We have written this privacy policy in order to explain to you, in accordance with the provisions of the General Data Protection Regulation (EU) 2016/679, which personal data (data for short) we process, will process in the future and what legal options you have.

Purpose and Contact details

The purpose of data processing is the organisation of the RC21 Conference 2026 Inequalities the City. If you have any questions about data protection, you will find the contact details below: 

The RC21 Conference Vienna 2026 Organizing Team
University of Vienna
Department of Sociology
Research Platform – The Challenges of Urban Futures
Rooseveltplatz 2, A-1090 Wien
Tel.: +43-14277-29306
E-mail: urban-futures@univie.ac.at

Scope

This privacy policy applies to all personal data processed by us and to all personal data processed by companies commissioned by us (processors). With the term personal data, we refer to information within the meaning of Article 4 No. 1 GDPR, such as the name, email address and postal address of a person. The processing of personal data ensures that we can offer our services, be it online or offline. The scope of this privacy policy includes:

this website,
conference registration process that mandatory collects the name and electronic contact data

Legal basis for processing

Consent from the person concerned (Article 6 Paragraph 1 lit. a GDPR): You have given us your consent to process data for registration to the conference.

Storage Period

Data will be stored as long as it necessary for the organization and documentation of the conference.

Rights in accordance with the General Data Protection Regulation

As a person affected by data processing, you have the right to the following services concerning your data:

• Information
• Correction
• Deletion
• Restriction
• Data transferability
• Termination of further processing, if the legal basis for processing is a prevailing legitimate interests on the part of the contracting authority or the data is processed for scientific or historical research purposes or for statistical uses.

You also have the opportunity to withdraw consent given for data processing at any time without providing reasons. Finally, you have the opportunity to lodge a complaint with the Austrian Data Protection Authority (www.dsb.gv.at) concerning any data processing that was, in your opinion, not authorised.

Encryption with https
We use HTTPS („secure hypertext transfer protocol“) to securely transmit data on the Internet.
This means that the entire process of transmitting data from your browser to our web server is secure.
Thus, we have introduced an additional layer of security and comply with data protection by design (Article 25(1) GDPR). We use TLS (Transport Layer Security), an encryption protocol for secure data transmission on the internet, to protect confidential data.
You can recognize this data transmission security feature by the use of the „https“ scheme in our internet address.

Web-Hosting Provider
We use STRATO, a web hosting provider, for our website. The service provider is the German company STRATO GmbH, Otto-Ostrowski-Straße 7, 10249 Berlin, Germany. You can find out more about the data that is processed through the use of STRATO in the privacy policy at https://www.strato.de/datenschutz/.