Privacy Policy

Name and contact of the person in charge according to article 4 paragraph 7, GDPR:
Firm: Dr. Hofmann Holiday Service GmbH
Address: Bahnhofstr. 20 Telefon: 08152 - 1059
Telefax: 08152 - 2123
E-Mail:

Data protection officer
Name: Lothar A. Hofmann
Address: Rotterstr. 29, 86911 Diessen, Deutschland
E-Mail:

Security and protection of your personal data

We consider it our primary responsibility to protect the confidentiality of the personal information you provide and to protect it from unauthorized access. That is why we use the utmost care and state-of-the-art security standards to ensure maximum protection of your personal information.

As a private company we are subject to the provisions of the European Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and the regulations of the Federal Data Protection Act (BDSG). We have taken technical and organizational measures to ensure that the data protection rules are respected both by us and by our external service providers.

Definitions

Legislation requires that personal data be processed lawfully, in good faith and in a manner that is reasonable for the data subject ("lawfulness, fairness, transparency"). To ensure this, we inform you about the individual legal definitions used in this privacy statement:

1. Personal data: "Personal data" means any information relating to an identified or identifiable natural person (hereinafter the "data subject"); a natural person is regarded as identifiable whenever he can be identified directly or indirectly, in particular by association with an identifier such as a name, an identification number, location data, an online identifier or one or more special features, the expression of the physical, physiological, genetic, mental, economic, cultural or social identity of this natural person.

2. Processing: "Processing" means procedures performed with or without the help of automated procedures, or any such series of operations related to personal data such as collection, organization, ordering, storage, adaptation or modification, reading, querying, the use, disclosure by transmission, dissemination or any other form of provision, matching or linking, restriction, erasure or destruction.

3. Restriction of processing: "Restriction of processing" is the marking of personal data stored with the aim of limiting its future processing.

4. Profiling: "Profiling" means any kind of automated processing of personal data which consists in using such personal data to evaluate certain personal aspects relating to a natural person, in particular aspects relating to job performance, economic situation, health, to analyze or predict personal preferences, interests, reliability, behavior, location or change of location of that natural person.

5. Pseudonymization: "Pseudonymisation" means the processing of personal data in such a way that the personal data can no longer be assigned to a specific data subject without additional information being provided, provided that such additional information is kept separate and subject to technical and organizational measures to ensure that the personal data cannnot be assigned to an identified or identifiable natural person

6. File system: "File system" means any structured collection of personal data accessible by specific criteria, whether that collection is centralized, decentralized or organized according to functional or geographical considerations.

7. Person in charge: "Person in charge" means a natural or legal person, public authority or body that alone or jointly with others decides on the purposes and means of processing personal data; where the purposes and means of such processing are determined by Union law or the law of the member states, the person in charge or the specific criteria for his appointment may be determined according to Union or national law.

8. Processor: "Processor" means a natural or legal person, public authority or body that processes personal data on behalf of the person in charge.

9. Receiver: "Receiver" is a natural or legal person, public authority, agency or other entity to whom personal data are disclosed, whether or not it is a third party. However, authorities which may receive personal data under Union or national law in connection with a particular mission are not considered to be receivers; the processing of such data by the said authorities shall be in accordance with the applicable data protection rules according to the purposes of the processing.

10. Third party: "Third party" means a natural or legal person, public authority, agency or body other than the data subject, the person in charge, the processor and the persons authorized under the direct responsibility of the person in charge or processor to process the personal data.

11. Consent: A "consent" of the data subject is any expression of will voluntarily given in a specific, unequivocal and unambiguous manner in the form of a statement or other unambiguous confirmatory act that indicates that the data subject agrees to the processing of his personal data.

