This privacy policy informs users of the website “seenland-oderspree.de” about the type, scope and purpose of the collection and use of personal data by the responsible provider Seenland Oder-Spree e. V., Ulmenstraße 15, 15526 Bad Saarow, email: info@seenland-os.de, Tel.: +49 33631 868 100 on this website.

Seenland Oder-Spree e. V. is subject to the provisions of the European General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), the Federal Data Protection Act (BDSG) and other relevant data protection regulations, and appropriate technical and organizational measures have been taken to ensure that the data protection regulations are observed.

The data processing controller on this website is:

Seenland Oder-Spree e. V.
Ulmenstraße 15, 15526 Bad Saarow
Phone: 033631 868 100
Email: info@seenland-os.de

The responsible body 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, e-mail addresses, etc.).

Personal data (individual details about personal or factual circumstances of a specific or identifiable natural person, e.g. name, address, telephone number, email address or date of birth) are only collected if the processing of this data is lawful. This would be the case if you have given us your consent on this website (Art. 6 Para. 1 lit. a and 7 GDPR) or if the processing is necessary to fulfill a contract (Art. 6 Para. 1 lit. b GDPR) or due to legitimate interests of the provider or a third party (Art. 6 Para. 1 lit. f GDPR).

If you have voluntarily provided Seenland Oder-Spree e. V. with personal data, e.g. by contacting us electronically (contact form) with your consent, only the data you have provided will be collected and used exclusively to answer your query. Data will only be transferred to third parties if there is a legal obligation to do so.

After your request has been processed, your data will be blocked for further use and deleted after the tax and commercial retention periods have expired. You have the right to revoke your consent at any time with effect for the future and/or to object to the collection, processing and use of your data. You can find the contact details at the end of this privacy policy or under every form in which you can enter or submit personal data.

When calling our website www.seenland-oderspree.de the browser used on your device automatically sends information to the server of our website. This information is temporarily stored in a so-called log file. The following information is recorded without your intervention and stored until it is automatically deleted:

• IP address of the requesting computer,
• Date and time of access,
• Name and URL of the retrieved file,
• access methods/functions requested by the requesting computer,
• access status of the web server,
• Website from which access is made (referrer URL),
• browser used and, if applicable, the operating system of your computer as well as
• the name of your access provider.

The data mentioned are processed by us for the following purposes:

• Ensuring a smooth connection of the website,
• Ensuring comfortable use of our website,
• Evaluation of system security and stability as well
• for further administrative purposes.

The legal basis for data processing is Art. 6 (1) (f) GDPR. Our legitimate interest follows from the purposes for data collection listed above. Under no circumstances do we use the data collected to draw conclusions about you personally. In addition, we use cookies and analysis services when you visit our website. You will find more detailed explanations of this in this privacy policy below.

We use cookies on our website. These are small files that your browser automatically creates and that are stored on your device (laptop, tablet, smartphone, etc.) when you visit our website. Cookies do not cause any damage to your device and do not contain any viruses, Trojans or other malware.

The cookie stores information that is related to the specific device used. However, this does not mean that we receive direct knowledge of your identity.

The use of cookies serves, on the one hand, to make the use of our services more pleasant for you. For example, we use so-called session cookies to recognize that you have already visited individual pages of our website. These are automatically deleted after you leave our site.

In addition, we also use temporary cookies to optimize user-friendliness, which are stored on your device for a specific period of time. If you visit our site again to use our services, it will automatically recognize that you have already visited us and which entries and settings you have made so that you do not have to enter them again.

We also use cookies to statistically record the use of our website and to evaluate it for the purpose of optimizing our offer for you. These cookies enable us to automatically recognize that you have already visited our site when you visit it again. These cookies are automatically deleted after a defined period of time.

The data processed by cookies are required for the purposes mentioned to safeguard our legitimate interests and those of third parties in accordance with Art. 6 Para. 1 S. 1 lit. f GDPR required.

Most browsers automatically accept cookies. However, you can configure your browser so that no cookies are stored on your computer or so that a warning always appears before a new cookie is created. However, completely disabling cookies may mean that you cannot use all the functions of our website. 

a) Tracking tools

The tracking measures listed below and used by us are carried out on the basis of Art. 6 Paragraph 1 Clause 1 Letter f of GDPR. With the tracking measures used, we want to ensure that our website is designed to meet your needs and is continuously optimized. On the other hand, we use the tracking measures to statistically record the use of our website and to evaluate it for the purpose of optimizing our offer for you. These interests are to be regarded as legitimate within the meaning of the aforementioned provision.

