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Disclaimer

The contents of the information system web sites written and maintained by AIT Austrian Institute of Technology GmbH (hereinafter referred to as AIT) or LKR Leichtmetallkompetenzzentrum Ranshofen GmbH (hereinafter referred to as LKR) together with all information contained therein, including text, graphics, images, design and source code or other forms, are and remain the property of AIT and are protected by copyrights, trademarks, patents, licences or other proprietary rights or laws.

No part of this website may be modified, copied, distributed, published, mailed or transmitted without the prior written consent of AIT or LKR. Users may download, print and distribute the content presented for personal, non-commercial use, provided that the content remains unaltered. All copies of or excerpts from these pages must retain all copyright notices or other proprietary notices by AIT or LKR or the owner of the copyright, trademark, patent or other rights. Commercial use or distribution require the prior written consent of AIT or LKR. The preparation and distribution of modified, extended, abbreviated or translated content require the prior written consent of AIT or LKR. You are entitled to create hyperlinks to these AIT or LKR pages, but are obliged to make a clear distinction between information provided by you and information provided by AIT or LKR. The AIT or LKR pages must not appear to be part of your own homepage. These pages contain links to internet pages of third parties, which are not under AIT‘s or LKR's control. AIT therefore accepts no liability whatsoever for the content of those pages, especially their lawfulness and legality. Please let us know if these links are deactivated or appear to be incorrect or inappropriate or if any other problems arise from the pages maintained by AIT or LKR.

© 2020 AIT Austrian Institute of Technology GmbH. All rights reserved.

According to the common legal requirements the operator of a site is responsible for its content. The contents of this website were created with due dilligence. Nevertheless AIT excludes any liability in regards to the accuracy, sufficiency and currentness of the page visible on this website.

 

Data Protection

AIT Austrian Institute of Technology GmbH
Giefinggasse 4; 1210 Wien; Österreich
office(at)ait.ac.at; +43 50550-0

Data Protection Office: dpo(at)ait.ac.at

If AIT Austrian Institute of Technology GmbH or  LKR Leichtmetallkompetenzzentrum Ranshofern GmbH processes your personal data, you have the right of access to your personal data. In addition you have the right to obtain the rectification or erasure of your data. You further have the right to obtain the restriction of processing or the right to transmit your data to another controller under the specific terms of the General Data Protection Regulation. In addition you have the right to object to the processing of your personal data.

If your personal data is being processed based on your consent, you have the right to withdraw your consent at any time. The withdrawal of consent does not affect the lawfulness of processing based on consent before its withdrawal.

If you are of the opinion that your data is processed unlawfully, you have the right to file a complaint with the data protection authority (www.dsb.gv.at).

In order to exercise your rights, please contact office(at)ait.ac.at.

AIT Austrian Institute of Technology GmbH or  LKR Leichtmetallkompetenzzentrum Ranshofern GmbH  processes personal data in accordance with Section 2d paragraph 2 Forschungsorganisationsgesetz.

© 2020 AIT Austrian Institute of Technology GmbH. All rights reserved.

Cookies

Our website uses cookies to store user-specific data.
Cookies are small text files that websites send to browsers and that are stored on the devices of website visitors. If browsers revisit websites, the information stored in their cookies is transferred to the website (e.g. the language chosen for the website or other settings). You can find information about all the cookies stored on your device in the (privacy-)settings of your browser.

Below we explain why this website uses cookies. In case of questions, please get in touch with us.

What types of cookies are there?
The question of which cookies we use in particular depends on the services we use and is clarified in the following sections of the Privacy Policy. At this point we would like to briefly explain the different types of cookies.

There are 4 types of cookies:

  • Absolutely necessary / Business-relevant cookies
    These cookies are necessary to ensure the basic functionality of the website. For example, these cookies are needed when a user fills out a form and then continues surfing on other pages before sending it off. These cookies do not delete the form fields, even if the user closes his browser window.
  • Functional cookies
    These cookies collect information about the user behavior and whether the user gets any error messages. In addition, these cookies are used to measure the loading time and the behaviour of the website with different browsers.
  • Target-oriented cookies
    These cookies ensure better user friendliness. For example, entered locations, font sizes or form data are stored.
  • Google Analytics Privacy Policy
    On this website we use Google Analytics from Google LLC (1600 Amphitheatre Parkway Mountain View, CA 94043, USA) to statistically evaluate visitor data. Google Analytics uses target-oriented cookies for this purpose.

