Privacy Policy for Curated Austrian Road Trips

Welcome to our online platform. We are dedicated to crafting exclusive road trip experiences across Austria, offering premium scenic routes, curated itineraries, and bespoke travel tips. As part of this commitment, your privacy is paramount to us. This policy outlines how we collect, use, and protect your personal data in accordance with the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and other applicable data protection laws.

1. Information We Collect

To provide our tailored luxury road trip services, we may collect the following types of personal information:

• Personal Identifiers: This includes your name, email address, postal address (if you request physical materials), and telephone number when you make an inquiry, request an itinerary, or subscribe to our newsletters.
• Travel Preferences and Details: Information about your desired travel dates, interests (e.g., fine dining, boutique hotels, castles, specific luxury car models), number of travelers, and any special requests that help us curate your unique road trip experience.
• Technical Data: When you visit our website, we automatically collect certain information about your device, including your IP address, browser type, operating system, referring URLs, and how you interact with our site. This is primarily collected through cookies and similar technologies.

2. How We Use Your Information

We use the collected information for various purposes, always with a legitimate basis:

• To Provide and Personalize Our Services: To fulfill your requests for curated itineraries, exclusive travel tips, and premium route suggestions. This includes communicating with you about your specific travel plans.
• For Communication: To respond to your inquiries, provide customer support, and send you updates about our services, promotions, or newsletters if you have opted in.
• For Website Improvement: To understand how visitors use our site, analyze trends, optimize user experience, and ensure the technical functionality of our online platform. This helps us to continually enhance our offerings of luxury road trips across Austria.
• For Marketing Purposes: With your consent, to send you information about new luxury routes, exclusive travel partnerships, or bespoke experiences that align with your interests.
• Compliance and Legal Obligations: To comply with legal obligations, resolve disputes, and enforce our agreements.

3. Legal Basis for Processing

We process your personal data based on the following legal grounds under GDPR:

• Consent: Where you have given clear consent for us to process your personal data for a specific purpose (e.g., subscribing to a newsletter).
• Contractual Necessity: Where processing is necessary for the performance of a contract with you or to take steps at your request before entering into a contract (e.g., to create a personalized itinerary).
• Legitimate Interests: Where processing is necessary for our legitimate interests or those of a third party, and these interests do not override your fundamental rights and freedoms (e.g., to improve our website and services).
• Legal Obligation: Where processing is necessary to comply with a legal or regulatory obligation.

4. Data Sharing and Disclosure

We do not sell, rent, or trade your personal data to third parties. We may share your information in the following limited circumstances:

• Service Providers: We may engage trusted third-party service providers (e.g., IT support, analytics providers, email service providers) who assist us in operating our website and delivering our services. These providers are contractually bound to protect your data and only process it according to our instructions.
• Legal Requirements: We may disclose your information if required to do so by law or in response to valid requests by public authorities (e.g., a court or government agency).

5. Data Security

We implement appropriate technical and organizational measures to protect your personal data from unauthorized access, disclosure, alteration, or destruction. These measures include encryption, access controls, and regular security assessments. We are committed to ensuring the integrity and confidentiality of the data entrusted to us for your luxury Austrian road trip planning.

6. Data Retention

We retain your personal data only for as long as necessary to fulfill the purposes for which it was collected, including for the purposes of satisfying any legal, accounting, or reporting requirements. When assessing the appropriate retention period, we consider the amount, nature, and sensitivity of the personal data, the potential risk of harm from unauthorized use or disclosure of your personal data, the purposes for which we process your personal data and whether we can achieve those purposes through other means, and the applicable legal requirements.

7. Your Data Protection Rights (GDPR)

Under GDPR, you have the following rights regarding your personal data:

• The Right to Access: You have the right to request copies of your personal data.
• The Right to Rectification: You have the right to request that we correct any information you believe is inaccurate or complete information you believe is incomplete.
• The Right to Erasure (Right to be Forgotten): You have the right to request that we erase your personal data, under certain conditions.
• The Right to Restrict Processing: You have the right to request that we restrict the processing of your personal data, under certain conditions.
• The Right to Object to Processing: You have the right to object to our processing of your personal data, under certain conditions.
• The Right to Data Portability: You have the right to request that we transfer the data that we have collected to another organization, or directly to you, under certain conditions.
• The Right to Withdraw Consent: Where our processing is based on your consent, you have the right to withdraw your consent at any time.

To exercise any of these rights, please contact us using the physical address provided below. We will respond to your request within one month.

8. Cookies and Tracking Technologies

Our site uses cookies to enhance your browsing experience, analyze site traffic, and understand how our premium content is being used. Cookies are small data files stored on your device. You have the option to accept or decline cookies. Most web browsers automatically accept cookies, but you can usually modify your browser setting to decline cookies if you prefer. However, this may prevent you from taking full advantage of the website.

9. Changes to This Privacy Policy

We may update our Privacy Policy from time to time to reflect changes in our practices or for other operational, legal, or regulatory reasons. We will notify you of any changes by posting the new Privacy Policy on this page. We encourage you to review this Privacy Policy periodically for any updates.

10. Contact Us

If you have any questions or concerns about this Privacy Policy or our data protection practices, please contact us at: