Privacy Statement

Privacy Policy

The protection of your personal data is important to us. All personal data are processed and used in accordance with the relevant data protection regulations, in particular the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), the German Federal Data Protection Act (BDSG) and the German Telemedia Act (TMG). Controller within the meaning of the data protection laws and service provider in the sense of the Telemedia Act is the Biblische Reisen GmbH, Hohenzollernstr. 14, 70178 Stuttgart, Tel.: 0711 – 619 25-0, E-Mail: , Managing Director: Irmela Preissner. In the following, we inform you about which data is collected by us and how we process this data.

Personal Data

Personal data in the sense of the Data Privacy Law means any information relating to an identified or identifiable natural person (data subject). Personal data will only be processed if there is a legal justification or if you give us the consent to the processing of your personal data.

Anonymized Data

By visiting our site our server stores your personal data. These data include e.g. the type and version of your browser, the kind of your used operating system, the website you visited previously, date and time of the server request as well as the client's file query (file name and URL). We use these data anonymously for statistical evaluations, whereby no assignment is made to the respective user.

The Purpose of Collecting Personal Data

If our website includes the possibility to input your personal or business data – e.g. if you book a trip, order a catalog or our newsletter or write to us via the contact form – you submit your data voluntarily. Information you provide to us (name, occupation company, your address, telephone number, fax number or e-mail address) will be stored.In order to receive certain services, it is essential that we collect certain information from you (such as your address for sending a catalog). In accordance with legal regulations and in terms of data minimisation, we usually collect only those data that are needed to provide the service. The indication of further information is always voluntary and marked as such.These personal data are only used for the respective purpose (e.g. preparation of an offer, order) will be removed afterwards, unless you have expressly agreed into another usage. As far as statutory storage requirements exist, the processing of the data is restricted until the expiration of these retention requirements, and thereafter the data is finally deleted.An additional use of your e-mail address will only take place if you expressly provide us with your data for newsletters on new products and current topics. In the event you do no longer wish to receive such information, you can object to such use of your data at any time via fax or e-mail or by calling us, without incurring additional costs other than the basic transmission costs. We only use your data for other marketing purposes if we informed you in advance about the intended usage and you explicitly approved it. The cancellation of newsletters and the withdrawal of your consent are possible at any time with effect for the future.Legal basis for the processing of the personal data is Article 6 paragraph (1) sentence 1 lit. a and lit. b General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).

Transfer of personal data to third parties

Your personal data will only be known to those persons who are dealing with the processing of your inquiry, the processing of your order and the transmission of newsletters. However, a transfer of personal data to third parties can take place if you have expressly agreed to the transfer or if the transfer is permitted by data protection law. In some cases, our data processing is carried out by a data processor, who is bound by our instructions and obliged according to data protection regulations and who is not allowed to use the data for any other purpose.

Cookies

Interactions with our web pages are tracked with the use of cookies in order to be able to customize these pages to your needs. Cookies are small text files that are stored on your hard drive. Most of the cookies will be deleted automatically at the end of your browser session (session-cookies). Other cookies remain stored on your hard drive and enable us to recognize you on your next visit. You can, of course, also view our website without cookies. Most web browsers automatically accept cookies. If you would like to avoid storing cookies on your hard drive, simply choose "do not accept cookies" in your browser preferences. In this case, you may not be able to use all functions on our homepage.

Google Analytics

This website uses Google Analytics, which is a web analysis service provided by Google Inc. (hereafter: "Google"). Google Analytics uses "cookies", which are text files that are stored on your computer and allow an analysis of how you use the website. The information generated by the cookie about your use of this website is generally transferred to a Google server in the USA, where it is then stored.
Due to the activation of IP anonymization on this website, however, your IP address is previously abbreviated by Google within member states of the European Union or in other countries that are contracting parties to the Agreement on the European Economic Area. The full IP address is only transferred to a Google server in the USA in exceptional cases. On behalf of the operator of this website, Google will use this information to evaluate your use of the site, to compile reports about activity on the website, and to provide services to the website operator that are associated with usage of the website and the Internet. The IP address transmitted by your browser in the context of Google Analytics is not merged with other Google data.

You can prevent the saving of cookies by configuring the relevant setting in your browser software; if you do so, however, we must point out that you might not be able to use all the functionalities of this website. You can also prevent the data that is created by the cookie and relates to your use of the website (including your IP address) from being recorded and sent to Google, as well as the processing of this data by Google by downloading and installing the browser plug-in available at the following link: (https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=en).

For browsers on mobile devices, please click on the following link to set an opt-out cookie that will prevent the recording through Google Analytics within this website in the future. Please note that this opt-out cookie works only in this browser and only for this domain. If you delete your cookies in this browser, you must click the link again. For further information on the usage of your personal data through Google for advertising purposes, possibilities of adjustment and contradiction, please refer to the websites of Google, for example: https://policies.google.com/technologies/partner-sites?hl=en („Data usage by Google during your use of our partners' sites or apps"), https://policies.google.com/technologies/ads?hl=en („Data usage for advertising purposes https://www.google.com/settings/u/0/ads/authenticated?hl=en („Determine which advertising Google shows you").

More information about the terms of use and data privacy is available here:

http://www.google.com/analytics/terms/us.html
https://www.google.com/analytics/learn/privacy.html?hl=en-gb
https://policies.google.com/?hl=en

On this website, the code "gat._anonymizeIp();" has been added to Google Analytics to ensure that IP addresses are recorded anonymously. (This is known as "IP masking".)

Rights of the data subject

You are entitled to request information about the personal data stored by us, to have incorrect data corrected, or to request the deletion or freezing of your data as well as the portability of your personal data. You may object to the use of your data at any time with effect for the future. There are, however, cases where we are not allowed to delete your data in its entirety as a result of legal retention periods. We would also like to draw your attention to the possibility to file a complaint with the State Commissioner for Data Protection and Freedom of Information Baden-Württemberg.You can contact our controller for Data Protection at any time:
Biblische Reisen GmbH
Datenschutzbeauftragte
Postfach 150461
D-70076 Stuttgart