You are free to visit our websites for informational reasons only without setting up an account. Only limited personal data will be processed to provide you with the website itself. If you subscribe to our newsletter, personal data will be processed in the scope of this service only.

In order to be able to use all functions and services of the TouriSpo websites, you have to set up an account. With regard to the registration of an account and its subsequent use, we process information that is provided by registration, such as your name and email address. Therefor, we process information connected with an account sign-in facility, such as log-in and password details. Neither your email address nor your password will be disclosed to any third party.

You may want to add further personal data such as your address, your date of birth or other information regarding your person, voluntarily. As a standard feature, your adress is invisible to others. You have access to your account at any time to view your information and data open to other users, to alter or delete your personal data.

All your entries and comments are visible to both registered and non-registered users visiting the TouriSpo websites. Comments and entries will display your user name.

While using our TouriSpo websites and services, data is stored for security purposes on our servers together with each of your accesses to our online platforms. Such data include your current IP address, the internet browser used, date, time, prior visited websites (“referrer ”). All of these data are transferred from your browser/computer to TouriSpo and are stored in so-called log files. The aforementioned protocol data is used pseudonymized to compile user profiles for the purpose of customized advertising, market research and configuration of all TouriSpo websites and services. User profiles created in this context are kept separately from your personal data.

In addition, we save these protocol data for reasons of data security in order to secure our systems and the therein saved data against unauthorized access and for cases giving reason to believe that a TouriSpo member account is used illegally and contrary to agreement, for instance, to commit crime such as incitement of the people (demagoguery) or depiction of violence (according to German law §§130, 131 StGB).

TouriSpo uses cookies, which serve the user friendliness of our websites. What's more is these cookies serve the purpose of collecting statistical data on website use. Cookies are small text files that are stored on your hard drive providing us with specific information including information on your visit of your website. Some cookies will be deleted automatically from your terminal device as soon as you leave the website; these so-called “session cookies“ are used to ensure your connection with our website during your interaction with it as a TouriSpo member.

Other cookies will be stored for a specified period of time. These so-called persistent cookies are necessary in order to ensure automatic login features for your next session using the TouriSpo services. Most browsers can limit or prevent the storage of cookies. However, please keep in mind that the use and its convenience is limited without cookies.

In order to ensure up-to-date content, the TouriSpo websites employ Google Analytics, which is a web-analysis tool provided by Google Ireland Limited, Gordon House, Barrow Street, Dublin 4, Irland (hereinafter referred to as “Google“). Google Analytics uses cookies that track your preferences during your visit to our websites, helping us to make our websites even more user-friendly. The data generated by these cookies are usually transferred and stored on a server in the United States.

IP Anonymization
Information generated in this process, such as the IP address, is anonymized. Your IP address will be truncated within the area of member states of the European Union or other parties to the Agreement on the European Economic Area. Only in exceptional cases the whole IP address will be first transferred to a Google server in the United States and truncated there. The IP-address your browser conveys within the scope of Google Analytics will not be associated with any other data held by Google.

Browser Plugin
You will always have the option of disabling cookies in your browser settings. However, please note that changing this setting may disrupt certain functions of our websites. Moreover, you are free to prevent Google's acquisition and processing of the information generated by the cookies by downloading and installing a browser plug-in available at the following link: https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout/

Opt-Out-Cookie
In order to prevent your data from being used by Google Analytics, you can make use of the Google Analytics opt-out browser add-on for Google Analytics JavaScript. If you'd like to opt-out, download and install the add-on for your web browser by clicking on the following link: Disable Google Analytics An opt-out cookie is set which prevents the collection of your data on future visits to this website. More information on how Google Analytics handles user data can be found in Google's privacy policy: https://support.google.com/analytics/answer/6004245

Data Processing Amendment
Being a Google Analytics customer, we have a contract with Google regarding their data processing as part of the terms of service which is in line with the EU's General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).

To incorporate videos, we use YouTube. You Tube is operated by Google Ireland Limited, Gordon House, Barrow Street, Dublin 4, Irland. YouTube is a platform that enables the playback of audio and video files.

If you do not want YouTube and thus Google to collect data about you via our internet website, you need to log out on YouTube before going to our website. Please find further information on data protection at YouTube/Google in its data protection declaration under: https://policies.google.com/privacy.