Necessary/system-relevant cookies

cookieconsent_status
This cookie stores whether or not you agree to the use of other cookies. It is set when you interact with our cookie information. Your decision will be stored for one year, unless you remove the cookie from your computer earlier.

fe_typo_user
This is a standard cookie which is set by TYPO3 (the backend of the website). It is set when a form page is called and is required for the technical function of the page (spam prevention). It contains a letter and number combination and is deleted when you close your web browser.

Third party cookies / social media platforms
These cookies are also called targeting cookies. They are used to deliver individually tailored advertising to the user. This can be very practical, but also very annoying.
Usually, when you first visit a website, you are asked which of these cookie types you want to allow. And of course this decision is also stored in a cookie.

Embedded Social Media Elements Privacy Policy
We include elements of social media services on our website to display images, videos and text.
By visiting pages that display these elements, data is transferred from your browser to the respective social media service and stored there. We do not have access to this data.
The following links will take you to the pages of the respective social media services where we explain how they handle your data:
1st Instagram Privacy Policy: https://help.instagram.com/519522125107875
2. the Google Privacy Policy applies to YouTube: https://policies.google.com/privacy?hl=en
3rd Facebook Data Policy: https://www.facebook.com/about/privacy
4th Twitter Privacy Policy: https://twitter.com/de/privacy

Facebook Privacy Policy

On this website we use functions of Facebook, a social media network of FIrma Facebook Ireland Ltd, 4 Grand Canal Square, Grand Canal Harbour, Dublin 2 Ireland.
You can read about the features (social plug-ins) provided by Facebook at https://developers.facebook.com/docs/plugins/ .
When you visit our website, information may be transferred to Facebook. If you have a Facebook account, Facebook may associate this information with your personal account. If you do not want this, please unsubscribe from Facebook.
The privacy policy about what information Facebook collects and how they use it can be found on https://www.facebook.com/policy.php

YouTube Privacy Policy
We have included YouTube videos on our website. So we can present you interesting videos directly on our site. YouTube is a video portal that has been a subsidiary of Google LLC since 2006. The video portal is operated by YouTube, LLC, 901 Cherry Ave, San Bruno, CA 94066, USA. When you visit a page on our website that has a YouTube video embedded, your browser automatically connects to YouTube or Google servers. Depending on your settings, various data will be transmitted. Google is responsible for the entire data processing and therefore Google's data protection also applies.
In the following, we will explain in more detail which data is processed, why we have included YouTube videos and how you can manage or delete your data.

What is YouTube?
On YouTube, users can view, rate, comment on and upload videos free of charge. Over the last few years, YouTube has become one of the most important social media channels in the world. To enable us to display videos on our website, YouTube provides a code excerpt that we have built into our site.

Why do we use YouTube videos on our website?
YouTube is the video platform with the most visitors and the best content. We strive to provide you with the best possible user experience on our website. And of course, interesting videos should not be missing. With the help of our embedded videos, we provide you with additional helpful content in addition to our texts and images. In addition, our website is easier to find on the Google search engine through the embedded videos. Even if we place advertisements via Google Ads, Google - thanks to the collected data - can only show these advertisements to people who are interested in our offers.
 

What data does YouTube store?
Once you visit one of our sites that has a YouTube video built in, YouTube sets at least one cookie that stores your IP address and our URL. If you are logged into your YouTube account, YouTube can usually associate your interactions on our website with your profile using cookies. This includes information such as session duration, bounce rate, approximate location, technical information such as browser type, screen resolution, or your Internet service provider. Additional information may include contact information, any ratings, sharing content via social media, or adding to your favorites on YouTube.
If you're not signed in to a Google Account or Youtube Account, Google stores data with a unique identifier associated with your device, browser or app. For example, your preferred language setting remains the same. But a lot of interaction data can't be stored because fewer cookies are set.
The following list shows cookies that have been set in a browser test. On the one hand, we show cookies that are set without a registered YouTube account. On the other hand, we show cookies that are set with a registered account. The list cannot claim to be complete because the user data always depends on the interactions on YouTube.

