Privacy & Cookies policy
Explore Planet all around the world is an information network about destinations, countries and general advice-information & recommendations.
We offer this in various contributions, our wiki as well as the offered portfolio – we also offer an area where reviews and experience reports can be created by all users, or feedback can be provided.
Explore Planet is operated exclusively under the webpage https://exploreplanet.eu in English language as well as under https://exploreplanet.eu/DE in German.
Comments
When visitors write comments on the site, we collect the data that appears in the comment form, the visitor’s IP address, and the user agent string (which identifies the browser) to help detect spam. The e-mail address can be used to create an anonymized string (also called a hash) and pass it to the Gravatar service to check if you are using it. The privacy policy of the Gravatar service can be found here: https://automattic.com/privacy/. After the comment is released, the profile picture is publicly visible in the context of the comment. This service is given if not always or not used at all.
Media
If you are a registered user or use our guest login and upload photos to this website, you should avoid uploading photos with an EXIF GPS location. Visitors to this website could download photos stored on this website and extract their location information. You are only permitted to use photos, in which you also have the rights-any complaints or violations that are brought to us, you relate directly to the creator/user and will be in your connection, the authorities or a court or prosecutor’s office, according to the corresponding legal obligation.
Contact forms
In order to send us inquiries, the data which you transmit to us as well as those required for answering are stored for processing and are only visible to the administration of Explore Planet.
Embedded content from other sites/third parties
Posts on this website may include embedded content (e.g. videos, images, posts, etc.). Embedded content from other websites behave exactly as if the visitor had visited the other website. These sites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking services, and record your interaction with this embedded content, including your interaction with the embedded content, if you have an account and On this website.
Explore Planet uses cookies – small text files that are placed on your machine/at your browser, to help us, to provide a better user experience for you as well to show everything correct & completely without any error message.
In general, cookies are used to retain user preferences, store information for things like user log in, log out, posting comments, password authentication, …. and much more – as well provide anonymized tracking data to third party applications like Google Analytics, that we can work on better & more content for you.
If you write a comment on our website, this may be a consent to store your name, email address and website in cookies. This is a convenience feature so you don’t have to re-enter all of this data when you write another comment. These cookies are stored for one year-but can be deleted by your browser.
If you have an account and register on this site, we will set a temporary cookie to determine if your browser accepts cookies. This cookie does not contain any personally identifiable information and is discarded when you close your browser.
When you log in, we will set up some cookies to store the credentials and display options. Logon cookies expire after two days and cookies for the display options after one year. If you choose “Stay signed in” when you sign up, the registration will be maintained for two weeks. When you log out from your account, the logon cookies are deleted.
When you edit or publish an article, an additional cookie is stored in your browser. This cookie does not contain any personal information and refers only to the post ID of the item you are editing. The cookie expires after one day.
Explore Planet is using the following categories of cookies, for your best user experience:
- Technical services
technically cookies are used for basic mandatory functions - Translations – Multilingual Offert
to offer you Explore Planet in different languages & that you get automatically the correct language displayed in your browser as well for the possibility, to change all the time between the offered languages - Google Analytics
with anonymized usage/search visitors behavior of our network, we work on better & more content for you - Third Party Embeds
to manage & store user consent to load the different third party embeds – for example: YouTube, Vimeo, SoundCloud, Facebook, Twitter, Google Maps, …
Cookies generally exist to make your browsing experience better.
However, you may prefer to disable cookies on this site and on others. The most effective way to do this is to disable cookies in your browser. We suggest consulting the help section of your browser.
Further information about the browser can be found in the following links:
Internet Explorer:
https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/17442/windows-internet-explorer-delete-manage-cookies
Firefox:
https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/enable-and-disable-cookies-website-preferences
Chrome:
https://support.google.com/chrome/answer/95647?hl=en&hlrm=en
Safari:
https://support.apple.com/kb/PH21411?locale=de_DE&viewlocale=en_US
Opera:
https://help.opera.com/en/latest/web-preferences/#cookies
Please note, without cookies or if you block them via your personal browser, some content and presentations will not work or be visible.
