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The personal data collected when you use our website will only be used to process your enquiries without your consent. We will also send you a newsletter approximately four times a year, but you can unsubscribe at any time. In addition, your data will only be used for advertising and market research purposes if you have given your prior consent. Otherwise, your personal data will not be passed on to third parties.

By completing and submitting the form, you agree to the collection, processing and use of your data as described above. You have the right to revoke your consent at any time with future effect without giving reasons.

Please contact us by email at info@deutsche-donau.de.

Server Log File

When you visit this website, the browser used on your terminal device sends information to our website server automatically. This information is temporarily stored in a so-called “log file”. Following information is collected without any action by you and is stored until its automatic deletion:

  • the IP address of the inquiring PC
  • the access date and time
  • the name and the URL of the recalled file
  • the address of the loading page (referrer URL)
  • the browser in use and (if necessary) your PC operating system, as well as the name of your access provider.
  • access status (eg, file transmitted, file not found, etc.)
  • transferred amount of data. 

We process the aforementioned data for the following purposes:

  • ensuring an optimal connection to the website
  • ensuring a comfortable usage of our website
  • analyzing the system's safety and stability, and
  • other administrative purposes.

Legal basis for data processing is Art. 6 Par. 1-1-f) of the GDPR. Our legitimate interest arises from the aforementioned purposes of data collection. In no case we will use the collected data for tracing back to your person.

Cookie policy

On our website we use cookies. Cookies are small files automatically generated by your browser upon request of our website and stored on your terminal device (laptop, tablet, smart phone, etc.) when you visit our website. Cookies cannot harm your terminal device and contain no viruses, Trojan horses or other malware.

The information stored in cookies depends specifically on the device in use. However, this does not mean that we get to know your identity directly.

By using cookies, we can make our service more user friendly. Therefore, we use the so-called “session cookies”. This helps us recognize that you have already visited individual pages of our website. Once you have closed our pages, these cookies are deleted automatically.

In order to optimize our website ergonomics, we also use temporary cookies that are stored on your terminal device for a specific period of time. When you return to our website to use our services, you will be automatically recognized as a former user together with your inputs and settings, so that you do not need to reconfigure them.

We use cookies for tracking our website usage for statistical purposes and for evaluating our service optimization, too. When you return to our website, these cookies help us automatically recognize that you have already been our user and are automatically deleted after a specific period of time.

The data obtained through cookies are necessary for the previously mentioned purposes in order to safeguard our legitimate interests and those of third parties according to Art. 6 Par. 1-1-f) of the GDPR.

Most browsers accept cookies automatically. If you do not want cookies to be stored on your PC or you want a notice to be shown before a new cookie is created, you can disable this in the system settings of your browser. However, completely disabling cookies can restrict some functionalities of our website.

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Google Analytics

We use Google Analytics, a web analysis service of Google Inc. (https://www.google.de/intl/de/about/, Google Ireland Limited, Gordon House, Barrow Street, Dublin 4, Ireland; in the following referred to as “Google”), for making our websites more user friendly and optimizing them constantly. In this process, pseudonymized usage profiles are created and cookies are used. Pieces of information on your usage of this website created by cookies, eg 

  • the browser type/version
  • the operating system used
  • the referrer URL (the page that has been visited previously)
  • the host name of the accessing PC (IP address)
  • and the server request time

are transmitted to a Google server in the USA and stored on it. Information is used to evaluate the website usage, compile reports about website activities and develop other services associated with website and Internet usage with the purpose of carrying out market researches and structuring these websites according to users' needs. This information may also be transmitted to third parties if it is prescribed by law or these third parties are entrusted with the processing of this data specifically. In no case Google will associate your IP address with other data. IP addresses are anonymized in order to avoid any possible association.

If you do not want cookies to be installed, you can set up your browser software accordingly. However, please note that this may restrict some functionalities of this website.

You can also prevent Google from collecting and processing data on your usage of this website that has been generated through cookies (eg, your IP address). In this case, you need to download and install a specific browser add-on (https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=de).

Further information on data protection with reference to Google Analytics is available in the support area of ​​Google Analytics (https://support.google.com/analytics/answer/6004245?hl=de).

