Privacy Statement

Robert Bosch Stiftung respects your privacy

The protection of your privacy in the processing of personal data and the security of all business data is an important concern for us, which we take into account in our business processes. We process personal data that was gathered during your visit of our Online Offers confidentially and only in accordance with statutory regulations. Data protection and information security are part of our corporate policy.

Controller

Robert Bosch Stiftung is the controller responsible for the processing of your data; exceptions are outlined in this data protection notice.

Our contact details are as follows:

Robert Bosch Stiftung GmbH
Heidehofstr. 31
70184 Stuttgart
datenschutz@bosch-stiftung.de

 

Collection, processing and use of personal data

Processed data categories
The following data categories are processed:

• Communication data (e.g. name, telephone, e-mail, address, IP address)

Principles
Personal data consists of all in-formation related to an identified or identifiable natural person, this includes, e.g. names, addresses, phone numbers, email addresses, contractual master data, contract accounting and payment data, which is an expression of a person's identity. We collect, process and use personal data (including IP addresses) only when there is either a statutory legal basis to do so or you have given your consent to the processing or use of personal data concerning this matter, e.g. by means of registration.

Processing purposes and legal bases
We and service providers commissioned by us process your personal data for the following processing purposes:

• Provision of these Online Offers (Legal basis: Justified interest on our part in direct marketing as long as this occurs in accordance with data protection and competition law).
• To determine disruptions/disturbances and for security reasons (Legal basis: Fulfillment of our legal obligations within the scope of data security and justified interest in resolving disruptions/disturbances and in the security of our offers).
• Safeguarding and vindication of our rights (Legal basis: Justified interest on our part for the safeguarding and vindication of our rights).

Log-Files

Every time you use the internet, your browser transmits certain information which we store in so-called log files. We save log files for seven days solely to determine disturbances and for security reasons (e.g., to clarify attack attempts) and then we delete them afterwards. Log files which need to be maintained for evidence purposes are excluded from deletion until the respective incident has been completely resolved and may, on a case-by-case basis, be passed on to investigating authorities. Log files are also used for analysis purposes (without or without complete IP address). See module web analysis therefore. In log files, the following information in particular is being saved:

• IP address (internet protocol address) of the terminal device which is being used to access the Online Offers;
• Internet address of the website from which the Online Offer has been accessed (so-called URL of origin or referrer URL);
• Name of the service provider which is used to access the Online Offers;
• Name of the files or information accessed;
• Date and time as well as duration of retrieval;
• Amount of data transferred;
• Operating system and information on the internet browser used including add-ons installed (e.g., Flash Player);
• http status code (e.g., “Request successful” or “File requested not found”).

Data transfer

Data transfer to other controllers
Your personal data is principally forwarded to other controllers only when required for the fulfillment of a contract, in the case where we or the third party have a legitimate interest in the transfer, or when your consent has been given. Particulars on the legal bases can be found in the Section - Purposes of Processing and Legal Bases. Third parties may also be other companies of the Bosch group. When data is transferred to third parties based on a justified interest, this is explained in this data protection notice. Additionally, data may be transferred to other controllers when we are obliged to do so due to statutory regulations or enforceable administrative or judicial orders.
 

Service providers (general)
We have commissioned external service providers with tasks such as sales and marketing services, contract management, payment handling, programming, data hosting and hotline services. We have chosen these service providers carefully and review them regularly, especially regarding their diligent handling of and protection of the data that they have saved. All service providers are obliged to maintain confidentiality and to abide by the statutory provisions.
 

Transfer to recipients outside the EEA

We can also transfer personal data to recipients located outside the EEA in so-called third countries. In such cases, we ensure prior to the transfer either that the data recipient provides an appropriate level of data protection (e.g., due to a decision of adequacy by the European Commission for the respective country or due to the agreement based on so-called EU model clauses with the recipient) or that you have consented to the transfer.

You are entitled to receive an overview of third country recipients and a copy of the specifically agreed-to provisions securing an appropriate level of data protection. For this purpose, please use the statements made in the Contact section. 
 

Duration of storage; retention periods

Principally, we store your data for as long as it is necessary to render our Online Offers and the services connected to them or for as long as we have a justified interest in storing the data (e.g., we might still have a justified interest in postal mail marketing upon fulfillment of a contract). In all other cases we delete your personal data with the exception of data we must store to fulfill legal obligations (e.g., we are obliged due to retention periods under the tax and commercial codes to have documents such as contracts and invoices available for a certain period of time).
 

Cookie usage

General
Cookies are small text files that are being saved on your computer when an Online Offer is visited. In case you access this Online Offer another time, your browser sends the cookies' content back to the respective offeror and, thus, allows the re-identification of the terminal device. Reading the cookies allows us to design our Online Offers optimally for you and makes it easier for you to use them.
 

Deactivation and deletion of cookies
When you visit our internet pages you will be informed in a cookie layer pop up that cookies are being set on our page. In case you decide to block cookies, your browser allows you to deactivate and delete all cookies at all times. To do so, please consult your browser's help functions. This might, however, lead to individual functions no longer being available. Please note that deactivation and deletion of cookies, for technical reasons, only can be set for the browser that was used for. In case you use a different browser or a different terminal device, you must deactivate or delete again.

In addition, you are able to manage and deactivate the use of third party cookies on the following web page: http://www.youronlinechoices.com/uk/your-ad-choices. As we do not operate this website, we are not responsible and we are unable to influence content and availability.
 

