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Privacy Statement of BERNEXPO AG
We take the protection of your personal information very seriously. We treat your personal data with confidence, complying with data protection legislation and this privacy statement.
It is normally possible to browse our website without divulging any personal data. Where it is possible to enter personal data (for instance, name, address or email addresses), this is always voluntary, as far as possible.
We would like to point out that data transmissions through the Internet (e.g. communication by email) can be subject to security breaches. It is not possible to ensure the seamless protection of data against third party access.
The following provisions are intended to inform you about the kind of personal data we collect, process and use, the extent of those data and the purposes for which they are used, how long we process them for and the legal grounds for the processing, provided we are able to decide alone or with others on the purpose and means for the processing. We also inform you about the third party elements we use to optimise our website and to increase its functionality, whereever third parties are responsible for processing the data.
Our privacy statement consists of these sections:
I. Information about us as the data controller II. Rights of users and data subjects III. Information on data processing
The entity responsible for the data protection aspects of this website:
BERNEXPO AG Mingerstrasse 6 Postfach CH-3000 Berne 22 Switzerland
Tel. +41 31 340 11 11 Fax +41 31 340 11 10 E-Mail: info@bernexpo.ch Web: www.bernexpo.ch
You can contact our data protection officer at:
+41 340 11 48 or by email: legal@bernexpo.ch
We only store your data for the period necessary for processing them or in compliance with a legal obligation. In the case of analyses, we only store your data until the analysis has been concluded. If we store your data in connection with a contractual relationship with you, those data will be stored for as long as the relationship exists, but no longer that prescribed for our claims or unless covered by statutory or contractual storage requirements.
We only process your data within the restrictions of data processing principles and where there is a legal basis. That legal basis applies in the event of performance of our contract and warning letters. Our aim is to improve our offerings continuously and match them to your needs. This is a necessity to enable us to develop our offerings to finance them and to guarantee the safety of our offerings. We presume that our legitimate interests are overriding. If you have consented to data processing, our interests shall apply.
You have the right to information, and to rectify, erase and restrict your data, you have the right to data portability, and to the objection and withdrawal of consent. We only process your data within the restrictions of data processing principles and where there is a legal basis. That legal basis applies in the event of performance of our contract and warning letters. Our aim is to improve our offerings continuously and match them to your needs. This is a necessity to enable us to develop our offerings to finance them and to guarantee the safety of our offerings. We presume that our legitimate interests are overriding. If you have consented to data processing, our interests shall apply. If you believe that the processing of your data has infringed data protection legislation or your privacy has been violated, you are entitled to file a complaint with a supervisory authority.
The provider of this website automatically records and stores information in server log files that are automatically transmitted to us by your browser. That information includes:
• IP adresse
• Date and time of your browser query
• General information on your operating system and browser version
These data are processed exclusively for the purposes of statistical evaluation and to improve our website. The website provider (controller) reserves the right to assess server log files subsequently if there are indications of unlawful use.
Our websites use cookies. Cookies are small text files that are stored on your computer by your browser. Cookies will not damage your computer.
We use cookies to help to make our website more user-friendly. Some cookies will remain on your device until you delete them. These cookies enable us to recognise your browser next time you visit our site.
You can set your browser to notify you about the cookies that are stored on your system and only allow individual cookies to be stored.
If you deactivate cookies, the functionality of this website may be impaired.
If you wish to buy tickets in advance (PDF tickets, mobile tickets), we would like to point out that we will require at least your contact data and payment details. Additional data may be requested for other trade fairs. We will use those details for market research or to improve our own products. The prices of entrance tickets can be taken from our website. The prices seen on the website at the time of booking shall apply: payment is due immediately. The customer then makes payment online for the amount shown in the order.
The customer may be granted a promotional code or voucher by an exhibitor or event organiser, providing a reduced price or free entrance. If a customer makes use of such a promotional code or voucher, the exhibitor or event organiser will be provided with data relating to the entrance ticket purchased in this way. The customer's title, first name and surname and/or company name, where applicable, email address, telephone number and postal address will be passed on, where they were provided. No profile data will be transmitted.
With regard to its own exhibitions, BERNEXPO AG can carry out all the registration steps.
By registering as a visitor and submitting your consent at the end of the registration process, you are consenting to BERNEXPO AG using certain selected data (company name, first and surnames, address, payment method and email address) for processing payments and dispatching tickets. In addition, those details (company name, first and surnames, address, payment method, email address and other details you entered) may be used for marketing and optimising purposes that will enable us to perform market research so that we can offer better services, improve our customer service and optimise our offerings. This will not include sending unsolicited or unlawful marketing information by email, telephone or post.
