Privacy Policy

Protecting Your Information:
If you are in the European Economic Area (EEA), please see the GDPR privacy statement that went into effect on December 1st, 2019.

The Conference Center & Inn is committed to protecting the information we collect at www.stayatclemson.com or that you otherwise furnish to us. The Conference Center & Inn has implemented a security program with our web design and maintenance firm to keep information that is stored in our systems protected from unauthorized access. All personal information you provide is encrypted and secure. Please read the security policy on the Conference Center & Inn website www.stayatclemson.com for more information.

Our Site is hosted in a secure environment. Our website servers/systems are configured with data encryption or scrambling technologies, and industry-standard firewalls. When you enter personal information during the reservation process or during a customer email sign-up, your data is protected by Secure Socket Layer (SSL) technology to ensure safe transmission.

Privacy Policy:
At the Conference Center & Inn, the privacy and confidentiality of user information are important. The Conference Center & Inn is committed to maintaining the privacy and security of your user information. The Conference Center & Inn may update this in the Conference Center & Inn Privacy Policy from time to time so please check here frequently. The Conference Center & Inn will not disclose identifiable user information to any third party without consent.

Our goal is to provide you with an Internet experience that delivers the information, resources, and services that are most relevant to you. To achieve this goal, part of the operation of www.stayatclemson.com includes the gathering of certain types of information about Site users.

Because the Conference Center & Inn understands that your privacy is important, the Conference Center & Inn wishes to explain the types of information that is gathered and the way in which the Conference Center & Inn uses it. This Privacy Policy applies to www.stayatclemson.com.

This Privacy Policy covers two types of information gathered at www.stayatclemson.com, personal and aggregated. The term "personal information" refers to data you voluntarily provide in connection with the use of www.stayatclemson.com that identifies you and/or the company on whose behalf you are accessing and using www.stayatclemson.com. Personal information includes data submitted in connection with our services such as your name, e-mail address, phone number, company affiliation, physical address, and/or certain other personal information. The term "aggregated data" refers to general information regarding visitors and users of www.stayatclemson.com that relates to the use of the Conference Center & Inn website such as traffic patterns, number of visits to certain pages, visits from sites other than the Conference Center & Inn web sites or to third-party web sites linked to the Conference Center & Inn website, use of particular services and interest in services, information or features of www.stayatclemson.com or other parties made available through or found at www.stayatclemson.com.

What Information Is Collected About You? how Does the Conference Center & Inn Use It?
The Conference Center & Inn takes care to ensure that the personal information you provide is not misused. You may wish to submit an information request about the Conference Center & Inn or the James F. Martin Inn, participate in one of our promotions, or subscribe to our e-mail or postal mail lists. If so, the Conference Center & Inn may ask for your name, address, or other contact information. The Conference Center & Inn will only use such information for the purpose authorized by you at the time you submit the information gathering form.

Information Collected on Www.Stayatclemson.Com May Be Used To:

Register you as an At the Conference Center & Inn or James F. Martin Inn member
Plan and purchase At the Conference Center & Inn accommodations
Enter your email address in our promotions
Send marketing communications or surveys to you
Respond to your questions or suggestions
Improve the quality of your visit to our Site

All forms will provide an opt-out button allowing you to choose not to participate in the Conference Center & Inn lists and future online marketing. In deciding whether to join such lists, please note that they are only used for Conference Center & Inn purposes or in joint promotions with Conference Center & Inn partners. The Conference Center & Inn does not sell, rent, or share any of your personal information with any other party including any third-party joint promoters, nor does it use it for unapproved commercial purposes. You may request to be removed from our lists at any time. All emails distributed to our lists will contain easy online means to unsubscribe.

Permission for Use:
The Conference Center & Inn may collect and use personal information that you submit at www.stayatclemson.com in any manner that is consistent with uses stated in this Privacy Policy or disclosed elsewhere at www.stayatclemson.com at the point you submit such personal information. At the time you submit personal information or make a request, the intended use of the information you submit will be apparent in the context in which you submit it and/or www.stayatclemson.com will disclose the intended purpose. By submitting personal information at www.stayatclemson.com you are giving your consent and permission for any use that is consistent with uses stated in this Privacy Policy or disclosed elsewhere at www.stayatclemson.com at the point you submit such personal information. Please do not submit information on behalf of an individual other than yourself or a company if you are not authorized to do so.

