Welcome to ECKART Effect Pigments!

Thank you for visiting our website and your interest in our company ECKART GmbH (referred to as ECKART in the following text).

We are aware that the protection of your private sphere is an important issue for you when using our websites. Hence we attach great importance to the protection of your personal data and would like to inform you with this privacy statement about our data protection measures.

 

According to the German Data Protection Act the term “personal data“ means any information concerning the personal or material circumstances of an identified or identifiable individual (the data subject). If you visit our website, we log the IP address (i.e. the Internet address) of the accessing computer and other general data like date and time to evaluate which parts of our website are of special interest. These data are evaluated anonymously and serve the purpose of the internal evaluation of the frequency of visits to our website.

Otherwise personal data are only collected if you yourself make them available, e.g. by filling in forms or sending e-mails, for product or service inquiries or on-line
applications.

ECKART assures you that your data are collected, processed and used only to meet your individual servicing needs, to provide requested product information or to submit requested service offers.

As ECKART is a global company, it is possible that we may send your data to other enterprises of the ECKART Group, and especially to the ECKART enterprise which is located in your country or is responsible for your region, but only if this is absolutely necessary in order to answer your inquiry. In that case your data will be processed on the computers of this ECKART enterprise in accordance with the local data protection laws.

You can revoke the use of your personal data at any time. We assure you that we will not transmit your personal data to third parties unless we are legally obliged to, or in case of your prior consent.

This website contains links to other websites of the Altana group. ECKART has no control over the contents and the operation of these websites and is not responsible for any data that might be collected by these websites. We recommend that you read the privacy statements of these websites if you are in any doubt regarding the collection and use of your data.

On request we will inform you in writing, in accordance with currently effective law, whether and which personal data about you are stored in our system.

ECKART uses technical and organizational preventive measures to protect the data you have supplied to ECKART against accidental or intentional manipulation, loss, destruction or access by unauthorized persons. Our security measures are continuously improved in line with technological developments.

For further questions concerning the processing of your personal data, information requests, applications or complaints please feel free to contact our data protection officer: 

Data Protection Officer
Dr. Lutz-Steffen Berghold

ECKART GmbH
Güntersthal 4
91235 Velden
Germany