['This Privacy Policy describes how Via Road Travel Guide, operating via-road.info (referred to as "our site," "this service," or "our online platform"), collects, uses, and discloses information from and about you when you visit and use our online platform. Via Road Travel Guide is a tourism information blog located in Switzerland, specializing in Switzerland autobahn information, detailing roads, tunnels, navigation tips, vignette requirements, travel warnings, and essential travel advice.\n\n**1. Information We Collect**\n\nWhen you access and use our site, we may collect certain information automatically. We do not generally collect personally identifiable information directly from you unless you voluntarily provide it through specific interactions (e.g., a contact form, though none is explicitly provided on this informational blog).\n\n* **Usage Data:** We automatically collect information about how you interact with our site. This may include your IP address (which may be anonymized), browser type, operating system, referring URLs, pages viewed, time spent on pages, and the dates and times of your visits. This data helps us understand how users navigate our site and allows us to improve our content and services.\n* **Cookies and Tracking Technologies:** Our site uses cookies and similar tracking technologies to enhance your experience. Cookies are small data files placed on your device. We use them for purposes such as:\n * **Essential functionality:** Ensuring the site operates correctly.\n * **Analytics:** Understanding traffic patterns and user behavior to improve our content and presentation.\n * You can set your browser to refuse all or some browser cookies, or to alert you when cookies are being sent. However, if you disable or refuse cookies, some parts of our site may become inaccessible or not function properly.\n\n**2. How We Use Your Information**\n\nWe use the information we collect for the following purposes:\n\n* To operate, maintain, and provide the features and functionality of our site.\n* To understand and analyze how you use our site and to improve its content, layout, and overall user experience.\n* To ensure the security of our site and to detect and prevent fraudulent or unauthorized activity.\n* To comply with our legal obligations.\n\n**3. Legal Basis for Processing (GDPR)**\n\nOur legal basis for collecting and using the personal information described in this Privacy Policy depends on the information we collect and the specific context in which we collect it:\n\n* **Legitimate Interests:** We process your usage data and cookie data based on our legitimate interests in operating and improving our site, ensuring its security, and analyzing its performance, provided that these interests do not override your data protection rights.\n* **Consent:** Where required by law, we may rely on your consent for placing non-essential cookies on your device. You have the right to withdraw your consent at any time.\n* **Compliance with a legal obligation:** We may process your information when we have a legal obligation to do so.\n\n**4. Sharing and Disclosure of Information**\n\nWe do not sell or rent your personal information to third parties. We may share or disclose your information in the following limited circumstances:\n\n* **Service Providers:** We may engage third-party companies and individuals to facilitate our service, provide service-related services, or assist us in analyzing how our site is used. These third parties have access to your personal information only to perform these tasks on our behalf and are obligated not to disclose or use it for any other purpose. Examples include hosting providers and analytics services.\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 or government agency).\n* **Business Transfers:** In the event of a merger, acquisition, or asset sale, your personal information may be transferred. We will provide notice before your personal information is transferred and becomes subject to a different Privacy Policy.\n\n**5. International Data Transfers**\n\nAs Via Road Travel Guide operates from Switzerland, and our service providers may be located in various countries, your information 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 in your jurisdiction.\nWhen transferring data outside of Switzerland or the European Economic Area, we implement appropriate safeguards such as Standard Contractual Clauses (SCCs) approved by the European Commission or rely on adequacy decisions where applicable, to ensure your data is protected to the same standards as if it were processed within Switzerland or the EEA.\n\n**6. Data Security**\n\nWe are committed to protecting the security of your information. We implement appropriate technical and organizational measures to protect personal data from unauthorized access, alteration, disclosure, or destruction. However, no method of transmission over the Internet or method of electronic storage is 100% secure.\n\n**7. Data Retention**\n\nWe retain your personal information only for as long as is necessary for the purposes set out in this Privacy Policy, unless a longer retention period is required or permitted by law (such as tax, accounting, or other legal requirements). When we no longer have a legitimate business need to process your personal information, we will either delete or anonymize it.\n\n**8. Your Data Protection Rights**\n\nUnder GDPR and Swiss data protection law, you have certain rights concerning your personal data. These rights may include:\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 withdraw consent:** Where our processing is based on your consent, you have the right to withdraw that consent at any time. This will not affect the lawfulness of any processing carried out before you withdraw your consent.\n* **The right to lodge a complaint:** You 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 occurred. In Switzerland, this is the Federal Data Protection and Information Commissioner (FDPIC).\n\nTo exercise any of these rights, please contact us using the contact details provided below. We will respond to your request in accordance with applicable data protection laws.\n\n**9. Children\'s Privacy**\n\nOur site is not directed at children under the age of 16. 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 child has provided us with personal information, please contact us. If we become aware that we have collected personal information from children without verification of parental consent, we take steps to remove that information from our servers.\n\n**10. 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**11. Contact Us**\n\nFor any questions regarding this Privacy Policy or our data practices, or to exercise your data protection rights, you may contact us by postal mail at our registered address in Switzerland.', 0.00106515, 'gemini-2.5-flash-preview-05-20']