Principles
Messe München thanks you for visiting our Web site and for your interest in our company and our products.
We
take the protection of your private data seriously and we would like
you to feel comfortable when visiting our Internet pages.
The
protection of your privacy is of the greatest importance to us. It
therefore goes without saying that we comply with statutory provisions
for data protection. Our staff are obligated to maintain secrecy with
regard to data and they receive regular training in the areas of data
protection and data security.
In the following, we would like to
give you a brief description of 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 and which
fundamentally permits identification. This data comprises
- the name of your Internet service provider;
- the country you come from;
- the Web site from which you are visiting us;
- the search term if you are coming to our site via a search engine;
- the Web sites of ours which you are visiting;
- the user tool (Web browser, operating system) with which you have accessed us;
- files which you have downloaded from our site (e.g. PDF or Word documents);
- the duration of the visit;
- the date and the time of the visit.
This data is analysed by Messe München GmbH in order to get to
know and to evaluate user behaviour. In so doing, this data is not
utilised on a personal level.
Personal data Personal data is information which is used explicitly to determine your identity.
It includes information such as your name and your postal or e-mail address.
Personal
data is saved by us in addition to access data only when you indicate
it to us voluntarily, e.g. as part of a registration, a survey, a prize
competition, a contact inquiry, an application for a newsletter or for
the carrying out of an online order.
Moreover, personal data is
used only to the extent necessary and only for the purpose consented to
by you and for a legally permissible purpose.
For the secure
transmission of your data, Messe München GmbH employs encryption
procedures in secure areas. This means that communications between your
browser and our order system, for instance, cannot be read by others in
the Internet.
All data is stored only on specially protected servers of Messe München GmbH in Germany.
Incidentally,
using our order system is regarded as consenting to the storage and use
of your data by Messe München GmbH and its partners.
Passing on of personal data to third parties Messe München GmbH renders its services together with selected partners too.
These
are subject to the same strict statutory provisions for data protection
and are also integrated into the data protection concept of Messe
München GmbH.
Personal data is only passed on
- in order data processing such as for online orders;
- in the particular case when you have given your prior consent.
Further information – such as statements made voluntarily
about main areas of interest – is not passed on to third parties
by Messe München GmbH.
Personal data is conveyed to state institutions and authorities only within the scope of statutory or judicial obligations.
Power of revocation If
you demand in writing that Messe München GmbH or the
representative responsible for you should amend, cease from using or
delete your personal data, we shall of course carry this out
immediately.
If you are registered as a user, we also offer you
the possibility of seeing the data for yourself and of deleting or
altering it if need be.
Cookies Cookies are small text files which are used by many Web sites throughout the world including Germany.
Cookies are created during your visit to our Web site and are placed on your fixed disk by our server.
Our
cookies contain no specifically personal information. Moreover, cookies
placed by our servers can only be read again by us and not by any
external Web site.
Most browsers are set in such a way that they
automatically accept cookies. If you do not wish to avail of the
advantages of cookies, you can deactivate this function in your
browser.
In this connection, please take into account the individual adjustment possibilities of your browser.
You
can of course view our Web site without cookies too. However, this can
lead to limitations in the functioning of our offers.
Other active content (e.g. Javascript, ActiveX) Javascript,
ActiveX and other control elements and script languages in Web pages
which contain executing elements can be deactivated at any time for
security reasons by means of your browser. Our Web pages are still
navigable even without Javascript.
Links
The Web pages of Messe München GmbH partly contain links to other Web pages.
These direct links are examined by us with all reasonable care.
Messe München GmbH is not responsible for the content of Web pages to which we link.
Moreover, Messe München GmbH is not responsible for the content of Web pages which make reference to us.
Reservation 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 ideas about data protection at Messe München
GmbH, you are very welcome to consult our data protection officer by
e-mail:
Messe München GmbH
Officer for Data Protection
Messegelände
81823 Munich, Germany
Phone +49 89 949-20720
datenschutz@messe-muenchen.de
Munich, February 2004
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