['**Privacy Policy for roadsat.info**\n\nThis Privacy Policy describes how RoadsAt Austria Travel Tips ("we", "our", or "us") collects, uses, and processes information in connection with your use of our online platform, roadsat.info (referred to as "our site" or "this service"). RoadsAt Austria Travel Tips is a blog service based in Austria, dedicated to providing current information about Austrian motorway and tunnel connections, traffic situations, and comprehensive travel advice for drivers. Our content includes detailed information on road and tunnel availability, emphasizing the requirement of a vignette for most roads and the potential for additional fees if traveling without one. We also address common questions like the cost and acquisition of the Austrian vignette, additional toll roads, and provide important travel tips regarding seasonal weather, construction-related traffic obstructions, and local traffic rules.\n\n**1. Information We Collect**\n\nWhen you visit or use our site, we may collect certain information. This information primarily helps us understand how our site is used, improve user experience, and ensure the security and functionality of our service.\n\n* **Log Data:** Like most website operators, we collect information that your browser sends whenever you visit our site ("Log Data"). This Log Data may include 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, and other statistics.\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. Cookies are sent to your browser from a website and stored on your device. We use them for analytical purposes to understand site usage patterns, improve functionality, and deliver relevant content. 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 site.\n\nWe do not generally collect directly identifiable personal information such as names, email addresses, or phone numbers unless you voluntarily provide it through specific functionalities that may be introduced in the future (e.g., comment sections, contact forms). As of now, our blog service does not offer such direct interaction mechanisms.\n\n**2. How We Use Your Information**\n\nThe information we collect is used for various purposes:\n\n* To provide and maintain our service, including monitoring the usage of our service.\n* To improve and optimize our site\'s content and functionality.\n* To detect, prevent, and address technical issues.\n* To analyze trends and gather demographic information for aggregate use.\n* To understand traffic sources and user behavior on our online platform.\n\n**3. Legal Basis for Processing (GDPR)**\n\nWe process your data based on the following legal grounds:\n\n* **Legitimate Interests:** We process non-personally identifiable usage data and aggregated statistics based on our legitimate interest in understanding how our site is used, improving our service, and ensuring its security. This processing does not override your fundamental rights and freedoms.\n* **Consent:** Where required by law (e.g., for certain types of cookies or specific processing activities), we will obtain your explicit consent. You have the right to withdraw your consent at any time.\n\n**4. Sharing Your Information**\n\nWe do not sell, trade, or otherwise transfer your personally identifiable information to outside parties. However, we may share aggregated or anonymized data that does not identify you personally for various purposes, including for analytics, research, or to improve our service.\n\nWe may employ third-party companies and individuals to facilitate our service, to provide the service on our behalf, or to assist us in analyzing how our service is used. These third parties may have access to your usage data only to perform these tasks on our behalf and are obligated not to disclose or use it for any other purpose. Examples include web analytics providers (e.g., Google Analytics).\n\n**5. Data Retention**\n\nWe retain collected data for as long as necessary to fulfill the purposes outlined in this Privacy Policy, unless a longer retention period is required or permitted by law. Log data and aggregated analytics data are typically retained for a period necessary for analysis and improvement, usually not exceeding 26 months, but this can vary depending on the specific analytics service used.\n\n**6. Your Data Protection Rights (GDPR)**\n\nAs a user located in the European Economic Area (EEA), you have certain data protection rights. RoadsAt Austria Travel Tips aims to take reasonable steps to allow you to correct, amend, delete, or limit the use of your Personal Data.\n\nYour principal rights under data protection law are:\n\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 complain to a supervisory authority:** You have the right to complain to a data protection supervisory authority regarding our processing of your personal data.\n\nTo exercise any of these rights, please contact us using the information provided in the "Contact Us" section below.\n\n**7. Cookies and Tracking Technologies**\n\nAs mentioned, we use cookies to track activity and improve the functionality of our site.\n\n* **Strictly Necessary Cookies:** These cookies are essential for our site to function properly and cannot be switched off in our systems. They are usually only set in response to actions made by you which amount to a request for services, such as setting your privacy preferences or similar interactions.\n* **Performance Cookies:** These cookies allow us to count visits and traffic sources so we can measure and improve the performance of our site. They help us to know which pages are the most and least popular and see how visitors move around the site. All information these cookies collect is aggregated and therefore anonymous.\n* **Functionality Cookies:** These cookies enable the website to provide enhanced functionality and personalization. They may be set by us or by third-party providers whose services we have added to our pages.\n* **Targeting Cookies:** Our site currently does not use targeting cookies for personalized advertising.\n\nYou can manage your cookie preferences through your browser settings. Most browsers allow you to block or delete cookies.\n\n**8. Links to Other Websites**\n\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. We have no control over and assume no responsibility for the content, privacy policies, or practices of any third-party sites or services.\n\n**9. Changes to This Privacy Policy**\n\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. We encourage you 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**10. Contact Us**\n\nIf you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, your rights, or wish to make a request concerning your personal data, please contact us.\n\nRoadsAt Austria Travel Tips is based in Austria. For postal inquiries, please address correspondence to our registered business address in Austria. Due to the nature of our online service, we kindly ask for an initial inquiry to obtain our full physical address for legitimate purposes.', 0.0011044499999999999, 'gemini-2.5-flash-preview-05-20']