As far as your actual browser session is concerned, you can disable the web analysis of Google Analytics completely by clicking on the following buttons:

Use of videos (Vimeo)

Videos from Vimeo are embedded on this website. We would like to achieve an attractive online presentation of our offers, which represents a legitimate interest within the meaning of Art. 6 Paragraph 1 Letter f of GDPR. Vimeo is based at 555 West 18th Street, New York. A Vimeo embedding function is used to display and play the videos. By playing the video, you agree that Vimeo uses cookies. According to the company, this is done, among other things, to improve user-friendliness, create video statistics and prevent abusive activities. It cannot be ruled out that the cookies are also used to analyze user behavior for market research and marketing purposes. 

When you play the Vimeo video, the following data is transferred to Google as the Vimeo operator:

  • The IP address
  • specific address of the website accessed
  • transmitted browser identifier
  • System date and time of call
  • existing cookies that can be used to uniquely identify your browser

Even if you do not start the embedded videos, a connection to the Google Marketing Platform is established each time the corresponding website is accessed. This also collects data without us as the website operator being able to influence this.

Google, as the operator of Vimeo, is solely responsible for processing all transferred data. Further information on data protection at Google can be found at: https://vimeo.com/privacy

Font Service

This website makes use of “fonts.com”, a font service by Monotype Imaging Holdings Inc. (“fonts.com”, Monotype GmbH, Horexstraße 30, 61352 Bad Homburg, Germany), an affiliate of Monotype Imaging Holdings Inc., Delaware, with headquarters in 600 Unicorn Park Drive, Woburn, Massachusetts 01801 USA. 

When you access this website, following data is collected: the (anonymized) project's identification number of the web font and the URL of this website, which is linked up to our customer number in order to identify the licensed web fonts in use. After 30 days, this data is cancelled. This data is transmitted to authorized subsidiaries and affiliated companies of Monotype Imaging Holdings Inc.

When you access this website, your IP address is not collected – only its anonymized IP 0.0.0.0 version instead. No data related to your person is collected or processed. No cookies are used. For any question related to the Privacy Policy of Monotype Imaging Holdings Inc. please contact privacy@monotype.com or

Monotype Imaging Holdings Inc., Attn. Data Protection Representative, 600 Unicorn Park Drive, Woburn, MA 01801 USA

The Privacy Policy of Monotype Imaging Holdings Inc. is subject to modifications.
For your current browser session, you have the option of disabling the font service completely by means of the following buttons.

OpenStreetMap/Leaflet

This website uses the cartographic service Leaflet API for embedding maps of the Platform OpenStreetMap of the supplier OpenStreetMap Foundation (132 Maney Hill Road, Sutton Coldfield, West Midlands, B72 1JU, United Kingdom). Here you can find the Privacy Policy of OpenStreetMap Foundation: https://wiki.osmfoundation.org/wiki/Privacy_Policy).

In order to have cartographic material embedded and displayed on it, your web browser must accept a connection with other servers. In this way it is basically possible that information on your use of this website (including your IP address) is transmitted to other servers and stored there. 

If you want to avoid data to be transferred to third parties, you can disable the service of OpenStreetMap by disabling JavaScript in your browser. However, please note that in this case the display of maps on the websites is not possible or limited.

Google Maps

This website includes cartographic material by Google Maps of Google Inc. (see above). This implies that Google processes the users' IP address: as a matter of fact, Google Maps contents could not be sent to the users' browser without an IP address. Therefore, the IP address is necessary to supply and show these contents. The Naturpark Altmühltal Information Center cannot influence the IP address being processed by Google. Further information on the Terms and Conditions of Use and the Privacy Policy of Google is available at http://www.google.com/analytics/terms/de.html and https://www.google.de/intl/de/policies/.

plausible analytics

Plausible Analytics is a web analytics tool that provides us with anonymized information about the usage of our website. We use the insights gained to optimize our content and services accordingly. Plausible Analytics does not collect personal data, use cookies, or store any information in users' browsers.

Plausible Analytics temporarily collects certain metadata of your request. However, this data is processed in anonymized form and is never stored. As a result, no inferences can be made about you as an individual.

Plausible Analytics is operated in self-hosting mode, meaning that all collected data is processed exclusively on our own servers. There is no sharing or transmission of data to third parties.