Secure Reservations:
If you decide to make an online reservation at www.stayatclemson.com, you will be linked to a reservation interface and a third-party Booking Engine. While it appears to be part of our Site, the Booking Engine is in fact provided by a third party and is governed by its own privacy practices. The Conference Center & Inn understands that security remains the primary concern of online consumers and have chosen the Booking Engine Vendor carefully.

Withdrawing Consent to Use:
If, after permitting the use of your personal information, you decide that you no longer want the Conference Center & Inn to contact you or use your personal information, simply send an e-mail to the Conference Center & Inn or click the “Unsubscribe” button at the bottom of our email communication to you.

Use of Aggregated Data:
The Conference Center & Inn is interested in improving www.stayatclemson.com and may develop and offer new features and services. The Conference Center & Inn monitors aggregated data regarding the use of www.stayatclemson.com for marketing purposes and for studying, improving, and promoting the use of www.stayatclemson.com. In connection with such purposes, the Conference Center & Inn may share aggregated data with third parties collectively and in an anonymous manner. Disclosure of aggregated data does not reveal personal information about individual site users in any way that identifies who they are or how to contact them.

Notwithstanding the Privacy Policy's limits concerning the use of personal information, the Conference Center & Inn may disclose information in the following circumstances:

The Conference Center & Inn may monitor and, when the Conference Center & Inn believes in good faith that disclosure is required, disclose information to protect the security, property, assets, and/or rights of the Conference Center & Inn from unauthorized use or misuse of www.stayatclemson.com or information at www.stayatclemson.com.
The Conference Center & Inn may disclose information when required by law; however, only to the extent necessary and in a manner that seeks to maintain the privacy of the individual.

To enable features at www.stayatclemson.com, the Conference Center & Inn may assign one or more "cookies" to your internet browser. Cookies, among other things, speed navigation through our Site, keep track of information so that you do not have to re-enter it each time you visit our Site, and may provide you with customized content. A cookie is an internet mechanism composed of a small text file containing a unique identification number that permits the Conference Center & Inn web server to send small pieces of information or text by means of your browser and place them on your computer's hard drive for storage. This text lets the Conference Center & Inn web server know if you have previously visited the Conference Center & Inn web page. Cookies by themselves cannot be used to find out the identity of any user.

The Conference Center & Inn uses cookies to collect and maintain aggregated data (such as the number of visitors) to help us see which areas are most popular with our users and improve and update the content on our Site. While in the process of browsing our Site you also provide us with information that doesn't reveal your personal identity, what type of destination you're exploring for example. The Conference Center & Inn uses this aggregated data only as explained in this Privacy Policy. The Conference Center & Inn does not connect aggregated data to any name, address, or other identifying information.

You may occasionally receive cookies from unaffiliated companies or organizations to the extent that they place advertising on our Site or are linked to www.stayatclemson.com. These third-party cookies may collect information about you when you "click" on their advertising or content or link. This practice is standard in the internet industry. Because of the way in which the internet operates, the Conference Center & Inn cannot control the collection of this information by these third parties, and these cookies are not subject to this Privacy Policy.

Children's Privacy & Parental Consent:
Please be aware that the Conference Center & Inn has not designed this Site for and does not intend for it to be used by anyone under age 18. Accordingly, the Conference Center & Inn website should not be used by anyone under age 18. Our privacy policy prohibits us from accepting users who are under the age of 18. The Conference Center & Inn specifically requests that persons under the age of 18 not use this Site or submit or post information to www.stayatclemson.com. Should the Conference Center & Inn inadvertently acquire personal information or other data from users under the age of 18, the Conference Center & Inn will not knowingly provide this data to any third party for any purpose whatsoever, and any subsequent disclosure would be due to the fact that the user under age 18 used www.stayatclemson.com and submitted personal information without solicitation by or permission from the Conference Center & Inn.

