Privacy Policy
Your privacy is of utmost importance to us. This Privacy Policy outlines how our online platform, dedicated to promoting scenic road trips across Austria, collects, uses, and protects your personal information in compliance with the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and other applicable data protection laws. By using our site, you agree to the practices described in this policy.
1. Information We Collect
When you visit our site, we may collect certain types of information to enhance your experience and provide our services.
- Automatically Collected Information: We automatically collect certain information when you access or use our online platform. This may include your IP address, browser type, operating system, referring URLs, pages viewed, and the dates/times of your visits. This data helps us understand how users interact with our site and improve our content, such as popular road trip routes and tips.
- Cookies and Similar Technologies: Our site uses cookies and similar tracking technologies to track the activity on our service and hold certain information. Cookies are small data files placed on your device. We use them to remember your preferences (e.g., preferred language, viewed itineraries), analyze site traffic, and personalize your experience, ensuring the mood remains relaxing and inspirational. You can instruct your browser to refuse all cookies or to indicate when a cookie is being sent. However, if you do not accept cookies, you may not be able to use some portions of our service.
2. How We Use Your Information
The information we collect is used in various ways to operate and improve our service:
- To Provide and Maintain Our Service: We use the information to display and ensure the functionality of our website, allowing you to explore popular routes, road trip tips, and suggested itineraries effectively.
- To Improve Our Service: We analyze usage patterns to understand which road trip routes or tips are most popular, helping us to continually enhance the user experience and develop new content, such as additional scenic stops or driving rules.
- To Personalize Your Experience: Information may be used to tailor the content and recommendations you see, for example, suggesting other itineraries based on your browsing history of Alpine passes or vineyards.
- For Security and Fraud Prevention: We use information to maintain the security of our site and to detect and prevent malicious activities.
3. Sharing Your Information
We do not sell, trade, or otherwise transfer your personally identifiable information to outside parties. However, we may share non-personally identifiable information, such as aggregated usage statistics, with third parties to analyze trends or for marketing purposes related to promoting scenic road trips. We may also share information with trusted third-party service providers who assist us in operating our website, conducting our business, or serving our users, provided those parties agree to keep this information confidential and comply with data protection laws.
- Legal Requirements: We may disclose your information when required to do so by law or in response to valid requests by public authorities (e.g., a court or a government agency).
- Business Transfers: In the event of a merger, acquisition, or asset sale, your information may be transferred as a business asset.
4. Data Security
We implement a variety of security measures to maintain the safety of your information when you access or use our site. These measures include using secure servers, firewalls, and encryption protocols. We strive to protect your personal data but cannot guarantee its absolute security, given the inherent risks of online data transmission.
5. Your Data Protection Rights (GDPR)
Under the GDPR, you have the following rights regarding your personal data:
- The Right to Access: You have the right to request copies of your personal data.
- The Right to Rectification: You have the right to request that we correct any information you believe is inaccurate or complete information you believe is incomplete.
- The Right to Erasure: You have the right to request that we erase your personal data, under certain conditions.
- The Right to Restrict Processing: You have the right to request that we restrict the processing of your personal data, under certain conditions.
- The Right to Object to Processing: You have the right to object to our processing of your personal data, under certain conditions.
- The Right to Data Portability: You have the right to request that we transfer the data that we have collected to another organization, or directly to you, under certain conditions.
If you make a request, we have one month to respond to you. To exercise any of these rights, please contact us using the physical address provided below.
6. Children’s Privacy
Our service does not address anyone under the age of 16. We do not knowingly collect personally identifiable information from anyone under 16. If you are a parent or guardian and you are aware that your child has provided us with personal data, please contact us. If we become aware that we have collected personal data from anyone under the age of 16 without verification of parental consent, we take steps to remove that information from our servers.
7. Links to Other Websites
Our service may contain links to other websites that are not operated by us. If you click on a third-party link, you will be directed to that third party's site. We strongly advise you to review the Privacy Policy of every site you visit. We have no control over and assume no responsibility for the content, privacy policies, or practices of any third-party sites or services.
8. Changes to This Privacy Policy
We may update our Privacy Policy from time to time. We will notify you of any changes by posting the new Privacy Policy on this page. You are advised to review this Privacy Policy periodically for any changes. Changes to this Privacy Policy are effective when they are posted on this page.
9. Contact Us
If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, please contact us:
Alpine Road Trip Adventures GmbH
Hauptstraße 15
1010 Vienna, Austria