Data protection
The protection of your data is a top priority for us. We therefore treat your data as strictly confidential and in compliance with the applicable data protection regulations. In this privacy policy, we explain how we process your data for the purposes of both our website and our hotel operations.
Responsible for data processing:
the Farmhouse № 50 GmbH
Lengericher Landstraße 50
D- 49078 Osnabrück
Telephone 0541 440 45 50
E-mail: office@farmhouse.de
1. general information about the processing of your data
Your personal data (e.g. title, name, address, e-mail address, telephone number) will be processed by us exclusively in accordance with the provisions of German data protection law and the data protection laws of the European Union (EU). The following sections inform you about the purposes of processing, recipients, legal bases, storage periods, your rights and the controller responsible for data processing. This privacy policy only applies to our website and hotel operations. If you are redirected to other websites via links on our pages, please inform yourself there about the respective handling of your data.
2. Contact
2.1 Purpose of processing
We process the personal data you provide us with via email, contact form or other means in order to process and respond to your enquiries. You are not obliged to provide us with your personal data. However, without your email address, it is not possible to respond to you by email.
2.2 Legal basis
a) If you have given us your express consent to process your data, Art. 6 (1a) GDPR is the legal basis for this processing.
b) If we process your data to carry out pre-contractual measures, Art. 6 (1b) GDPR is the legal basis.
c) In all other cases, in particular when using a contact form, Art. 6 (1f) GDPR is the legal basis.
2.3 Right to object
You have the right to object to the processing of your data, which is based on Art. 6 (1f) GDPR and does not serve the purpose of direct marketing, at any time for reasons arising from your particular situation.
In the case of direct marketing, you can object to the processing at any time without giving reasons.
2.4 Our legitimate interest in data processing is to enable fast communication with you and to process your enquiries cost-effectively. If you provide us with your address, we reserve the right to use it for direct marketing by post.
2.5 Storage period
Your data will be deleted as soon as it is clear that your enquiry or the matter in question has been conclusively clarified. However, if a contract is concluded, we will store the data required under commercial and tax law for the periods specified by law, usually for ten years (cf. Section 257 HGB, Section 147 AO).
3. Room booking
Based on a separate agreement on the processing of personal data, your data will be collected and processed on our behalf by DIRS21, TourOnline AG, Borsigstraße 26, 73249 Wernau, Germany, within the scope of order processing in accordance with Art. 28 GDPR and the relevant legal requirements when you make a room reservation. As a contract processor in the case of support measures, DIRS21 also has access to your data, but may only use it for the purpose of support measures and not for its own purposes. You can view DIRS21's privacy policy here: www.dirs21.de/datenschutz
4. Newsletter
We use your email address exclusively for our own advertising purposes to send you our newsletter, provided you have expressly consented to this, regardless of the contract processing. This processing is carried out in accordance with Art. 6 (1) lit. a GDPR on the basis of your consent. You can revoke this consent at any time without affecting the lawfulness of the processing based on your previous consent. You can unsubscribe from the newsletter at any time by clicking on the unsubscribe link in the newsletter itself or by contacting us. Your email address will then be removed from our distribution list.
Your data will be passed on to an email marketing service provider for order processing. It will not be passed on to other third parties.
5. Use of Google Analytics
This website uses Google Analytics, a web analytics service provided by Google Inc. (hereinafter: Google). Google Analytics uses cookies that are stored on your computer and enable analysis of your 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.
Since IP anonymisation is activated on this website, your IP address will be truncated by Google within member states of the European Union or in other states party to the Agreement on the European Economic Area. Only in exceptional cases will the full IP address be transmitted to a Google server in the USA and truncated there. Google will use this information to evaluate your use of the website, compile reports on website activity for the website operator and provide other services related to website and internet usage.
The IP address transmitted by your browser as part of Google Analytics will not be merged with other Google data. The purposes of data processing are to evaluate the use of the website and to compile reports on website activity.
Processing is based on the website operator's legitimate interest in analysing and optimising its website.
You can prevent the storage of cookies by adjusting your browser software settings accordingly; however, we would like to point out that in this case you may not be able to use all functions of this website to their full extent. You can also prevent Google from collecting the data generated by the cookie and relating to your use of the website (including your IP address) and from processing this data by downloading and installing the browser plug-in available under the following link: Link to the Google Analytics opt-out browser add-on.
In addition to or as an alternative to the browser add-on, you can prevent Google Analytics from tracking you on our pages by clicking on this link.
This will install an opt-out cookie on your device that will prevent Google Analytics from collecting your data on this website and for this browser in the future, as long as the cookie remains installed in your browser.
6. Use of Google Maps
On our website, we use the function for embedding Google Maps maps from Google Ireland Limited (Gordon House, Barrow Street, Dublin 4, Ireland, ‘Google’). This function enables the visual representation of geographical information and interactive maps. When visiting pages on which Google Maps is integrated, data from visitors to our website is collected, processed and used by Google.
Your data may also be transferred to the USA, for which there is no adequacy decision by the EU Commission. The data transfer is based, among other things, on standard contractual clauses as suitable guarantees for the protection of personal data, which can be viewed at the following link: policies.google.com/privacy/frameworks.
The use of cookies or similar technologies is based on your consent in accordance with Section 25 (1) sentence 1 TTDSG in conjunction with Article 6 (1) lit. a GDPR. You can revoke this consent at any time without affecting the lawfulness of the processing based on the consent prior to revocation.
