We have compiled this privacy policy in order to inform the users of our website about the manner in which personal data is handled and the appropriate precautionary measures taken by us to secure all personal data.
Data handling
When you access our website, the following access data is saved in a log file for reasons of data security:
* IP address
* Date and time of access
* Name of the file called
* Access status (OK, partial content, document not found, etc.)
* Page from which access took place
* Top-level domain (*.de, *.fr, *.com etc)
* Web browser used
* Operating system used.
This data is protected against access by unauthorised persons and is not disclosed to third parties. A person-specific evaluation does not take place. Carl Kühne KG evaluates data on an anonymous basis only and exclusively for statistical purposes; for example, to establish the number of website hits on specific days. Carl Kühne KG does not process any type of personal data with our website except for data expressly and knowingly provided by the user.
Links to third-party websites
For reasons of user friendliness, Carl Kühne KG provides on its website so-called hyperlinks to other websites. If you click certain links on the website, you leave the current page and are re-directed to an external, "foreign" website of a third party. Such websites of third parties are wholly outside the sphere of influence of Carl Kühne AG; therefore, we cannot assume any responsibility whatsoever for the correctness, completeness and legality of content or for any quotations and services contained on these websites.
The prior express written approval of Carl Kühne KG must be obtained before a link to our website may be placed on an external website.
Data security
When contact or communication is made electronically, the data of the user is generally transported via an open network that can be accessed by the general public. Under certain circumstances, data can travel across borders even if the sender and receiver are located in the same country. If individual data packages are transmitted in an encoded state, the sender and receiver remain unencoded. It is therefore impossible to rule out the possibility of sent data being viewed by third parties and contact with Carl Kühne KG being traced.
Discretion regarding e-mail communication cannot be guaranteed for system-related reasons. Therefore, Carl Kühne AG does not accept orders for business processes or transactions via this medium.
Within Carl Kühne AG, personal data is transmitted and saved in a protected environment (protection provided by firewalls, for example). Carl Kühne AG deploys all appropriate measures to ensure that personal data cannot be viewed by third parties. This does not apply to partners rendering services for the user on behalf of Carl Kühne AG. Carl Kühne AG demands assurances from its partners that they have a comparable privacy and security policy.
Carl Kühne KG divulges personal data to third parties only if legal or other mandatory regulations require this. Carl Kühne KG adheres to legal data protection regulations.

