Privacy statement

 

The controller defined by the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) is:

 

Mercedes-Benz AG („We“)

Mercedesstraße 120

70372 Stuttgart

Deutschland

E-Mail: mercedes-benz-sdb@mercedes-benz.com 

 

Data Protection Officer:

Data Protection Officer::

Mercedes-Benz AG

Corporate Data Protection Officer

HPC E600

D-70546 Stuttgart

Germany

E-Mail: data.protection@Mercedes-Benz.com

 

1.     Data Protection

We appreciate you visiting our website and your interest in the products we offer. Protecting your personal data is very important to us. In this Privacy Policy, we explain how we collect your personal information, what we do with it, for what purposes and on what legal foundation we do so, and what rights you have on that basis. We will also refer you to Daimler's Data Protection Policy: 

 

Mercedes-Benz Data Protection Policy.

 

Our privacy statement on the use of our websites and the Daimler AG Data Protection Policy do not apply to your activities on the websites of social networks or other providers that can be accessed using the links on our websites. Please read the data protection provisions on the websites of those providers.

 

2.     Collecting and Processing Your Personal Information

a.  Whenever you visit our websites, we store certain information about the browser and operating system you are using; the date and time of your visit; the status of the interaction (e.g. whether you were able to access the website or received an error message); the usage of features on the website; any search phrases you entered; how often you visit individual websites; the names of the files you access; the amount of data transferred; the Web page from which you accessed our website; and the Web page you visited after visiting our website, whether by clicking links on our websites or entering a domain directly into the input field of the same tab (or window) of the browser in which you have our websites open. In addition, we store your IP address and the name of your Internet service provider for seven days. This is for security reasons; in particular, to prevent and detect attacks on our websites or attempts at fraud.  

 

b.  We will store other personal information only if you share that information; for instance, by filling out a registration form, contact form, survey, contest entry or to execute a contract. In such cases, we will store only the data we are allowed to keep based on consent given by you or in accordance with applicable legal regulations (more information on this can be found in the section titled "Legal Foundation for Processing").

 

c.   You are neither legally nor contractually obligated to share your personal information. However, certain features of our websites may depend on the sharing or personal information. If you do not provide your personal information in such cases, you may not be able to use those features, or they may be available with limited functionality.

 

3.     Purpose of Use

a.  We use the personal information collected during your visit to any of our websites to make using them as convenient as possible for you and to protect our IT systems against attacks and other unlawful activities.

 

b.  If you share additional information with us – for example, by filling out a registration form, contact form, survey, contest entry or to execute a contract with you – we will use that information for the designated purposes, purposes of customer management and – if required – for purposes of processing and billing and business transactions within the required scope in each instance.

 

 

4.     Use of service providers

We also use qualified service providers (IT service providers ) to operate, optimize and secure our websites. We only pass on personal data to third parties if and to the extent necessary for the provision and use of the websites and their functionalities, for the pursuit of legitimate interests or if you have consented to it (see section “Legal bases of processing” below). List of service providers thus receiving personal data: eska Ingenieurgesellschaft mbH

 

5.     Security

We take technical and organizational security measures in order to protect your information managed by us from being tampered with, lost, destroyed or accessed by authorized individuals. We are continuously improving our security measures in line with technological advancements.

 

6.     Legal Foundations for Processing

a.  If you have given us your consent to process your personal information, then that is the legal foundation for processing it (Art. 6, para. 1, letter a, of the EU's General Data Protection Regulation, or GDPR).

 

b.  Art. 6, para. 1, letter b, of the GDPR is the legal basis for processing personal information for the purpose of entering into a contact or performing a contract with you.

 

c.   If processing your personal information is required to fulfill our legal obligations (e.g. data retention), we are authorized to do so by Art. 6, para. 2, letter c, of the GDPR.

 

d.    Furthermore, we process personal information for purposes of protecting our legitimate interests as well as the interests of third parties in accordance with Art. 6, para. 1, letter f of the GDPR. Examples of such legitimate interests include maintaining the functionality of our IT systems as well as the (direct) marketing of our products and services and those of third parties and the legally required documentation of business contacts. As part of the consideration of interests required in each case, we take into account various aspects, in particular the type of personal information, the purpose of processing, the circumstances of processing and your interest in the confidentiality of your personal information.

 

7.     Deleting Your Personal Information

Your IP address and the name of your Internet service provider, which we store for security reasons, are deleted after seven days. Moreover, we delete your personal information as soon as the purpose for which it was collected and processed has been fulfilled. Beyond this time period, data storage only takes place to the extent made necessary by the legislation, regulations or other legal provisions to which we are subject in the EU or by legal provisions in third-party countries if these have an appropriate level of data protection. Should it not be possible to delete data in individual cases, the relevant personal data are flagged to restrict their further processing.

 

8.     Rights of Data Subjects

a.    As a data subject affected by data processing, you have the right to information (Section 15 GDPR), Correction (Section 16 GDPR), Deletion (Section 17 GDPR), Restricted processing (Section18 GDPR) and Data Transferability (Section20 GDPR).

 

b.    If you have consented to the processing of your personal information by us, you have the right to revoke your consent at any time. Your revocation does not affect the legality of the processing of your personal information that took place before your consent was revoked. It also has no effect on the continued processing of the information on another legal basis, such as to fulfill legal obligations (see section titled "Legal Foundation of Processing").

 

 

 

 

d.    If possible, please direct your claims or declarations to the following contact address: mercedes-benz-sdb@mercedes-benz.com

e.    If you feel that the processing of your personal data is in breach of legal requirements, you have the right to file a complaint with the responsible supervisory authority (Section

 

9.     Cookies

You can find information about the cookies we use and their functions in our Cookie Policy.

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Last update: June, 2022