We take the protection of your personal data very seriously. We treat your personal data confidentially and in accordance with the statutory data protection regulations and this data protection declaration. When you use our website or, in the case of a personal visit, our contact form, various personal data are collected. Personal data is data with which you can be personally identified. This privacy policy explains what data we collect and what we use it for. It also explains how and for what purpose this is done. We would like to point out that data transmission on the Internet (e.g. when communicating by e-mail) can have security gaps. Complete protection of data against access by third parties is not possible. The responsible party is the natural or legal person who alone or jointly with others decides on the purposes and means of the processing of personal data (e.g. names, e-mail addresses or similar).
Revocation of your consent to data processingMany data processing operations are only possible with your explicit consent. You can revoke consent you have already given at any time. All you need to do is send us an informal e-mail. The legality of the data processing carried out until the revocation remains unaffected by the revocation.
Right of appeal to the competent supervisory authorityIn the event of violations of data protection law, the data subject has the right to lodge a complaint with the competent supervisory authority. The competent supervisory authority in matters of data protection law is the State Data Protection Commissioner of the Federal State of North Rhine-Westphalia in which our company is based.
Right to data portabilityYou have the right to have data that we process automatically on the basis of your consent or in fulfilment of a contract handed over to you or to a third party in a common, machine-readable format. If you request that the data be transferred to another person responsible, this will only be done insofar as it is technically feasible.
Information, blocking, deletionWithin the framework of the applicable legal provisions, you have the right at any time to free information about your stored personal data, its origin and recipient and the purpose of the data processing and, if applicable, a right to correction, blocking or deletion of this data. 

This data protection information applies to data processing by:
Data controller: Bernd Dahlmann, Baumeister-Bühler-Str. 19, 50859 Cologne, Germany, E-mail: info@need-a-hotel.com, Phone: +49(0)-2234 9371108
The company data protection officer of Travelise Media e.K. can be contacted at the above address, for the attention of Mr Bernd Dahlmann, or at info@need-a-hotel.com.

a) When visiting the website

When you visit our website https://www.need-a-hotel.com, the browser used on your device automatically sends information to the server of our website. This information is temporarily stored in a so-called log file. The following information is collected without your intervention and stored until it is automatically deleted:
- IP address of the requesting computer,
- Date and time of access,
- name and URL of the file accessed,
- website from which access was made (referrer URL),
- the browser used and, if applicable, the operating system of your computer as well as the name of your access provider.
The aforementioned data is processed by us for the following purposes:
- Ensuring a smooth connection set-up of the website,
- Ensuring a comfortable use of our website,
- Evaluation of system security and stability as well as for other administrative purposes.
The legal basis for the data processing is Art. 6 para. 1 p. 1 lit. f GDPR. Our legitimate interest follows from the data collection purposes listed above. In no case do we use the collected data for the purpose of drawing conclusions about your person.In addition, we set cookies when you visit our website and use Google Maps, analysis services and social media plugins. You can find more detailed explanations of this under paragraphs 9, 10, 11 and 12 of this data protection declaration.

b) When using our contact form

In case of questions of any kind, we offer you the possibility to contact us via a form provided on the website. In doing so, you are required to provide your name, a valid e-mail address and a message so that we know from whom the enquiry originates and so that we can answer it. Further information can be provided voluntarily. The data processing for the purpose of contacting us is based on your voluntarily given consent in accordance with Art. 6 para. 1 p. 1 lit. a GDPR.
The personal data collected by us for the use of the contact form will be automatically deleted after the request you have made has been dealt with.

As a matter of principle, we only process personal data of those interested in our offers and contractual partners to the extent that this is necessary for the initiation and execution of contracts. As a rule, your personal data will only be processed with your consent. An exception to this is if obtaining your consent is not possible for actual reasons and/or the processing of your data is not permitted by legal provisions.

We would like to inform you of the legal basis for our data processing. If the legal basis is not stated in our privacy policy, the processing of your personal data is based on the following legal bases:
- Art. 6 (1) lit. a GDPR serves as our legal basis if we have obtained your consent for a specific processing purpose.
- Art. 6 (1) lit. b GDPR is the legal basis if the processing of personal data is necessary for the performance of a contract, e.g. if you conclude a service contract via the online offer. This legal basis also applies to the processing of personal data that is necessary for the performance of pre-contractual measures, e.g. if you contact us with enquiries regarding our offers and services.
- Art. 6 para. 1 lit. c GDPR is our legal basis insofar as the processing of personal data is necessary for the fulfilment of a legal obligation, such as the fulfilment of obligations under commercial and tax law.
- If vital interests of you or another natural person make processing of personal data necessary, Art. 6 (1) d GDPR serves as the legal basis.
- If processing is necessary to protect the legitimate interests of our company or a third party and if the interests, fundamental rights and freedoms of you do not outweigh the first-mentioned interest, the personal data will be processed on the basis of Art. 6 (1) (f) GDPR.