By clicking on the consent/closing of the cookies information, or the further navigation & continuation of the use of our website, you confirm that you want to use the cookies as set, as well that you have read and accepted our cookie policies & privacy policy.
In addition, we offer you in the cookie information banner, under “Cookie Details”, the possibility to disable certain cookies, from third-party embeds content as well as anonymous data analysis.
For users who register on our website, we also store the personal information you provide in your user profiles. All users can view, modify or delete their personal information at any time (the user name cannot be changed). Administrators of the site can also view and modify this information.
Insight into data
If you have a user account on this website or have written comments, you can request an insight/export of your personal data with us, including all data you have provided to us.
Erasure of data
In addition, you can request the deletion of all personal data that we have saved from you. This does not include the data that we need to keep due to administrative, legal or security needs. This means in detail the data necessary for the exercise of the right to freedom of expression and information, for the fulfilment of a legal obligation which requires processing by the law of the European Union or a member state, Explore Planet, or for the performance of a task that is in the public interest or in the exercise of the public authority delegated to the controller, for reasons of public interest in the field of public health or to justify, exercise or defend against legal claims.
Modification of data
Of course you can send the request for correction or modification of your data at any time-as well as in respect of public contributions or comments which you cannot add or modify yourself. Please note that you can only exercise this right in respect of your own data or the data of a minor or other person in need of protection if you have specified this data as the owner of the parental authority or the legal responsibility have. We reserve the right to require proof of identity and to refuse to provide personal data if the identity or relevant relationship with the person concerned cannot be proven.
To contradict or restrict the processing of your personal data
This right can be exercised in the following cases:
• Temporary limitation – if you deny the accuracy of the personal data; In this case, we will limit the processing of your data for a period of time that allows us to verify the accuracy of your data. We will give you feedback on the removal of the restriction;
• The processing is unlawful and you oppose the deletion of the personal data and request instead the restriction of its use;
• Explore Planet no longer requires the personal data for the purposes of processing, but is required by the person concerned to justify, exercise or defend against legal claims;
• If you have objected to the processing in accordance with GDPR, DSGVO,…, the processing is restricted until the check that our legitimate reasons override your rights as affected persons. You will find all possibilities for this in our data protection centre and must be actively requested. Further questions and concerns can be asked about the contact possibilities.
Each version of the information are in effect from the moment it is published on the website. Significant changes in the processing of your personal data, insofar as you have a user account, require your consent in accordance with the applicable legislation-for which you will receive a request after login.
You are responsible for viewing this document from time to time to ensure that you are aware of the current version.
We do not guarantee you a guaranteed response period.
Explore Planet uses partial social media features such as Facebook, Twitter, Google Plus, YouTube, Instagram and Pinterest which have their own privacy notices.
On our website we use partial the following plugins: Facebook, Twitter, Google Plus, YouTube, Instagram and Pinterest. If you do not want social networks to collect data about you through active plugins, you can use the “block third party Cookies” feature in your browser settings and, if necessary, use our cookie settings to set restrictions.
With this setting, however, other cross-page functions may no longer work except for the plug-ins.
The content of the plugin is transmitted directly from the social network to your browser and is integrated into the website. By incorporating the plugins, the social network receives the information that you have called the corresponding page of our Internet presence. If you are logged in to the social network, you can assign the visit to your account. If you interact with the plugins, such as the Facebook “like” button or leave a comment, the corresponding information is transmitted from your browser directly to the social network and stored there. The purpose and scope of the data collection and the further processing and use of the data by social networks as well as their respective rights and settings for the protection of your privacy can be consulted in the data protection information of the relevant networks or Web pages.
Even if you are not signed in to social networks, Web pages with active social plug-ins can send data to the networks. An active plugin is used to set a cookie with an identifier each time the website is called. Since your browser is in principle creating a profile for each connection to a network server, which website has called the user belonging to the identifier. It would be possible to assign this identifier to a person again, for example, when logging on to the social network later.
