DATA PROTECTION DECLARATION

The purpose of this data protection declaration is to inform you as a user of this website about the processing of your personal data. We therefore attach the greatest importance to explaining as transparently as possible the most important information about the protection of your data. Should there still be any unclear aspects, questions and therefore the need for more clarity, please do not hesitate to contact us.

A. RESPONSIBILITIES

In compliance with the basic provisions of data protection (§ 4 paragraph 7 DSGVO) and other national data protection laws and relevant provisions, the responsible party is:

Vive Berlin EG

Flottwellstr 16

10785 Berlin

Phone: +49 (0)30 259407-15

E-Mail: info@viveberlintours.de

This initial data is therefore important for any questions regarding data protection on this website and your rights in this matter.

B. COLLECTION AND STORAGE OF PERSONAL DATA WHEN VISITING OUR WEBSITE

In the following we inform you about the relevant procedures regarding data protection that are recorded when you visit our website.

1. Logfiles

Every time you enter our website, we record the automated data and information from the computer system that you use to visit our website.

These are the data that are recorded:

(1) information about the type of browser and the version used

(2) information about your operating system

(3) date and time of entry

(4) websites through which you have reached our website

(5) web pages that have been used by your system from our site

(6) your IP address

Logfiles are made anonymous or deleted as soon as possible. This normally occurs no later than after seven (7) days.

The purpose of the data collection is to deliver the contents of our website, to ensure the functioning of our technical information systems and the optimisation of our website. This is why this data collection corresponds to our interest as stated in article 6 paragraph 1 lit. f DSGVO, i.e. it is relevant for the development of our activity.

Since the collection of data is essential for the provision of our website and its storage in logfiles is necessary for its operation, there is no possibility for you to make use of your right to object.

2. Cookies

We use so-called “cookies” on our website. These are small files that your browser creates automatically and that are stored on your computer when you visit our website. Cookies do not harm your computer system, they do not contain viruses, trojans or other harmful software.

We use cookies for the improvement of our website, for example to make it more user-friendly or to adapt it to the requirements of users.

The following data is stored and provided in the cookies:

(1) selected language

(2) log in information

(3) frequency of visit to the pages

(4) use of website functions

The data collected in this way are pseudonymous with technical devices. This makes it impossible for these data to be linked to you. Furthermore, this data is not stored together with other person-related data.

The data that is handled by means of cookies is necessary for the above-mentioned purposes in connection with our legitimate interests (the conduct of our business activities (according to § 6 paragraph 1 pg.1 lit. f DSGVO.

Most browsers accept cookies automatically. However, to prevent this, you can set your browser in such a way that the cookies are not stored on your computer system or that a warning appears on the screen to warn you of a new cookie. However, the total deactivation of the cookies may result in you not being able to use all the functions of our website.

3. Analysis of the website

On this website we have the services of “Google Analytics” which is a service of Google Inc. (https://www.google.de/intl/de/about/) (1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA) .

This service allows us to create pseudonymized profiles of the users and to use cookies (see B.2.). The information raised by the cookie through your use of this website as

(1) your browser type or version

(2) the operating system it uses

(3) referrer URL (page previously visited)

(4) time and country of server requirement

are moved to a Google Inc. server in the U.S. and stored there. This information is used to evaluate the use of the website, to compile reports on website activities and to generate services related to the use of the website and the Internet for the purpose of market analysis and design appropriate to the needs of website users. This information may be passed on to third parties if required by law or if third parties are commissioned to analyse it. In no event will your IP address be linked to any other data held by Google.

The IP addresses are made anonymous, making a connection impossible.

You can prevent the installation of cookies by adjusting your browser software accordingly. In addition, you can prevent the collection of data arising from the cookie in connection with your use of the website and the subsequent use of this data by Google Inc. by downloading an add-on browser and installing it on your computer (https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=de). The alternative to the browser add-on, especially for browsers on mobile devices, to prevent your data from being stored in Google Analytics is to click on the link below. In this case an opt-out-cookie is activated which prevents future collection of your data when visiting the website. This opt-out cookie only works for that browser and only for our website and is stored on your device. If you delete the cookies in that browser, you have to install the opt-out again.

You can find additional information on data protection in relation to Google Analytics by visiting, for example, the Google Analytics Help (https://support.google.com/analytics/answer/6004245?hl=de). 

Cookies are stored for a period of 14 months.

The use of Google Analytics is intended to optimize and evaluate our offer. The use of this data is necessary in the context of our business interests as defined in § 6 para. 1 lit. f DSGVO, i.e. for the performance of our business activities.

You can use the link below to prevent your data from being stored (opt-out) http://www.google.com/ads/preferences .

C. RESERVATIONS

On our website you can make reservations for the activities we offer. These are made with the help of a form in which you provide us with all the necessary data for this purpose, such as the number of people interested in a tour, the age of the participants, the length of their stay in Berlin, the type of tour you wish to take, your name, your e-Mail address, your telephone number and, in a given case, any other information you wish to give us in the appropriate box.