Travelise Media e.K. processes personal data of interested parties and contractual partners insofar as this serves the purpose of the contractual relationship. The legal basis is therefore Art. 6 para. 1 lit. B. GDPR. Travelise Media e.K. stores the data for purposes of protecting its interests, defending against legal claims and protecting the interests of other customers and contractual partners.
The legal basis for this processing is Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f and lit. d GDPR, thus a processing for the protection of the legitimate interests of Travelise Media e.K.. Profiling does not take place.

We would like to inform you about the storage period and data deletion in our data processing. Unless further details are provided in the following sections of our data protection declaration, the following applies to the storage period and data deletion: We process and store your personal data only for the period of time required to fulfil the purpose of storage. Your data may be stored beyond this period if this has been provided for by the European or national legislator in regulations, laws or other provisions with which we must comply. Your data will also be blocked or deleted if a storage period provided for by the aforementioned standards expires, unless there is a necessity for the continued storage of your data for the conclusion or fulfilment of a contract. If the personal data is blocked, it will be deleted as soon as there are no legal or contractual retention periods to the contrary, there is no reason to assume that deletion would impair your interests worthy of protection and deletion would not cause disproportionate expense due to the special nature of the storage.

We do not transfer your personal data to third parties for purposes other than those listed below.
We only pass on your personal data to third parties if:
- you have given your express consent to this in accordance with Art. 6 Para. 1 Sentence 1 lit. a GDPR,
- the disclosure is necessary for the assertion, exercise or defence of legal claims pursuant to Art. 6 (1) sentence 1 lit. f GDPR and there is no reason to assume that you have an overriding interest worthy of protection in the non-disclosure of your data,
- in the event that there is a legal obligation for disclosure in accordance with Art. 6 para. 1 p. 1 lit. c GDPR, as well as
- this is legally permissible and necessary for the processing of contractual relationships with you according to Art. 6 para. 1 p. 1 lit. b GDPR.

a) Who receives your personal data?

Within the company, only those offices receive your data that need them to carry out the service contract and legal obligations. Contractors and other service providers used by us may also receive data for these purposes. These are companies in the categories of IT services, banks, tax consultancy, telecommunications, debt collection and printing services. Apart from that, we only pass on your data if this is required by law, you have given your consent or we are authorised to provide information. Under these conditions, recipients of personal data may be, for example, public offices and institutions (e.g. government offices, tax authorities, law enforcement agencies) if a legal or official obligation exists. Further data recipients may be those bodies for which you have given us your consent to transfer data.

b) Will your data be transferred to a third country or to an international organisation?

No data is transferred to countries outside the European Economic Area (third countries).

c) Your rights

We would like to inform you at this point about your rights in relation to the processing of your data. If you wish to exercise any of these rights, you can send us a simple message. You can use the following contact details for this purpose without incurring any costs other than the transmission costs according to the basic tariff: Travelise Media e.K., for the attention of Mr Bernd Dahlmann, Baumeister-Bühler-Str. 19, 50859 Cologne, Germany or at info@need-a-hotel.com - Phone: +49(0)-2234 9371108. In the case of an existing request, we reserve the right, for your own protection, to obtain further information to confirm your identity. If we are unable to identify you, we will refuse to process the request.
You have the right to- information about the data stored about you (Art.15 GDPR)
- the immediate correction and/or completion of the personal data concerning you (Art.16 GDPR)
- the deletion of your personal data stored by us (Art.17 GDPR)
- the restriction of the processing of your personal data (Art.18 GDPR)
- data portability (Art.20 GDPR)
- as well as objection against the processing (Art.21 GDPR)
- Complaint to the supervisory authority; if you are of the opinion that the processing of your personal data violates existing data protection regulations, you can complain to a supervisory authority without prejudice to other legal remedies. In particular, you may address the complaint to a supervisory authority in the Member State of your residence, place of work or the place of the alleged infringement.