Name: YSC
Purpose: This cookie registers a unique ID to store statistics of the video viewed.
Expiration date: after session end
Example value: b9-CV6ojI5Y

Name: PREF
Purpose: This cookie also registers your unique ID. Google receives PREF statistics on how you use YouTube videos on our website.
Expiration date: after 8 months
Example value: f1=50000000

Name: GPS
Purpose: This cookie registers your unique ID on mobile devices to track the GPS location.
Expiration date: after 30 minutes
Example value: 1

Name: VISITOR_INFO1_LIVE
Purpose: This cookie attempts to estimate the user's bandwidth on our websites (with built-in YouTube video).
Expiration date: after 8 months
Example value: 95Chz8bagyU


Additional cookies that are set when you are logged in with your YouTube account:

Name: APISID
Purpose: This cookie is used to create a profile of your interests. The data is used for personalised advertisements.
Expiration date: after 2 years
Example value: zILlvClZSkqGsSwI/AU1aZI6HY7211103283

Name: CONSENT
Purpose: The cookie stores the status of a user's consent to the use of various Google services. CONSENT also provides security to help verify users and protect user data from unauthorized attacks.
Expiration date: after 19 years
Example value: YES+AT.de+20150628-20-0

Name: HSID
Purpose: This cookie is used to create a profile of your interests. This data helps us to display personalized advertisements.
Expiration date: after 2 years
Example value: AcRwpgUik9Dveht0I

Name: LOGIN_INFO
Intended use: Information about your login data is stored in this cookie.
Expiry date: after 2 years
Example value: AFmmF2swRQIhALl6aL...

Name: SAPISID
Purpose: This cookie works by uniquely identifying your browser and device. It is used to create a profile about your interests.
Expiration date: after 2 years
Example value: 7oaPxoG-pZsJuuF5/AnUdDUIsJ9iJz2vdM

Name: SID
Purpose: This cookie stores your Google Account ID and your last login time in digitally signed and encrypted form.
Expiration date: after 2 years
Example value: oQfNKjAsI211103283

Name: SIDCC
Purpose: This cookie stores information about how you use the site and what advertisements you may have seen before visiting our site.
Expiration date: after 3 months
Example value: AN0-TYuqub2JOcDTyL

How long and where is the data stored?
The data that YouTube receives from you and processes is stored on Google's servers. Most of these servers are located in America. At https://www.google.com/about/datacenters/inside/locations/?hl=en, you can see exactly where the Google data centers are located. Your data is distributed on the servers. So the data is faster retrievable and better protected against manipulation.
Google stores the collected data for different lengths of time. Some data can be deleted at any time, others are automatically deleted after a limited period of time and still others are stored by Google over a longer period of time. Some data (such as "My Activity" items, photos or documents, products) stored in your Google Account will remain stored until you delete it. Even if you're not signed in to a Google Account, you can still delete some information associated with your device, browser, or app.

How do I delete or prevent my data from being stored?
Basically, you can manually delete data from your Google Account. With the automatic deletion of location and activity data introduced in 2019, information will be stored for either 3 or 18 months, depending on your decision, and then deleted.
Whether or not you have a Google Account, you can configure your browser to delete or disable Google cookies. This works in different ways depending on which browser you use. The following instructions show how to manage cookies in your browser:
Chrome: Deleting, enabling and managing cookies in Chrome
Safari: Managing cookies and website data with Safari
Firefox: Deleting cookies to remove data that websites have stored on your computer
Internet Explorer: Deleting and managing cookies
Microsoft Edge: Deleting and managing cookies
If you do not want cookies, you can set your browser so that it always informs you when a cookie is to be set. In this way, you can decide whether to allow each individual cookie or not. Because YouTube is a subsidiary of Google, there is a joint privacy statement. If you would like to learn more about how we treat your information, we recommend that you read the privacy statement at https://policies.google.com/privacy?hl=de .

 

Vimeo Privacy Policy   

We also use videos from the company Vimeo on our website. The video portal is operated by Vimeo LLC, 555 West 18th Street, New York, New York 10011, USA. With the help of a plug-in, we can display interesting video material directly on our website. Certain data may be transferred from you to Vimeo. In this privacy statement, we will show you what data is involved, why we use Vimeo, and how you can manage or stop your data or data transfer.

