Privacy Policy

Thank you for your interest in our online presentation, one of our main priorities is the privacy of our visitors and the protection of their personal data. Therefore, we would like to inform you about the Privacy Policy of your company. Legal provisions of the General Data Protection Regulation (“GDPR”) and the Telecommunications Act, and other related legislation has been considered. You can trust us with your personal data. Your personal data is encrypted and transmitted to us through our digital security systems. In addition, our website is supported through technical measures against damage, destruction and unauthorized access.

1. General and Scope

We take our legal obligation and the protection of your data very serious.  In this privacy policy you will find the information relating to which personal data is collected, processed and the used (handling of personal data) during your visit on this and/or other websites and web links being referred and/or transferred to as well as our guarantee in keeping it safe during the use of the website.  Please take up contact with us for any other queries left unanswered by this privacy policy, on our contact details found in the legal notice on this website.  

As a user of the website, kindly take note that this website allows for access to other websites, operated by third parties and not necessarily by us.  Such links are either clearly identified by us or easily identifiable through a change in the website address indicated in the address bar of your browser.  We are not responsible for compliance with data protection and the secure handling of your personal data on websites operated by third parties.

Personal data allows for the identification of a natural person.  This includes data such as a name, date of birth, address and E-Mail address.  In principle, the use of this website is also possible without having to disclose your identity, whether in whole or part thereof either to us or to third parties.

Until you take up contact with us through this website, disclosure of your identity is not required. In order for us to be able to provide you with our services, we are in need of your personal data. This applies to us sending you informative material or providing you with assistance to your individual inquiries regarding our goods and services. We collect, process and store your personal data only as far as necessary in terms of the provision of services or for the purposes of contract execution. The need may arise out of the execution of contract to forward your personal data to independent contractors such as delivery companies and/or other service providers appointed by us. Unless you have explicitly approved the further use of your personal data, it will be blocked and upon expiry of the data safekeeping deadline, deleted as per the applicable tax- and commercial regulations.

In the case where you have registered for the electronic receipt of our newsletter, your E-Mail address is used further and beyond of the execution of the contract, for the purposes of receiving advertising material until such time you unsubscribe from the newsletter. For these purposes, the decision to take up contact and to disclose your personal date via this website remains freely your decision.

3. Data processed through this website

The web server of this website automatically collects and stores in its log files information transmitted by your browser.

This information collected includes:

• Browser type / version
• Internet Service Provider (ISP)
• Referrer/exit pages (URL)
• Internet protocol (IP addresses)
• Date and time stamp

These types of data are not assignable to specific persons and therefore not linked to any personally identifiable information. There is no association done with this and any other data sources. At the latest, every three months the log data deleted in full.  Archiving does not occur and it exclusively serves the purpose of website protection in the cases of cyber abuse and investigation.

Like any other website, this website uses so-called “cookies”. These cookies, are used to store information including visitors' preferences, and the pages on the website that the visitor accessed or visited in order to optimize the users' experience on our website. Most of the cookies used by this website are so-called "session cookies", which are automatically deleted after your website visit. Long-term cookies, only applies in the case you have registered and logged in as a user of this website and your browser should automatically connect to your user access for future log in’s. There is no personal data stored by the cookies. The deletion of cookies has no effect on the content and functions of this website. The cookies of this website will not cause any to your computer; it does not contain viruses and is not visible to other websites.

5. Data collection through the usage of Google Analytics

This website uses Google Analytics, a web analytics service provided by Google, Inc.  1600 Amphitheater Parkway Mountain View, CA 94043, USA (“Google”). Google Analytics uses so-called “cookies”, which are text files stored on your computer that allows for an analysis of your usage of the website. The information, generated by the cookies about your use of the website (including your IP address), will be transmitted to and stored by Google on servers in the USA.

In case of activation of the IP anonymization, Google will truncate/anonymize the last octet of the IP address for Member States of the European Union as well as for other parties to the Agreement on the European Economic Area. 
Only in exceptional cases, the full IP address is sent to and shortened by Google servers in the USA. 
On behalf of the website provider, Google will use this information for the purpose of evaluating your use of the website, compiling reports on website activity for website operators and providing other services relating to website activity and internet usage to the website provider. 
Google will not associate your IP address with any other data held by Google.

You may refuse the use of cookies by selecting the appropriate settings on your browser. However, please note that if you do this, you may not be able to use the full functionality of this website. 
Furthermore you can prevent Google’s collection and use of data (cookies and IP address) by downloading and installing the browser plug-in available under >>> Google Analytics deactivation.

Unless required in terms of your contact request, the performance of services or being legally required to do so, we will not disclose your personal information to third parties.

In the case of the transfer of personal data, it is done so in accordance with the legal provisions. The scope of the data transferred, is kept to the minimum required in order to achieve the purposes for which the transfer was made in the first place.

7. Right to access of information and deletion of personal data

In accordance with the legal provision, we at any time, free of charge and immediately, provide information relating to our handling with your personal data. At your request, the information is disclosed and issued in electronic form. Likewise, we correct, block or delete your personal data, as a whole or in part, in the case where legal requirements are to enforces us to do so. Please contact us for these purposes.

8. Changes to this privacy policy

We reserve the right to change or amend the privacy policy, should it be necessary for the adaption to new legal provisions and/or legislation, or any other factual or legal requirements. Therefore, please inform yourself at the beginning of each session of using our website on the current data protection policy.

9. Your rights

You at any time have the right to require and obtain information from us relating to your stored personal data (Article 15-GDPR), its rectification (Article 16-GDPR), its deletion (Article 17-GDPR), restriction of processing (Article 18-GDPR) and your right to data portability (Article 20-GDPR). Without having to state your reasons, you have the right to, at any time and with future effect, amend or revoke your declaration of consent (Article 21-GDPR). Please note that the data processed prior to revocation, will not be affected. For the above-mentioned purposes, please contact one us on one of the following contact channels.

You can contact our data protection officer on:

Sandra Klopotek von Glowczewski

Alte Plauener Straße 2

D-08541 Neuensalz

Tel: +49 (0) 3741 4162-58

Fax: +49 (0) 37436 2080-6212

E-Mail: datenschutzbeauftragter@autobund.de

You further have the right of appeal to a supervisory authority.