Privacy Policy for Austrian Travel Guide
Welcome to the Austrian Travel Guide website, operated by osterch.shop. We are committed to protecting your privacy and handling your data in an open and transparent manner. This Privacy Policy outlines how we collect, use, and protect your personal information when you visit our site, osterch.shop.
1. Information We Collect
As a tourism guide blog focusing on Austrian road information, including vignettes, tolls, and travel tips, we primarily collect information that helps us provide and improve our content.
- Information You Provide Directly: This includes any information you voluntarily provide through comments on blog posts, contact forms, or newsletter sign-ups. This might include your name and email address.
- Automatically Collected Information: When you visit our website, we automatically collect certain information about your device, including information about your web browser, IP address, time zone, and some of the cookies that are installed on your device. Additionally, as you browse the site, we collect information about the individual web pages or products that you view, what websites or search terms referred you to the site, and information about how you interact with the site. We refer to this automatically-collected information as "Device Information."
- Cookies: We use cookies to collect Device Information. Cookies are data files that are placed on your device or computer and often include an anonymous unique identifier. For more information about cookies, and how to disable cookies, visit http://www.allaboutcookies.org.
2. How We Use Your Information
We use the information we collect for various purposes, including:
- To provide and maintain our website, including delivering relevant blog content about Österreich autobahn information, vignettes, and travel tips.
- To improve, personalize, and expand our website.
- To understand and analyze how you use our website.
- To communicate with you, respond to your inquiries, and provide customer support.
- To send you newsletters or marketing communications, if you have opted in to receive them.
- To detect and prevent fraudulent transactions and enhance the security of our services.
3. Legal Basis for Processing Personal Data (GDPR)
If you are from the European Economic Area (EEA), our legal basis for collecting and using the personal information described in this Privacy Policy depends on the Personal Data we collect and the specific context in which we collect it.
- Consent: We may process your data based on your explicit consent (e.g., for newsletter subscriptions).
- Legitimate Interests: We may process your data when it is necessary for our legitimate interests, provided these interests do not override your fundamental rights and freedoms (e.g., improving our website, ensuring security).
- Compliance with a Legal Obligation: We may process your data to comply with applicable laws and regulations.
4. Sharing Your Personal Information
We do not sell, trade, or otherwise transfer your personally identifiable information to outside parties. This does not include trusted third parties who assist us in operating our website, conducting our business, or serving our users, so long as those parties agree to keep this information confidential. We may also release your information when we believe release is appropriate to comply with the law, enforce our site policies, or protect ours or others' rights, property or safety.
We use Google Analytics to help us understand how our customers use the site. You can read more about how Google uses your Personal Information here: https://www.google.com/intl/en/policies/privacy/. You can also opt-out of Google Analytics here: https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout.
5. Your Data Protection Rights (GDPR)
If you are a resident of the EEA, you have certain data protection rights. We aim to take reasonable steps to allow you to correct, amend, delete, or limit the use of 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. If you would like to exercise any of these rights, please contact us.
6. Data Retention
When you provide information through our site, we will retain your information for our records unless and until you ask us to delete this information.
7. Security
The security of your Personal Data is important to us, but remember that no method of transmission over the Internet, or method of electronic storage is 100% secure. While we strive to use commercially acceptable means to protect your Personal Data, we cannot guarantee its absolute security.
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:
Austrian Travel Guide
osterch.shop