Tourismusverband Bergheim (hereinafter referred to as “Tourist Office”) is responsible for the processing of your personally identifiable data on our website. Relevant data pertaining to the Tourist Office itself may be found in the imprint.

We take the protection of your personally identifiable data very seriously. We process your personally identifiable data in accordance with statutory data privacy regulations as well as with this privacy policy.

As a rule, use of our website is possible without having to provide personally identifiable data. Insofar as personally identifiable data (for example name, postal address or email addresses) is collected on our webpages, this is done, as far as possible, on a voluntary basis.

We process your personally identifiable data with the support of data processing agents who assist us in providing specific services (e.g. web hosting, email newsletter distribution services etc.). These data processing agents are required to protect your personally identifiable data with utmost care and may not process your personally identifiable data for any other purposes than to provide services to you on our behalf. Your personally identifiable data will only be shared with industry-typical service providers such as banks (in order to make funds transfers to you), tax consultants (for accounting purposes, if necessary), shipping providers (in order to send materials to you), etc.

This website uses cookies.

Cookies make websites more user-friendly and efficient for you. A cookie is a small text file used to store information. When you visit a website, the website may install a cookie on your computer. If you subsequently return to the website, the website is able to read the data of the previously stored cookie and thereby determine, for example, whether or not you had previously visited the website and, if so, what areas of the website were of particular interest to you.

The following elements of our website use cookies:

Elements that are absolutely necessary in order to guarantee basic functions of our website
CookieConsent: stores your consent to the use of cookies
gaOptout, maOptout, fbOptout: Used to store your opt-out from Google Analytics and Facebook Pixel.
Functional cookies to ensure website performance.
Performance cookies to improve the user experience.
Google Analytics (please refer to the separate section)
Advertising cookies to manage advertising campaigns.

For the purposes of monitoring the technical functionality as well as improving the reliability of the web server itself, and pursuant to the legitimate prevailing interest of the responsible party (technical safeguards), this website processes the following personally identifiable data in a server log file:

Accessed content
Time of server request
Browser type / Browser version
Operating system used
Referrer URL
IP adresse
hostname

This website uses Google Analytics, a web analysis service provided by Google Inc, 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway Mountain View, CA 94043, USA (“Google”) on the basis of our legitimate prevailing interest (analysis of website use). To this end, we have entered into a contract for data processing with Google.

When you access our website, the software establishes a connection to the Google servers and data is transmitted to those servers, some of which are located in the USA. Google Analytics also uses cookies in order to store information about the website user and to analyze use of the website by website users.

This website utilizes the function “IP anonymization”. By means of this, within member states of the European Union as well as within other countries that are signatories to the European Economic Area treaty, Google will first truncate and thereby anonymize your IP address. Only in exceptional cases will the full IP address be transmitted to a Google server in the USA and then truncated.

According to Google, Google will use the data collected in order to analyze use of the website, compile reports about website activities as well as provide other services related to use of the website and of the Internet in general.

Under certain circumstances, Google will also transmit this information to third parties, insofar as this is required by law or if third parties process this data on behalf of Google.

Detailed information about how Google Analytics handles user data can be found in Google’s own data privacy policy which may be read at https://www.google.com/intl/en/policies/privacy/ or https://support.google.com/analytics/answer/6004245?hl=en.

You have the right to receive information about the personally identifiable data we have collected about you, to have that information corrected or deleted, as well as to restrict the processing of said personally identifiable data.

Insofar as the legal foundation for the processing of your personally identifiable data rests in your consent or in a contract which has been concluded with you, you also have the right to be granted ready accessibility or transferability of such data.
You have the right to revoke any consent you may have expressed pertaining to the processing of your personally identifiable data. The legality of our having processed your personally identifiable data until such point as your consent is revoked shall in no way be affected.
You have the right to revoke consent to the processing of your personally identifiable data for the purposes of direct advertising. In the event you should indeed revoke your consent, your personally identifiable data will no longer be processed for the purposes of direct advertising.

Furthermore, you have the right to lodge a complaint with the competent oversight authority (Austrian Data Protection Authority, Barichgasse 40-42, 1030 Wien, Austria, dsb@dsb.gv.at).