This Privacy Statement sets forth the practices of the Wisconsin Manufacturing and Technology Show (WIMTS) regarding the collection and use of information relating to the WIMTS website and other activities of WIMTS.
WIMTS created its policy with a fundamental respect for the rights to privacy of our Sponsors, Exhibitors and Visitors.
Information Collection and Use
When using our website to register for educational events or trade shows, signing up for certain selected events, you may be asked for information about yourself, including but not limited to contact information (such as name, e-mail address, mailing address and phone number) or demographic information (such as job title and purchasing responsibilities, company information and professional certification).
We have features through which you may submit information to us (such as our contact form). Requests for service, support or information may be forwarded as needed to best respond to a specific request. Under some circumstances, we may retain e-mails and other information sent to us for our internal administrative purposes.
From time to time, we may invite you to provide information via survey or contests. Participation in these surveys or contests is completely voluntary and therefore you have a choice whether to disclose requested contact information and demographic information. In addition to other uses set forth in this policy, contact information collected in connection with surveys and contests is used to notify the winners and award prizes and may be shared with sponsors of such contests.
Automatically Collected Data
Web servers automatically collect information about visitors. This information includes the date, time and navigation history of the session, as well as your browser type, and IP address. This information does not contain anything that can identify you personally. Automatically collected data may be used to deliver content specific to your interest and to honor your preferences.
We use “cookies” (a “cookie” is a piece of data stored on the user’s hard drive containing information about the user). Cookies make it possible for us to reduce the number of times you are required to login or to tailor the website to fit your interests. Most internet browsers allow you to erase cookies from your computer hard drive. Some of our business affiliates may use cookies on our site. We have no access to or control over these business affiliate’s cookies, so we urge you to read their privacy policies for information.
Information about You that may be Stored in our Database
We may check the information you have provided while filling out any of our forms, email, forums or discussion groups against any information we have about you in our customer database. We do this to ensure that we maintain the most current and accurate information about you as a valued customer.
Our database may contain your name, title, affiliation, industry classification, address, phone and fax numbers, and e-mail address, if you provide them. We may also collect additional information about you including but not limited to site registration.
How we Use Information about You
Automatically collected data such as cookies and log files help us understand the interests of our visitors in order to enhance their experience on our site. We also use this information for our internal trend analysis and system administration, and to gather broad demographic information about our user base for aggregate use.
We may use information you have provided to process transactions you request. We may also use this information to inform you of upcoming events that may be of interest to you. You may choose not to receive these communications.
We use aggregate demographic information about our customers and visitors to improve our service, for marketing purposes and/or industry reporting purposes.
Shared Data
We partner with other third parties to provide specific services. For example, exposition registration services may be provided by a third party. These third parties are not allowed to use information about you except for the purpose of providing these services.
We may share aggregated or composite information that does not identify you personally with our advertisers, exhibitors and business affiliates. WIMTS may also be required to provide information about any of its customers or prospective customers to law enforcement or government agencies.
Your Choices Concerning Access, Correction and Deletion of Your Personal Data
We provide you with reasonable access to the personal information that you have provided through your use of our services. You may update, correct, or delete your account information and preferences at any time by contacting our offices. Please note that any changes will be reflected in our user database within a reasonable period of time, we may retain all information for backups, archiving, prevention of fraud and abuse, analytics or where we otherwise reasonably believe that we have a legitimate reason to do so.
If you wish to access or amend any personal information, we hold about you, or request that we delete any information about you, you may contact us as set forth in the “Contact Us” section of the website.
You may decline to share certain personal information with us, in which case we may not be able to provide to you some of the features and services that we offer.
Links
This website contains links to other sites. Please be aware that WIMTS cannot be responsible for the privacy practices of other sites. We urge you to read the privacy statement of those other websites that collect personally identifiable information.
Students and Children
WIMTS will not knowingly collect personally identifiable information from anyone under 16 years of age, unless it is necessary to respond to a one-time request. Once the request has been answered, WIMTS will delete the requesting child’s personally identifiable information.
Preferences, Permission and Opt-Out
If you wish to be excluded from marketing by Expo Productions Inc [the management firm for WIMTS] via mail and/or e-mail, phone or fax, please contact 262-367-5500 or e-mail to make that change to your account.
Updates to this Privacy Statement
WIMTS may, in its sole discretion, update this statement at any time by posting the amended statement on the website, and it shall be effective upon posting.
Contact, Questions, Comments and Complaints
If you would like to communicate with WIMTS regarding privacy issues, or have questions, comments or complaints regarding this website or its policy practices, or if you feel that WIMTS is not abiding by our privacy policy statement, please contact Expo Productions Inc at 262-367-5500 or e-mail .
Headquarters | Mailing Address
Wisconsin Manufacturing and Technology Show
c/o Expo Productions Inc
510 Hartbrook Drive
Hartland, WI 53029