Data Protection Statement

1.   Information on collection of personal data and contact details of the controller

1.1 The controller for processing activities on this website within the meaning of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) is
DGM GmbH  - Die Gestalter und Macher, Industriestraße 3, D-64380 Roßdorf,
Phone: 06154 6963-0, telefax: 06154 6963-25, email: exhibition(at)dgm-darmstadt.de

The compete imprint is available under the following link: https://www.dgm-darmstadt.de/de/impressum.htm

1.2 The controller has not appointed a data protection officer for his company.

1.3 We use SSL or TLS encryption on our website for reasons of security and to protect the transmission of personal data and other confidential contents (e.g. orders or inquiries to the controller). You can recognise an encrypted connection by the character sequence "https://" and the lock symbol in your browser line.

2.    Data recording when you visit our website

If you visit our website without registering and without conveying information to us otherwise, we will only collect such data that your browser transmits to our server ("server log files"). If you call up our website, we will collect the following data that we require technically in order to display the individual websites:

• The individual pages of our website (URL)
• Date and time at the time of the access
• Amount of data in byte
• Source/link from which you reached our page
• Browser used
• Operating system used
• Internet protocol address used (generally anonymised)

Processing shall take place in accordance with sect. 6 para. 1 lit. f GDPR based on our legitimate interest in improving stability and function of our website. However, we reserve subsequent review of the log files if any specific indications suggest illegal use. Non-anonymised server log files will be deleted again automatically after seven days.

Our website is stored by a hosting service provider that provides infrastructure and platform services, computing capacity, storage place and database services, security services and technical maintenance services to us. We have concluded data processing contracts with them. Processing activities shall take place for the purpose of ensuring readiness for operation of our website in which we have a legitimate interest, sect. 6 para. 1 lit. f GDPR.

Furthermore, the server log file data will also be collected by third-party providers (see below).

3.    Cookies

Below you will find extensive information on so-called cookies. They are small text files which are stored on your terminal. However, to begin with, here are just a few definitions to provide you with a better understanding of them:

• First party cookie: This cookie is saved or modified by the website on which you are currently browsing.
• Third party cookie: This cookie is stored or modified by third parties with which the website operator is connected (e.g. an advertising network, a social media platform, etc.)
• Session cookie: This cookie is deleted from your end device when you close the browser. A session cookie frequently only saves a session ID in order to assign several requests from a user on a page to his/her session.
• Persistent cookie: This cookie is stored on your device until it expires or you delete it manually or automatically in the browser.
• Technically necessary cookie: This cookie is technically necessary to display our website and enables the necessary functions contained on it.
• Cookie that is not technically necessary: This cookie is not absolutely necessary for the display or use of the website, but enables us or you to use a special functionality

Any type of cookie may contain personal data. However, in many cases the data in the cookies is pseudonymised.

 

Legal foundations

• Technically necessary cookies: The storage and modification of technically necessary cookies is based on the legal foundation of our overriding legitimate interest according to Article 6 paragraph 1 letter f of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). You have the right for reasons arising from your particular situation to lodge an objection at any time against the processing of your personal data which we process on the basis of your overriding legitimate interest  (Article 6 paragraph 1 letter f of the GDPR), with future effect. You will find the requirements concerning this in Article 21 of the GDPR. Our overriding legitimate interests are the optimal, browser and operating system-independent, technically secure presentation and advertising of our company on the Internet as well as the user-friendly and effective structuring of your website visit.
• Cookies that are not technically necessary: The storage and modification of cookies that are not technically necessary is based on the legal foundation of your individual personal and voluntary consent according to Article 6 paragraph 1 letter a of the GDPR. You can revoke your consent again at any time with effect for the future. Here the data processing remains regular until it is revoked. Please note that individual functions of our website may be restricted if cookies that are not technically necessary are not accepted.

Access to cookies

Only we as the data processing controller and website operator have access to first-party cookies. Only the third party who has set these cookies him/herself has access to third-party cookies. For example, only Google has access to a cookie set by Google, and can read or modify it.

