Data Protection Guidelines

  1. The Mairdumont Group takes the protection of your personal data very seriously and adheres strictly to the rules laid down by the German Federal Data Protection Law (BDSG). The following explanation provides an overview of how we assure this protection and which data are collected for which purposes.
  2. In addition, the Mairdumont Group collects and stores in its server log files information provided to us by your browser. This consists of:

    1. type and version of browser
    2. operating system in use
    3. referer URL (the site visited before www.baedeker.com)
    4. requested URL
    5. files delivered
    6. host name of the computer requesting access (IP address)
    7. time of the request to the server

    These data are used exclusively for statistical purposes. The stored data are anonymized and forwarded to contractual partners of the Mairdumont Group (for example IVW).
  3. Right of access to personal data: according to §34 of the German Federal Data Protection Law the user has at all times right of access to his personal data, its origin and receiver. In addition, according to §34, the user can obtain information about the purpose of the collection of data. The user can also revoke his consent to promotional information at any time without giving a reason.
  4. Information about the stored data is provided by the data protection official of the Mairdumont Group.

Copyright and licensing clauses

All the content provided by the online services www.mairdumont.com is copyright protected. No part of the content accessible here may in any form be reproduced, printed, translated, further processed in digital form, placed in archives or made accessible to third parties by means of a different URL without the express written permission of the Mairdumont Group. Storage in retrieval systems and by means of search engines is only permissible to the extent that an index can be created that enables the ensuing retrieval of content by referring to a link directly to the original URL of the respective server of the Mairdumont Group. The misappropriation of content through its representation in a frameset or by means of other methods of reproduction that disguise or fail to clarify the origin of the content to the reader or alter the form of expression are also not permitted.

Responsibility for the content of other servers

The Mairdumont Group accepts absolutely no responsibility for the content of other servers, even if these are referred to by means of links. The Mairdumont Group expressly distances itself from all content that contravenes prevailing law or ethical journalistic and publishing principles. The publisher accepts no liability for unsolicited manuscripts, data carriers and visual material. On submission, consent to publish on www.mairdumont.com and other online services of the Mairdumont Group is assumed.

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