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Privacy policy

The protection of your personal data is very important to us. Therefore we process your data exclusively on the basis of the legal regulations (DSGVO, TKG 2003). In this privacy policy we inform you about the most important aspects of data processing within our website.

What personal data we collect and why we collect it

Submissions / emails

The editors reserve the right to publish letters to the editor / e-mails – with their full name, address and e-mail address – also shortened. (Please let us know if you disagree with a publication.) We reserve the right not to post articles posted by readers via the comment function in the articles if, in the opinion of the editors, they are considered as spam, unwanted advertising, discriminatory or contain offensive or inconsistent statements with the laws of the Federal Republic of Germany.

Comments

When visitors leave comments on the site we collect the data shown in the comments form, and also the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to help spam detection.

Cookies

General

The internet pages partly use so-called cookies. Cookies do not harm your computer and do not contain viruses. Cookies serve to make our offer more user-friendly, effective and secure. Cookies are small text files that are stored on your computer and stored by your browser. Most of the cookies we use are so-called “session cookies”. They are automatically deleted after your visit. Other cookies remain stored on your device until you delete them. These cookies allow us to recognize your browser the next time you visit.

Commenting on our site

When you post a comment on our website, it may be a consent to save your name, email address and website in cookies. This is a convenience feature so you do not have to re-enter all this data if you write another comment. These cookies are stored for one year.

Session Cookies for VG Wort

To measure access to texts, we use “session cookies” from VG Wort, Munich, to record the copy probability. Session cookies are small pieces of information that a provider stores in the memory of the visitor’s computer. In a session cookie, a randomly generated unique identification number is stored, a so-called session ID. In addition, a cookie contains information about its origin and the retention period. Session cookies can not save other data. These measurements are carried out by INFOnline GmbH according to the Scalable Central Measurement Method (SZM). They help to determine the copying probability of individual texts for the remuneration of legal claims of authors and publishers. We do not collect personal information about cookies.

Many of our pages are provided with JavaScript calls, through which we report the access to the collecting society Wort (VG Wort). We allow our authors to participate in the distributions of the VG Wort, which complies with the statutory remuneration for the use of copyrighted works in accordance with Art. § 53 UrhG.

A use of our offers is also possible without cookies. Most browsers are set to automatically accept cookies. However, you can disable the storage of cookies or set your browser to notify you when cookies are sent.

Our website uses the Borlabs cookie consent technology to obtain your consent to the storage of certain cookies in your browser and for their data privacy protection compliant documentation. The provider of this technology is Borlabs – Benjamin A. Bornschein, Georg-Wilhelm-Str. 17, 21107 Hamburg, Germany (hereinafter referred to as Borlabs).

Whenever you visit our website, a Borlabs cookie will be stored in your browser, which archives any declarations or revocations of consent you have entered. These data are not shared with the provider of the Borlabs technology.

The recorded data shall remain archived until you ask us to eradicate them, delete the Borlabs cookie on your own or the purpose of storing the data no longer exists. This shall be without prejudice to any retention obligations mandated by law. To review the details of Borlabs’ data processing policies, please visit https://de.borlabs.io/kb/welche-daten-speichert-borlabs-cookie/

We use the Borlabs cookie consent technology to obtain the declarations of consent mandated by law for the use of cookies. The legal basis for the use of such cookies is Art. 6 Sect. 1 Sentence 1 lit. c GDPR.

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Server Logs

The provider of the pages automatically collects and stores information in so-called server log files, which your browser automatically transmits to us. These are: among others

  • Browser name and browser version and operating system used
  • Referrer URL
  • Host name of the accessing computer
  • Time of the server request

These data can not be assigned to specific persons. A merge of this data with other data sources will not be done. We reserve the right to check this data retrospectively, if we become aware of specific indications for illegal use.

Newsletter

With the following information we inform you about the contents of our newsletter as well as the registration, dispatch and statistical evaluation procedures as well as your right of objection. By subscribing to our newsletter, you agree to the receipt and the procedures described.