We use your contact details after you have registered with us as a visitor to notify you by email of similar events and for marketing and optimisation purposes that enable us to offer you better services and customer to experience and optimise our offerings (visitor mailings).
The legal basis for sending visitor mailings after you have registered as a visitor is contained in Article 7(3) of the Swiss Fair Trade Practices Act (UWG). You can withdraw your consent to visitor mailings at any time, either by email to legal@bernexpo.ch or by clicking the link at the end of a visitor mail.
Exhibitors at selected trade fairs may use the retracking process to scan your visitor ID tag and business cards using a scanner provided by BERNEXPO AG. If an exhibitor scans your visitor ID tag, that exhibitor will gain direct access to details submitted in your registration. It must be stressed that none of your bank or credit card details will be transferred. After scanning, the exhibitor will have access to your company name, first and surnames, job title and description, address, email address, telephone number and mobile number provided you entered them when you registered. Any data transmitted to the exhibitor in this way is subject to the responsibility and data protection provisions of that exhibitor. Participation in this service is voluntary for you as a visitor. You can withdraw your consent at any time by communicating this to the exhibitor. BERNEXPO AG cannot accept any liability for the exhibitor's storage and processing of your data. Any additional details provided to the exhibitor by you will also be transmitted to BERNEXPO AG.
If you register as an exhibitor, we will publish the content of your company profile as known to us (e.g. company name, address, contact details) and other company details (such as the product category). Any content or data modified or added to through the booking portal will also be visible to the general public.
The booking portal and online exhibitor directory are provided by a technical service provider: ngn - new generation network GmbH, Leipziger Strasse 126, 10117 Berlin. That company processes personal data exclusively for the purposes of rendering its services in operating the booking portal and online exhibitor directory, but not for its own purposes.
If you register for our free newsletter, the data requested for the registration, i.e. your email address and, as an option, your name and address, will be transmitted to us. At the same time, we store the IP address of the Internet connection you used to access our website, the date and time of your registration. As part of the remaining registration process, we will ask for your consent to send you the newsletter, will describe the content unambiguously and make reference to this privacy statement. The data that we collect in that process are used exclusively to send you the newsletter.
You can withdraw your consent to receiving the newsletter at any time with effect for the future. You simply have to communicate your withdrawal of consent or click the cancellation link in any newsletter.
We use MailChimp to distribute the newsletter - a service provided by The Rocket Science Group, LLC, 512 Means Street, Suite 404, Atlanta, GA 30318, USA, referred to hereinafter as “The Rocket Science Group”.
By means of its certification under the EU-US Privacy Shield,
https://www.privacyshield.gov/participant?id=a2zt0000000TO6hAAG&status=Active
The Rocket Science Group guarantees that EU data protection legislation is also applied to the processing of data in the USA. In addition, The Rocket Science Group, through their link:
http://mailchimp.com/legal/privacy/
provides further privacy details.
If you subscribe to our newsletter, the details requested in that process, email and, optionally, your name and address, will be processed by The Rocket Science Group. In addition, your IP address and the date and time of your registration are stored. As part of the remaining registration process, we will ask for your consent to send you the newsletter, will describe the content unambiguously and make reference to this privacy statement.
The newsletter distributed by The Rocket Science Group also includes a web beacon. This web beacon allows us to see whether you have read our newsletter and when and whether you followed any of the links in the newsletter. Besides additional technical details, such as data about your IT system and your IP address, the data processed in this procedure are stored to enable us to optimise our newsletter and respond to customer suggestions. The data are used to help improve the quality and attractiveness of our newsletter.
Our website contains links to external websites owned by third parties. We have no influence whatsoever on content of linked sites. We cannot accept any responsibility or liability for the content of pages reached by clicking a link on our site.
If you make contact with us through our contact form or by email, we use the data given by you in that context to process your enquiry. This data are necessary to allow us to process your enquiry - if we did not process this data, we could not respond to your enquiry or only partially.
Your data will be erased as soon as the enquiry has been finally dealt with and provided the data do not have to be stored for legal reasons.
Our website incorporates plug-ins from the Facebook social network, provided by Facebook Inc., 1 Hacker Way, Menlo Park, California 94025, USA. Facebook plug-ins are recognisable on our website by the Facebook logo or the "Like" button. An overview of Facebook plug-ins can be seen here: https://developers.facebook.com/docs/plugins/
If you visit one of our pages, the plug-in will establish a direct connection between your browser and the Facebook server. This communicates to Facebook the fact that you have visited our site, based on your IP address. If you click Facebook's "Like" button while you are logged in to your Facebook account, you will be able to link the content of our site to your Facebook profile. In this way, Facebook is able to connect your visit to our site with your user account. We would like to point out that, as controller of our site, we have no knowledge of the data transmitted to Facebook or the purpose for which they are transmitted. Further information can be found in Facebook's Privacy Policy: https://de-de.facebook.com/policy.php.
