Instructions concerning data protection

The protection of personal data is of maximum importance for KESSEL AG. Therefore, we would like to inform you at this point how we protect your privacy if you make your personal data available to us. In addition to the fact that it goes without saying that we comply with the statutory provisions concerning data protection, with these instructions we would like to commit ourselves to the responsible handling of your data so that your privacy is protected at all times. It is important for us that you feel comfortable and secure when visiting our website.

We would like to constantly improve our offers and make our online presentation more attractive for you. We can only optimise the contents of the KESSEL website in line with your requirements if we know which areas of our website are visited most frequently and longest.

Personal information is used by KESSEL AG for marketing, for the acquisition, survey and information of interested parties. The more we understand your wishes, the quicker you will find the requested information on our website.

When you access the website of KESSEL AG information of a general nature is automatically recorded. This information includes e.g. the type of web browser, the operating system used, the domain name of your Internet service provider and similar details. This exclusively concerns information which does not allow any conclusions to be drawn about your person. Moreover, these data are generated on the Internet as well as with the access to any other website on the Internet. In other words, it is not a specific function of the KESSEL website. Information of this kind is exclusively collected in an anonymous way and evaluated by us for statistical purposes.

Insofar as you are requested on our site to provide personal information such as e.g. name, address or telephone number, this is subject to special provisions which you are informed of accordingly by the following wording:

We use these data for the purpose of the marketing of KESSEL AG, the acquisition, survey and information of interested parties. Your data are not forwarded to third parties. Service providers who act by order of KESSEL AG as well as KESSEL trading partners and companies of the KESSEL group are deemed as an exception here.

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 users use the site. The information generated by the cookie about your use of the website (including your IP address) will be transmitted to and stored by Google on servers in the United States. If IP anonymisation is activated on this website, however, your IP address will be abbreviated by Google first within member states of the European Union or in other states which are members of the European Economic Area. The full IP address will only be transmitted to a Google server in the USA and abbreviated there in exceptional cases. Google will use this information on behalf of the operators of this website 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. Google will not associate your IP address transmitted within the context of Google Analytics with any other data held by Google. You may refuse the use of cookies by selecting the appropriate settings on your browser, however please note that if you do this you may not be able to use the full functionality of this website. You can also prevent the transmission of the data generated by the cookie and referring to your use of the website (incl. your IP address) and processing of this data by Google by downloading and installing the browser plugin available under the following link. The current link is http://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=de.