Principles
Messe München GmbH (Munich
International Trade Fairs) thanks you for visiting our website and for
your interest in our company and our products. We take the protection
of your private data seriously and we want you to feel comfortable when
visiting our Internet pages. The protection of your privacy is of the
utmost importance to us. Therefore it goes without saying that we
comply with statutory provisions for data protection. Our employees are
obligated to treat all information confidentially and they receive
regular training in the areas of data protection and data security. In
the sections below, we would like to briefly explain how we protect
your data and what it means for you when you make use of our online
offers.
Access data
When our
Internet pages are called up, Messe München GmbH receives access
data which is stored for protective purposes that basically allows us
to identify you. This data includes
- the name of your Internet service provider
- the country you come from
- the website you come from to visit us
- the search term you use, if you come to our site via a search engine
- the websites of ours that you visit
- the user tool (web browser, operating system) you use to access us
- files that you download from our site (e.g. PDF or Word documents)
- the duration of your visit
- the date and the time of your visit
This data is analyzed by Messe München so that we can
familiarize ourselves with and evaluate user behavior. We do not make
use of personal data in the process.
Personal data
Personal
data is information that is used explicitly to determine your identity.
It includes information such as your name and your postal or e-mail
address. The only time we save personal data in addition to your access
data is if you give us this information voluntarily, e.g. as part of a
registration, a survey, a prize competition, a contact inquiry, an
application for a newsletter or to process an online order. Moreover,
personal data is used only to the extent necessary and only for the
legally permissible purpose for which you gave your consent. To ensure
the secure transmission of your data, Messe München GmbH employs
encryption procedures in secure areas. This means that communication
between your browser and our order system, for instance, cannot be read
by others on the Internet. All data is stored only on specially
protected servers of Messe München in Germany. Incidentally, using
our order system is regarded as consenting to the storage and use of
your data by Messe München and its partners.
Passing on personal data to third parties
Messe
München GmbH renders some of its services together with select
partners. These partners are subject to the same strict statutory
provisions for data protection as and are integrated into the
data-protection concept of Messe München. Personal data is only
passed on
- when processing order-related data, such as for online orders
- in exceptional cases, provided you have given your prior consent
Additional information - such as voluntary statements about your
primary areas of interest - is not passed on to third parties by Messe
München. Personal data is conveyed to state institutions and
authorities only within the scope of statutory or judicial obligations.
Power of revocation
If you request in
writing that Messe München GmbH or the representative responsible
for you correct, cease from using or delete your personal data, we
shall of course do so immediately. If you are registered as a user, we
also offer you the opportunity to view the data for yourself and delete
or change it if necessary.
Cookies
Cookies
are small text files which are used by many websites in Germany and
throughout the world. Cookies are created during your visit to our
website and are placed on your hard disk by our server. Our cookies
contain no information about specific individuals. Moreover, cookies
placed by our servers can only be read again by us and not by any
external website. Most browsers are set to automatically accept
cookies. If you do not wish to enjoy the advantages of cookies, you can
deactivate this function in your browser. Please be sure to take your
browser's individual setting possibilities into account. Naturally, you
can also view our website without cookies. However, doing say may limit
the way our offers work.
Other active content (e.g. Javascript, ActiveX)
Javascript,
ActiveX and other website control elements and script languages that
contain executing elements can be deactivated at any time for security
reasons using your browser. Our web pages are still navigable without
Javascript.
Links
Some of Messe
München's web pages contain links to other websites. We take all
reasonable care to check these direct links. Messe München GmbH is
not responsible for the content of the websites to which we link. Messe
München GmbH is also not responsible for the content of websites
with links to our website.
Condition
Messe
München GmbH reserves the right to alter these guidelines for data
protection at any time in compliance with the stipulations of data
protection law.
Questions and comments:
If
you have any questions or recommendations about data protection at
Messe München GmbH, please feel free to contact our
data-protection officer by e-mail:
Messe München GmbH
Officer for Data Protection
Messegelände
81823 Munich, Germany
Tel.: +49 (0)89 949 20 720
E-mail: datenschutz@messe-muenchen.de
Munich, February 2004
