Data Privacy

In addition to GSMA (the owner and organizer of MWC) as data controller, your personal information will also be processed by the following third parties as part of the registration process.

• Jemex Ideas Co Ltd.;
• Fira de Barcelona;

For more information on how we process your personal information at MWC Barcelona, please see our privacy notice for attendees here and our privacy notice for exhibitors and contractors here. 

Attendee personal information will be stored on servers located in the European Economic Area (EEA). Whilst any and all biometric data processed as part of an attendee choosing to automatically validate their ID will only be accessed from within the EEA, non-biometric data submitted as part of the registration process may, on occasion, be accessed from outside of the EEA as part of administering the event registration process.

Your personal information will be deleted as follows:

• Global Event account profile: This will be deleted if the account holder does not have at least one complete registration in the 12 months prior to the launch of the 2025 MWC Barcelona system.
• ID document data: This will be deleted 24 hours following the end of the event dismantle and no later than 12 March 2025.
• Digital access pass photo: This will be deleted 24 hours following the end of the event dismantle and no later than 12 March 2025. 

Biometric Data: Where you have chosen to register via Automatic ID Validation, any biometric data will be deleted immediately (in fractions of a second) after the process has been completed. 
 

All attendees might be required to provide the following personal information during the registration process:

Global Event’s account profile:

• Full name;
• Email address;
• Gender;
• Address;
• Phone number;
• Company name;
• Job title;
• Job level;
• Area of responsibility;
• Company industry type;
• Areas of interest related to the event topics; and
• Profile photo:
  • Your profile photo is automatically populated with your selfie photo from the registration process;
  • You can replace it with a photo of your choosing at any time;
  • If you opt-in to the networking feature, this requires a photo. As such, your profile photo will be visible to other attendees who have also opted-in to the networking feature;
  • If you do not opt-in to the networking feature, your profile photo remains private and no one other than yourself can view it (the reason you have a profile photo included in your profile is to allow the ability to opt-in to the networking feature at any point during the event).

ID Document Data

• Nationality;
• ID document type;
• ID document number;
• ID document issuing government;
• Date of birth;
• ID expiration date;
• ID portrait photo.

Digital Access Pass photo

• “Selfie” or uploaded photo image.