['Privacy Policy for Ostings Travel Tips\n\n**Introduction**\nThis Privacy Policy outlines how Ostings Travel Tips ("our site", "this service", "our online platform") collects, uses, and protects your personal data when you visit and interact with ostings.info. We are committed to safeguarding your privacy and ensuring compliance with the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and other applicable data protection laws. By using our site, you agree to the collection and use of information in accordance with this policy.\n\n**Who We Are**\nOstings Travel Tips is a tourism guide blog based in Austria, dedicated to providing travelers with relevant insights about exploring the country. Our content focuses on topics such as Österreich autobahns, vignette requirements, additional toll roads, travel warnings, local driving tips, weather-related road condition alerts, and insights into alternative routes for better navigation, emphasizing responsible traveling and ensuring users are well-prepared for their journeys.\n\n**Information We Collect**\nWe collect certain information automatically as you navigate through our site to ensure its proper functioning, improve your experience, and understand how our content is used. This data may include:\n* **Usage Data:** Information about how you use our site, such as pages visited, time spent on pages, links clicked, and the referring website.\n* **Technical Data:** Information about your device and internet connection, including your IP address, browser type and version, operating system, and unique device identifiers.\nWe do not typically collect directly identifiable personal information unless you voluntarily provide it for a specific purpose that may be offered on our platform in the future (e.g., user accounts, comments, or newsletters).\n\n**How We Use Your Information**\nThe information we collect is used for the following purposes:\n* To operate and maintain our site and its content, ensuring our services are delivered effectively.\n* To understand and analyze how our site is used, helping us to improve its performance, content relevance, and user experience.\n* To ensure the security of our online platform and protect against fraudulent or malicious activity.\n* To comply with legal obligations that apply to us.\n\n**Legal Basis for Processing (GDPR)**\nUnder GDPR, we process your personal data based on the following legal grounds:\n* **Legitimate Interests:** Processing is necessary for our legitimate interests in operating our site effectively, providing valuable and relevant content, improving user experience, and ensuring the security of our platform, provided your rights and freedoms are not overridden. This applies to most of the automatically collected data for analytics and operational purposes.\n* **Consent:** Where required, particularly for certain types of cookies or tracking technologies that are not strictly necessary for the site\'s operation, we will obtain your explicit consent. You have the right to withdraw your consent at any time, without affecting the lawfulness of processing based on consent before its withdrawal.\n\n**Sharing Your Information**\nWe do not sell or rent your personal data to third parties. We may share your information with trusted third-party service providers who assist us in operating our site, conducting our business, or serving our users, provided those parties agree to keep this information confidential and secure. These may include:\n* Web hosting providers that facilitate the availability of our site.\n* Analytics service providers that help us understand website traffic and usage patterns.\nWe may also 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).\n\n**Data Retention**\nWe 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 we no longer need to process your data for these purposes, we will either delete or anonymize it in a secure manner.\n\n**Your Data Protection Rights (GDPR)**\nAs a data subject under GDPR, you have the following rights concerning your personal data:\n* **The Right to Access:** You have the right to request copies of your personal data that we hold.\n* **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.\n* **The Right to Erasure ("Right to be Forgotten"):** You have the right to request that we erase your personal data under certain conditions.\n* **The Right to Restrict Processing:** You have the right to request that we restrict the processing of your personal data under certain conditions.\n* **The Right to Object to Processing:** You have the right to object to our processing of your personal data under certain conditions.\n* **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.\n* **The Right to Withdraw Consent:** Where we rely on your consent to process your personal data, you have the right to withdraw that consent at any time. This will not affect the lawfulness of any processing carried out before you withdraw your consent.\n\nTo exercise any of these rights, please contact us using the details provided at the end of this policy. We will respond to your request within one month.\n\n**Right to Lodge a Complaint**\nIf you are an individual in the European Economic Area (EEA) and believe that we have not complied with applicable data protection laws, you have the right to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority, particularly in the Member State of your habitual residence, place of work, or the place of the alleged infringement. The Austrian data protection authority is the "Österreichische Datenschutzbehörde".\n\n**Cookies and Tracking Technologies**\nOur site uses "cookies" and similar tracking technologies to enhance your experience. Cookies are small data files placed on your device. We use:\n* **Strictly Necessary Cookies:** These cookies are essential for the operation of our site, enabling core functionalities like page navigation and access to secure areas. The site cannot function properly without these cookies.\n* **Analytics Cookies:** These cookies help us understand how visitors interact with our site by collecting and reporting information anonymously. This helps us to improve our content and site performance.\nYou can manage your cookie preferences through your browser settings. Most browsers allow you to refuse all cookies, or to indicate when a cookie is being sent. However, if you do not accept cookies, you may not be able to use some portions of our site.\n\n**Security of Your Data**\nWe implement appropriate technical and organizational measures to protect your personal data from unauthorized access, disclosure, alteration, or destruction. We strive to use commercially acceptable means to protect your data, but remember that no method of transmission over the Internet or method of electronic storage is 100% secure. Therefore, while we strive to use commercially acceptable means to protect your personal data, we cannot guarantee its absolute security.\n\n**Children\'s Privacy**\nOur service is not intended for use by anyone under the age of 18 ("Children"). We do not knowingly collect personally identifiable information from Children. If you are a parent or guardian and you are aware that your Child has provided us with personal data, please contact us. If we become aware that we have collected personal data from Children without verification of parental consent, we take steps to remove that information from our servers.\n\n**Changes to This Privacy Policy**\nWe may update our Privacy Policy from time to time. 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 changes. Changes to this Privacy Policy are effective when they are posted on this page.\n\n**Contact Us**\nIf you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, your rights, or our data practices, please contact us:\n\nOstings Travel Tips\nOur registered office is located in Austria.', 0.0010527, 'gemini-2.5-flash-preview-05-20']