3.1 General rights

You have the right to information, access, correction, deletion, restriction of processing, objection to processing, and data portability. If processing is based on your consent, you have the right to revoke it at any time.

3.2 Rights to object to processing of data based on legitimate interests

Article 21(1) EU General Data Protection Regulation (EU) 2016/679 (“GDPR”) gives you the right to object at any time for reasons arising out of your particular situation against the processing of personal data relating to you when your data is processed under Article 6(1)(e) or Article 6 (1)(f) GDPR. This also applies to profiling. If you object, we will no longer process your personal data unless we can establish compelling and legitimate grounds for processing that outweigh your interests, rights and freedoms, or if the processing aids the enforcing, exercising or defending of legal claims.

3.3 Rights to object to direct marketing

If we process your personal data for the purpose of direct marketing Article 21(2) GDPR gives you the right to object at any time to the processing of your personal data for the purpose of direct marketing; this also applies to profiling, insofar as it is associated with direct marketing.

If you object to processing for the purpose of direct marketing, we will no longer process your personal data for this purpose.

3.4 Right to complain to a supervisory authority

You also have the right to complain to a relevant data protection supervisory authority about our processing of your personal data.

6.1 General information

With your consent under Art. 6 par. 1 a GDPR, you can opt in to our newsletter, which will inform you about our current deals.
To sign up for our newsletter, we use the “double opt-in” method. This means that after you have signed up, we will send you an e-mail to the e-mail address specified, in which we ask you to confirm that you wish to receive the newsletter. If you do not confirm your sign-up within [24 hours], your information will be locked and automatically deleted after one month.

In addition, we save the IP addresses you used and the times of sign-up and confirmation. The purpose of the procedure is to verify your sign-up and, if necessary, to inform you about possible misuse of your personal data.

The only requirement for sending the newsletter is your email address. The specification of additional, separately marked data is voluntary and will be used to address you personally. After your confirmation, we will save your e-mail address for the purpose of sending you the newsletter. The legal basis is art. 6 par. 1 a GDPR.

You may revoke your consent to the sending of the newsletter at any time and opt out of the newsletter. You can declare the revocation by clicking the link provided in each newsletter e-mail or by contacting the aforementioned data protection officer.

6.2 Newsletter Tracking

Please note that we evaluate your user behavior when sending the newsletter. For this evaluation, the emails sent include “web beacons” or tracking pixels, which are stored on our website. For the evaluations, we link the data mentioned and the web beacons with your e-mail address and an individual ID.

With the data obtained in this way, we generate a user profile to tailor the newsletter to your individual interests. In doing so, we record when you read our newsletters, which links you click on in them and deduce your personal interests. We link this data with actions you have taken on our website.

You can object to this tracking at any time by clicking on the separate link provided in each e-mail. The information will be saved as long as you have opted in to the newsletter. After you log out, we save the data purely statistically and anonymously.

Also, such tracking is not possible if you’ve deactivated image viewing by default in your e-mail application. In this case, the newsletter will not be displayed in full and you won’t be able to use all the features. If you display images manually, the above tracking will take place.

7.1 worldelitelist User Account

You can create a worldelitelist user account. If you create a worldelitelist user account you will receive personal, password-protected access and can view and manage the data you have stored in your account. worldelitelist user account creation is voluntary but may be required to fully use the functionality of some of our Services.

If you create a worldelitelist user account, we will send you our newsletter and other direct marketing. You can unsubscribe from the newsletter or delete your worldelitelist user account at any time.

You can manage, modify and delete all information in your worldelitelist user account. The legal basis for this processing is Article 6(1)(a), (b), and (f) GDPR.

7.2 Business Studio and Hotel Manager

If you use Business Studio or Hotel Manager you will receive a personal, password-protected account and you can view and manage the data that is stored in that account. Hoteliers who have a worldelitelist Business Studio/ Hotel Manager account may be contacted by telephone and be informed about new or additional features of the tool. The legal basis for this processing is Article 6(1)(b), and (f) GDPR.

7.3 worldelitelist Express Booking or One Click Booking

When you use the worldelitelist Express Booking or one click booking functionality, you can choose to create a worldelitelist user account and store the personal data that you provide to us to allow you to use this personal data at a later stage when booking other hotels to make the booking process easier for you. When you decide to make a reservation with a hotel, we will send your personal data required for the reservation to the hotel so that the hotel can process your reservation. The legal basis for this processing is Article 6(1)(b) GDPR.

10.1 Transient cookies

These cookies are automatically deleted when you close your browser. This includes session cookies in particular. These save a “session ID” with which different requests from your browser can be assigned to the joint session. This allows your device to be recognized again when you return to our website. Session cookies are deleted when you log out or close your browser.

10.2 Persistent cookies

These cookies are automatically deleted after a set duration that can vary depending on the cookie. You can delete cookies in your browser security settings at any time.