Links Provided to Other Sites:
The Conference Center & Inn may provide links to several other than the Conference Center & Inn web sites that the Conference Center & Inn believes might offer you useful information and services. However, those sites may not follow the same privacy policies. Therefore, the Conference Center & Inn is not responsible for the privacy policies or actions of any third parties including, without limitation, any web site owners whose sites may be reached through this Site, nor can the Conference Center & Inn control the activities of those web sites. The Conference Center & Inn urges you to contact the relevant parties controlling these sites or access their on-line policies for the relevant information concerning their data collection practices before submitting any personal information or other sensitive data.

Your Consent to This Privacy Policy:
Use of www.stayatclemson.com signifies your consent, as well as the consent of the company for whom you use www.stayatclemson.com and whose information you submit, if any, to this on-line Privacy Policy including the collection and use of information by the Conference Center & Inn as described in this statement and also signifies agreement to the terms of use for www.stayatclemson.com. Continued access and use of www.stayatclemson.com without acceptance of the terms of this Privacy Policy relieves the Conference Center & Inn of responsibility to the user.

Policy Modifications & Contacting at The Conference Center & Inn:
The Conference Center & Inn reserves the right to change this Privacy Policy at any time; notice of changes will be published on this page. Changes will always be prospective, not retroactive. If you have questions about the Conference Center & Inn website policies, please contact:

The Conference Center & Inn
240 Madren Center Drive
Clemson, SC 29634

Phone: 864-654-9020 or 888-654-9020
Email: Info@stayatclemson.edu

GDPR Privacy Statement

As of December 1, 2019:
If you are in the European Economic Area and the Conference Center & Inn collects personal data relating to you in the context of the offering of goods or services, even if provided free of cost, or if the Conference Center & Inn collects data when monitoring your behavior which takes place within the European Economic Area, your personal data will be subject to Regulation (EU) 2016/679 (General Data Protection Regulation, “GDPR”).

In this Privacy Statement, the Conference Center & Inn will inform you about how the Conference Center & Inn processes and uses personal data which is subject to the GDPR and on the specific rights you have in connection with your personal data which is subject to the GDPR.

Please note that this Privacy Statement applies only to personal data which is subject to the GDPR and therefore expressly does not apply to (a) data which is not personal data such as data on corporations or other legal entities and (b) personal data not falling within the scope of the GDPR such as personal data of data subjects who are not in the European Economic Area.

Information on Use of Cookies and Similar Technologies and Processing in the Context of Visiting Our Conference Center & Inn Website:
Information the Conference Center & Inn Collects:
When you visit our website, our server will temporarily record the domain name or IP address of the requesting computer, the access date, the file request of the client (file name and URL), the HTTP response code, the Conference Center & Inn website from which you are visiting us, the number of bytes transferred during the connection and, if applicable, other technical information that the Conference Center & Inn uses and statistically evaluates for the technical implementation of the website’s use (delivery of the content, guaranteeing the Conference Center & Inn website’s functionality and security, protection against cyberattacks and other abuses).

It is necessary to store and process the information referred to above for the duration of your session in order to deliver our website content to your computer. The Conference Center & Inn also store some of this information in the log files of our servers. The Conference Center & Inn will not combine this information with your IP address or other personal data relating to you except as disclosed below. This processing will take place for the fulfillment of the existing contract of use with you, as far as it serves the purpose of the technical implementation of the Conference Center & Inn website use (legal basis for processing: Art. 6 no. 1 lit. b) of the GDPR) and to otherwise protect our legitimate interest in making our website as user-friendly, safe, and attractive as possible and in promoting the sale of our products and services (legal basis for processing: Art. 6 no. 1 lit. f) of the GDPR). The Conference Center & Inn will assume that your interests do not conflict with this because the measures described below are taken in order to limit processing to an appropriate degree.