Cookie deletion

Please note that you can set your browser in such a way that you are informed about the setting of cookies and can individually decide on their acceptance or can exclude the acceptance of cookies for specific cases or in general. Each browser differs in the way that it manages the cookie settings. This is described in the help menu of each browser which explains to you how you can change your cooking settings. You will find them for the respective browser under the following links:

•     Internet Explorer: https://support.microsoft.com/de-de/help/17442/windows-internet-explorer-delete-manage-cookies
•     Firefox: https://support.mozilla.org/de/kb/cookies-erlauben-und-ablehnen
•     Chrome: https://support.google.com/chrome/answer/95647?hl=de&hlrm=en
•     Safari: https://support.apple.com/de-de/guide/safari/sfri11471/mac
•     Opera: https://help.opera.com/de/latest/web-preferences/

A general objection to the use of cookies used for online marketing purposes can be declared in relation to a variety of services, especially in the case of tracking, via the US website https://www.aboutads.info/choices/ or the EU site https://www.youronlinechoices.com/.

In addition, cookies may be collected and used by third-party providers.

4.    Electronic contact

If you contact us by electronic means (e.g. via the contact form or email), personal data will be collected. The data collected if you use the contact form are evident from the respective contact form. These data will only be stored and used for the purpose of answering your request or contacting you and for the connected technical administration. We cannot process your query without this mandatory information. Any further information is voluntary.

The legal basis for processing of the data is our legitimate interest in answering your query in accordance with sect. 6 para. 1 lit. f GDPR. If your contact is targeted at conclusion of a contract, sect. 6 para. 1 lit. b GDPR shall be an additional legal basis for processing. The legal basis for your voluntary information is sect. 6 para. 1 lit. a GDPR.

Your data will be deleted after final processing of your query. This is also the case if the circumstances show that the affected subject matter has been finally clarified and that there are no statutory archiving obligations in this respect.

For our email communication, we have charged a service provider who provides infrastructure and platform services, computing capacity, storage space and database services, security services as well as technical maintenance services for us. We have concluded data processing contracts with them. Processing activities shall take place for the purpose of ensuring readiness for operation of our email communication in which we have a legitimate interest, sect. 6 para. 1 lit. f GDPR.

5.    Web analysis services

Google Analytics

This website uses Google Analytics, a web analysis service of Google LLC ("Google"). Google Analytics uses "cookies", i.e. text files that are stored on the user's computer and that permit analysis of their use of the website. The information generated by the cookie regarding use of this website by the users is usually transferred to a server of Google in the USA and saved there.

Our website uses Google Analytics only with the extension «_anonymizeIp()», which ensures anonymisation of the IP address by abbreviation and excludes direct person references. Due to the extension, your IP address will be abbreviated first by Google within member states of the European Union or in other contracting states of the convention on the European Economic area. Only in exceptions will your full internet protocol address be transmitted to a server of Google in the USA and abbreviated there. In such exceptions, this processing will take place in accordance with sect. 6 para. 1 lit. f GDPR based on our legitimate interest in the statistical analysis of the user behaviour for purposes of optimisation and marketing. On our order, Google will use this information to evaluate your use of the website, in order to compile reports on the website activities and to render further services connected to website use and internet use towards the website operator. The internet protocol address transmitted by your browser within the context of Google Analytics will not be combined with any other Data of Google.

You may prevent saving of the cookies by making the corresponding settings in your browser software; however, note that you may be unable to fully use all functions of the website in such a case. You may furthermore prevent recording of the data generated by the cookie and referring to your use of the website (incl. your Internet Protocol address) and processing of these personal data by Google by downloading and installing the browser plug-in available under the following link: http://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=de

As an alternative for the browser plugin or for browser on mobile devices, you can click the following link in order to set an opt-out cookie that will prevent recording within this website by Google Analytics in future (this opt-out cookie will only work in this browser and only for this domain. You need to click the link again if you delete your cookies in this browser): Deactivate Google Analytics

As an alternative to the browser add-on or within browsers on mobile devices, click this link in order to prevent recording by Google Analytics within this website in future. This installs an opt-out cookie on your device. You will need to click this link again if you delete your cookies.

The determined anonymised data will be stored for up to 14 months. The data will be deleted automatically after this.

Google, headquartered in the USA, is certified for the US-European data protection treaty "Privacy Shield", which ensures compliance with the level of the protection of personal data applicable in the EU.