10.3 Flash cookies

Flash cookies used are not collected through your browser, but through your Flash plug-in. In addition, we use HTML5 storage objects that are stored on your terminal. These objects save the necessary data independent of the browser you use and have no automatic expiration date. If you do not want Flash cookies processed, you must install a suitable add-on, such as “Privacy Badger” for Mozilla Firefox (https://www.eff.org/privacybadger) or Adobe Flash Killer Cookie for Google Chrome. You can prevent the use of HTML5 storage objects by setting your browser to private mode. We also recommend that you manually delete your cookies and browser history on a regular basis.

10.4 Preventing cookies

You can configure your browser and App settings as you wish and, for example, decline to accept third-party or all cookies. Please note that you may not be able to use all of the website’s functions in this case.

10.5 Legal bases and storage period

The legal bases for possible processing of personally identifiable information and its storage period vary and are described in the following sections.

11.1 Google Analytics

This website uses Google Analytics, a web analysis service of Google Inc (1600 Amphitheatre Parkway Mountain View, CA 94043, USA). This use covers the Universal Analytics operating mode. This makes it possible to assign data, sessions, and interactions across multiple devices to a pseudonymous user ID and thus analyze a user’s activities across devices.

Google Analytics uses cookies that allow your use of the website to be analyzed. The information generated by the cookie through your use of this website is generally transmitted to a Google server in the USA and stored there. If IP anonymization is activated on this website, however, your IP address will be truncated in advance within the member states of the European Union or other contracting states party to the Agreement on the European Economic Area. Only in exceptional circumstances will the full IP address be transmitted to a Google server in the USA and truncated there. The IP address transmitted from your browser in the context of Google Analytics will not be conflated with other Google data. Google will use this information in this website operator’s order to evaluate your use of the website so that reports about website activity can be compiled and other services connected to website and internet use can be rendered for the website operator. Our legitimate interest in data processing is also for these purposes. The legal basis for the use of Google Analytics is article 6, par. 1 f of the GDPR. The data sent by us and connected to cookies, user information (such as user ID), and promotional IDs are deleted after 14 months after the last use of our services. Data whose storage period has expired is automatically deleted once a month. More information on the terms and conditions of use and data protection can be found at https://www.google.com/analytics/terms/us.html and https://policies.google.com/?hl=en.

You can prevent cookies from being stored through the relevant setting in your browser software; however, please note that if you do so, not all functions of the website may be able to be used to their full extent. You can also prevent the data generated by the cookie and related to your use of the website (including your IP address) from being collected and processed by Google by downloading and installing https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=en. Opt-out cookies prevent the future collection of your data when visiting this website. To prevent Universal Analytics collection across various devices, you must perform the opt-out on all systems in use. Set the opt-out cookie by clicking here: Deactivate Google Analytics.

11.2 Google Tag Manager

For transparency reasons, we would like to mention that we use Google Tag Manager. Google Tag Manager does not itself collect any personally identifiable information. Tag Manager makes it easier for us to incorporate and manage our tags. Tags are small elements of code that serve to measure traffic and user behavior, record the effects of online advertising and social channels, establish remarketing and focus on target groups, and test and optimize websites, among other things. If you have deactivated, this will be taken into account by Google Tag Manager. For more information about Google Tag Manager, see: https://www.google.com/analytics/tag-manager/use-policy/

11.3 eTracker

Data is collected and stored for marketing and optimization purposes on this website using technologies from etracker GmbH (https://www.etracker.com/en/). This data can be used to generate usage profiles under a pseudonym. Cookies may be used for this purpose. The data collected with eTracker technologies is not used for the purpose of personally identifying visitors to this website and will not be conflated with personally identifiable information about the bearer of the pseudonym without the explicit consent of the individual in question. You may object to the collection and storage of data at any time with effect for the future. Please exclude me from the etracker count.

We use eTracker so we can analyze the use of our website and make regular improvements. The statistics we gather allow us to improve our website and develop it to be more interesting for you as a user. The data collected will be stored permanently and analyzed under a pseudonym. The legal basis for the use of eTracker is article 6, par. 1 f of the GDPR. Third party partner information: etracker GmbH, Erste Brunnenstraße 1, 20459 Hamburg; https://www.etracker.com/en/data-privacy/.

11.4 Hotjar

Data is collected and stored for optimization purposes on this service using technologies from Hotjar Ltd. (https://www.hotjar.com). This data can be used to generate usage profiles under a pseudonym. Cookies may be used for this purpose. The data collected with Hotjar technologies is not used for the purpose of personally identifying visitors to this website and will not be conflated with personally identifiable information about the bearer of the pseudonym without the explicit consent of the individual in question. You may opt-out from having Hotjar collect your information when visiting a Hotjar Enabled Site at any time by visiting the Hotjar Opt-out page https://www.hotjar.com/legal/compliance/opt-out and clicking ‘Disable Hotjar’ or enabling Do Not Track (DNT) in your browser.

