Privacy Policy

1. Data Protection at a Glance

General Information

The following information provides a quick overview of what happens with your personal data when visiting our website. Personal data are all data that can personally identify you. Please see our Privacy Policy below for detailed information regarding data protection.

Data Collection on This Website

Who is responsible for data collection on this website?

The website operator is responsible for data processing on this website. Please go to the Site Notice for the website operator’s contact details.

How do we collect your personal data?

We collect your data through information provided by you. For example, this can be data you enter in a contact form.

Other data are collected by our IT systems when you visit our website either automatically or following your consent. These are mainly technical data (e.g. internet browser, operating system, time of page view). These data are automatically collected as soon as you visit our website.

What do we use your data for?

Part of the data are collected to guarantee the flawless provision of our website. Other data may be used for analysing your user behaviour.

What are your rights regarding your data?

You have the right to information about the origin, recipient, and purpose of your stored personal data at any time and free of charge. You have moreover the right to request the rectification, disabling or erasure of such data. If you have given your consent to data processing, you can revoke this consent for the future at any time. You also have the right, under certain circumstances, to request that the processing of your personal data be limited. Furthermore, you have the right of appeal to the responsible supervisory authority.

You can contact us at any time at the address given in the Site Notice about this and other questions regarding data protection.

2. Hosting and Content Delivery Networks (CDN)

External Hosting

This website is hosted by an external service provider (hoster). The personal data collected on this website is stored on the hoster's servers. This may include IP addresses, contact requests, meta and communication data, contract data, contact data, names, website accesses and other data generated via a website.

The hoster is used for the purpose of fulfilling the contract with our potential and existing customers (Art. 6 para. 1(b) GDPR) and in the interest of secure, fast, and efficient provision of our online service by a professional provider (Art. 6 para. 1(f) GDPR).

Our hoster will only process your data to the extent necessary to fulfil their performance obligations and will follow our instructions regarding this data.

Conclusion of a contract for order processing

To guarantee processing in accordance with data protection regulations, we have concluded a contract for order processing with our hoster.

3. General and Obligatory Information

Data Protection

The operators of these pages take the protection of your personal data very seriously. We treat your personal data confidentially and in accordance with the statutory data protection regulations and this privacy policy.

When you use this website, various personal data are collected. Personal data are data that can personally identify you. This privacy policy explains what data we collect and what we use it for. It also explains how this is done and for what purpose.

We would like to point out that data transmission over the Internet (e.g. communication by email) can have security gaps. A complete protection of the data against access by third parties is not possible.

Information Regarding the Responsible Body

The body responsible for data processing on this website is:

Tourismusverband Sachsen-Anhalt e.V.
Authorised Board of Directors:
Lars-Jörn Zimmer (Chairman),
Dr Michael Ermrich, Holger Hövelmann
Managing Director: Bärbel Schön
Danzstraße 1
39104 Magdeburg
Germany

Telephone: +49 391 7384-300
Email: info@ltvlsa.de

Responsible party is the natural or legal person who, alone or jointly with others, decides on the purposes and means of processing personal data (e.g. names, email addresses, etc.).

Revocation of Your Consent to Data Processing

Many data processing operations are only possible with your express consent. You can revoke an already granted consent at any time. The lawfulness of the data processing carried out until revocation remains unaffected by the revocation.

Right to Object to Data Collection in Special Cases and to Direct Advertising (Art. 21 GDPR)

IF THE DATA PROCESSING IS CARRIED OUT ON THE BASIS OF ART. 6 PARA 1(E) OR (F) GDPR, YOU SHALL HAVE THE RIGHT TO OBJECT TO THE PROCESSING OF YOUR PERSONAL DATA AT ANY TIME FOR REASONS ARISING FROM YOUR SPECIFIC SITUATION, INCLUDING PROFILING BASED ON THESE PROVISIONS. THE RESPECTIVE LEGAL BASIS ON WHICH PROCESSING IS BASED CAN BE FOUND IN THIS PRIVACY POLICY. IF YOU OBJECT, WE WILL NO LONGER PROCESS YOUR PERSONAL DATA UNLESS WE CAN PROVE THAT THERE ARE COMPELLING REASONS FOR PROCESSING WHICH ARE WORTHY OF PROTECTION AND WHICH OUTWEIGH YOUR INTERESTS, RIGHTS AND FREEDOMS OR IF THE PROCESSING SERVES TO ASSERT, EXERCISE OR DEFEND LEGAL CLAIMS (OBJECTION AS PER ART. 21 PARA. 1 GDPR).

