Data Protection

The protection of your personal data is very important to us. We therefore process your data exclusively on the basis of legal directives (GDPR, TKG 2003). In this data privacy information, we inform you about the most important aspects of data processing in relation to our website.

Cookies are used on various pages. These simplify use of our Web site and communication and allow us to better adapt our Internet presence to your needs. A cookie is a small text data file placed on your hard drive by a Web site. Cookies do not do any damage to your computer and do not contain viruses. You can deactivate the use of cookies at any time by adjusting the settings of your browser.

This Web site uses Google Analytics, Google Conversion Tracking and Google Remarketing. These are services of Google Inc., 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, United States ("Google").

Google uses "cookies", and therefore text data files, that are stored on your computer and that makes possible the analysis of our Internet offering. The information gathered by the cookies regarding your usage of this Web site (including your IP address) is then sent to a Google server in the USA and stored there. Google observes the data protection provisions of the „EU-US Privacy Shield“ agreement, www.privacyshield.gov/EU-US-Framework. Google uses this information to evaluate your use of the Web site in order to create reports for us about your Web site activities and, in addition, about your use of services related to the Web site and Internet use. Third-party providers, including Google, place ads on Internet Web sites. Third-party providers, including Google, use stored cookies to provide ads on our Web site on the basis of previous visits by a user. 

Google will, if necessary, also transmit this information to third parties, if such transmission is required by statute or if third parties process this data on behalf of Google. Google will never associate your IP address with other Google data. You can prevent the installation of cookies by adjusting the settings on your browser software. However, we wish to inform you that if you do so it is possible that you will not be able to fully use all of the functions of this Web site. By using this Web site you declare that you are in agreement with the processing by Google of the data collected about you in the manner described above and for the purposes put forth above.

You can opt out at any time from data collection and storage with future effect. You can deactivate the application of cookies by using Google to call up the page for deactivating Google advertising. In the alternative users can deactivate the use of cookies by third-party providers by calling up the deactivation page of the Network Advertising Initiative.

CheckEffect is a tool for successful online-marketing in tourism, developed by tourism experts, according to the requirements within the tourism industry, today. CheckEffect uses so called “cookies”, which are text files placed on your computer to help the website analyse how you use the site. The information generated by the cookie about your use of the website (including IP-address) will be stored on ncm.at company’s server. ncm.at will use this information to evaluate the website’s utilisation. This evaluation will be used in order to give the website’s operator a detailed insight and reports on search keywords, search engines or cost-benefit calculation of certain advertisements, campaigns and paid-for links. CheckEffect compares this data anonymously with websites of similar companies and provides a cross-sectored comparison.

You may refuse the installation of cookies by selecting the appropriate settings on your browser software; however please note that if you do this you may not be able to use the full functionality of this website. By using this website you consent to the processing of data about you by ncm.at, but only in the manner and for the purposes, set out above.

(http://www.google.com/privacy_ads.html) or on the deactivation page of the Network Advertising Initiative (http://www.networkadvertising.org/managing/opt_out.asp)

This site uses the Google Maps map service via an API. It is operated by Google Inc., 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA. To use Google Maps, it is necessary to save your IP address. This information is generally transmitted to a Google server in the USA and stored there. The provider of this site has no influence on this data transfer. The use of Google Maps is in the interest of making our website appealing and to facilitate the location of places specified by us on the website. This constitutes a justified interest pursuant to Art. 6 (1) (f) DSGVO. 

Our website measures conversions using visitor action pixels from Facebook, Facebook Inc., 1601 S. California Ave, Palo Alto, CA 94304, USA (“Facebook”).These allow the behavior of site visitors to be tracked after they click on a Facebook ad to reach the provider’s website. This allows an analysis of the effectiveness of Facebook advertisements for statistical and market research purposes and their future optimization.

The data collected is anonymous to us as operators of this website and we cannot use it to draw any conclusions about our users’ identities. However, the data are stored and processed by Facebook, which may make a connection to your Facebook profile and which may use the data for its own advertising purposes, as stipulated in the Facebook privacy policy. This will allow Facebook to display ads both on Facebook and on third-party sites. We have no control over how this data is used. Check out Facebook’s privacy policy to learn more about protecting your privacy: https://www.facebook.com/about/privacy/. 

You can also deactivate the custom audiences remarketing feature in the Ads Settings section at https://www.facebook.com/ads/preferences/?entry_product=ad_settings_screen. You will first need to log into Facebook. If you do not have a Facebook account, you can opt out of usage-based advertising from Facebook on the website of the European Interactive Digital Advertising Alliance: http://www.youronlinechoices.com/de/praferenzmanagement/. 

