Legal notice

Austrian law asks three things of a site like this one: who publishes it, who owns it and what it stands for, and what it does with your data. All three are below. The German legal terms are in brackets, in case you are looking for them.

Publisher (Impressum)

Required by § 5 E-Commerce-Gesetz and § 14 Unternehmensgesetzbuch.

Company

Manuel Hanel Web & Media Solutions e.U.

Address

Nordbahnstraße 41/191
1020 Vienna
Austria

Email

Shown here with JavaScript on. Otherwise use the postal address above.

Legal form

Registered sole trader (eingetragenes Einzelunternehmen)

Companies register

FN 360114f, Commercial Court of Vienna (Handelsgericht Wien)

Chamber

Member of the Austrian Federal Economic Chamber (Wirtschaftskammer Österreich)

Ownership and editorial direction (Offenlegung)

Required by § 25 Mediengesetz.

Sole owner of the business is Manuel Hanel, Vienna. No other person or company holds a share in it, silent or otherwise. Business purpose: web and media services, advertising graphic design.

cooltools.blog is a privately run, English-language publication about tools: software, ways of working, hardware, and small tricks of daily life.

Its editorial direction (grundlegende Richtung) is the independent assessment of such tools from actual use. The measure is the time a tool survived in daily use. The cases where a tool was given up are published as deliberately as the ones where it was kept; that part belongs to the editorial direction and is not held back.

Entries are the personal opinion of the publisher. There are no paid cooperations, no advertising, no sponsored entries, and no holdings in the companies whose tools are covered. If a tool is provided free of charge or at a discount, that is disclosed in the entry. Should commission links ever be used, they will be marked as such in the entry itself.

Voluntary contributions from readers create no claim to coverage and have no influence on which tools are chosen or how they are judged.

Privacy

Controller under the GDPR is the company named above. No data protection officer is appointed; the conditions of Art 28 GDPR are not met.

What this site does not do

It sets no cookies. It loads no fonts, maps, videos, social media buttons or any other content from third-party servers. The typefaces are served from the same server as the page. There is no comment function, no newsletter, and at present no audience measurement of any kind.

Server log files

When you open a page, your browser transmits technically necessary data which the web server records: IP address, date and time, the address requested, the amount of data transferred, the status code, the browser identification and, where applicable, the page you came from.

The legal basis is Art 6(1)(f) GDPR. The legitimate interest is the secure and undisturbed operation of the site. Logs are deleted after seven days at the latest and are not combined with other data.

The server is operated by ALL-INKL.COM, Neue Medien Münnich, Hauptstraße 68, 02742 Friedersdorf, Germany, as a processor under Art 28 GDPR. No data is transferred outside the European Union.

Support via Ko-fi

This site links to a way of giving money voluntarily. You leave this site only when you follow that link; from then on the privacy policy of that provider applies. Nothing is embedded here and nothing is recorded here.

Your rights

You have the right of access, rectification, erasure, restriction of processing, data portability and objection. Write to the address above.

You also have the right to lodge a complaint with the supervisory authority: Österreichische Datenschutzbehörde, Barichgasse 40–42, 1030 Vienna, dsb@dsb.gv.at.

Where the idea came from

This site owes its idea to Kevin Kelly’s Cool Tools and Recomendo.