Sonnenhotels GmbH data protection
1. Data protection declaration
Sonnenhotels GmbH is responsible for the content of the Sonnenhotel website and the data-protection-compliant use of data processed during your visit. All the following explanations on implementing the data protection principles and legal provisions apply to all websites under the responsibility of Sonnenhotels GmbH. Sonnenhotels GmbH assumes no liability for links to other websites and their content.
2. Collection of personal data
In line with the data avoidance and data minimization principle we collect, process and use your personal data on our website only if you specify this when carrying out a hotel reservation or indeed for use in the context of special services such as ordering hotel information material and newsletters.
3. Processing the personal data of our website visitors
Initially we check all the data you make available to us during your visit to our website or an email contact for completeness and plausibility, and then for the purpose of further processing the data collected are passed to the staff member responsible.
4. Use of personal data
If you join the newsletter community, your personal data are saved in a data bank. At all times you have the possibility of deregistering your saved data by once again registering your name and email address in the newsletter form and marking the box marked “deregister”. Use and processing of your personal data for advertising purposes takes place only if you have indicated your approval. This approval is voluntary and can be withdrawn at any time as regards Sonnenhotels GmbH.
5. Your data protection rights as affected person
Upon request and free of charge you are entitled to access your saved personal data. In addition you are entitled to correction, deletion or blocking of incorrect data. Note that deletion can under certain circumstances be rendered impossible by legal provisions, particularly when it comes to data for billing and accounting purposes.
6. Use of your personal data by third parties
Please be aware that personal data submitted in chatrooms, communities, other chatrooms and other public communication programs may possibly be collected and used by other persons.
Sonnenhotels GmbH recommend you read the data protection provisions of websites you might reach via links in the www.sonnenhotels.de website, in order to understand how such websites collect, use and disseminate your data. Sonnenhotels GmbH is not responsible or liable for content and data protection provisions of such third party providers and their websites.
7. Use of Facebook social plugins
Our internet presence uses social media social plugins at facebook.com operated by Facebook Inc., 1601 S. California Ave, Palo Alto, CA 94304, USA (“Facebook”). These plugins can be recognised by the Facebook logo (white “f” on blue tile or a “thumbs up” sign) or are specially marked “Facebook social plugin”.
A list and the appearance of Facebook social plugins can be viewed here: http://developers.facebook.com/plugins.
If you visit our internet presence website containing a plugin of this nature, your browser creates a direct link to the Facebook servers. Facebook then passes the content of the plugin directly to your browser and embeds it in the website.
We therefore have no influence over the scope of the data Facebook collects with this plugin, and so you should make yourself aware of our latest understanding of the current knowledge: by embedding the plugin, Facebook receives information that you have visited the corresponding page of our website. If you are logged in to Facebook, they can allocate the visit to your Facebook account. If you interact with the plugins, for instance by clicking the “like” button or leaving a comment, your browser communicates the corresponding information direct to Facebook and saves it there.
Even if you are not a Facebook member, there is still a possibility that Facebook becomes aware of your IP address and saves it.
The purpose and scope of data collection, further processing and use thereof by Facebook, your rights in this connection and possible settings to protect your privacy can be viewed in the Facebook data protection notices at: http://www.facebook.com/policy.php. If you are a Facebook member, but do not wish Facebook to use our website to collect data on you for linking to your data saved on Facebook, you have to log out of Facebook before visiting our website.
8. Use of cookies
The Sonnenhotels and partner hotel websites use cookies. A cookie is a text file a web server copies onto your hard disk, though it cannot carry out programs or introduce viruses to your computer. Its purpose is to simplify website use and support additional functions of the internet presence by offering support in internet navigation and aiding input. A further purpose of a cookie is to inform a web server that you a have visited a certain website before. You can accept or decline all cookies.
The majority of browsers automatically accept cookies, but you can also adapt your browser settings for cookies to your needs. Deactivating cookies in your browser may result in not all services of the Sonnenhotels website being shown, and you may not be able to use them fully.
Our website makes use of Google Analytics, an internet analysis service from Google Inc. (“Google”). Google Analytics uses so-called cookies to facilitate analysis of your use of the website. The information provided by the cookie on your use of this website (including your IP address) is transferred to a Google server in the USA and saved there. Google uses this information to evaluate use of the website, to compile reports on website activity for the operator and to provide further services in connection with website and internet usage. Google may also transfer this information to third parties, where legally prescribed, or where third parties process these data on behalf of Google. Under no circumstances does Google link your IP address with other data. You can prevent installation of cookies by a corresponding setting of your browser software; however we would advise you that in this case you may not be able to use all the functions of our website fully.
9. Your counterpart in data protection matters
Sonnenhotels GmbH
Data protection officer
Gerhard – Weule – Straße 20
38644 Goslar
Tel.: +49 (0) 53 21/ 68 55 40
Fax: +49 (0) 53 21 / 68 55 471
Email: datenschutz@sonnenhotels.de