Content of the newsletter: We send newsletters, e-mails and other electronic notifications with advertising information (hereinafter “newsletter”) only with the consent of the recipient or a legal permission. Insofar as the contents of a newsletter are concretely described, they are authoritative for the consent of the users. Incidentally, our newsletter contains information about our services and us.

Double opt-in and logging: Registration for our newsletter is done in a so-called double-opt-in procedure. That After registration, you will receive an e-mail asking you to confirm your registration. This confirmation is necessary so that nobody can register with external e-mail addresses. The registration for the newsletter will be logged in order to prove the registration process according to the legal requirements. This includes the storage of the login and the confirmation time, as well as the IP address. Likewise, changes to your data stored with the shipping service provider will be logged.

Credentials: To subscribe to the newsletter, it is sufficient to provide your e-mail address. Optionally, we ask you to give a name in the newsletter for personal address.

The dispatch of the newsletter and the related performance measurement is based on the consent of the recipient acc. Art. 6 Abs. 1 lit. a, Art. 7 DSGVO i.V.m. § 7Abs. 2 No. 3 UWG or on the basis of the legal permission in accordance with. § 7Abs. 3 UWG.

The logging of the registration process is based on our legitimate interests in accordance with. Art. 6Abs. 1 lit. f DSGVO. Our interest lies in the use of a user-friendly and secure newsletter system, which serves both our business interests and the expectations of the users and also allows us to prove our consent.

Termination / Revocation – You may terminate the receipt of our newsletter at any time, ie. Revoke your consent. A link to cancel the newsletter can be found at the end of each newsletter. We may save the submitted email addresses for up to three years based on our legitimate interests before we delete them to provide prior consent. The processing of this data is limited to the purpose of a possible defense against claims. An individual request for cancellation is possible at any time, provided that at the same time the former existence of a consent is confirmed.

Newsletter – Mailchimp

The newsletters will be sent by MailChimp, a mail-order service provider of Rocket Science Group, LLC, 675 Ponce De Leon Ave # 5000, Atlanta, GA 30308, USA. The privacy policy of the shipping service provider can be viewed here: https://mailchimp.com/legal/privacy/. The Rocket Science Group LLC is certified under the Privacy Shield Agreement, which provides a guarantee to comply with European data protection standards (https://www.privacyshield.gov/participant?id=a2zt0000000TO6hAAG&status=Active). The shipping service provider is based on our legitimate interests acc. Art. 6 section. 1 lit. f DSGVO and a contract processing agreement acc. Art. 28 section. 3 p. 1 DSGVO.

The shipping service provider may use the data of the recipients in pseudonymous form, i. without assignment to a user, to optimize or improve their own services, e.g. for the technical optimization of shipping and the presentation of newsletters or for statistical purposes. However, the shipping service provider does not use the data of our newsletter recipients to address them themselves or to pass the data on to third parties.

Newsletter – measuring success

The newsletters contain a so-called “web-beacon”, i. a pixel-sized file that is retrieved from the server when opening the newsletter from our server, or if we use a shipping service provider. This call will initially collect technical information, such as information about the browser and your system, as well as your IP address and time of retrieval.

This information is used to improve the technical performance of services based on their specifications or audience and their reading habits, based on their locations (which can be determined using the IP address) or access times. Statistical surveys also include determining if the newsletters will be opened, when they will be opened and which links will be clicked. For technical reasons, this information can be assigned to the individual newsletter recipients. However, it is neither our goal nor, if used, that of the shipping service provider to observe individual users. The evaluations serve us much more to recognize the reading habits of our users and to adapt our content to them or to send different content according to the interests of our users.

Hosting

The hosting services we use are for the purpose of providing the following services: infrastructure and platform services, computing capacity, storage and database services, security and technical maintenance services we use to operate this online service.

