['Privacy Policy for Via Access Travel Tips\n\nThis Privacy Policy describes how Via Access Travel Tips ("our site", "this service", "our online platform"), located at via-access.info, collects, uses, and discloses information about you when you visit our website. Our site is a tourism blog offering comprehensive, up-to-date travel insights and tips, primarily focusing on Switzerland’s autobahn system, including details on vignettes, road conditions, navigational advice, and practical tips for driving in Switzerland.\n\n**1. Information We Collect**\n\nWe collect information to provide and improve our service to you.\n\n* **Information You Provide to Us:**\n While interacting with our site, you may voluntarily provide certain information. For example, if you leave comments on blog posts, subscribe to a newsletter (if offered), or submit inquiries, we may collect your name, email address, and the content of your message.\n* **Information Collected Automatically:**\n When you visit via-access.info, we automatically collect certain information about your device and how you interact with our site. This may include your IP address, browser type, operating system, referring URLs, pages viewed, the time spent on pages, and other usage data. This information helps us understand how visitors use our site and identify areas for improvement. We use cookies and similar tracking technologies to collect this information.\n\n**2. How We Use Your Information**\n\nWe use the information we collect for various purposes, including:\n\n* **To Provide and Maintain Our Service:** To deliver the content and features of our blog, such as articles, guides, and updates on Swiss road conditions and vignette information.\n* **To Improve Our Service:** To understand how our users engage with our content, identify popular topics, and enhance the overall user experience and functionality of our site.\n* **To Personalize Your Experience:** To remember your preferences and customize your interaction with our site (though we generally provide information applicable to all users, personalization is limited on a blog).\n* **For Security and Fraud Prevention:** To protect our site and users from fraudulent activity, unauthorized access, and other security threats.\n* **To Communicate with You:** If you have provided contact information (e.g., for comments), we may use it to respond to your inquiries or provide updates.\n* **For Legal Compliance:** To comply with applicable laws, regulations, legal processes, or governmental requests.\n\n**3. Legal Basis for Processing Your Information (GDPR)**\n\nFor individuals in the European Economic Area (EEA), we process your personal data based on the following legal grounds:\n\n* **Your Consent:** Where you have given explicit consent for specific processing activities, such as for certain types of cookies or newsletter subscriptions. You have the right to withdraw your consent at any time.\n* **Legitimate Interests:** Where processing is necessary for our legitimate interests, provided these interests do not override your fundamental rights and freedoms. This includes improving our service, ensuring the security of our site, and understanding user engagement.\n* **Compliance with Legal Obligations:** Where processing is necessary to comply with a legal obligation to which we are subject.\n\n**4. Sharing Your Information**\n\nWe do not sell, rent, or trade your personal information. We may share your information in the following circumstances:\n\n* **Service Providers:** We may share information with third-party service providers who perform services on our behalf, such as website hosting, analytics, or security services. These providers are obligated to protect your information and use it only for the purposes for which it was disclosed.\n* **Legal Requirements:** We may disclose your information if required to do so by law or in response to valid requests by public authorities (e.g., a court order or government agency).\n* **Business Transfers:** In the event of a merger, acquisition, or asset sale, your information may be transferred as part of the transaction. We will notify you via a prominent notice on our site of any such change in ownership or control of your personal information.\n\n**5. Cookies and Tracking Technologies**\n\nOur site uses "cookies" and similar tracking technologies to enhance your experience. Cookies are small data files placed on your device.\n\n* **Types of Cookies We Use:**\n * **Strictly Necessary Cookies:** Essential for the operation of our website, enabling core functionalities like page navigation.\n * **Analytics/Performance Cookies:** These cookies help us understand how visitors interact with our site by collecting information anonymously. For example, we use Google Analytics to track website traffic and user behavior, allowing us to improve our content and layout.\n* **Your Choices Regarding Cookies:**\n You can typically set your browser to refuse all or some browser cookies, or to alert you when cookies are being sent. Please note that if you disable or refuse cookies, some parts of our site may become inaccessible or not function properly.\n\n**6. Data Retention**\n\nWe retain your personal information only for as long as necessary to fulfill the purposes for which it was collected, including for the purposes of satisfying any legal, accounting, or reporting requirements. For example, comments on blog posts may be retained indefinitely unless you request their removal. Anonymous usage data may be retained for longer periods for analytical purposes.\n\n**7. Your Data Protection Rights (GDPR)**\n\nIf you are a resident of the European Economic Area (EEA), you have certain data protection rights:\n\n* **Right to Access:** You have the right to request copies of your personal data we hold.\n* **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* **Right to Erasure ("Right to Be Forgotten"):** You have the right to request that we erase your personal data, under certain conditions.\n* **Right to Restrict Processing:** You have the right to request that we restrict the processing of your personal data, under certain conditions.\n* **Right to Object to Processing:** You have the right to object to our processing of your personal data, under certain conditions.\n* **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* **Right to Withdraw Consent:** Where we rely on your consent to process your personal data, you have the right to withdraw that consent at any time.\n* **Right to Lodge a Complaint:** You also have the right to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority, particularly in the member state of your habitual residence, place of work, or where an alleged infringement of data protection law has occurred.\n\nTo exercise any of these rights, please contact us using the details provided below.\n\n**8. International Data Transfers**\n\nAs Via Access Travel Tips is based in Switzerland, and our services are accessible globally, your information may be stored and processed in Switzerland or other countries where our service providers are located. Switzerland is recognized by the European Commission as providing an adequate level of data protection. We ensure that any international transfers of personal data comply with applicable data protection laws, using appropriate safeguards where necessary.\n\n**9. Third-Party Links**\n\nOur site may contain links to other websites 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**10. Children\'s Privacy**\n\nOur service does not address anyone under the age of 16 ("Children"). We 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**11. 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**12. Contact Us**\n\nIf you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, your data protection rights, or our data practices, please contact Via Access Travel Tips.\n\nYou can reach us by phone at: +41 44 8602961', 0.00116835, 'gemini-2.5-flash-preview-05-20']