Privacy policy

1. GENERAL OVERVIEW

The www.argentina.messefrankfurt.com website (the "MFA website") is operated by Messe Frankfurt Argentina.

The company commits to protect the privacy of the MFA website users (the "Users"). The aim of this Privacy Policy is to inform Users how we will use the personal data they provide us through this website, though this shall not be applicable to the information we obtain in any other way. This Privacy Policy is aimed to all Users of the MFA website.

The terms "You" and "User" are used here to refer to all individuals and/or legal entities that, for any reason, access the MFA website.

Messe Frankfurt Argentina has adopted the legally required security levels for Personal Data protection, and has installed all media and technical measures available to avoid the loss, misuse, alteration, non-authorized access and theft of Personal Data provided by the User to www.argentina.messefrankfurt.com. However, the User should be aware that security measures in Internet are not always reliable.

This Privacy Policy is exclusively applied to personal data that Users provide to www.argentina.messefrankfurt.com through this website, though this shall not be applicable to the information that the company Messe Frankfurt Argentina obtains in any other way.

Personal Data Protection:

"The holder of the personal data has the right to access them free of charge in intervals not lower than six months, except that there is a legitimate interest to do it according to what is set in article 14, paragraph 3, Act Nbr. 25,326."

"The NATIONAL DIRECTION OF PERSONAL DATA PROTECTION, a Control Body of Act Nbr. 25,326 has the power of dealing with reports and complaints submitted in relation to the breach of personal data protection standards."

2. OBTAINING AND WITHHOLDING INFORMATION

To navigate the MFA website you don’t need to provide us any personal information. In some areas of the MFA website, it requires or may require that You provide personal data, including your name and last name, email address, telephone number, nationality, province, from which your identity could be deduced.

Besides, Messe Frankfurt Argentina obtains or may obtain certain personal information on your use of the MFA website, such as to which pages you access or which services you use. Besides, there is information on your computer hardware and software which is or may be collected by Messe Frankfurt Argentina. This information may include your IP address, browser type, domain names, access hours and references to web sites addresses, though this information is not linked to your personal data.

To delete your account please select the burger menu in the app, then choose Messe-Login. There you’ll find a link to directly delete your account.

Webtrekk

Messe Frankfurt GmbH uses the services of the company Webtrekk GmbH. Webtrekk GmbH collects, stores and analyses data from its headquarters at Robert-Koch-Platz 4, 10115 Berlin, Germany. The company has been certified for data protection in the area of web controlling in Germany based on inspection of their data processing with regard to data protection compliance and data security.

When you use Messe Frankfurt GmbH's online offering, the Webtrekk GmbH places a cookie on your device. This cookie allows Webtrekk GmbH to collect, store and analyse usage data. The collected usage data is made anonymous by truncating the IP address. It is therefore not possible for Webtrekk to identify you personally as a visitor of the Messe Frankfurt service. The truncated IP address is used solely for the session ID and geolocation (down to city level). For more information about Webtrekk's privacy policy, visit https://www.webtrekk.com/en/legal/opt-out-webtrekk/. A cookie called "webTrekkOptOut" has to be placed on your device to prevent Webtrekk from collecting usage data. The Cookie is available here. Once the cookie has been stored on your device, no usage data will be collected.

MediaMath

Like most digital marketing platforms, MediaMath uses cookies, mobile ad IDs and other technologies to improve users' online experiences and display more relevant ads, while also optimizing ad delivery and reporting via the platform. None of these technologies are used individually or as a whole through the platform to identify individuals. Instead, they are used to identify a computer or a mobile device with a certain level of certainty, so can the platform can work well and provide more relevant ads.

If you don't want MediaMath to provide advertisements on your computer or mobile device, which are specifically tailored to your interests, please click here and follow the instructions

Aumago

Messe Frankfurt GmbH works together with a target group marketer. For this purpose cookies are placed on our websites which collect or contain anonymous use data for use-based online advertising (online behavorial targeting "OBA"), such as the nature of the website visited, categories visited and/or product pages and/or which browser and terminal has been used for this. The user can either delete the cookies at any time directly in the browser or manage his cookie-preferences at www.networkadvertising.org/choices or deactivate the cookies of the target group marketer Aumago GmbH at www.krux.com/krux_privacy/consumer_choice.

