General information

1. Data protection at a glance

Allgemeine Hinweise

The following information provides a simple overview of what happens to your personal data when you visit our website. Personal data are all data by which you can be personally identified. You can find detailed information on the subject of data protection in our privacy notice below.

Data collection on our website

Who is responsible for the data collection on this website?

The data processing on this website is carried out by the website operator. You can find his contact details in the legal notice of this website.

How do we collect your information?

On the one hand, your data is collected when you communicate it to us. This may be data that you enter, for example, in a contact form.

Other data are automatically collected by our IT systems when you visit our website. These are mainly technical data (e.g., Internet browser, operating system or time of page visit). These data are collected automatically as soon as you access our website.

For what purposes do we use your data?

Some of the data are collected in order to ensure error-free provision of the website. Other data can be used to analyze your user behavior.

What rights do you have regarding your data?

You have the right to receive information about the source, recipient and purpose of your stored personal data, free of charge and at any time. You also have the right to request the correction, blocking or erasure of these data. You can contact us at any time at the address specified in the legal notice if you have any further questions on the subject of data protection. You also have the right to lodge a complaint with the competent supervisory authority.

Analysis tools and tools from third parties

When you visit our website, your surfing behavior can be statistically evaluated. This is done primarily with cookies and so-called analysis programs. The analysis of your surfing behavior is usually anonymous; the surfing behavior cannot be traced back to you. You may object to this analysis or prevent it by not using certain tools. You can find detailed information on this in the privacy notice below.

You may object to this analysis. We will inform you of the opportunities to object in this privacy notice.

2. General information and mandatory information

Data protection

The operators of this website take the protection of your personal data very seriously. We treat your personal data confidentially and abide by all statutory data protection provisions, as well as this privacy notice.

When you visit this website, various personal data are collected. Personal data are data by which you can be personally identified. This privacy notice explains what data we collect and for what purpose we use it. It also explains how and for what purpose this is done.

We hereby advise you that any data transfer via the Internet (e.g., communication by e-mail) can cause securitiy problems. It is not possible to completely protect data from being accessed by third parties.

Information about the responsible authority

the authority responsible for data processing on this website is:

Hotel Landgasthof Hofmeier
Von-Reuental-Strasse 22
85376 Hetzenhausen
Germany

phone: +49-81 65 / 80 06 90
Fax: +49-81 65 / 8 00 69 69
E-Mail: info@hotel-hofmeier.de

Responsible authority is the natural or legal person who alone or together with others decides on the purpose and means of processing personal data (e.g., names, e-mail addresses, etc.).

Withdrawal of your consent t data processing

Many data processing operations are only possible with your express consent. You may withdraw your consent at any time. All you need to do is send us an informal e-mail. The legality of the data processing up to the withdraw remains unaffected by the withdraw of your consent.

Right to lodge a complaint with the competent supervisory authority

In the event of breaches of data protection law, the data subject (identified or identifiable invidual) has a right to lodge a complaint with the comoetent supervisory authority. The competent supervisory authority for data protection issues is the data protection officer of the federal state in which our company is based. A list of data protection officers and their contact details can be found under the following link: https://www.bfdi.bund.de/DE/Infothek/Anschriften_Links/anschriften_links- node.html.

Right to data portability

You have the right to have a data which we process automatically on the basis of your consent or in fulfilment of a contract transferred to you or to a third party in a commonly used and machine-readable format. If you request the direct transfer of the data to another responsible person, this will only take place if it is technically feasible.

SSL or TLS encryption

This site ises SSL or TLS encryption for security reasons and to protect the transmission of confidential content, such as orders or requests that you send to us as the site operator. You can recognize an encryped connection by the fact that the address line of the browser changes from “http://” auf “https://” and by the padlock symbol in your browser line.

If SSL or TLS encryption is activated, the data you transmit to us cannot be read by third persons.

Access, blocking, erasure

You have the right to free access of your stored personal data, its source and recipients, as ell as the purpose of data processing and, if necessary, a right to correction, blocking or erasure of these data at any time within the scope of the applicable legal provisions. You can contact us at any time at the address specified in the legal notice if you have any further questions on the subject of personal data.

Objection to advertising mails

We hereby forbid the use of our contact data published as part of the legal notice for sending us any unsolicited advertising or informational materials. The operators of this website hereby expressly reserve the right to take legal action against anyone who sends us unsolicited advertising information, included spam e-mails.

3. Data protection officer

Legally required data protection officer

We have not appointed a data protection officer for our company.

4. Data collection on our website

Cookies

Some Internet sites use so-called cookies. Cookies do not damage your computer and do not contain viruses.Cookies serve to make your services more user-friendly, effective and secure. Cookies are small text files that are filed on your computer and saved by your browser.

Most of the cookies we use are so-called "session cookies". these are automatically deleted after you end your session. Other cookies are saved on your terminal until you erase them. These cookies allow us to recognize your browser upon your next visit to our website.