The Conference Center & Inn will also use the data described above to draw conclusions about your interests from your use and to adapt the Conference Center & Inn website offerings according to your interests (profiling) in order to make our website as user-friendly, safe, and attractive as possible and thus promote the sale of our products and services. The Conference Center & Inn does this for the preservation of the aforementioned legitimate interests (legal basis for processing: Art. 6 no. 1 lit. f) of the GDPR) and, where applicable, on the basis of your consent as described below (legal basis for processing: Art. 6 no. 1 lit. a) of the GDPR). For further information please refer to the following Section.

Cookies, Analysis, and Tracking:
The Conference Center & Inn uses cookies, among other things, to process the data mentioned in the preceding Section. Cookies are files that are stored on your computer's hard drive and are accessed by our server when you visit the Conference Center & Inn website.

The Conference Center & Inn uses cookies and the analysis described in the preceding Section for the purposes set forth in the preceding Section and for the preservation of our legitimate interest described therein (the legal basis for processing: Art. 6 no. 1 lit. f) of the GDPR).

Types of Cookies:
There are two different types of cookies used:

Session Cookies:
Also called transient cookies are cookies that are temporarily stored in your browser for the duration of a browser session, and they typically store information in the form of a session identification and no further information personally identifying you.

Persistent Cookies:
Also called permanent or stored cookies, are cookies that are stored on your hard drive until they expire (persistent cookies are set with expiration dates) or until you delete the cookie. Persistent cookies are used to collect identifying information, such as the Conference Center & Inn web surfing behavior or user preferences for a specific Conference Center & Inn website.

The Conference Center & Inn employs the following types of cookies:
Required Cookies:
Functionality Cookies and Targeting/Advertising Cookies:
These cookies are a mixture of first-party cookies which the Conference Center & Inn sets and third-party cookies which are set by sites other than the Conference Center & Inn websites.

Cookie Functions:
The Conference Center & Inn uses cookies across our websites to improve our performance and enhance your user experience.

Cookies are used to provide the following functions:
Personalization:
For example, your language preference is remembered.

Session Management:
To ensure that your session is routed to the correct system for the duration of your visit.

Usage Tracking:
The Conference Center & Inn uses cookies to provide analysis of our users’ on-going usage of the website. This allows us to adapt our website’s offerings according to our users’ interests and facilitates on-going improvements to the Conference Center & Inn website.

AB Testing/Multivariate Testing:
The Conference Center & Inn can display multiple versions of a page to a user to assess which generates the best user experience.

Advertising:
The Conference Center & Inn can display advertising content depending on location, language, and your past browsing history.

The Conference Center & Inn uses several cookies which are strictly necessary to allow you to access our websites, to move the Conference Center & Inn pages, and to receive services which you have requested.

The types of data collected are:
Session Identifiers:

The IP address and information generated from an anonymized IP address that includes a computer hostname
Geographic location
Time of visit
The Conference Center & Inn webpage URL referring to the Conference Center & Inn website
Security tokens for authentication and information submission, like RFP forms
Functionality Cookies

The Conference Center & Inn use functionality cookies to allow us to remember your preferences. For example, cookies save you the trouble of selecting your language or currency every time you access the Conference Center & Inn website and recall your customization preferences.

The Conference Center & Inn utilizes other cookies to analyze how our visitors use our websites and to monitor the Conference Center & Inn website performance. This allows us to provide a high-quality experience by customizing our offering and quickly identifying and fixing any issues that arise. For example, the Conference Center & Inn might use performance cookies to keep track of which pages are most popular and which method of linking Conference Center & Inn pages is most effective and to determine why some pages are receiving error messages.

The following is an example of a functionality cookie which the Conference Center & Inn uses:
Adobe the Conference Center & Inn website Analytics: Refer to Adobe Analytics for more details.

Targeting/Advertising Cookies:
The Conference Center & Inn and our partners and advertisers use cookies to display advertisements that the Conference Center & Inn believes are relevant to you and your interests.