11.5 Taboola

Data is collected and stored for optimization purposes on this service using technologies from Taboola. Taboola’s tags and pixel on our websites collect information about page visits and actions (click, conversion) tied to a hashed Taboola User ID on our pages. Specifically, the pixel collects event from our website (including initial and subsequent page visits, conversion data, and the associated hashed Taboola User ID read from the cookie) and information about the user’s browser read from the user agent that includes operating system, browser type and version. You may opt-out from having Taboola collect your information by visiting the Taboola Opt-out page at https://www.taboola.com/privacy-policy#user-choices-and-optout.

11.6 Outbrain

We integrated the ‘Custom Audience’ Pixel from Outbrain UK into our site. Via this pixel there will be a direct connection between your browser and the Outbrain server. By this connection Outbrain is enabled to access certain browser information from your device. This enables us to do targeted marketing activities (for example banner ads) which will be shown to you on other websites which integrated the Outbrain Widget. For more information please see the Outbrain Privacy Policy https://www.outbrain.com/legal/privacy#advertising_behavioral_targeting where you can also opt-out from under section 2 https://www.outbrain.com/legal/privacy#advertising_behavioral_targeting.

11.7 Intent Media

We offer personalized advertising through Intent Media, which uses online identifiers to identify visitors. To view Intent Media’s privacy policy, click http://intentmedia.com/privacy-policy/. To opt out, click https://intentmedia.com/opt-out/.

11.8 Radar

We use Radar, a location context platform to power location based product experiences. Radar collects location information to create personalized product experiences and messages. For more information please refer to Radar’s privacy policy: https://radar.io/privacy. You can disable the collection of location based data collection by disabling location tracking in your device.

11.9 Feedback

We aim to continually improve our services. For this purpose, we use ‘Usabilla’ from Usabilla B.V., Amsterdam, NL for user surveys. This service uses a cookie establishing a direct connection to the Usabilla server in order to transmit and process certain user information. We solely process your information in an anonymized form. For further information please see the Usabilla Privacy Policy at https://usabilla.com/privacy/.

12.1 Google AdWords and Conversion Tracking

To draw attention to our services, we place Google AdWords display ads and, within this context, use Google conversion tracking for the purposes of personalized online ads based on interests and location. The option to anonymize IP addresses is controlled through Google Tag Manager, via an internal setting that is not visible in the source of this page. This internal setting is set so that the anonymization required by privacy laws covers IP addresses.

Ads are displayed based on search requests on websites in the Google ad network. We have the ability to combine our ads with certain search terms. With the use of cookies, we are able to place ads based on previous user visits to our website.

When a user clicks on an ad, Google places a cookie on the user’s device. For more information on the cookie technology used, please see Google’s statements on website statistics and their data privacy policy.

With the use of this technology, Google, and we as their customer, receive the information that a user has clicked on an ad and was redirected to our websites. The information acquired this way is solely used for statistical analysis related to ad optimization. We do not receive any information that would allow us to personally identify a visitor. The statistics provided to us by Google include the total number of users who have clicked on one of our ads and, where applicable, whether they were redirected to a page on our website that has a conversation tag. These statistics allow us to track which search terms most often lead to our ads receiving clicks, and which ads lead to the user contacting us via the contact form.
If you do not want this, you can prevent the storage of the cookies required for this technology by, for example, using the settings in your browser or your App. Should you do so, your visit will not be incorporated into user statistics.

You also have the option to choose the types of Google ads or deactivate interest-based ads on Google through ad settings. Alternatively, you can deactivate third-party use of cookies by using the Network Advertising Initiative’s opt-out tool.

However, we and Google will still receive statistical information about how many users visit this site and when. If you do not want to be included in these statistics either, you can prevent this by using additional programs for your browser (such as the Ghostery add-on).

12.2 Google DoubleClick

We use DoubleClick, a service of Google Inc. DoubleClick uses cookies to place user-based web ads. The cookies detect which ads have already appeared in your browser and whether you visited a website via an ad placed. In doing so, the cookies do not collect any personally identifiable information, nor are they able to link to any.

If you do not want to receive any user-based advertising, you can disable the placement of ads by using Google’s ad settings.

For more information about how Google cookies are used, please refer to Google’s privacy statement.

12.3 Google Dynamic Remarketing

We use the dynamic remarketing function of Google AdWords on our website. This technology allows us to place automatically generated ads oriented towards target groups after you visit our website. Ads are oriented towards products and services that you clicked on during your last visit to our website.

