1. General Notes
We, the responsible persons for this website, are
Francesco Scilipoti
Georg Raloff Ring 40
22309 Hamburg
Germany
We run the website www.bestdestinations.co (the “website“), offer it to its visitors (“you”) and can be reached via the email address.
1.1 Revoking your consent to data processing
Some data processing activities are only possible if you actively consent. At any time, you can revoke your previously given consent. For this, send us info@bestdestinations.co The data processing conducted before you revoked your consent remains unchanged.
1.2 Rights to obtain information on collected data, to have them adjusted or deleted
At any time you have the right to get information on your personal data that are stored with us, their origin and the purpose of their storage. You may also have us adjust or delete these data. For this or any other topics regarding personal data you can reach us via the contact options stated above.
1.3 SSL-/TLS-encryption
For safety reasons and to protect any confidential data that you send to us, we use SSL-/TLS-encryption. Through this, data that you send us can not be read by third parties. You can recognize an encrypted connection by the “https://” element in the URL line of your browser and by the lock-symbol next to it.
1.4 Registrations on the website
In order to use specific functions and services offered on our website, you have the option to register for them. The purpose of thereby transmitted data lies merely in offering you the described service. There may be mandatory information that we require for you to successfully register. In case of important changes to a service you registered for, we inform you via the email address that you stated for registration.
The processing of any data you entered for registration is based on your consent (GDPR Art. 6.1). At any time you may revoke your previously given consent. For this, send us an info@bestdestinations.co The data processing conducted before you revoked your consent remains unchanged.
We store the data related to your registration during the time period that you are registered for. Your data will be deleted once you cancel your registration with us.
1.5 Posts and Comments
Posts and comments and the data related to them such as IP addresses are stored by us. Posts and comments remain on our website until they were completely deleted or removed for legal purposes. The storage of posts and comments is based on your consent (GDPR Art. 6.1). At any time you may revoke your previously given consent. For this, send us an info@bestdestinations.co The data processing conducted before you revoked your consent remains unchanged.
2. Website Usage and Features
2.1 Push Notifications
In order to keep you informed about news from our website, we offer a service for push notifications. For this, anonymized IDs are saved to enable an analysis of the usage of push notifications. We need your consent to send you the push notifications and conduct any data analysis related to them. You can manage and change your settings regarding push notifications at any time in your browser. If you want to stop receiving push notifications you can block them in the website settings of your browser for this website. You can find guidelines for managing your push notification settings for individual browsers by clicking the following links:
Chrome
Mozilla Firefox
Safari
Internet Explorer
2.2 Newsletter
You will be asked to consent to the use of your personal data to receive our newsletter as follows:
“I have read the privacy policy and I give my consent to data being processed by a service provider located in the United States”.
We use the newsletter to provide you with regular updates about our projects and posts. To receive our newsletter, you will need a valid email address and state your name in a registration form. We will then check the email address entered to ensure that you are actually its owner or if its owner has agreed to receive our newsletter. By registering for the newsletter, we will save your IP address, date and time of registration, name and email address. This will be used in case a third party misuses your email address to subscribe to our newsletter without your knowledge.
The processing of data that you provide through the newsletter registration form is exclusively based on your consent (GDPR Art. 6.1). At any time you can revoke your consent to store your email address or any data you provided by clicking the “unsubscribe” link in any newsletter. Any data that we store for sending you our newsletter will be stored until you unsubscribe from our newsletter and will be deleted after you have unsubscribed. Data that are stored with us for other purposes are not deleted. We will not compare the data collected during newsletter registration with any other data that might be collected by other components of our site.
2.2.1 GetResponse
Our website is sending newsletters via GetResponse (GetResponse Sp. z. o. o., Arkonska 6, A3, 80-387 Gdansk, Poland). The service of Getresponse allows the creation, distribution and analysis of newsletters. The data entered by you to sign up for the newsletter will be stored on the servers of GetResponse.
By sending newsletters with GetResponse, we can analyze the behavior of newsletter recipients. For instance, we can track how many newsletters were opened, when they were opened, how often links in it were clicked or whether specific actions such as sharing information on social media or buying a product have were taken. Through this we can optimize the timing of our newsletter messages.
The processing of data that you provide through the newsletter registration form is exclusively based on your consent (GDPR Art. 6.1). We store the data you entered for the newsletter sign up until you unsubscribe from it. At any time you can revoke your consent to store your email address or any data you provided by clicking the “unsubscribe” link in any newsletter. After you unsubscribed, your data related to the newsletter sign up will be deleted from our servers as well as from GetResponse’s servers. Data that we store for purposes not related to the newsletter will not be affected by this. The already conducted data processing will not be affected by this.
