Data Protection – General Information

When using and processing personal data, Wilh. Kämper GmbH u. Co KG strictly complies with the applicable data protection regulations. To extent permitted by law, Wilh. Kämper GmbH u. Co KG is entitled to the right to use personal and anonymous data, subject to the rights of the affected subjects described below. With this Data Protection Policy, we would like to inform you about the scope and purpose of the personal data collected, used and processed by us. Further, this Data Protection Policy will inform data subjects affected by processing of the rights that they are entitled to.

Wilh. Kämper GmbH u. Co KG has taken suitable technical and organisational measures to protect your data against loss, manipulation or unauthorised access, among other issues. The measures taken are subject to regular review and ongoing adjustment to the state of the art. If there is a violation of the protection of your personal data that probably entails a high risk for your rights and freedoms, we will inform you immediately and, if possible, within 72 hours.

Wilh. Kämper GmbH u. Co KG collects your data for the purpose of contract execution, for the fulfilment of your contractual and pre-contractual obligations as well as for direct marketing. Your data will remain at Wilh. Kämper GmbH u. Co KG and will not be passed on to third parties, unless this is necessary for the fulfilment of the contract or required by law.

Your data will be deleted at the latest after 10 years if no communication takes place within that time, insofar as no other legal regulations or contractual obligations apply. You can ask us for more detailed information about deletion dates that may affect you at any time.

With regard to your personal data and our processing of your personal data, you have the following rights:

  • Right of access to the data collected and stored pursuant to Article 15 GDPR
  • Right to rectification pursuant to Article 16 GDPR
  • Right to erasure of your data pursuant to Article 17 GDPR
  • Right to restriction of processing of your data pursuant to Article 18 GDPR
  • Right to data portability pursuant to Article 20 GDPR
  • Right to object to processing pursuant to Article 21 GDPR

The data controller entrusted with data protection is:

Thomas Müchler, Managing Director
Wilh. Kämper GmbH u. Co KG
Altenaer Str. 184
58513 Lüdenscheid-Oberrahmede, Germany
E-Mail: info[at]kaemper.de

You can contact our data protection officer, JURANDO GmbH, at datenschutz[at]kaemper.de or by post by adding “data protection officer” to our address.

Email Contact

If you contact us via the e-mail addresses provided by us, we will store the personal data that you have provided to us in order to answer your enquiries. Your data can be stored in a Customer Relationship Management system (“CRM system”) or a comparable software.

The legal basis is Art. 6 para. 1 (f) GDPR, whereby our legitimate interest arises from the above-mentioned purposes. If contact is established with the aim of concluding a contract or within the framework of an existing contractual relationship, the legal basis is provided by Art. 6 para. 1 (b) GDPR.

The data will be deleted when the inquiry has been processed definitively, when we do not have a legal obligation to store them or need them to fulfil the contract. In addition, you can object to processing at any time if the processing is carried out on the basis of a legitimate interest.

Job Applicant Data

If you send us your job application, we will process the data submitted to us in order to fulfil our (pre)contractual obligations within the application procedure. If your application is successful, we will process the data for the purpose of carrying out the employment relationship.

The legal grounds are provided by Art. 6 Para. 1 (b) GDPR and Section 26 BDSG (Federal Data Protection Act). If you voluntarily provide us with special categories of personal data, such as health data or religious affiliation, additional legal bases are provided by Art. 9 Para. 2 (b) GDPR.

If your application is not successful, we will delete your data after six months at most. The data will be stored until then in order to answer any questions regarding the application procedure and to fulfil our obligations under the AGG (General Act on Equal Treatment). If you withdraw your application, we will delete your data immediately.

Privacy Policy – Website

It is usually possible to use our website without providing any personal data. However, data such as the pages or the names of the files accessed, date and time are stored on the server for statistical purposes. These data are not directly linked to you. This will be explained in greater detail further below. Insofar as personal data (for example name, address or email addresses) is collected directly on our pages, this always occurs on a voluntary basis and only with the purpose of sending you desired information. These data will not be passed on to third parties or stored permanently without your express consent. However, we would like to point out that normal data transmission over the Internet (e.g. communication by email) may be exposed to security threats. A complete protection of data against access by third parties is therefore only possible if the data is encrypted or transmitted with the protection of a secure password. Access to our website is always encrypted.

Technical Data

If you visit our website for information purposes only, that is, if you do not register or otherwise provide information to us, we only collect the personal data that your browser transmits to us. These are:

  • IP address
  • Date and time of request
  • Content of the request (specific page)
  • Access Status/HTTP Status Code
  • Website where the request originated (known as a “referer”)
  • Operating system and its interface
  • Language and version of the browser software.

We also store these data, including the IP address, in log files.

This information is necessary for us from a technical standpoint to be able to display our website, to ensure stability and security and to optimize our offer. The legal basis is Art. 6 para. 1 (f) GDPR, whereby our legitimate interest arises from the above-mentioned purposes.

