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§ 1 Information on the collection of personal data
(1) In the following, we inform you about the collection of personal data when using our website. Personal data is all data that can be related to you personally, e.g. name, address, e-mail addresses, user behaviour.§ 2 Your rights
(1) You have the following rights in relation to personal data relating to you:§ 3 Collection of personal data when visiting our website
(1) In the case of mere informational use of the website, i.e. if you do not register or otherwise transmit information to us, we only collect the personal data that your browser transmits to our server. If you wish to view our website, we collect the following data, which is technically necessary for us to display our website to you and to ensure its stability and security (legal basis is Art. 6 para. 1 p. 1 lit. f DS- GVO):§ 4 Firebase
For our website, we use the tracking service Firebase of the provider Google LLC, 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043 (Google). Google Firebase uses tracking technologies that enable an analysis of your use of our website, e.g. for performance monitoring, for error logs and for analysing user behaviour, e.g. which screens are viewed and which publications are opened how often. The purpose of using Firebase is to analyse the use of our website, to improve it regularly and thus to be able to operate it more economically. The statistics obtained enable us to improve our offer and make it more interesting for you as a user. The legal basis for this data processing is Art. 6 para. 1 p. 1 lt. f DSGVO, as we have a legitimate interest in the analysis, optimisation and economic operation of our website and the data processing is necessary to safeguard this interest. With Firebase, information about the use of our website is collected and transmitted to Google in Ireland or in the USA and stored there. The data is only collected anonymously and transmitted to Firebase. It is not linked to other user data.§ 5 Google Analytics
We use Google Analytics, a web analytics service provided by Google Ireland Ltd, Gordon House, Barrow Street, Dublin 4. Ireland (Google) The protection of your data is important to us, which is why we have additionally extended Google Analytics with the configuration parameter anonymizeIp. Your IP address is only recorded in abbreviated form by the code. We therefore process your personal usage data in Google Analytics anonymously. Otherwise, your data is processed exclusively in pseudonymised form. It is not possible for us to draw any conclusions about you. For more information on the terms of use of Google Analytics and the data protection regulations, please visit:§ 6 Live Chat
On the digital exhibition booths, for the purpose of operating a live chat system that serves to answer live enquiries, your communicated chat content will be collected as data and stored for the course of the chat. The chat is stored for the duration of the digital event. Cookies are used to operate the chat function. Cookies are small text files that are stored locally in the cache of the site visitor's internet browser. The cookies enable the recognition of the site visitor's Internet browser in order to ensure that the individual users of the chat function of our website can be distinguished. If the information collected in this way has a personal reference, the processing is carried out in accordance with Art. 6 Para. 1 lit. f DSGVO on the basis of our legitimate interest in effective customer service and the statistical analysis of user behaviour for optimisation purposes. To avoid the storage of cookies, you can set your Internet browser so that no more cookies can be stored on your computer in the future or so that cookies that have already been stored are deleted. However, switching off all cookies may mean that the chat function on our website can no longer be carried out.§ 7 Facebook Pixel, Facebook Custom Audiences and Facebook-Conversion
The so-called Facebook pixel of the social network Facebook, which is operated by Facebook Inc. "Facebook Pixel" of the social network Facebook, which is operated by Facebook Inc., 1 Hacker Way, Menlo Park, CA 94025, USA, or if you are a resident of the EU, Facebook Ireland Ltd, 4 Grand Canal Square, Grand Canal Harbour, Dublin 2, Ireland ("Facebook").§ 8 Use of Adobe Typekit
We use Adobe Typekit for the visual design of our website. Typekit is a service provided by Adobe Systems Software Ireland Ltd. that gives us access to a font library. To integrate the fonts we use, your browser must establish a connection to an Adobe server in the USA and download the font required for our website. Adobe thereby receives the information that our website was accessed from your IP address. You can find more information about Adobe Typekit in Adobe's privacy policy, which you can access here: www.adobe.com/privacy/typekit.html.§ 9 ActiveCampaign
With the newsletter we inform you about us and our offers. If you would like to receive the newsletter, we require a valid email address from you as well as information that allows us to verify that you are the owner of the email address provided or that the owner agrees to receive the newsletter. In addition, we request your first name for the personalisation of our newsletter, whereby this information is provided voluntarily. No other data is collected. This data is only used for sending the newsletter and is not passed on to third parties. When you register for the newsletter, we store your IP address and the date of registration. This storage serves solely as proof in the event that a third party misuses an email address and registers to receive the newsletter without the knowledge of the authorised person. You can revoke your consent to the storage of the data, the email address and their use for sending the newsletter at any time. The revocation can be made via a link in the newsletters themselves, in