How We Use Cookies
We use cookies for a variety of reasons detailed below. Unfortunately, in most cases, there are no industry standard options for disabling cookies without completely disabling the functionality and features they add to this site. It is recommended that you leave on all cookies if you are not sure whether you need them or not in case they are used to provide a service that you use.
Disabling Cookies
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The Cookies We Set
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From time to time we offer user surveys and questionnaires to provide you with interesting insights, helpful tools, or to understand our user base more accurately. These surveys may use cookies to remember who has already taken part in a survey or to provide you with accurate results after you change pages.
When you submit data through a form such as those found on contact pages or comment forms cookies may be set to remember your user details for future correspondence.
Third-Party Cookies
In some special cases, we also use cookies provided by trusted third parties. The following section details which third party cookies you might encounter through this site.
This site uses Google Analytics which is one of the most widespread and trusted analytics solutions on the web for helping us to understand how you use the site and ways that we can improve your experience. These cookies may track things such as how long you spend on the site and the pages that you visit so we can continue to produce engaging content.
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Third-party analytics are used to track and measure usage of this site so that we can continue to produce engaging content. These cookies may track things such as how long you spend on the site or pages you visit which helps us to understand how we can improve the site for you.
The Google AdSense service we use to serve to advertise uses a DoubleClick cookie to serve more relevant ads across the web and limit the number of times that a given ad is shown to you.
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In some cases, we may provide you with custom content based on what you tell us about yourself either directly or indirectly by linking a social media account. These types of cookies simply allow us to provide you with content that we feel may be of interest to you.
More Information
If you have questions about our Privacy Notices, our cookie policy, privacy practices, or any other aspect of your privacy and the security of your personal information, please contact our Privacy Manager by phone (+43 269 9293 0) or email gdpr@webster.ac.at. You may also write to us at:
Webster Vienna Private University
Privacy Manager
Ms. Edna Schick-Bodric, MA
Palais Wenkheim Praterstr. 23, 1020 Vienna, Austria
Phone: +43 14 170 146
Email: gdpr@webster.ac.at
Webster University
Office of Privacy and Information Security
Information Security
Phone: +1-314-246-7051
Email: iso@webster.edu
Privacy
Email: cro@webster.edu