Legality of processing: The processing of personal data is only lawful if there is a legal basis for processing. The legal basis for the processing may be, in accordance with Article 6 (1)lit. a - f GDPR in particular:

a.     The data subject has given his consent to the processing of his personal data for one or more specific purposes;
b.     The processing is necessary for the performance of a contract to which the data subject is a party or for the performance of pre-contractual measures which are carried out at the request of the data subject;
c.     The processing is necessary to fulfill a legal obligation to which the person in charge is subject;
d.     The processing is necessary to protect the vital interests of the data subject or any other natural person;
e.     The processing is necessary for the performance of a task which is in the public interest or in the exercise of public authority delegated to the person in charge;
f.      The processing is necessary to safeguard the legitimate interests of the person in charge or a third party, unless the interests or fundamental rights and freedoms of the data subject which require personal data protection prevail, in particular where the data subject is a child.

Information about the collection of personal data
(1) Below, we inform about the collection of personal data when using our website. Personal data are name, address, e-mail addresses, user behavior. (2) When contacting us by e-mail or using our contact form, the information you provide (your e-mail address, your name and telephone number, if applicable) will be stored by us to answer your questions. We delete the data in this connection after the storage is no longer required, or the processing will be restricted, if legal storage obligations exist.

Collection of personal data when visiting our website
In the case of merely informative use of our website, i.e. if you do not register or otherwise provide us with information, we only collect the personal data that your browser transmits to our server. If you wish to view our website, we collect the following data which is technically necessary for us to inform you about our website and to ensure its stability and security (legal basis is Art. 6 (1) S. 1 lit. GDPR): –       IP address–       Date and time of the request–       Time zone difference to Greenwich Mean Time (GMT)–       Content of the requirement (exact page)–       Access Status / HTTP status code–       Transmitted amount of data–       Website from which the request comes–       Browser–       Operating system and its interface–       Language and version of the browser software.  

Use of cookies
(1) In addition to the aforementioned data, cookies are stored on your computer when using our website. Cookies are small text files stored on your hard drive, assigned to the browser you are using, and provide certain information to the body that sets the cookie. Cookies cannot run programs or transmit viruses to your computer. They serve to make the Internet offer more user-friendly and effective overall.

(2) This website uses the following types of cookies, the scope and operation of which are explained below:
a.     Transient cookies (a.)b.     Persistent cookies (see b.). a. Transient cookies are automatically deleted when you close the browser. Such include in particular the session cookies. They store a so-called session ID, with which various requests from your browser can be assigned to the common session. This will allow your computer to be recognized when you return to our website. The session cookies are deleted when you log out or close the browser. b. Persistent cookies are automatically deleted after a specified period, which may differ depending on the cookie. You can delete the cookies in the security settings of your browser at any time.

You can configure your browser setting according to your wishes and decline the acceptance of third-party cookies or all cookies. "Third Party Cookies" are cookies that have been set by a third party, and therefore not by the actual website on which you are currently located. Please note that disabling cookies may not enable you to use all features of our website.

Web analysis with the analysis tool AWStats

On the basis of Article 6 Paragraph 1 Letter e GDPR in conjunction with Section 3 of the Federal Data Protection Act, the analysis service open source software AWStats (hereinafter: "AWStats") is implemented on our website. The analysis tool AWStats (http://www.awstats.org/) evaluates visitor access statistically. The data from the log files of the web server are evaluated in an anonymous form, i.e. without identifying the user using IP addresses or other personal data. Only a few employees of the Dr. Hofmann Holiday Service possible.

The collection, processing and use of this data as well as its evaluation is carried out solely for statistical purposes and to optimize the website content. We use these statistics exclusively to measure activities and to improve or adapt our websites to the needs of users. By making the IP address anonymous, the interest of users in the protection of their personal data is sufficiently taken into account.