IF YOUR PERSONAL DATA ARE PROCESSED FOR THE PURPOSE OF DIRECT ADVERTISING, YOU HAVE THE RIGHT TO OBJECT AT ANY TIME TO THE PROCESSING OF YOUR PERSONAL DATA FOR THE PURPOSE OF SUCH ADVERTISING, INCLUDING PROFILING, INSOFAR AS IT IS LINKED TO SUCH DIRECT ADVERTISING. IF YOU OBJECT, YOUR PERSONAL DATA WILL SUBSEQUENTLY NO LONGER BE USED FOR THE PURPOSE OF DIRECT ADVERTISING (OBJECTION AS PER ART. 21 PARA. 2 GDPR).

Right of Appeal to the Competent Supervisory Authority

In the event of infringements of the GDPR, the persons concerned have a right of appeal to a supervisory authority, in particular in the Member State of their habitual residence, their place of work or the place where the suspected infringement was committed. The right of appeal is without prejudice to other administrative or judicial remedies.

Right to Portability

You have the right to have data, which we process automatically on the basis of your consent or in fulfilment of a contract, handed over to you or to a third party in a common, machine-readable format. If you request the direct transfer of the data to another responsible person, this will only take place if it is technically feasible.

SSL or TLS Encryption

This site uses SSL or TLS encryption for security reasons and to protect the transmission of confidential content, such as orders or enquiries that you send to us as the site operator. You can recognise an encrypted connection by the fact that the browser address line changes from http:// to https:// and by the lock symbol in your browser address line.

If SSL or TLS encryption is activated, the data you transmit to us cannot be read by third parties.

Information, Deletion and Rectification

Within the framework of the applicable legal provisions, you have the right to obtain information free of charge at any time about your stored personal data, its origin and recipients, and the purpose of the data processing, and, if applicable, a right to rectify or delete this data. You can contact us about this at any time at the address given in the Site Notice about this and other questions regarding personal data.

Right to Restriction of Processing

You also have the right to request that the processing of your personal data be limited. You can contact us about this at any time at the address given in the Site Notice about this. The right to restrict processing exists in the following cases:

  • If you dispute the accuracy of your personal data stored with us, we usually need time to verify this. For the duration of the audit, you have the right to request that the processing of your personal data be restricted.
  • If the processing of your personal data was/is carried out unlawfully, you can request that the data processing be restricted instead of deletion.
  • If we no longer need your personal data, but you need it to exercise, defend or assert legal claims, you have the right to request that we restrict the processing of your personal data instead of deleting it.
  • If you have lodged an objection under Art. 21 para. 1 GDPR, a balance must be struck between your interests and ours. If it is not yet clear whose interests prevail, you have the right to request that the processing of your personal data be restricted.

If you have restricted the processing of your personal data, such data, apart from being stored, may be processed only with your consent or for the purpose of asserting, exercising or defending legal claims or protecting the rights of another natural or legal person or on grounds of an important public interest of the European Union or a Member State.

4. Data Collection on this Website

Cookies

Our Internet pages use so-called cookies. Cookies are small text files and do not cause any damage on your device. They are either stored temporarily for the duration of a session (session cookies) or permanently (permanent cookies) on your device. Session cookies are automatically deleted at the end of your visit. Permanent cookies remain stored on your device until you delete them yourself or until they are automatically deleted by your web browser.

In some cases, cookies from third-party companies may also be stored on your device when you access our site (third-party cookies). These enable us or you to use certain services of the third-party company (e.g. cookies for processing payment services).