In order to maximize your user experience, the Conference Center & Inn collects, analyzes, and stores information such as time on site, pages visited, bookings initiated and completed, traffic type (paid, organic, etc.), geographic and demographic information, and Conference Center & Inn web browser and device type in order to offer you more relevant content when you re-visit our sites. In order to protect your privacy, this information is processed to make it less personally identifying, e.g. IP addresses are truncated (the trailing octet of the IP address is replaced with 0’s) before geo-coding and storing, email addresses and other personally identifying information is hashed in an irreversible manner, etc.

The Conference Center & Inn also allows certain third-party advertisers and partners to collect information about your use of the Conference Center & Inn website through first and third-party cookies in order to serve adverts to you. They may also analyze this data in order to serve adverts to you on other third-party websites.

The Conference Center & Inn also works with advertisers in order to display our advertisements on third-party websites based on cookies set on your visit to the Conference Center & Inn website. Advertising/targeting cookies may also be used to track your responses to advertisements which helps advertisers ensure that you see the most relevant advertisements in the future on third-party websites.

The following is an example of a targeting/advertising cookie which the Conference Center & Inn uses:
DoubleClick:
These cookies may also be used by advertisers to allow third parties to serve advertisements to you when you are on other sites. These ads may be adapted to be relevant to you based on your use of the Conference Center & Inn website. This is done on an anonymized basis using non-personally identifiable information such as cookie identifiers, IP addresses and device identifiers, imprecise location data (based on your IP address) or precise location data (if you have set your system to allow transmission of geolocation information), and client identifiers.

Types of targeting enacted based on cookies include:
Demographics:
Target ads based on how well products and services trend with users in certain locations, ages, genders, and device types.

In-market:
Shows ads to users who have been searching for products and like services.

Custom intent audiences:
Choose words or phrases related to the people that are most likely to engage with sites and make purchases by using "custom intent audiences".

Similar audiences:
Target users with interests related to those on remarketing lists.

Remarketing:
Target users that have already interacted with our ads, website, or app.
The Conference Center & Inn does not control the information collected by such partners or advertisers in connection with the Conference Center & Inn website or the further use of information the Conference Center & Inn may provide to them for the aforementioned services, and they do not process such data on our behalf. Only the data protection policies of those third parties as the respective controllers of such data will apply to their processing of such data. Please see the following sites for more information about specific advertisers and their data policies (links to advertiser sites and data policies).

Cookie Consent:
The Conference Center & Inn tracks and analyzes your online behavior in order to protect our legitimate interest in making our website as user-friendly, safe, and attractive as possible and in promoting the sale of our products and services (legal basis for processing: Art. 6 no. 1 lit. f) of the GDPR). The Conference Center & Inn will assume that your interests do not conflict with this because the information collected through cookies is pseudonymized. You can prevent or restrict the storage of cookies on your hard disk by setting your browser not to accept cookies or to request your permission before setting cookies. Once cookies have been set, you can delete them at any time. Please refer to your browser's operating instructions to find out how this works. If you do not accept cookies, this can lead to restrictions in the use of our service.

Data Retention and Deletion:
Log files are deleted after 120 days. Session cookies expire and are deleted at the end of your browser session. Persistent cookies may be set to expire from 30 days to 1 year depending on the function of the cookie. After the expiry of those periods, the information will be deleted or made anonymous

Use of Adobe Analytics:
The Conference Center & Inn website uses Adobe Analytics, a web analysis service of Adobe Systems (https://www.adobe.com/about-adobe.html) 345 Park Avenue, San Jose, CA 95110-2704 USA ("Adobe").

You can find further information on how Adobe uses information from sites or apps that use its services here: https://www.adobe.com/privacy/marketing-cloud.html.

Adobe Analytics uses cookies to help the Conference Center & Inn website analyze how users use the site (see Section 4.1). The information generated by the cookies tell about your use of the Conference Center & Inn website such as

Browser type and version
The operating system of your computer
Referrer URL (i.e. the page last visited)
The hostname of accessing computer (IP address)
Date and time of server request

and is transferred to an Adobe server and stored there. In order to render the information stored on Adobe’s servers not personally identifying, the Conference Center & Inn uses Adobe Analytics with activation of the settings “Before Geo-Lookup: Replace visitor’s last IP octet with 0“. By activating “Before Geo-Lookup: Replace visitor’s last IP octet with 0“, the Conference Center & Inn ensures that the user’s IP address is anonymized by replacing the last eight digits by zero prior to geo-localization. For statistical analysis, the imprecise location of the user is added to the tracking package which includes the IP address.

