Within our online services, we include so-called affiliate links or other references (which for example may include search forms, widgets or discount codes) to the offers and services of third parties (collectively referred to as "affiliate links"). When users follow affiliate links or subsequently take advantage of offers, we may receive commission or other benefits (collectively referred to as "commission") from these third parties.
In order to be able to track whether the users have followed the offers of an affiliate link used by us, it is necessary for the respective third party to know that the users have followed an affiliate link used within our online services. The assignment of affiliate links to the respective business transactions or other actions (e.g., purchases) serves the sole purpose of commission settlement and is removed as soon as it is no longer required for this purpose.
For the purposes of the aforementioned affiliate link assignment, the affiliate links may be supplemented by certain values that may be a component of the link or otherwise stored, for example, in a cookie. The values may include in particular the source website (referrer), time, an online identifier of the operator of the website on which the affiliate link was located, an online identifier of the respective offer, the type of link used, the type of offer and an online identifier of the user.
Information on legal basis: If we ask the users for their consent to the use of third party providers, the legal basis of the processing is consent. Furthermore, the processing can be a component of our (pre)contractual services, provided that the use of the third party was agreed within this context. Otherwise, user data will be processed on the basis of our legitimate interests (i.e. interest in efficient, economic and recipient friendly services). In this context, we would also like to refer you to the information on the use of cookies in this privacy policy.
- Processed data types: Contract data (e.g. contract object, duration, customer category), Usage data (e.g. websites visited, interest in content, access times), Meta/communication data (e.g. device information, IP addresses).
- Data subjects: Users (e.g. website visitors, users of online services).
- Purposes of Processing: Affiliate Tracking.
- Legal Basis: Consent (Article 6 (1) (a) GDPR), Performance of a contract and prior requests (Article 6 (1) (b) GDPR), Legitimate Interests (Article 6 (1) (f) GDPR).
Services and service providers being used:
- Amazon Affiliate Program: Amazon Affiliate Program marked with https://www.amazon.com; Privacy Policy: https://www.amazon.com/gp/help/customer/display.html?nodeId=201909010. - Amazon and the Amazon logo are trademarks of Amazon.com, Inc. or one of its affiliates. Service provider: Amazon Europe Core S.à.r.l., Amazon EU S.à.r.l., Amazon Services Europe S.à.r.l. and Amazon Media EU S.à.r.l., all four located at 38, avenue John F. Kennedy, L-1855 Luxembourg, and Amazon Instant Video Germany GmbH, Domagkstr. 28, 80807 Munich (together "Amazon Europe"), parent company: Amazon.com, Inc., 2021 Seventh Ave, Seattle, Washington 98121, USA.; Website:
- Booking.com Affiliate Program: Service provider: Booking.com B.V., Herengracht 597, 1017 CE Amsterdam, Netherlands; Website: https://www.booking.com; Privacy Policy: https://www.booking.com/content/privacy.html.
- GetYourGuide Partner Program: Service Provider: GetYourGuide Deutschland GmbH, Sonnenburger Strasse 73, 10437 Berlin, Germany
Website: https://www.getyourguide.com/ Privacy Policy: https://www.getyourguide.com/privacy_policy - Viator Partners: Service Provider: Viator, Inc., 360 Third Street, 4th Floor, San Francisco, California, 94107, United States, Website: https://www.viator.com/ ; Privacy Policy: https://www.viator.com/support/privacyPolicy
- Skyscanner: Skyscanner Limited, 777 Brickell Avenue, #500-95109, Miami, Florida 33131, United States. Website: https://www.skyscanner.com/ Privacy Policy:https://www.skyscanner.com/media/privacy-policy