1. What are cookies?

Cookies are small text files used by websites to make the user experience more efficient. Cookies are text files that contain a string of characters that can be placed on your computer or mobile device that uniquely identifies your browser or device. We may use technologies such as cookies, pixels, and local storage to deliver, protect, and gain insights about products, services, and advertisements.

By law, we may store cookies on your device if they are strictly necessary for the operation of this site. For all other cookie types, we need your permission. This means that cookies categorized as necessary are processed on the basis of Art. 6 (1) lit. f DSGVO. All other non-essential cookies, i.e. analysis cookies and targeted cookies, are processed on the basis of Art. 6 (1) lit. a DSGVO.

This site uses different types of cookies. Some cookies are placed by third parties that appear on our pages.

You can change or revoke your consent at any time through the cookie statement on our website.

Learn more about who we are, how you can contact us, and how we process data when you visit our website in our Privacy Policy.

2. What are cookies used for?

Cookies and other technologies allow websites or services to determine whether your computer or device has visited them before. These technologies may then be used to provide or deliver products, services and advertisements, tell us how the website or service is being used, help you navigate between pages efficiently, assist us in remembering your preferences, and generally improve your experience when using our services. Cookies can also help make the marketing you see online more relevant to you, taking into account your interests.

3. Why does Plato use cookies and similar technologies?

We use cookies, pixels, local storage, and similar technologies to show you relevant content, improve your experience on Plato, and protect Plato and our users. We may use these technologies to provide our Service, to provide you with an easy-to-use service, to allow you to browse our Service and use its features (such as accessing secure areas in the Plato Gallery, promoting products and ideas by our Plato authors), and to store information so that Plato responds more quickly. In addition, we may use these technologies to collect information about how you use the Service, such as which pages you access most often and whether you receive error messages from certain pages. We may also use these technologies to help us remember the choices you make (username, language, or the region you are in) and customize the Service to provide you with improved features and content. These cookies may also help us remember changes you have made to text size, font, and other elements of the Plato Gallery and pages that you can personalize. Plato may or our advertising partners/Plato Authors may use these technologies to provide advertising for products that are relevant to your interests. These technologies may remember that your device has visited a website or service. They may also be able to track your device’s browsing on websites or services other than Plato. This information may be shared with other organizations outside of Plato, such as advertisers and/or advertising networks, to measure advertising and the effectiveness of an advertising campaign. We and our Plato Authors may use these technologies to gain insight into products and services and to improve and research them.

As can be seen in our data privacy policy , data may be collected, stored, evaluated or otherwise processed when visiting and operating our website. It may be necessary on a case-by-case basis to disclose your data to certain recipients through transmission, dissemination or other forms of provision. This data is stored in so-called “cookies”. See further details on this in our privacy policy .

4. How long do cookies stay on my device?

How long a cookie remains on your computer or mobile device depends on whether it is a “persistent” or a “session” cookie. Session cookies remain on your device only until you close the browser. Persistent cookies remain on your computer or mobile device until they expire or are deleted.

5. First-party and third-party cookies

First-party cookies are cookies that belong to Plato. Third-party cookies are cookies that another party places on your device through Plato. Third-party cookies may be placed on your device by someone who provides advertising, measurement solutions, marketing, and analytics services, or to provide you with certain features and improve our services to you. For example, cookies from other companies help us gain insights into how our Plato Gallery is used. Third-party cookies may also be placed on your device by our business partners (e.g., Plato Authors) so that they can use them to provide advertisements for products and services elsewhere on the Internet, to measure the performance and effectiveness of those advertisements, and to support marketing and analytics.

6. How can you control cookies?

We use cookies to personalize and improve content and services, to provide a more secure experience, and to show you useful and relevant ads on and off Plato. However, you can control how we use data to show you ads and other things using the tools explained below.

7. You can manage cookies from Plato and other companies through your browser

If you have a Plato account, you can manage your privacy settings in the preferences through the Cookie Statement.

If you do not have a Plato account or are not logged in to your account, you can manage cookies from other companies in this browser.

Follow your web or mobile browser’s instructions (usually found under “Help,” “Tools,” or “Edit”) to control our cookies in other apps and on other websites, as well as cookies from other companies on Plato.

Please note that if you disable cookies or other technologies in your settings or browser, you may no longer be able to access certain parts of our Service and other parts of our Service may not function properly.

1. General

Welcome to our Plato Gallery (“Plato”), the online platform of the advertising agency Digital Motions Pictures Datenverarbeitungs GmbH ("DMP" or "we" or "us"). Your personal data ("data") is safe with us! We are committed to protecting your data in accordance with existing data protection regulations, and we take this responsibility seriously. Please take the time to read this privacy notice to understand why we collect your data and how we process it.

When you use Plato, we collect data about you. This is done through our interactions with you and through our product. Some of this data you provide directly, while others we receive by gathering information about your activities, usage, and experience with our product. The data collected depends on the context of your interactions with Plato and your preferences. We also receive data from you through third parties and may also transmit data to third parties when providing our service.

2. What are personal data?

Personal data refers to all information that relates to an identified or identifiable natural person (e.g., name, contact information, billing data, IP address).

3. How do we process your personal data, and how do we use and protect your information and data?

Depending on whether you visit our website or have a business relationship with us, we process your personal data and other information and data in the manner specified in the following sections.