We use cookies on our site. These are small files that are automatically created by your browser and stored on your end device (laptop, tablet, smartphone or similar) when you visit our site. Cookies do not cause any damage to your end device and do not contain any viruses, Trojans or other malware.Information is stored in the cookie that is related to the specific end device used. However, this does not mean that we gain direct knowledge of your identity.The use of cookies serves, on the one hand, to make the use of our offer more pleasant for you. We use so-called session cookies to recognise that you have already visited individual pages of our website. These are automatically deleted after you leave our site. In addition, we also use temporary cookies to optimise user-friendliness, which are stored on your end device for a certain fixed period of time. If you visit our site again to use our services, it is automatically recognised that you have already been to our site and which entries and settings you have made so that you do not have to enter them again. On the other hand, we use cookies to statistically record the use of our website and to evaluate it for the purpose of optimising our offer for you (see section 11). These cookies enable us to automatically recognise that you have already been to our website when you visit it again. These cookies are automatically deleted after a defined period of time. The data processed by cookies is necessary for the aforementioned purposes to protect our legitimate interests as well as those of third parties in accordance with Art. 6 (1) p. 1 lit. f GDPR. Most browsers accept cookies automatically. However, you can configure your browser so that no cookies are stored on your computer or a notice always appears before a new cookie is created. However, the complete deactivation of cookies may mean that you cannot use all the functions of our website.

Our website uses the map service Google Maps via an API. The provider is Google Inc, 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA. To use the functions of Google Maps, it is necessary to store your IP address. This information is usually transferred to a Google server in the USA and stored there. The provider of this site has no influence on this data transmission. Google Maps is used in the interest of an appealing presentation of our online offers and to make it easy to find the places we indicate on the website. This constitutes a legitimate interest within the meaning of Art. 6 Para. 1 lit. f GDPR. More information on the handling of user data can be found in Google's privacy policy: https://www.google.de/intl/de/policies/privacy.

a) Tracking tools

The tracking measures listed below and used by us are carried out on the basis of Art. 6 para. 1 p. 1 lit. f GDPR. With the tracking measures used, we want to ensure a needs-based design and the ongoing optimisation of our website. On the other hand, we use the tracking measures to statistically record the use of our website and to evaluate it for the purpose of optimising our offer for you. These interests are to be regarded as legitimate within the meaning of the aforementioned provision. The respective data processing purposes and data categories can be found in the corresponding tracking tools.

b) Google Analytics

For the purpose of demand-oriented design and continuous optimisation of our pages, we use Google Analytics, a web analysis service of Google Inc. (https://www.google.de/intl/de/about/) (1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA; hereinafter "Google"). In this context, pseudonymised usage profiles are created and cookies are used (see section 9). The information generated by the cookie about your use of this website, such as
- Browser type/version,
- operating system used,
- Referrer URL (the previously visited page),
- host name of the accessing computer (IP address),
- time of the server request,
are transmitted to a Google server in the USA and stored there. The information is used to evaluate the use of the website, to compile reports on website activity and to provide other services associated with the use of the website and the Internet for the purposes of market research and the design of these Internet pages in line with requirements. This information may also be transferred to third parties if this is required by law or if third parties process this data on our behalf. Under no circumstances will your IP address be merged with other Google data. The IP addresses are anonymised so that an allocation is not possible (IP masking). You may refuse the use of cookies by selecting the appropriate settings on your browser, however please note that if you do this you may not be able to use the full functionality of this website. You can also prevent the collection of data generated by the cookie and related to your use of the website (including your IP address) and the processing of this data by Google by downloading and installing a browser add-on (https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=de). As an alternative to the browser add-on, especially for browsers on mobile devices, you can also prevent the collection by Google Analytics by clicking on this link. An opt-out cookie will be set, which prevents the future collection of your data when visiting this website. The opt-out cookie is only valid in this browser and only for our website and is stored on your device. If you delete the cookies in this browser, you must set the opt-out cookie again. Further information on data protection in connection with Google Analytics can be found, for example, in the Google Analytics help (https://support.google.com/analytics/answer/6004245?hl=de).

c) Google Adwords Conversion Tracking

In order to statistically record the use of our website and to evaluate it for the purpose of optimising our website for you, we also use Google Conversion Tracking. In this process, Google Adwords sets a cookie (see section 9) on your computer if you have accessed our website via a Google ad. These cookies lose their validity after 30 days and are not used for personal identification. If the user visits certain pages of the Adwords customer's website and the cookie has not yet expired, Google and the customer can recognise that the user clicked on the ad and was redirected to this page. Each Adwords customer receives a different cookie. Cookies can therefore not be tracked via the websites of Adwords customers. The information obtained using the conversion cookie is used to create conversion statistics for Adwords customers who have opted for conversion tracking. The Adwords customers learn the total number of users who clicked on their ad and were redirected to a page tagged with a conversion tracking tag. However, they do not receive any information that can be used to personally identify users. If you do not wish to participate in the tracking procedure, you can also refuse the setting of a cookie required for this - for example, by means of a browser setting that generally deactivates the automatic setting of cookies. You can also deactivate cookies for conversion tracking by setting your browser so that cookies from the domain "www.googleadservices.com" are blocked. Google's privacy policy on conversion tracking can be found here: https://services.google.com/sitestats/de.html.

