Welcome
We’re glad you chose to visit an BEGE Expo (“BEGE Expo Ltd.”) site! We care about your privacy and the information you share with us and want you to understand how we are using and protecting the information we collect about you. BEGE Expo Ltd. is respectful of data privacy and adopts best practice in compliance with applicable privacy law and regulations, including the EU General Data Protection Regulation (“GDPR”).
Use of this website
This privacy policy describes the information we collect from you and how it may be stored and processed by BEGE Expo in the territory of the EU as described below.
This website, and associated BEGE Expo Ltd. events and publications provide products, content, and services for a professional and consumer audience and is not intended for individuals under the age of 18 years old. We do not knowingly collect or store personal data provided by anyone under 18 years of age.
If you are a European Union (EU) resident, please note that there are a number of provisions in this privacy policy that apply uniquely to you.
This Document Describes
– What information we collect and how we collect it
– How we safeguard your personal data
– How we use your data and applicable legal basis
– When and how we share your personal data with others
– How long we keep your personal data
– Your rights and preferences
– How can we help? Getting in touch
What information we collect
Information you give us: We collect any information you provide to us, for example when you register an account with us, register to attend one of our events (whether as a delegate, exhibitor speaker or attendee) or subscribe to our mailing list. This information might include your name, address, email address, phone number, credit card information and other information relevant to the event or service that you’re registering for.
Information we collect about you: We will collect any information contained in any correspondence between you and us via contact forms on websites, and emails or telephone calls.
We may collect, for the purposes of any events that we operate badged access for, information about your location in and engagement with the event. For example, for certain events, access will be granted via a badge which holds your registration details including personal information. You will be required to use your badge to gain access to the event.
We collect information about you visiting our website and how you use it. This may include your IP address, geographical location, device information, browser type, referral source, length of visit, operating system, number of page views, which pages you viewed and similar information. This information may be collected by a third party website analytics service provider on our behalf and/or may be collected using cookies. We also use cookies and pixels in our emails to track delivery and open rates, the results of which are stored against your email address and profile. For more information on cookies please refer to our Cookie Policy.
Information we receive from third parties: We may collect information about you from third parties that we work closely with for the purposes of delivering to you the services that you request from us. For example, we may engage third parties to assist us with our newsletter marketing campaigns (Mailchimp & SendPulse), payment systems (Weemss), accommodation services (Stanley Comfort Travel), catering services (Eurocatering), logistics (Expo Logistics) and construction (Inter Expo Center, Prefix), software services (Intellistack), hosting services (ETN Hosting); these entities will collect information directly from you on our behalf. We may engage third parties to operate event websites on our behalf; these entities will collect information directly from you about your visits to the website on our behalf.
We may also receive information about you from third parties where you have consented to such third party sharing your information with us.
How we receive information
We may collect your personal data when you register to receive any of the products, content or services offered by BEGE Expo Ltd. or its third-party sponsors (“sponsors”) such as publications, subscriptions, contests, newsletters, memberships, video, white papers, online seminars, conferences and events.
BEGE Expo
This website is one of many that BEGE Expo Ltd. and its group of undertakings operates, all of which we collectively refer to as the BEGE Expo Ltd.. Where permitted by law, we may share the personal data we collect about you with another BEGE Expo company so that we can provide you with information about products, content and services that might interest you, and for internal analytical and business development purposes. Please click here for a list of the organizations included in the BEGE Expo Ltd..
How do we safeguard your personal data?
Security of your personal data
BEGE Expo Ltd. maintains safeguards which include technical and organizational security measures to protect your personal data from loss, misuse, unauthorized use, access, inadvertent disclosure, alteration, and destruction, and we require the third parties we contract with to support BEGE Expo Ltd.’s business operations to employ reasonable security measures as well (see “When and how we share your information with others” below).
We update and test security on an ongoing basis and restrict access to your personal data to only those who need to know in order to provide BEGE Expo Ltd.’s products, content or services to you.
Storage of your personal data
We may store your personal data using BEGE Expo Ltd.’s own secure on-site servers or other internally hosted technology. Your personal data may also be stored by third parties, via cloud services or other technology, to whom BEGE Expo Ltd. has contracted with, to support BEGE Expo Ltd.’s business operations (see “When and how we share your information with others” below).
These third parties do not use or have access to your personal data other than for cloud storage and retrieval, and BEGE Expo Ltd. requires such parties to employ at least the same level of security that we use to protect your personal data (see “Security of your personal data” above).