DoubleClick by Google

DoubleClick by Google is a service provided by Google Inc., 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA ("Google"). DoubleClick by Google uses cookies to display advertisements that are relevant to you. A pseudonymous identification number (ID) is allocated to your browser to check which ads are displayed in your browser and which ads are clicked on. The use of Google's DoubleClick cookies allows Google and its partner sites to display ads based on previous visits to our site and other websites on the internet. The Google DoubleClick cookies do not contain any personally identifiable information. Occasionally, the cookie will contain an additional, anonymous identifier to identify a campaign, with which a user has previously come into contact. The web behaviour can not be allocated to a specific person. The information generated by the cookies is transferred to and stored on a server in the United States for evaluation by Google. The collected data are evaluated only for statistical purposes and in an anonymous way. Google will only transfer data to third parties within the legal confines or as part of data processing. Google will not bring together this data with other data that the company collects. However, there is a possibility of this if you are actively signed into your Google account.

You can prevent the storage of cookies by adjusting your browser settings, but please be aware that you may not be able to fully use all the features of our website in this case. You can also prevent transfer to Google of the data generated by the cookies and the data related to your use of the websites or processing of this data by Google by visiting this site  yand then downloading and installing the DoubleClick deactivation browser plugin. As an alternative, you can disable the DoubleClick cookies on the Digital Advertising Alliance website.

Feathr

We use the retargeting technology called "Feathr" to contact this website's visitors again at a later time within the Feathr partner network as part of remarketing campaigns based on the visitor's previous user behaviour on this site using cookies. If you would like to receive no further targeted ads through Feathr, please refer to the "Your Opt-Out Options" section at https://www.feathr.co/privacy-policy. In order to do so permanently, your browser must allow the use of cookies.

In addition to this, we use cookies to advertise to specific target groups. We also allow data providers or other automatic data collection tools to our cookies, so that can support us in providing our own content and ads as well as in measuring the effectiveness of our advertising campaigns. These cookies can provide de-identified demographic or other data linked with data that you have provided us (e.g., your email address) and which we exclusively share with data providers in hashed form that cannot be read by humans. The data collected from registered users on our websites are not anonymous. We use this information together with other information we know or derive about you (e.g., your preferences) to tailor content, services and advertising so that it is more relevant to you. You can prevent the display of interest-based advertising on our site by blocking these cookies.

We do not forward any information to these advertisers and other third parties, which make you directly identifiable. The advertisers and other third parties (e.g., ad networks, ad agencies and possibly other service providers commissioned by them) can only assume that users who interact with or click on personalized advertisements or content belong to the target group, to whom the ad or content is addressed.

Facebook

We use the retargeting technology of Facebook to contact this website's visitors in the social network at a later time. This is done as part of remarketing campaigns based on the visitor's previous user behaviour on this site using cookies.  If you don´t want to receive additional targeted alerts through Facebook, please see the "How do I manage or delete information about me?" section. In order to do so permanently, your browser must allow the use of cookies.

In addition to this, we use cookies to advertise to specific target groups. We also allow data providers or other automatic data collection tools to our cookies, so that can support us in providing our own content and ads as well as in measuring the effectiveness of our advertising campaigns. These cookies can provide de-identified demographic or other data linked with data that you have provided us (e.g., your email address) and which we exclusively share with data providers in hashed form that cannot be read by humans. The data collected from registered users on our websites are not anonymous. We use this information together with other information we know or derive about you (e.g., your preferences) to tailor content, services and advertising so that it is more relevant to you. You can prevent the display of interest-based advertising on our site by blocking these cookies.

We do not forward any information to these advertisers and other third parties, which make you directly identifiable. The advertisers and other third parties (e.g., ad networks, ad agencies and possibly other service providers commissioned by them) can only assume that users who interact with or click on personalized advertisements or content belong to the target group, to whom the ad or content is addressed.

3. USE OF YOUR PERSONAL DATA

Messe Frankfurt Argentina will automatically deal with the Personal Information for the purposes and under the conditions set up in this Privacy Policy.

Messe Frankfurt Argentina has no access, and will not try to have it, to Users' Personal Data, except for that data that the User provides by his/her own free will. The User guarantees that the Personal Data provided to Messe Frankfurt Argentina are true, current, and accurate, and he/she is responsible to inform the company any change thereof.

Your personal data are required for you to be informed on any of the organizer's events and for registration to exhibitions and/or congresses.

