['**Privacy Policy for Ostooly Travel Chronicles**\n\nThis Privacy Policy describes how Ostooly Travel Chronicles ("our site," "this service," "our online platform"), a travel guide blog operating from Austria, collects, uses, and discloses information when you visit or make use of ostooly.info.\n\n**1. Who We Are**\nOstooly Travel Chronicles, operating at ostooly.info, is a travel guide blog providing comprehensive and updated travel insights. We are committed to protecting your privacy and handling your data in an open and transparent manner, in accordance with the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and other applicable data protection laws.\n\n**2. Information We Collect**\nWe collect various types of information for different purposes to provide and improve our service to you.\n\n* **Personal Data:** While using our service, we may ask you to provide us with certain personally identifiable information that can be used to contact or identify you. This may include, but is not limited to:\n * Email address (e.g., when you subscribe to a newsletter or leave a comment)\n * Name (e.g., when you leave a comment)\n * Any other information you choose to provide when interacting with our online platform.\n* **Usage Data:** We may also collect information about how the service is accessed and used. This Usage Data may include information such as your computer\'s Internet Protocol (IP) address, browser type, browser version, the pages of our site that you visit, the time and date of your visit, the time spent on those pages, unique device identifiers, and other diagnostic data.\n* **Cookies and Tracking Technologies:** We use cookies and similar tracking technologies to track the activity on our site and hold certain information. Cookies are files with a small amount of data which may include an anonymous unique identifier. You can instruct your browser to refuse all cookies or to indicate when a cookie is being sent. However, if you do not accept cookies, you may not be able to use some portions of our service.\n\n**3. How We Collect Your Information**\nWe collect information directly from you when you provide it to us, for example, by submitting comments or subscribing to updates. We also collect information automatically as you navigate through the site using automated technologies such as cookies, for analytics and to enhance your user experience.\n\n**4. How We Use Your Information**\nOstooly Travel Chronicles uses the collected data for various purposes:\n* To provide and maintain our online platform.\n* To notify you about changes to our service.\n* To allow you to participate in interactive features of our service when you choose to do so.\n* To provide customer support.\n* To gather analysis or valuable information so that we can improve our service.\n* To monitor the usage of our service.\n* To detect, prevent, and address technical issues.\n* To deliver relevant content and advertising.\n\n**5. Legal Basis for Processing Your Personal Data Under GDPR**\nOur legal basis for collecting and using the personal data described in this Privacy Policy depends on the Personal Data we collect and the specific context in which we collect it.\nWe may process your Personal Data because:\n* You have given us permission to do so (consent).\n* The processing is in our legitimate interests and it is not overridden by your rights (e.g., improving our services, security, analytics).\n* To comply with the law.\n\n**6. Retention of Data**\nWe will retain your Personal Data only for as long as is necessary for the purposes set out in this Privacy Policy. We will retain and use your Personal Data to the extent necessary to comply with our legal obligations (for example, if we are required to retain your data to comply with applicable laws), resolve disputes, and enforce our legal agreements and policies.\nWe will also retain Usage Data for internal analysis purposes. Usage Data is generally retained for a shorter period, except when this data is used to strengthen the security or to improve the functionality of our service, or we are legally obligated to retain this data for longer periods.\n\n**7. Disclosure of Data**\nWe may disclose your Personal Data in the good faith belief that such action is necessary to:\n* Comply with a legal obligation.\n* Protect and defend the rights or property of Ostooly Travel Chronicles.\n* Prevent or investigate possible wrongdoing in connection with the service.\n* Protect the personal safety of users of the service or the public.\n* Protect against legal liability.\nWe may also share your information with third-party service providers (e.g., hosting providers, analytics services) that perform services on our behalf, but only to the extent necessary for them to provide those services.\n\n**8. Transfer of Data**\nYour information, including Personal Data, may be transferred to and maintained on computers located outside of your state, province, country, or other governmental jurisdiction where the data protection laws may differ from those of your jurisdiction.\nIf you are located outside Austria and choose to provide information to us, please note that we transfer the data, including Personal Data, to Austria and process it there.\nYour consent to this Privacy Policy followed by your submission of such information represents your agreement to that transfer.\nWe will take all steps reasonably necessary to ensure that your data is treated securely and in accordance with this Privacy Policy and no transfer of your Personal Data will take place to an organization or a country unless there are adequate controls in place including the security of your data and other personal information.\n\n**9. Your Data Protection Rights Under GDPR**\nIf you are a resident of the European Economic Area (EEA), you have certain data protection rights. Ostooly Travel Chronicles aims to take reasonable steps to allow you to correct, amend, delete, or limit the use of your Personal Data.\nIf you wish to be informed what Personal Data we hold about you and if you want it to be removed from our systems, please contact us.\nIn certain circumstances, you have the following data protection rights:\n* **The right to access:** You have the right to request copies of your personal data.\n* **The right to rectification:** You have the right to request that we correct any information you believe is inaccurate or complete information you believe is incomplete.\n* **The right to erasure ("right to be forgotten"):** You have the right to request that we erase your personal data, under certain conditions.\n* **The right to restrict processing:** You have the right to request that we restrict the processing of your personal data, under certain conditions.\n* **The right to object to processing:** You have the right to object to our processing of your personal data, under certain conditions.\n* **The right to data portability:** You have the right to request that we transfer the data that we have collected to another organization, or directly to you, under certain conditions.\n* **The right to withdraw consent:** You also have the right to withdraw your consent at any time where Ostooly Travel Chronicles relied on your consent to process your personal information.\nYou also have the right to complain to a Data Protection Authority about our collection and use of your Personal Data. For more information, please contact your local data protection authority in the European Economic Area (EEA). In Austria, this is the Austrian Data Protection Authority (Österreichische Datenschutzbehörde).\n\n**10. Security of Data**\nThe security of your data is important to us, but remember that no method of transmission over the Internet or method of electronic storage is 100% secure. While we strive to use commercially acceptable means to protect your Personal Data, we cannot guarantee its absolute security.\n\n**11. Children\'s Privacy**\nOur service does not address anyone under the age of 16 ("Children").\nWe do not knowingly collect personally identifiable information from anyone under the age of 16. If you are a parent or guardian and you are aware that your Children have provided us with Personal Data, please contact us. If we become aware that we have collected Personal Data from children without verification of parental consent, we take steps to remove that information from our servers.\n\n**12. Links to Other Websites**\nOur service may contain links to other sites that are not operated by us. If you click on a third-party link, you will be directed to that third party\'s site. We strongly advise you to review the Privacy Policy of every site you visit.\nWe have no control over and assume no responsibility for the content, privacy policies, or practices of any third-party sites or services.\n\n**13. Changes to This Privacy Policy**\nWe may update our Privacy Policy from time to time. We will notify you of any changes by posting the new Privacy Policy on this page.\nYou are advised to review this Privacy Policy periodically for any changes. Changes to this Privacy Policy are effective when they are posted on this page.\n\n**14. Contact Us**\nFor any questions or concerns regarding this Privacy Policy, please contact us through the dedicated contact options available on our site.', 0.00121665, 'gemini-2.5-flash-preview-05-20']