Data Protection Declaration
Your privacy is important to us. So we take compliance with data protection regulations seriously. Below we would like to inform you about the purposes for which your data is collected and used and how you can exercise your rights. You can access and print out the data protection declaration at any time via the „Data protection“ link at the bottom of each page.
Our EDP systems are protected by technical and organisational measures against access, change or distribution of your data by unauthorised persons, as well as against loss and destruction.
Purpose and legal basis of data processing
We store your data only for the fulfilment of your requests, the fulfilment and processing of contracts (including payment processing and, if applicable, credit assessment) and our own advertising purposes. The processing is carried out on the basis of the current data protection laws.
If you have an enquiry, are getting is to prepare an offer or are concluding a contract with us, we will process your personal data. Depending on the type of contract, this will include your surname(s), first name, address, email address, telephone number/fax number, birth date/place, bank data and VAT ID, if applicable. We store and process this data in our customer administration for the fulfilment and processing of the contract as well as for our own advertising purposes. Your data may be forwarded to our sales partners (official dealers), responsible sales representatives or country representatives to enable faster processing. Your data will not be passed on to any other third parties.
Only authorized persons of MattermindEvents have access to the data in our customer administration. BGS customer data management is based on the protection of the legitimate interests of MattermindEvents and facilitates compliance with data protection regulations on data accuracy and data transferability.
Use of cookies
We use cookies on our website to make using our web pages easier for you. Cookies are small text files that are stored on your hard drive for the duration of your visit to our website and are deleted again when you are finished using the browser, depending on the setting of your browser program. Storing cookies can be switched off or deactivated in your browser’s settings. Session cookies are automatically deleted when you close your browser. Persistent cookies survive when the browser is closed.
Use of our contact form/applicant form
The personal data that you provide us with and/or upload as part of the use of the contact and application form will only be used to answer your enquiry or contact and for the associated technical administration. The data will not be passed on to third parties.
You have the right to revoke the consent given by sending the form with effect for the future at any time. In this case your personal data will be deleted immediately.
Your personal data will also be deleted without your revocation if we have processed your request or if you revoke your consent to its storage. This also happens if the storage is inadmissible for other legal reasons.
Consent to the collection, processing and use of your personal data for identifying and preventing misuse by Profile Tracking
With your consent to our data protection declaration you agree that we collect, process and use your above-mentioned data for the purpose of identifying and preventing misuse. In particular, your consent includes the possibility that you may be recognized on further visits to our website in order to automatically check whether there are any indications of misuse of our website. Your online profile data is used by the MattermindEvents exclusively to detect and prevent abuse (fraud prevention).
This consent can be revoked at any time with effect for the future. By phone: +491629846848 or by e-mail: info@mattermindevents.de This information is required for security reasons.
Google Web Fonts
For a uniform representation of fonts we use web fonts on our website. These are provided by Google. When you call up a page, your browser loads the required Web fonts into your browser cache so that texts and fonts are displayed correctly.
To do this, the browser you are using must connect to Google’s servers. Google becomes aware that our website has been visited via your IP address. We use Google Web Fonts for the uniform and appealing presentation of our online offers. This represents a legitimate interest within the meaning of Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f DSGVO.
If your browser does not support web fonts, a standard font is used by your computer.
Further information about Google Web Fonts can be found at https://developers.google.com/fonts/faq and in Google’s privacy policy: https://www.google.com/policies/privacy/.
Google Maps
Using an API we use the map service Google Maps from Google Inc, 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA.
It is necessary to save your IP address to use the features of Google Maps. This information is usually transferred to a Google server in the USA and stored there. As the provider of this website, we have no influence on this data transmission.
We make use of Google Maps to ensure an appealing presentation of our online offers and an easy location of the places we have indicated on the website. This represents a legitimate interest within the meaning of Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f DSGVO.
You can find more information on the handling of user data in Google’s data protection declaration: https://www.google.de/intl/de/policies/privacy/.
Google ReCAPTCHA
We use „Google reCAPTCHA“ (hereinafter „reCAPTCHA“) on our websites. Provider is Google Inc, 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA („Google“).
The purpose of this service is to check whether the data input on our websites (e.g. in a contact form) is carried out by a person or by an automated program. For this the behavior of website visitors is analyzed by reCAPTCHA on the basis of different characteristics. This analysis starts automatically when the website visitor visits the website. For the analysis reCAPTCHA evaluates various information (e.g. the time the website visitor stays on the website, the IP address or mouse movements made by the user). The data collected during the analysis is then forwarded to Google.
Website visitors are not separately informed that the reCAPTCHA analyses are running in the background.
Data processing is carried out on the basis of Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f DSGVO. We as website operators have a justified interest in protecting our web offers from abusive automated spying and from SPAM.
Further information about Google reCAPTCHA and Google’s privacy policy can be found at: https://www.google.com/intl/de/policies/privacy/ and https://www.google.com/recaptcha/intro/android.html.
Data processing for advertising purposes
We will only use your data for our own advertising purposes. We do want to inform you about new products, our services and events of interest. So we will also use your data to recommend certain products, services or events that may be of interest to you in addition to your purchases. We only evaluate purchase history and send corresponding advertising by post or email to existing customers for products and services of BGS technic KG, taking into account your legitimate interests. We only use email with your consent, which you can revoke at any time with effect for the future by emailing us at: info@mattermindevents.de.
Newsletters will only be sent to you on the basis of separate consent.
Further information on your rights can be found in the section „Rights of persons concerned“.
Duration of data storage
We store your data for as long as required for the respective purpose.
Rights concerned
Your rights as a data subject are comprehensively guaranteed by MattermindEvents.
Objection to advertising
You can object to the use of your data for advertising purposes without incurring any costs other than the transmission costs according to the basic rates. The following contacts are available for this purpose.
Address: Neue Bohle 61, 50321 Brühl, Germany
E-Mail: info@mattermindevents.de
Revocation of consent
You can revoke your consent to the processing of personal data at any time with effect for the future.
Right of objection
You have the right to object at any time to the processing of your personal data on the basis of the following provisions for reasons arising from your particular situation:
Processing is necessary for the performance of a task in the public interest or in the exercise of official authority conferred on the controller, or
Processing is necessary to safeguard the legitimate interests of the data controller or a third party, unless the interests or fundamental rights and freedoms of the data subject, which require the protection of personal data, prevail, in particular where the data subject is a child.
If you file an objection, we will no longer process your personal data in this case, unless we can prove compelling reasons worthy of protection for the processing, which outweigh your interests, rights and freedoms, or the processing serves to assert, exercise or defend legal claims. This also applies to profiling based on these provisions.
Further rights
The following rights are available to you with regard to your stored personal data:
– Information
– Correction
– Deletion or restriction of processing
– Objection to processing
– Data portability
– Right of appeal to regulators.
Contacts: How can I exercise my above rights?
To exercise your rights, you can use the contact form or contact customer service at E-mail info@mattermindevents.de , the data protection officer (see above) or the person responsible (see above).
We will process your enquiries immediately and free of charge in accordance with the legal requirements and inform you of the measures we have taken.
Update and change
The data protection declaration must be adapted from time to time to the current circumstances and legal situation. Please check the data protection declaration before using our website to keep up to date with any changes or updates.