Data protection/
Legal notice

Collection, processing, use and transmission of personal data

We collect your personal data when you provide it to us in order to use one of our services (e. g. inquiries, newsletter/event registrations, blog comments, etc.). These data are processed and/or used by us exclusively for the execution of the respective service.

Registration for events

When you register for our medical conferences and training courses, we collect the following personal data from you:

• Name, title
• Clinic/practice/institution
• Phone number
• Email address
• Occupation
• ÖÄK number (for physicians)
• Billing address
• Program booking details
• Free text comments

This data is processed exclusively for the purpose of processing your registration, organizing your participation, conducting the event, and providing you with all necessary information.

Legal basis
Processing is carried out in accordance with Art. 6 (1) (b) GDPR (performance of a contract) in connection with your registration and in accordance with Art. 6 (1) (c) GDPR (legal obligation) with regard to tax and commercial law retention obligations.

Disclosure to third parties
In order to process the payment, the data necessary for the payment transaction (e.g., name, billing data, payment information) will be passed on to our payment service provider Unzer GmbH. The legal basis for this is also Art. 6 (1) lit. b GDPR. Further information on data protection at Unzer can be found at: https://www.unzer.com/de/datenschutz/.

Beyond that, we do not pass on your data to third parties unless we are legally obliged to do so or you have given us your express consent.

Storage period
We only store your personal data for as long as is necessary to carry out the event and beyond that in accordance with the statutory retention periods (usually 7 years under Austrian tax law).

Rights of data subjects
You have the right to obtain information about the data stored about you, to have incorrect data corrected, to request the deletion or restriction of processing, or to object to processing, provided that this does not conflict with any legal retention obligations. You also have the right to lodge a complaint with the competent data protection authority.

Registration for the livestream platform

If you register for an event with livestream, we will also use the data provided during registration (in particular your email address) to automatically create a user account on our online event platform www.convention-live.at, which will give you access to livestreams and digital content. An automatically generated password will be assigned for this purpose. The legal basis for this is Art. 6 (1) (b) GDPR (performance of a contract).

Cookies

Use of cookies

Cookies to improve the functionality of our websites
Among other things, we use cookies to better understand how our websites are used and to improve their attractiveness, content and functionality. Cookies help us, for example, to determine which subpages of our website are visited and what content users are interested in. For this purpose we use Flash cookies and loading time optimization cookies. In particular, these so-called first party cookies record the number of visits to a page, the number of sub-pages viewed, the time spent on our websites, the sequence of pages visited, which search terms have led you to us, the country, region and, if applicable, city from which access is made, which operating system and which Internet browser with which language setting you use, as well as the proportion of mobile terminals that access our websites. We also capture movement, clicks and scrolling with the computer mouse to understand which areas of our site are of particular interest to visitors. The IP address of your computer transmitted for technical reasons is automatically anonymised and does not allow us to draw any conclusions about you.

Cookies for use-based online advertising
We also reserve the right to use information that we have obtained by means of cookies from an analysis of the usage behaviour of visitors to our websites in order to display specific advertising for certain of our products on our own websites. We believe that you as a user will benefit from this because we display advertisements or content that we believe, based on your browsing habits, are appropriate to your interests and you will therefore see less randomly scattered advertisements or certain content that is less likely to interest you.

Please note that cookies do not damage your device (PC, Smartphone, Tablet). The cookies we use do not store any personal data that identifies the user. The encrypted information obtained in this way is only used to improve the quality of your navigation on our website. For example, these can be helpful in identifying and fixing errors on the website. Furthermore, we have the possibility to suggest further interesting and possibly relevant products to the visitor of the website.

We provide this information in full compliance with current legislation. Furthermore, we guarantee our integrity and transparency with regard to your privacy while using our website. We are constantly working to improve our site in terms of cookies and privacy.

More information about cookies can be found on the following websites: http://www.allaboutcookies.org/ and http://www.youronlinechoices.eu/.

Cookies can perform several tasks: efficiently navigate between pages, recognize preferences, and enhance the navigation experience on the page.

The convention.group reserves the right, subject to the user's consent, to use cookies where required by law or applicable policy to facilitate navigation of the site and to personalize the information provided. The convention.group also reserves the right to use similar systems to collect information from website users, such as IP address, web browser and operating system used and/or websites visited by the user, for statistical or security purposes. The convention. group is authorized to collect this information in order to improve the use of the website and other aspects. The information below provides a brief overview of how convention.group uses cookies and similar tools.
 

Cookies to navigate

These cookies are essential to move around the site and to use features such as blocked areas of the site.

Cookies that are absolutely necessary are used to store the unique characteristics of a user and thus to distinguish him from all other visitors to the website and to be able to offer the user a service of constant quality.