Incorporating Facebook social plugins
On our website are Social plugins embed (“plugins”) of the social network facebook.com, which is operated by Facebook Inc., 1601 S. California Ave, Palo Alto, CA 94304, USA (“Facebook”). The purpose and scope of the data collection and the further processing and use of the data by Facebook as well as your rights and settings to protect your privacy, please refer to the Privacy policy of Facebook: http:// www.facebook.com/policy.php. You can also block Facebook social plugins with add-ons for your browser, such as the Facebook blocker.
Integration of Google Plus plugins
In our website are Social plugins (“plugins”) of the social network of Google Plus, which is operated by Google Inc., 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, United States (“Google”). The purpose and scope of the data collection and the further processing and use of the data by Google Plus as well as your rights and settings in this regard to protect your privacy, please refer to Google’s Privacy policy: www.google.com/intl /de/policies/privacy/.
Integration of Twitter plugins
In our website are Social plugins (“plugins”) of the social network of Twitter, which is operated by the Twitter Inc. based in 795 Folsom St., Suite 600, San Francisco, CA 94107, USA (“Twitter”). The purpose and scope of the data collection and the further processing and use of the data by Twitter, as well as your rights and settings to protect your privacy, can be read in the privacy policy of Twitter: twitter.com/privacy.
Integration of Pinterest plugins
On this website are further plugins of the social Network Pinterest Inc., 635 High Street, Palo Alto, CA, 94301, USA (“Pinterest”) integrated. The Pinterest plugin is visible on the “Pin it-button” on our website. If you click on the Pinterest “pin it-button” while you are logged in to your Pinterest account, you can link the contents of our pages to your Pinterest profile. This allows Pinterest to associate the visit to our pages with your user account. We point out that we are not aware of the contents of the transmitted data and their use by Pinterest. For more information, please refer to the Pinterest Privacy Policy: about.pinterest.com/de/privacy.
Integration of Instagram plugins
On our website are also integrated plugins of the social Network Instagram Inc., 1601 Willow Road, Menlo Park, CA, 94025, USA (“Instagram”). The Instagram plugin is visible on the “Instagram-button” on our site. If you click on the Instagram button while you are logged in to your Instagram account, you can link the content of our pages to your Instagram profile. This will allow Instagram to associate the visit to our pages with your user account. We point out that we are not aware of the content of the transmitted data and its use by Instagram. For more information, please refer to the Instagram privacy policy: instagram.com/about/legal/privacy/.
Integration of YouTube Plugins
Our website also includes the content of the Google-powered page YouTube (integrated videos on the website). The site operator is the YouTube, LLC, 901 Cherry Ave., San Bruno, CA 94066, USA. If you visit one of our sites equipped with a YouTube plugin, you will be connected to the YouTube servers. This tells the YouTube server which of our pages you have visited.
If you are logged in to your YouTube account, allow YouTube to assign your browsing behavior or the videos you watch directly to your personal profile. You can prevent this by logging out of your YouTube account.
For more information on how to use user data, please see the YouTube privacy policy at: https://www.google.de/intl/de
This website uses Google Analytics, a Web Analytics service from Google Inc. („Google“).
Using Google Analytics
This website uses Google Analytics, a Web Analytics service from Google Inc. („Google“). Google Analytics uses so-called “cookies”, text files that are stored on your computer and which allow you to analyze the use of the website. The information generated by the cookie about your use of this website is usually transferred to a Google server in the USA and stored there. On behalf of the operator of this website, Google will use this information to evaluate your use of the website, to compile reports on the website activities and to provide further services related to the use of the website and the internet with the website operator.
Protection of your personal data
This site has enabled IP anonymization for Google Analytics to protect your personal information. With IP anonymization enabled, your IP address will be reduced by Google within member states of the European Union or in other contracting states of the agreement on the European economic area before it is sent to a server. Only in exceptional cases will the full IP address be transferred to a Google server in the United States and shortened there. The IP address submitted by your browser as part of Google Analytics will not be merged with other Google data.
