Privacy Policy

Due to the nature of a public voting process, much of the data you enter will be visible to the public. Please consider this while entering your proposal. We are aware that you’ll be interested in how we handle your personal information. And we can assure you that this will be undertaken conscientiously at all times. For more details, please see below:

Email Addresses
All email addresses will be kept totally private. This means that we won’t publish or sell them, and will only use them to contact their respective owners. By entering an email address, whether your own or someone else’s, you grant us permission to use them. We won’t spam anyone, but be prepared to receive the occasional mail about the conference.

Web Analytics
This website uses Google Analytics, a web analytics service provided by Google, Inc. (“Google”). Google Analytics uses “cookies”, which are text files placed on your computer to help the website analyse how you use the site. The information generated by the cookie about your use of the website will be transmitted to and stored by Google on servers in the United States. We take your data privacy concerns seriously and do not store full IP addresses. Your IP address is truncated beforehand for Member States of the European Union as well as for other parties to the Agreement on the European Economic Area. In exceptional cases only, the full IP address is sent to a Google server in the United States and shortened there. Google will use this information for the purpose of evaluating your use of the website, compiling reports on website activity for website operators, and providing other services relating to website activity and internet usage to the website provider. Google will not associate your IP address transmitted by your browser in connection with Google Analytics with any other data held by Google. You may refuse the use of cookies by selecting the appropriate settings on your browser software. However, please note that if you do this, you may not be able to use the full functionality of this website. Furthermore, you can prevent Google’s use of data generated by the cookie and related to your use of the website (including your IP address) and prevent the use of the data by Google by downloading and installing the browser plug-in available using the following link. The current link to use is: www.tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=de

Use of Facebook Social Plugins
Our website uses social plugins (“plugins”) provided by the social network facebook.com, operated by Facebook Inc., 1601 S. California Avenue, Palo Alto, CA 94304, USA (“Facebook”). The plugins are identifiable by a Facebook logo (white letter f on blue background or a thumb up icon) or the notice “Facebook Social Plugin”. For a full list of all social Plugins please see developers.facebook.com/plugins.
When you visit a page of our website that contains a social plugin, your browser establishes a direct connection to Facebook servers. Facebook directly transfers the plugin content to your browser which embeds the latter into the website, enabling Facebook to receive information about your having accessed the respective page of our website. Thus we have no influence on the data gathered by the plugin and inform you according to our state of knowledge: The embedded plugins provide Facebook with the information that you have accessed the corresponding page of our website. If you are logged into Facebook, your visit can be assigned to your Facebook account. If you interact with the plugins, for example by clicking “Like”, or entering a comment, the corresponding information is transmitted from your browser directly to Facebook and stored by it. Even if you are not logged into Facebook, there is possibility that the plugins transmits your IP address to Facebook.
For information on the purpose and scope of data collection and procession by Facebook, as well as your rights in this respect and settings options for protecting your privacy please visit Facebook’s privacy policy: www.facebook.com/policy.php.
If you are a Facebook member and do not want Facebook to connect the data concerning your visit to our website with your member data already stored by Facebook, please log off from Facebook before entering our website. Further you can block Facebook social Plugins by using add-ons for your browser, like the “Facebook Blocker“.

Social plug-ins from Twitter

With Twitter and its Retweet functions, we use social plug-ins from Twitter.com, operated by Twitter Inc. 795 Folsom St., Suite 600, San Francisco, CA 94107. If you use Retweet, the websites visited by you are announced to third parties and associated with your Twitter account. Details about handling of your data by Twitter as well as your rights and setting options for protecting your personal information can be found in Twitter’s data privacy policy: http://twitter.com/privacy

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