketing. The lawfulness of the data processed until the objection is not affected by the objection.

Right of Withdrawal

You have the right to revoke consent you have already given at any time by changing the data privacy settings. In the case of consent to receive electronic advertising, you can revoke your consent by clicking on the unsubscribe link. In this case, processing will cease unless there is another legal basis. The legality of the data processed until the revocation is not affected by the revocation.

Data Subject Rights

You also have the right to information, correction, deletion and restriction of the processing of personal data. If the legal basis for the processing of your personal data is your consent or a contract concluded with you, you also have the right to data portability. Furthermore, you have the right to lodge a complaint with the supervisory authority. You can find more information about the supervisory authorities in the European Union here.


Data Protection

Privacy Statement for Website Users

Frontfinders Exploration Consulting Services e.U. (“us”, “we”, “Frontfinders”) takes the protection of your data and your trust in us very seriously. This data protection declaration applies if you visit or use our website. Frontfinders observes the applicable national legal regulations for the protection, lawful handling and confidentiality of personal data, as well as for data security, in particular, the European General Data Protection Regulation (“GDPR”).

In the following, we would like to inform you about the gathering, use and transfer of your personal data in connection with your visit to and use of our website www.frontfinders.com (“Website”).

We only gather your personal data through our Website if you use it or provide this yourself in order to use one of our services offered (e.g. registrations for events, establishing contact via the contact form or e-mail, registration for a newsletter).

Processed Personal Data

Personal data is information about natural persons that determines their identity or allows it to be determined e.g. name, e-mail address, IP address.

The type and amount of personal data of yours that we process directly is always dependent on how you interact with the Website and what personal data you provide us. It can especially comprise:

  • Contact details (in particular name, e-mail address, postal address, social media use, telephone number);
  • Professional details (in particular job position, employer);
  • Access data (in particular user data and passwords, security information);
  • Order and payment information (in particular credit card number);
  • Comments, feedback and other information that you provide us with, including details about search enquiry, questions or information that you send to customer service;
  • Interests and communication preferences, incl. preferred language (e.g. when choosing a newsletter);
  • Social networks, if you allow us to access your personal data in one or several networks;
  • Computer, device and connection information such as IP address, browser type and version, operating system and other software installed on your used devices, as well as mobile platforms and clear device identification, and other technical identifiers, fault reports and performance data;
  • Usage data e.g. the functions you use, your chosen settings, your URL click stream data, including date and time stamp, search criteria and pages you have used.

Establishing Contact

If you contact us via e-mail, chat, application form, or telephone, we process the personal data you provide us with for the purpose of processing and answering your enquiry. This of course also applies if you contact us through a contact form via our Website or would like to subscribe to a particular newsletter.

Please note: Declining to provide necessary personal data can restrict our service or render it impossible.

Social Media

Facebook, LinkedIn, Xing, YouTube, Whatchado, Twitter, etc.

We do not process any personal data in connection with your use of social media plugins on the Website. We do not have any access to data gathered through the social media plugin and transmitted to the social media operator. Data processing takes place exclusively through the social media operator.

In the interests of the best possible transparency, however, we would be happy to inform you about the processing of your personal data in this context.

To improve your user experience, plugins of the social networks/media Facebook, LinkedIn, Xing, YouTube, Twitter and Whatchado are integrated into our Website. These plugins enable the direct posting of links and content from our Website on the respective network or your direct visit to our pages in the respective network. The plugins are recognisable by the respective social media logo or the “like button” on our Website. The social share button, which is situated at the beginning, at the end or on the page of an article text (individual websites or news items), only accesses the respective function on facebook.com, linkedin.com, xing.com, twitter.com by clicking and therefore only then does it establish a connection with the respective networks. If, on the other hand, social media content is embedded into a page, e.g. in our social media stream, a direct connection between your browser and the respective social network server is already established through the plugin used when loading the page. Through the connection, browser-specific data can be transmitted and cookies from Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, Xing, YouTube and Whatchado can be stored that can e.g. identify the browser of the user.