If we have other personal data of our website users, we will not merge them with website tracking data or other non-personal data.
disabling website tracking by website users
You can prevent the storage of all cookies by a corresponding setting of your browser software. However, we would point out that in this case you may not be able to use all functions of these and other websites in full. You may also prevent the transmission of the data generated by the cookie and related to your use of the website (including your IP address) to Google and the processing of such data by Google by using the information available at the following link download and install the browser plugin: Http://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=de. We also offer the possibility to disable the collection of your website usage data for this website. To do this, use the following link: https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=de. In this case, a special opt-out cookie is set which prevents the future collection of your usage data when you visit this website.
Whenever you use/call our website, we collect the data that your browser transmits to our server. These are:
- IP Address
- Date and time of the request
- Time zone difference to Greenwich Mean Time (GMT)
- Content of the request (concrete page)
- Access status/HTTP status code
- Amount of data transferred
- Site from which the request comes
- Browser
- Operating system and its interface
- Language and version of the browser software
The collection and processing of this data serves to display the website fundamentally to the user – another storage or similar, does not take place.
The legal basis for this data processing is our legitimate interest (art. 6 para. 1 lit. f DSGVO). Data processing is technically necessary to show you the website and to ensure its stability and security.
Terms of use & Conditions
By using Explore Planet, you agree to the terms of use described below as well as the privacy statement, the cookie policy and others-please read these pages all completely & carefully.
We offer a variety of different services and content. For this reason, additional terms or conditions of use may apply (e.g. minimum age, special need for authorizations, a personal user account,…) – these details will be given in the general pages or in these part areas, information is held.
As a general rule, by using our website you do not acquire any intellectual property rights or licenses, our services or the content you access. You are not allowed, to embed or reproduce or download any content from our website, unless you have the consent of the rights holder-a special written proof, is absolutely necessary.
In our website, we also offer content that does not originate from Explore Planet.
This content is the exclusive responsibility of the person making it available. This also applies in particular to cross-references, such as links to external pages or embeddings via so-called frames.
We, as well as our licensors, reserve the right to examine content for your illegality or for the violation of terms of use or laws. This content may be dismissed at any time, without notice, or its presentation, if we may legitimately assume that you violate our terms of use or applicable law. This does not necessarily mean that we review content in general. You cannot, therefore, assume in principle that we are doing this.
Explore Planet does not give any assurances regarding the content of the website or its representations, regarding specific functionalities or their reliability, availability, current scope and suitability of the contents for your purposes. We provide the entire offer in the respective current form-changes are possible at any time, a liability for errors or non-current content is not taken over at any moment.
If you have any comments or if you notice anything, you can contact us at any time via our contact portal – we are grateful for any help at any time in order to always improve the content or to make it richer.
The terms of use or any additional conditions for Explore Planet may be adjusted at any time to take into account, for example, changes to the legal framework or changes to our website or its contents. Therefore, check the terms of use regularly, especially if there are certain areas that you use very intensively.
Changes or adjustments to these are immediately and immediately effective-the old directives will immediately become invalid.
If you do not agree with any part of this, do not use Explore Planet or you are not permitted to visit the website anymore/longer.
For all violations of the entire terms and conditions, Explore Planet, as well as their licensors and publishers of content, reserve all claims or damages or costs, against provisions, licenses, copyrights or general legal infringements, against the user/users concerned and will follow them accordingly via lawyers, courts or authorities.
If you have any questions or concerns, you have the possibility to contact us at any time in written form.
For all content provided (information texts, photographs & other images, videos, presentations, illustrations, etc.) and the included program codes as well as layouts, unless otherwise stated, any copyright that rights of use and the copyright, exclusively at Explore Planet or its licensors, which exclusively, for the use and presentation on the website https://ExplorePlanet.eu in the English language-as well as https://ExplorePlanet.eu/DE available in German language.
The use of the content provided on the website is only permitted for personal information purposes, both for private and professional purposes.
A modification, duplication, distribution, inclusion or reproduction of the contents in other websites or external media or contents, also via so-called frames or technical embedding and similar, or other media and systems requires the express prior written approval by Explore Planet or its respective licensors.