If individual pages of our website are called up, the following data is stored:

  • Referrer (previously visited website)
  • Time of server request
  • Length of stay of visitors on our website
  • The frequency of visits to the website
  • List of the most popular subpages of the website
  • Search terms that users use to find the website

Use of Social- Media Plug-Ins

We currently use the following social media plug-ins:

a) Facebook fan page

We use the so-called two-click solution. This means that when you visit our website, no personal data is initially passed on to the providers of the plug-ins. You can identify the provider of the plug-in by the marking on the box above its initials or the logo. We give you the opportunity to communicate directly with the provider of the plug-in via the button. Only if you click on the marked field and thereby activate it will the plug-in provider be informed that you have accessed the corresponding website of our online offer. In addition, the data mentioned under point 3 of this declaration will be transmitted. In the case of Facebook and Xing, according to the respective providers in Germany, the IP address is anonymized immediately after collection. By activating the plug-in, your personal data is therefore transmitted to the respective plug-in provider and stored there (in the case of US providers in the USA). Since the plug-in provider collects data in particular via cookies, we recommend that you delete all cookies via the security settings of your browser before clicking on the grayed-out box. We have no influence on the collected data and data processing procedures, nor are we aware of the full extent of the data collection, the purposes of the processing, the storage periods. We also have no information on the deletion of the data collected by the plug-in provider. The plug-in provider stores the data collected about you as usage profiles and uses them for advertising, market research and/or needs-based design of its website. Such an evaluation is carried out in particular (also for users who are not logged in) to display needs-based advertising and to inform other users of the social network about your activities on our website. You have the right to object to the creation of these user profiles, whereby you must contact the respective plug-in provider to exercise this right. With the plug-ins we offer you the opportunity to interact with social networks and other users, so that we can improve our offer and make it more interesting for you as a user. The legal basis for the use of the plug-ins is Article 6 Paragraph 1 Clause 1 Letter f GDPR. The data is passed on regardless of whether you have an account with the plug-in provider and are logged in there. If you are logged in to the plug-in provider, your data collected from us will be assigned directly to your existing account with the plug-in provider. If you press the activated button and e.g. B. link the page, the plug-in provider also stores this information in your user account and shares it publicly with your contacts. We recommend that you log out regularly after using a social network, but especially before activating the button, as this way you can avoid being assigned to your profile with the plug-in provider. Further information on the purpose and scope of the data collection and its processing by the plug-in provider can be found in the data protection declarations of these providers communicated below. There you will also receive further information on your rights in this regard and setting options to protect your privacy.

Addresses of the respective plug-in providers and URL with their data protection notices: - Facebook Inc., 1601 S California Ave, Palo Alto, California 94304, USA
The Facebook data policy can be found here: http://www.facebook.com/policy.php
Further information on data collection: http://www.facebook.com/help/186325668085084, http://www.facebook.com/about/privacy/your-info-on-other#applications and http://www.facebook .com/about/privacy/your-info#everyoneinfo.
Facebook has submitted to the EU-US Privacy Shield, https://www.privacyshield.gov/EU-US-Framework.

b) Instagram

Functions of the Instagram service are integrated on our website. These functions are offered by Instagram Inc., 1601 Willow Road, Menlo Park, CA, 94025, USA. If you are logged into your Instagram account, you can click the Instagram button on our website to link the content of our pages to your Instagram profile. This allows Instagram to associate your visit to our site with your user account. We would like to point out that we, as the provider of the pages, have no knowledge of the content of the transmitted data or how it is used by Instagram.
For more information, see Instagram's privacy policy: HTTP://INSTAGRAM.COM/ABOUT/LEGAL/PRIVACY/.

More features and offers of our website
(1) In addition to the purely informational use of our website, we offer various services that you can use if you are interested. To do this, you will generally need to provide other personal information that we use to provide the service and for which the aforementioned data processing principles apply.
(2) In part, we use external service providers to process your data. They have been carefully selected and commissioned by us, are bound by our instructions and are regularly inspected.
(3) Furthermore, we may disclose your personal data to third parties, if action participations, competitions, contracts or similar services are offered by us together with partners. You will receive more information when you supply your personal data or see below in the description of the offer.
(4) Insofar as our service providers or partners are based in a country outside the European Economic Area (EEA), we inform you about the consequences of this circumstance in the description of the offer.

Children
Our offer is basically for adults. Persons under the age of 18 should not submit any personal data to us without the consent of their parents or guardians.

Rights of the person concerned

(1) Revocation of consentIf the processing of the personal data is based on a given consent, you have the right to revoke the consent at any time. The revocation of consent does not affect the legality of the processing carried out on the basis of the consent until the revocation.To make use of your right of withdrawal you are free to contact us at any time.