Here we, or our hosting provider, process inventory data, contact data, content data, contract data, usage data, meta and communication data of customers, interested parties and visitors to this online offer on the basis of our legitimate interests in an efficient and secure provision of this online offer acc. Art. 6Abs. 1 lit. f DSGVO i.V.m. Art. 28DSGVO (conclusion of contract processing contract).

Web-Analysis

Our website uses functions of the self-hosted web analysis service Metomo. For this purpose, cookies are used that allow an analysis of the use of the website by your users. The information generated thereby is stored on the same server as this website and will not be disclosed. Although your IP address is detected, it is pseudonymized immediately (for example, by deleting the last 8 bits). As a result, only a rough localization is possible ..

The data processing takes place on the basis of the legal regulations of the § 96 Abs 3 TKG as well as the art 6 Abs 1 a) (consent) and / or f (legitimate interest) of the DSGVO. Our concern in the sense of the DSGVO (legitimate interest) is the improvement of our offer and our website. Since the privacy of our users is important to us, the user data is pseudonymized. The user data is kept for a period of 12 months [this must be clarified with the web analysis service].

Tracking through web analytics services can be disabled at any time. For this purpose, the following opt-out can be used.

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Integration of services and contents of third parties

Within our online offer based on our legitimate interests (ie interest in the analysis, optimization and economic operation of our online offer within the meaning of Art. 6Abs. 1 lit., DSGVO), we make use of third-party content or service offerings for their content and services , such as Include videos or fonts (collectively referred to as “content”).

This always presupposes that the third-party providers of this content perceive the IP address of the users, since they could not send the content to their browser without the IP address. The IP address is therefore required for the presentation of this content. We endeavor to use only content whose respective providers use the IP address solely for the delivery of the content. Third parties may also use so-called pixel tags (invisible graphics, also referred to as “web beacons”) for statistical or marketing purposes. The “pixel tags” can be used to evaluate information such as visitor traffic on the pages of this website. The pseudonymous information may also be stored in cookies on the user’s device and may include, but is not limited to, technical information about the browser and operating system, referring web pages, visit time, and other information regarding the use of our online offer.

Twitter

Within our online offering, features and content of the Twitter service offered by Twitter Inc., 1355 Market Street, Suite 900, San Francisco, CA 94103, USA, may be incorporated. For this, e.g. Content such as images, videos, or text and buttons that users use to promote their content, subscribe to content creators, or subscribe to our posts. If the users are members of the platform Twitter, Twitter can call the o.g. Assign contents and functions to the profiles of the users there. Twitter is certified under the Privacy Shield Agreement, which provides a guarantee to comply with European privacy legislation (https://www.privacyshield.gov/participant?id=a2zt0000000TORzAAO&status=Active). Privacy Policy: https://twitter.com/privacy, Opt-Out: https://twitter.com/personalization.

Instagram

Within our online offering, features and content of the Instagram service offered by Instagram Inc., 1601 Willow Road, Menlo Park, CA, 94025, USA, may be incorporated. For this, e.g. Content such as images, videos, or text and buttons that users use to promote their content, subscribe to the content creators, or subscribe to our posts. If the users are members of the platform Instagram, Instagram can call the o.g. Assign contents and functions to the profiles of the users there. Instagram privacy policy: http://instagram.com/about/legal/privacy/.

Google+

Our pages use features of Google+. Provider is Google Inc., 1600 Amphitheater Parkway Mountain View, CA 94043, USA.

Collect and share information: Use the Google + button to post information worldwide. The Google + button will provide you and other users with personalized content from Google and our partners. Google stores both the information that you + 1’d for a piece of content and information about the page you viewed when you clicked +1. Your + 1’s may appear alongside your profile name and photo in Google services, such as search results or in your Google profile, or elsewhere on websites and ads on the web.