The respective data processing purposes and data categories can be found in the corresponding tracking tools.

b) Google Analytics

For the purpose of needs-based design and continuous optimization of our website, we use Google Analytics, a web analysis service provided by Google Inc. (Https://www.google.de/intl/de/about/) (1600 Amphitheater Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA; hereinafter “Google”). In this context, pseudonymised usage profiles are created and cookies (see section 4) are used. The information generated by the cookie about your use of this website such as

• Browser type / version,
• used operating system,
• Referrer URL (the previously visited page),
• Host name of the accessing computer (IP address),
• Time of server request,

are transferred to a Google server in the USA and stored there. The information is used to evaluate the use of the website, to compile reports on website activity and to provide other services related to website activity and internet usage for the purposes of market research and needs-based design of these Internet pages. This information may also be transferred to third parties if this is required by law or if third parties process this data on behalf of Google. Under no circumstances will your IP address be merged with other data held by Google. The IP addresses are anonymized so that they cannot be assigned to a specific user (IP masking).

You can prevent the installation of cookies by setting your browser software accordingly; however, we would like to point out that in this case you may not be able to use all functions of this website to their full extent.

You can also prevent the collection of data generated by the cookie and related to your use of the website (including your IP address) as well as the processing of this data by Google by downloading and installing a browser add-on (Https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=de).

As an alternative to the browser add-on, especially for browsers on mobile devices, you can also prevent Google Analytics from collecting data by clicking on this link. An opt-out cookie will be set that prevents your data from being collected in the future when you visit this website. The opt-out cookie is only valid in this browser and only for our website and is stored on your device. If you delete the cookies in this browser, you must set the opt-out cookie again.

For more information on data protection in connection with Google Analytics, see the Google Analytics Help (Https://support.google.com/analytics/answer/6004245?hl=de).

c) Google Adwords Conversion Trackingg

We also use Google Conversion Tracking to statistically record the use of our website and to evaluate it for the purpose of optimizing our website for you. Google Adwords places a cookie on your computer if you have accessed our website via a Google ad.

These cookies lose their validity after 30 days and are not for personal identification. If the user visits certain pages of the Adwords customer's website and the cookie has not yet expired, Google and the customer can recognize that the user clicked on the ad and was redirected to this page.

Each Adwords customer receives a different cookie. Cookies can not be tracked via the websites of Adwords customers. The information gathered using the conversion cookie is used to generate conversion statistics for Adwords customers who have opted for conversion tracking. Adwords customers hear the total number of users who clicked on their ad and were redirected to a conversion tracking tag page. However, they do not receive any information that personally identifies users.

If you do not wish to participate in the tracking process, you can also refuse the setting of a cookie required for this purpose - for example, by using a browser setting that generally deactivates the automatic setting of cookies. You can also deactivate cookies for conversion tracking by setting your browser so that cookies from the domain "www.googleadservices.com“ may be blocked. Google’s privacy policy on conversion tracking can be found here (Https://services.google.com/sitestats/de.html).

Based on Art. 6 Paragraph 1 Clause 1 Letter f of GDPR, we use social plug-ins from the social networks Facebook, YouTube, Instagram and LinkedIn on our website to make our association better known. The advertising purpose behind this is to be regarded as a legitimate interest within the meaning of the GDPR. The responsibility for data protection-compliant operation must be guaranteed by their respective providers. We integrate these plug-ins using the so-called two-click method in order to protect visitors to our website as best as possible.

a) Facebook

Social media plugins from Facebook are used on our website to make their use more personal. For this we use the "LIKE" or "SHARE" button. This is an offer from Facebook.

When you visit a page on our website that contains such a plugin, your browser establishes a direct connection to the Facebook servers. The content of the plugin is transmitted directly from Facebook to your browser, which then integrates it into the website.

By integrating the plug-in, Facebook receives the information that your browser has accessed the corresponding page of our website, even if you do not have a Facebook account or are not currently logged into Facebook. This information (including your IP address) is transmitted from your browser directly to a Facebook server in the USA and stored there.

