The K plus S Middle East FZE DMCC welcomes you to our website www.ks-middleeast.com. Thank you for your interest in our company, its products and services. The protection of your privacy in the processing of personal data is an important concern for us which we respect in all of our business relationships. Our data processing is based on the principles of lawfulness, purpose linkage, accuracy, data minimization and storage limitation, transparency and the protection of confidentiality and integrity.

This data privacy statement explains which of your personal data we record and store on this website as well as the purposes for which we do this and the legal basis.

This website may include links not covered by this data privacy statement.

Logging of access to the website

What happens when you use our website?
If you use this website for informational purposes only, i.e. you do not register yourself on it or otherwise transfer information, we only collect the personal data your browser transfers to our server. When you choose to visit our website, we collect the following data:

• the IP address;
• Date and time you retrieve it;
• The region (not the address) from which the IP address accesses the website;
• Browser language, browser type (e.g. Chrome, Firefox, Safari) and version;
• Operating system;
• Device type (e.g. mobile device, desktop computer, tablet);
• Browsing behavior on the website (e.g. when was the website visited, which parts of the website were clicked, how much time was spent on the website);
• The website from which the request came.

We process and store this data to ensure the site works properly, to improve its content and to create statistical analyses, based on the aggregated data on surfing. We also process and store this data in order to analyze the technical operation of the site and ensure that our information technology systems are secure.

Our legitimate interest in data processing pursuant to Article 6(1) letter f GDPR is thus the necessity to display this website to you and ensure that it is stable and secure.

Contact e-mail address

Our website includes email addresses enabling you to contact our company quickly by electronic means and to communicate with us directly. If you contact us by email, the personal data you transfer to us is automatically stored. Such personal data transferred by you to us on a voluntary basis is used for the purposes of processing your enquiry or contacting you. We also store the IP address issued by your Internet Service Provider (ISP) of the computer system you are using when you send the e-mail, as well as the time and date. It is necessary to collect this data in order to be able to check the (possible) misuse of your email address at a later point in time and thus protect ourselves in law. We do not pass these data on to third parties.

Use of Google reCAPTCHA

This website uses Google reCAPTCHA, (hereinafter “reCAPTCHA”) Google reCAPTCHA is operated by Google Inc., 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA.

reCAPTCHA is intended to check whether the data entered on our websites (e.g. in a contact form) is entered by a person or an automated program. reCAPTCHA does so by analyzing your behavior on the basis of various features. The analysis begins automatically as soon as you retrieve the website. For the analysis, reCAPTCHA analyzes different pieces of information (e.g. IP address, how long the website visitor remains on the website or the mouse movements made by the user). The data recorded is transferred to Google.

The data is processed on the basis of Article 6(1) letter f GDPR. Our legitimate interest is in protecting our website against abusive automated espionage and spam.

Links to websites and third-party content

Our website includes links to other pages on the Internet. We have no influence on the form of the pages linked to from our website and are not responsible for their content.
We recommend you read the data privacy policies of such third-party websites carefully.

Amendments of the data privacy directive

We reserve the right to amend this data privacy statement at any time. We therefore recommend that you review the data privacy statement regularly.

Status: 2019-12-16