Privacy Policy

Data Security

1. Data recording by interpack.com




interpack.com collects two kinds of information on its users: data provided directly by users who opt to
register voluntarily at the interpack.com website, and tracking information obtained largely from the
marking of individual pages on the website. This information allows interpack.com to be even more
effective in gearing its content to users' needs, and to recognize the demographic breakdown of visitors
to the site more effectively. interpack.com does not pass on information on individual users to any third
parties. interpack.com uses the following methods to gather information about its users:

1.1 Registration




interpack.com is a marketplace for business-to-business communication. Although many of interpack.com's
features are also available to anonymous users, registration offers users a number of personal
advantages, including the ability to call up functions and content items on the basis of their own
identity. When registering, a user provides various information required to permit the execution of data
base transactions, such as the user's name, a password, the delivery address, email address, and country
of domicile.

1.2
Survey




The interpack.com website may sometimes invite users to take part in interactive surveys, offering them
a simple means of interchanging views with other users and finding out what interpack.com visitors'
position is on key topics of interest. Surveys can be used, too, to tailor its content and services even
more closely to the interpack.com clientèle. The site uses a system in which users are "marked" once they
have voted, thus preventing them from voting more than once on any particular survey question.
Information obtained in this marking process is not correlated with the information stored on
individual users.



At its own discretion, interpack.com may also pass on the demographic information obtained from such
surveys to users of the interpack.com site and/or to other business associates. However, interpack.com will
not, at any time, pass on any specific information on individual users to third parties.

1.3 Message boards /
forums




interpack.com may offer message boards or forums, allowing users to enter into animate, asynchronous
conversations on a variety of topics. interpack.com requires users to register before they can post any
messages, even if they do not intend to make any transactions on the site.

1.4 Electronic
newsletters (dispatches)




The interpack.com website may provide its users with free electronic newsletters, and it maintains a
record of the email addresses of users who have voluntarily subscribed to these. A user can delete
his/her name from the interpack.com subscriber's list at any time by following the instructions sent out
with each new newsletter. Users may be given the chance to subscribe to the newsletters during the
registration process, and subscription offers may also appear on the interpack.com website at various
points and at various times.

1.5 Prize competitions, loyalty
programmes




interpack.com may occasionally offer loyalty programmes or prize competitions, in which it asks users to
supply certain information. These promotional activities are carried out fully in accordance with current
laws and regulations. The rules of all such programmes and competitions will be clearly spelled out
while they are in operation. Whatever information is gathered will be used solely to verify a user's
identity and to notify competition or other prize-winners, or participants who have been awarded
points. Here too, interpack.com will not pass on any information about specific users to any other
parties.

1.6 Site-use tracking




interpack.com tracks the movement of users throughout the website. However, interpack.com does not
correlate the tracking data in any way with the information it holds on individual users of the site.
interpack.com classifies site-use statistics according to a user's domain name, the type of browser used
and the MIME type in which the browser string (information contained in each user's browser) is read.
interpack.com also notes and catalogues the search terms entered in the site's own search engine, but
the tracking of these terms is never linked to identifiable individual user information.

1.7 Cookies




A cookie is a small file that some websites generate, which is written on to the user's hard disk every
time (s)he visits a particular site. A cookie file may contain information such as the user identification
number that allows the website to track the particular pages the user has visited. Cookies enable
registered members to access various parts of the interpack.com website without the need to log in
afresh each time, and allow them to visit the restricted, members-only areas of the website. Cookies are
not used to store or transmit individual user information.



2. Using and Passing On Information
2.1 Use of information




interpack.com makes use of all information voluntarily provided to it by users in order to expand upon
each user's experience with interpack.com, to introduce interactive or personalized elements into the
website on the basis of users' interests, or better to develop future content for the site. As described
above, interpack.com uses the information voluntarily provided by users to send out electronic
newsletters and to allow users to participate in opinion surveys and use message boards. interpack.com
may distribute newsletters to subscribers at regular intervals (daily, weekly or monthly, depending on
the type of newsletter) and also occasionally send out special announcements if it believes subscribers
may be particularly interested in a certain interpack.com activity. interpack.com never divulges its
newsletter address lists to any promotion firm, business associate or other third party. interpack.com uses its tracking data to assess customers' likes and dislikes by counting the frequency with which
particular pages on the website are visited. interpack.com does not track which pages are read by which
individual users, only how well the page is received by users in general. This helps interpack.com to
provide a continually improving service. interpack.com tracks the search terms entered into the site's
own search engine as one of many ways of establishing what kind of products users are looking for.
interpack.com does not record what terms any particular user has searched for.

2.2 Passing on information




interpack.com uses the various types of information described above to tailor its services to users' needs.
This is vitally important, to make sure the service provided by interpack.com is as good as it can be.
interpack.com does not pass on information concerning individual users to any third parties.

3. Opt-out
policy




interpack.com offers its users options whenever this is necessary and practicable. These include the
option offered at the time of registration not to receive electronic newsletters and order-status e-mails
from interpack.com, the option not to disclose certain personal details when registering for the
interpack.com website (see above), and the option not to participate in certain interactive areas of the
site, including the interpack.com marketplace, thus obviating the need for interpack.com to record any
user information at all.

4.
Corrections and updates policy




interpack.com gives users the opportunity to correct or modify the information recorded at the time of
their registration with the interpack.com website (see above). To make these changes, it is sufficient to
call up the user profile, click on the "Edit" link and make the necessary changes to the information,
which is then shown in its new form. Users may make such changes at any time and whenever
necessary. If any user encounters problems while doing so or would like to ask any questions about the
way the interpack.com services operate, (s)he can mail interpack.com at this address: interpack@messe-duesseldorf.de.

5. Deletion and deactivation policy




Users may cancel their subscriptions to all electronic newsletters or order-status e-mails issued by
interpack.com at any time by following the instructions given at the end of all such communications.