You can configure your browser to inform you when cookies are used and to only allow cookies in particular cases, to accept cookies only in certain cases or to generally exclude them, as well as to activate the automatic deletion of cookies upon closing of the browser. If the cookies are deactivated, the functionality of this website may be limited.

Cookies, which are necessary to carry out the electronic communication process or to provide certain functions that you request (e.g., shopping cart function), are stored on the bases o point f) of Article 6(1) of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). The website operator has a legitimate interest in the storage of cookies for technically error-free and optimized provision of his services. As far as other cookies (e.g., cookies for the analysis of your surfing behavior) are stored, these will be treated separately in this privacy notice.

Server lof files

The provider of the pages automatically collects and stores information in so-called server log files, which your browser automatically transmits to us. These data include:

• Type and version of browser
• Operating system used
• Referrer URL
• Host name of the accessing computer
• Time fo the server inquiry
• IP address

We do not merge these data with other sources of data.

The basis for data processing is point f) of Article 6(1) GDPR, which permits the processing of data for the fufilment of a contract or pre-contractual measures.

Contact form

If you send us requests through the contact form, we will store the information from the request form, including the contact information provided by you, for the purpose of processing the request and in case of follow-up questions. We will not disclose the data to any other persons without your consent.

The data entered are thus only processed on the basis of your consent (point a) of Article 6(1) GDPR). You can withdraw your consent at any time. All you need to do is send us an informal e-mail. The legality of the data processing operations up to the withdrawal remains unaffected by the withdraw of your consent.

We keep the data you provided in the contact form until you request us to erase them, until you withdraw your consent to their storage or until the purpose of data storage no longer applies (e.g., after your request has been processed). Mandatory legal provisions - in particular retention periods - are not affected thereby.

Processing of data (customer and contract data)

We collect, process and use personal data only to the extent necessary for the establishment, content design or change of the legal relationship (inventory data). This is done on the basis of point b) of Article 6(1) GDPR, which permits the processing of data for the fulfilment of a contract or pre-contractual measures. We collect, process and use personal data about the use of our Internet pages (usage data) only to the extent necessary to enalbe or invoice the user for the use of the service.

The collected customer data will be deleted after completion of the order or termination of the business relationship. Legal retention periods remain unaffected.

Data transmission upon conclusion of contract for services and digital content

We only transfer personal data to third parties if this is necessary in the context of contract processing, for example, to the credit institution commissioned to process payments.

Further transmission of the data will not take place or will only take place if you have expressly consented to the transmission. Your data will not be passed on to third parties without your express consent, for example, for advertising purposes.

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

5. Analysis

Matomo (formerly Piwik)

These website uses Matomo (formerly Piwik), an open source web analytics service. Matomo uses so-called "cookies". Cookies are text files that are stored on your computer and that allow us to analyse how you use our website. For this purpose, the website usage information generated by the cookie is stored on your server. Your IP address will be anonymised before it is stored.

The website usage information generated by the cookies will not be disclosed to third parties. You can prevent these cookies from being stored by selecting the appropriate settings in your browser. Please note, however, that doing so may mean that you will not be able to enjoy the full functionality of this website.

If you do not agree with the storage and use of your data, you can disable the feature below. In this case, an opt-out cookie will be stored in your browser to prevent Matomo from storing your user data. If you delete your cookies, the opt-out cookie will also be deleted. The opt-out cookie must thus be reactivated upon your next return to our site.

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6. Plug-ins and tools

SparkPost

Our website uses the provider SparkPost to send contact forms. We have deactivated the tracking of SparkPost and do not analyse any user data. An exception is made in case of e-mails, which are stored for 10 days and then deleted. Please refer to the SparkPost´s privacy policy: https://www.sparkpost.com/policies/privacy/.

Google Maps

This website uses the map service Google Maps via API. Google Maps is provided by Google Inc., 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA.

To use the functions of Google Maps, storage of your IP address is required. This information will usually be transferred to, and stored on, a server in the United States. The operator of this website has no influence over this data transmission.

We use Google Maps to present our online offer in an appealing manner and to make it easier to find the places presented on our website. This is our legitimate interest as defined by point f) of Article 6(1) GDPR.

For more information on the handling of user data, please refer to Google´s privacy policy: https://www.google.de/intl/de/policies/privacy/.

YouTube

Our website uses YouTube plug-ins, which is operated by Google. The provider of YouTube is YouTube, LLC, 901 Cherry Ave., San Bruno, CA 94066, USA. When you visit one of our pages containing a YouTube plugin, a connection is established to the Youtube servers. In this process, the Youtube server is informed which of our pages you have visited.

If you are logged in to your YouTube account, YouTube can directly link your surfing behavior with your personal profile. You can prevent this by logging off of your YouTube account.

We use YouTube to present our online offer in an appealing manner. This is our legitimate interest as defined by point f) of Article 6(1) GDPR.

For more information on the handling of user data, please refer to YouTube´s privacy policy: https://www.google.de/intl/de/policies/privacy.