Rest Areas Europe

Privacy Policy

Last updated: 27 September 2026

1. Who we are

Rest Areas Europe ("we", "us") is the controller of personal data processed on this website. Contact: [email protected].

2. What we collect and why

  • Messages you send us (email address, name, message) to answer your enquiry or correction. Legal basis: our legitimate interest in responding (Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR).
  • Server logs kept by our hosting provider (IP address, time, requested page, browser) for security and to keep the site running, deleted after a short period. Legal basis: legitimate interest.
  • Your location, only if you press "Rest areas near me" and allow it in your browser. It is used in your browser to sort nearby stops and is never sent to us.

3. Cookies and advertising

The site is paid for by ads from Google AdSense. When you first visit from the EEA, the UK or Switzerland, a consent message from Google – a consent management platform certified under the IAB Transparency and Consent Framework – lets you accept or refuse cookies and personalised ads, or choose purposes one by one. You can change your choice at any time with the “Privacy and cookie settings” link at the foot of every page.

  • Third-party vendors, including Google, use cookies to serve ads based on your previous visits to this website or other websites.
  • Google’s use of advertising cookies enables it and its partners to serve ads to you based on your visits to this site and/or other sites on the Internet.
  • You can opt out of personalised advertising in Google’s Ads Settings, and read how Google uses information from sites that use its services at policies.google.com.

Legal basis: your consent (Art. 6(1)(a) GDPR), which you can withdraw at any time. Apart from these cookies and the one that stores your choice, the site sets no cookies and uses no analytics.

4. Third-party services

  • Maps: map tiles are loaded from OpenFreeMap, which receives your IP address when a map is shown. Fonts and all other files are served from our own domain.
  • Navigation links: pressing Navigate, Apple Maps, Waze or OpenStreetMap opens that service, whose own privacy policy then applies.
  • Advertising: Google AdSense (Google Ireland Limited) delivers the ads and receives your IP address and browser details; with your consent it also uses cookies (see section 3).

5. Your rights

You have the right to access, correct, delete or restrict the processing of your personal data, to object to it, and to data portability. Contact us at the address above. You may also complain to your data protection supervisory authority.

6. Changes

We will post any changes to this policy on this page with a revised date.