your profile area or by sending a message to the contact options above. Notes on newsletters and consent With the following notes, we inform you about the contents of our newsletter as well as the registration, dispatch and statistical evaluation procedure and your rights of objection. By subscribing to our newsletter, you agree to receive it and to the procedures described. Content of the newsletter We send newsletters, e-mails and other electronic notifications with advertising information (hereinafter newsletter) only with the consent of the recipients or a legal permission. If the contents of the Newsletter are specifically described in the course of registration, they are decisive for the consent of the users. In addition, our newsletters contain information about our products and our company (this may include, in particular, references to blog articles, lectures or workshops, our services or online presences). Double opt-in and logging The registration for our newsletter takes place in a so-called double opt-in procedure. This means that after registration you will receive an e-mail in which you are asked to confirm your registration. This confirmation is necessary so that no one can register with other email addresses. The registrations for the newsletter are logged in order to be able to prove the registration process in accordance with the legal requirements. This includes the storage of the registration and confirmation time, as well as the IP address. Use of the mailing service provider ActiveCampaign The newsletter is sent using Activecampaign, a newsletter mailing platform of the US provider ActiveCampaign, LLC, 150 N. Michigan Ave Suite 1230, Chicago, USA. Michigan Ave Suite 1230, Chicago, IL, US, USA. The email addresses of our newsletter recipients, as well as their other data described in this notice, are stored on ActiveCampaign servers in the USA. ActiveCampaign uses this information to send and evaluate the newsletter on our behalf. Furthermore, according to its own information, ActiveCampaign may use this data to optimise or improve its own services, e.g. for the technical optimisation of the dispatch and presentation of the newsletter or for economic purposes in order to determine from which countries the recipients come. However, ActiveCampaign does not use the data of our newsletter recipients to write to them itself or pass the data on to third parties. We trust in the reliability and the IT and data security of ActiveCampaign. ActiveCampaign is certified under the EU-US Privacy Shield and is thus committed to complying with EU data protection regulations. We have concluded a Data Processing Agreement with the provider in accordance with a contract for commissioned processing pursuant to Art. 28 DSGVO. You can find ActiveCampaign's privacy policy here. In addition, ActiveCampaign protects our newsletter subscribers through an extensive anti-spam policy. Registration data In order to register for the newsletter, it is sufficient to provide your email address. Statistical collection and analyses The newsletters contain a so-called web beacon, i.e. a pixel-sized file that is retrieved from the ActiveCampaign server when the newsletter is opened. Within the scope of this retrieval, technical information, such as information about the browser and your system, as well as your IP address and the time of the retrieval are initially collected. This information is used for the technical improvement of the services on the basis of the technical data or the target groups and their reading behaviour on the basis of their retrieval locations (which can be determined with the help of the IP address) or the access times. The statistical surveys also include the determination of whether the newsletters are opened, when they are opened and which links are clicked. For technical reasons, this information can be assigned to the individual newsletter recipients. However, it is neither our intention nor that of ActiveCampaign to observe individual users. The evaluations serve us much more to recognise the reading habits of our users and to adapt our content to them or to send different content according to the interests of our users. Online call-up and data management There are cases in which we direct newsletter recipients to the websites of ActiveCampaign. For example, our newsletters contain a link with which newsletter recipients can call up the newsletters online (e.g. in the event of display problems in the e-mail programme). Furthermore, newsletter recipients can subsequently correct their data, e.g. the e-mail address. Likewise, ActiveCampaign's privacy policy can only be accessed on their website. In this context, we pointed out that cookies are used on ActiveCampaign's websites and thus personal data is processed by ActiveCampaign, their partners and service providers used (e.g. Google Analytics). We do not have any influence on this data collection. We would also like to draw your attention to the options for objecting to the collection of data for advertising purposes on the websites https://www.aboutads.info/choices/ and https://www.youronlinechoices.com/ (for the European region). Cancellation/revocation You can cancel the receipt of our newsletter at any time, i.e. revoke your consent. At the same time, your consent to the sending of the newsletter via ActiveCampaign and the statistical analyses will expire. Separate cancellation of the sending via ActiveCampaign or the statistical analysis is not possible. You will find a link to cancel the newsletter at the end of each newsletter.§ 10 Objection or revocation against the processing of your data
(1) If - as in the case of registration - you have given your consent to the processing of your data, you may revoke this consent at any time. Such a revocation affects the permissibility of the processing of your personal data after you have expressed it to us.§ 11 Data Protection Officer
Contact: The Data Protection Officer,