Last updated: 21 September 2026
This Privacy Policy explains how personal data is processed when you visit www.petraabraham.com or contact me through the website.
I respect your privacy and aim to collect and use only the information necessary to operate the website and respond to genuine enquiries.
1. Data Controller
The data controller responsible for the processing of personal data on this website is:
Petra Abraham
Email: petra.aabraham@gmail.com
2. What Personal Data Do I Collect?
Information you voluntarily provide
I collect personal information that you voluntarily provide when you choose to contact me through the contact form.
This may include:
your name;
your email address; and
the content of your message or any other information you voluntarily include in your enquiry.
I use this information to respond to your enquiry, communicate with you about my services, and discuss a potential business relationship.
I do not require you to provide personal information unless it is necessary for me to respond to your enquiry.
Information processed through Squarespace
This website is hosted on Squarespace.
As such, this website collects personal information to power the site analytics, including:
Information about your browser, network, and device
Web pages you visited prior to coming to this website
Your IP address
This information may also include details about your use of this website, including:
Clicks
Internal links
Pages visited
Scrolling
Searches
Timestamps
This information is provided to Squarespace, the website analytics provider, to learn about site traffic and activity.
3. Contact Form
If you use the contact form, the information you submit is processed through Squarespace's website services.
The purpose of collecting this information is to enable me to receive and respond to your enquiry.
I do not sell, rent or otherwise commercially distribute the information you submit through the contact form.
I do not use contact-form information for unrelated advertising or marketing purposes.
4. Purpose of Processing
Personal data is processed for the following purposes:
operating and maintaining the website;
understanding general website traffic and activity;
improving the website and its content;
responding to enquiries;
communicating with potential clients;
discussing potential services or projects; and
establishing or managing a potential business relationship.
5. Legal Basis for Processing
Where you voluntarily submit your name, email address and message through the contact form, I process this information because you have requested contact and because the processing is necessary to respond to your enquiry and, where applicable, to take steps at your request before entering into a potential business relationship.
Website and technical data processed in connection with operating the website and Squarespace services is processed on the basis applicable under data protection law, including where necessary for the legitimate interests of maintaining, securing and improving the website.
Where consent is legally required for non-essential cookies or similar technologies, the relevant consent mechanism will be used.
6. Squarespace
This website is hosted by Squarespace.
Squarespace may process certain visitor information independently for purposes including operating, securing and improving its services. Squarespace collects personal information when you visit this website, including:
Information about your browser, network and device
Web pages you visited prior to coming to this website
Web pages you view while on this website
Your IP address
Squarespace needs the data to run this website, and to protect and improve its platform and services. You can read more about how Squarespace uses your data (site usage information of end users) for its own purposes in their Privacy Policy.
7. Cookies and Analytics
This website is hosted by Squarespace.
Squarespace uses cookies and similar technologies to operate websites and, where enabled, to provide analytics and performance information.
This website uses cookies and similar technologies, which are small files or pieces of text that download to a device when a visitor accesses a website or app. For information about viewing the cookies dropped on your device, visit The cookies Squarespace uses.
These necessary and required cookies are always used, which allow Squarespace, our hosting platform, to securely serve this website to you.
These analytics and performance cookies are used on this website, as described below, only when you acknowledge our cookie banner. This website uses analytics and performance cookies to view site traffic, activity, and other data.
I have not added Google Analytics, Meta Pixel, advertising pixels, newsletter services, booking systems or other third-party tracking tools to this website.
8. Third-Party Services
Apart from Squarespace, I have not intentionally integrated third-party services that collect personal information from website visitors.
This website does not currently use:
Google Analytics;
Meta Pixel;
advertising or remarketing tools;
newsletter or email-marketing platforms;
third-party booking or scheduling systems; or
other third-party tracking or marketing tools.
If additional services are introduced in the future, this Privacy Policy will be updated where necessary.
9. Sharing of Personal Data
I do not sell, rent or commercially distribute your personal data.
Your information may be processed by Squarespace as part of providing website hosting, contact-form and related website services.
Personal data may also be disclosed where required by law or where necessary to establish, exercise or defend legal claims.
Squarespace states that, depending on the circumstances, personal information may be processed outside the European Economic Area and that it uses appropriate safeguards for relevant international transfers.
10. How Long Is Your Data Kept?
Information submitted through the contact form is retained only for as long as reasonably necessary to respond to your enquiry and manage the resulting communication or potential business relationship.
If no business relationship develops, I will delete or otherwise stop retaining the information when it is no longer reasonably necessary for these purposes, unless a longer retention period is required by law.
Technical and analytics information processed through Squarespace may be retained in accordance with Squarespace's own policies and applicable retention periods.
11. Data Security
I take reasonable technical and organisational measures to protect personal information against unauthorised access, loss, misuse or disclosure.
The website is hosted by Squarespace, which maintains its own security measures for its platform and services.
However, no transmission of information over the internet can be guaranteed to be completely secure.
12. Your Rights Under the GDPR
If you are in the European Economic Area, you have rights under the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), subject to applicable legal conditions.
These may include the right to:
request access to your personal data;
request correction of inaccurate or incomplete personal data;
request deletion of your personal data;
request restriction of processing;
object to certain processing; and
request data portability where applicable.
If you have provided consent for a particular processing activity, you may withdraw that consent at any time. Withdrawal does not affect the lawfulness of processing carried out before the withdrawal.
To exercise your rights, please contact me using the contact details provided below.
13. Right to Lodge a Complaint
You also have the right to lodge a complaint with a data protection supervisory authority if you believe that your personal data has been processed unlawfully.
As I am based in Austria, the relevant supervisory authority is:
Österreichische Datenschutzbehörde (Austrian Data Protection Authority)
Barichgasse 40–42
1030 Vienna
Austria
Website: dsb.gv.at
14. Changes to This Privacy Policy
I may update this Privacy Policy from time to time to reflect changes to the website, the services I provide, the way personal data is processed, or applicable legal requirements.
The latest version will always be available on this page.
15. Contact
If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy or the processing of your personal data, please contact:
Petra Abraham
Email: petra.aabraham@gmail.com