Google records information about your + 1 activity to improve Google’s services to you and others. To use the Google + button, you need a globally visible, public Google profile that must contain at least the name chosen for the profile. This name will be used in all Google services. In some cases, this name may also replace a different name you used when sharing content through your Google Account. The identity of your Google Profile may be displayed to users who know your email address or have other identifying information from you.

Use of the information collected: In addition to the uses outlined above, the information you provide will be used in accordance with the applicable Google privacy policy. Google may publish summarized statistics about users’ + 1 activity or share it with users and partners, such as publishers, advertisers, or affiliate websites.

Counting pixels collecting society WORD (VG WORD)

We set on our side the so-called “Counting pixels” of the collecting society WORT in the form of the SZM (“Scalable central measuring method”) of the supplier INFOnline GmbH (INFOnline GmbH, Forum Bonn North, Brühler Str. 9, 53119 Bonn) for the determination of statistical key figures in terms of the copy probability of texts.

The obtained data is collected anonymously. The detection of traffic used to recognize visitors to our site either a so-called session cookie or a signature that is created from various automatically transmitted information from your browser. The IP address is only processed in anonymous form. At no time will individual users be identified. This method is intended to determine the copy probability of individual texts.

Amazon partner programm

The controller, as a participant in the Amazon Affiliate Program, has integrated Amazon components on this site. The Amazon components were designed by Amazon to help advertisers advertise on various Amazon Group websites, including Amazon.co.uk, Local.Amazon.co.uk, Amazon.co.uk, BuyVIP.com, Amazon.fr , Amazon.it and Amazon.es. BuyVIP.com against payment of a commission to mediate. The controller may generate advertising revenue by using the Amazon components.

The operating company of these Amazon components is Amazon EU S.à.r.l, 5 Rue Plaetis, L-2338 Luxembourg, Luxembourg.

Amazon sets a cookie on the information technology system of the person concerned. What cookies are, has already been explained above. Each individual call of one of the individual pages of this website, which is operated by the controller and on which an Amazon component has been integrated, the Internet browser on the information technology system of the person concerned is automatically caused by the respective Amazon component, data for Purposes of online advertising and billing of commissions to Amazon. As part of this technical process, Amazon will be aware of personally identifiable information that Amazon uses to track the origin of orders received by Amazon and subsequently allow commission clearing. Among other things, Amazon understands that the person has clicked on a partner link on our website.

The affected person can prevent the setting of cookies through our website, as shown above, at any time by means of a corresponding setting of the Internet browser used and thus permanently contradict the setting of cookies. Such a setting of the Internet browser used would also prevent Amazon from setting a cookie on the information technology system of the person concerned. In addition, cookies already set by Amazon can be deleted at any time via an internet browser or other software programs.

Additional information and Amazon’s privacy policy can be found at https://www.amazon.de/gp/help/customer/display.html?nodeId=3312401.

Affiliate – Awin

The controller has integrated components from Awin on this website. Awin is a German affiliate network that offers affiliate marketing. Affiliate marketing is an Internet-based form of distribution that allows commercial operators of websites, the so-called merchants or advertisers, advertising, which is usually remunerated via click or sale commissions, on third-party websites, ie sales partners, affiliates or publishers be called, show. The merchant provides through the affiliate network an advertising material, ie a banner or other suitable means of Internet advertising available, which subsequently incorporated by an affiliate on their own websites or other channels, such as the keyword advertising or e-mail Marketing, be advertised.

The operating company of Awin is Awin AG, Eichhornstraße 3, 10785 Berlin, Germany.

Awin sets a cookie on the information technology system of the person concerned. What cookies are, has already been explained above. Awin’s tracking cookie does not store any personal data. Only the identification number of the affiliate, ie the partner mediating the potential customer, as well as the ordinal number of the visitor of an internet site and the clicked advertising medium are stored. The purpose of the storage of this data is the processing of commission payments between a merchant and the affiliate, which are processed via the affiliate network, ie Awin.

