Data Protection Statement

1. Controller

This website is operated by MSK Verpackungs-Systeme GmbH, which is responsible for all data processing associated with your visit.

2. Data Protection Officer

Our data protection officer can be contacted at: privacy@msk.de

3. Data We Collect When You Visit

When you visit our website, certain technical information is automatically collected, which may be classified as personal data under applicable law. This includes:

• IP address and device identifier
• Browser type and operating system
• Language settings
• Referring URLs (where you came from)
• Pages visited and duration of visit

Legal basis: Article 6(1)(f) GDPR (legitimate interest) for a technically functional website and anonymised statistical assessments. We cannot identify you personally from this information.

Retention: Data processed without consent is retained for 7 days, after which it is deleted.

4. Analytics & Tracking

We use first-party analytics to understand how visitors find and interact with our website — for example, which search engine or platform referred you, and which sections you engaged with. This tracking only occurs with your explicit consent.

Legal basis: Article 6(1)(a) GDPR (consent). You may withdraw consent at any time by clearing your browser's local storage for this site.

We do not use Google Analytics or any third-party advertising trackers on this website.

5. Contact Forms & Enquiries

When you use our contact form or send us an enquiry, we collect your name, country, email address, company, telephone number, and message content (fields marked * are mandatory).

We use this data solely to answer your query. Legal basis: Article 6(1)(f) GDPR (legitimate interest in responding to enquiries) and Article 6(1)(c) GDPR (statutory archiving obligations).

Retention: Enquiry data is archived for 10 years in accordance with trade and tax law, then deleted.

Enquiries relating to our US or China operations may be forwarded to the relevant MSK Group subsidiary on the basis of EU Standard Contractual Clauses.

6. International Data Transfers

MSK Verpackungs-Systeme GmbH may transfer data to its subsidiaries in the United States and China. Such transfers are made on the basis of EU Standard Contractual Clauses as approved by the European Commission.

7. Your Rights

Under GDPR you have the right to:

• Access — request a copy of your personal data
• Rectification — correct inaccurate data
• Erasure — request deletion ("right to be forgotten")
• Restriction — restrict how we process your data
• Portability — receive your data in a machine-readable format
• Object — object to processing based on legitimate interests
• Withdraw consent — at any time, without affecting prior processing

To exercise any right, contact: privacy@msk.de

You also have the right to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority. The competent authority for MSK Verpackungs-Systeme GmbH is the Landesbeauftragte für Datenschutz und Informationsfreiheit Nordrhein-Westfalen.

8. Cookies & Local Storage

This website uses browser local storage (not cookies) to store your consent preference. No personal data is stored in local storage beyond your consent choice (accepted / rejected).

You can clear this preference at any time through your browser's developer tools or by clearing site data.

9. Full Data Protection Statement

For the complete data protection statement from MSK Verpackungs-Systeme GmbH, please visit: mskcovertech.com/data-protection-statement/