Authorizations, permits or the like, are not automatically granted-likewise, a simple mention or reference to Explore Planet or its licensors is not sufficient.
Unauthorized use is illegal and is legally prosecuted by copyright holders or rights of use.
We offer you to submit your own content such as images, photographs, reviews, questions, comments, videos and personal messages or opinions, ideas, feedback, or other content to us or to Explore Planet for public presentation.
For these personal user content, you declare that you possess all necessary rights and that you can also prove it and not violate any rights of third parties.
Please be aware, besides possible copyrights of third parties in videos, music and pictures, the right to your own image of any persons depicted.
You warrant, that Explore Planet will be compensated in accordance with applicable laws if you contribute to illicit actions and cause damage as a direct result of these illicit actions-any legal or regulatory or legal claims and persecutions, are solely at your expense.
The content of the user content submitted by you is purely your personal representation or opinion.
Explore Planet reserves the right to reject or not display or delete any submitted user content, as mentioned above, especially in case of violation of the terms of use or other guidelines of this website and its licensors.
In general, it is forbidden to post the following contents, to present it or similar:
- harassment, misuse or threat of any other person
- obscene content
- false or deliberately misleading information
- any discrimination or reduction of sex, race, class, ethnicity, national origin, religion, sexual preference, disability
- offensive, harassing, brutal, hateful, inciting, illegal, harmful, tort or defamatory content or comments or representations
- pornographic material, depictions of violence, illegal acts or their advocacy
- any violation of laws, regulatory requirements-even if they apply only locally in a country
- Spam, illicit advertising
- Content that intends destruction-eg viruses, illegal codes, Trojan horses,..
- Contents that cause disturbances in performance or functions
- intellectual property of third parties to whom you do not have rights or reproduce them illegally
It may be necessary for a part of the web page or its functions to create an account in order to be able to participate.
If this is the case, you will need to select a user name and password when you log in and provide us with the information you need. This information is only Explore Planet accessible and is of course subject to data protection.
You are responsible for keeping your password secret and secure. By registering, you confirm that you are fully responsible for all your activities that are done with your user name and password. We assume that all communications we receive through your account is originate from you.
You must notify us if you are aware of any unauthorized use of your account. Contact is possible at any time via the contact and data protection portal. You agree to provide us with information that we require to confirm your identity and to ensure the security of your account should this be required or become necessary.
E-mail addresses or self-selected user names may not be suitable for violating the protected feelings and rights of other users or violating relevant laws. This applies, for example, to the use of terms in the field of pornography, in particular. Child pornography or incest, as well as violence-glorifying or popular concepts. Other examples are names of organizations or individuals that can be associated with terrorism, political extremism, or religious fanaticism. In addition, the rights of third parties (names, trademarks, copyrights, data protection rights, etc.) must be maintained in any case.
Such accounts or similar, are either directly denied or subsequently deleted or blocked, without notice. If you feel that something has not been done correctly in this regard or has been incorrectly detected by an automatic system, please contact us immediately-we will of course examine this in detail.
Severability clause
If one of the stated provisions is wholly or partially ineffective or incomplete, the remaining provisions & guidelines or conditions remain unaffected.
Contact & Privacy inquiries
We are happy to answer your questions in writing.
Please let us know in detail the reason for your request and how we can help you or what feedback or inquiry you would like to send to us.
In order to be able to process and answer your request competently, quickly and comprehensively, we ask you to provide as detailed information as possible.
We will answer your request as soon as possible.
Tipp – Quick answers & advices directly:
Please try first to find the answers to your questions or how something works, already directly in our Knowledge base or the FAQ/Frequently Asked Questions or is the help among users, also a very quick way.
You can also send us inquiries about your contributions or content provided, where you are not able to change these data/entries or add anything to them.
We will check and carry out this – for any inquiries you will receive a message from us.
Please note
Your given details must be exactly as possible & match with our existing data, maybe a proof of entitlement is needed
Without 100% explicit given details, we cannot proceed – thanks for your understanding
