Privacy Statement

We collect and use your personal data only in accordance with the statutory regulations of the data protection laws of the Federal Republic of Germany. Your personal data will only be disclosed to a third party or parties with your express consent and only for specific purposes. We reserve the right to pass on personal data to the authorities and courts if the necessity should arise.

Data storage:

Access data

When you access our website, the IP address of your computer is noted by the provider. Your IP address is stored for internal system-related and statistical purposes.

Personal data

Personal data are data which can be assigned to specific personal information. Personal data such as your name, company, address, telephone number, and email address are only stored with your consent, e.g., when you create a customer account, place an order or otherwise submit the relevant data when registering online. Downloads are recorded in the provider’s log file. This data is stored for internal processing in accordance with data protection laws.

Application process

  1. If you apply for a job advertised by us or on your own initiative, your data will be stored and processed within the framework of the statutory regulations. Your data will not be used beyond the scope of the application
  2. By submitting your application, we assume that you agree to data storage and processing

Processing your order

In the course of the contract implementation, the personal data collected from you will be passed on to the shipping company commissioned to make the delivery and to service partners involved in individual cases, if this is necessary for delivery of the goods. In the course of the processing of payments, we pass on your payment data to the financial institution instructed. We are happy to let you know which partners these were for your order.

User Data and Cookies

Information which was entered voluntarily in a form must be stored for technical reasons. When data is entered into a form for a customer’s account or to place an order, the entire contents of the entry together with the date, time and IP address of the person sending the form are stored in the database. If you complete an application form, this information is sent to us by email. We also use so-called “cookies”. Cookies are used to make our website more user-friendly, more effective and safer, but above all to speed up navigation on our platform. In addition, cookies allow us to measure how often pages are viewed and how our site is navigated. Please note that some of the cookies of our server are transferred to your system. Most of them are so-called “session cookies”. Typically they are automatically deleted from your hard disc again. You are free to always reject cookies if your browser permits.

Required Cookies (2):

 Name Provider Purpose Expiration Type
 CookieConsent www.kern-lab.com Stores the user's consent status for cookies on the current domain.  1 year  HTTP Cookie
 ASP.NET_SessionId www.kern-lab.com Retains the user's states for all page requests.  Session  HTTP Cookie

Deletion of data

Stored personal data will be deleted if the user of the website and/or a customer revokes their consent to storage of the data, when knowledge of the data is no longer required to fulfill the purpose for which the data was stored, or if storage of the data is prohibited for other legal reasons. Data used for the purposes of billing and accounting are not affected by a request to delete data.

Data protection officer

We have appointed an external data protection officer, whom you can contact by e-mail at datenschutz@kern-sohn.com or by post at

Data protection officer
KERN & SOHN GmbH
Ziegelei 1
72336 Balingen
Germany

Right to Information

Users of our website have the right to request information from us about stored data relating to their person or to their pseudonym. This information can also be provided electronically on request