Privacy

In short: this website sets no cookies and uses no third-party tracking. Fonts, images, videos and scripts are served from our own host, apart from the network's own visitor count and the contact form of our own form service formdialog.com, both described below. The tools calculate in your browser.

Visitor count

An exception to what this page otherwise says about outside services: every page loads a small counting script from a.teaser.md, the network's own statistics server. It is hosted in a data centre in Frankfurt am Main, Germany, and the data is not passed on to third parties.

The script sets no cookies and stores nothing in your browser. It records the page viewed, the page the visit came from, screen width and language, the broad device type, browser and operating system, and clicks on downloads and on links to other websites. Your IP address is used only briefly to determine country and city and to form a daily hash, then discarded and never stored. The hash changes every day, so a visitor cannot be recognised from one day to the next. Raw data is deleted after twelve months. If your browser sends “Do Not Track”, the visit is not counted.

The legal basis is our legitimate interest in measuring the reach of these pages with as little data as possible (Art. 6 (1) (f) GDPR).

Advertising

Through the counting script, every page also loads the advertising script ad.member.show/axaix.js. On the network’s magazines it shows labelled ads from members of the member.show network, and banner.member.show serves the banner images. Both addresses belong to the network itself and are hosted by the provider Hostinger. No data is passed on to advertisers or any other third parties.

The advertising script sets no cookies, stores nothing in your browser and builds no user profiles. Which ad appears depends only on the page viewed and its language. Impressions and clicks are counted solely as totals per ad, page and day, and your IP address is not stored for this. A click on an ad passes briefly through ad.member.show and then on to the advertiser.

The legal basis is our legitimate interest in funding the magazines through advertising and showing advertisers the reach of their ads (Art. 6 (1) (f) GDPR).

Controller

NexTao GmbH, Königsallee 27, 40212 Düsseldorf, Germany, email info@nextao.de. Further details in the legal notice.

Hosting and server logs

When you visit, our hosting provider Hostinger International Ltd. (Cyprus) processes technically necessary data: IP address, date and time, requested address, referrer, browser and operating system. This keeps the site secure and working; the legal basis is Art. 6 (1) (f) GDPR. The data is not combined with other sources and is deleted automatically after a short period. A data processing agreement is in place with the provider.

Your island list in your browser

If you save places, beaches or guides with the heart, the list is stored in the local storage of your browser so that it is still there on your next visit. It never leaves your device unless you send it yourself. You can delete it at any time in the list or by clearing your browser data. Storing it is necessary for the function you request (§ 25 (2) no. 2 TDDDG).

Contact form

The contact form on the contact page comes from formdialog.com, the form service of NexTao GmbH. It runs on its own server at Hostinger in Frankfurt am Main, sets no cookies and loads nothing from third parties. With the form it learns on which page of this website it is shown.

When you write to us through the contact form, we process the details you enter (name, email address, subject, message) to answer your request (Art. 6 (1) (b) GDPR). The message is delivered to our editorial mailbox by email, stored in the form service and deleted once it is no longer needed. To fend off abuse we keep the IP address of every submission for 14 days (Art. 6 (1) (f) GDPR). We do not pass data on to third parties.

Plans, WhatsApp and email

Plans are assembled in your browser and are not transmitted by this website. Only when you choose to send them does your WhatsApp app or email programme open with the text. If you write to us by WhatsApp or email, we process your details to answer your request (Art. 6 (1) (b) and (f) GDPR) and delete them when they are no longer needed, unless retention periods apply. For WhatsApp, the privacy notice of WhatsApp Ireland Ltd. also applies.

Your rights

You have the right to information, rectification, erasure, restriction of processing, data portability and objection, and the right to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority, for example the data protection authority of North Rhine-Westphalia (LDI NRW).

Last updated: 28 October 2026.