Disabling and Opt-Out:
You may refuse the use of cookies by selecting the appropriate settings on your browser. However, please note that if you do so you may not be able to use the Conference Center & Inn website’s full functionality. You can also prevent Adobe from collecting the data generated by the cookie and relating to your use of the Conference Center & Inn website (including your IP address), and from processing this data by following these instructions: https://www.adobe.com/privacy/opt-out.html#customeruse.
The Conference Center & Inn uses Adobe Analytics for the purposes set forth and for the preservation of our legitimate interest described therein (legal basis for processing: Art. 6 no. 1 lit. f) of the GDPR) and, where applicable, on the basis of your consent as described (legal basis for processing: Art. 6 no. 1 lit. a) of the GDPR).

Information on Other Processing Operations:
Processing in the Context of Newsletters:
If you register via the Conference Center & Inn website or by other means to receive electronic newsletters, the Conference Center & Inn will store and process your registration data (the registration form will show you which registration data the Conference Center & Inn collects and stores and whether entries are mandatory or voluntary) for an unlimited period of time until you unsubscribe or the Conference Center & Inn cancels the newsletter dispatch in order to fulfill the existing contract with you for the receipt of the newsletter (legal basis for processing: Art. 6 no. 1 lit. b) of the GDPR). The IP address assigned to you by the internet service provider (ISP) and the date and time of registration will also be stored when you register. The purpose of this is to protect our legitimate interest in preventing and, if necessary, prosecuting misuse of our services (the legal basis for processing: Art. 6 no. 1 lit. f) of the GDPR). In addition, the Conference Center & Inn will store and process your consent to receive the newsletter for the retention period specified below. This serves to protect our legitimate interest in being able to prove in the event of a dispute that you wished to receive the newsletter (the legal basis for processing: Art. 6 no. 1 lit. f) of the GDPR).

After termination of your registration for the receipt of newsletters, the Conference Center & Inn will retain the registration data, the IP address, date and time of registration, and your consent for up to six months. This serves to protect our legitimate interest in being able to restore this data in the event of unintentional deletion; or in establishing, exercising, or defending legal claims in connection with the registration form, and consent to receipt of newsletters (legal basis for processing: Art. 6 no. 1 lit. f) of the GDPR). The Conference Center & Inn will assume that your interests do not conflict with this because the retention period is appropriate with respect to the interests to be protected.

The registration for our newsletter takes place in a so-called double opt-in procedure. This means that after registration you will receive an e-mail asking you to confirm your registration. This confirmation is necessary to prevent unauthorized use of your e-mail address by another person.

Processing in the Context of Registration or Use of the Contact Form:

If you register on the Conference Center & Inn website and create a user account (the registration form will show you which registration data the Conference Center & Inn collects and stores and whether entries are mandatory or voluntary) all personal data collected in connection with this user account will be stored in this user account until you request to delete the user account or until the Conference Center & Inn cancels the user account for the performance of our contractual relationship on use of the respective Conference Center & Inn website or the Conference Center & Inn web service (legal basis for processing: Art. 6 no. 1 lit. b) of the GDPR). The IP address assigned to you by your internet service provider (ISP) and the date and time of registration will also be stored when you register. The purpose of this is to protect our legitimate interest in preventing and, if necessary, prosecuting misuse of our services (the legal basis for processing: Art. 6 no. 1 lit. f) of the GDPR).

After de-registration of your user account, the Conference Center & Inn will retain all data for up to six months. This serves to protect our legitimate interest in being able to restore this data in the event of unintentional deletion; or in establishing, exercising, or defending legal claims in connection with our contractual relationship (the legal basis for processing: Art. 6 no. 1 lit. a) of the GDPR). The Conference Center & Inn will assume that your interests do not conflict with this because the retention period is appropriate with respect to the interests to be protected.

