Privacy
Controller
Harald Mühlhoff, address as listed in the imprint.
What we collect — and why
1. Clicks on affiliate links
When someone clicks a link marked as an affiliate link, we record one row on our server containing the following data:
- Partner (e.g. "amazon")
- Product key (e.g. the Amazon ASIN)
- Slug of the article the link appeared on
- Language version of the page
- Timestamp
We store no IP address, no user-agent, no referrer. The sole purpose is to see which articles generate which click volumes — legal basis Art. 6 (1) (f) GDPR (legitimate interest in commercial analysis).
2. Page views
For each page view we record one row with the page path, language, timestamp
and a dedup hash. The dedup hash is derived from a short random token
in the bw-sess cookie (purely technical, 30-day lifetime,
not an identifier) plus path plus date. This prevents reload spam and
same-day repeat visits to the same page from being double-counted — the
visitor's identity cannot be reconstructed from it. We store no IP address,
no user-agent and no referrer.
Legal basis: Art. 6 (1) (f) GDPR / § 25 (2) sentence 2 TTDSG (technically necessary cookie, no consent required).
3. Google Analytics 4 (only with consent)
If you accept the cookie banner, we load Google Analytics 4 with
IP anonymisation. Until then no Google script is loaded. You can
revoke at any time: delete the bw-consent-v1 cookie
or reject in the cookie banner.
4. Google AdSense (advertising)
This site is financed in part by ads delivered through Google AdSense (Google Ireland Ltd, Gordon House, Barrow Street, Dublin 4, Ireland). To serve ads your browser loads Google's ad script; in the process Google may set and read cookies and process data such as cookie/device identifiers, your IP address and ad interactions — for ad delivery, frequency capping and fraud prevention.
Whether you see personalised ads depends on a separate consent that Google collects through its own dialog (a Google-certified consent platform based on the IAB Transparency & Consent Framework). That dialog is independent of the cookie banner above: our banner covers Google Analytics, Google's dialog covers ad personalisation. Without that consent Google may still show non-personalised ads.
Recipient is Google; data may be transferred to Google LLC in the USA, safeguarded by EU standard contractual clauses and Google's certification under the EU–US Data Privacy Framework. Legal basis: Art. 6 (1) (a) GDPR (your consent) for personalised ads; Art. 6 (1) (f) GDPR (legitimate interest in financing this site) for the delivery of non-personalised ads.
You can change or withdraw your ad choice at any time — through Google's consent dialog, which can be reopened from this site's privacy settings, and through your Google ad settings. Details on Google's processing: policies.google.com/technologies/ads.
5. Contact form / email
A message sent via the contact form or directly to harald@carecom.de reaches our mailbox only. We do not pass it on to anyone or store it in any third-party system.
6. Interactive maps (OpenStreetMap)
Articles about hiking tours automatically load an interactive map showing
the route as soon as the page opens. To do so, your browser fetches map
tiles directly from the third-party provider
OpenStreetMap
(OpenStreetMap Foundation, St John's Innovation Centre, Cowley Road,
Cambridge, CB4 0WS, United Kingdom). In the process your IP address is
transmitted to tile.openstreetmap.org; we ourselves do not
receive or store that data.
Legal basis: Art. 6 (1) (f) GDPR (legitimate interest). The map shows the actual course of the hike — without it a tour article cannot present the route in any meaningful way, so the map is part of the article itself, not optional decoration.
The OpenStreetMap Foundation's privacy policy is available at wiki.osmfoundation.org/wiki/Privacy_Policy.
Cookies — full list
bw-consent-v1— your cookie choice (accepted/rejected). 12 months, technically necessary.bw-sess— opaque random token used to dedup our pageview counter. 30 days, technically necessary.- Google Analytics sets its own cookies (
_ga,_ga_*) — only after your consent. - Google AdSense sets its own cookies for ad delivery and personalisation — personalisation only with the consent you give through Google's dialog.
Your rights
Right of access, rectification, erasure, restriction, data portability and objection under Art. 15–21 GDPR. Requests by email to the address listed in the imprint.