Data protection

The protection of personal data and thus your privacy is taken very seriously by us. We at Fit Reisen Group GmbH, the operator of this website, want to use this privacy policy to convince you that your data are safe with us and inform you of the data we use to give you a special and inspiring experience. To protect your privacy, it is a matter of course for us to comply with privacy laws and regulations.

Responsible body and data protection officer

We, the Fit Reisen Group GmbH, Ferdinand-Happ-Str. 28, 60314 Frankfurt, Tel. +49 (0) 69 40 5885-0, info@fitreisen.de, www.fitreisen.de are responsible persons acc. Article 4 (7) of the EU General Data Protection Regulation and legally required to inform you of the purpose, scope and nature of the collection and use of your personal data.

If you have any questions about this statement or the handling of personal data in our company, you can contact our external data protection officer at:

Klaus Pampuch
Unterbörsch 40c
51515 Kürten
www.five.consulting

Collection and storage of personal data and nature and purpose of use

Personal data are individual details about personal and factual circumstances of a certain or determinable natural person, ie all data that can be personally referred to you. In the following we show which personal data we collect and when.

If you browse our websites or use our apps

When you visit our website or use our apps, the so-called browser used on your device will automatically send information to the server of our website.

This information is temporarily stored in a so-called log file. Log files log all requests and requests of site visitors and error messages of a website. These are the following data, which are collected without your intervention and stored until the automatic deletion:
IP address of the requesting computer,

  • Date and time of access,
  • Name and URL of the retrieved file,
  • Website from which access is made (referrer URL),
  • used browser and, if applicable, the operating system of your computer as well as the name of your access provider.
The collection of data for the provision of the website and the storage of the data in log files is essential for the operation of the website. Therefore, there is no possibility of contradiction of the user.
  • When you use our website, the following information is also stored
  • Travel preferences and activities,
  • Information about your surfing behavior on our websites and the use of our apps,
  • Information about when you click on any of our advertisements and items, including those displayed on or linked to other organizations’ websites,
  • Information about the way you access our digital services, including operating system, IP address, approximate location of the IP address, online identifiers, and browser details.
  • social preferences and general interests and activities.
This data will not be stored with your other personal information when browsing.
If you contact us or we will contact you or participate in promotions or surveys, we may collect the following
  • Travel preferences and activities,
  • Information about your surfing behavior on our websites and the use of our apps,
  • Information about when you click on any of our advertisements and items, including those displayed on or linked to other organizations’ websites,
  • Information about the way you access our digital services, including operating system, IP address, approximate location of the IP address, online identifiers, and browser details.
  • social preferences and general interests and activities,
    Contact details that you provide when you contact us, such as by e-mail, post and telephone or through social media such as: For example, your name, username, e-mail address, phone number and other contact information,
  • Comments and opinions that you provide us with in the course of the contact, e.g. by e-mail, telephone, mail or by completing an online form
  • Details of the emails and other digital communications that you send to us or that we send to you and that you open, including any links contained therein that you click and
  • Your feedback and your contributions, for example, in customer surveys.
If you request and / or buy our travel and products and / or create an account with us, we may collect the following
  • Travel preferences and activities,
  • Information about your surfing behavior on our websites and the use of our mobile apps,
  • Information about when you click on any of our advertisements and items, including those displayed on or linked to other organizations’ websites,
  • Information about the way you access our digital services, including operating system, IP address, approximate location of the IP address, online identifiers, and browser details.
    social preferences and general interests and activities,
  • Contact details that you provide when you contact us, such as by e-mail, post and telephone or through social media such as: For example, your name, username, e-mail address, phone number and other contact information,
  • Details of the emails and other digital communications that you send to us or that we send to you and that you open, including any links contained therein that you click
  • Your feedback and your contributions, for example, in customer surveys,
  • Information about your purchases, eg. What you bought, when and where you bought it, how you paid, and credit or other payment information,
  • Your booking data such as destination and course,
  •  Information about travelers including passport details and other identification information,
  • Insurance data,
  • relevant medical data as well as any special, dietary requirements or other requirements for religious reasons and reasons of physical impairment and
  • Username and in encrypted form your password information so that we can protect your account.
  • If you are offered the option to log in with the social network credentials, such as: Facebook, we do not receive your password or other login information for these accounts. We will only receive your e-mail address and, if provided, your name. We will not post anything on your social network or to your friends, followers or contacts without your consent.
Other sources of personal information

Disclosure of personal data

to suppliers and trading partners

In order to provide you with the products and services you require, we must share personal information about your requested or booked travel services with suppliers and trading partners, including but not limited to: Airlines, hotels, tour operators, car rental agencies, destination agencies, travel insurance companies and, if necessary, travel agents and intermediaries involved.

