Privacy Policy

Kossel23.com Online Privacy Statement

Last Update APRIL 5, 2024

Kossel Corp. respects your privacy! When using our website, you may get information, communicate with us, or link to other websites with whom we do business. While doing this, you may give us information so that we can provide enhanced products or services and personalize your experience on our website.

This online privacy policy describes how Kossel Corp. uses and protects the Personal Information you share with us. “PERSONAL INFORMATION” (PI) is information that enables us to identify you. Examples of this kind of information include your email address, name, title, or mailing address, and similar kinds of information may be used for the same purpose. Your privacy and the privacy of all users of Kossel23.com are of the utmost priority to Kossel Corp. If you have any questions, please email us.

This policy governs websites owned and operated by Kossel Corp. Our policy does not govern websites of other parties to which we may provide links because Kossel Corp. is not responsible for and cannot control those sites' privacy practices or content.

Here are the principles governing our information practices and other privacy aspects of our websites:

• Information Collection and Use
• Information Sharing and Disclosure
• Cross-border transfer
• Questions or Suggestions
• IP Information Collection and Use Practices
• Cookies
• Data Storage
• Contact Us

Information Collection and Use

• Kossel Corp. collects PERSONAL INFORMATION when you register for Kossel23.com, such as whitepapers and reports, newsletters, or webcasts, visit Kossel23.com pages, and enter promotions. This PERSONAL INFORMATION may include your name, email address, and telephone number.
  
• Kossel23.com also automatically receives and records information on our server logs from your browser, including your IP address, Kossel23.com cookie information, and the page(s) you requested.
  
• Kossel23.com may collect any additional information relating to you that you voluntarily provide to us directly through our websites or indirectly through our representatives or business partners. Kossel23.com may also allow you to submit files that Kossel23.com may use for research and development of its offerings.
  
• Kossel23.com may use PERSONAL INFORMATION received from you in connection with: to fulfill your requests for information on products and services or any specific questions sent to us, to respond to any complaints, to contact you about offers and new products, to follow up on marketing initiatives and to manage your relationship with us generally.

Information Sharing and Disclosure

• Kossel Corp. will not sell or rent your PERSONAL INFORMATION to anyone.
  
• Kossel Corp. will send PERSONAL INFORMATION about you to other companies or people when:

1. We have your informed consent to share the information;
2. We need to share your information to provide the product or service you have requested;
3. We need to send the information to companies who work on behalf of Kossel Corp. (e.g., affiliates, distributors, or resellers) to provide a product or service to you or for further follow-up related to your interests. The information shared does not constitute a sale of your PERSONAL INFORMATION.
4. We have to disclose your PERSONAL INFORMATION in response to a lawful request by public authorities and agencies to meet any applicable law and regulation or to protect the assets of Kossel Corp. as permitted by law.
5. We are subject to the Federal Trade Commission's (FTC) investigatory and enforcement powers. As a result, we may be required to disclose personal information that we handle under the Privacy Shield in response to lawful requests by public authorities, including to meet national security or law enforcement requirements.
   

Cross-Border Transfer

• Kossel Corp. complies with the requirements of the EU-U.S. Privacy Shield Framework and the Swiss-U.S. Privacy Shield Framework, as set forth by the U.S. Department of Commerce regarding the collection, use, and retention of personal information from European Union member countries and Switzerland. In addition, Kossel Corp. adheres to the Privacy Shield Principles of notice, choice, onward transfer, security, data integrity and purpose limitation, access and recourse, enforcement, and liability concerning all personal information transferred from the EU or Switzerland to the US within the scope of its Privacy Shield certification. If there is any conflict between the terms in this Policy and the Privacy Shield Principles, the Privacy Shield Principles shall govern. To learn more about the Privacy Shield program, please visit https://www.privacyshield.gov/list.
  
• Certain PERSONAL INFORMATION may be subject to Kossel23.com's more specific privacy policies, which are also consistent with the EU-U.S. and Swiss-U.S. Privacy Shield Framework requirements.
  
• Unless we tell you differently, ALL companies who work on behalf of Kossel Corp. do not have any right to use the PERSONAL INFORMATION we provide to them beyond what is necessary to assist us. Kossel23.com ensures that those companies are contractually bound to confidentiality, use the data received on behalf of Kossel23.com in line with this Policy, and guarantee adequate data protection. Kossel23.com will remain liable for any failure by the third party that receives PERSONAL INFORMATION on behalf of Kossel23.com unless we prove that the third party solely caused the event giving rise to the damage.
  
  

IP Infomation Collection and Use Practices

• Kossel23.com receives IP addresses from all users because your browser automatically reports this information each time you view a Web page.
  
• When a Kossel23.com Web page is requested and viewed, that request is logged on our servers with information, including the IP address of the computer that requested the page.
  
