Privacy Statement

Controller within the meaning of the General Data Protection Regulation (“GDPR”) is:
Daimler AG (“We“)
Mercedesstraße 120
70372 Stuttgart
Germany
Phone +49 7 11 17-0
corporate.design@daimler.com

Data Protection Officer:
Daimler AG
Chief Officer Corporate Data Protection
HPC E600
70546 Stuttgart
Germany
data.protection@daimler.com

1. Data Protection

We are pleased about your visit on our web pages and your interest in our offers. The protection of your personal data is an important concern for us. In these Privacy Statement we explain how we collect your personal data, what we do with it, for what purposes and on what legal basis this is done, and which rights and claims are associated with it for you. In addition, we refer to the Daimler Data Protection Policy.

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Our Privacy Statement for the use of our websites and the Data Protection Policy of Daimler AG do not apply to your activities on the websites of social networks or other providers that you can reach via the links on our websites. Please check the websites of these providers for their data protection regulations.

2. Collection and Processing of Your Personal Data

a. When you visit our website, we store certain information about the browser and operating system you use, the date and time of your visit, the access status (e.g. whether you were able to access a website or received an error message), the use of website functions, the search terms you may have entered, the frequency with which you access individual websites, the designation of files accessed, the amount of data transferred, the website from which you accessed our websites and the website which you visit from our websites, either by clicking on links on our websites or by entering a do-main directly in the input field of the same tab (or the same window) of your browser in which you opened our websites. We also store your IP ad-dress and the name of your Internet service provider for seven days for security reasons, in particular to prevent and detect attacks on our websites or attempts at fraud.

b. We only store other personal data if you provide this data, e.g. as part of a registration, a contact form, a survey, a price competition or for the execution of a contract, and even in these cases only insofar as this is permitted to us on the basis of a consent given by you or in accordance with the applicable legal provisions (further information on this can be found below in the section “Legal basis of processing”).

c. You are not legally or contractually obliged to make available your personal data. However, it is possible that certain functions of our websites depend on the availability of personal data. If you do not make available personal data in these cases, this may result in functions not being available or only being available to a limited extent.

3. Purposes of Use

a. We use the personal data collected when you visit our website in order to operate it in the most convenient manner for your use and to protect our IT systems from attacks and other illegal activities.

b. If you provide us with further personal data, e.g. within the scope of a registration, a contact form, a survey, a price competition or for the execution of a contract, we use this data for the purposes mentioned, for the purposes of customer administration and - if necessary - for the purposes of processing and accounting of any business transactions, in each case to the extent required for this.

4. Transfer of Personal Data to Third Parties; Embedded Video Content (“YouTube”)

a. Our websites may also contain offers of third parties. If you click on such an offer, we transfer data to the respective provider to the required extent (e.g. information that you have found this offer with us and, if applicable, further information that you have already provided on our websites for this purpose).

b. By clicking “Play” you establish a direct connection with the YouTube server. The video content is then transferred directly to your browser and embedded into our website by the video network. Please note that we have no influence over the scope of data collected by YouTube. The data use policies of YouTube provide information on the purpose and extent of the data that it collects, how this data is processed and used, the rights available to you, and the settings that you can use to protect your privacy.

YouTube can retrieve data as soon as you have clicked the “Play” button, regardless of whether or not there are any further interactions. If you are logged on to YouTube, the video network can assign your visit to the website to your user account. If you are a member of YouTube and do not wish it to link data retrieved from your visit to our websites with your membership data, you must log out from YouTube before clicking the “Play” button.

Your system’s connection to YouTube will remain active until you deactivate it by leaving the open page with the embedded video content or by deleting your cookies. The use of YouTube is in the interest of an attractive presentation of our online offers. This constitutes a legitimate interest within the meaning of Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f GDPR. For more information about how to handle user data, please refer to the YouTube Privacy Policy at: https://www.google.com/intl/en/policies/privacy

c. If you click on the link to an offer or activate the “Play” button of an embedded video content (“YouTube”), personal data may reach providers in countries outside the European Economic Area that, from the point of view of the European Union ("EU"), may not guarantee an "adequate level of protection" for the processing of personal data in accordance with EU standards. However, this level of protection can be replaced for individual companies by certification according to the so-called “EU-U.S. Privacy Shield”. Google is certified according to the EU-U.S. Privacy Shield. Please remember this fact before clicking on a link or activating the “Play” button of a video content (“YouTube”) and thereby triggering a transfer of your data.

5. Transfer of Personal Data to Third Parties; Embedded Video Content (“Wistia”)

a. Our websites may also contain offers of third parties. If you click on such an offer, we transfer data to the respective provider to the required extent (e.g. information that you have found this offer with us and, if applicable, further information that you have already provided on our websites for this purpose).

b. By clicking „Play“ you establish a direct connection with the Wistia, Inc. (“Wistia”) server. The video content is then transferred directly to your browser and embedded into our website by the video network. All user-related data and corresponding IP addresses are solely anonymized and transmitted to Wistia in an aggregated way. In addition, no cookies are stored for evaluation purposes. When you visit individual pages on our website, no data transmission takes place unless you activate the play button or play any embedded video content per click.

Wistia is certified under both the EU-US and the Swiss-US Privacy Shield Framework (https://www.privacyshield.gov/participant?id=a2zt0000000TSBFAA4&status=Active) and all services offered are compliant with data protection according to the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). Please visit https://wistia.com/about/ for more details about the video service provider. The use of Wistia is in the interest of an attractive presentation of our online offers. This constitutes a legitimate interest within the meaning of Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f GDPR. For more information about how to handle user data, please refer to the Wistia Privacy Policy at: https://wistia.com/privacy

c. If you activate the “Play” button of an embedded video content (“Wistia”), personal data may reach providers in countries outside the European Economic Area that, from the point of view of the European Union (“EU”), may not guarantee an “adequate level of protection“ for the processing of personal data in accordance with EU standards. Please remember this fact before activating the “Play” button of a video content (“Wistia”) and thereby triggering a transfer of your data.

