Last updated: August 2026
This Privacy Policy describes Our policies and procedures on the collection, use and disclosure of Your information when You use the Service and tells You about Your privacy rights and how the law protects You.
We use Your Personal data to provide and improve the Service. By using the Service, You agree to the collection and use of information in accordance with this Privacy Policy.
Interpretation and Definitions
Interpretation
The words of which the initial letter is capitalized have meanings defined under the following conditions. The following definitions shall have the same meaning regardless of whether they appear in singular or in plural.
Definitions
For the purposes of this Privacy Policy:
- Company (referred to as either “the Company”, “We”, “Us” or “Our” in this Agreement) refers to ECTIL.
- Cookies are small files that are placed on Your computer, mobile device or any other device by a website, containing the details of Your browsing history on that website among its many uses.
- Country refers to: Austria
- Device means any device that can access the Service such as a computer, a cellphone or a digital tablet.
- Personal Data is any information that relates to an identified or identifiable individual.
- Service refers to the Website.
- Website refers to ECTIL, accessible from https://ectil.org
- You means the individual accessing or using the Service, or the company, or other legal entity on behalf of which such individual is accessing or using the Service, as applicable.
Content Delivery Network & IT Security (Cloudflare)
We use the services of Cloudflare, Inc. (101 Townsend St., San Francisco, CA 94107, USA; European subsidiary: Cloudflare Germany GmbH, Rosental 7, c/o Mindspace, 80331 Munich, Germany) to deliver our website reliably via a global Content Delivery Network (CDN) and to protect our infrastructure against cyberattacks, malicious bots, and distributed denial-of-service attacks (DDoS protection & Web Application Firewall).
Processed Data & Functionality: For technical and security reasons, all traffic between your browser and our web server is routed through Cloudflare’s global edge network (reverse proxy). In this context, Cloudflare processes connection and log data, in particular your IP address, the requested URL, date and time of access, HTTP status codes, amount of data transferred, referrer URL, browser and operating system information (user agent), and security-related connection metadata (TLS fingerprints).
No Cookies During Normal Browsing & Bot Protection: During regular visits to our website, Cloudflare does not set any cookies on your device. Only when an automated security check is triggered to defend against suspicious traffic or bot attacks (such as Cloudflare Managed Challenge), Cloudflare may temporarily set strictly necessary security cookies (such as __cf_bm with a lifespan of approximately 30 minutes or cf_clearance). These are used exclusively for IT security and are never used for analytics, advertising, or user tracking.
Purpose, Legal Basis & International Data Transfers: Processing is carried out on the basis of our overriding legitimate interest in ensuring a secure, stable, resilient, and fast provision of our online services and defending against cyberattacks pursuant to Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR (and Art. 32 GDPR). Strictly necessary security cookies are stored in accordance with Art. 5(3) of the ePrivacy Directive (and Sect. 165(3) Austrian TKG 2021). We have entered into a Data Processing Addendum (DPA) with Cloudflare pursuant to Art. 28 GDPR including EU Standard Contractual Clauses (Art. 46(2)(c) GDPR). Furthermore, Cloudflare, Inc. is certified under the EU-U.S. Data Privacy Framework (DPF), ensuring an adequate level of data protection pursuant to Art. 45 GDPR. Connection and security logs are retained only as long as necessary for threat detection and network security and are subsequently deleted or anonymized. Further details can be found in the Cloudflare Privacy Policy.
Contact Us
If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, You can contact us:
- By email: [email protected]