If you are logged in to Facebook, Facebook can directly associate your visit to our website with your Facebook account. If you interact with the plug-ins, for example by clicking the "LIKE" or "SHARE" button, the corresponding information is also sent directly to a Facebook server and stored there. The information is also published on Facebook and displayed to your Facebook friends.

Facebook can use this information for the purposes of advertising, market research and tailoring Facebook pages to your needs. For this purpose, Facebook creates usage, interest and relationship profiles, e.g. to evaluate your use of our website with regard to the advertisements displayed to you on Facebook, to inform other Facebook users about your activities on our website and to provide other services associated with the use of Facebook.

If you do not want Facebook to assign the data collected via our website to your Facebook account, you must log out of Facebook before visiting our website.

The purpose and scope of data collection and the further processing and use of the data by Facebook as well as your rights and setting options for protecting your privacy can be found in the privacy policy (https://www.facebook.com/about/privacy/) from Facebook.

b) YouTube

Our website contains embedded videos from YouTube, a service provided by Google LLC, 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA ("YouTube"). When you visit a page that contains a YouTube video, a connection is established to the YouTube servers. The YouTube server is informed which of our pages you have visited. If you are logged into your YouTube account, you allow YouTube to assign your surfing behavior directly to your personal profile. You can prevent this by logging out of your YouTube account.

YouTube videos are embedded in "extended data protection mode". This means that YouTube does not store any information about visitors to our website unless they watch the video. As soon as you start playing an embedded video, YouTube uses cookies to collect information about your user behavior. These cookies do not store any personal data unless you are logged into your YouTube account.

For more information about data protection at YouTube, please see Google’s privacy policy: https://policies.google.com/privacy.

c) Instagram

Our website also uses so-called social plugins (“plugins”) from Instagram, which is operated by Instagram LLC., 1601 Willow Road, Menlo Park, CA 94025, USA (“Instagram”).

The plugins are marked with an Instagram logo, for example in the form of an “Instagram camera”.

When you visit a page on our website that contains such a plugin, your browser establishes a direct connection to Instagram's servers. The content of the plugin is sent directly from Instagram to your browser and integrated into the page. Through this integration, Instagram receives the information that your browser has accessed the corresponding page on our website, even if you do not have an Instagram profile or are not currently logged into Instagram.

This information (including your IP address) is transmitted directly from your browser to an Instagram server in the USA and stored there. If you are logged in to Instagram, Instagram can immediately associate your visit to our website with your Instagram account. If you interact with the plugins, for example by clicking the "Instagram" button, this information is also transmitted directly to an Instagram server and stored there.

The information will also be published on your Instagram account and displayed to your contacts there.

If you do not want Instagram to assign the data collected via our website directly to your Instagram account, you must log out of Instagram before visiting our website.

For further information please see the privacy policy (https://help.instagram.com/155833707900388) from Instagram.

d) Social Wall by Juicer and LinkedIn

Social Wall by Juicer
We use the "Social Wall" tool from Juicer.io Inc., 1515 7th Street, #424, Santa Monica, CA 90403, USA, to display content from our LinkedIn channel on our website. Juicer.io enables us to present posts from LinkedIn in a visually appealing format on our website.

When you visit a page on our website that includes the social wall, a connection is established to Juicer.io's servers. Your IP address and other technical information such as the device and browser data you use are transmitted to Juicer.io. This data is necessary to display LinkedIn content correctly. Juicer.io stores and processes this data in accordance with its own privacy policy, which you can view at https://www.juicer.io/privacy.

LinkedIn
Our website uses functions of the LinkedIn network, offered by LinkedIn Corporation, 1000 W Maude Ave, Sunnyvale, CA 94085, USA. When you visit our pages that contain LinkedIn functions, a connection is established to the LinkedIn servers. LinkedIn is informed that you have visited our website using your IP address. If you click the LinkedIn "Recommend button" and are logged into your LinkedIn account, LinkedIn can assign the visit to our website to you and your user account.

We would like to point out that we, as the provider of the pages, have no knowledge of the content of the transmitted data or its use by LinkedIn. You can find further information on this in LinkedIn's privacy policy at https://www.linkedin.com/legal/privacy-policy.

Legal basis

The integration of the social wall and the LinkedIn functions is based on Art. 6 (1) (f) GDPR. Our legitimate interest lies in the appealing presentation and interaction with the content of our social media presences.

