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.
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 Group Officer for Data Protection Messegelände 81823 Munich, Germany Tel. (+49 89) 9 49 -2 07 20 datenschutz@messe-muenchen.de