For more information on handling of user data by Google Analytics, see the usage terms for Google Analytics http://www.google.com/analytics/terms/de.html, the data protection statement of Google https://policies.google.com/privacy?hl=de or here: https://support.google.com/analytics/answer/6004245?hl=de

6.    Social-Media-Tools

Facebook-Plugin

Our website uses social plugins ("Plugins") of the social network Facebook, which is operated by Facebook Inc., 1 Hacker Way, Menlo Park, California 94025, USA ("Facebook").

In order to increase protection of your data when you visit our website, the buttons not integrated into the page unrestricted as plugins, but only using an HTML link. This manner of integration ensures that no contact with the servers of Facebook is established yet if you call up a page of our website that contains such buttons. When you click a button, a new browser window will open to call the page of Facebook on which you can interact with the plugin there (possibly after entering your login data).

Facebook Inc., headquartered in the USA, is certified for the US-European data protection treaty “Privacy Shield", which ensures compliance with the level of the protection of personal data applicable in the EU.

For the purpose and scale of data collection and further processing and use of the personal data by Facebook as well as your rights and setting options to that extent to protect your privacy, see the data privacy notes of Facebook. facebook.com/about/privacy/

 

Google+

Our website uses social plugins ("Plugins") of the social network Google+, which is operated by Google LLC., 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA ("Google").

In order to increase protection of your data when you visit our website, the buttons not integrated into the page unrestricted as plugins, but only using an HTML link. This manner of integration ensures that no contact with the servers of Google+ is established yet if you call up a page of our website that contains such buttons. When you click a button, a new browser window will open to call the page of Google+ on which you can interact with the plugin there (possibly after entering your login data).

Google LLC, headquartered in the USA, is certified for the US-European data protection treaty "Privacy Shield", which ensures compliance with the level of the protection of personal data applicable in the EU.

For the purpose and scale of data collection and further processing and use of the personal data by Google as well as your rights and setting options to that extent to protect your privacy, see the data privacy notes of Google. https://www.google.com/intl/de/policies/privacy/

 

Twitter

Our website uses social plugins ("Plugins") of the microblogging service Twitter, which is operated by Twitter Inc., 1355 Market St, Suite 900, San Francisco, CA 94103, USA ("Twitter").

In order to increase protection of your data when you visit our website, the buttons not integrated into the page unrestricted as plugins, but only using an HTML link. This manner of integration ensures that no contact with the servers of Twitter is established yet if you call up a page of our website that contains such buttons. When you click a button, a new browser window will open to call the page of Twitter on which you can interact with the plugin there (possibly after entering your login data).

Twitter Inc., headquartered in the USA, is certified for the US-European data protection treaty “Privacy Shield", which ensures compliance with the level of the protection of personal data applicable in the EU.

For the purpose and scale of data collection and further processing and use of the personal data by Twitter as well as your rights and setting options to that extent to protect your privacy, see the data privacy notes of Twitter. https://twitter.com/privacy

 

7.    Integration of other tools

Google Maps

Our website uses Google Maps (API) by Google LLC, 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA (Google). Google Maps is a web service to present interactive maps in order to visually present geographic information. Use of this service will show you our site and make it easier to reach it.

When calling the sub-pages into which the map of Google Maps is integrated, information on your use of our website (such as your internet protocol address) will be transmitted to servers of Google in the USA and stored there. This is done no matter if Google provides a user account through which you are logged in or whether there is no user account. If you are logged in to Google, your data will be associated with your account directly. If you do not wish assignment to your profile at Google, you need to log out before you activate the button. Google will store your data (even for users not logged in) in the form of user profiles and evaluate them. This evaluation shall specifically take place in accordance with sect. 6 para. 1 lit. f GDPR, based on legitimate interests of Google in displaying personalised advertisements, market research and/or demand-oriented design of its website. You have a right to object to the generation of these user profiles. In order to exercise these, you must contact Google.

Google LLC, headquartered in the USA, is certified for the US-European data protection treaty “Privacy Shield", which ensures compliance with the level of the protection of personal data applicable in the EU.

If you do not agree to future transmission of your data to Google within the context of use of Google Maps, you also can completely deactivate the web service of Google Maps by turning off the JavaScript application in your browser. Google Maps, and therefore also the map display on this website, cannot be used then.

