This site sets no cookies, uses no analytics or advertising, and has no forms or user accounts. You can read every page without giving us any personal data. This notice explains the few ways in which data about your visit is still processed.
Who is responsible
The controller under Article 4(7) of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) is Berlinexperiences DMC UG (haftungsbeschränkt), Gotlandstraße 10a, 10439 Berlin, Germany, represented by its managing director, Matthew Robinson. Email: info@berlinexperiences.com. Further details are in the imprint.
Hosting and server log files
The site is hosted by Vercel Inc., a US company. When you open a page, your browser sends the server technical information that it needs to deliver the page, and the server records it in log files: your IP address, the date and time, the page or file requested, the referring page, the amount of data sent, the status of the request, and your browser's user-agent string. We use this information only to deliver the site and to keep it secure and stable. We do not combine it with other data or use it to identify visitors. The legal basis is our legitimate interest in running a secure website (Article 6(1)(f) GDPR).
Vercel processes this data on our behalf, and it may be processed in the USA; Vercel is certified under the EU-U.S. Data Privacy Framework and also uses the European Commission's standard contractual clauses. See Vercel's privacy policy. Log files are kept only as long as these purposes require.
Images from Wikimedia Commons
The photographs, paintings, maps and flags on this site are published under free licences on Wikimedia Commons, and your browser loads them from the Wikimedia servers at upload.wikimedia.org. To deliver them, the Wikimedia Foundation, Inc., which is based in the USA, receives your IP address, your browser's user-agent string and the address of this site, and the data may be processed in the USA. We use these images so that the history on this site can be shown with the pictures it is about; the legal basis is that legitimate interest (Article 6(1)(f) GDPR). See the Wikimedia Foundation's privacy policy. The author and licence of every image are listed at the foot of the page it appears on.
The atlas map
The map on the atlas page, and only there, is drawn from map tiles that your browser loads from the OpenStreetMap Foundation (tile.openstreetmap.org), which is based in the United Kingdom. To deliver the tiles it receives your IP address, your browser's user-agent string and the address of this site. The legal basis is our legitimate interest in showing the places described in the guides on a map (Article 6(1)(f) GDPR). See the OpenStreetMap Foundation's privacy policy.
Fonts and scripts
Fonts and the scripts that draw the globe and the atlas are served from this site, not loaded from Google or any other third party.
Settings stored in your browser
The site stores two small items in your browser's local storage: whether you chose the light or the dark theme, and which chapters you have read, so that your reading progress can be shown. They stay on your device, are never sent to us or to anyone else, and can be removed at any time in your browser's settings. They are strictly necessary for features you use, so no consent is needed (§ 25(2) no. 2 TDDDG).
If you write to us, for example to report an error, we use your email address and what you write only to answer you and to correct the site, and we delete the correspondence when it is no longer needed for that. The legal basis is our legitimate interest in answering enquiries and keeping the site accurate (Article 6(1)(f) GDPR).
Links to other websites
Links to other websites send data to those sites only when you click them; their own privacy policies then apply.
Your rights
You have the right to access the personal data we hold about you, and to have it corrected, erased or restricted, to data portability, and to object to processing based on legitimate interests (Articles 15 to 21 GDPR). Write to info@berlinexperiences.com. You also have the right to lodge a complaint with a data protection supervisory authority; the authority responsible for us is the Berlin Commissioner for Data Protection and Freedom of Information (datenschutz-berlin.de).
Last updated 23 October 2026.