Confidentiality

Implementing customers' own product ideas, self-developed designs, utility models or even patent-protected shapes and details is a highly sensitive field of activity. Often, a concrete inquiry is preceded by confidentiality agreements. For Holst Porzellan this is a matter of course.

An important feature of Holst Porcelain on the subject of discretion is incumbent on the independent budget planning in the start-up phase.

We work well, quietly and above all discreetly!

Some of our competitors shine with long reference lists of well-sounding names, mostly top addresses or internationally known brands and companies. This is different at Holst Porzellan! Many national and occasionally international companies have their individualized porcelain made by us. In most cases, this porcelain is provided with a customer's own bottom mark and thus only indirectly - or invisibly - bears our name. These companies, often brands or brand manufacturers themselves, usually do not like to see their products, names or logos used as reference objects. That's why we only show a very small part of our references in our images, all of which are at least 5 years old.

This discretion in the sense of our customers is very important to us!

The annual volume of customer's own products, vignette production and special construction porcelain comprises a considerable share of Holst Porzellan's turnover. We are happy to show concrete examples of our capabilities from previous OEM business with corresponding references in our showroom, but not here! For us discretion is an indispensable part of our work.

Binding declaration of confidentiality

All information, documents, drawings and samples handed over to Holst Porzellan GmbH - for the purpose of determining a budget or offer - are subject to a voluntary and full submission to discretion, insofar as the product developments submitted as a project exhibit special intellectual or design characteristics. Above all, however, we undertake to protect the intellectual or creative property submitted to us to the best of our knowledge and belief and not to use it for our own product developments, for example, or to pass it on to third parties for the purpose of imitation or misuse.

Removal of discretion protection

If we are requested by our customer to pass on drawings, samples or other product developments to third parties for the purpose of calculating manufacturing costs, our discretionary influence ends and with it this declaration of discretion. However, in the interest of our customers, we assure to further protect their intellectual or creative property to the best of our knowledge and to preserve the uniqueness of the project article to the best of our ability. As a rule, we also have our own personnel available in the countries of manufacture for this purpose.

Confidentiality declarations by third parties

We ask for your understanding that we can only sign confidentiality declarations of third parties against payment of the costs of a legal counsel appointed by us. The legal norms of patent law, utility model protection and the European regulations for the protection of intellectual property are very complicated and are also subject to country-specific deviations. As a powerful OEM partner, we are competent in the development and manufacture of ceramic products, but by no means legally secure in all laws and paragraphs. If the signing of a confidentiality agreement is explicitly requested, an advance payment for the contract review in the amount of EUR 2.000, -- plus VAT is due.