6. Use of Service Providers

We also use qualified service providers (IT service providers, marketing agencies) 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 9). In these cases, data may be transferred to recipients outside the European Economic Area; please refer to section 14 below.

7. Analysis of Usage Data; Use of Analysis Tools

a. We would like to tailor the content of our websites as precisely as possible to your interests and in this way improve our offer for you. In order to identify usage preferences and particularly popular areas of the websites, we use the following analysis tool: etracker Analytics.

b. The use of this etracker Analytics tool processes data only in Germany, in a member country of the European Union, or in a member country of the European Economic Area.

c. If you do not want us to collect and analyze information about your visit to our website using the analysis tools mentioned above, you can object to this at any time with effect for the future ("opt-out"). We implement your objection by setting an opt-out cookie in your browser. This cookie is only used to associate your objection. Please note that for technical reasons, an opt-out cookie only works in the browser in which it was set. If you delete the cookies or use a different browser or device, please opt-out again.

d. Below you will find information on the providers of the analysis tool we use and the respective opt-out options:

The services provided by etracker GmbH (“etracker”) comply with data protection laws under the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and the new version of the German Federal Data Protection Act (new BDSG), and are certified in the EU under the ePrivacyseal.

You can follow this link to opt out of analysis using etracker Analytics:
Click here to set the opt-out cookie

8. Security

We use technical and organisational security measures to protect your data managed by us against manipulation, loss, destruction and against access by unauthorised persons. We are constantly improving our security measures in line with technological developments.

9. Legal Basis of Processing

a. Insofar as you have given us your consent for the processing of your personal data, that consent is the legal basis for the processing (Art. 6 para. 1 lit. a GDPR).

b. For the processing of personal data for the purposes of initiating or fulfilling a contract with you, Art. 6 para. 1 lit. b GDPR is the legal basis.

c. Insofar as the processing of your personal data is necessary for the fulfilment of our legal obligations (e.g. for the retention of data), we are authorized to do so pursuant to Art. 6 para. 1 lit. c GDPR.

d. In addition, we process personal data for the purposes of safeguarding our legitimate interests and the legitimate interests of third parties pursuant to Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f GDPR. Maintaining the functionality of our IT systems, marketing our own and third-party products and services as well as documenting business contacts as required by law are such legitimate interests. 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.

10. Deletion of Your Personal Data

Your IP address and the name of your Internet service provider, which we only store for security reasons, will be deleted after seven days. Otherwise, we delete your personal data as soon as the purpose for which we have collected and processed the data ceases to apply. 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.

11. Rights of the Data Subject

a. As a data subject, you have the right of access (Art. 15 GDPR), right to rectification (Art. 16 GDPR), right to erasure (Art. 17 GDPR), right to restriction of processing (Art. 18 GDPR) and right to data portability (Art. 20 GDPR).

b. If you have consented to the processing of your personal data by us, you have the right to revoke your consent at any time. The legality of processing your personal data before revocation remains unaffected. We may further process such data pursuant to another applicable legal basis, e.g. for the fulfilment of our legal obligations (cf. section "Legal bases of processing").

c. Right to Object
You have the right to object at any time to the processing of your personal data pursuant to Art. 6 para. 1 lit. e GDPR (data processing in the public interest) or Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f GDPR (data processing on the basis of a balance of interests) on grounds relating to your particular situation. If you object, we will only process your personal data if we can prove compelling legitimate reasons that outweigh your interests, rights and freedoms, or for the establishment, exercise or defence of legal claims.

d. We ask you to address your claims or declarations to the following contact address if possible: corporate.design@daimler.com

e. If you believe that the processing of your personal data violates legal requirements, you have the right to lodge a complaint with a competent data protection supervisory authority (Art. 77 GDPR).

12. Newsletter

If you subscribe to a newsletter offered on our website, the data provided in the newsletter subscription will only be used for sending the newsletter, unless you agree to further use. You can unsubscribe at any time from your profile settings or using the unsubscribe option provided in the newsletter.

13. Central Access Service of Daimler AG

With the Central Registration Service offered by Daimler AG, you can sign up for every website and application belonging to the Daimler Group and its brands that are connected to the service. The applicable terms of use contain specific data protection provisions. You can access those terms or use on the log-in pages of the relevant websites and applications under “Access Conditions”.

14. Data Transmission to Recipients outside the European Economic Area

a. When using service providers (see section 6) and analysis tools (see section 7), personal data may be transferred and processed by recipients in countries outside the European Union (“EU”), Iceland, Liechtenstein and Norway (= European Economic Area), in particular the USA and India.

b. From the point of view of the EU, the following countries provide an adequate level of protection for the processing of personal data in accordance with EU standards (so-called adequacy decision): Andorra, Argentina, Canada (limited), Faroe Islands, Guernsey, Israel, Isle of Man, Japan, Jersey, New Zealand, Switzerland and Uruguay. We agree with recipients in other countries to apply EU standard contractual clauses, binding company regulations or the EU-U.S. or Swiss-U.S. Privacy Shield in order to create an appropriate level of protection in accordance with the legal requirements. For more information, please use the contact details given in section 11.d. above.

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Information on the cookies we use and their functions can be found in our Cookie Statement.

Status: May 2019

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