Privacy Policy (Status: June 2025)

This Privacy Policy informs users of the website "brandeburg-tourism.com/map" about the type, scope and purpose of the collection and use of personal data by the responsible provider TMB Tourismus-Marketing Brandenburg GmbH, Babelsberger Straße 26, 14473 Potsdam, e-mail: tmb@reiseland-brandenburg.de, Tel.: +49 331 298 73 - 0 on this website.

TMB is subject to the regulations of the European Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), the Federal Data Protection Act (BDSG) and other relevant data protection regulations as well as has taken appropriate technical and organizational measures to ensure that the regulations on data protection are observed.

The controller of the data processing on this website is:

TMB Tourismus-Marketing Brandenburg GmbH

Babelsberger Straße 26, 14473 Potsdam, Germany

Telephone: 0331-29873-0

E-mail: tmb@reiseland-brandenburg.de

The controller is the natural or legal person who alone or jointly with others determines the purposes and means of the processing of personal data (e.g. names, e-mail addresses or similar).

We have assigned a data protection officer for our company, you can reach him under the following contact details:

TMB Tourismus-Marketing Brandenburg GmbH
- Data protection officer -
Babelsberger Straße 26, 14473 Potsdam, Germany

E-Mail: datenschutz@reiseland-brandenburg.de

Personal data (individual information about personal or factual circumstances of an identified or identifiable natural person, e.g. your name, address, telephone number, e-mail address or date of birth) is only collected if the processing of this data is in accordance with the law. This would be the case, on the one hand, if you have given us your consent on this website (Art. 6 para. 1 lit. a and Art. 7 GDPR) or the processing is necessary for the performance of a contract (art. 6 para. 1 lit. b GDPR) or due to legitimate interests of the provider or a third party (art. 6 para. 1 lit. f GDPR).

If you have voluntarily provided TMB Tourismus-Marketing Brandenburg GmbH with personal data, e.g. by contacting us electronically (contact form) through your consent, only the data you have provided will be collected and used exclusively for the purpose of responding to your inquiry. Data will only be transferred to third parties if there is a legal obligation to do so.

After processing your request, your data will be blocked for further use and deleted after expiry of the retention periods required by tax and commercial law. You have the right to withdraw your consent with effect for the future at any time and/or to object to the collection, processing and use of your data. The contact details can be found at the end of this privacy policy or under each form in which you can enter or submit personal data.

When you visit our website www.brandenburg-tourism.com, the browser used on your terminal 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 automated deletion:

• IP address of the requesting computer,
• Date and time of access,
• name and URL of the accessed file,
• access methods/functions requested by the requesting computer,
• Access status of the web server,
• website from which the access is made (referrer URL),
• 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 problem-free connection set-up of the website,
• Ensuring a user-friendly 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 lit. f GDPR. Our legitimate interest follows from the purposes for data collection listed above. In no case do we use the collected data for the purpose of drawing conclusions about your person. In addition, we use cookies and analysis services when you visit our website. You will find more detailed explanations of this in the following privacy policy.

This website uses cookies. Cookies are text files that are filed and stored by the Internet browser on the computer system.

Through the use of cookies, the TMB Tourismus-Marketing Brandenburg GmbH can recognize the user of this website and provide him with more user-friendly services that would not be possible without the cookie setting.

In order to facilitate the handling, i.e. the "agree/ok" or "decline/refuse" of cookies for you, the website displays a "cookie banner" when you start using it. Here you can make the following choices:

• "Agree/Ok": with this setting, you voluntarily consent to the use of cookies and related data processing. You can withdraw your consent at any time via the Consent Management Tool with the consequence that cookies will no longer be used and the associated data processing will cease. 
• "Decline/Refuse": with this setting, you do not consent to the use of cookies and the associated data processing, so they are omitted from the outset. Only the cookies that are necessary for the operation of the website will then be used.

You can also prevent the setting of cookies by our website at any time by means of an appropriate setting of the Internet browser used and thus permanently object to the setting of cookies. Furthermore, cookies that have already been set can be deleted at any time using an Internet browser or other software programs. This is possible in all common Internet browsers (see below). If you deactivate the setting of cookies in the Internet browser used, not all functions of our website may be fully usable.

Finally, you can consent to the use of cookies afterwards via the consent management tool or reject them (see below).

We use the consent management tool Consentmanager of consentmanager AB,Håltegelvägen 1b, 72348 Västerås, Sweden; "Consentmanager") on our website. The tool allows you to give consent to data processing via the website, in particular the setting of cookies, as well as to exercise your right to withdraw consent you have already given. Data processing serves the purpose of obtaining and documenting required consents to data processing and thus complying with legal obligations.

Cookies may be used for this purpose. Among other things, the following information may be collected and transmitted to Consentmanager: Date and time of the page view, information about the browser you are using and the device you are using, anonymized IP address, opt-out data. This data is not passed on to other third parties.

Data processing is carried out to fulfill a legal obligation on the basis of Art. 6 para. 1 lit. c GDPR. You can find more information on Consentmanager's data protection policy: https://www.consentmanager.net/privacy.php

You can - as already described - deactivate the storage of cookies in your browser, limit it to certain websites or set your browser to notify you before a cookie is stored. You can also delete existing cookies from your computer's hard drive at any time.

