Privacy policy
This is a courtesy translation. The German version is legally binding.
1. Controller
Horse Lake Ranch Event UG (haftungsbeschränkt)
Parkstraße 20, 18317 Saal OT Neuendorf, Germany
Phone: +49 173 373 0958
Email: ahlendorf@freenet.de
We have not appointed a data protection officer because we are not legally required to do so. Please send any data protection questions to the address above.
2. The essentials in brief
- No tracking: We use no analytics, advertising or social media services and create no user profiles.
- No third-party content: Fonts, images and all other parts of the website are hosted on our own server. Loading a page does not connect you to Google or any other provider.
- No consent banner needed: We only use technically necessary cookies (see section 5).
- Your enquiries are stored solely so that we can answer them (see section 6).
3. Hosting
The website runs on a server in Germany (data centre of the provider Prepaid-Hoster, Kurpromenade 48, 23743 Grömitz). Technical operation is carried out on our behalf; your data is only processed on our instructions (Art. 28 GDPR).
4. Visiting the website
When you visit our website, your browser necessarily transmits data to our server: IP address, date and time, the requested address, the previously visited page (referrer), and browser and operating system. This information is needed to deliver the page to your device and is used only for that purpose. We do not keep permanent access logs containing IP addresses. To protect against abusive mass submissions, the IP address is briefly counted in memory when a form is submitted and discarded after 15 minutes at the latest.
The legal basis is our legitimate interest in a secure and functioning website (Art. 6 (1) (f) GDPR). The connection is TLS-encrypted throughout (recognisable by “https://” and the padlock symbol in your browser).
5. Cookies and local storage
We only set cookies that are necessary for functions you request (§ 25 (2) no. 2 TDDDG):
- hlr-thema – remembers whether you chose the light or dark display. It is only set when you use the switch and is deleted after one year.
- Login cookie – only for our staff in the administration area; it is not set for website visitors.
We do not use cookies for analytics or advertising.
6. Booking enquiry, contact and party forms
When you write to us via a form, we store your details (name, email address, phone number if provided, travel dates, number of guests, preferred accommodation and your message) in our database in order to handle your enquiry and make you an offer. If you call or email us, we process your details for the same purpose.
The legal basis is taking steps prior to entering into a contract or performing a contract (Art. 6 (1) (b) GDPR), and for general enquiries our legitimate interest in answering them (Art. 6 (1) (f) GDPR). We delete enquiries once they have been dealt with and no booking has resulted, at the latest after one year. If a booking is made, we keep the data for as long as statutory retention obligations require (in particular under commercial and tax law, up to ten years).
We do not pass your details on to third parties unless this is necessary to process your booking or we are legally obliged to do so.
7. Links to other websites
On some pages we link to other providers, such as OpenStreetMap for directions. No map is embedded on our site; data is only transmitted to the respective provider when you click the link and visit its website. The provider's own privacy policy applies there.
8. Your rights
You have the right at any time to
- access the data we hold about you (Art. 15 GDPR),
- rectification of inaccurate data (Art. 16 GDPR),
- erasure (Art. 17 GDPR) and restriction of processing (Art. 18 GDPR),
- data portability (Art. 20 GDPR),
- object to processing based on our legitimate interest (Art. 21 GDPR).
A short message to the address above is all it takes. You can also lodge a complaint with a data protection supervisory authority, for example the authority responsible for us:
Der Landesbeauftragte für Datenschutz und Informationsfreiheit Mecklenburg-Vorpommern
Werderstraße 74a, 19055 Schwerin, Germany
www.datenschutz-mv.de
9. Obligation to provide data
You are under no legal or contractual obligation to provide us with data. Without your name, email address and travel dates, however, we cannot answer a booking enquiry. No automated decision-making, including profiling, takes place.
Last updated: November 2026