Protecting your personal data and your general personal rights in collecting, processing and using your personal data is important to us. Accordingly, we are committed to complying with the data protection laws in place. We have briefly summarized for you what we do to protect your data and what using our online offering will entail for you.

The term “personal data” refers to information that is expressly collected and used in order to determine your identity. This includes your name, your postal mail or e-mail address, for example. We store personal data in addition to access data only if you have provided them to us of your own free will, for example when you register with us, or when you take part in a survey, contact us to identify an appropriate partner for your needs, or subscribe to a newsletter. Personal data will be used only in the scope in which this is necessary, and only for the purpose that you have approved or that is legally admissible.

In order to enable us to comply with our contractual obligations, we will sometimes forward your data to partner companies of Global Produce Events (HK) Co., Limited., who will then process these personal data on our behalf. These services include, to cite some examples, ticketing services, construction services for stands and catalogue entries. Data will not be forwarded to third parties in any other way unless you have expressly agreed to this being done, or unless statutory provisions place us under obligation to forward them to public authorities.

As a user, you have the right to obtain information as regards to your personal data that have been stored, at no charge, if you request. Additionally, you are entitled to have these personal data corrected, blocked and deleted in accordance with the stipulations of the law.

Cookies are small text files that are used by many websites. Cookies are created while you are visiting our website and will be stored on your hard disk by our server. The cookies we use do not contain any information specific to an individual person. Most browsers are set to automatically accept cookies. Should you wish to prohibit the use of cookies, you have the option of activating this function in your browser. Of course, it is possible to visit our website also without cookies being activated. However, this may impair the functioning of our web offerings.

This website uses Google Analytics to collect visitor behavior data. The data is collected anonymously to be used for marketing and optimization purposes. All visitor data is saved using an anonymous user ID to aggregate a usage profile. Cookies may be used for this purpose. Using such cookies it is possible to recognize the visitor’s browser. The data collected will not be used to determine the personal identity of the website visitor or compiled with personal data pertaining to the user of the pseudonym unless agreed to separately by the person concerned. “You may prevent Google’s processing of the data (including your IP address) generated by the cookie and your use of the website (including your IP address) as well as the processing of this data by Google by downloading and installing the browser plug-in available under the following link: http://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=de

As an alternative to the browser plug-in, you can click this link to prevent the Google Analytics collection on this site in the future. An opt-out cookie is stored on your terminal. If you delete your cookies, you must click the link again.

Some of the websites operated by Global Produce Events (HK) Co., Limited. will contain links to other websites or will otherwise tie in with them. While we use appropriate care in reviewing these direct links, Global Produce Events (HK) Co., Limited. is not responsible for the content of the websites to which we have set a link. Exclusively the provider of the website to which a link was set will be held liable for illegal, erroneous or incomplete content as well as for damages resulting from the use of such information. Moreover, Global Produce Events (HK) Co., Limited. is not responsible for the content of websites providing links to our pages.

Global Produce Events (HK) Co., Limited. reserves the right to modify the present data protection guidelines at any time, subject to the requirements under data protection law.