If you do not want Facebook to associate your visit to our site with your Facebook user account, please log out of your Facebook user account first.
Our website incorporates Twitter functionality. These functions are made available by Twitter Inc., 1355 Market Street, Suite 900, San Francisco, CA 94103, USA. If you use Twitter and the “retweet” function, the sites you visited will be linked to your Twitter account and will be visible to other users. Data will also be transmitted to Twitter. We would like to point out that, as controller of our site, we have no knowledge of the data that are transmitted to Twitter or the purpose for which they are transmitted. Further information can be found in Twitter’s Privacy Policy https://twitter.com/privacy
You can modify your privacy settings for Twitter in your account settings: : https://twitter.com/account/settings ändern.
Our website uses plug-ins from YouTube, which belongs to Google. The organisation responsible for those pages is YouTube, LLC, 901 Cherry Ave., San Bruno, CA 94066, USA. If you visit one of our pages with a YouTube plug-in, a connection to the YouTube servers will be established. In doing so, YouTube will be informed of the pages you are visiting.
If you are logged into your YouTube account, this will allow YouTube to associate your surfing habits with your personal profile directly. You can prevent this by logging out of your YouTube account.
Further information on the treatment of user data can be found in YouTube's Privacy Policy: https://www.google.de/intl/de/policies/privacy
Our website also uses etracker. This is a web analytics service provided by etracker GmbH, Erste Brunnenstr. 1, 20459 Hamburg, referred to hereinafter as “etracker”.
We use etracker to analyse the way visitors use the site. Our legitimate interest lies in the analysis, optimisation and economical operation of our website.
To analyse user behaviour, etracker stores cookies on your device through your browser and generates a pseudonymised user profile. The data processed in this way are not used in a way that could identify you, unless you explicitly consent to this. This data will not be merged with any other personal data.
If you do not wish your data to be processed in this way, you can adjust your browser settings to prevent cookies being stored on your computer. Details of this can be seen under the “Cookies” heading above.
You can also opt out of the analysis of your usage behaviour. If you confirm this link:
http://www.etracker.de/privacy?et=V23Jbb
your browser will store a cookie on your computer or device that will prevent further analysis. Please note that, if you delete all the cookies on your computer, you will have to repeat this opt-out process.
Our website also uses Google Analytics. This is a web analytics service provided by Google LLC, 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043 USA, referred to hereinafter as “Google”..
https://www.privacyshield.gov/participant?id=a2zt000000001L5AAI&status=Active
Google guarantees that EU data protection legislation is also applied to the processing of data in the USA.
Google Analytics is a service that analyses the way visitors use our site. Our legitimate interest lies in the analysis, optimisation and economical operation of our website.
Details of the usage and users of the site, including the IP address, location, time and frequency of visits to the site are transmitted to a Google server in the USA and stored there. We apply the “Activate anonymous IP” function on our site for Google Analytics. This function causes Google to truncate the IP address within the EU or EEA.
The data thus collected enable Google to provide us with an evaluation of traffic visiting our site and the way our site is used. This data can also be used to render additional services that are related to usage of our website and the Internet.
Google has confirmed that your IP address will not be linked to other data. In addition, you can visit
https://www.google.com/intl/de/policies/privacy/partners
to see further privacy information from Google including details of how to prevent your data being used.
In addition, you can visit
https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=de
to download Google's deactivation add-on and additional information. That add-on can be installed with all standard browsers and offers you further ways of controlling the data collected by Google when you access our website. The add-on communicates with Google Analytics’ JavaScript (ga.js) and notifies it that information about your visits to our website are not to be transmitted to Google Analytics. However, that will not prevent information being transmitted to us or other web analytics services. This privacy statement also provides details of any other web analytics services employed by us.
Alternatively, you can prevent Google Analytics from analysing your future visits to our website by clicking the link below. Clicking this link will create an opt-out cookie on your device that will prevent your visits to our site being analysed in future:
Disable Google Analytics
Please note that, if you delete the cookies in that browser, you will have to install the opt-out cookie again.
Under no circumstances will Google associate your IP address with any other data held by Google. You can prevent the storage of cookies on your computer. You can choose the "Block third-party cookies" setting in your browser. However, we would like to point out that if you do this, not all functions of this website may be fully available to you. By using this website you agree to the processing of data about you by Google in the manner described above and for the aforementioned purpose.