We delete these data after seven days at the latest. Any further storage will only take place after the personal data has been deleted or anonymised. IP addresses can be anonymised by shortening them adequately.

Our website is hosted by 1&1 IONOS SE, Elgendorfer Str. 57, 56410 Montabaur, Germany.

Information about our web host’s data protection can be found under: https://www.ionos.de/terms-gtc/terms-privacy

Contact Form

If you use our contact form, we will use the data that you provide to us to answer your request, whereby only a valid e-mail address is required and the other details are voluntary. Your data can be stored in a Customer Relationship Management system (“CRM system”) or a comparable software.

Data processing for the purpose of contacting us is carried out on the basis of Art. 6 Para. 1 (b) GDPR, insofar as your request concerns the fulfilment of contractual obligations or the initiation of a contract. In other cases, the legal basis is Art. 6 para. 1 (f) GDPR, whereby our legitimate interest arises from the above-mentioned purposes.

The personal data collected by us for the use of the contact form will be automatically deleted after your enquiry has been dealt with, unless we are legally obliged to store it or we require the data for performance of the contract. In addition, you can object to processing at any time if the processing is carried out on the basis of a legitimate interest.

Cookies

Cookies are data that are stored on your computer by a website that you visit. Yes, we use cookies, like almost all other websites. This enables us to determine whether a user has visited the website before, how many users access our website, which pages are visited, which end devices were used to access the site and whether technical problems occurred while loading and navigating the pages. By collecting this information, we can determine which pages are most helpful to our users and also track the general interest in our website. In addition, we can identify technical problems that arise in the use of our website and resolve them promptly. Like this, we ensure that our pages function optimally and that we can constantly improve the offer to our visitors.

What cookies are used on this website?

Mandatory cookies (or essential cookies). These cookies are strictly necessary for you to navigate on the website and use its functions and services. These services would not be available without essential cookies. They include, for example, use of the website as a registered visitor, access to restricted areas of the website or requests made via the site. Like all public websites, our site uses such mandatory cookies only if it offers the services mentioned.

Performance Cookies These cookies collect information about how visitors use our website, for example which pages they view most frequently and whether they receive error messages from the pages. These cookies do not collect any information through which individual users can be identified. The information collected is summarised and made anonymous. They are only used to optimise our website. Like almost all websites, our site uses such performance cookies.

Functionality Cookies With the help of these cookies, the selections you have previously made (e.g. language or region) are stored on the website. Like this, the site can offer customised functions and provide a more pleasant user experience for you. The information collected by cookies is generally anonymous and does not include activities on other websites. Like almost all websites, our site uses such functionality cookies.

Tracking cookies: We use analysis cookies on the basis of legitimate interests (Art. 6 para. 1 f DSGVO, recital 47). Our legitimate interest is to tailor our websites optimally to the interests of our customers.

We use the following cookies for analysis purposes. The privacy policy of Google Analytics can be found further down in this document.

cookie operation Information is sent to source Type Validity period
_ga This cookie stores or counts and tracks page views USA kaemper.com HTTP 2 years
_gid This cookie stores or counts and tracks page views USA kaemper.com HTTP 1 day
_gat Used to throttle the request rate. When Google Analytics is deployed through Google Tag Manager. USA kaemper.com HTTP 1 minute
_gali This cookie is used by Google Analytics. It is used to anonymously track clicked items within a page. USA kaemper.com HTTP 30 seconds

 

Do I have to allow cookies to use this website?

No. You can prevent the use of cookies by deactivating the cookie function in your browser. If you do, however, some parts of our website and many other pages will not function properly. For example, if you prefer a different language, you can only change the setting without having to select the option again every time you access the website if it can identify you through cookies.

You can disable cookies like this:

Firefox:

  1. Open Firefox
  2. Press the “Alt” key on your keyboard.
  3. In the upper part of the browser, select the menu button and then “Options”.
  4. Then select the “Privacy & Security” panel
  5. Go to the “Cookies and Site Data” section. Select “Accept cookies and site data from websites” and save the settings.

Further information can be found under this link: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/enable-and-disable-cookies-website-preferences

Internet Explorer:

  1. Open Internet Explorer
  2. Click on “Tools” and then on “Internet options”.
  3. Select the “Privacy” tab and move the slider to the privacy level you want (up to block all cookies or down to allow all)
  4. Then confirm by clicking OK

Further information can be found under this link: https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/17442/windows-internet-explorer-delete-manage-cookies

Google Chrome:

  1. Open Google Chrome
  2. Click on “More”.
  3. Select “Settings” and then “Advanced”.
  4. In the “Privacy and security” section, click “Content Settings”
  5. In the “Cookies” tab, you can deselect the installation of cookies and save your settings.