The Conference Center & Inn website contains a contact form that you can use to submit communications to us. When submitting information through the contact form, you are required to enter certain information which the Conference Center & Inn will use to respond to your request. The contact form enables you to submit additional information on a voluntary basis.

If you provide us with personal data via the user account or the contact form for a purpose beyond the use of the Conference Center & Inn website or respective Conference Center & Inn web services, such as sending us an offer or product information, the Conference Center & Inn will also store and process this data for this purpose. In order to find more information on how the Conference Center & Inn stores and processes such data, you will need to refer to the Section of this Privacy Statement that is pertinent to the respective purpose.

General Information on Recipients, Categories of Recipients, and Transfers:

All our servers and databases may be operated, maintained, or further developed by additional processors or other contractors. They may have access to your data.
The Conference Center & Inn stores and processes data for the performance of contracts and in doing so, the Conference Center & Inn may pass this data on to agents and contractors the Conference Center & Inn employs for such performance (e.g. to carriers for transportation purposes).

Where the Conference Center & Inn stores and processes data for communication with you, the Conference Center & Inn may use additional processors or contractors in order to process or transmit electronic or paper correspondence with you (e.g. letter shops or mailing service providers) who will then have access to your data.

The Conference Center & Inn will transfer your personal data to competent law enforcement, regulatory or other authorities, institutions or bodies if the Conference Center & Inn are legally obligated to do so (legal basis for processing: Art. 6 no. 1 lit. c) of the GDPR) or if the Conference Center & Inn has a legitimate interest in averting coercive measures of such authorities, institutions, or bodies within the scope of their legal responsibilities (legal basis for processing: Art. 6 no. 1 lit. f) of the GDPR). Such legally required or necessary transmissions are not the subject of this Privacy Statement.

Information on Retention Periods:
You will need to inform the data subjects of how long you will retain their data. This information could be provided as follows:

General Information on Retention Periods and Anonymization:
The Conference Center & Inn has enacted a data retention and deletion policy in order to ensure that personal data are only stored for as long as necessary for their purpose.

Our data retention and deletion policy takes into account the principle that personal data should be retained for limited periods even after the storage purpose has become obsolete, in order to preserve our legitimate interest in preventing unintentional deletions, in enabling the establishment, exercise or defense of legal claims and in rendering the administration of retention and deletion periods practicable (legal basis for processing: Art. 6 no. 1 lit. f) of the GDPR). The Conference Center & Inn assumes that your interests do not conflict with this because these additional retention periods are appropriate with respect to the interests to be protected.

Unless detailed information on deletion periods has already been provided above, the following general deletion periods will apply in accordance with our data retention and deletion policy. Where data fall under several different deletion periods, the longest will always apply.

The Conference Center & Inn will retain customer data for the duration of the customer relationship. After the end of the customer relationship, such data will continue to be retained for as long as these data are necessary for the maintenance of the customer account and for the administration of documents or data relating to the customer which falls into any of the categories identified hereinbelow. Otherwise, customer data will be deleted after the expiry of 1 year.

For compliance with the statutory retention period for commercial letters and tax documents, the Conference Center & Inn will retain correspondence, invoices, and other booking documentation for 6 years.

The Conference Center & Inn will retain contract-related data and documents for 6 years after the end of the contractual relationship in view of the statutory limitation period for claims and statutory document retention obligations for booking receipts.

If the term “erasure” or "deletion" is used in this Privacy Statement, the Conference Center & Inn reserves the right to anonymize the relevant data record, such that it can no longer be assigned to you, instead of complete deletion.

Anonymized data may be processed and used by us and our processors for an unlimited period. The processing and use of anonymized data are not subject to the GDPR and is not the subject of this Privacy Statement.