The processing of personal data in this context by us (if it takes place) is based on our justified interests in: (i) increasing the attractiveness of our Website and therefore user numbers and (ii) a greater visibility of our content and therefore the promotion of our external presentation. We do not store any personal data in relation to this.

We would like to point out that we are not notified of the complete content of the transmitted data, nor its use by these social networks. By opening a website that a social media plugin is integrated into, the respective social media operators will gather and process information about your visit to our Website for their own business purposes. This processing is not initiated or controlled by us, instead it is an integrated functional feature of the respective social media plugin. We have no access to personal data in connection with this and do not share it with anyone.

For information about the legal basis of the processing of personal data through the social media operator, please contact the respective social media operator. We do not pass on personal data to third countries in relation to this. The social media plugin will, however, perhaps connect with the web server of the social media network in the United States of America. For further information about the transmission and the relevant guarantees with regard to this, please consult the respective data protection declaration of the social media operators.

Google Maps

The Website uses Google Maps to present geographical maps. By using Google Maps, you are declaring your consent to the compilation, processing and use of the automatically gathered data or the data you input by Google Inc., one of their representatives, or third-party suppliers. You can find further information in the usage conditions for Google Maps (http://www.google.com/intl/en_en/help/terms_maps.html) as well as in the Google data protection declaration (http://www.google.de/intl/en/policies/privacy).

Legal Basis and Storage Periods

(Art.6.1.b GDPR), our justified interest (Art.6.1.f GDPR) and also if applicable, on the basis of your consent (Art.6.1.a GDPR).

The processed personal data is used for statistical evaluations, as well as for the purpose of the operation, security and constant optimisation of the Website and the best possible attention to your enquiry (legitimate interest). Usage of your personal data beyond this only takes place with your consent (e.g. sending a newsletter).

When gathering your personal data, if no specific storage duration is indicated, your personal data is deleted if it is no longer required for fulfilling the intended purpose, if there is no longer any legitimate interest and if no further legal storage periods (e.g. tax or corporate law storage obligations) provide for longer storage periods.

Transmission of Personal Data

Your personal data can be passed on to:

  • Offices and persons within the Frontfinders Exploration Consulting Services e.U., if this is necessary for the fulfilment of contractual, legal or monitoring duties, to safeguard justified interests, or to process your enquiry;
  • Public offices and institutions, insofar as we are legally obliged to do so;
  • Third parties we have appointed, e.g. for IT services, if this is necessary for the fulfilment of their tasks (“Data Processor”);
  • Third parties, if this is necessary for contract fulfilment or due to legal obligations.

In addition, we will not pass your personal data gathered due to use of the Website on to third parties without your consent.

• We would like to point out that we have appointed third parties as authorized Data Processors that are available as IT support. This refers to office@youngsoft.rs, with address in rumska 4, 11400, Mladenovac, Serbia. Data Processors are contractually bound to comply with all data protection regulations, especially also to preserve data confidentiality.

We do not use any exclusively automated decision-making in accordance with Art. 22 GDPR as part of the data processing through use of the Website. This means that no decision about you, justification of or the carrying out of a business relationship is made on a purely automated basis. Should such exclusively automated decision-making processes occur in individual cases, we would inform you about this specifically.

Data Processing Locations

Your personal data shall be primarily processed in Austria and other EU/EEA countries or another country in which the Frontfinders and/or its data processors are located or have servers and facilities. In such cases, we take appropriate measures, especially through corresponding contractual agreements, to ensure that your personal data is always protected according to GDPR. If personal data is transmitted outside of the EU/EEA to a country for which there is no corresponding adequacy decision by the European Commission, we rely on suitable guarantees such as those of the standard contract clauses authorized by the European Commission.

Your Rights

You are entitled to the rights to data access, correction, deletion, restriction, portability and objection. If the processing of your personal data is based on your consent or a contract concluded with you, you also have the right to data portability.

Furthermore, you have the right to lodge a complaint with the supervisory authority. You can find more information about the supervisory authorities in the European Union here.