For more information on how to disable cookies, see the following pages for each browser:

• Internet Exporer: https://support.microsoft.com/de-de/help/17442/windows-internet-explorer-delete-manage-cookies 
• Microsoft Edge: privacy.microsoft.com/de-DE/windows-10-microsoft-edge-and-privacyFirefox: https://support.mozilla.org/de/kb/cookies-erlauben-und-ablehnen
• Google Chrome: https://support.google.com/chrome/answer/95647?hl=de&topic=14666&ctx=topic
• Opera: www.opera.com/help/tutorials/security/cookies/ (eng)
• Safari: support.apple.com/de-de/guide/safari/sfri11471/mac

TMB Tourismus-Marketing Brandenburg GmbH uses the following types of cookies:

Essential cookies are essential for the operation of the website or individual functions, so that the associated data processing takes place either due to legal obligations or our legitimate interest and deactivation is not possible. This includes the cookies of the following providers: Consentmanager and Pixelpoint Multimedia Werbe GmbH.

For more information on the individual cookies, please refer to the Consent Management Tool, which you can also find at the following link: https://www.brandenburg-tourism.com/#cmpscreen 

Cookies for advanced functions/settings are necessary for the operation of the website, certain functions or settings and the associated data is processed because of our legitimate interest in ensuring the website functions. You can object to these cookies via the Consent Management Tool by deactivating the respective providers. This includes the cookies of the following providers: Google Tag Manager, Graphhopper GmbH, Mapbox Inc and Targomo GmbH.  

For more information on the individual cookies, please refer to the Consent Management Tool, which you can also find at the following link: https://www.brandenburg-tourism.com/#cmpscreen 

Measurement cookies are used to analyze visitors to our website and allow us to customize our product and marketing. You can object to these cookies via the Consent Management Tool by deactivating the respective providers. This includes the cookies of the following provider: Google Analytics.

For more information on the individual cookies, please refer to the Consent Management Tool, which you can also find at the following link: https://www.brandenburg-tourism.com/#cmpscreen 

In order to provide you with this website and related offers in the best possible way, we cooperate with various service providers that have been carefully selected by us in advance. For these purposes, your data may be passed on to such service providers in compliance with the legal basis.

Likewise, a transfer may be permissible insofar as this is necessary for the fulfillment of contractual or legal obligations.

Provided that the legal requirements of Art. 28 GDPR are met, we will conclude a contract processing agreement with our contractual partners to ensure all data protection obligations arising from the cooperation.

Due to the use of various tools designated above, such as the services of Google, your personal data may be transferred to so-called third countries, as the registered office of these companies is located outside the EU/EEA. Processing in third countries is generally permitted, provided that they can demonstrate an adequate level of data protection or appropriate guarantees for compliance with data protection requirements exist (e.g. EU standard contractual clauses).

You have the right:

• In accordance with Art. 15 GDPR, to request information about your personal data processed by us. In particular, you can request information about the processing purposes, the category of personal data, the categories of recipients to whom your data has been or will be disclosed, the planned storage period, the existence of a right to rectification, erasure, restriction of processing or objection, the existence of a right of complaint, the origin of your data if it has not been collected from us, and the existence of automated decision-making, including profiling, and, if applicable, meaningful information about its details;
• in accordance with Art. 16 GDPR, to request the immediate correction of inaccurate or incomplete personal data stored by us;
• in accordance with Art. 17 GDPR, to request the erasure of your personal data stored by us, unless the processing is necessary for the exercise of the right to freedom of expression and information, for compliance with a legal obligation, for reasons of public interest, or for the establishment, exercise or defense of legal claims;
• in accordance with Art. 18 GDPR, to request the restriction of the processing of your personal data, insofar as the accuracy of the data is disputed by you, the processing is unlawful, but you object to its erasure and we no longer need the data, but you need it for the assertion, exercise or defense of legal claims or you have objected to the processing in accordance with Art. 21 GDPR;
• in accordance with Art. 20 GDPR, to receive your personal data that you have provided to us in a structured, common and machine-readable format or to request that it be transferred to another controller;
• in accordance with Art. 7 para. 3 GDPR, to withdraw your consent once given to us at any time. This has the consequence that we may no longer continue the data processing, which was based on this consent, for the future; and
• according to Art. 77 GDPR to complain to a supervisory authority. As a rule, you can contact the supervisory authority of your usual place of residence or workplace for this purpose.
  
  The Brandenburg State Commissioner for Data Protection:
  Stahnsdorfer Damm 77, 14532 Kleinmachnow, Germany
  Tel.: (0049) 033203-356-0
  Fax: (0049) 033203-356-49
  E-Mail: Poststelle@LDA.Brandenburg.de

If your personal data is processed based on a legitimate interest pursuant to Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f GDPR, you have the right to object to the processing of your personal data pursuant to Art. 21 GDPR, if there are reasonable grounds for doing so that arise from your particular situation or if the objection is directed against direct marketing.

In the latter case, you have a general right of objection, which is implemented by us without specifying a particular situation. If you wish to exercise your right of withdrawal or objection, it is sufficient to inform us via the form at the following link.

This data protection declaration is currently valid and has the status June 2025. 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 and print out the current data protection declaration at any time on the website at https://www.brandenburg-tourism.com/privacy-policy/privacy-policy-map/.