We use the information and data we collect about you for the following purposes:

• To provide our services and products (signing up for Plato, operating Plato, providing various functionalities on Plato for our users, granting access to gallery spaces and your designs and content, etc.).
• To communicate with you, including notifications and product support.
• To communicate with you, including notifications and product support.
• For data and predictive analysis related to your account.
• For labeling and identification of components in images and videos to use photo and image editing tools.
• To create algorithms from search terms and interaction data to deliver the most relevant design experience on Plato.
• For marketing and advertising, if you have consented to it.
• For translating texts and applying text-to-speech (“TTS”) functionality when providing our service.
• For the purpose of using AI-based chatbot features when providing our service.
• For security measures to monitor activities that are suspicious or potentially fraudulent and to detect violations of our policies.
• For the detection of prohibited content that violates legal regulations or our published Code of Conduct.
• To fulfill legal obligations, if necessary (e.g., disclosing your data to law enforcement authorities when legally required).

We take reasonable technical and organizational measures to protect your data from unauthorized access, loss, misuse, or alteration. We prioritize the security of your data and use appropriate encryption technologies and secure protocols to ensure its security.

4. Data processing when visiting our website

When you visit our website, we collect and process information about you, depending on how you use Plato. We gather and receive information from the various devices you use and how you use them. This may include collecting, storing, analyzing, or otherwise processing the following data or information:

• Browser type.
• Operating system.
• Country.
• Date, time, and duration of access.
• Information about the network to which your device is connected, including your IP address and information about log files, such as visited pages on our website, including entry and exit pages, number of clicks.
• Information regarding your activity on your device.
• Data you enter via a contact form.

For the operation of our website, it may occasionally be necessary for us to disclose your data to recipients inside or outside the EEA. This disclosure can be made through transmission, distribution, or another form of provision.

These data and information are stored in so-called "cookies." Cookies are text files that are stored on your computer or mobile device, whether they are personally identifiable or not. They are used to recognize the website user and store temporary information. We generally use cookies only to the extent necessary to communicate with you via the website.

You can prevent the storage of cookies, whether stored without consent (technically necessary cookies) or with consent (non-technically necessary cookies), by adjusting your browser software settings accordingly or by deleting stored cookies from your computer or mobile device at any time. However, please note that in this case, you may not be able to fully utilize all functions of this website. Please refer to our Cookie Statement for more information.

4.1. Use of technically necessary cookies

To enable interaction with us through our website, it is necessary to temporarily store certain information. Storage of cookies on your computer or mobile device is based on the legal basis of Article 6(1)(f) of the GDPR (legitimate interest) and only when the interests of website visitors do not override our interests. Please refer to our Cookie Statement for for details on the technically necessary cookies used on our website.

4.2. Use of non-technically necessary cookies

Non-technically necessary cookies, such as analytics, targeted and functional cookies, are stored based on your voluntary consent and are used accordingly by us. These cookies may allow us to combine your "surfing behavior" across websites with data from other websites. Please refer to the information in our Cookie Statement.The storage and use of these cookies are solely based on your consent under § 96 of the Austrian Telecommunications Act (TKG) in connection with Article 6(1)(a) GDPR.

You can revoke this consent by adjusting the cookie settings in the Cookie Statement (by rejecting all technically unnecessary cookies). This does not affect the lawfulness of data processing carried out prior to such withdrawal (Article 7(3) GDPR).

5. What rights do you have regarding data processing?

We would like to inform you that you have the right to:

• request information at any time about the data we process about you. The right to information also includes the right to receive a copy of the data, provided that the rights and freedoms of others are not affected (see Article 15 GDPR).
• request the correction or completion of your incorrect or incomplete data (see Article 16 GDPR).
• request the deletion of your data (see Article 17 GDPR). We would like to point out that we cannot delete data if processing (retention) is necessary to fulfill a legal obligation (contract fulfillment, legal retention obligations) or if we have overriding interests in this regard (e.g., asserting or defending specific legal claims).
• request the restriction of the processing of your data under certain conditions (see Article 18 GDPR).
• object to the processing of your data necessary for our legitimate interests or those of a third party. In the event of an objection, we will no longer process your data unless we can demonstrate compelling legitimate grounds for the processing that override your interests, rights, and freedoms or the processing is necessary for the establishment, exercise, or defense of legal claims. If you object to processing for direct marketing purposes, we will no longer process your personal data for those purposes (see Article 21 GDPR).
• receive the data you have provided to us in a structured, commonly used, and machine-readable format. However, the right to data portability only exists if processing is based on your consent or on a contract (see Article 20 GDPR).

To exercise any of the rights mentioned above, you may contact us by email at office@agentur-dmp.at or by postal mail at Digital Motions Pictures Datenverarbeitungs GmbH, Fürstenstrasse 13, 2344 Maria Enzersdorf, Austria.

If we process your data based on your consent, you have the right to withdraw this consent at any time by emailing office@agentur-dmp.at or sending a postal letter to Digital Motions Pictures Datenverarbeitungs GmbH, Fürstenstrasse 13, 2344 Maria Enzersdorf. The legality of the data processing carried out up to that point will not be affected (Article 7(3) of the GDPR).

If, despite our obligation to process your data lawfully, you believe that your personal data is not being processed lawfully, please contact us by postal mail or email (contact details below) so that we can learn about and address your concerns.

We hope this information provides clarity on how and for what purposes we process your data. If you have any questions about the processing of your personal data, please feel free to contact us by email at office@agentur-dmp.at or by postal mail at Digital Motions Pictures Datenverarbeitungs GmbH, Fürstenstrasse 13, 2344 Maria Enzersdorf, Austria.

Advertising Agency DMP

Digital Motions Pictures Datenverarbeitungs GmbH

Fürstenstrasse 13, 2344 Maria Enzersdorf, Austria

Managing Directors: Janine Wald, Michael Wald

Tel +43 2236 3840 41 / Fax +43 1 253 30338092 / Email office@agentur-dmp.at

FN 221,307b, Commercial Court Vienna / VAT ATU54245703

Bank Account DIE ERSTE BANK / Account Number 03855554 / Bank Code 20111

BIC GIBAATWWXXX / IBAN AT202011100003855554