Privacy Policy

Messezentrum Salzburg GmbH respects your right to privacy. We will only collect your data to the extent that is technically necessary. We will in no case communicate or sell any data collected to third parties.

The following statement will provide you with an overview of how we guarantee your privacy and what type of data are collected for what purposes:

Data collection and security

You can visit the Messezentrum Salzburg GmbH websites without telling us who you are. When the Internet pages are accessed, we, Messezentrum Salzburg GmbH, receive user data such as your IP address, the date, the time, and the pages that have been viewed. We use this information in an anonymised form in order to examine usage patterns and to compile statistics. We place a very high value on the security of your data. All personal data that are communicated to us are encrypted before they are transferred via the Internet.

 

Cookies & Google Analytics

This website uses Google Analytics, a web analytics service provided by Google Inc. (“Google”). Google Analytics uses “cookies”, text files which are saved on your computer that enable an analysis of how you are using the website. The information generated by the cookie about your use of this website will as a rule be transmitted to one of Google’s servers in the USA and stored there. Should you activate IP anonymisation on this website, your IP address will, however, within member states of the European Union or in other states party to the Treaty Agreement on the European Economic Area, be shortened beforehand by Google. Only in exceptional cases will the full IP address be transmitted to a Google server in the USA and shortened there. Google will use this information on behalf of the operator of this website in order to analyse your use of the website, to compile reports about website activities and to provide the website operator with additional services connected to website activity and Internet usage. The IP address communicated by your browser within the framework of Google Analytics will not be combined with other data held by Google. You can prevent the saving of cookies using the appropriate setting in your browser software; we would, however, like to draw your attention to the fact that in this case you may not be able to use all of the functions of this website to their full extent. You can additionally prevent the collection of the data generated by the cookie and connected to your use of the website (incl. your IP address) and the processing of this data by Google by downloading and installing a browser plugin available via the following link http://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=en.


You can also read further information on this topic at http://www.google.com/intl/de/analytics/privacyoverview.html
(General Information regarding Google Analytics and Data Protection). We would like to draw your attention to the fact that, on this website, Google Analytics has an extension in the form of the code “gat._anonymizeIp();” in order to ensure the anonymised collection of IP addresses (known as IP masking).

 

Links to other websites


Our website includes links which lead you to other websites. Please note that we do not have any influence over other websites and cannot therefore accept any responsibility for the protection and confidentiality of any data which you may provide when you visit such websites.

 

Newsletter & Competitions



We save your name and your email address when you sign up to our newsletter, when you have agreed to having our newsletter sent to you or when you take part in a competition and agree to have information sent to you in this context. You can unsubscribe in response to any communication and will not receive any further newsletters from us. We will not pass on your data to any third parties.

 

Social Plugins

Meta

Our website includes programmes (plugins) from the Facebook network. These are operated by Facebook Inc., 1601 S. California Ave, Palo Alto, CA 94304, USA. The plugins are identifiable by the Facebook logo (a white “f” on a blue background) within the context of our Internet presence. When you visit our website, which includes this kind of plugin, your browser will establish a direct connection with Facebook's servers through which the contents of the plugin will be transmitted back to your browser and integrated by it into the displayed website. This will transmit to Facebook the information that you have visited our website. If you are logged into your personal user account on Facebook when you visit our website, Facebook can attach the website visit to that account. When you interact with plugins, for example, by pressing the “like” button or leaving a comment, this information will be transmitted directly to Facebook and saved by it. If you want to disable such data transmissions, you must log out of your Facebook account before visiting our website. For further information regarding the purpose and scope of data collection by Facebook as well as its further processing and usage of your data and your rights and privacy settings options in this regard, please refer to Facebook’s Data Usage Policy (http://www.facebook.com/policy.php).

 

Twitter

Our website includes programmes (plugins) from the social network twitter.com. These are operated by Twitter, Inc., 795 Folsom St., Suite 600, San Francisco, CA 94107, USA. The plugins are identifiable by the Twitter logo (a white “t” on a turquoise background) within the context of our Internet presence. When you visit our website, which includes this kind of plugin, your browser will establish a direct connection with Twitter's servers through which the contents of the plugin will be transmitted back to your browser and integrated by it into the displayed website. This will transmit to Twitter the information that you have visited our website. If you are logged into your personal user account on Twitter when you visit our website, Twitter can attach the website visit to that account. When you interact with plugins, for example, by pressing the tweet button or leaving a comment, this information will be transmitted directly to Twitter and saved by it. If you want to disable such data transmissions, you must log out of your Twitter account before visiting our website. For further information regarding the purpose and scope of data collection by Twitter as well as its further processing and usage of your data and your privacy, please refer to Twitter’s Data Usage Policy (http://twitter.com/privacy).

Cookies

1. What are cookies?

Cookies are tiny text files that are stored on your terminal device via the browser when you use our website. These text files contain information to provide user-friendly services and are read by web browsers. Cookies enable our website to recognize you so that our web server can present you with a more personalized, better, faster and more customized website.

Therefore, please keep in mind that you may not be able to access some web content if you block cookies. Basically, cookies are divided into the following types:

Session-related cookies: These are stored on your computer or terminal device while you are surfing on our websites and are deleted afterwards.
Persistent cookies: These cookies remain on your computer for a long time.
Third-party cookies: These cookies are created by partner websites and embedded in our site. They are used, for example, to deliver personalized advertising.

2. This is how we use cookies

In general, we use Internet technologies (e.g. cookies, Java script) only to make it easier for you to use our website and to optimize our offer and your communication with our content:

We use so-called session-related cookies to keep the current session active.
We use cookies for data analysis. This allows us to see how, for example, our forms are accepted, how many visitors use our pages or which are the most frequently visited web pages.
We use third-party cookies that are used to improve your experience with our content and advertisements.
This website also uses web analytics services from Google. You can find more information about this under "Data protection".

 

3. Third-party cookies

Some third-party providers set cookies on your computer, in particular to register visitor behavior and personalize offers (including advertising). Depending on the platform, several cookies are set by third-party providers. You can read how the third-party provider handles cookies on the corresponding pages of the network. You can find the information about the networks in the table below. We have no control over the third-party cookies. We therefore recommend that you check the respective third-party websites to see which cookies are used and how they can be managed. For common third-party providers such as Facebook, Google and many more, the "Digital Advertising Alliance" offers a possibility to make a collected opt-out of all DAA companies. You can find more information about this in points 4 and 5.