Data Protection

Data Privacy Statement
We are pleased that you have visited our homepage and thank you for your interest in our company. Interacting with our customers and our potential customers is a matter of trust. We place great value on the trust placed in us and with this the importance and responsibility of carefully handling your personal data and protecting these from misuse.

So that you feel safe while visiting our Internet site, we take the protection of your personal data and their confidentiality very seriously. For this reason we act in accordance to the statutory provisions for the protection of personal data and for data security.

With the following information about data protection we would like to inform you about when we save your personal data and how we use them – naturally in accordance to the current applicable German law. Data protection at the Madison Hotel GmbH is at the level of the European data protection and is especially based on the current German Data Protection Act (BDSG). When using the Internet we rely on the German Tele Services Data Protection Act (TDDSG) and to the German Teleservices Act (TDG) to protect your personal data. The Madison Hotel GmbH makes every effort to not only do justice to the legal data protection legislation, but to in addition take into consideration the voluntary self-monitoring in the area of data protection recommended by accredited advisory commissions.

Collecting and Processing of Personal Data
You are fundamentally welcome to visit our Internet site, without informing us who you are. Our web-server automatically saves general data. This includes the type of web browser and operating system you use, the domain of your Internet service provider, the Internet site from which you came, the Internet pages you visit on our site as well as the date and length of your session. This is exclusively information that does not allow any conclusions to be drawn about your person. We analyze this data only anonymously and for statistical purposes.

On our internet site information is collected and saved anonymously for marketing and optimizing purposes using the Google Inc. (www.google.com/analytics/de-DE/) web technology Through the process of pseudonymization user profiles are created from this data. Cookies are sometimes used, which however only collect and store data in pseudonymic form. The data are not used to personally identify the visitor of our Internet site and are not connected to the person behind the pseudonym. The collection and storage of data for future use can be opposed to at any time.

Personal data are master data, i.e. your name, address, bank details, ID or telephone number, your Email address or IP-number. We only collect, process or use your personal data, incidentally, when you voluntarily provide us with such and it, in addition, is legally allowed and we have your consent. This normally happens when we enter into business relations with you or you make an enquiry to us.

Usage and Disclosure of Collected Data
We use the personal data you have made available to us solely for the communicated and agreed upon purposes and normally to also fulfill the services agreed to and/ or to answer your enquiry.

When you make use of one of our services, we normally only collect the data necessary to provide our service. In the event we ask you for further personal data, this is then voluntary on your part. The processing of personal data is only used to fulfill the requested service and for the purpose of protecting our own legitimate commercial interests.

Disclosure of Data to Third Parties
The processing and usage of your data for purposes of consultation, advertising and market research only take place with your explicit consent. Your data will not be sold, leased or provided to third parties in any other way. Forwarding your personal data to government institutions and public authorities only takes place within the framework of mandatory national statutory provisions.

The Usage of Cookies
In certain areas of our pages so-called “cookies” are employed. A cookie is a small text file that our Internet site stores on your hard drive. Cookies do not do any harm to your computer and do not contain viruses. The cookies of our Internet pages do not collect any type of personal data. The information collected by our cookies is only used to facilitate the easy navigation of our pages and to better adapt them to your needs.

Naturally, you can also view our Internet site without cookies. In the case that you do not want cookies to be saved on your hard drive, you can deactivate the corresponding option in the configuration of your browser. Cookies, which have been stored on your hard drive, can be deleted at any time in the configuration of your browser. If you do not accept any cookies, this can lead to functional limitations of our offers.

Security
The Madison Hotel GmbH takes technical and organizational safety measures according to § 9 of the German Data Protection Act (BDSG) to protect the data we administer from accidental or deliberate manipulation, loss, corruption or from access by unauthorized persons. In keeping with technological progress our safety measures are continually improved. The Madison Hotel GmbH stores data protection sensitive information only on secure systems within Germany. Access is, therefore, only granted to a few authorized persons and to those who technically, administratively or editorially manage the data and who are especially committed to data protection.

Protection of Minors
Children and adolescents who are restricted in their legal competency are categorically not allowed to transfer data without the permission of their parents or custodian. The Madison Hotel GmbH will under no circumstances knowingly collect or in any way use data acquired from children or adolescents who are restricted in their legal competency or disclose such data to third parties without authorization.

Declaration of User Consent
In using our Internet site and the offers to be found there, you herewith give your consent that we are allowed to store, process and use the data you personally and voluntarily transfer to us in accordance to this Data Privacy Statement.

Access Right to Personal Data / Public Procedural Directory
According to § 34 and § 6b of the German Data Protection Act (BDSG) you have the unlimited right to free information about the data we have stored about your person as well as the right to have incorrect data deleted or frozen or to have incorrect data corrected. Upon request we will gladly, also in written form, provide you with the data we have stored about your person. Whenever possible we take qualified measures to up-date and correct the personal data we have stored about your person at short notice. In such cases please contact our Data Protection Officer directly.

The German Data Protection Act (BDSG) requires that data protection sensitive information be made available to everyone in a suitable form. The Madison Hotel GmbH has made the respective data available for viewing in its Public Procedural Directory.

Further questions?
Should you have problems or questions, please contact our Data Protection Officer, who would be pleased to be of assistance.

Madison Hotel GmbH 
Data Protection Officer
Schaarsteinweg 4
 D-20459 Hamburg
 Germany 

Telephone: +49 40 37666-777 