We only share the minimum of personal information that enables our suppliers and trading partners to provide their services to you and us.

to authorities and other parties for legal reasons

We may need to disclose personally identifiable information in order to fulfill our legal obligations and protect or defend our rights. This applies in particular to legal obligations to protect assets or to provide security.

In order to be able to travel, it is sometimes mandatory (as required by law at the country of departure and / or destination) to disclose and process your personal information for purposes of immigration, border control, security and counter-terrorism, or any other purpose.

Some countries only grant a travel authorization when you provide your enhanced passenger information (for example, Caricom API data and US Secure Flight data). These conditions may vary depending on the destination. We recommend that you check this case by case.

We must comply with these regulations so that your journey runs smoothly.

within the Fit Travel Group

We are allowed to exchange personal information within the Fit Travel Group. These include our subsidiaries (that is, our owned or controlled organizations) or our parent companies (that is, organizations in whose possession we control them) and their subsidiaries.

Personal data is shared for the purpose of sharing services to optimize customer value. The scope of the disclosure is kept as low as possible in order to achieve the purpose.

To buyers of our company or affiliates

Personal data may be transmitted and passed on to purchasers or potential buyers of our company, our subsidiaries and our parent companies and their subsidiaries or their assets. For potential buyers, this happens only in anonymous form.

To service providers, consultants and in cases of detection of criminal activity

We provide personal information to third parties who provide services to us. For example, external service providers help us to support our IT infrastructure, process your payments on our behalf, provide analytical information for us about our products, services and marketing, and provide professional services in the field of data storage and linking, marketing, market research, Processing payment transactions and providing products and services. These third parties will only gain access to your personal information under our direction and are required to protect your information. In some cases, such service providers collect Personal Data as a standalone processor (controller) to fulfill their own contractual obligations to you, for example, by selecting a particular payment method to process your payment.

If we share personal information with other organizations, we require them to keep the information secure. You may not use your personal information for your own marketing purposes.

We only pass on your personal data to third parties in the sense of order processing if:

  • You your according to Art. 6 para. 1 p. 1 lit. a DSGVO have given express consent to this
  • the disclosure pursuant to Art. 6 para. 1 sentence 1 lit. f DSGVO is required to assert, exercise or defend legal
  • claims and there is no reason to believe that you have an overriding interest in not disclosing your data,
  • in the event that disclosure pursuant to Art. 6 para. 1 sentence 1 lit. c DSGVO there is a legal obligation
  • this is legally permissible and, according to Art. 6 para. 1 sentence 1 lit. b DSGVO is required for the execution of contractual relationships with you,
  • this is allowed us, for example, by a legitimate interest.

international transmission of your personal data

Personal data collected by us may be transferred to countries outside your country of residence and stored there. Data can be transmitted from the EEA, mainly to give our employees and partners in those countries access to the data. If you book holidays at a destination outside the EEA, your data will also be transmitted to the respective hotel and / or to providers of excursions at this destination, as well as other service providers and possibly intermediaries and trading partners. Some of these countries offer a different level of protection in relation to personal data and, in some cases, less protection than in the country in which you normally reside. We take reasonable steps to ensure that your personal information is treated in a secure manner and in accordance with applicable law and this Privacy Policy. If data are transmitted outside the EEA and if they are destined for a lobbyist, service provider, buyer or seller in a country to which no decision on adequacy by the EU Commission applies, this data is provided by the standard contractual clauses approved by the EU Commission, a appropriate Privacy Shield certification or the corporate rules that are binding on the data-processing body.

Links to other websites

Our websites or mobile apps may contain links to websites of other organizations that have their own privacy policies. Please be sure to carefully read the Terms of Use and Privacy Policy before posting personal information to any other organization’s website, as we assume no responsibility or liability for any websites of other organizations.

Cookies

We use cookies on our site. These are small files that your browser automatically creates and that are stored on your device (laptop, tablet, smartphone, etc.) when you visit our site. Cookies do not damage your device, do not contain viruses, Trojans or other malicious software.

In the cookie information is stored, each resulting in connection with the specific terminal used. However, this does not mean that we are immediately aware of your identity.

