Privacy policy

Beethoven Conservatory of Vienna GmbH, Mühlgasse 28–30, 1040 Vienna, Austria, phone +43 1 367 37 17. Please send data protection requests to office@beethovengroup.at.

This website sets no cookies, uses no analytics or advertising services and loads nothing from third parties when you visit: fonts, images and videos are served from our own server. Our hosting provider processes technically necessary data (IP address, time, requested address, browser identifier) to deliver the pages and fend off attacks. The legal basis is our legitimate interest in secure operation (Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR).

Hosting: Cloudflare, Inc., 101 Townsend St., San Francisco, CA 94107, USA, as processor. Cloudflare is certified under the EU-US Data Privacy Framework; transfers rely on the European Commission’s adequacy decision (Art. 45 GDPR).

We only show maps when you click ‘Load map’. Your browser then loads the map from the OpenStreetMap Foundation, St John’s Innovation Centre, Cowley Road, Cambridge, CB4 0WS, United Kingdom, which receives your IP address and browser data. The legal basis is your consent given by the click (Art. 6(1)(a) GDPR). An adequacy decision exists for the United Kingdom (Art. 45 GDPR). We do not store your choice.

Regulations and forms are provided as PDFs on this website. Our Facebook page is run by Meta Platforms Ireland Ltd.; we only link to it. Meta processes your data under its own terms only once you follow the link.

When you write to us or call, we process your details to answer your enquiry: for questions about taking part, to prepare a contract (Art. 6(1)(b) GDPR), otherwise on the basis of our legitimate interest (f). We process email with Microsoft 365 (Microsoft Ireland Operations Ltd.) as processor. We delete correspondence when it is no longer needed, at the latest three years after the last contact, unless the law requires us to keep it.

What data: name, date of birth, gender, contact details, address, details of parents or guardians for minors, a copy of your passport or ID, artistic CV, photos, programme, links to video recordings, proof of payment; during the competition also assessments, results and audio, photo and video recordings.

Why and on what basis: reviewing the application, running the competition or festival, assessment by the jury, diplomas and invitation letters (Art. 6(1)(b) GDPR); accounting and statutory retention (c); publishing results, photos and recordings on the basis of the consent form (a). You can withdraw consent at any time with effect for the future, for example by email to golden_lyre_competition@beethovengroup.at; content already lawfully published may remain in archives and the media where removal is not reasonably possible.

Recipients: jury members, including those living outside the EEA (for example in the USA); the transfer is necessary to run the competition you have agreed with us (Art. 49(1)(b) GDPR); banks for payments, and for payments in dram GALOYAN ART PRODUCTION LLC in Yerevan (also Art. 49(1)(b) GDPR); IT providers for email and file storage as processors; tax advisers; authorities only where the law requires.

How long: data of applicants who are not selected are deleted at the latest two years after the edition concerned. Participants’ data are kept for as long as legal obligations or the documentation of the competition require. Accounting records are kept for seven years (§ 132 Federal Fiscal Code). Application videos stay on the platform of your choice; we only store the link.

For participants under 18, parents or guardians sign the application form and the consent form. Where consent to online services depends on age, the threshold in Austria is 14 (§ 4(4) Data Protection Act, Art. 8 GDPR); for minors we nevertheless always obtain the agreement of their parents or guardians. We publish results and photos of participants who are minors on the basis of the consent form and as the organiser announces them: name, discipline and prize, without age or place of residence. Withdrawal by email to golden_lyre_competition@beethovengroup.at is enough; we then remove the details from this website.

You have the right of access, rectification, erasure, restriction of processing, data portability and objection (Art. 15 to 21 GDPR), and the right to withdraw consent with effect for the future. Please contact office@beethovengroup.at.

You can lodge a complaint with the Austrian Data Protection Authority: Barichgasse 40–42, 1030 Vienna, dsb.gv.at.

There is no automated decision-making or profiling.