A) Controller

We are pleased that you are visiting a web site of Volkswagen AG, Berliner Ring 2, 38440 Wolfsburg, vw@volkswagen.de registered in the Commercial Register of the Municipal Court of Bonn under No. HRB100848 (Commercial Register, Section B)  (“Volkswagen AG”).  In the following, we should like to inform you on the collection, processing and usage of your data.

You shall have the option on this web site of subscribing to publications such as, for example, the business report of Volkswagen AG. In this regard, the following personal data shall be required from you: surname, first name and address. These data shall be used by Volkswagen AG (while deploying a data processor) only for the purposes of the substantiation, content-related formulation or amendment of the contractual agreement concluded between you and us upon a free-of-charge basis in order to subscribe to publications (Art. 6 Para. 1, Sentence 1 lit. b of the General Data Protection Regulation, GDPR). The collected data shall be deleted after the requested publication has been sent insofar as no other retention timeframes (e.g. tax-related retention timeframes) oppose this.

This web site also offers the option of subscribing to a newsletter. The data provided in this context (e-mail address and optionally surname, forename) shall be used by us exclusively for the purpose of rendering this service based upon the consent which you have granted (Art. 6 Para. 1 Clause 1 lit. a GDPR). You may, at any time and upon a free-of-charge basis, withdraw your consent – with effectiveness for the future – vis-à-vis Volkswagen AG, e.g. by clicking on the “Cancel” link which is contained in every newsletter or by using the e-mail address provided below: privacy@volkswagen.de. Insofar as you cancel the newsletter, your personal data shall be deleted insofar as no other retention timeframes (e.g. tax-related retention timeframes) oppose this. The sending of the newsletter shall be undertaken by deploying a contracted data processing service provider to do so.

D) Tracking Tools

I) Google Analytics

This web site uses Google Analytics, a web analytics service provided by Google, Inc. (“Google”). The data processing shall be undertaken for the purposes of advertising, market research or the requirements-based designing of our web site (in accordance with Section 15 Para. 3 of the German Telemedia Act (Telemediengesetz). 
Google Analytics uses so-called “cookies”, which are text files placed on your computer, to help the web site analyse how you use the site. The information generated by the cookie about your use of the web site will usually be transmitted to and stored on a Google server in the United States.

In this case, Volkswagen AG shall use the privacy shield negotiated between the European Union and the USA for the ensuring of an appropriate data protection level.

In case of activation of the IP anonymisation on this web site, Google will, however, truncate your IP address beforehand within Member States of the European Union or other parties to the Agreement on the European Economic Area. Only in exceptional cases will the full IP address be transmitted to a Google server in the United States and truncated there. On behalf of the web site provider Google will use this information for the purpose of evaluating your use of the web site, compiling reports on web site activity and providing other services relating to web site activity and internet usage to the web site provider.

The IP address provided by your browser as part of Google Analytics will not be associated 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 web site. In addition, you can prevent Google from collecting and processing the data (including your IP address) generated by the cookie and relating to your use of the web site, as well as the processing of this data by Google, by downloading and installing the browser plug-in available under the following link: http://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=de.

This web site uses Google Analytics with the add-on “_anonymizeIP()”. By so doing, IP addresses are further processed in shortened fashion and it is thus impossible to make a direct attribution to individual persons. Google Analytics is used in compliance with the requirements agreed between the German data privacy authorities and Google.

Information on the third party provider: Google Dublin, Google Ireland Ltd., Gordon House, Barrow Street, Dublin 4, Ireland, fax: +353 (1) 436 1001. Data privacy statement: http://www.google.de/intl/de/policies/privacy

E) Social Media

Volkswagen AG uses so-called social media plug-ins (“Plug-Ins”) from the Facebook, Google+ and Twitter social networks which are labelled with the well-known symbols of the respective social network. The Plug-Ins have been deactivated on the web pages of Volkswagen AG as the default setting so that, during the accessing of a web page, no personal data shall be initially passed on to the providers of the Plug-Ins. Only by clicking on one of the greyed-out symbols and by once again confirming a message shall you activate the plug-in which corresponds to a consent in accordance with Art. 6 Para. 1 p. 1 lit. a of the General Data Protection Regulation (DSGVO). After activation has been done, the content from the Plug-In shall be transmitted by the social network directly to your browser and integrated by your browser into the web site (so-called 2-click solution). The plug-ins can be at any time deactivated again by clicking on them anew.