On the one hand, the use of cookies serves to make the use of our offer more pleasant for you. For example, we use so-called session cookies to recognize that you have already visited individual pages on our website. These are automatically deleted after leaving our page.

In addition, to improve usability, we also use temporary cookies that are stored on your device for a specified period of time. If you visit our site again to take advantage of our services, it will automatically recognize that you have already been with us and what inputs and settings you have made, so you do not have to re-enter them.

These cookies are automatically deleted after a defined time.

The data processed by cookies are for the purposes mentioned in order to safeguard our legitimate interests as well as third parties pursuant to Art. 6 para. 1 sentence 1 lit. f DSGVO required. If you have given us consent, the legal basis is Art. 6 para. 1 sentence 1 lit. a GDPR. Most browsers accept cookies automatically. However, you can configure your browser so that no cookies are stored on your computer or a note always appears before a new cookie is created. However, disabling cookies completely may mean that you can not use all features of our website.

Types of cookies

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The cookies we store are called “first-party cookies”. Cookies filed by parties other than us are called “third party cookies”. Third Party Cookies may provide external features or properties on the Website or through the Website (such as advertising, interactive content and analytics). Those parties depositing these third-party cookies can recognize your device, both when visiting the website in question and when visiting certain other websites.

We use first-party and third-party cookies for several reasons. Some cookies are necessary for technical reasons to make our website or app work; We call them “essential” or “essential” cookies. With the help of other cookies, we can also track and serve the interests of our users to improve their experience on our website or our app. Third parties use cookies through our website or our app for advertising, analytical and other purposes. This will be described later.

Specific types of first and third party cookies that are placed through our website or app and the purposes that they serve are described in the following lines (please note that specific cookies are stored according to the specific website or our app that you can vary):

Essential Website Cookies: These cookies are essential to provide you with services available through our website or app, as well as to use some of their features, such as: access to safe areas.

Performance and Functionality Cookies: These cookies are used to improve the performance and functionality of our website or app, but they are not required for their use. However, certain features may not be available without these cookies.

Analytics and Personalization Cookies: These cookies collect information that is used either in aggregate form to give us insight into how our website or app is being used, or how effective marketing campaigns are, or to use our website or app for you can customize.

Advertising cookies: These cookies are used to make advertising messages more relevant to you. They fulfill certain functions, e.g. Preventing the same ad from showing up over and over again ensures that advertiser advertisements are displayed correctly and, in some cases, selects the ad that suits your interests.

Social Cookies: These cookies are used to help you share the pages and content that you think are most interesting on our website or app through external social networks and other websites. These cookies can also be used for advertising purposes.

Which other tracking technologies are used?

Cookies are not the only way to recognize or follow visitors to a website. Occasionally, we may use other similar technologies, such as web beacons (sometimes referred to as “counting pixels” or “clear gifs”). These are tiny graphics files with a unique identifier that helps us detect when someone visits our website or app, or opens an e-mail we send. For example, we may observe patterns of user traffic from one page on our website or app to another, cookies, or communicate with them, understand whether you are viewing our website or our app through an online ad displayed on an external website have increased website performance and measure the success of email marketing campaigns. In many cases, these technologies rely on cookies for proper functioning, and the disapproval of cookies affects their function.

Do cookies enable targeted advertising?

Third parties may place cookies on your computer or mobile device to place advertisements through our website or app. Those companies may use information about your visits to this and other websites to place relevant advertisements about goods and services that may be of interest to you. You can also use a technology that is used to measure the effectiveness of advertisements. This may be done through the use of cookies or web beacons to collect information about your visits to this and other sites in order to display relevant advertisements about goods and services that may be of interest to you. Because of the information collected through this process, we will not be able to find out your name, contact details, or other personally identifiable information unless you tell us.

How can I control cookies?

You have the right to decide whether to accept or decline cookies. You can set or change your web browser controls to accept or decline cookies. If you decline cookies, you may still use our site, although you may be restricted from accessing some features and areas of our site. Since the ways in which you can refuse cookies in your web browser controls vary from browser to browser, we recommend that you consult the Help menu of your browser.

Most ad networks also allow you to opt out of targeted advertising. To learn more, visit http://www.aboutads.info/choices/ or http://www.youronlinechoices.com.

Where can I get more information?

If you have further questions about our use of cookies or other technologies, please send us an e-mail to datenschutz@fitreisen.de