This data protection declaration informs you about the type, scope and purpose of the processing of personal data (hereinafter referred to as “data”) within our online offer and the websites, functions and content connected with it. With regard to the terms used, such as “personal data” or their “processing”, we refer to the definitions in Art. 4 of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).

Person responsible:
FBF Betondienst Society for Information, Advertising, Quality Assurance and Standardization mbH
Gerhard Koch St. 2+4
73760 Ostfildern

Phone 0711 327 32-300
Fax 0711 327 32-350
info(at)betonservice.de
www.betonservice.de

represented by the Managing Director Dr. Ulrich Lotz
Registered in the Commercial Register at the Stuttgart Registry Court HRB 214566

Types of data processed:

• • Inventory data (e.g., first name, last name, company).
  • Contact details (e.g. e-mail).

Processing of special categories of data (Art. 9(1) GDPR):

As a matter of principle, no special categories of data are processed unless they are supplied for processing by the users, e.g. entered in online forms.

Categories of persons concerned by the processing:

• • Participants, exhibitors, speakers, interested parties
  • Visitors and users of the online offer.

In the following, we also refer to the persons concerned collectively as “users”.

Purpose of processing:

• • Provision of the online offer, its contents and functions.
  • Provision of contractual services, service and customer care.
  • Respond to contact requests and communicate with users.
  • Marketing, advertising and market research.

Status: May 24, 2018

1. relevant legal bases
In accordance with Art. 13 DSGVO, we inform you about the legal basis of our data processing. If the legal basis is not stated in the privacy policy, the following applies: The legal basis for obtaining consent is Art. 6 para. 1 lit. a and Art. 7 DSGVO, the legal basis for processing for the fulfillment of our services and implementation of contractual measures as well as answering inquiries is Art. 6 para. 1 lit. b DSGVO, the legal basis for processing to fulfill our legal obligations is Art. 6 para. 1 lit. c DSGVO, and the legal basis for processing to protect our legitimate interests is Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f GDPR. In the event that vital interests of the data subject or another natural person require the processing of personal data, Art. 6 para. 1 lit. d DSGVO as the legal basis.

Data collected
With the registration for the BetonTage we collect personal participant data (title, first name, last name, company, billing address and personal e-mail address) for billing and registration.
After your registration, you will receive a confirmation email with registration link to your email address provided in the registration approximately one week before the congress starts. With the registration link you set your access data to the online platform, log in with it on the booked day(s) and can participate in all lecture events, the exhibition, chats and video conferences of the digital BetonTage.
For smooth interaction and convenient visitor guidance within the DSGVO-compliant expo-ip.com platform we use, your personal data (title, first name, last name, company, personal e-mail address) will be used and passed on to exhibiting companies for the purposes of visitor tracking. Data will not be transferred to third parties unless it is technically necessary for the implementation of the event or individual components of the event.

2. changes and updates to the privacy policy
We ask you to regularly inform yourself about the content of our privacy policy. We will adapt the privacy policy as soon as the changes in the data processing carried out by us make this necessary. We will inform you as soon as the changes require an act of cooperation on your part (e.g. consent) or other individual notification.

3. security measures
3.1. We take appropriate technical and organizational measures to ensure a level of protection appropriate to the risk in accordance with Article 32 of the GDPR, taking into account the state of the art, the costs of implementation and the nature, scope, context and purposes of the processing, as well as the varying likelihood and severity of the risk to the rights and freedoms of natural persons; the measures include, in particular, ensuring the confidentiality, integrity and availability of data by controlling physical access to the data, as well as access concerning them, input, disclosure, ensuring availability and their separation. Furthermore, we have established procedures to ensure the exercise of data subjects’ rights, deletion of data, and response to data compromise. Furthermore, we already take the protection of personal data into account during the development or selection of hardware, software and processes, in accordance with the principle of data protection through technology design and through data protection-friendly default settings (Article 25 of the GDPR).
3.2. The security measures include, in particular, the encrypted transmission of data between your browser and our server.

4. cooperation with processors and third parties
4.1. If, in the course of our processing, we disclose data to other persons and companies (processors or third parties), transmit it to them or otherwise grant them access to the data, this will only be done on the basis of a legal permission (e.g. if a transmission of the data to third parties, such as to payment service providers, is required for the performance of the contract pursuant to Art. 6 (1) lit. b DSGVO), you have consented, a legal obligation provides for this or on the basis of our legitimate interests (e.g. when using agents, web hosts, etc.).
4.2. If we commission third parties with the processing of data on the basis of a so-called “order processing agreement”, this is done on the basis of Art. 28 DSGVO.

5. transfers to third countries
If we collect data in a third country (d. h. outside the European Union (EU) or the European Economic Area (EEA)) or this occurs in the context of the use of third-party services or disclosure, or transfer of data to third parties, this only occurs if it is done to fulfill our (pre)contractual obligations, on the basis of your consent, due to a legal obligation or on the basis of our legitimate interests. Subject to legal or contractual permissions, we process or allow the processing of data in a third country only if the special requirements of Art. 44 et seq. DSGVO are met. This means, for example, that processing takes place on the basis of special guarantees, such as the officially recognized determination of a level of data protection that corresponds to that of the EU (e.g., for the USA through the “Privacy Shield”) or compliance with officially recognized special contractual obligations (so-called “standard contractual clauses”).