What is Vimeo?
Vimeo is a video platform that was founded in 2004 and since 2007 has enabled the streaming of videos in HD quality. Since 2015 it is also possible to stream in 4k Ultra HD. The use of the portal is free of charge, but paid content can also be published. In comparison to the market leader YouTube, Vimeo places priority on high quality content in good quality. Thus, the portal offers on the one hand a lot of artistic content such as music videos and short films, but on the other hand also documentations worth knowing about various topics.
 
Why do we use Vimeo on our website?
The goal of our web presence is to provide you with the best possible content. And as easily accessible as possible. Only when we have achieved this are we satisfied with our service. The Vimeo video service helps us achieve this goal. Vimeo gives us the opportunity to present you with high-quality content directly on our website. Instead of just giving you a link to an interesting video, you can watch the video right here. This extends our service and makes it easier for you to access interesting content. Therefore we offer video content in addition to our texts and images.

What data is stored on Vimeo?
When you visit a page on our website that has a Vimeo video embedded, your browser connects to the Vimeo servers.  This results in a data transfer. This data is collected, stored and processed on the Vimeo servers. Whether or not you have a Vimeo account, Vimeo collects information about you. This includes your IP address, technical information about your browser type, operating system, or very basic device information. In addition, Vimeo stores information about which website you use the Vimeo service and which actions (web activities) you perform on our website. These web activities include, for example, session duration, bounce rate, or which button you clicked on our website with a built-in Vimeo function. Vimeo can track and store these actions using cookies and similar technologies.

If you are logged in as a registered member of Vimeo, more data can usually be collected because more cookies may already have been set in your browser. In addition, your actions on our website are directly linked to your Vimeo account. To prevent this, you must log out of Vimeo while you are "surfing" our website.

Below we show you the cookies that are set by Vimeo when you are on a website with integrated Vimeo functionality. This list is not exhaustive and assumes that you do not have a Vimeo account.

Name: player
Value: ""
Purpose: This cookie saves your settings before you play an embedded Vimeo video. This means that the next time you watch a Vimeo video, you will get your preferred settings back.
Expiration date: after one year

Name: vuid
Value: pl1046149876.614422590211134857-4
Purpose: This cookie collects information about your actions on websites that have embedded a Vimeo video.
Expiration date: after 2 years

Note: These two cookies are always set when you are on a web page with an embedded Vimeo video. When you view the video and click the button, for example to "share" or "link" the video, additional cookies are set. These are also third-party cookies such as _ga or _gat_UA-76641-8 from Google Analytics or _fbp from Facebook. Exactly which cookies are set here depends on your interaction with the video.

The following list shows a selection of possible cookies that are set when you interact with the Vimeo video:

Name: _abexps
Value: %5B%5D
Purpose: This Vimeo cookie helps Vimeo remember the settings you have made. This could be a preset language, region or user name, for example. In general, the cookie stores information about how you use Vimeo.
Expiration date: after one year

Name: continuous_play_v3
Value: 1
Purpose: This cookie is a first-party cookie from Vimeo. The cookie collects information about how you use the Vimeo service. For example, the cookie stores when you pause or replay a video.
Expiration date: after one year

Name: _ga
Value: GA1.2.1522249635.1578401280211134857-7
Purpose: This cookie is a third-party cookie from Google. By default analytics.js uses the _ga cookie to store the user ID. Basically, it is used to differentiate between website visitors.
Expiration date: after 2 years

Name: _gcl_au
Value: 1.1.770887836.1578401279211134857-3
Purpose: This third-party Google AdSense cookie is used to improve the effectiveness of ads on websites.
Expiration date: after 3 months

Name: _fbp
Value: fb.1.1578401280585.310434968
Purpose: This is a Facebook cookie. This cookie is used to display advertisements or promotional products from Facebook or other advertisers.
Expiration date: after 3 months

Vimeo uses this data to improve its own service, to communicate with you and to implement its own targeted advertising measures, among other things. Vimeo emphasizes on its website that only first-party cookies (i.e., cookies from Vimeo itself) are used for embedded videos, as long as you do not interact with the video.