We use social plugins from the social networks Facebook, Instagram and Twitter on our website on the basis of Art. 6 (1) sentence 1 lit. f GDPR in order to make our company better known. The underlying promotional purpose is to be regarded as a legitimate interest within the meaning of the GDPR. The responsibility for data protection-compliant operation is to be ensured by their respective providers. We integrate these plugins using the so-called two-click method in order to protect visitors to our website as best as possible.

a) Facebook

Social media plugins from Facebook are used on our website to make their use more personal. For this purpose, we use the "LIKE" or "SHARE"-button. This is an offer from Facebook. When you visit a page of our website that contains such a plugin, your browser establishes a direct connection with the Facebook servers. The content of the plugin is transmitted by Facebook directly to your browser, which then integrates it into the website.By integrating the plugins, Facebook receives the information that your browser has called up the corresponding page of our website, even if you do not have a Facebook account or are not currently logged in to Facebook. This information (including your IP address) is transmitted by your browser directly to a Facebook server in the USA and stored there.If you are logged in to Facebook, Facebook can assign your visit to our website directly to your Facebook account. If you interact with the plugins, for example by clicking the "LIKE" or "SHARE"-button, the corresponding information is also transmitted directly to a Facebook server and stored there. The information is also published on Facebook and displayed to your Facebook friends. Facebook may use this information for the purposes of advertising, market research and the needs-based design of Facebook pages. For this purpose, Facebook creates usage, interest and relationship profiles, e.g. to evaluate your use of our website with regard to the advertisements displayed to you on Facebook, to inform other Facebook users about your activities on our website and to provide other services associated with the use of Facebook.If you do not want Facebook to assign the data collected via our website to your Facebook account, you must log out of Facebook before visiting our website. For the purpose and scope of the data collection and the further processing and use of the data by Facebook, as well as your rights in this regard and setting options for protecting your privacy, please refer to Facebook's privacy policy (https://www.facebook.com/about/privacy/).

b) Twitter

Plugins of the short message network of Twitter Inc. (Twitter) are integrated. You can recognise the Twitter plugins (tweet button) by the Twitter logo on our site. You can find an overview of tweet buttons here (https://about.twitter.com/resources/buttons).
When you call up a page of our website that contains such a plugin, a direct connection is established between your browser and the Twitter server. Twitter thereby receives the information that you have visited our site with your IP address. If you click the Twitter "tweet button" while you are logged into your Twitter account, you can link the content of our pages on your Twitter profile. This enables Twitter to associate your visit to our pages with your user account. We would like to point out that we, as the provider of the pages, have no knowledge of the content of the transmitted data or its use by Twitter.
If you do not wish Twitter to be able to associate your visit to our pages, please log out of your Twitter user account.You can find more information on this in Twitter's privacy policy (https://twitter.com/de/privacy).

c) Instagram

Our website also uses so-called social plugins ("plugins") from Instagram, which is operated by Instagram LLC., 1601 Willow Road, Menlo Park, CA 94025, USA ("Instagram").The plugins are marked with an Instagram logo, for example in the form of an "Instagram camera". When you visit a page of our website that contains such a plugin, your browser establishes a direct connection to the Instagram servers. The content of the plugin is transmitted by Instagram directly to your browser and integrated into the page. Through this integration, Instagram receives the information that your browser has called up the corresponding page of our website, even if you do not have an Instagram profile or are not currently logged in to Instagram.This information (including your IP address) is transmitted by your browser directly to an Instagram server in the USA and stored there. If you are logged in to Instagram, Instagram can directly assign your visit to our website to your Instagram account. If you interact with the plugins, for example by clicking the "Instagram" button, this information is also transmitted directly to an Instagram server and stored there.
The information is also published on your Instagram account and displayed there to your contacts.
If you do not want Instagram to directly assign the data collected via our website to your Instagram account, you must log out of Instagram before visiting our website. You can find more information on this in Instagram's privacy policy (https://help.instagram.com/519522125107875).

This data protection declaration is currently valid and has been updated to January 2021. Due to the further development of our website and offers on it or due to changed legal or official requirements, it may become necessary to change this data protection declaration. You can access the current data protection declaration at any time.