For the usage conditions of Google, see http://www.google.de/intl/de/policies/terms/regional.html; you can find the additional usage conditions for Google Maps under https://www.google.com/intl/de_US/help/terms_maps.html For detailed information on data protection in connection with use of Google Maps, see the website of Google ("Google Privacy Policy"): http://www.google.de/intl/de/policies/privacy/

Monotype (fonts.com)

Our website uses web fonts for consistent display of fonts; these are provided by Monotype GmbH, Werner-Reimers-Straße 2–4, D-61352 Bad Homburg ("Monotype"). When calling up a site, your browser will load the required web fonts into your browser cache in order to properly display texts and fonts.

For this purpose, the browser you use must connect to the servers of Monotype. This way, Monotype will learn that our website was called up from your internet protocol address. Monotype is used in the interest of consistent and attractive display of our online offer. This is a legitimate interest within the meaning of sect. 6 para. 1 lit. f GDPR. If your browser does not support Web Fonts, a standard font of your computer will be used.

For more information on fonts.com, see the legal notes of Monotype: https://www.fonts.com/info/legal

8.    Rights of data subjects

8.1 As the data subject, you have the following rights:

• Confirmation of processing activities: You have the right to demand our confirmation of whether we process any personal data concerning you. The conditions for this can be found in sect. 15 GDPR;
• Information: You have the right to demand information on your personal data processed by us. The conditions for this can be found in sect. 15 GDPR;
• Rectification: You have the right to demand rectification of inaccurate personal data concerning you without undue delay at any time. The conditions for this can be found in sect. 16 GDPR;
• Erasure: You have the right to demand erasure of personal data concerning you without undue delay at any time. The conditions for this can be found in sect. 17 GDPR;
• Restriction of processing: You have the right to demand restriction of processing of your personal data. The conditions for this can be found in sect. 18 GDPR;
• Data portability: You have the right to receive the personal data concerning you that you have provided to us in a structured, common and machine-readable format. You further have the right to have these data transmitted to another controller by us. The conditions for this can be found in sect. 20 GDPR;
• Withdrawal of consent: You have the right to withdraw your given consent at any time if processing is based on sect. 6 (1) lit. a or sect. 9 (2) lit. a GDPR. Processing activities performed until your withdrawal remains legal. The revocation shall only apply to the future. The conditions for this can be found in sect. 7 (3) GDPR;
• Complaint: You have the right, notwithstanding any other legal remedy under administrative law or in court, to complain to a supervisory authority if you believe that processing of the personal data concerning you violates the GDPR. The conditions for this can be found in sect. 77 GDPR.

8.2 RIGHT TO OBJECT

YOU HAVE THE RIGHT TO OBJECT TO PROCESSING OF PERSONAL DATA CONCERNING YOU FOR REASONS RESULTING FROM YOUR SPECIFIC SITUATION THAT WE PROCESS DUE TO OUR OVERRIDING LEGITIMATE INTEREST AT ANY TIME (SECT. 6 (1) LIT. E OR F GDPR), EFFECTIVE FOR THE FUTURE. FOR THE CONDITIONS, SEE SECT. 21 GDPR..

9.    Storage duration of personal data and erasure

If no deviating storage duration is named otherwise, we will store the data for as long as this is required for their purpose and statutory archiving obligations apply. According to the legal specifications, storage shall continue for 6 years in accordance with § 257 para. 1 German Commercial Code (trade logs, inventory, opening balance sheets, annual statements, commercial letters, booking evidence, etc.) and for 10 years in accordance with § 147 para. 1 Tax Code (accounts, records, management reports, booking evidence, commercial and business letters, documents relevant for taxation, etc.).

After the end of the archiving period, the corresponding data will be routinely deleted if they are no longer required for performing the contractor preparing the contract and/or we do not have any legitimate interest in further storage anymore.

10.    Changes to this data protection statement

This data privacy statement is currently valid as of May 2018.

Further development of our website and offers through it or changed statutory or authority specifications may require changes to this data privacy statement. You may call and print the respective current data privacy statement at any time on the website at https://www.dgm-darmstadt.de/de/datenschutz.htm.