How long and where is the data stored?
Vimeo is headquartered in White Plains, New York State (USA). However, the services are offered worldwide. The company uses computer systems, databases and servers in the USA and in other countries. Your data can therefore also be stored and processed on servers in America. The data will remain stored by Vimeo until the company no longer has an economic reason for storing it. Then the data is deleted or made anonymous. Vimeo complies with the EU-U.S. Privacy Shield Framework and is therefore permitted to collect, use and transfer data from users in the EU to the USA.

How can I delete my data or prevent data storage?
You always have the possibility to manage cookies in your browser according to your wishes. For example, if you do not want Vimeo to set cookies and thus collect information about you, you can delete or deactivate cookies in your browser settings at any time. Depending on your browser, this works slightly differently. Please note that after deactivating/deleting cookies, various functions may no longer be available to the full extent. The following instructions show you how to manage or delete cookies in your browser.

Chrome: Delete, activate and manage cookies in Chrome

Safari: Manage cookies and website data with Safari

Firefox: delete cookies to remove data that websites have placed on your computer

Internet Explorer: Delete and manage cookies

Microsoft Edge: Delete and manage cookies


If you are a registered Vimeo member, you can also manage the cookies used in the Vimeo settings.

Vimeo is an active participant in the EU-U.S. Privacy Shield Framework, which regulates the correct and secure transfer of personal data. You can find more information about this at https://www.privacyshield.gov/participant?id=a2zt00000008V77AAE&status=Active. You can learn more about the use of cookies at Vimeo at https://vimeo.com/cookie_policy. Information about data protection at Vimeo can be found at https://vimeo.com/privacy.

Source: Created with the data protection generator from firmenwebseiten.at in cooperation with wallentin.cc


The legal basis for the processing of personal data when embedding Vimeo videos is, on the one hand, the legitimate interest of AIT in presenting an informative website to website visitors, and, on the other hand, the consent of website visitors to transfer data when playing videos. Vimeo uses standard contractual clauses to protect personal data when transferring data to countries without an adequate level of data protection. To obtain a copy of these, please contact Vimeo.

 

Instagram Privacy Policy
On our website we use functions of the social media network Instagram of the company Instagram LLC, 1601 Willow Rd, Menlo Park CA 94025, USA.
With the functions for embedding Instagram content (Embed function) we can display pictures and videos.
By accessing pages that use such functions, data (IP address, browser data, date, time, cookies) is transmitted to Instagram, stored and evaluated.
If you have an Instagram account and are logged in, this information will be associated with your personal account and the information stored in it.
The privacy policy about what information Instagram collects and how you use it can be found at https://help.instagram.com/519522125107875

Newsletter Privacy Policy
When you subscribe to our newsletter you provide the above personal information and give us the right to contact you via email. We use the data stored within the scope of the registration to the newsletter exclusively for our newsletter and do not pass these on.
If you unsubscribe from our newsletter - you will find the link to unsubscribe at the bottom of each newsletter - then we will delete all data that was stored when you subscribed to our newsletter.

Google Maps Privacy Policy
On our website we use Google Maps of the company Google Inc. (1600 Amphitheatre Parkway Mountain View, CA 94043, USA). With Google Maps we can better visualize locations and thus improve our service. By using Google Maps, data is transferred to Google and stored on the Google servers. Here we want to go into more detail about what Google Maps is, why we use this Google service, what data is stored and how you can prevent this.

What is Google Maps?
Google Maps is an online map service provided by Google Inc. Google Maps allows you to search the Internet for exact locations of cities, attractions, accommodations or businesses using a PC or an app. If companies are represented on Google My Business, additional information about the company is displayed in addition to the location. In order to show you how to get there, map sections of a location can be integrated into a website using HTML code. Google Maps displays the earth's surface as a road map or as an aerial or satellite image. Thanks to the Street View images and the high-quality satellite images, very accurate representations are possible.

Why do we use Google Maps on our website?
All our efforts on this page are aimed at providing you with a useful and meaningful time on our website. By incorporating Google Maps, we can provide you with the most important information about various locations. Thanks to Google Maps, you can see at a glance where we have our headquarters. The route description always shows you the best or fastest way to us. You can find the route to us by car, public transport, on foot or by bicycle. For us, providing Google Maps is part of our customer service.