For more information, please read GetResponse’s privacy policy at: https://www.getresponse.com/legal/privacy-us
2.3 Cookies
Our website uses Cookies which are text files that are stored in an Internet browser. Many cookies contain a so-called cookie ID which is a unique identifier of the cookie. It consists of a character string through which Internet pages and servers can be assigned to the specific Internet browser in which the cookie was stored. This allows visited Internet sites and servers to differentiate your individual browsers and your website usage across these browsers. A specific Internet browser can be recognized and identified using the unique cookie ID.
Through the use of cookies, we can provide you with more user-friendly services that would not be possible without the cookie setting. For instance, you do not have to re-enter specific data every time again you visit our website. Our usage of cookies is based on GDPR Art. 6.1. If our website uses specific analytical cookies, they are treated separately in this privacy policy.
You may at any time prevent the usage of cookies on our website by adjusting the settings in your Internet browser. Already set cookies can furthermore be deleted via your Internet browser. However, not all functions of this website may be entirely usable if you deactivate cookies.
2.4 External Platforms and Services
2.4.1 Integration of Instagram
On this website, components such as buttons of the service Instagram were integrated. Instagram is an audiovisual platform, which allows users to share photos and videos, as well as disseminate such data in other social networks. The operating company of the services offered by Instagram is Facebook Ireland Ltd., 4 Grand Canal Square, Grand Canal Harbour, Dublin 2 Ireland.
With each visit to one of the individual pages of our website on which an Instagram component was integrated your Internet browser automatically displays the corresponding Instagram component. During the course of this technical procedure, Instagram becomes aware of what specific sub-page of our website you visited.
If you are logged in on Instagram while you visit our website, Instagram detects for the entire duration of your stay on our website which specific sub-page of our website page you visited. This information is collected via the Instagram component and is associated with your Instagram account. If you interact with any Instagram component integrated on our website, for instance by clicking an Instagram button, Instagram matches this information with your personal Instagram user account and stores the personal data. If you do not want such data to be transferred to Instagram, you can prevent this by logging out of your Instagram account before visiting our website.
Further information and the applicable data protection provisions of Instagram may be retrieved under https://help.instagram.com/155833707900388 and https://www.instagram.com/about/legal/privacy/.
2.4.2 Integration of Facebook
Our website uses “Facebook Pixels” for purposes of marketing. These Pixels are remarketing tags offered by the social network Facebook (Facebook Inc., 1601 Willow Road, Menlo Park, California 94025, USA). The remarketing tags create a link between a Facebook server and your browser every time you visit our website. Through this, Facebook is informed that your IP address was used to visit our website. In case personal data is transmitted to the United States, Facebook handles them under the EU-US Privacy shield. Facebook thereby provides us with data regarding the use of our website and the performance of advertising that we run on Facebook as well as information on how we can optimize advertising that we run on Facebook regarding the choice of target groups or the placement of advertisements.
In case you are a member on Facebook, Facebook can create a link between the information from your visit on our website and your Facebook member account and thereby use it for its own advertising targeting. For further information, you can check and change your Facebook privacy settings.
Facebook will only show general advertising that is not specifically targeted based on information collected about you or related to your Facebook profile if you deactivated the data processing.
For more information, please refer to the data policy of Facebook.
2.4.3 Usage of the chatbot service Manychat
We offer the option to contact us via Manychat, which is a chat service on the social network Facebook (hello@manychat.com, 220 Golden Oak Dr, Portola Valley, CA, 94028, manychat.com). If you contact us via Manychat, you consent with the processing of your non-personal and personal data that you provide by contacting us. Any data and communication that happens on Manychat are processed in the USA and exchanged with Facebook Messenger. The privacy policies of Manychat (https://manychat.com/privacy.html) and Facebook (htttps://www.facebook.com/about/privacy/) thereby apply.
We use Manychat to process and automate relationships with Facebook users. We handle any data collected through Manychat confidentially. If you want to make use of your user rights to learn about how we use your data or have use delete your data for Manychat, please contact us info@bestdestinations.co
Besides individual and predefined messages, we also give users the option to sign up for a newsletter via Facebook Messenger. We only send these newsletters or chat messages with commercial intentions with the consent of the recipient. For this, we provide the user with information regarding the newsletter’s content beforehand.
You can sign up to the newsletter on Facebook Messenger by written consent to the service or by clicking on a button. These actions taken by you are saved in the chat log and serve as a proof that you signed up to the newsletter. You can not sign up your account to the newsletter with another user account which is often possible in email forms. Thus, there is no double opt-in feature in the newsletter sign up.