Furthermore, Messe Frankfurt Argentina uses the data obtained in the MFA website, whether personal, demographic, collective or technical, to administrate and manage your registration, reply to any query you may pose, operate and improve the MFA website and contact the User offering the service issued in the MFA website.

If you has accepted when register in the MFA website or later, or if it is allowed by the applicable laws, Messe Frankfurt Argentina may use your contact information to send you an email or other communications related to the MFA website updates.

In the MFA website there is an area in which You can contact Messe Frankfurt Argentina and send your comments. Messe Frankfurt Argentina may use these comments (such as a successful experience) for promotion purposes or to contact You with the aim of getting additional information.

4. DISCLOSING INFORMATION TO THIRD PARTIES

Messe Frankfurt Argentina does not disclose to third parties your personal data, personal and demographic information, combined or information on your use of the MFA website (such as the areas you visit or the services to which you access), except in the following cases:

1. Messe Frankfurt Argentina may disclose Users' personal data to third parties if the holder of said data gives his/her consent.
   
   
2. Messe Frankfurt Argentina may disclose Users' personal data to companies and individuals which we use to perform functions on behalf of us. The functions performed on behalf of us include hosting in our network servers, data analysis, marketing assistance service and customer services. The companies and individuals will have access to your personal data to the extent that is necessary to perform their functions, but they may not share said information with any third party or use said data for any other purpose. Messe Frankfurt Argentina will retain the control of any information shared this way and will be responsible for said information.
   
   
3. Messe Frankfurt Argentina may disclose Users' personal data if it were legally required to do it, if it were requested by an official or legal entity or by a regulatory authority or if we deem in good faith that this action is necessary for: (a) following legal requirements or fulfilling a legal process; (b) protecting the rights or assets of Messe Frankfurt Argentina (c) avoiding a crime or protecting the national security, or (d) protecting the personal security of Users or the audience.
   
   
4. Furthermore, when providing your personal data to Messe Frankfurt Argentina, you are authorizing it to communicate your personal information to other users, entities or third parties when there are enough reasons to consider that a User's activity may be suspected of trying to commit or actually committing an offense or trying to harm other people.

5. OTHER USES OF INFORMATION

Messe Frankfurt Argentina may also share anonymous collective information on visitors to the MFA website with its customers, partners and other third parties with the aim of keeping them updated on the type of visitors and how these visitors use the MFA website.

6. USE OF BEACONS AND COOKIES

The MFA website may contain electronic images known as "Web beacons" (sometimes called "single-pixel gifs") which allow us to count how many visitors have entered the MFA website. The Web beacons are not used to access your identifiable personal information which is stored in www.argentina.messefrankfurt.com, but they are a technique we use to collectively create statistics on the use of the MFA website.

Web beacons collect only a limited set of data, including cookie number, time and date of the visit to a site and a description of the site in which the Web beacon resides.

Since Web beacons are as any other request of contents included in a page, You can't deactivate or reject them. However, you can make them ineffective by deactivating cookies or changing the cookies setup in your browser.

7. ACCESS, UPDATE, RECTIFICATION OR DELETION OF YOUR DATA

You can review, correct, update, change or delete your personal data by simply sending an email to info@argentina.messefrankfurt.com or calling at +54 11 7078 4800.

If you wish to revoke your consent to our Privacy Policy, please contact through the same way mentioned in the previous paragraph. However, please have in mind that if you revoke your consent, you won’t be able to use the corresponding services and your personal data will be deleted from the MFA website registration account.

8. SECURITY

Messe Frankfurt Argentina has implemented proper technical and organizing measures which are designed to guarantee the security of your personal information against accidental losses and non-authorized access, use, alteration or disclosure. In particular, all the data are encrypted (i.e., are codified between your computer and Messe Frankfurt Argentina servers). In spite of these measures, Internet is an open system and we can't guarantee that non-authorized third parties may never breach said measures or use your personal information for improper purposes.

9. CHANGES IN THE PRIVACY POLICY

Messe Frankfurt Argentina reserves the right to modify this Privacy Policy, at any time and the number of times it deems convenient, without previous notice to Users. The User has the obligation to enter periodically to the Privacy Policy with the aim of knowing the changes and/or additions made by Messe Frankfurt Argentina; the mere use of the MFA website will imply the acceptance of the current Privacy Policy by the User.

If you have any query or doubt regarding the Privacy Policy, please contact via email to info@argentina.messefrankfurt.com or call at +54 11 7078 4800.