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Security of Data
KATZ GmbH & Co. KG intention is to promote the confidence of the users into the Internet and thus do reveal its handling of sensitive data. In the following please read what data is collected and how it is processed with KATZ GmbH & Co. KG.

Explanations concerning the Security of Data
As a rule, you can call all Internet pages of the KATZ GmbH & Co. KG website without giving any specification concerning your person. If your name, your address or other personal data is needed in some cases, you will be asked for. Your personal data are used in order to assure and improve the service of KATZ GmbH & Co. KG GmbH towards the website visitors and customers.
If you decide to leave to KATZ GmbH & Co. KG or to one of its business partners personal data so that e.g. correspondence can be executed or an order be processed, then this data will be treated according to the strict regulations of the German Federal Law for Data Protection (BDSG).
When calling Internet pages, KATZ GmbH & Co. KG may receive tracking data of users that are saved for file recovery reasons, such as IP address, date, time-of-day and visited pages. These data are analysed by KATZ GmbH & Co. KG in order to verify the user behavior / pageviews and set up statistics. KATZ GmbH & Co. KG respects the high safety standards of the Teledienstedatenschutzgesetzes (TDDSG) and the data security regulation for telecommunications enterprise (TDSV). KATZ GmbH & Co. KG does not undertake any personalized use of the data collected. The statistical analysis of data records is performed with anonymizated data only.
Further information about data security in the Federal Republic of Germany are available under: www.bfd.bund.de.

Passing on of personal information to Third Party
If, while processing an order, data should be passed on to a Third Party, those Third Parties are bound to the BDSG, to further laws and are also contractually bound to the Privacy Policy of KATZ GmbH & Co. KG. As far as KATZ GmbH & Co. KG is obligated legally or by court order, it will disclose your data to the required extent at information-entitled institutions.
For any other purpose, KATZ GmbH & Co. KG does not disclose your data without your prior agreement.

Security
KATZ GmbH & Co. KG stores your data on particularly protected servers in Germany. Access to it is only permitted to few authorized personel, who are in charge with the technical, commercial or editorial care of these servers.

If you do not agree / revocation
If you request KATZ GmbH & Co. KG not to use and/or to delete your personal data for any further establishment of contact, then KATZ GmbH & Co. KG proceeds accordingly. Data that are necessary for an order processing or for commercial purposes, are not deleted.
Please be aware of the fact that in the case of the revocation the personalized services brought to you cannot be delivered any longer, since it is based on the use of the customer data.

Use of Cookies
Cookies are used to collect and store textual information during an on-line session. This information is stored on user's fix disk in a special file in ASCII format (cookie.txt). The storing location where the Cookie is stored on user's disk is controlled by the user's WWW Browser. Cookies are information, which are sent back with the next on-line attendance to the server. They only can be read by those server which beforehand also stored them.
KATZ GmbH & Co. KG only uses Cookies when they are urgently necessary for functions or when they facilitate the navigation of the Websites. The information not disclosed to any Third Party.
Most Browsers are set so that they accept Cookies automatically. This function can however be deactivated at any time in the Browser. You can adjust your Browser in such way that it informs you, as soon as Cookies are transmitted.

Hyperlinks to other Websites
KATZ GmbH & Co. KG webpages contain links to Third Parties 's Websites. KATZ GmbH & Co. KG does not have influence on editorial contents of other web pages and / or whether Third Parties respect data protection regulations.

Advertisement
As a rule, KATZ GmbH & Co. KG webpages do not contain commercials or advertisements except for own products. In case of the contrary, the distribution of the advertisement is made by external AdServers. The data collected in connection with online advertisement (AdImpressions, AdClicks) are exclusively used for statistical analysis and for the creation of reportings for advertising customers. No personal data are used.
With the distribution of advertisements, Cookies my likewise be used without KATZ GmbH & Co. KG having whatsoever influence on it.

eTracker
This website uses etracker technology (www.etracker.com) to collect visitor behavior data. The data is collected anonymously to be used for marketing and optimization purposes. All visitor data is saved using an anonymous user ID and can be used to aggregate a usage profile. Cookies may be used for this purpose. Cookies are small text files that are stored in the visitor’s local browser cache. Using such cookies it is possible to recognize the visitor’s browser. The data collected via etracker technology will not be used to determine the personal identity of the website visitor or compiled with personal data pertaining to the user of the pseudonym unless agreed to separately by the person concerned. The collection and storage of data may be revoked at any time with respect to subsequent services.