On this website we use Google Maps, operated by Google Ireland Limited, Gordon House, Barrow Street, Dublin 4, Irland (“Google“), which allows us to display interactive maps directly on the website and enables you to conveniently use the map function. Further information on the purpose and scope of data collection and the further processing and use of the data by Google as well as your rights in this regard and options for setting up your privacy can be found here: Google Maps Additional Terms of Service

On this website we use Thunderforest, operated by Gravitystorm Limited, 53 Ancaster Crescent, New Malden KT3 6BD, UK, which allows us to display interactive maps directly on the website and enables you to conveniently use the map function. Further information on the purpose and scope of data collection and the further processing and use of the data by Thunderforest as well as your rights in this regard and options for setting up your privacy can be found here: https://www.thunderforest.com/privacy/

Videos produced by TouriSpo GmbH & Co. KG and integrated and published on our websites may contain GEMA-free music from https://www.frametraxx.de and https://www.musicfox.com/, which is licensed under the Creative Commons License CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).

Forwarding personal data (especially name, email address, mail address etc.) to authorities of the public sphere or other authorized third parties (such as police authorities or right holders of intellectual property), for instance in cases of criminal prosecution or averting a danger, will be effected upon the order of appropriate authorities as far as we are legally obligated to do so.

Your password is the entrance key to your member account. We encourage you to use a combination of various numbers, letters, and special characters. Please do not communicate your password to others. In case you forward your password to others, please bear in mind that you will be held legally liable for any action that can be traced back to your member account.

If you face a situation of your password not being safe enough or you suspect a fraudulent use of your account, please contact us immediately and change your password as soon as possible. According to the state of technology, your password will be coded and cannot be accessed or seen by neither us nor external third parties.

According to applicable Data Protection Laws and Regulations, members of TouriSpo have the right to receive information about the type and scope of your personal data stored with us at any time. Please send us a message with your request stating your user name and email address used for TouriSpo to our Data Protection Officer (DPO): Andrea Berger, TouriSpo GmbH & Co. KG, Ebenäcker 2a, 94121 Salzweg, Germany, email: dataprotection@tourispo.com. Please note that we must ensure that such requests are actually the person concerned.

Moreover, the GDPR provides the following rights for data subjects:
- The right to be informed (Art. 15 GDPR)
- The right of access (Art. 16 GDPR)
- The right to rectification (Art. 21 GDPR)
- The right to erasure (Art. 17 GDPR)
- The right to restrict processing (Art. 18f. GDPR)
- The right to data portability (Art. 20 GDPR)

You may deactivate your TouriSpo account at any time by sending an email to support@tourispo.com. Upon receiving your email, we will instantly deactivate your account including your personal data, comments, wall posts, and user name. All information necessary to assert our rights for existing contractual or legal rights with you, for instance in the case of litigation or information we are legally obliged to store, will equally be deactivated and made inaccessible. Touristic content created by you will stay online, but will no longer be associated with your account.

The following key points of the above-mentioned purposes of use of your personal data require your consent:

3.17.1 Provided that I have agreed to receiving newsletters, I hereby agree that TouriSpo may inform me with email newsletters about new functionalities and special offers, “My TouriSpo“ statistics, private messages or wall posts on my profile page, as well as services or products of companies cooperating with TouriSpo. If I no longer wish to receive TouriSpo newsletters, I can easily unsubscribe from those by following the Unsubscribe link provided in each newsletter.

3.17.2 I hereby agree that TouriSpo uses the personal data on my profile, for instance, age, sex, favourite entries and valuations to offer me customized services and content.

3.17.3 I agree that TouriSpo may use my personal data, including the data on my profile and my IP address, for the purpose of data protection as well as the prevention and prosecution of criminal acts in connection with using the TouriSpo services that are suspected of being illegal and contrary to agreement, especially in respect of certain crimes such as incitement of the people or depiction of violence (according to German law §§ 130-131 StGB) or in the event of violation by negligence of our General Terms and Conditions.

3.17.4 In case I log onto TouriSpo via my Facebook or Google+ account using the applications Facebook Connect or Goggle+ Connect on www.tourispo.com and have agreed to the transfer of my personal data to TouriSpo, I hereby agree that TouriSpo uses my Facebook or Google+ data for the purposes as described in section 3.8.4 and 3.8.5

3.17.5 I am aware that I may object the afore-mentioned sections 3.17.1 to 3.17.4 separately or altogether and revoke my consent to processing my data at any time in the future by sending a letter or an email with my revocation request stating my user name and email address used for TouriSpo to our Data Protection Officer (DPO): Andrea Berger, TouriSpo GmbH & Co. KG, Ebenäcker 2a, 94121 Salzweg, Germany, email: dataprotection@tourispo.com.

We reserve the right to change our Privacy Policy in accordance with the Data Protection Regulations and other national data protection laws. We will of course inform you via email well in advance about any changes. The changed data protection regulations will come into force from the date stated in the latest version of our data protection regulations.