6. rights of the data subjects
6.1. You have the right to request confirmation as to whether data in question is being processed and to information about this data, as well as further information and a copy of the data in accordance with Art. 15 DSGVO.
6.2. You have accordingly. Art. 16 DSGVO the right to request the completion of the data concerning you or the correction of incorrect data concerning you.
6.3. In accordance with Article 17 of the GDPR, you have the right to demand that the data in question be deleted without delay or, alternatively, to demand restriction of the processing of the data in accordance with Article 18 of the GDPR.
6.4. You have the right to request to receive the data concerning you that you have provided to us in accordance with Article 20 of the GDPR and to request its transfer to other data controllers.
6.5. They have further pursuant to Article 77 DSGVO the right to lodge a complaint with the competent supervisory authority.

7. right of withdrawal
You have the right to withdraw consent granted pursuant to. Art. 7 par. 3 DSGVO with effect for the future.

8. right of objection
You may object to the future processing of data relating to you in accordance with Art. 21 DSGVO at any time. The objection can be made in particular against the processing for purposes of direct advertising.

9. cookies
We use temporary and permanent cookies, which are small files that are stored on users’ devices. In part, the cookies serve security purposes or are necessary for the operation of our online offer (e.g. for the display of the website) or to store the user decision when confirming the cookie banner. In addition, we or our technology partners use cookies for reach measurement and marketing purposes, about which users are informed in the course of the privacy policy.

A general objection to the use of cookies used for online marketing purposes can be declared for a large number of the services, especially in the case of tracking, via the U.S. site www.aboutads.info/choices/ or the EU site www.youronlinechoices.com. Furthermore, the storage of cookies can be prevented by disabling them in the browser settings. Please note that then not all functions of this online offer can be used.

10. deletion of data
10.1. The data processed by us will be deleted or restricted in its processing in accordance with Articles 17 and 18 DSGVO. Unless expressly stated in this privacy policy, the data stored by us will be deleted as soon as it is no longer required for its intended purpose and the deletion does not conflict with any statutory retention obligations. If the data are not deleted because they are required for other and legally permissible purposes, their processing will be restricted. I.e. the data is blocked and not processed for other purposes. This applies, for example, to data that must be retained for reasons of commercial or tax law.
10.2. According to legal requirements, the storage takes place in particular for 6 years in accordance with § 257 para. 1 HGB (commercial books, inventories, opening balances, annual financial statements, commercial letters, accounting vouchers, etc.) and for 10 years in accordance with § 147 para. 1 AO (books, records, management reports, accounting vouchers, commercial and business letters, documents relevant for taxation, etc.).

11. provision of contractual services
11.1. We process inventory data (e.g., names and addresses as well as contact data of users), contract data (e.g., services used, names of contact persons, payment information) for the purpose of fulfilling our contractual obligations and services pursuant to. Art. 6 par. 1 lit b. DSGVO. The entries marked as mandatory in online forms are required for the conclusion of the contract.

12. contact
12.1. When contacting us (by registration or e-mail), the user’s details will be used to process the contact request and its handling in accordance with the German Data Protection Act. Art. 6 par. 1 lit. b) DSGVO processed.
12.2. User information may be stored in our Customer Relationship Management System (“CRM System”) or comparable inquiry organization.

13. comments and contributions
13.1. When users leave comments or other contributions, their IP addresses are stored on the basis of our legitimate interests within the meaning of Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f. DSGVO stored for 7 days.
13.2. This is done for our security, in case someone leaves illegal content in comments and posts (insults, forbidden political propaganda, etc.). In this case, we ourselves may be prosecuted for the comment or post and are therefore interested in the identity of the author.

14. collection of access data and log files
14.1. We collect data on the basis of our legitimate interests within the meaning of Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f. DSGVO data about each access to the server on which this service is located (so-called server log files). The access data includes the name of the website accessed, file, date and time of access, amount of data transferred, notification of successful access, browser type and version, the user’s operating system, referrer URL (the previously visited page), IP address and the requesting provider.
14.2. Log file information is stored for security reasons (e.g. to clarify acts of abuse or fraud) for a maximum of seven days and then deleted. Data whose further retention is required for evidentiary purposes is exempt from deletion until final clarification of the respective incident.

15 Cookies & Reach Measurement
15.1. Cookies are pieces of information that are transmitted from our web server or third-party web servers to users’ web browsers, where they are stored for later retrieval. Cookies may be small files or other types of information storage.
15.2. Users are informed about the use of cookies in the context of pseudonymous reach measurement as part of this privacy policy.
15.3. If users do not want cookies to be stored on their computer, they are asked to disable the corresponding option in the system settings of their browser. Stored cookies can be deleted in the system settings of the browser. The exclusion of cookies can lead to functional restrictions of this online offer.
15.4. You can object to the use of cookies used for reach measurement and advertising purposes via the Network Advertising Initiative opt-out page (http://optout.networkadvertising.org/) and, additionally, the U.S. website (http://www.aboutads.info/choices) or the European website (http://www.youronlinechoices.com/uk/your-ad-choices/).

16. integration of third party services and content
16.1. Within our online offer, we use content or service offers of third-party providers on the basis of our legitimate interests (i.e. interest in the analysis, optimization and economic operation of our online offer within the meaning of Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f. DSGVO) content or service offers from third-party providers in order to integrate their content and services, such as videos or fonts (hereinafter uniformly referred to as “content”). This always assumes that the third-party providers of this content are aware of the IP address of the user, since without the IP address they would not be able to send the content to their browser. The IP address is thus required for the display of this content. We endeavor to use only such content whose respective providers use the IP address only for the delivery of the content. Third-party providers may also use so-called pixel tags (invisible graphics, also known as “web beacons”) for statistical or marketing purposes. The “pixel tags” can be used to evaluate information such as visitor traffic on the pages of this website. The pseudonymous information may also be stored in cookies on the user’s device and may contain, among other things, technical information about the browser and operating system, referring websites, time of visit and other information about the use of our online offer, as well as be combined with such information from other sources.