This information is collected for the purpose of drawing up a contract or a pre-contract in accordance with Art.6 para 1 lit.b DSGVO.

In the event that a contract is concluded with us on the basis of such a reservation, the data provided will be deleted as soon as the contracted services have been fulfilled and the data will be completely deleted and therefore no longer needed for the aforementioned contract. As a rule, this happens at the latest after how many years have passed. If a contract is not concluded, the data will be deleted immediately by us.

D. REVIEWS

You can leave your comments on our services in the general access reviews section. When you use the review section of our website, in addition to the data contained in your comment, we store information about the date and time of the comment, your e-mail address, your IP address and the user name you have chosen.

The storage and use of your comment and the data provided in it are carried out on the basis of Art.6 paragraph 1 lit.b DSGVO. We store the IP address in order to make it more difficult for you to misuse the comment function and to bring possible violations of the law to the attention of the relevant authorities.

At the same time, it is part of our justified interest to use this data according to the provisions of Art.6 para.1 lit.f DSGVO.

Comments and corresponding data (e.g. IP address) are stored and maintained on our website until the content has been completely removed or a comment has had to be deleted for legal reasons (e.g. insulting comments).

E. CONTENTS OF THIRD PARTIES

1. Tripadvisor

Our website makes use of the Tripadvisor.com Plugins. The administrator of this site is the company Tripadvisor.Inc. If you visit one of our pages on which there is a Tripadvisor Plug-in, a connection to the Tripadvisor servers is established. In this connection user-related data is transmitted. This is your IP address and information about the pages you have visited.

Under the address http https://tripadvisor.mediaroom.com/DE-privacy-policy you can find additional data on the survey and use of data and Tripadvisor.

The use of Tripadvisor plug-ins is intended to support the operation of our company. The use of the mentioned data is necessary to support our interests within the framework of § 6 paragraph 1 lit.f DSGVO, i.e. it corresponds to the performance of our business activities.

2. Purchase of tickets

To market our offers, we use the bookingkit GmbH, Sonnenallee233, 12059 Berlin (“bookingkit”). The information contained in your order and other information (your IP address and the desired product) are transferred to bookingkit for processing.

The storage and processing of the data is intended to support and process your order, to authenticate your data and to carry out payment for our services in accordance with § 6 para. 1 lit.b DSGVO.

For further information regarding the terms of use and data protection and the possible outsourcing of data processing to bookingkit please refer to https://bookingkit.net/de/datenschutzerklaerung/..

3. Google AdWords and Google Conversion-Tracking

This website works with Google AdWords. AdWords is an online advertising program of the Google 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, United States (“Google”) . Within the framework of Google AdWords we use so-called Conversion-Tracking. As soon as you click on a Google ad, a cookie is installed for Google Tracking. Cookies are small text files that are installed on your computer by your browser. These cookies are no longer valid after 30 days and are not used for personal identification of the user. If the user visits different pages on this website and the cookie has not yet expired, both Google and we can recognize that the user has clicked on the above-mentioned notice and has reached this page by that means.

Each GoogleAdWords client receives a different cookie. Cookies cannot be traced from web pages to AdWords clients. The information obtained with the help of conversion cookies is used to compile conversion statistics for AdWords customers who have decided to use Conversion-Tracking. Customers get information about the total number of users who clicked on their ad and were referred to a page with a Conversion-Tracking tag. However, they do not obtain information that could lead to the personal identification of the user. If you do not wish to participate in the Tracking, you can object to this use by easily disabling the Google Conversion-Tracking cookie in your web browser. This will prevent you from being recorded in the Conversion-Tracking statistics.

The storage of “Conversion Cookies” is carried out on the basis of the provisions of § 6 para. 1 lit.f DSGVO. The administrator of this site has a justified interest in analysing user behaviour in order to optimise its website and advertising.

For further information on GoogleAdWords and Google Conversion Tracking, please refer to Google’s data protection regulations: https://www.google.de/policies/privacy/

4. Google reCAPTCHA

On our web pages we make use of “Google reCAPTCHA” ( in the following “reCAPTCHA”), offered by Google Inc., 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA (“Google”) .

By means of reCAPTCHA we intend to control if the data introduction in our page has been made by a person or by an automated program. For this purpose, reCAPTCHA analyses the behaviour of the website user on the basis of different characteristics. This analysis starts automatically when the user enters our website. For the analysis, reCAPTCHA evaluates various data (IP address, duration of stay on the website and user’s mouse movements). The data collected during the analysis are derived to Google.

The reCAPTCHA analyses are performed in a hidden way. Users of the website do not receive a warning about this analysis. The data is processed in accordance with the provisions of § 6 Section 1 lit.f DSGVO. We have the justified right to protect our web offers from malicious automatic intervention and SPAM.

Further information about Google reCAPTCHA and Google’s data protection declaration can be found under the links https://www.google.com/intl/de/policies/privacy/ and https://www.google.com/recaptcha/intro/android.html.