Information on Data Subject Rights:
Your Rights:
You as the data subject have certain rights regarding your personal data which the Conference Center & Inn will explain to you below:

Right of Access and Information (Art. 15 of the GDPR):
You have the right, where the statutory requirements are met, to request from us at any time, at no cost, confirmation as to whether personal data relating to you is being processed, a copy of this data, and comprehensive information on this personal data. This right extends, in particular, and without limitation, to the purposes of processing the categories of personal data being processed, the recipients, the storage period, and the origin of the data.

Right to Rectification (Art. 16 of the GDPR):
You have the right to request us to rectify incorrect and incomplete personal data concerning you without delay, where the statutory requirements are met.

Right to be Forgotten (Art. 17 of the GDPR):
You have the right to demand from us the immediate deletion of personal data concerning you, where the statutory requirements are met, if, among other reasons, their storage is no longer necessary or unlawful, if you withdraw your consent on which their storage was based if you have validly objected to their storage in accordance with below Sections, if the Conference Center & Inn is obligated to delete them for any other reason, or if the data were collected as part of a Conference Center & Inn web service. If the Conference Center & Inn has made the data public, in addition to deletion of the data, the Conference Center & Inn must also inform other controllers in such cases that you have requested the deletion of this data and all references thereto, insofar as this is reasonable in view of the available technology and the implementation costs. The above obligation does not apply in certain exceptional cases, in particular, storage for the purpose of establishing, exercising, or defending legal claims.

Right to Restriction of Processing (Art. 18 of the GDPR):
You have the right to request us, where the statutory requirements are met, to restrict the processing of personal data relating to you.

Right to Data Portability (Art. 20 of the GDPR):
If automated processing of personal data occurs solely on the basis of your consent or fulfills a contract with you or implements pre-contractual measures, you have the right to require us, subject to statutory requirements, to make available the personal data in relation to yourself that you have provided to a third party that you designate, if technically feasible, in a structured, current, and machine-readable format and not to impede its transfer to a third party.

Right of Objection (Art. 21(1) of the GDPR):
You have the right to require us, where the statutory requirements are met, to no longer process personal data relating to you which the Conference Center & Inn processes for the performance of a task which is in the public interest or for the protection of our legitimate interests or those of a third party if you object to such processing for reasons which arise from your particular situation. In this case, the Conference Center & Inn must desist from further processing unless there are compelling grounds for the processing which outweigh your interests or the processing is carried out for the establishment, exercise, or defense of legal claims.

Right of Objection to Direct Marketing (Art. 21(2) of the GDPR):
You can object to the further processing of your personal data for direct marketing purposes at any time, and the Conference Center & Inn will consequently refrain from processing them for this purpose. This also applies to profile insofar as it is associated with such direct marketing.

Automated Decisions (Art. 22 of the GDPR):
The Conference Center & Inn will not make any decisions without your consent which produces legal effects concerning you or similarly significantly affect you and that are based exclusively on automated processing (including profiling).

Guarantees:
To the extent that the Conference Center & Inn indicate in this Privacy Policy that guarantees have been agreed to provide an adequate level of protection, you may request copies of the relevant documents from our designated representative within the EU.

Consents:
If you consent to the processing, this is voluntary unless the Conference Center & Inn informs you otherwise in advance, and the refusal of consent will not be sanctioned. You can withdraw your consent at any time. The withdrawal of consent shall not affect the lawfulness of processing based on consent before its withdrawal. Processing on a legal basis other than your consent will also be unaffected by such withdrawal. However, you may also exercise the above statutory rights in this respect (e.g. the right of objection as described above). You may withdraw any consent to the use of your e-mail address or telephone number for direct marketing at any time and may object to any further use of your e-mail address or telephone number for this purpose at any time, free of charge (other than communication costs payable to your provider).

Right to Lodge a Complaint:
You have the right to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority. This may include, among others, the supervisory authority responsible for your place of residence or the supervisory authority generally responsible for our representative (See above).

Contact:
You can contact us in any form to exercise your rights to withdraw any consent you may have given. You may be required to identify yourself as a data subject to exercise your rights.

Changes to this Privacy Statement:
In the event of future changes to this Privacy Statement, you can retrieve old versions and information on the periods for which they were valid.