Status: 28.12.2023.
This privacy policy describes how your personal data is collected, used and processed on our website HolidayBlog.org (hereinafter referred to as the “website”). Please read this statement carefully to understand how we handle your data.
Responsible body
The responsible body within the meaning of the data protection laws is
Engineering office Bernd Kaffenberger
Im Mühlfeld 18
64342 Seeheim-Jugenheim
Email: webmaster@holidayblog.org
What data do we collect and why?
Recorded data
Reports: We collect and store the travel reports you submit, including text and images.
Email address: Your email address is collected to contact you and provide notifications about your posts or updates.
Usage data: We automatically collect certain information about your interaction with our website, including your IP address, browser type, operating system, referral URLs and page views.
Comments: When visitors post comments on the website, we collect the data displayed in the comment form, the visitor’s IP address and the user agent string (which identifies the browser) to help detect spam.
An anonymised character string (also known as a hash) can be created from your email address and passed to the Gravatar service to check whether you are using it. You can find the Gravatar service’s privacy policy here: https://automattic.com/privacy/. After your comment has been approved, your profile picture will be publicly visible in the context of your comment.
Media: If you are a registered user and upload photos to this website, you should avoid uploading photos with an EXIF GPS location. Visitors to this website could download photos stored on this website and extract their location information.
Embedded content from other websites: Posts on this website may contain embedded content (e.g. videos, images, posts, etc.). Embedded content from other websites behaves exactly as if the visitor had visited the other website.
These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking services and record your interaction with this embedded content, including your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to this website.
Intended use
We use the data collected for the following purposes:
- Veröffentlichung von Berichten: Ihre Reiseberichte werden nach der Übersetzung und Freigabe auf unserer Website veröffentlicht.
- Kommunikation: Wir verwenden Ihre E-Mail-Adresse, um mit Ihnen in Bezug auf Ihre Beiträge und andere relevante Informationen zu kommunizieren.
- Website-Analyse: Wir nutzen Nutzungsdaten, um die Leistung und Benutzerfreundlichkeit unserer Website zu analysieren und zu verbessern.
Comment cookies
When visitors leave comments on a blog, cookies are also stored on their computers. This is purely for convenience so that the visitor does not have to re-enter their information if they wish to leave another comment. Three cookies are set for commenters:
comment_author_{HASH}comment_author_email_{HASH}comment_author_url_{HASH}
The commentator cookies are set to expire after just under a year from the time they are set.
Please note that additional cookies are only set for the website administrator.
Forwarding of data
We do not pass on your personal data to third parties, except in the following cases:
- Übersetzung und Veröffentlichung: Ihre Reiseberichte werden möglicherweise an Dritte weitergegeben, um Übersetzungen durchzuführen und Ihre Beiträge auf unserer Website zu veröffentlichen.
- Nutzerfeedback: Ihre Feedbacks und Bewertungen können zur Verbesserung der Anzeigenreihenfolge verwendet werden, jedoch ohne Offenlegung Ihrer personenbezogenen Daten.
- Gesetzliche Verpflichtungen: Wir können Ihre Daten offenlegen, wenn dies gesetzlich vorgeschrieben ist oder um unsere Rechte, Ihre Sicherheit oder die Sicherheit anderer zu schützen.
Data security
We take appropriate technical and organisational measures to protect your data from unauthorised access, loss or misuse. Your data is stored on a secure server.
Your rights
You have the right to:
- Auskunft: Sie können Informationen über Ihre bei uns gespeicherten Daten anfordern.
- Berichtigung: Sie können ungenaue oder unvollständige Daten korrigieren lassen.
- Löschung: Sie können die Löschung Ihrer Daten beantragen, wenn sie nicht mehr benötigt werden.
- Widerspruch: Sie können der Verarbeitung Ihrer Daten aus berechtigten Gründen widersprechen.
Please contact us at Email: webmaster@holidayblog.org for all enquiries relating to your data protection rights.
Order processing
Our website is hosted by our hosting provider Strato in Berlin. In this context, Strato acts as a processor in accordance with the statutory provisions. This means that Strato processes personal data only on our behalf and in accordance with our instructions. Strato has taken appropriate technical and organisational measures to ensure the security and confidentiality of your data.
Further information can be found in Strato’s privacy policy: https://www.strato.de/datenschutz/.
Changes to this privacy policy
We reserve the right to change or update this privacy policy at any time. Please check this statement regularly for updates.
Contact us
If you have any questions or concerns about our privacy policy, please contact us at
Engineering office Bernd Kaffenberger
Im Mühlfeld 18
64342 Seeheim-Jugenheim
Phone: +49 6257 869887
Email: webmaster@holidayblog.org