We send the newsletter and track its performance measures based on your consent according to GDPR Art. 6.1 and GDPR Art. 7. At any time, you can revoke your consent to receive our newsletter and terminate the service. To do so, send the word “Stop” in the chat box or navigate through the chat menu to the sign out option.
2.4.4 Integration of Pinterest
On this website, we have integrated components of Pinterest Inc. such as Plug-Ins, icons and buttons. Pinterest is a so-called social network. Pinterest enables its users to publish visual collections and individual pictures as well as descriptions on virtual pinboards (so-called pins), which can then be shared by other users (so-called re-pins) or commented on.
The operating company of Pinterest is Pinterest Europe Ltd., Palmerston House, 2nd Floor, Fenian Street, Dublin 2,Ireland.
With each visit to one of the individual pages of our website on which a Pinterest component was integrated your Internet browser automatically displays the corresponding component. If you are logged in on Pinterest while you visit our website, Pinterest detects for the entire duration of your stay on our website which specific sub-page of our website page you visited. This information is associated with your Pinterest account. If you click on one of the Pinterest components integrated on our website, Pinterest matches this information with your personal Pinterest user account and stores the personal data. If you do not want such data to be transferred to Pinterest, you can prevent this by logging out of your Pinterest account before visiting our website.
You can find further information on Pinterest’s privacy policy at https://about.pinterest.com/privacy-policy.
2.4.5 Integration of Google Analytics
We use the web analytics service Google Analytics on our website. Web analytics is the collection, gathering, and analysis of data about the behavior of visitors to websites. Web analytics are mainly used for the optimization of a website and in order to carry out a cost-benefit analysis of Internet advertising.
Google Analytics services are provided by Google Ireland Limited, Gordon House, Barrow Street, Dublin, D04 E5W5, Ireland.
For the web analytics through Google Analytics we use the application “_gat. _anonymizeIp”. By means of this application your IP address is abridged by Google and anonymized when accessing our websites from a member state of the European Union or another Contracting State to the Agreement on the European Economic Area.
The purpose of the usage of Google Analytics on our website is to analyze the traffic on it. Google uses the collected data and information to evaluate the use of our website and to provide online reports, which show the activities on our website, and to provide other services concerning the use of our website for us.
Google Analytics places a cookie in your browser. The definition of cookies is explained above. With the setting of the cookie, Google is enabled to analyze the use of our website. With each visit of one of the individual pages of our website, your browser will automatically submit data that is analyzed by Google Analytics for the purpose of online advertising and the settlement of commissions to Google. During the course of this technical procedure, Google may gain knowledge of personal information, such as your IP address.
The cookie is used to store personal information, such as the access time, the location from which the access was made, and the frequency of your visits to our website. With each visit, such personal data, including the IP address of the Internet access used by the data subject, will be transmitted to Google in the United States. These personal data are stored by Google in the United States. Google may pass these personal data to third parties.
You may prevent the setting of cookies through our website at any time by adjusting the settings of your Internet browser. Such an adjustment to the Internet browser used would also prevent Google Analytics from setting a cookie in your browser. In addition, cookies already in use by Google Analytics may be deleted at any time via your web browser.
In addition, you have the right to request information on your data that are generated and processes by Google Analytics on our website and deny Google Analytics the right to collect your data. For this purpose, you must download a browser add-on under the link https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout and install it. This browser add-on tells Google Analytics that any data and information about the visits of Internet pages may not be transmitted to Google Analytics. If your browser is deleted, formatted, or newly installed, you must reinstall the browser add-ons to disable Google Analytics. If the browser add-on was uninstalled, it is possible to reinstall the browser add-on.
Further information and the applicable data protection provisions of Google may be retrieved under https://www.google.com/intl/en/policies/privacy/ and under http://www.google.com/analytics/terms/us.html. Google Analytics is further explained under the link https://www.google.com/analytics/.
2.4.6 Integration of Google AdWords
On this website, we integrated Google AdWords. Google AdWords is a service for Internet advertising that allows an advertiser to place ads in Google search engine results and the Google advertising network.
The operating company of Google AdWords is Google Ireland Limited, Gordon House, Barrow Street, Dublin, D04 E5W5, Ireland.
The purpose of Google AdWords is the promotion of our website by the inclusion of relevant advertising on the websites of third parties and in the search engine results of the search engine Google and an insertion of third-party advertising on our website.