How we use your data and applicable legal basis
We may use your information for the following purposes, depending on the relationship we have with you. Prior to submitting your personal data to us, we will provide you more specific information where necessary about how we will use your data, and link you to this privacy policy.
| We use personal data to: | The purpose of this is: | The applicable legal basis: |
| Provide you with information that you have requested from us, in relation to events and publications we run, or other services we provide (for example online webinars and e-newsletters). | We will need to use your contact details to keep you updated about the products or services you have indicated you are interested in. | By specifically requesting information from us, you are consenting to us using your personal data for the purposes of communicating such information to you. |
| For general administration and organisation of our events, for example to contact you with information about an event or conference that you’re exhibiting at, or attending. | We will need to use your details for planning and logistics, to invoice you, to provide you customer service in relation to the event, and general administration of your attendance at the event.
Please note that we may also share your personal data with other entities, such as newsletter marketing campaigns (Mailchimp & SendPulse), payment systems (Weemss), accommodation services (Stanley Comfort Travel), catering services (Eurocatering), logistics (Expo Logistics) and construction (Inter Expo Center, Prefix), software services (Intellistack), hosting services (ETN Hosting)
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Where you have registered to attend or exhibit at an event, we need to use your personal data in this way to perform our contractual obligations to you. Where you are attending an event but do not have a contract with us (for example you received free tickets), it is our legitimate interest to use your personal data for general administration and logistics of the event. |
| To keep in contact with you about other similar events or services of ours that may be of interest to you, or for research purposes after an event you have attended. | To keep you up to date on similar events or services you have previously purchased from us in the past. To analyse the effectiveness of our products and offerings to you. | It is our legitimate interest to keep you up to date on similar events of ours you have attended our exhibited at in the past. Where we rely on legitimate interests in this way, we will always offer an opt out, and unsubscribe option on any marketing information we send you. |
| Pass on your contact details to our logistics partners to enhance your experience at an event you have signed up to exhibit or sponsor at. | We engage logistic partners in order to enhance your experience at our events, such as engaging stand builders, electricity providers, carpeting, furniture, WIFI providers etc. | Where we need to share these details with such logistic partners in order to perform the contract we have with you, the legal basis would be the performance of a contract.
In other circumstances, we have a legitimate interest to provide the details to our partners, because these services are required for a seamless exhibition experience, and it is in your interest to be provided with this information. If you prefer us not to share these details with our logistics partners, you can us indicate by letting us know during the contracting process. |
| Analyse user traffic to measure use of our websites and improve their content. | We may use information such as your IP address for analytical purposes of our pages, this could also include improving the content of our websites and services. For more information, please refer to our Cookie Policy | We have identified web analytics as a legitimate interest of our business, and allow us to better meet your needs as a customer. |
When and how we share your personal data with others
In certain circumstances we may share your personal information with:
- Selected third parties that we work with, where necessary for the purposes of delivering to you services that you request from us. For example, when you register to attend an event that we host, we may need to share your information with third party sub-contractors, service providers or other BEGE Expo entities. Where we use such third parties, we enter contracts which ensure that the third party is obligated to provide at least the same level of data protection as BEGE Expo entity entering into that contract, and we take reasonable, appropriate steps to ensure that the contractor effectively processes the personal data in a manner consistent with this Privacy Policy and our internal policies relating to the protection of Personal Data. Such third-parties are:
- Eurocatering – the official catering provider of Bege Expo
- Stanley Comfort Travel – tthe official accommodation and visa service provider – partner of Bege Expo
- Inter Expo Center – for construction services
- Prefix – for construction services
- Expo Logistic – official provider of logistic services
- Weemss – payment system provider (for more information, regarding the Privacy Policy of Weemss, please visit this link: https://weemss.com/privacy/)
- Any other Bege Expo entity or selected third party that you consent to our sharing your information with for marketing purposes (such consent will be sought prior to our sharing of this data). Such third-parties might be:
- Mailchimp – e-mail marketing platform provider (for more information, regarding the Privacy Policy of Mailchimp, please visit this link: https://mailchimp.com/legal/privacy/ )
- Send Pulse – e-mail marketing provider (for more information, regarding the Privacy Policy of SendPulse, please visit this link: https://sendpulse.com/legal/pp )
- Intellistack – software services provider
- ETN Hosting – hosting services provider
- Any other third parties where necessary to enable us to enforce our legal rights, or to protect the rights, property or safety of our employees or where such disclosure may be permitted or required by law.
- Please, be informed that some of the third-parties that we work with might export data to countries outside of the EU.
How long we keep your personal data
We retain your personal data for the duration of your business relationship with us, and we hold your information only as long as necessary for each purpose we use it, unless we have obtained your consent to use for another or similar purpose.