As your satisfaction is important to us, we kindly request that you notify us directly of any complaints or comments:
Frontfinders Exploration Consulting Services e.U.
Attn. Data Protection Coordinator
Industriestraße11/12
A-9400 Wolfsberg, Austria
Telephone: +43 664 2445 432
office@frontfinders.com

To prevent data misuse, we kindly request your understanding that we can only answer such enquiries after checking and confirming your identity (if necessary, by requesting further verification).

Use of Website

The use of our Website (access, storage, printing) is only permissible under the following conditions:

Ownership Rights and Copyright

If not specified otherwise, the ownership rights and copyright for information and documents provided on the Website lie exclusively with us. Use of the Website, of associated webpages, documents and data, is only permitted for personal information purposes or for private use. Usage beyond this, especially incorporation, storage or reproduction of the content in other websites, in other electronic, digital or other media or systems, as well as any copying, processing or commercial use, require explicit prior permission in writing.

Currentness and Correctness

We apply the required care in business operations to ensure that the information on the Website is correct and current. We do not guarantee availability, completeness, correctness or currency. We also reserve the right to carry out changes or additions to the provided information without prior notice. We assume no guarantee or liability for any direct or indirect damages in connection with any use of the Website.

Brand Rights

All trademarks, logos, images etc. used and shown on the Website and the associated brand, usage and copyright rights are owned exclusively by us or the indicated rights owner. Use of these, regardless of the presence of a corresponding indication such as ® or ™, is explicitly prohibited.

Downloading and/or use of the image data available on the Website is fundamentally prohibited. The use of image data is permissible exclusively for media purposes and only image data that has been provided by us in the download area of the Website is to be used for this purpose.

Links to Third-Party Providers

Links to other websites/Internet offers are not to be understood as a recommendation by us for the respective enterprise, its products or services. The respective operators have exclusive responsibility for the contents of other websites. We assume no liability for websites of other providers, nor for the information available on these. Users use the connections to such websites and their content at their own risk and according to the applicable usage conditions.

Non-Personal Data

If it does not involve personal data, every user of the Website who thereby provides us with data agrees that we receive unrestricted rights to this information and can use it in any form. The information provided by the user is not subject to any confidentiality obligation.

Legal Claims

All legal claims arising in connection with the Website and its use are subject exclusively to Austrian law. The application of the United Nations Convention on Contracts for the International Sale of Goods (CISG) and the conflict-of-law rules of international private law is explicitly excluded. The place of jurisdiction is the responsible court in Vienna, Austria.


Data Protection Information for Business Partners

General

Frontfinders Exploration Consulting Services take the protection of your data and your trust in us very seriously. In the course of our business relation with you, e.g. as customer, interested party, distribution partner or supplier, it is necessary for us to process your personal data resp. the personal data of our contact persons. In the following, we would like to inform you about the processing (inter alia collection, use and transfer) of your personal data in connection with our mutual business relations.

Apart from the context described in this data protection information, we only gather personal data on/through our online portals or website (www.frontfinders.com) (“Websites”) and if you provide this yourself in order to contact us. Further detailed information thereof can be found on all of our Websites.

Processed Personal Data

Personal data is information about natural persons that determines their identity or allows it to be determined, e.g. name, e-mail address, IP address.

The type and amount of personal data of yours that we process directly is always dependent on our business relation, how you interact with us and what personal data you provide us with. It can in particular comprise:

  • Contact details and preferences of contact (in particular title, name, business email address, postal address or (mobile) phone number);
  • Further professional details (in particular job position, employer, customer/supplier number);
  • Access data (in particular user data and passwords, security information);
  • Payment data (in particular data necessary for the processing of payment transactions or fraud prevention, credit card information and security numbers, VAT number, data on creditworthiness, credit limit);
  • Information collected from publicly available sources, information data bases and credit agencies;
  • Further personal data that has to be processed to initiate, process and manage (contractual) relationships and maintain business relationships or that you voluntarily provide us with (in particular orders placed, order details, delivery address, inquiries or project details, correspondence, other data pertaining to the business relationship);
  • Insofar as legally necessary for compliance screenings and due diligence: birth date, authentication information (ID and ID data), information on relevant court procedures and other legal disputes you might be involved in; and
  • Use of social media.