Retention period

Please refer to the respective data protection guidelines for the storage period of the data processed by Juicer.io and LinkedIn.

Right of objection

You have the right to object at any time to the processing of personal data concerning you based on Art. 6 (1) (f) GDPR for reasons arising from your particular situation. To assert your objection, you can contact us using the contact details provided in this data protection declaration.

Further information on the collection and use of your data by Juicer.io and LinkedIn as well as your rights and options for protecting your privacy can be found in the respective data protection guidelines.

We use Google Fonts on our website, which are provided by Google.

Extent of processing of personal data

When you visit a website, your browser loads the necessary fonts into your browser cache in order to display texts and fonts correctly. To do this, your browser must establish a connection to Google's servers. This gives Google information that this website was accessed via your IP address.

Legal basis for data processing

The use of Google Fonts is based on Art. 6 (1) lit. f GDPR.

Purpose of data processing

The use of Google Web Fonts is in the interest of a uniform and attractive presentation of our online offerings.

Duration of storage

Your personal information will be retained for the time necessary to fulfill the purposes described in this privacy policy or as required by law.

Possibility of revocation and removal

You can revoke your consent at any time. The revocation of the consent does not affect the legality of the processing that was carried out on the basis of the consent until the revocation.

If your browser does not support Google Fonts, a standard font from your computer will be used.

For more information about Google Fonts, see https://developers.google.com/fonts/faq and in Google's privacy policy at https://policies.google.com/privacy?hl=de.

If you send us inquiries using the form, your details from the form will be stored by us for the purpose of processing the inquiry and in the event of follow-up questions. This data will not be passed on to third parties.

The data entered into the forms is therefore processed exclusively on the basis of your consent (Art. 6 Para. 1 lit. a GDPR). You can revoke this consent at any time (see the end of this data protection declaration). The legality of the data processing operations carried out up to the time of revocation remains unaffected by the revocation.

The following data is processed for the purpose of contacting you and providing advice:

• First name, last name (optional)
• Street, house number (optional)
• Zip code, city (optional)
• Telephone number (optional)
• Email address
• Subject (optional)
• Your message (optional)

The following data is processed for the purpose of ordering brochures and products:

• salutation (optional)
• title (optional)
• First name Last Name
• Company (optional)
• Street Address
• Postcode City
• country (optional)
• Telephone number (optional)
• Email address

The data you enter in the form will remain with us until you request deletion, revoke your consent to storage or the purpose for data storage no longer applies (e.g. after your request has been processed).

As part of the arrangement of bookings and the purchase of items (shop), the following personal data is collected for the purpose of proper processing of business processes: 

• Title
• title (optional)
• First name Last Name
• Company (optional)
• Street Address
• Postcode City
• Country
• Language
• Phone number
• Email address

All of the above data will be stored for the legally required period of 10 years (HGB, Section 257, storage of documents, retention periods) by the system provider my.IRS GmbH in Dornierstraße 4, 82178 Puchheim and will be deleted after this period has expired. However, to protect your personal data, it will be anonymized after one year.

The basis for the processing of data is Art. 6(1)(b) GDPR, which permits the processing of data for the fulfilment of a contract or for pre-contractual actions.

After completing a trip, you will receive a one-time email with a link to our rating system. In the rating, you will be asked to rate the accommodation, your name, age and place of residence. No information is a mandatory field. The data will be deleted after 2 years.

When booking overnight accommodation and houseboats on our website, we transmit the personal data you provide when booking (such as title, first and last name, address, telephone number and email address) to the following external service provider:

• DS Destination Solutions GmbH, Breslauer Platz 4, 50676 Cologne, Germany

Your data will be transmitted for the purpose of arranging overnight stays and related services such as payment and invoicing of the booking as well as providing a booking route.

The legal basis for the processing is Art. 6 Paragraph 1 Clause 1 Letter f) GDPR. Our legitimate interests in using an external service provider lie in the effective and customer-friendly processing of bookings via our website.

Your data will be deleted as soon as it is no longer required for the purpose of processing. This is the case after the booking has been processed, provided that there are no legal regulations to the contrary regarding the storage of the data. In this case, processing will be restricted. Due to mandatory commercial and tax law regulations, we are obliged to store your address, payment and order data for a period of up to ten years. 