Further information on the collection and use of your data by Google can be found in Google's privacy policy at: www.google.com/privacypolicy.html. In Google's privacy centre, you have the option of managing your settings and protecting your data processed by Google.
7. Social media platforms
We maintain a presence on the social media platforms Instagram (www.instagram.com/farmhouseno50), Facebook (https://www.facebook.com/farmhouseno50) and Pinterest (https://www.pinterest.de/farmhouseno50) to provide you with information and offers within these networks, to offer you further contact options and to inform you about our offers. Below, we would like to inform you about the data that we or the respective social networks process in connection with your visit to and use of our fan pages/accounts.
Data that we process about you:
If you wish to contact us via Messenger or direct message on social networks, we generally process your user name, which you use to contact us, as well as any other data you provide that is necessary to process and respond to your request.
The legal basis for this processing is Art. 6 (1) sentence 1 f) GDPR (processing is necessary to safeguard our legitimate interests).
(Static) usage data that we receive from social networks:
By using Insights functionalities, we automatically receive statistics about our accounts. These statistics include aggregated data such as the total number of page views, ‘likes’, page activity, interactions with posts, reach, video views and information on the gender ratio of our fans/followers.
The statistics do not contain any personal data and do not allow us to identify individual persons.
Data processed by social networks:
No membership in the respective social network or user account is required to view our fan pages/accounts. However, please note that social networks may collect and store technical data when you visit their websites in order to display the website, and may use cookies and similar technologies over which we have no control. Further details can be found in the privacy policies of the respective social networks.
However, in order to interact with our content, such as commenting, sharing or liking posts, or to use messenger functions to contact us, you must register with the respective social network and provide personal data.
8. Use of web fonts
On this website, we use external fonts from Google Fonts, a service provided by Google Inc. (‘Google’). These web fonts are integrated via a server call, usually from a Google server in the USA. This server call transmits to Google which of our web pages you have visited. Google also stores the IP address of the browser on the visitor's device. For more information, please refer to Google's privacy policy, which you can access via the following links:
Information about Google Fonts: www.google.com/fonts#AboutPlace
Google's privacy policy: www.google.com/policies/privacy
9. information about cookies
9.1 Processing purpose
Technically necessary cookies are used on this website. These small text files are stored by your internet browser on your computer system and enable basic functions of the website.
9.2 Legal basis
The legal basis for this processing is Art. 6 para. 1 f) GDPR.
9.3 Legitimate interest
Our legitimate interest lies in ensuring the functionality of our website. The user data collected by technically necessary cookies is not used to create user profiles, which protects your interest in data protection.
9.4 Storage duration
Technically necessary cookies are usually deleted when the browser is closed. Permanently stored cookies, on the other hand, can have a lifespan of a few minutes to several years.
9.5 Right to object
If you do not wish these cookies to be stored, you can deactivate their acceptance in your Internet browser. Please note, however, that this may restrict the functions of our website. You can also delete permanently stored cookies at any time via your browser.
You can find further information for the most common browsers here:
Microsoft Internet Explorer: Block or allow cookies
Apple Safari: Manage cookies in Safari
Google Chrome: Manage cookies in Chrome
Mozilla Firefox: Manage cookies in Firefox
Opera: Manage cookies in Opera
Please note that the non-acceptance or exclusion of certain cookies may limit the functionality of this website.
10. Your rights as a data subject
If we process your personal data, you are a data subject in accordance with the GDPR. You have the following rights vis-à-vis us as the controller:
(1) Right to information
In accordance with Article 15 of the GDPR, you have the right to obtain information about the personal data processed by us.
(2) Right to rectification
If the information concerning you is not (or no longer) accurate, you may request rectification in accordance with Article 16 of the GDPR. If your data is incomplete, you have the right to have it completed.
(3) Right to erasure
Under the conditions of Article 17 of the GDPR, you have the right to request the erasure of your personal data.
(4) Right to restriction of processing
In accordance with Article 18 of the GDPR, you have the right to request the restriction of the processing of your personal data under the conditions of this regulation.
(5) Right to data portability
In accordance with Article 20 of the GDPR, you have the right to receive the personal data concerning you, which you have provided to us, in a structured, commonly used and machine-readable format or to request its transmission to another controller.
(6) Right to withdraw consent under data protection law
In accordance with Article 7(3) of the GDPR, you can withdraw your consent under data protection law at any time. This does not affect the lawfulness of the processing of your data up to the time of withdrawal.
(7) Right to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority
If you believe that the processing of your personal data violates the GDPR, you have the right to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority in accordance with Article 77 GDPR. The competence lies in particular with the supervisory authority in the Member State of your habitual residence, place of work or place of the alleged infringement.
Please also note your right to object in accordance with Art. 21 GDPR:
(a) General: justified objection required
If your personal data is processed
for the purposes of our overriding legitimate interest (legal basis under Article 6(1)(f) GDPR) or
in the public interest (legal basis under Article 6(1)(e) GDPR), you have the right to object to the processing at any time on grounds relating to your particular situation. This also applies to profiling based on the provisions of the GDPR. In the event of an objection, we will no longer process your personal data unless we can demonstrate compelling legitimate grounds for the processing which override your interests, rights and freedoms, or the processing serves the establishment, exercise or defense of legal claims.
b) Special case of direct marketing: simple objection is sufficient If your personal data is processed for direct marketing purposes, you have the right to object to this processing at any time and without stating reasons. This also applies to profiling insofar as it is associated with such direct advertising. If you object to processing for direct marketing purposes, your personal data will no longer be used for these purposes.