Google uses cookies to generate interest-based ads. Cookies are small text files that are stored in your browser when you visit our website. In this process, Google typically stores information such as your web request, IP address, browser type, browser language, and the date and time of your request. This information only serves the purpose of mapping the web browser to a specific device. It cannot be used to identify an individual.

If you do not want to receive user-based advertising from Google, you can disable the placement of ads by using Google’s ad settings.

For more information about how Google cookies are used, please refer to Google’s privacy statement.

12.4 AppNexus

This website uses AppNexus, a service of the AppNexus Inc. company, 28 W 23rd Street, 4th floor, New York, New York – 10010, USA. Among other things, AppNexus uses cookies, which are stored on your device and enable analysis of website use, and beacons. During use, data including the user’s IP address and activities is transmitted to an AppNexus Inc. server and stored there. AppNexus Inc. will transmit this information to third parties where necessary if this is prescribed by law or if this data is processed by third parties. You can prevent personally identifiable information (especially your IP address) from being collected and forwarded or processed by disabling JavaScript in your browser or installing a tool like “NoScript.” You can find more information in AppNexus’s privacy policy. You can also set an opt-out for AppNexus.

12.5 Criteo

Information about the user’s surfing behavior is collected for marketing purposes and cookies are set for this, solely in anonymized form, on our websites and online content using technology from Criteo (Criteo GmbH, Gewürzmühlstr. 11, 80538 Munich). This allows Criteo to analyze surfing behavior and then display targeted product recommendations as a relevant banner ad when other websites are visited. Anonymized data cannot be used to personally identify visitors to the website under any circumstances. The data collected by Criteo will only be used to improve promotional content. A small “i” (for information) can be found on each banner displayed; if you hover over this and click on it, a page will open that explains the system and offers an opt-out. Clicking “opt out” will set an opt-out cookie that will prevent this banner from being displayed in the future. It will not be used in any other way or forwarded to third parties. You can learn more about Criteo and object to the anonymous analysis of your surfing behavior at http://www.criteo.com/en/privacy/.

12.6 RTB House

Information about the user’s surfing behavior is collected for marketing purposes and cookies are set for this, solely in anonymized form, on our websites and online content using technology from RTB House (RTB House SA, 61/101 Złota Street, 00-819 Warsaw Poland). This allows RTB House to analyze surfing behavior and then display targeted product recommendations as a relevant banner ad when other websites are visited. Clicking “opt out” will set an opt-out cookie that will prevent this banner from being displayed in the future. It will not be used in any other way or forwarded to third parties. You can learn more about RTB House and object to the anonymous analysis of your surfing behavior at https://www.rtbhouse.com/de/privacy/.

12.7 OpenX

This website uses OpenX, a service of the company OpenX GmbH, Maximilianstrasse 35a, 80539 Munich, Germany. Among other things, OpenX uses cookies, which are stored on your device and enable analysis of website use. During use, data including the user’s IP address and activities is transmitted to an OpenX GmbH server and stored there. OpenX GmbH will transmit this information to third parties where necessary if this is prescribed by law or if this data is processed by third parties. You can prevent personally identifiable information (especially your IP address) from being collected and forwarded or processed by disabling JavaScript in your browser. More information about data protection with the use of OpenX can be found in their privacy statement. You can also set an opt-out.

12.8 Rubicon

This website uses the JavaScript code of the Rubicon company, The Rubicon Project, Inc., 12181 Bluff Creek Drive, 4th Floor, Playa Vista, CA, 90094, USA. If JavaScript is activated in your browser and no JavaScript blocker is installed, your browser will transmit personally identifiable information to Rubicon as applicable. More information on Rubicon’s use of data and data protection can be found in Rubicon’s privacy statement. To completely prevent Rubicon’s code from running, you can objecthere.

12.9 Facebook family Custom Audiences

The product Facebook Custom Audiences (Facebook Inc. 1601 S. California Avenue, Palo Alto, CA, 94304) for Facebook and Instagramm is also used as part of usage-based online advertising. An irreversible and non-personally identifiable checksum (hash total) is essentially generated by your usage data, which can be transmitted to Facebook for analysis and marketing purposes. A Facebook cookie is set in this process. In doing so, information about your activities on the website (such as surfing behavior, subpages visited, etc.) is collected. Your IP address is stored and used for geographical modulation.

For more information about the purpose and extent of data collection and further processing and use of data, as well as privacy settings, please refer to the privacy policy for Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/privacy/explanation) and Instagram (https://help.instagram.com/519522125107875?helpref=page_content).

12.10 TradeTracker

TradeTracker (Tradetracker International BV De Strubbenweg 7, 1327 GA Almere, Netherlands) uses cookies and device identification technology to allow us to place advertisements for worldelitelist on third party websites and monitor marketing performance. More information on TradeTracker, their cookies and their use of your personal data can be found in their privacy statement. To prevent TradeTracker from functioning you can use a private browsing session and set your device to reject cookies.