You can object to the processing. You have the right to object for reasons arising from your particular situation. You can send us your objection using the contact details provided in the "Information on the responsible body" section.

We occasionally hold competitions in which our interested parties can take part. 

In the course of conducting the competitions, the personal data you provide in this context will be processed by us exclusively for the purposes of conducting the competition and notifying the winner (legal basis Art. 6 Para. 1 lit. a GDPR), fulfilling relevant regulatory requirements (Art. 6 Para. 1 lit. c GDPR) and, if necessary, defending and asserting legal claims (Art. 6 Para. 1 lit. f GDPR).

We use the respective registration form to collect personal data about you that is required for participation. Mandatory information (marked with an *) may vary depending on the conditions of participation and is usually limited to the email address for contact purposes. The winners will also be asked to provide their address and any other necessary contact details for the purpose of sending them their prize. 

The legal basis for the processing of your data for the aforementioned purposes is your consent (Art. 6 para. 1 lit. a GDPR). You can revoke your consent at any time using the form at the following Link revoked, whereby the data processing carried out on the basis of the consent up to the time of revocation remains unaffected.

Your personal data will be treated confidentially by employees of our company. In addition, your data may be processed on our behalf and in accordance with our instructions by agencies and other service providers who comply with data protection regulations.  

In accordance with the principle of data minimization, your personal data may only be stored for as long as the aforementioned purposes and the legal obligations to retain data require. 

After your data has been used, it will be properly deleted once the purpose no longer applies.

Due to the use of various tools mentioned above, such as Google services, your personal data may be transferred to so-called third countries, as these companies are based outside the EU/EEA. Processing in third countries is generally permitted provided that they can demonstrate an adequate level of data protection or there are appropriate guarantees for compliance with data protection requirements (e.g. EU standard contractual clauses).

You have the right:

• to request information about your personal data processed by us in accordance with Art. 15 GDPR. In particular, you can request information about the purposes of processing, the category of personal data, the categories of recipients to whom your data has been or will be disclosed, the planned storage period, the existence of a right to rectification, erasure, restriction of processing or objection, the existence of a right to lodge a complaint, the origin of your data if it was not collected from us, as well as the existence of automated decision-making including profiling and, if applicable, meaningful information on its details;
• to request the immediate rectification of inaccurate or incomplete personal data stored by us in accordance with Art. 16 GDPR;
• to request the deletion of your personal data stored by us in accordance with Art. 17 GDPR, unless the processing is necessary to exercise the right to freedom of expression and information, to fulfill a legal obligation, for reasons of public interest or to assert, exercise or defend legal claims;
• to request the restriction of the processing of your personal data pursuant to Art. 18 GDPR, if the accuracy of the data is contested by you, the processing is unlawful but you refuse to delete it and we no longer need the data, but you need it to assert, exercise or defend legal claims or you have objected to the processing pursuant to Art. 21 GDPR;
• pursuant to Art. 20 GDPR, to receive your personal data that you have provided to us in a structured, common and machine-readable format or to request that it be transmitted to another controller;
• to revoke your consent at any time in accordance with Art. 7 Paragraph 3 GDPR. This means that we may no longer continue the data processing based on this consent in the future and
• to complain to a supervisory authority in accordance with Art. 77 GDPR. As a rule, you can contact the supervisory authority of your usual place of residence or place of work.
  
  The State Commissioner for Data Protection and the Right to Access to Files Brandenburg
  Stahnsdorfer Damm 77, 14532 Kleinmachnow
  Phone: (0049) 033203-356-0
  Fax: (0049) 033203-356-49
  Email: Poststelle@LDA.Brandenburg.de

If your personal data is processed on the basis of legitimate interests in accordance with Art. 6 Paragraph 1 Clause 1 Letter f of GDPR, you have the right to object to the processing of your personal data in accordance with Art. 21 GDPR, provided there are reasons for doing so that arise from your particular situation or the objection is directed against direct advertising.

In the latter case, you have a general right of objection, which we will implement without specifying a particular situation. If you wish to exercise your right of withdrawal or objection, it is sufficient to provide information using the form at the following address: Link.

This privacy policy is currently valid and is dated June 2024. Due to the further development of our website and offers on it or due to changed legal or official requirements, it may become necessary to change this privacy policy.

The current data protection declaration can be accessed at any time on the website at www.seenland-oderspree.de/datenschutz can be accessed and printed by you.