Legal Basis

We process your personal data for the following purposes:

  • Communication about products, services and projects, e.g. to process inquiries or to provide technical information about products;
  • Initiate, process and manage (pre/contractual) relationships and maintain business relationships, e.g. to process orders of products and services, to process payments, for accounting, billing and collection purposes, to make deliveries, to carry out maintenance activities and repairs;
  • Conducting of events, customer surveys, marketing campaigns, market analysis, sweepstakes, contests and other similar activities;
  • Maintaining and protecting the security of our products, services and websites, prevention and detection of security threats, fraud and other criminal or malicious activities;
  • Ensuring compliance with legal obligations (e.g. compliance screenings or certifications) and internal guidelines; and
  • Settling of disputes, enforcement of contractual agreements and establishment, exercise of defence of legal claims.

The processing of the personal data is necessary for the fulfillment of the purposes listed above, including the implementation of a contractual relation, including a precontractual activity with our business partners.

Attention: Please note that the refusal to provide us with the necessary personal data might restrict or render the provision of our services impossible.

The data processing above is carried out for the implementation of (pre)contractual and contractual business relations (Art.6.1.b GDPR), based on our justified and legitimate interests for initiation, processing, improvement and management of business relations (Art.6.1.f GDPR), as well as eventually based on your consent (Art.6.1.a GDPR) e.g. application for newsletters or other optional activities.

Retention Period

If during the gathering of your personal data no specific storage duration is indicated, your personal data is deleted if it is no longer required for fulfilling the intended purpose, if there is no longer any legitimate interest and if no further legal storage periods (e.g. tax or corporate law storage obligations) provide for longer storage periods.

Transmission of Personal Data

Your personal data can be passed on to:

  • Offices and persons within the Frontfinders Exploration Consulting Services and externally (e.g. lawyers, further business partners such as logistic and transport companies), if this is necessary for the fulfilment of contractual, legal or monitoring duties, to safeguard justified interests, or to process your enquiry;
  • Third parties mandated by us (“data processors”), e.g. for IT-services, if this is necessary for the fulfillment of our duties or the fulfillment of contractual obligations or due to legal obligations (e.g. credit institutions/payment service providers for the payment process, suppliers for the delivery of products);
  • Public offices and institutions, insofar as we are legally obliged to do so (e.g. public financial authorities or courts).

We would like to point out that our data processors are contractually bound to comply with all data protection regulations, especially also to preserve data confidentiality.

We do not use any exclusively automated decision-making in accordance with Art. 22 GDPR as part of the data processing through use of the Website. This means that no decision about you, justification of or the carrying out of a business relationship is made on a purely automated basis. Should such exclusively automated decision-making processes occur in individual cases, we would inform you about this specifically.

Your personal data are primarily processed in the EU/EEA countries, where our global support services and data centers are located. Some recipients as described here are possibly located in countries outside of the EU/EEA that do not legally provide for the same data protection level. In such cases, we take appropriate measures, especially through corresponding contractual agreements, to ensure that your personal data is always protected according to GDPR. If personal data is transmitted outside of the EU/EEA to a country for which there is no corresponding adequacy decision by the European Commission, we rely on suitable guarantees such as those of the standard contract clauses authorized by the European Commission.

Storage Period

The data is stored within the limits permitted by local laws, after this term they are deleted or anonymized (e.g. overwritten). The retention period in each country varies from several days up to several weeks. In some circumstances, such as incidents or investigations, the data are retained for the period necessary to handle such cases.

Data Subject Rights

The affected persons have all rights as granted by law and as provided in this data protection notice.

Further information may be obtained by contacting directly the facility reception area or details provided on the CCTV signposts, or by getting in touch with us via the contacts provided below.

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