Data protection
It is our priority to ensure that your personal data is properly protected when using our website. The following declaration gives you an overview of how we guarantee this protection and which type of data is stored for what purpose.
The responsible agency within the definition of the Data Protection Act is Berlin Tourismus & Kongress GmbH, Am Karlsbad 11, D-10785 Berlin, represented by Burkhard Kieker (Managing Director).
Recording and processing of personal data
Our website can be basically used without you having to enter personal details.
Usage of Google Analytics:
Our homepage uses Google Analytics, a WEB statistics tool by Google Inc. Google Analytics uses cookies, which are stored on your computer for analysing the usage of websites. The information collected by the cookie (including your IP address) will be sent to a server of Google Inc. in the US. Google uses this data for analytical purpose. Google may pass on this information to third parties within the legal boundaries. Google will never connect your IP address with the other data collected. You can change the browser settings to diable cookies. However, this may cause problems in viewing all features of our website. When using our homepage you agree with the usage of the data by Google as described.
Personal data will be collected if you sign up, subscribe to our mailinglist or if you wish to use certain functions on our website. With your registration you agree that your personal data will be saved electronically for the further processing of your registration. Your personal data will not be passed on to third parties. You can delete your personal data at any time by sending an e-mail to datenschutz@meeting-place-berlin.de or sending a letter. The given declaration of consent includes the authorisation of the Berlin Tourismus & Kogress GmbH or the professional congress & marketing agency (in the following part: pcma gmbh) to send you personalised advertising.
We ask you to note that data transmissions may be subject to security risks within the internet. It is not possible to guarantee that data will be protected from third party access (see supplementary information under "data security").
Retention
Your data will be retained and stored as long as it is required for the provision of our services or for retention periods stipulated by way of statutory or other legal obligations.
Right to information and withdrawal of consent
You are at all times entitled to be provided with information regarding your personal stored information and to inspect it. If this data is not correct, you are entitled to demand that it be corrected.
If you do not wish to have your data stored, you may at any time withdraw your consent by informing us by letter or email. Your withdrawal of consent will be effective for all future storage. Your data will be deleted in accordance with your withdrawal of consent. Excluded from this are all data which cannot be deleted due to statutory and/or contractual compulsory retention periods. Also excluded from this is that data which we require for the formation, material arrangement or amendment of the contractual relationship or which has to be stored for billing purposes.
In order to obtain information or to withdraw your declared consent, please use the contact place at the end of the website (see "Further information and contact").
Use and communication of personal data
If you register via this website, as appropriate, we will relay your data to other companies or organisations, e.g. your interlocutors at the Meet Professionals Day.
You are entitled at all times to be informed as to what personal data of yours is stored by us and relayed to third parties. You may also withdraw your consent in this regard. Berlin Tourismus & Kongress GmbH or pcma gmbh will relay your withdrawal of consent to its respective partners immediately. In accordance with the statutory provisions we will store data communicated to third parties for a period of two years.
Your personal data will otherwise not be relayed to any third parties, unless in exceptional cases where we are compelled to do so by way of statutory provisions or governmental order.
If you receive any advertising materials from Berlin Tourismus & Kongess GmbH or from any of its partners despite having withdrawn your consent in this regard, please contact us immediately.
Storage of contractual data and contents
We will store the data and contents of contracts you have made with us. Information about your booking you will find in a secured online area. For reasons of security you will not be able to change these details via our website after the booking has been concluded.
Use of cookies
We use cookies on various webpages to improve the quality of our website and to enable the operation of certain functions. These cookies are small text files that are stored on your computer. The majority of cookies we use are deleted from your hard drive after the relevant browser session is ended (session cookies). Other cookies remain stored on your computer and enable us to recognise your computer upon your next visit (permanent cookies). The purpose of these cookies is to document the selections made by the individual user (such as the parameters used in conducting a particular search or the items placed in a shopping basket) in order that these can be displayed in their most recent status at the next time this data is next retrieved. These generated cookies are deleted when the browser is ended or upon closing the last browser window. Cookies are also used for anonymous statistical purposes.
You can configure your browser so as to be informed about the placement of cookies, to decide to accept these on a case-by-case basis or to completely exclude all incoming cookies. The selection of the final option (exclusion of cookies) may restrict the functionality of our website.
Data security
The data relating to your booking will be SSL-encrypted when relayed via the internet. Our webpages and other systems are equipped with technical and organisational features to protect your data from loss, destruction, access, modification or propagation by unauthorised persons. However, we ask you to note that data transmissions may be subject to security risks in the internet. It is not possible to guarantee that data will be protected from third party access.
Publication of editorial articles and other user content
We will only publish editorial articles or other content provided you have clearly given your prior permission to the publication. In this case we will store the data provided by you.
Use of editorial contributions
Any content that you relay to us for the purpose of publication will used exclusively within the webpage of Meeting Place Berlin but we are wholly unable to prevent third party websites from establishing links to this content. We reserve the right to edit any content provided to us prior to publication and in particular to correct errors and insert our own formatting. Summaries and material changes will not be made before we have consulted with you. We are not obligated to publish.
External links
In order to optimise the information available to you, our webpages contain links to third party websites. Where it is not obviously discernable, we will inform you of the presence of external links. Berlin Tourismus & Kongress GmbH or pcma gmbh have no influence whatsoever over the content and arrangement of the websites of other providers. The contents of this Data Protection Notice do not of course apply there. Information about the relevant data protection policy can be found on the respective websites.
Further information and contact
If you have any other questions about data protection in relation to the Meeting Place Berlin website, please contact our Data Protection Officer. The contact details can be found below. You can ask here about what personal data of yours is stored by us. You can also, at any time, send (by letter or email) any requests for information as well as any deletion or correction requests relating to your personal data to the following address:
Meeting Place Berlin
c/o pcma gmbh
Data Protection Officer
Crellestr. 21, 10827 Berlin
datenschutz@meeting-place-berlin.de
Updated: October 2010