Your rights and preferences
If you inform us that you want your personal data erased, or that you no longer wish for us to communicate with you for marketing purposes, or to otherwise restrict BEGE Expo Ltd.’s processing of your personal data, we may retain some basic information in order to avoid sending you unwanted materials in the future, and to keep a record of your request and our response.
Confirming your personal data
This section shall apply to any personal data collected by BEGE Expo Ltd. from EU residents.
To confirm that BEGE Expo Ltd. is processing your personal data, or to access, update or correct the personal data BEGE Expo Ltd. holds about you, or to obtain a copy to reuse for your own purposes, please send an email to: dpo@balkangamingexpo.com
If you want to edit or correct your personal data, please send an email to: dpo@balkangamingexpo.com
Erasing your personal data
This section shall apply to any personal data collected by BEGE Expo Ltd. from EU residents.
If you want your personal data erased, please send an email to: dpo@balkangamingexpo.com
To opt-out of marketing communications
If you want BEGE Expo Ltd. to stop communicating with you for marketing purposes, please send an email to: info@balkangamingexpo.com
To restrict processing of your personal data
If you want to otherwise restrict BEGE Expo Ltd.’s processing of your personal data, please send an email to: dpo@balkangamingexpo.com
- If you want to object, according to art. 21 from Regulation 2016/679, please send an email to: dpo@balkangamingexpo.com
- If you don’t want to be a subject of solution, based on automated processing, including profiling, please send an email to: dpo@balkangamingexpo.com
Privacy measures for data protection, introduced by Bege Expo Ltd.
Bege Expo ltd. Has introduced privacy measures for effective protection of the processed personal data, in order to allow the subjects to apply the rights provided in Regulation 2016/679. Our company has adopted internal regulation for data prodection, as well as Procedures, applicable for communication in the event of complaint, data transfers, data processing transparency, requests from the subjects, consent acceptance, notification in the event of security violation, storing and erasure of documents and other technical measures, which serve to provide security for the personal data.
In our organization, your personal data is accessible only by people, whose job functions include access to data for the purpose of the activities, they were gathered and processed for in the first place. In the contracts of all our employees and third-parties, that process your personal data, we include clauses about data privacy.
COOKIE POLICY
In our websites we use identification technologies like cookies.
| Cookie | Origin | Term | Category | Description |
| pll_language | www.balkangamingexpo.com | 1 year | Statistics | This cookie is used to determine the preferred language of the visitor and sets the language accordingly
on the web site, if possible. |
| _ga | www.balkangamingexpo.com | 2 years | Statistics | Registers a unique ID that is used to generate statistical data on how the visitor uses the web site. |
| _gat | www.balkangamingexpo.com | Session | Statistics | Used by Google Analytics to throttle request rate |
| _gid | www.balkangamingexpo.com | Session | Statistics | Registers a unique ID that is used to generate statistical data on how the visitor uses the web site. |
| CookieConsentBulkTicket | cookiebot.com | 1 year | Preferences | Enables cookie consent across multiple web sites |
| CookieConsent | www.balkangamingexpo.com | 1 year | Necessary | Stores the user’s cookie consent state for the current domain |
| fr | www.facebook.com | 3 months | Marketing | Used by Facebook to deliver a series of advertisement products such as real time bidding from third party
advertisers. |
| r/collect | www.doubleclick.com | Session | Marketing | This cookie is used to send data to Google Analytics about the visitor’s device and behavior. It tracks the
visitor across devices and marketing channels. |
| tr | www.facebook.com | session | Marketing | Unclassified |
How can we help? Getting in touch
Questions, concerns or complaints:
If you have any questions, concerns or complaints about BEGE Expo Ltd.’s personal data practices or this Privacy Policy, we encourage you to get in touch with our Data Protection Officer.
If you believe you have suffered harm due to a breach of your rights by BEGE Expo Ltd. under this Privacy Policy, and BEGE Expo Ltd. has not handled your complaint in a reasonably sufficient manner, any EU resident may also file a complaint with the applicable supervisory authority.
Commission for personal data protection, address: 1592 Sofia, 2 Prof. Tsvetan Lazarov Blvd. (www.cpdp.bg)
The contact information for BEGE Expo Ltd. is
ID: 175441675
7 Kukush Str.
1345 Sofia, Bulgaria
E-mail: info@balkangamingexpo.com
Telephone: 00359 2 812 9 482/ 00359 2 812 9 474
Feedback
Your feedback is important to us. We’d love to hear your ideas, opinions and comments about BEGE Expo Ltd.’s services. Please email: info@balkangamingexpo.com