What data does Google Maps store?
In order for Google Maps to provide its full service, it must collect and store information about you. This includes, among other things, the search terms entered, your IP address and the latitude and longitude coordinates. If you use the route planner function, the entered start address will also be saved. However, this data storage happens on the Google Maps websites. We can only inform you about it, but have no influence on it. Since we have integrated Google Maps into our website, Google sets at least one cookie (name: NID) in your browser. This cookie stores data about your user behaviour. Google uses this data primarily to optimise its own services and to provide you with individual, personalised advertising.

The following cookie is set due to the integration of Google Maps in your browser:

Name: NID

Value: 188=h26c1Ktha7fCQTx8rXgLyATyITJ211103283 Intended use: NID is used by Google to customize ads to match your Google search. The cookie helps Google "remember" your most frequently entered searches or your past interaction with ads. You'll always get customized ads. The cookie contains a unique ID that Google uses to collect the user's personal information for advertising purposes.

Expiration date: after 6 months

Note: We cannot guarantee the completeness of the stored data. Especially when using cookies, changes at Google can never be excluded. In order to identify the cookie NID, a separate test page was created, where only Google Maps was integrated.

How long and where is the data stored?
The Google servers are located in data centers all over the world. However, most servers are located in America. For this reason, your data is increasingly stored in the USA. Here you can read exactly where the Google data centers are located: https://www.google.com/about/datacenters/inside/locations/?hl=de

Google distributes the data on various data carriers. This means that the data can be retrieved more quickly and is better protected against possible manipulation attempts. Each data center also has special emergency programs. For example, if there are problems with the Google hardware or a natural disaster affects the servers, the data is still highly likely to be protected.
Some data is stored by Google for a specified period of time. For other data, Google only offers the option of deleting it manually. The company also anonymizes information (such as advertising data) in server logs by deleting part of the IP address and cookie information after 9 and 18 months, respectively.

How can I delete my data or prevent data storage?
With the automatic deletion of location and activity data introduced in 2019, location and web/app activity information is stored for either 3 or 18 months, depending on your decision, and then deleted. You can also manually delete this data from your history at any time using your Google Account. If you want to completely prevent your location capture, you must pause the "Web and App Activity" section of your Google Account. Click "Data and personalization" and then click the "Activity setting" option. Here you can turn the activities on or off.
You can also disable, delete, or manage individual cookies in your browser. Depending on which browser you use, this works in different ways. The following instructions show how to manage cookies in your browser:
Chrome: Deleting, activating and managing cookies in Chrome
Safari: Managing cookies and website data with Safari
Firefox: Deleting cookies to remove data that websites have stored on your computer
Internet Explorer: Deleting and managing cookies
Microsoft Edge: Deleting and managing cookies
If you do not want cookies, you can set your browser so that it always informs you when a cookie is to be set. In this way, you can decide whether to allow each individual cookie or not.
Google is an active participant in the EU-U.S. Privacy Shield Framework, which governs the correct and secure transfer of personal data. More information can be found at https://www.privacyshield.gov/participant?id=a2zt0000000TO6hAAG. If you would like to learn more about Google's data processing practices, we encourage you to read our company's privacy policy at https://policies.google.com/privacy?hl=en .

SoundCloud Privacy Policy
On our website we use functions of the social media network SoundCloud of the company SoundCloud Limited, Rheinsberger Str. 76/77, 10115 Berlin, Germany.
By using the SoundCloud functions such as playing music, data (IP address, browser data, date and time, cookies) are transmitted to SoundCloud, stored and evaluated.
If you have a SoundCloud account and are logged in, this data will be assigned to your personal account and the data stored in it.
For the privacy policy of what information SoundCloud collects and how you use it, please visit soundcloud.com/pages/privacy

Source: Created by firmenwebseiten.at in cooperation with Dr. Wallentin


Video surveillance

Video surveillance only detects image data. The legitimate interests for the performance of video surveillance consist in the preventive protection of persons or property. Image data for the purpose of video surveillance are stored for a maximum of 72 hours.