By integrating a plug-in, data are transmitted to the respective provider in automated fashion and can be saved by this respective provider. The provider receives the notification that you have visited our web site. This is done regardless of whether you have set up a user account on the respective social network and are logged-in there or not. If you have logged in to the social network, the provider can classify these data directly to your user account. The possibility exists that the respective providers of the plug-ins will use the data for the creation of usage profiles. Volkswagen AG has no influence on the data collected by the provider and the continued processing thereof. The purpose and scope of the data collection as well as the continued processing and use of the data by the providers of the plug-ins as well as your related rights and setting options in order to protect your private sphere can be found in the respective provider’s Data Protection Declarations.

Facebook Inc., 1601 S. California Ave, Palo Alto, CA 94304, USA http://de-de.facebook.com/privacy/explanation.php

Google Inc., 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA https://www.google.de/intl/de/policies/privacy/

Twitter Inc., 1355 Market Street, Suite 900, San Francisco, CA 94103, USA https://twitter.com/privacy

F) Your Rights

You may assert your rights below against Volkswagen AG at any time upon a free-of-charge basis. For further information concerning the exercise of your rights, please see section G.

Right of Access by the Data Subject: You shall have the right to receive information from us regarding the processing of your personal data.

Right to Rectification: You shall have the right to demand that we correct your personal data which are incorrect and/or incomplete.

Right to Erasure: You shall have the right, in the event that the requirements specified in Art. 17 of the GDPR have been met, to demand the deletion of your data. Thus, in accordance with this Article 17, for example, you may demand the deletion of your data insofar as these data are no longer required for the purposes for which they were collected.  Furthermore, you may demand the deletion of these data if we process your data based upon the consent which you have granted and you then withdraw this consent.

Right to Restriction of Processing: You shall have the right to demand the restriction of the processing of your data if the requirements specified in Art. 18 of the GDPR have been fulfilled. This is, for example, the case if you dispute the correctness of your data. For the duration of the verification of the correctness of the data, you may demand the restriction of the processing.

Right to Object: Insofar as the processing is [undertaken] based upon an overriding interest or your data are used for the purposes of direct advertising, you shall have the right to object to the processing of your data. An objection shall be permissible (sic!) if the processing either is carried out in the public interest or in the exercising of official authority or owing to a justified interest of Volkswagen AG or of a third party. In the event that you object, we request that you state your reasons to us regarding why you are objecting to the data processing. In addition, you shall have the right to object to the data processing for the purposes of direct advertising. This shall also be valid for profiling insofar as this is undertaken in conjunction with the direct advertising.

Right to Data Portability: Insofar as the data processing is undertaken based upon a consent or a fulfilment of a contractual agreement and this is also undertaken while using an automated processing system, you shall have the right to receive your data in a structured, commonplace and machine-readable format and to transfer these data to another data processing service provider.

Right of Revocation: Insofar as the data processing is undertaken based upon a consent, you shall have the right to withdraw your consent for the data processing, with effectiveness for the future, at any time and upon a free-of-charge basis, by using the following address: info-datenschutz@volkswagen.de or by using the contact data provided in the Imprint section.

Right to Complain: You shall also have the right to complain to a government supervisory authority (e.g. to the State Data Protection Officer for Lower Saxony, Germany) regarding our processing of your data.

G) Your Contact Persons

Contact Person for Exercise of Your Rights

 For further information concerning the exercise of your rights, please see https://datenschutz.volkswagen.de.

Data Protection Officer

Our Data Protection Officer shall support you as your contact person on all data protection-related matters:

Data Protection Officer of Volkswagen AG

Berliner Ring 2, 38440 Wolfsburg

datenschutz@volkswagen.de

status: June 2018