5. Google Web Fonts

For a uniform presentation of the fonts, this page uses the so-called Web Fonts provided by Google. When you enter a page, your browser installs in your browser cache the necessary Web Fonts to correctly reproduce the texts and fonts.

For this purpose, your browser must connect to Google’s servers. Google then obtains the information that our website has been visited from your IP address.

We use Google Web Fonts in order to provide you with a uniform and user-friendly presentation of our online services. This is a justified interest covered by § 6 paragraph 1 lit.f DSGVO.

Further information about Google Web Fonts can be found at: https://developers.google.com/fonts/faq and in the Google Data Protection section: https://www.google.com/policies/privacy/. .

6. Google Maps

By means of an API, this page uses the Google Maps service offered by ….

In order to use the Google Maps functions, it is necessary to store your IP address. This information is usually transferred to a Google server in the USA and stored there. The administrator of this site cannot influence this data transmission.

The use of Google Maps is intended to provide an appropriate presentation of our online offerings and to enable the easy location of the sites mentioned on the website. This is a justified aim within the framework of § 6 paragraph 1 lit.f DSGVO.

For further information on the handling of user data, please refer to Google’s data protection declaration: https://www.google.de/intl/de/policies/privacy/. .

F. CONTACT (form, e-Mail)

You can contact us electronically via a form on the website or via e-Mail. In that case, the data provided in the form or in your e-mail is transferred to us and stored.

This is the following data:

(1) your name

(2) date of contact

(3) your e-mail address

(4) if applicable, additional data provided by you

(5) metadata contained in the e-mail sent by you to us

If you write an e-mail to us and are interested in our offers, the legal basis for data processing is Art. 6 para. 1 lit.b DSGVO, otherwise Art. 6 para. 1 lit.f DSGVO (right justified for the conduct of our business).

The data provided by you will only be used for the purpose of contacting you and will not be passed on to third parties.

We will delete these data as soon as they are no longer needed for the above-mentioned purposes, i.e. as soon as the exchange of messages by e-Mail or the contact form with you has been completed and we have finished processing your request.

G. DATA PROCESSING IN OTHER STATES IN GENERAL

Unless otherwise stated above, your personal data will be processed in countries outside the European Union (EU) or the European Economic Area (EWR) exclusively on the legal basis of the provisions of § 44 DSGVO. In this case, this situation arises exclusively either on the basis of a decision by the European Commission (§ 45 DSGVO) and/or on the basis of the relevant safeguards (§ 46 DSGVO).

H. GENERAL STORAGE LIFE

In general, personal data is stored exclusively for the time necessary to achieve the purpose for which it was collected or to comply with the legal storage period. The data will be deleted as soon as the purpose has been fulfilled or the legal storage period has expired.

I. RIGHTS OF THE DATA SUBJECTS

Insofar as we have processed personal data about you, you are affected by the definition of the DSGVO and have the following rights:

(1) § 15 DSGVO – you (1) § 15 DSGVO – You may demand information about the personal data used by us, in particular regarding the purpose of processing, the category of personal data, the category of recipients to whom your data has been or will be provided, the duration of storage, the demand for correction, deletion, restriction of processing or opposition to storage, the existence of the right of complaint, the origin of your data insofar as it has not been collected by us and about the existence of an automated decision including a profiling and, if applicable, reliable detailed information.

(2) Art. 16 DSGVO – You can demand the immediate correction or supplementation of personal data stored by us that are incorrect or incomplete.

(3) § 17 DSGVO – You can demand the deletion of your personal data stored by us as long as their processing is not necessary to exercise the right to freedom of opinion and information, to comply with legal provisions, for reasons of public interest or for the verification, exercise or defence of legal requirements.

(4) § 18 DSGVO – you may demand restrictions on the processing of your personal data insofar as you deny the correctness of the data, its processing is unlawful even if you refuse to delete it and we no longer need it, you need it to check, exercise or defend legal claims or if you have expressed your disagreement in accordance with § 21 DSGVO.

(5) Art. 20 DSGVO – you can obtain the personal data you have provided in a structured, common and readable format by the corresponding devices or demand that we pass it on to another responsible party.

(6) § 7 para. 3 DSGVO – you may revoke your consent at any time. The consequence of this is that we can no longer process the data for which you have given your consent in the future.

(7) § 77 DSGVO – You can submit your complaint to a supervisory body. As a rule, this can be a body with its domicile in the place where you usually reside or work or in the place of our legal domicile.

J. RIGHT OF REVOCATION

Insofar as your personal data are processed on the basis of a justified right according to § 6 paragraph 1 p. 1 lit.f DSGVO, you, according to § 21 DSGVO have the right to revoke your consent to the processing of your personal data if there are reasons that are due to your personal situation or if the objection is directed to direct advertising. In the latter case, you have a general right of objection, which we will apply without reference to a special situation.

If you wish to exercise your right of revocation or objection, simply send an e-mail to

info@viveberlintours.de