• IP addresses may be used for various purposes, including estimating the total number of users visiting Kossel23.com from specific countries or regions of the world.

Cookies

A cookie is a small amount of data, often including a unique anonymous identifier, sent to your browser from a website’s computer and stored on your computer’s hard drive. Each website can send its own cookie to your browser if your browser’s preferences allow it. To protect your privacy, your browser only permits a website to access the cookies it has already sent to you, not the cookies sent to you by other sites.

Kossel23.com Practices Regarding Cookies

Kossel23.com uses cookies for several purposes, including to

• Provide you with customized content.
• Keep track of your specific preferences while using Kossel23.com’s products and services.
• Estimate and report our total audience size and traffic.
• Conduct research to improve Kossel23.com content and services.
• Require you to reenter your Kossel23.com password after a certain period has elapsed to protect you.

In addition to the first-party cookies we set, we use external services that set third-party cookies to:

• Enable information sharing across social media services.
• Provide you with targeted advertising in relevant contexts on external sites.
• Keep track of preferences you specify while you are using third-party services.
• Enable third parties to aggregate anonymous user behavior data and provide such research data to Kossel23.com.
• Monitor and report on-site and service usage across Kossel23.com websites.
• Query third-party services such as Twitter for recently changed information.

Similar Technologies We Use

In addition to cookies, we use Web beacons (also known as “clear GIFs” and “1×1” pixels) and coded URLs. These techniques may be used:

• In our online advertising to determine which advertisements you have viewed.
• In our promotional emails, to track whether an email has been viewed and subsequent clicks on hyperlinks.
• To support remarketing for AdWords Ads on the Google Display Network. Remarketing technology serves you ads across multiple websites based on your browsing interest and behavior.

In addition, you may choose not to open emails or download images in emails you receive from Kossel23.com. You may choose not to click on hyperlinks embedded in marketing emails you receive from Kossel23.com to opt out of tracking via coded URLs.

Data Storage and Security

Account Information

• When you submit information to Kossel23.com, a temporary copy is routinely made to prevent the accidental loss of your data due to computer malfunction or human error.
• Please note that any information we have copied may remain in backup storage for some time after your deletion request. This may be the case even though no information about your account remains in our active user databases.
• Kossel23.com does not react to Do Not Track signals because there is no standard for how those signals are sent.

Servers

• The Kossel23.com computers (called “servers”) that send your Web pages process and store an enormous amount of information daily. These computer records are called “log files.”
• Log files are used for analysis, research, auditing, and other purposes, as described above. After this information has been used, it is stored and inaccessible. Until the data is stored, your Kossel23.com ID may remain in our active server log files.

Security

• Appropriate technical and physical safeguards are in place to protect against unauthorized or unlawful access, misuse, accidental loss, destruction, and alteration of any Personal Information shared with us during our website services.

Your Data Privacy Rights

You have several rights under relevant data privacy laws, which may include the General Data Protection Regulation (EU) 2016/679 and the California Consumer Privacy Act. Depending on where you are based, those rights may include the right to (i) request access or copies of your personal data Kossel23.com processes, (ii) rectify incorrect personal data, (iii) delete your personal data, (iv) restrict the processing of your personal data, (v) determine the portability of your personal data, (vi) lodge complaints with competent authorities in your country, and/or (vii) request a list with the names and addresses of any potential recipients of your personal data. To exercise one or more of these rights, or to ask questions or relay concerns, please get in touch with Kossel Corp’s Data Protection Officer:

Mail:

Kossel Corp. attn: DPO

PO BOX 14860

Fremont CA 94539-1860

USA

Privacy@Kossel23.com

Kossel Corp. will verify requests that it receives and respond in the time period required under the relevant data privacy laws.

Dispute Resolution

• If you believe your PERSONAL INFORMATION has been used in a way inconsistent with this Policy, we invite you to contact Kossel23.com first at privacy@Kossel23.com. We will make all efforts to resolve your complaints promptly and accurately.
  
• Further, Kossel23.com has committed to cooperate with EU Data Protection Authorities (DPAs) and the Swiss Federal Data Protection and Information Commissioner (FDPIC) and to comply with the information and advice provided to it by an informal panel of EU DPAs and the Swiss FDPIC respectively in relation to such unresolved complaints as determined by the Privacy Shield Principles.
  
• Under certain conditions, EU and Swiss individuals may seek redress from the Privacy Shield Panel, a binding arbitration mechanism.

Contact Us

Don't hesitate to contact us if you have any questions about this privacy statement, this site's practices, or your dealings with this website.

Policy Updates

We may update our Policy from time to time. We will post the revised version in this section of the website. If the revision is significant and may materially change our data privacy practices, we will notify you by using other means, e.g., via email. We will also keep prior versions of this Policy in an archive for your review (see Change History).