Privacy

In short: I only use your data to answer your request and to look after our work together. No advertising cookies, no tracking, no selling of data.

1. Controller

Manuela Schauer, Hauptstraße 37, 2211 Pillichsdorf, Austria · office@imgewaechshaus.at

2. Contact form

When you write to me via the contact form, I process your details (name, email, optionally phone, time frame, location, your message and, if provided, how you heard about me, who recommended me and a voucher code) in order to answer your request and, if applicable, to prepare an assignment (Art. 6(1)(b) GDPR).

3. Online booking

When you request a session via the booking page, I store your chosen session, preferred dates, location, name, email, optionally phone, your message and the optional details on source, recommendation and voucher in order to process the booking (Art. 6(1)(b) GDPR). The request is non-binding until I confirm the date.

4. Emails about your request

After sending, you automatically receive a confirmation at the email address you provided, and I am notified of your request. Both emails are sent via the service Resend (see section 8). Replies to these emails come straight to me.

5. Client records

I add the name, email and phone number from requests and bookings to my client records in order to look after our work together (Art. 6(1)(b) GDPR). If no assignment comes about, I keep your contact details so that I can pick up our conversation if you get in touch again (legitimate interest, Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR). If you do not want this, just write to me and I will delete them.

6. Newsletter

You will only receive the newsletter if you explicitly tick the box in the form (Art. 6(1)(a) GDPR, § 174 Austrian Telecommunications Act). You can unsubscribe at any time with a short email to office@imgewaechshaus.at or via the unsubscribe link in every issue.

7. Visiting the website

When you visit the website, technically necessary data (IP address, date and time, page visited, browser) is briefly processed by the hosting provider in order to deliver the site securely and prevent misuse (Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR). This website does not use analytics or advertising cookies. Only if you choose to show the Instagram images is this choice stored in your browser (local storage).

8. Service providers

I do not pass on or sell your data. For technical operation I use the following providers, who process your data only on my behalf (processing under Art. 28 GDPR):

  • Netlify (Netlify, Inc., USA): hosting of this website.
  • Supabase (Supabase, Inc., USA): database in which requests, bookings and my client records are stored. Access is restricted so that only I can see the data.
  • Resend (Resend, Inc., USA): sending the emails about your request, via servers in Ireland.
  • SnapWidget and Instagram (Meta Platforms Ireland Ltd.): only if you click “Show latest images” (Art. 6(1)(a) GDPR). Images are then loaded from Instagram via SnapWidget and your IP address is transmitted to these providers.

The fonts of this website are stored on my own web space. No connection to Google or other font providers is made when you visit.

9. Transfers to third countries

Some of these providers are based outside the EU or may process data outside the EU, in particular in the USA. Transfers are based on an adequacy decision of the European Commission (EU-U.S. Data Privacy Framework, where the provider is certified) or on the EU standard contractual clauses under Art. 46(2)(c) GDPR.

10. How long I keep your data

I keep contact details in my client records until you ask me to delete them. If an assignment with an invoice comes about, I keep the necessary data for as long as the law requires (in Austria usually 7 years, § 132 BAO). I remove the newsletter note as soon as you unsubscribe. The hosting provider deletes server log data after a few days.

11. Your rights

You have the right to access, rectification, erasure, restriction of processing, data portability, objection to processing based on legitimate interests and withdrawal of consent with effect for the future. Simply write to me at office@imgewaechshaus.at.

12. Photos

How the photos from our session may be used is agreed beforehand and recorded separately. I never publish images of you or your child without your explicit consent.

13. Private preview galleries

Couples whose wedding I would like to show on this website first receive a private preview page protected by a code. There you can mark images as “rather not” and send me your feedback. What is stored: which gallery, the marked image numbers, whether you agree in principle and – voluntarily – your name and message. The data is kept in my database at Supabase (see service providers); I also receive an email via Resend. The legal basis is your consent (Art. 6(1)(a) GDPR). I only use your feedback to carry out your wishes for publication and delete it once that is done or whenever you ask. Until you send it, the images you mark are remembered only by your own browser.

Last updated: November 2026