Legal Notice, Privacy Policy, and Terms of Service
Information pursuant to § 5 DDG (Digitale-Dienste-Gesetz) and § 18 MStV (German Interstate Media Treaty)
René Warnke
Sietwende 67
21037 Hamburg, Germany
Email: business@warnke.cloud
Phone: +49 176 45838544
VAT-ID (§ 27a UStG): [DE XXXXXXXXX] (if applicable)
Responsible for editorial content (§ 18 Abs. 2 MStV):
René Warnke (address as above)
EU Online Dispute Resolution
The European Commission provides a platform for online dispute resolution (ODR): https://ec.europa.eu/consumers/odr.
Pursuant to § 36 VSBG (Verbraucherstreitbeilegungsgesetz), we declare that we are neither obligated nor willing to participate in dispute resolution proceedings before a consumer arbitration board.
Effective date: 23.04.2026. Last updated: 23.04.2026.
The controller responsible for data processing on this platform within the meaning of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) is: René Warnke (contact details under "Legal Notice" above).
As a sole proprietorship (Einzelunternehmen) with fewer than 20 persons regularly engaged in automated processing of personal data, no Data Protection Officer (DPO) is required under § 38 BDSG.
When you use Bivouac, we may collect and process the following personal data:
We use the following third-party services. Where processing takes place outside the EU/EEA, transfers are safeguarded by the EU-US Data Privacy Framework (DPF) adequacy decision where the provider is DPF-certified, otherwise by Standard Contractual Clauses (SCCs).
Under the GDPR, you have the right to:
To exercise any of these rights, contact us at privacy@warnke.cloud.
You have the right to lodge a complaint with a data protection supervisory authority. The competent supervisory authority for our business is:
Der Hamburgische Beauftragte für Datenschutz und Informationsfreiheit (HmbBfDI)
Ludwig-Erhard-Str. 22, 7. OG
20459 Hamburg
Phone: +49 40 42854-4040
Website: https://datenschutz-hamburg.de
This platform uses only essential technical storage required for the service to function:
We do not use tracking cookies, analytics, or advertising technologies. No consent is required for essential technical storage under § 25 Abs. 2 Nr. 2 TTDSG.
The Stage Planner uses artificial intelligence (currently DeepSeek) to generate multi-day route suggestions. The AI processes the trip inputs you provide (origin, destination, dates, vehicle profile) together with publicly available spot data from OpenStreetMap and the Bivouac community.
AI-generated route plans do not constitute automated individual decision-making within the meaning of Art. 22 GDPR. No decisions with legal or similarly significant effects are made about you based on automated processing. The outputs are informational suggestions that you remain free to accept, reject or modify.
Effective date: 23.04.2026. Last updated: 23.04.2026.
Bivouac is an open-source platform for discovering overnight stops, campsites, Stellplätze, rest areas and wild-camping spots. It combines data from OpenStreetMap with community contributions (reviews, condition reports, photos) and offers an AI-assisted multi-day stage-planner for premium users.
Spot information is provided for orientation only. Conditions at real-world locations (accessibility, legality of overnight stays, ground surface, safety) change over time and cannot be verified by us. Local regulations on wild camping, overnight parking and fire use vary widely by country, region and season.
You are solely responsible for checking local rules before stopping, and for assessing the safety of any location on arrival. Bivouac is not liable for personal injury, loss or damage to your vehicle or property, fines, or any other harm resulting from the use of information on this platform.
Route plans produced by the Stage Planner are generated by an artificial intelligence system (currently DeepSeek). The underlying AI model and its outputs may change without notice. AI-generated plans may contain errors, omit relevant constraints, or recommend spots that are unsuitable for your vehicle or no longer accessible. Always validate a plan against reality before relying on it.
You must be at least 16 years old to create an account (consent age for information-society services under Art. 8(1) GDPR as implemented in Germany). You are responsible for maintaining the confidentiality of your account credentials and for all activity under your account.
When you submit a spot, review, condition report, check-in or photo, you grant Bivouac a non-exclusive, worldwide, royalty-free license to store, display, reproduce and distribute that content as part of the service (including to other users) for the duration of the platform's operation.
You retain copyright in photos you upload. You confirm that you hold the necessary rights to any content you submit and that it does not infringe third-party rights or violate applicable law.
Factual spot data (coordinates, amenities, spot type) may be contributed back to the OpenStreetMap project under the Open Database License (ODbL), in keeping with the open-data nature of Bivouac. Free-form reviews and photos are not shared with OSM.
We reserve the right to remove content that violates these terms, infringes third-party rights, or is abusive, misleading, commercial in nature, or otherwise unsuitable — including via community reports handled by our moderation tools.
You agree not to:
Base map data and significant portions of spot data are © OpenStreetMap contributors, available under the Open Database License (ODbL). Use of this data via Bivouac is subject to OSM's attribution and licensing requirements.
If you are a consumer in the European Union, you have the right to withdraw from a distance contract within 14 days without giving any reason.
The withdrawal period expires 14 days after the day of the conclusion of the contract. To exercise your right of withdrawal, you must inform us (René Warnke, business@warnke.cloud) of your decision to withdraw by an unequivocal statement (e.g., a letter or email).
To meet the withdrawal deadline, it is sufficient to send your communication concerning your exercise of the right of withdrawal before the withdrawal period has expired.
Effects of withdrawal:
If you withdraw from this contract, we shall reimburse all payments received from you without undue delay and in any event not later than 14 days from the day on which we are informed about your decision to withdraw. We will carry out such reimbursement using the same means of payment as you used for the initial transaction.
Early expiry of the right of withdrawal: For digital content provided outside of a physical medium, the right of withdrawal expires if performance has begun with your express prior consent and your acknowledgement that you thereby lose your right of withdrawal (§ 356 Abs. 5 BGB).
(pursuant to Annex 2 to Art. 246a § 1 Abs. 2 EGBGB)
If you wish to withdraw from the contract, please complete and return this form:
To: René Warnke, Sietwende 67, 21037 Hamburg, Germany — Email: business@warnke.cloud
I/We (*) hereby give notice that I/We (*) withdraw from my/our (*) contract for the provision of the following service:
Bivouac Pro Subscription
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We may update these terms at any time. Material changes will be communicated via the platform. Continued use after changes constitutes acceptance of the updated terms.
These terms are governed by the laws of the Federal Republic of Germany, without regard to its conflict-of-law provisions. Mandatory consumer protection laws of your country of residence remain unaffected.