The affected person can prevent the setting of cookies through our website, as shown above, at any time by means of a corresponding setting of the Internet browser used and thus permanently contradict the setting of cookies. Such a setting of the Internet browser used would also prevent Awin from setting a cookie on the information technology system of the person concerned. In addition, cookies already set by Awin can be deleted at any time via an internet browser or other software programs.

Awin’s applicable privacy policy can be found at http://www.Awin.com/about-Awin/datenschutz/.

Tradedoubler

The controller has integrated components from Tradedoubler on this website. Tradedoubler is a German affiliate network that offers affiliate marketing. Affiliate marketing is an Internet-based form of distribution that allows commercial operators of websites, the so-called merchants or advertisers, advertising, which is usually remunerated via click or sale commissions, on third-party websites, ie sales partners, affiliates or publishers be called, show. The merchant makes available through the affiliate network an advertising medium, ie an advertising banner or other suitable means of Internet advertising, which is subsequently incorporated by an affiliate on its own website or via other channels, such as keyword advertising or e-mail Marketing, be advertised.

The operating company of Tradedoubler is Tradedoubler GmbH, Herzog-Wilhelm-Straße 26, 80331 Munich, Germany.

Tradedoubler sets a cookie on the information technology system of the person concerned. What cookies are, has already been explained above. Tradedoubler’s tracking cookie does not store any personal information. Only the identification number of the affiliate, ie the partner mediating the potential customer, as well as the ordinal number of the visitor of an internet site and the clicked advertising medium are stored. The purpose of the storage of this data is the processing of commission payments between a merchant and the affiliate, which are handled via the affiliate network, so Tradedoubler.

The affected person can prevent the setting of cookies through our website, as shown above, at any time by means of a corresponding setting of the Internet browser used and thus permanently contradict the setting of cookies. Such a setting of the Internet browser used would also prevent Tradedoubler from setting a cookie on the information technology system of the person concerned. In addition, cookies already set by Tradedoubler can be deleted at any time via an Internet browser or other software programs.

The applicable data protection policy of Tradedoubler can be found at http://www.tradedoubler.com/en/ privacy_policy.

Basis of legitimate interest

The data processing is based on the principle of legitimate interest.

Processing the data helps us to find out what works on our site and what does not. For example, we find out if the content is well received or how we can improve the structure of the website. Our team benefits and can respond. Due to the data processing, you benefit from a website that is constantly improving.

Without the data we could not provide the service. Your data is used solely to improve website use.

How long we save your data

If you write a comment, it will be stored indefinitely including metadata. That way, we can automatically detect and approve episode comments instead of keeping them in a moderation queue.

Details on transfer to third countries

The data of this website and Matomo are hosted in Germany. The data never leaves the EU. At registration.

If we process data in a third country (ie outside the European Union (EU) or the European Economic Area (EEA)) or in the context of the use of third party services or disclosure or transmission of data to third parties, this will only be done if it is to fulfill our legal obligation or based on our legitimate interests. Subject to legal or contractual permissions, we process or leave the data in a third country only if the special conditions of Art. 44 et seq. Process DSGVO. That the processing is e.g. on the basis of specific guarantees, such as the officially recognized level of data protection (eg for the US through the Privacy Shield) or compliance with officially recognized special contractual obligations (so-called “standard contractual clauses”).

Mit wem wir deine Daten teilen

Personal data could be accessed by:

  • the editorial team of travellersarchive
  • ALL-INKL.COM – Neue Medien Münnich (host of the webspace; privacy declaration )

Your rights

In principle, you have the rights to information, correction, deletion, restriction, data portability, revocation and opposition. If you believe that the processing of your data violates data protection law or your data protection claims have otherwise been violated in a way, you can complain to the relevant data protection authority.

You can reach us under the following contact details:

Travellers Archive
Anne Steinbach und Clemens Sehi GbR
Hansastrasse 64, 13088 Berlin, Germany

 

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