(2) Right to confirmation
You have the right to ask the person in charge to confirm if we are processing personal data concerning you. You can request confirmation at any time using the contact details above.

(3) Right to information
If personal data is processed, you can request information about such personal data and the following information at any time:
a.     The processing purposes;
b.     The categories of personal data being processed;
c.     The receivers or categories of receivers to whom the personal data has been disclosed or are still being disclosed, in particular to receivers in third countries or to international organizations;
d.     If possible, the planned duration for which the personal data are stored or, if this is not possible, the criteria for determining that duration;
e.     The existence of a right to rectification or erasure of personal data concerning you or to a restriction of processing by the person in charge or a right to object to such processing;
f.      The existence of a right of appeal to a supervisory authority;
g.     If the personal data are not collected from the data subject directly, all available information on the source of the data;
h.     The existence of automated decision-making, including profiling, in accordance with Article 22 (1) and (4) GDPR and, at least in these cases, meaningful information about the logic involved and the scope and intended impact of such processing on the data subject.

If personal data are transmitted to a third country or to an international organization, you have the right to be informed of the appropriate safeguards under Article 46, GDPR in connection with the transfer. We provide a copy of the personal data subject of the processing. For any additional copies you request, we may charge a reasonable fee based on the administrative costs. If the application is submitted electronically, the information must be provided in a standard electronic format, unless otherwise stated. The right to receive a copy under paragraph 3 shall not affect the rights and freedoms of others.

(4) Right to rectification

You have the right to demand immediate correction of incorrect personal data concerning you. Taking into account the purposes of processing, you have the right to request the completion of incomplete personal data, including by means of a supplementary statement.

(5) Right to cancellation ("right to be forgotten")

You have the right to request that the person in charge shall delete your personal data immediately and we are obliged to delete personal data immediately if one of the following applies:

a.    The personal data are no longer necessary for the purposes for which they were collected or otherwise processed.
b.    The data subject withdraws the consent on which the processing was based, in accordance with Article 6, §1a or Article 9, §2a GDPR, and it lacks any other legal basis for the processing.
c.    In accordance with Article 21 (1) of the GDPR, the data subject objects to the processing and there are no legitimate reasons for processing, or the data subject objects to the processing in accordance with Article 21 (2) GDPR.
d.    The personal data were processed unlawfully.
e.    The erasure of personal data is necessary to fulfill a legal obligation under Union or national law to which the person in charge is subject.
f.     The personal data were collected in relation to information society services offered pursuant to Article 8 (1) of the GDPR.

If the person in charge has published the personal data and is required to erase it in accordance with paragraph 1, taking into account the technology available and the implementation costs, he shall take appropriate measures, including technical ones, to inform data controllers who process the personal data to inform that an affected person has requested that they delete all links to such personal data or copies or replications of such personal data.

The right to cancel ("right to be forgotten") does not exist if the processing is required: –       to exercise the right to freedom of expression and information;–       to fulfill a legal obligation required by the law of the Union or of the member states to which the person in charge is subject, or to carry out a task which is in the public interest or in the exercise of public authority delegated to the person in charge;–       for reasons of public interest in the field of public health, in accordance with Article 9 (2 h,i) and Article 9 (3) GDPR;–       for archival purposes of public interest, for scientific or historical research purposes or for statistical purposes under Article 89 (1) GDPR, where the law referred to in paragraph 1 is likely to render impossible or seriously affect the achievement of the objectives of that processing, or–       to assert, exercise or defend legal claims.

(6) Right to restriction of processing

You have the right to request that we restrict the processing of your personal data if any of the following conditions apply: a.    the accuracy of the personal data is disputed by the data subject, for a period allowing the person in charge to verify the accuracy of the personal data;b.    the processing is unlawful and the data subject refuses to delete the personal data and instead requests the restriction of the use of the personal data;c.    the person in charge no longer needs the personal data for the purposes of the processing, but the data subject requires them to assert, exercise or defend legal claims; ord.    the data subject has lodged an objection to the processing pursuant to Article 21 (1) of the GDPR, as long as it is not certain that the reasons of the person in charge prevail over those of the data subject.