Cookies have various functions. Numerous cookies are technically necessary, as certain website functions would not function without them (e.g. the shopping basket function or the display of videos). Other cookies are used to analyse user behaviour or display advertising.

Cookies that are required to carry out the electronic communication process (necessary cookies) or to provide certain functions requested by you (functional cookies, e.g. for the shopping basket function) or to optimise the website (e.g. cookies to measure the web audience) are stored on the basis of Art. 6 para. 1(f) GDPR unless another legal basis is given. The website operator has a legitimate interest in the storage of cookies for technically error-free and optimised provision of their services. If consent to the storage of cookies has been requested, the cookies in question will be stored exclusively based on this consent (Art. 6 para. 1(a) GDPR); consent may be revoked at any time.

You can set your browser so that you are informed about the setting of cookies and allow cookies only in individual cases, exclude the acceptance of cookies for certain cases or in general, and activate the automatic deletion of cookies when closing the browser. If you disable cookies, the functionality of this website may be limited.

Insofar as cookies are used by third-party companies or for analysis purposes, we will inform you separately about this within the framework of this privacy policy and, if necessary, request your consent.

 

Server Log Files

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

  • Browser type and version
  • Operating system used
  • Referrer URL
  • Host name of the accessing computer
  • Time of the server request
  • IP address

These data are not merged with other data sources.

These data are collected on the basis of Art. 6 para. 1(f) GDPR. The website operator has a legitimate interest in the technically error-free presentation and optimisation of his website - for this purpose, the server log files must be recorded.

Contact Form

If you send us enquiries via the contact form, your details from the enquiry form including the contact data you provide there will be stored by us for the purpose of processing the enquiry and in the event of follow-up questions. We will not pass on this data without your consent.

This data is processed on the basis of Art. 6 para. 1(b) GDPR insofar as your enquiry is related to the fulfilment of a contract or is necessary for the implementation of pre-contractual measures. In all other cases the processing is based on our legitimate interest in the effective processing of the enquiries addressed to us (Art. 6 para. 1(f) GDPR) or on your consent (Art. 6 para. 1(a) GDPR), provided that such consent has been requested.

The data you enter in the contact form remains with us until you request that we delete it, revoke your consent for storage or the purpose for which the data is stored no longer applies (e.g. after your enquiry has been processed). Mandatory statutory provisions - in particular, retention periods - remain unaffected.

Enquiries by Email, Telephone or Telefax

If you contact us by email, telephone or fax, your enquiry including all personal data contained therein (name, enquiry) will be stored and processed by us for the purpose of processing your enquiry. We will not pass on this data without your consent.

This data is processed on the basis of Art. 6 para. 1(b) GDPR insofar as your enquiry is related to the fulfilment of a contract or is necessary for the implementation of pre-contractual measures. In all other cases the processing is based on our legitimate interest in the effective processing of the enquiries addressed to us (Art. 6 para. 1(f) GDPR) or on your consent (Art. 6 para. 1(a) GDPR), provided that such consent has been requested.

The data you enter in the contact form remains with us until you request that we delete it, revoke your consent for storage or the purpose for which the data is stored no longer applies (e.g. after your enquiry has been processed to completion). Mandatory statutory provisions - in particular, retention periods - remain unaffected.

 

5. Plugins and Tools

Google Maps

This site uses the map service Google Maps via an API. The provider is Google Ireland Limited ("Google"), Gordon House, Barrow Street, Dublin 4, Ireland.

To use the functions of Google Maps it is necessary to store your IP address. This information is usually transferred to a Google server in the USA and stored there. The provider of this site has no influence on this data transmission.

The use of Google Maps is in the interest of an appealing presentation of our online provision and to make it easy to find the places we refer to on the website. This is a legitimate interest pursuant to Art. 6 Para. 1(f) GDPR. If the relevant consent has been requested, processing shall be carried out exclusively on the basis of Art. 6 Para. 1(a) GDPR; consent may be revoked at any time.

For more information regarding the handling of user data, please see the data protection declaration of Google: https://policies.google.com/privacy?hl=en-US.

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