Privacy Policy

1. Controller

ESBC – European Systemic Business Competences GmbH
Contact per­son: Ewald Wandas
Frankgasse 1/Top 3, 1090 Vienna, Austria Phone +43 1 89 70 160 · Email: office@esbc.eu

2. Supervisory authority

You have the right to lodge a com­plaint with the Austrian Data Protection Authority (Österreichische Datenschutzbehörde): Barichgasse 40–42, 1030 Vienna, phone +43 1 52 152–0, email dsb@dsb.gv.at, www.dsb.gv.at.

3. Our principles

We pro­cess per­so­nal data only to the ext­ent neces­sary to ope­rate this web­site, ans­wer your enqui­ries and pro­vide our ser­vices. Our web­site does not load any third-party con­tent: no ana­ly­tics or adver­ti­sing ser­vices, no embedded videos or maps, no exter­nal fonts. The terms “per­so­nal data” and “pro­ces­sing” are defi­ned in Art. 4 of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).

4. Legal bases

  • Consent: Art. 6(1)(a) GDPR
  • Contract and pre-con­trac­tual mea­su­res: Art. 6(1)(b) GDPR
  • Legal obli­ga­tion: Art. 6(1)© GDPR
  • Legitimate inte­rests: Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR

5. Hosting and ser­ver log files

Our web­site and our email ser­ver are ope­ra­ted by easy­name GmbH in Vienna, Austria. We have con­cluded a data pro­ces­sing agree­ment with our hos­ting pro­vi­der (Art. 28 GDPR). When you visit our pages, tech­ni­cally neces­sary data may be stored in ser­ver log files: IP address, date and time, page reques­ted, amount of data trans­fer­red, brow­ser and ope­ra­ting sys­tem, and the pre­viously visi­ted page. This ser­ves the secure and sta­ble ope­ra­tion of the web­site (Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR). IP addres­ses are only recor­ded when access log­ging is enab­led; they are anony­mi­sed after 24 hours and fully dele­ted after 3 months at the latest. Log files are not com­bi­ned with other data.

6. Encryption

All pages are trans­mit­ted in encrypted form via HTTPS (TLS).

7. Contact form and email

If you cont­act us via the cont­act form or by email, we pro­cess your name, email address, sub­ject and mes­sage in order to ans­wer your enquiry (Art. 6(1)(b) and (f) GDPR). Form sub­mis­si­ons are sent to us by email and are not stored in a data­base on the web­site. To pro­tect against spam, the form uses an invi­si­ble check field on our own ser­ver; no data is trans­fer­red to third par­ties. We delete your enquiry once it has been dealt with, unless sta­tu­tory reten­tion peri­ods apply.

Emails may be read or alte­red wit­hout aut­ho­ri­sa­tion during trans­mis­sion. Our mail­box uses a spam fil­ter which, in rare cases, may also reject wan­ted emails.

8. Online tests

On our web­site we offer online tests, e.g. the DISC test, the dri­vers test, the love lan­guages test, the four-ears test and the team check “The Five Dysfunctions of a Team”. The tests do not ask for names or email addres­ses and do not store IP addres­ses. They do not set coo­kies and do not load any exter­nal services.

Self-assess­ment tests: The eva­lua­tion takes place exclu­si­vely in your brow­ser. Your ans­wers are not trans­mit­ted to us.

Team check: So that a team can be eva­lua­ted jointly, we store the ans­wers anony­mously on our web ser­ver: the ans­wer values (1 to 5), the sel­ec­ted lan­guage, the time of sub­mis­sion and a ran­domly gene­ra­ted iden­ti­fier that allows you to change your ans­wers until the sur­vey clo­ses. This iden­ti­fier can­not be tra­ced back to you. Only team results and an anony­mous over­view are dis­played, to the faci­li­ta­tor (ESBC) and, once released, to the par­ti­ci­pants of the same sur­vey. We delete the data after the eva­lua­tion is com­plete, at the latest after 12 months.

Storage in your brow­ser: The tests store your lan­guage, your inte­rim ans­wers and, where appli­ca­ble, the iden­ti­fier men­tio­ned above in your browser’s local sto­rage. This is strictly neces­sary for the ser­vice you reques­ted (§ 165(3) Austrian Telecommunications Act 2021, TKG 2021). You can delete this data in your brow­ser at any time.

The legal basis is our legi­ti­mate inte­rest in offe­ring self-assess­ments and team ana­ly­ses as part of our con­sul­ting ser­vices (Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR) and, for team checks car­ried out on behalf of a cli­ent, addi­tio­nally the per­for­mance of a con­tract (Art. 6(1)(b) GDPR).

9. Cookies

We only use tech­ni­cally neces­sary coo­kies. Our coo­kie notice stores in a coo­kie whe­ther you have alre­ady seen it. We do not use ana­ly­tics, adver­ti­sing or track­ing coo­kies. The legal basis is § 165(3) TKG 2021 in con­junc­tion with Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR. You can delete coo­kies in your brow­ser set­tings at any time.

10. Links to other websites

Our web­site con­ta­ins links, e.g. to our videos on YouTube, to Google Maps for direc­tions and to LinkedIn, XING and Facebook. Only when you click such a link do you leave our web­site; from then on, the pri­vacy policy of the respec­tive pro­vi­der applies. No data is trans­fer­red to these pro­vi­ders beforehand.

11. Disclosure of data

We only dis­c­lose your data where per­mit­ted or requi­red by law, for exam­ple to our hos­ting pro­vi­der as a pro­ces­sor or on the order of an aut­ho­rity or court (Art. 6(1)© GDPR). Data is not trans­fer­red to count­ries out­side the EU or the European Economic Area.

12. Storage period

We store per­so­nal data only for as long as neces­sary for the respec­tive pur­pose or as requi­red by sta­tu­tory reten­tion peri­ods. It is then deleted.

13. Your rights

You have the right of access (Art. 15 GDPR), rec­ti­fi­ca­tion (Art. 16), era­sure (Art. 17), rest­ric­tion of pro­ces­sing (Art. 18), data por­ta­bi­lity (Art. 20) and objec­tion (Art. 21). You may with­draw any con­sent you have given at any time with effect for the future (Art. 7(3)). Please cont­act office@esbc.eu. You may also lodge a com­plaint with the data pro­tec­tion aut­ho­rity (see sec­tion 2).

14. Data security

We pro­tect your data with tech­ni­cal and orga­ni­sa­tio­nal mea­su­res in line with the state of the art, such as encrypted trans­mis­sion, access rest­ric­tions and regu­lar backups.

Last updated: October 2026