Data Protection Declaration

You can normally call up all webpages of Messe Stuttgart without disclosing your personal data. When you visit the website, Messe Stuttgart obtains utilisation data which are stored for security purposes and may permit identification (e.g. IP address, date, time and pages visited). These data are evaluated anonymously by Messe Stuttgart in order to find out about user patterns and prepare statistics. The security standards in the German Teleservices Data Protection Act (TDDSG) and the German Federal Data Protection Act (BDSG) are observed in all the measures which we take.

If you register with our company as a visitor, trade visitor or exhibitor, a customer account will be created for you. You can register for events staged by Messe Stuttgart using the data stored in your customer account. If you have perhaps registered using different e-mail addresses, you can have several customer accounts. When you register, data such as your name, address, contact and communication details, telephone number, e-mail address and, if necessary, payment details will be recorded. Depending on the trade fair, further information regarding the company and/or the visitor's position within the company will be requested as proof of trade visitor status and, if necessary, the presentation of a suitable trade visitor pass.

We will use the data you provide to comply with your requests (e.g. ordering of catalogues or brochures) and to process your order(s), e.g. purchase of admission tickets or redemption of admission codes.

You can examine and update the data in your customer account when you purchase a ticket or redeem admission codes. We will also naturally be pleased to provide you with information at any time.

We will also use your data to inform you about other events and offers of Messe Stuttgart. In the case of selected events, we will request you to (voluntarily) take part in customer surveys to improve our services.

We will only pass on your personal data with your permission. Your personal data will only be passed on without your permission to the extent described below:We commission service providers and individual persons to perform tasks for our company. Examples include the dispatch of letters or processing of payment transactions. These service providers only have access to personal data which are required to perform their tasks. They are obliged under the terms of their contract not to use the data for their own or other purposes and must handle data in accordance with this Data Protection Declaration and the provisions of the German Data Protection Act.If you redeem an admission code, we will inform the inviting exhibitor or association about the redemption due to accounting reasons.

You are entitled to receive information at any time regarding your personal data stored by Messe Stuttgart. You are also entitled to correct, block or delete your personal data, unless there are legally prescribed obligations for storing the data. If the data are blocked, the blocked data must be kept in an exclusion file for control purposes.

If you not wish to receive any further information from Messe Stuttgart, you can object at any time to the use of your data for the purpose of contacting you. Please send an e-mail in this respect to:

widerspruch(at)messe-stuttgart.de

In the case of guest events, Messe Stuttgart acts on behalf of the individual organiser. Messe Stuttgart is therefore bound by the instructions of the customer in accordance with data protection legislation. Please contact the individual organiser in connection with questions relating to data processing, data blocking, data deletion, etc.

Messe Stuttgart takes the technical and organisational security measures which are required under the German Federal Protection Act to protect your personal data against loss and misuse, e.g. encrypted transmission of your data when using the trade fair ticket service. Our employees are obliged to handle personal data with care.

The website of Messe Stuttgart contains advertisements in some places. These advertisements are provided by external ad servers. The data recorded in connection with online advertising (ad impression, ad clicks) are used solely for statistical evaluation purposes and to prepare reports for advertising customers. No personal data are used in this respect.

When advertising is provided, cookies (see below) may be used without Messe Stuttgart having any influence on them.

The website of Landesmesse Stuttgart GmbH contains links to other websites. We have no influence on whether the operators of other websites comply with data protection regulations. You can recognise these so-called external links by means of a preceding .

Messe Stuttgart is responsible, as a provider, for its own contents according to general legislation. A distinction must be made between these own contents and “links” to the contents provided by other suppliers. Messe Stuttgart will accept no responsibility for external contents which are provided for use via links and are specially marked. Messe Stuttgart will also not adopt these contents as its own contents.

The supplier of the website to which reference is made is solely responsible for illegal, incorrect or incomplete contents and, in particular, for damage arising from the use or non-use of this supplied information.

Messe Stuttgart will only use cookies if they are required for user functions or make website navigation easier. The information will not be passed on to third parties since cookies are only used for the above-mentioned purposes.

You can also prevent the installation of cookies by means of a corresponding setting in your Internet browser. However, we wish to point out that you may not then be able to fully use all the functions of this website.

This website uses Google Analytics, a web analytics service provided by Google, Inc. (“Google”). Google Analytics uses “cookies”, which are text files placed on your computer, to help the website analyze how users use the site. The information generated by the cookie about your use of the website will be transmitted to and stored by Google on servers in the United States .

In case IP-anonymisation is activated on this website, your IP address will be truncated within the area of Member States of the European Union or other parties to the Agreement on the European Economic Area. Only in exceptional cases the whole IP address will be first transfered to a Google server in the USA and truncated there. The IP-anonymisation is active on this website.

Google will use this information on behalf of the operator of this website for the purpose of evaluating your use of the website, compiling reports on website activity for website operators and providing them other services relating to website activity and internet usage.

The IP-address, that your Browser conveys within the scope of Google Analytics, will not be associated with any other data held by Google. You may refuse the use of cookies by selecting the appropriate settings on your browser, however please note that if you do this you may not be able to use the full functionality of this website. You can also opt-out from being tracked by Google Analytics with effect for the future by downloading and installing Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Addon for your current web browser: http://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=en.

Our website uses Piwik, a so-called web analysis service.  Piwik uses "Cookies", which are text files stored on your computer that enable us to analyse the usage of the website. For this purpose, the usage information generated by the Cookie (including its abbreviated IP address) is transferred to our server and stored for usage analysis purposes which in turn helps us to optimise our website. Your IP address is made anonymous for this purpose so that you, as a user, remain anonymous to us. The information generated by the Cookie about the usage of this website is not forwarded to third parties. You can prevent the use of Cookies by making the corresponding setting in your browser software; however, in this case you may be unable to fully use all functions of this website.

If you do not agree to the storage and evaluation of this data from your visit, then you can object to the storage and use at any time by clicking the mouse below. In this case a so-called Opt-out Cookie is stored, which means Piwik does not collect any data from your session. Note: If you delete your Cookies, the Opt-out Cookie is also deleted in the process and must be reactivated if necessary.

Source: www.datenschutzbeauftragter-info.de 

One of the features of this Internet presence is that it uses what are called social plugins ("plugins") from the social network facebook.com, which are operated by Facebook Inc., 1601 S. California Ave, Palo Alto, CA 94304, USA ("Facebook"). These plugins are indicated by a Facebook logo. When you access this Internet presence, your browser establishes a direct connection with the Facebook servers. The content of the plugin is transferred by Facebook directly to your browser, which then integrates it into the website. Integration of the plugin causes Facebook to receive the information that you have accessed on the corresponding page of this Internet presence. If you are logged in with Facebook, it will be able to assign your visit to your Facebook account. Please note that an exchange of this information already takes place when you visit our Internet presence, regardless of whether you interact with the plugin or not. If you interact with the plugins, such as by pressing the “Like” button, the corresponding information is sent directly to Facebook by your browser and saved there.

You can find information on the purpose and extent of data acquisition as well as how the data is processed further and used by Facebook, together with your rights and optional settings to protect your private sphere, in the Facebook data protection notes (http://www.facebook.com/policy.php).

For the use of the Visa service, owing to legal requirements further details in addition to those specified above must be provided.
Specifically, these are: Pass number, date of issue and validity of the pass, date of birth of the applicant, and name and address of the employer.
These details will be used exclusively for the issue of the legitimation letter and will not be entered in the customer database of Landesmesse Stuttgart.
The letter of invitation will be kept internally at Messe for a period of max. two years for reasons of traceability and then deleted.