Overview of cookies used by us
In this section, please find an overview of cookies we use.

a) Absolutely necessary cookies

Certain cookies are necessary so we can securely render our Online Offers.This category includes, e g. 

• Cookies that identify or authenticate our users;
• Cookies that store certain user preferences (e.g., search or language settings);

b) Analytical cookies

We use analytical cookies to record the usage behavior (e.g., ad banners clicked, search queries put in) of our users and to evaluate it statistically. For more information, see the Web Analytics section.
 

Web analysis

We need statistical information about the use of our website to make it more user-friendly, to measure its reach, and to carry out market research. For this purpose, we use the web analytics tools described in this section. The usage profiles created by these tools using analytical cookies are not linked to personal data. The tools either do not use user IP addresses at all or shorten them immediately after collection. The tool providers process data only as processors according to our instructions and not for their own purposes.

How does the tracking work?
When you visit our website, it is possible that the tracking providers mentioned below retrieve recognition features for your browser or your device (e.g. a so-called browser fingerprint), evaluate your IP address, store or read out recognition features on your device (e.g. cookies) or receive access to individual tracking pixels.

etracker
etracker is provided by etracker GmbH, Erste Brunnenstraße 1, 20459 Hamburg, Germany. 

Data is processed on the basis of your consent, provided you have consented via our banner. You can withdraw your consent at any time and choosing the corresponding settings via our banner.

Within the scope of etracker, etracker GmbH supports us as a processor as per Art. 28 GDPR.

The following cookies, which are set by this website, are related to etracker:

Name: et_oi_v2
Purpose: opt-in cookie, saves the visitor's decision when the tracking opt-in is played on the customer's side. Is also used for a possible opt-out.
Expiry: the period of validity is 50 years for no tracking (“no”) and 480 days for tracking (“yes”).

Social Plug-Ins

In our Online Offers we use so-called social plugins from various social networks; these are individually described in this section. During the usage of the plugins, your internet browser establishes a direct connection to the respective social networks’ servers. This way, the respective provider receives information that your inter-net browser has accessed from the respective site of our Online Offers, even if you do not have a user account with this provider or are currently not logged into this account. Log files (including the IP address) are, in this case, directly transmitted from your internet browser to a server of the respective provider and might be stored there. The provider or its server may be located outside the EU or the EEA (e.g., in the United States).

The plugins are standalone extensions by social network providers. For this reason, we are unable to influence the scope of data collected and stored by them.

Purpose and scope of the collection, the continued processing and usage of data by the social net-work as well as your respective rights and setting options to protect your privacy can be found by consulting the respective social network's data protection notices.

In case you do not wish social network providers to receive and, if applicable, store or use data, you should not use the respective plugins.
 

PlugIn von AddThis

AddThis Services is operated by Oracle America, Inc. ("Oracle"), located at 500 Oracle Parkway, Redwood Shores, CA 94065. Privacy information can be found here: http://www.addthis.com/privacy/privacy-policy
 

External links

Our Online Offers may contain links to third party internet pages – by providers who are not related to us. Upon clicking the link, we have no influence on collecting, processing and using personal data possibly transmitted by clicking the link to the third party (such as the IP address or the URL of the site on which the link is located) as the behavior of third parties is naturally outside our supervision. We do not assume responsibility for the processing of such personal data by third parties.
 

Security

Our employees and the companies providing services on our behalf, are obliged to confidentiality and to compliance with the applicable data protection laws.

We take all necessary technical and organizational measures to ensure an appropriate level of security and to protect your data that are administrated by us especially from the risks of unintended or unlawful destruction, manipulation, loss, change or unauthorized disclosure or unauthorized access. Our security measures are, pursuant to technological progress, constantly being improved.
 

User rights

To enforce your rights, please use the details provided in the Contact section. In doing so, please ensure that an unambiguous identification of your person is possible.
 

Right to information and access:

You have the right to obtain confirmation from us about whether or not your personal data is being processed, and, if this is the case, access to your personal data.
 

Right to correction and deletion:

You have the right to obtain the rectification of inaccurate personal data concerning yourself without undue delay from us. Taking into account the purposes of the processing, you have the right to have incomplete personal data completed, including by means of providing a supplementary statement.

This does not apply to data which is necessary for billing or accounting purposes or which is subject to a statutory retention period. If access to such data is not required, however, its processing is restricted (see the following).
 

Restriction of processing:

You have the right to You have the right to demand for – as far as statutory requirements are fulfilled – restriction of the processing of your data.
 

Objection to data processing:

You have the right to object to data processing by us at any time. We will no longer process the personal data unless we demonstrate compliance with legal requirements to provide provable reasons for the further processing which are beyond your interests, rights and freedoms or for the establishment, exercise or defense of legal claims.
 

Data portability:

You are entitled to receive data that you have provided to us in a structured, commonly used and machine-readable format or – if technically feasible – to demand that we transfer those data to a third party
 

Right of complaint with supervisory authority:

You have the right to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority. You can appeal to the supervisory authority which is responsible for your place of residence or your state or to the supervisory authority responsible for us. This is:

State Commissioner for Data Protection and Freedom of Information
Address:
Königstrasse 10a
70173 Stuttgart

Postal address:
P.O. Box 10 29 32
70025 Stuttgart
Tel.: 0711/615541-0
FAX: 0711/615541-15
E-Mail: poststelle@lfdi.bwl.de

 

Changes to the Data Protection Notice

We reserve the right to change our security and data protection measures if this is required due to technical development. In such cases, we will amend our data protection notice accordingly. Please therefore observe the current version of our data protection notice, as this is subject to change.