Our Internet presence uses social plug-ins ("plug-ins") of the social network facebook.com that is operated by Facebook Inc., 1601 S. California Ave, Palo Alto, CA 94304, USA ("Facebook"). The plug-ins are designated through the Facebook logo or use of the phrase “Facebook social plug-in.” When you call up a Web site that is part of our Internet presence and that contains such a plug-in, then your browser connects directly with the servers of Facebook. The content of the plug-ins are transmitted directly to your browser from Facebook and then used to incorporate them into the Web site. By incorporating the plug-ins Facebook receives information that you have called up the corresponding page of our Internet presence. If you are logged in to Facebook, then Facebook can assign the visit to your Facebook account. If you interact with the plug-ins, e.g. if you use the "like" feature or provide commentary, then the corresponding information will be transferred from your browser directly to Facebook and stored there. The purpose and extent of data collection, the further processing and use of data by Facebook, as well as your rights in this regard and the various possible settings to protect your privacy are to be found in Facebook's data protection guidelines. If you do not wish for Facebook to use our Internet presence as a way to collect information about you, then you must log out of Facebook before visiting us on the Internet.

Our Internet presence uses social plug-ins ("plug-ins") of Instagram LLC., 1601 Willow Road, Menlo Park, CA 94025, USA („Instagram“). The plug-ins are designated through the Instagram logo or use of the phrase “Instagram social plug-in.” When you call up a Web site that is part of our Internet presence and that contains such a plug-in, then your browser connects directly with the servers of Instagram. The content of the plug-ins are transmitted directly to your browser from Instagram and then used to incorporate them into the Web site. By incorporating the plug-ins Instagram receives information that you have called up the corresponding page of our Internet presence. If you are logged in to Instagram, then Instagram can assign the visit to your Instagram account. If you interact with the plug-ins, e.g. if you use the "like" feature or provide commentary, then the corresponding information will be transferred from your browser directly to Instagram and stored there. The purpose and extent of data collection, the further processing and use of data by Instagram, as well as your rights in this regard and the various possible settings to protect your privacy are to be found in Instagram's data protection guidelines. If you do not wish for Instagram to use our Internet presence as a way to collect information about you, then you must log out of Instagram before visiting us on the Internet.

Functions of the Twitter service have been integrated into our website and app. These features are offered by Twitter Inc., 1355 Market Street, Suite 900, San Francisco, CA 94103, USA. When you use Twitter and the “Retweet” function, the websites you visit are connected to your Twitter account and made known to other users. In doing so, data will also be transferred to Twitter. We would like to point out that, as the provider of these pages, we have no knowledge of the content of the data transmitted or how it will be used by Twitter. For more information on Twitter’s privacy policy, please go to https://twitter.com/en/privacy. 

Your privacy preferences with Twitter can be modified in your account settings at https://twitter.com/account/settings. 

Some pages of our websites feature buttons to share or like the content on the social media platforms Facebook, Pinterest and Twitter. The buttons are designed in such a way that they optimally protect the personal data of our website users because the script behind the buttons does not collect or process any personal data. Exact information on the function of the buttons is offered by the publishing company Heise which publishes the professional IT journal c’t and has developed the buttons.

Website users who want to share our page and/or mark it with “Like” will be redirected to the “Share” pages of the respective Social Media platforms when they click the buttons. Only on these pages the necessary scripts to share or like the content will be activated. Here the business and data protection conditions apply which have been agreed upon by the website user and the respective social media platforms. More detailed information is given by the respective platforms Facebook, Pinterest, Twitter.

Our website uses plugins from YouTube, which is operated by Google. The operator of the pages is YouTube LLC, 901 Cherry Ave., San Bruno, CA 94066, USA. If you visit one of our pages featuring a YouTube plugin, a connection to the YouTube servers is established. Here the YouTube server is informed about which of our pages you have visited. If you’re logged in to your YouTube account, YouTube allows you to associate your browsing behavior directly with your personal profile. You can prevent this by logging out of your YouTube account. Further information about handling user data, can be found in the data protection declaration of YouTube under https://www.google.de/intl/en/policies/privacy.

With our newsletter we inform you about us and our offers. If you want to receive the newsletter we need a valid email address from you and also information which allows us to verify that you are the owner of the email address or that its owner agrees to receive the newsletter. If we collect more information that was given voluntarily, e.g. interests, postcode, ..., it is only used to provide you with targeted information. This data is only used to send newsletters and will not be shared with third parties. With your newsletter registration we store your IP address and the registration date. This is only in case that we require a verification if a third party abuses an email address and registrates for a newsletter without the knowledge of the entitled person. Your permission to the storage of data, your email address and its use to send newsletters can be revoked anytime. The revocation can be submitted by clicking a link in the newsletter, in your profile or by contacting us via the aforementioned possibilities.

By using our Web site and the offerings to be found there you declare that you are in agreement with our collection of personal data that you have voluntarily transmitted and that we store and which is processed and used by us in adherence to this data protection declaration.

You have an unlimited right to free information regarding data we have stored concerning you, as well as the right to erase or block impermissible data and/or the right to correct inaccurate data. Upon inquiry we will be happy to inform you in writing if and what personal data we have stored about you. To the extent possible we will undertake the necessary measures that enable you to promptly update or correct data we have stored. In such cases please make your inquiry directly to our company management.