Information on the collection of personal data in accordance with the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)

Below you will find an overview of where we collect and process your personal data and your rights under the GDPR.            

Names and contact details of the Controller

the responsible party is

Mesago Messe Frankfurt GmbH

represented by Presidents Petra Haarburger and Martin Roschkowski

- all hereinafter referred to as Mesago and can be reached at -  

Rotebühlstraße 83-85

70178 Stuttgart

Germany

Telephone: +49 711 61946 0

Email address: info@mesago.com

You can reach the data protection officer for these companies at:

Mesago Messe Frankfurt GmbH
 Data Protection Office
 Rotebühlstraße 83-85

70178 Stuttgart

Germany
 Telephone: +49 69 75 75 53 35
 Email adress: privacy@mesago.com

Purposes for which personal data are processed and their legal basis

Cookies & Co.

Mesago uses a Cookie Consent Tool to inform you about cookies and similar technologies on our websites and applications. If necessary, we request and document your consent to the setting of cookies. The legal basis is point (a) of Article 6 (1) GDPR, § 25, Para. 1, S.1 TTDSG. 

The data is stored in the European Union. The data is deleted as soon as it is no longer required for the proof of the information provided and consent to the cookies and there are no legal storage obligations to the contrary.

You can permanently prevent the execution of the Cookie Consent Tool at any time by making the appropriate settings in your browser. However, this would also prevent us from informing you about cookies.

You can access the Cookie Consent Tool via the following link. Here you can find out about the purpose, duration and recipient of the cookie data and, if you wish, also revoke your consent at any time.

Here you can manage your cookie settings.

Log files

When you visit our websites, Mesago stores the IP address, the time of access, the URL requested and the browser used. Messe Frankfurt uses this data to detect errors in the execution of the pages and to ensure the IT security of websites and applications as well as their availability. The data is deleted after 90 days. The legal basis for this is point (f) of Article 6 (1) GDPR. 

Social media

Some of the social media icons merely contain links to Mesago's appearances on these platforms, without any data being transmitted by their activation. If we would like to show you content from social media (e.g. Twitter, Facebook) and data could be collected from the social media platforms as a result, we will ask you for your consent in advance (point (a) of Article 6 (1) GDPR). For this purpose, we use the above-mentioned Cookie Consent Tool, via which you can find out about the cookies and, if you wish, also revoke your consent at any time.

Registration and Login

It is possible to search for and retrieve job advertisements without registering or logging into your user account. In order to publish job advertisements or manage your job search 

(e.g. with search alerts or notes), an account must be opened. This requires at least the name or company, e-mail address and a self-defined password.

The legal basis for this is point (b) of Article 6 (1) GDPR. You can delete your account at any time, but then the job advertisement must also be closed. Please contact us for deletion.

Recipients of personal data

Only those recipients that have a compelling need to access your data in accordance with the above-mentioned purposes will be granted access to it. In this context, order processors and other service providers used by us may also receive data. These are companies in the category of IT services, call centre services and telecommunications. We have commissioned evolver portals GmbH from Chemnitz / Germany with the administration of the career portal. We have concluded the legally required contractual regulations with these service providers in accordance with Article 28 GDPR, on purpose limitation, confidentiality and, where necessary, secrecy. Beyond this, we only pass on data if regulations permit or require this or you have consented to this.

Transfer to third country 

Depending on your use social media platforms, data may be transmitted to recipients in third countries. However, as mentioned above, we will inform you of this in advance. In the context of remote maintenance of standard IT components, it cannot be ruled out in individual cases that an IT service provider from a third country may, in rare cases and to a limited extent, gain access to personal data for troubleshooting purposes. However, data will only be transferred if the third country has been confirmed by the EU Commission as having an adequate level of data protection or has concluded EU standard contractual clauses.   

Automated decision-making & Profiling

We do not use automated decision-making or profiling for the listed processing purposes.

Your rights under GDPR

With regard to the personal data concerning you, you have the following rights under the GDPR.

You have the right to obtain confirmation as to whether or not your data are being processed and about how we collect, process and store this data, Article 15 GDPR.

You can demand the rectification of inaccurate data or completion of incorrect or incomplete data, Article 16 GDPR.

According to Article 17 of the GDPR, you have the right to demand the erasure of data, e.g. if the data is no longer required or is being processed unlawfully, if you have withdrawn your consent or declared an objection to the processing. Under certain circumstances, erasure can only take place when there are no longer any legal obligations to archive data.

You can also request the restriction of data processing under the conditions of Article 18 GDPR.

In certain cases, you have the right to receive the personal data concerning you that you have provided to us in a structured, commonly used and machine-readable format. At the same time, you have the right to transfer this data to another controller or, if technically feasible, to have it transferred by us, Article 20 GDPR.

Pursuant to Article 7 (3) GDPR, you may revoke your consent to the processing of your personal data at any time with effect for the future. 

Pursuant to Article 21 GDPR, you have the right to object to the processing of your personal data to protect the legitimate interests of us or a third party (point (f) of Article 6 (1) GDPR), unless we can prove compelling reasons for the processing that merit protection.

In addition, you have the right to lodge a complaint pursuant to Article 77 GDPR in conjunction with. § 19 BDSG, you have the right to lodge a complaint with a data protection supervisory authority, such as the data protection authority of Baden Württemberg.

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