If the processing has been restricted in accordance with the above-mentioned conditions, the personal data will only be stored with the consent of the data subject or for the purpose of asserting, exercising or defending legal claims or protecting the rights of another natural or legal person or for reasons of important public interest of the Union or of a member state. In order to exercise the right to limit processing, the data subject may contact us at any time using the contact details provided above.

(7) Right to data portability

a.     You have the right to receive the personal data you provide to us in a structured, common and machine-readable format, and you have the right to transfer such information to another person without restrictions by the person in charge, provided that:
b.     the processing is based on a consent in accordance with Article 6 (1,a) or Article 9 (2,a) or a contract pursuant to Article 6 (1,b) GDPR; and
c.     the processing is done using automated procedures.

When exercising the right to data portability in accordance with paragraph 1, you have the right to demand that your personal data is transmitted directly from one person in charge to another, as far as technically feasible. The exercise of the right to data portability is without prejudice to the right of cancellation (the right to be forgotten). This right does not apply when processing is necessary for the performance of a task in the public interest or in the exercise of official authority delegated to the person in charge.

(8) Right to object

You have the right, for reasons of your own particular situation, to object at any time to the processing of personal data relating to you pursuant to Article 6 (1,e or f) of the GDPR; this also applies to profiling based on these provisions. The person in charge will no longer process the personal data unless he can demonstrate compelling legitimate reasons for processing that outweigh the interests, rights and freedoms of the data subject, or the processing is for the purpose of enforcing, pursuing or defending legal claims.

If personal data is processed in order to operate direct mail, you have the right to object at any time to the processing of your personal data for the purpose of such advertising; this also applies to profiling insofar as it is associated with such mailing. If you object to such processing, the personal data will no longer be processed for these purposes. Regarding the use of information society services, regardless of Directive 2002/58/EG, you can exercise your right to object through automated procedures which use technical specifications.

You have the right, for reasons of your own particular situation, to object to the processing of your personal data for scientific or historical research purposes or for statistical purposes acc. to Article 89 (1), except when: the processing is necessary to fulfill a task of public interest. The right of objection can be exercised at any time by contacting the respective person in charge.

(9) Automated decisions on a case-by-case basis, including profiling

You have the right not to be subjected to a decision based solely on automated processing - including profiling - that will have legal effect or affect you in a similar manner. This does not apply if the decision: a.   is necessary for the conclusion or performance of a contract between the data subject and the person in charge,b.   is permitted by Union or member state legislation to which the person in charge is subject, and where such legislation contains appropriate measures to safeguard the rights, freedoms and legitimate interests of the data subject, orc.   with the express consent of the data subject.

The person in charge shall take reasonable steps to safeguard the rights and freedoms and legitimate interests of the data subject, including at least the right to obtain the intervention of a person on the part of the person in charge, to express his or her own position and to challenge the decision. This right can be exercised by the data subject at any time by addressing himself to the person in charge.

(10) Right to complain to a supervisory authorityFurthermore, without prejudice to any other administrative or judicial remedy, you shall have the right to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority, in particular in the member state of your residence, place of work or place of alleged infringement, if the data subject considers that the processing concerns his personal data and breaks this regulation.

(11) Right to effective judicial remedyWithout prejudice to an available administrative or extrajudicial remedy, including the right to complain to a supervisory authority under Article 77 of the DSGVO, you shall have the right to an effective judicial remedy if you consider that your rights regarding the processing of your personal data under this regulation have been violated.

Processors
We use external service providers (processors) for the shipment of goods, newsletters or payment transactions. Separate order data processing has been agreed with the service provider to ensure the protection of your personal data. We cooperate with the following service providers:

- Altman Marketing GmbH (Brochures), Stahlgruberring 22, 81829 München, Germany

- Mittwald CM Service GmbH & CO KG (Webhosting),Königsberger Straße 4-6, 32339 Espelkamp, Germany