If you reach our website via a Google ad, a conversion cookie is filed in your browser through Google. A conversion cookie loses its validity after 30 days and is not used to identify the data subject. If the cookie has not expired, the conversion cookie is used to check whether certain sub-pages, were visited our website. Through the conversion cookie, both Google and we can understand whether a person who reached an AdWords ad on our website generated sales, that is, completed or canceled a sale of goods or services.
The data and information collected through the use of the conversion cookie is used by Google to create visit statistics for our website. These visit statistics are used in order to determine the total number of users who have been served through AdWords ads to ascertain the success or failure of each AdWords ad and to optimize our AdWords ads in the future.
The conversion cookie stores personal information, e.g. the Internet pages visited by the data subject. Each time you visit our website, personal data, including your IP address, are transmitted to Google in the United States as well as stored and processed there. Google may pass these personal data to third parties.
You may prevent the setting of cookies through our website at any time by adjusting the settings of your Internet browser. Such an adjustment to the Internet browser used would also prevent Google from setting a cookie in your browser. In addition, cookies already in use by Google may be deleted at any time via your web browser.
Further information and the applicable data protection provisions of Google may be retrieved under https://www.google.com/intl/en/policies/privacy/.
2.4.7 Integration of Google Adsense
On this website, we integrated Google AdSense. Google AdSense is an online service which allows the placement of advertising on third-party sites. Google AdSense is based on an algorithm that selects advertisements displayed on third-party sites to match with the content of the respective third-party site. Google AdSense allows an interest-based targeting of the Internet user, which is implemented by means of generating individual user profiles.
The operating company of Google’s AdSense component is Google Ireland Limited, Gordon House, Barrow Street, Dublin, D04 E5W5, Ireland.
The purpose of Google’s AdSense component is the integration of advertisements on our website. Google AdSense places a cookie in your browser. With the setting of the cookie, Google is enabled to analyze the use of our website. With each visit to one of the individual pages of our website on which a Google AdSense component was integrated, your Internet browser automatically submits data through the Google AdSense component for the purpose of online advertising and the settlement of commissions to Google. Through Google AdSense, personal data and information, which includes the IP address, are transmitted to Google in the United States as well as stored and processed there. Google may disclose the collected personal data to third parties.
Furthermore, Google AdSense also uses so-called tracking pixels. A tracking pixel is a miniature graphic that is embedded in web pages to enable a log file recording and a log file analysis through which a statistical analysis may be performed. Based on the embedded tracking pixels, Google is able to determine if and when a website was opened and which links were clicked by you.
You may prevent the setting of cookies through our website at any time by adjusting the settings of your Internet browser. Such an adjustment to the Internet browser used would also prevent Google from setting a cookie in your browser. In addition, cookies already in use by Google may be deleted at any time via your web browser.
Google AdSense is further explained under the following link https://www.google.com/intl/en/adsense/start/.
2.4.8 Integration of Youtube
On this website, we have integrated components of YouTube. YouTube is an Internet video portal that enables video publishers to present their content free of charge to users, which includes partially free viewing, review and commenting on them. YouTube allows you to publish all kinds of videos, so you can access both full movies and TV broadcasts, as well as music videos, trailers, and videos made by users via the Internet portal.
The operating company of YouTube is Google Ireland Limited, Gordon House, Barrow Street, Dublin, D04 E5W5, Ireland.
With each visit to one of the individual pages of our website on which a Youtube component such as an icon or button was integrated your Internet browser automatically displays the corresponding component. If you are logged in on Youtube while you visit our website, Youtube detects for the entire duration of your stay on our website which specific sub-page of our website page you visited. This information is associated with your Youtube account. If you click on one of the Youtube components integrated on our website, Youtube matches this information with your personal Youtube user account and stores the personal data. If you do not want such data to be transferred to Youtube, you can prevent this by logging out of your Youtube account before visiting our website.
If you do not want such data to be transferred to Youtube and Google, you can prevent this by logging out of your Youtube account before visiting our website.
YouTube’s data protection provisions, available at https://www.google.com/intl/en/policies/privacy/, provide information about the collection, processing and use of personal data by YouTube and Google.
2.6 Usage of Google Web Fonts
For uniform representation of fonts, this page uses web fonts provided by Google. When you open a page, your browser loads the required web fonts into your browser cache to display texts and fonts correctly.
For this purpose your browser has to establish a direct connection to Google servers. Google thus becomes aware that our web page was accessed via your IP address. The use of Google Web fonts is done in the interest of a uniform and attractive presentation of our website and is based on GDPR Art. 6.1.
If your browser does not support web fonts, a standard font is used by your computer.
Further information about handling user data can be found at https://developers.google.com/fonts/faq and in Google’s privacy policy at https://www.google.com/policies/privacy/.