Further information can be found under this link: https://support.google.com/accounts/answer/61416?co=GENIE.Platform%3DDesktop&hl=en

Safari:

  1. Open Safari
  2. Select “Preferences” in the system bar and “Privacy” in the dialogue box that opens.
  3. In the “Accept Cookies” section, you can choose whether and when Safari should store the cookies from the Web pages.
  4. For more information, click the Help button (marked with a question mark)
  5. For more information about the cookies that are stored on your computer, click on “Show cookies”.

Use of SalesViewer®-Technology

This website uses SalesViewer®-technology from SalesViewer GmbH conditioned by the website operators legitimate interests, based on Art. 6 para. 1 (f) GDPR, in order to collect and save data on marketing, market research and optimization purposes.

In order to do this, a javascript based code, which serves to capture company-related data and according website usage. The data captured using this technology is encrypted in a non-retrievable one-way function (so-called hashing). The data is immediately pseudonymized and is not used to identify website visitors personally.

The data recording and storage can be repealed at any time with immediate effect for the future, by clicking on https://www.salesviewer.com/opt-out in order to prevent SalesViewer from recording your data. In this case, an opt-out cookie for this website is saved on your device. If you delete the cookies in the browser, you will need to click on this link again.

Google Analytics

This website uses Google Analytics, a web analytics service provided by Google, Inc. (“Google”). The use is based on Art. 6 para. 1 p. 1 lit. f. DSGVO. Google Analytics uses “cookies”, which are text files placed on your computer, to help the website analyze how users use the site. The information generated by the cookie about your use of the website such as

browser type/version,
operating system used,
referrer URL (the previously visited page),
host name of the accessing computer (IP address),
time of the server request,

are usually transmitted to a Google server in the USA and stored there. The IP address transmitted by your browser as part of Google Analytics is not merged with other data from Google. We have also extended Google Analytics on this website with the code “anonymizeIP”. This guarantees the masking of your IP address so that all data is collected anonymously. Only in exceptional cases will the full IP address be transferred to a Google server in the USA and shortened there.

On behalf of the operator of this website, Google will use this information for the purpose of evaluating your use of the website, compiling reports on website activity and providing other services relating to website activity and internet usage to the website operator. 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 collection of data generated by the cookie and related to your use of the website (including your IP address) to Google and the processing of this data by Google by downloading and installing the browser plugin available at the following link: http://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=de. As an alternative to the browser add-on, especially for browsers on mobile devices, you can also prevent the collection by Google Analytics by clicking on this link. An opt-out cookie will be set, which prevents the future collection of your data when visiting this website. The opt-out cookie is only valid in this browser and only for our website and is stored on your device. If you delete the cookies in this browser, you must set the opt-out cookie again. [Note Instructions on how to integrate the opt-out cookie can be found at: https://developers.google.com/analytics/devguides/collection/gajs/?hl=de#disable].

For more information on privacy related to Google Analytics, see for example the Google Analytics Help (https://support.google.com/analytics/answer/6004245?hl=de).

Google Web Fonts

This site uses so-called web fonts provided by Google to display fonts uniformly. When you access a page, your browser loads the required Web fonts into your browser cache to display texts and fonts correctly. For this purpose, the browser you are using must connect to Google’s servers. This gives Google knowledge that our website has been accessed via your IP address. Use of Google Web Fonts is intended to provide a uniform and appealing presentation of our online offers. This represents a legitimate interest within the meaning of the legal basis of Art. 6 para. 1 (f) GDPR. If your browser does not support web fonts, your computer uses a default font.

You can find further information about Google Web Fonts at https://developers.google.com

Google Maps

Our website uses Google Maps services. This allows us to display interactive maps directly on our website and enables you to use the map function conveniently.

By visiting the website, Google receives the information that you have accessed the subpage in question on our website. In addition, the data that were collected when accessing our website are transmitted. This occurs regardless of whether Google provides a user account that you are logged in to or whether no user account exists. If you are logged in to Google, your information will be directly associated with your account. If you do not wish for this information to be associated to your profile on Google, you must log out before activating the button. Google stores your data as usage profiles and uses them for purposes of advertising, market research and/or demand-oriented design of its website. This kind of assessment takes place in particular (even for users who are not logged in) to provide demand-oriented advertising and to inform other users of the social network about your activities on our website. You have the right to object to the creation of these user profiles, whereby you must contact Google to exercise this right.

For more information about the purpose and scope of data collection and its processing by the plug-in provider, please refer to the provider’s privacy policy. Here, you will also find further information about your rights in this regard and settings to protect your privacy: https://policies.google.com/privacy. Google also processes your personal data in the USA and has submitted to the EU-US Privacy Shield, https://www.privacyshield.gov/EU-US-Framework.

The legal basis for the use of Google Maps is Art. 6 para. 1 (f) GDPR, whereby our legitimate interest arises from the above-mentioned marketing purposes.