We use products and services of wiredminds GmbH (www.wiredminds.de) for the purposes of marketing and optimisation of our site. This involves collecting, processing and storing data from which user profiles can be generated in pseudonymised form. Wherever it is possible and meaningful, user profiles are completely pseudonymised. This may involve the use of cookies. Cookies are small text files that are stored on your computer and saved by your browser to enable the site to recognise your browser again. The data collected, which may include personal data, are transmitted to wiredminds or collected directly by wiredminds. Wiredminds is permitted to use information collected from visits to websites to generate anonymised user profiles. Data collected in this way are not used in a way that might identify the data subjects without their explicit consent and they are not linked to personal data relating to the natural person behind the pseudonym. Where IP addresses are collected, they are anonymised by truncating the last three characters immediately after being collected. You can withdraw consent (object) to the the collection, processing and storage of your data for the future at any time.
Do not track
Our website uses Google AdWords in conjunction with conversion tracking. This is a service provided by Google LLC, 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043 USA, referred to hereinafter as “Google”. By means of its certification under the EU-US Privacy Shield,
We use conversion tracking to market our products and services in a targeted manner. Our legitimate interest lies in the analysis, optimisation and economical operation of our website.
If you click on an advertisement placed by Google, our conversion tracking tool will store a cookie on your device. These conversion cookies become invalid after 30 days and are not used to identify you personally. Provided the cookie is still valid, if you visit a certain page on our website, both we and Google can see that you have clicked an advertisement of ours placed with Google and that you were then forwarded to our website.
Using this data, Google can provide us with statistics relating to the use of our site. In addition, this provides us with information about the number of visitors that have clicked on our advertisements and about the pages that were then accessed. However, this will not enable us or any other third party user of Google AdWords to identify you.
You can adjust your browser settings to prevent cookies being stored on your computer or restrict which ones are stored. At the same time, you can erase cookies stored on your computer at any time. The method and steps required to do this will depend on the type and version of browser you use. Further details can be acquired from the Help function of your browser, from the documentation provided by the manufacturer or from your browser's support service..
In addition, Google offers these links:
https://services.google.com/sitestats/en.html
http://www.google.com/policies/technologies/ads/
http://www.google.de/policies/privacy/
where you can find further information on this topic and in particular how to prevent data usage.
We use Google AdSense on our website to incorporate marketing advertisements. This is a service provided by Google LLC, 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043 USA, referred to hereinafter as “Google”.
Google guarantees that EU data protection legislation is also applied to the processing of data in the USA. Google AdSense stores cookies and web beacons on your device through your browser. In this way, Google enables us to analyse the way you use our website. The information collected in this way, your IP address and the advertising formats you viewed are transmitted to Google in the USA and stored there. Google may pass that information to its contractual partners. Google declares that your IP address will not be merged with any other data about you held by Google.
Our legitimate interest lies in the analysis, optimisation and economical operation of our website.
If you do not wish your data to be processed in this way, you can adjust your browser settings to prevent cookies being stored on your computer. Details can be seen in the section headed “Cookies”.
https://policies.google.com/privacy
https://adssettings.google.com/authenticated
Our website uses Google Maps to show our location and directions for finding us. This is a service by Google LLC, 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043 USA, referred to hereinafter as “Google”.
To enable certain fonts to be displayed on our website, a connection is made to a Google server in the USA when our website is accessed.
If you access the Google Maps function embedded in our website, Google will store a cookie on your device through your browser. To show our location and enable directions to be calculated, your user settings and data are processed. We cannot prevent Google using servers in the USA for this purpose.
Our legitimate interest lies in optimising the functionality of our website.
This connection enables Google to determine website from which the request has been sent and the IP address to which the directions are to be returned./p>
In addition, use of Google Maps and the information acquired through Google Maps is subject to Google's terms and conditions https://policies.google.com/terms?gl=EN&hl=en, and the terms and conditions of Google Mapshttps://www.google.com/intl/de_de/help/terms_maps.html.
for further information.
We use Google Fonts on our website to display external fonts. This is a service provided by Google LLC, 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043 USA, referred to hereinafter as “Google”.
Our legitimate interest lies in the analysis, optimisation and economical operation of our website. The connection set up when our website is accessed enables Google to determine the website from which the request has been sent and IP address to which the font view is to be returned.
Google offers these links:
where you can find further information on this topic and in particular on how to prevent data usage.
Our privacy statement was formulated on the basis of specimen statements made available by Law Firm Weiss & Partner. We appreciate their support.
Muster-Datenschutzerklärung fromnbsp;Anwaltskanzlei Weiss & Partner
Juni 2018
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