Performance Cookies

These cookies may be from third parties or temporary or permanent. Their use is limited to the performance and improvement of website features. These cookies collect information about the behaviour of the visitor to the website, e. g. which pages he has visited. These cookies do not collect any information that can identify you. All information collected by these cookies is generated anonymously and used only to improve the functionality of the site.

Functional Cookies

These cookies can be from www.conventiongroup.at – or third parties or temporary or permanent. These cookies are usually created by an action of the user. However, they can also be built in if you offer the user a specific service that he has not specifically requested. They can also be used to prevent a user from being offered an already offered and rejected service again. In addition, these cookies enable the website to remember a choice made by the user (e. g. username, language, country of origin, etc.). This information collected by the cookies is anonymous and cannot collect the user behavior on other websites.

This could be, for example:

• Remember the settings that the user has set for a website; e. g. layout, font size, preferences, colors, etc.
• Remember a selection you made, so users don't have to fill out another questionnaire.
• Detect if a service has already been offered; e. g. a tutorial has already been offered during a previous visit to the website.
• Provide information providing access to an optional service - e. g. Live Chat Session
• To make a user request, e. g. submit a comment

How can I deactivate cookies?

Although most browsers automatically accept cookies, you can also refuse them. It is recommended not to disable this feature, as this could mean that undisturbed and free movement on the site with all its features will not be possible.
If you do not want your computer to accept and store cookies, you can change the security settings of your browser (Internet Explorer, Google Chrome, Safari, etc. ). In any case, we would like to draw your attention to the fact that parts of our website can only be used to their full extent if your browser accepts cookies. Your decision to remove or reject cookies may therefore have a negative effect on your visit to the site.
If you wish to change your cookie settings, please find below a few short instructions on how to do this in the most popular browsers:

Microsoft Internet Explorer
Click on the Tools field in the upper right corner and select Internet Options. In the pop-up window, select the Privacy tab. Here you can change all your settings for cookies.

Google Chrome
Click the Customize and adjust Google Chrome icon in the upper right corner, then select Settings. Under Show advanced settings you can change the settings in the Privacy area.

Mozilla Firefox
Select Settings from the pull-down menu in the upper right corner. Under Privacy you can change the settings of the cookies.

Safari
Click Settings, and then click the Privacy dialog box. Here you can change the settings of your cookies.

If you would like to learn more about cookies - how to edit or decline third party cookies or marketing cookies visit www.youronlinechoices.com

To decline analytical cookies and prohibit Google Analytics from collecting your navigation data, download the Browser Add-on to disable Google Analytics https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout.

Google Analytics 4 (GA4)

This website uses features of the web analytics service Google Analytics 4 (GA4). The provider is Google Ireland Limited, Gordon House, Barrow Street, Dublin 4, Ireland. The parent company is Google LLC, 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA.

Google Analytics 4 uses cookies or similar technologies that enable an analysis of your use of our website. The information collected in this way about your use of this website is usually transferred to a Google server and stored there.

IP anonymization
IP addresses are not permanently stored in GA4. Your IP address is only used by Google for the duration of the technical transmission and is then anonymized.

Legal basis
Processing is carried out exclusively on the basis of your consent (Art. 6 (1) (a) GDPR), which we obtain via a consent banner. You can revoke your consent at any time with effect for the future.

Data transfer to the USA
Google may also process data in the USA. Google is certified under the EU–US Data Privacy Framework (DPF), ensuring an adequate level of data protection.

Further information on data use by Google can be found in Google's privacy policy:
https://policies.google.com/privacy?hl=de
Further information on Google Analytics can be found here:
https://support.google.com/analytics/answer/6004245?hl=de

Google Ads Conversion Tracking

This website uses Google Ads. The provider is Google Ireland Limited, Gordon House, Barrow Street, Dublin 4, Ireland. The parent company is Google LLC, 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA.

We use conversion tracking as part of Google Ads. If you click on an ad placed by Google, a conversion tracking cookie is set. This cookie expires after 30 days and is not used for personal identification. If you visit certain pages on this website while the cookie is still valid, we and Google can recognize that you clicked on the ad and were redirected to our site.

Conversion tracking tells us the total number of users who clicked on our ads and were redirected to a page tagged with a conversion tracking tag. However, we do not receive any information that can be used to personally identify users.

Legal basis
The storage and evaluation of data is based exclusively on your consent (Art. 6 (1) (a) GDPR). You give this consent via our consent banner and can revoke it at any time with effect for the future.

Data transfer to the USA
Google also processes data in the USA. Google is certified under the EU–US Data Privacy Framework (DPF), ensuring an adequate level of data protection.

Further information on Google Ads conversion tracking can be found in Google's privacy policy:
https://policies.google.com/privacy?hl=de

and in the Google Ads settings:
https://www.google.com/settings/ads