General Conditions of Use: CeMAT Network - The powerful event network for intralogistics

A General information

Deutsche Messe operates a registration service for trade fair visitors, exhibitors and journalists, both for its own shows as well as for hosted events staged by other organizers.

Registration gives you the following benefits:

Access to the Fair Planner: registered users can transfer all exhibitor and event data from website search results lists into the new Fair Planner for annotation and further processing.
Bookmarks: registered users can bookmark their favorite pages. This information will be stored.
Access to customer-group-specific information: information that is carefully tailored to your needs as a visitor, exhibitor or journalist.

Please note that the scope of registration services offered may vary depending on the needs of particular shows.

We need to be able to identify you in order to be able to provide these tailored services. For this reason, we will ask you to provide certain items of personal information during the registration process. This may include information such as your correct name, residential/business address and postal address. All details you provide for registration purposes must be true and valid. We will keep you informed of important changes regarding the use of our Internet services and the registration procedure.

B The registration process

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C Special conditions for specific service offerings

In addition to these terms of use, the individual service offerings to which registration gives you access are subject to special conditions. See the following pages for details.

C-1 Trade fair planner

The event data that you store in your trade fair planner will be kept there for you until we publish the data sets for the next event in the series online (the data for the next event in the series will generally be published eight to six weeks prior to the event).

They will then be deleted, including any date information and notes you may have added.

In each case, we will send you an e-mail advising you that your data are about to be deleted from the trade fair planner.

All data generated from searches of our database and stored in your personal trade fair planner will be automatically updated whenever the relevant data in our database is updated; for example, if event dates noted in your planner are changed or exhibitor locations are changed.

Although we create, maintain and update all our database content with great care, we make no warranty and accept no liability whatsoever that the information provided is accurate, correct, or up-to-date.

We have special back-up measures in place to secure the integrity of the data you generate from searches of our database and store in your trade fair planner. However, we make no warranty and whatsoever that data stored in your trade fair planner will remain intact.

All liability in this regard is hereby expressly excluded. We use only the latest, high-performance technology and the most carefully-written programming for our online service.

However, we can not guarantee that you will always have full, error-free online access to the data you generate from searches of our database and store in your trade fair planner.

C-2 Bookmarks

The bookmarks you have stored consist of URLs. We continually update our Internet content. As a result, it is possible that the pages to which your stored URLs refer may have been changed or deleted.

C-3 Customer-group-specific information

Although we will exercise our best endeavors to target our Internet content to your particular customer group (visitor, exhibitor, journalist), we cannot guarantee that the information we provide is up-to-date or complete.

D Data protection

D-1 Personal data

Pursuant to Germany's Federal Data Protection Act (BDSG), we are subject to a strict duty of care when processing the personal data that you provide to us.

Deutsche Messe reserves the right to use any personal data provided by its website users for the purpose of statistical evaluation aimed at tracking usage patterns and tailoring our information services for greater relevance to certain target groups.

This applies both to data expressly provided by yourself and to data automatically stored by the system (e.g. IP address, date and time, pages viewed).
Throughout the process, stringent data security standards are applied.

For more information on the topic of data protection in Germany, see: http://www.bfd.bund.de.

D-2 Providing personal data to third parties

Personal data is not passed on to any third parties, with the following exception: Personal data is made available to the Deutsche Messe representative responsible for the website user’s country of origin.

In all other cases, personal data is only disclosed to third parties if and when the user expressly agrees to this in advance.

D-3 Questions and comments

Questions, suggestions or comments regarding data protection and the disclosure of personal data to third parties should be sent via e-mail to Deutsche Messe's Data Protection Officer at: datenschutz(at)messe.de .

E Right of revocation

You may at any time direct Deutsche Messe to delete your personal data or refrain from using it for contacting you.

You may at any time delete the user profile you created and activated during registration. To do this, simply access your profile online and click on "Delete profile".

Our personalized service relies on the personal data you provide. If you revoke your permission for the use of your personal data, then we will no longer be able to provide this personalized service to you.

F Information service

When registering for certain trade fairs, you will be asked to indicate whether you would like to receive information by post or e-mail.

If you do not wish to receive this type of information, you can remove your details from the mailing list at any time by clicking on the relevant link.

We will keep you informed of important changes regarding the use of our Internet services and the registration procedure.

G Security

Deutsche Messe stores your personal data on specially protected servers in Germany.
Access is restricted to a small group of authorized persons who are empowered by Deutsche Messe to administer the technical, commercial and content-related aspects of the server.

H Copyright

All copy, layout, images, diagrams and functions on our websites are protected by intellectual-property law, including but not limited to copyright law and trademark law.

No page or part thereof may be used, reproduced, altered or distributed, whether in electronic or hard-copy form, without the express permission of Deutsche Messe.
Infringements will be prosecuted to the limits allowed under civil and criminal law.

I Disclaimer

I-1 Content

Our websites contain comprehensive information on the Deutsche Messe group and its activities and events. All content is carefully researched and regularly checked and updated. We cannot however guarantee or assume any liability for the accuracy, completeness or relevancy of the information posted there.

You’ll find information posted by our CeMAT partners on our CeMAT Network websites (cemat-network.com). These pages will bear the following label: “Partner of the CeMAT Network”. These partners are exclusively responsible for the content of the partner Web pages as well as any press releases by said partners; Deutsche Messe assumes no liability for this content.

I-2 Error-free operation

We use only the very latest, high-performance web technology for our web pages.
Notwithstanding this, we accept no liability whatsoever for any impeded availability or transmission of the content and data on our web pages.

I-3 Links to other websites

Some of Deutsche Messe's web pages contain links to external websites.
Although we take all reasonable care to check these sites, we have no direct control over their content.
No link to an external website constitutes a recommendation or endorsement of the content or material on that website.
Accordingly, we accept no responsibility or liability whatsoever for the content of external websites to which our web pages contain links.
Likewise, we accept no responsibility for the content of external web pages that contain hyperlinks to our web pages.

J Use of cookies

Cookies are ASCII files (cookie.txt) in which text information is collected during your online session and stored.
Your WWW browser determines where the cookies are stored on your hard disk.
Cookies contain information that is sent back to the host server during your next online visit.
They can be read only by the server that originally placed them on your hard disk.
Deutsche Messe and service providers acting on behalf of Deutsche Messe only employ cookies that are absolutely necessary for providing user functionality, aiding users in navigating our websites or for gathering market statistics.
This information is not made available to any third parties ? cookies are used solely for the above-mentioned purposes.
This information is not made available to third parties - cookies are used solely for the above-mentioned purposes.
As the default setting, most browsers automatically accept cookies.
You can deactivate this function at any time, and set your browser to notify you whenever a cookie is sent.

K Advertising

Some of Deutsche Messe's web pages contain advertising banners and buttons. This advertising is delivered by external ad servers.
The data collected in connection with this online advertising (e.g. ad impressions, ad clicks) is used exclusively for statistical purposes, for the purpose of generating reports for our advertising clients.
It does not contain any personal data.
Any advertising delivered to your computer may or may not contain cookies.
Deutsche Messe has no influence on whether or not advertising cookies are sent.