This Privacy Policy covers our processing of Personal Data under applicable data protection laws and regulations with respect to our website.
By making this Privacy Policy available to you, we comply with our information obligations. Please note that this Privacy Policy shall not confer upon you any rights or obligations that are not conferred upon you by applicable data protection laws and regulations.
The Controller of your Personal Data is Volkswagen Group Info Services AG, Berliner Ring 2, 38440 Wolfsburg, Germany.
You may contact us via mail at gis-support@cariad.technology with questions about this Privacy Policy, the processing of your Personal Data in general and to exercise your rights as a data subject as outlined below.
You can reach our data protection officer by mail at the aforementioned address, adding “Data Protection Officer” or by email at gis-privacy@cariad.technology.
Please be informed, that when using the above email-address, not only the data protection officer might gain knowledge of your inquiry. If you want to contact the data protection officer in confidentiality, please send another mail upfront.
We collect your Personal Data when you visit the website and when you exercise your data subject rights.
For visiting the website, we collect the necessary technical data to securely provide the website and furthermore we use cookies on our website.
When you exercise your data subject rights, the following data can be processed to fulfill your request:
- Identification & authentication data as far as necessary (Art. 12 par.6 GDPR);
- The data required to fulfill the requested data subject right (Art. 15 - Art. 21 GDPR);
- Documentation of the process as necessary (Art. 5 par. 2 GDPR).
If you use this website, we process technically necessary data via server log files, which are automatically transmitted to our server. This processing is technically necessary in order to be able to display our website to you. We also use the data to ensure the security and stability of our website. The legal basis for this processing is Art. 6 par. 1 lit. f GDPR. The processing of the aforementioned data is necessary for the provision of a website and thus serves to safeguard a legitimate interest of our company.
We use technically necessary functional cookies on the website. Cookies are small files with configuration information that are stored on your terminal device. Functional cookies are essential for the functioning of this website and based on § 25 par. 2 Nr. 2 TDDDG and our legitimate interest as in Art. 6 par. 1 lit. f GDPR to offer you the visit of our website.
We may share your Personal Data with service providers like IT service providers that process Personal Data on our behalf and subject to our instructions as so-called Processors under Art. 28 GDPR, for the purpose of providing their professional services to us.
We process your Personal Data exclusively within the European Economic Area and do not transfer it to third countries.
Your Personal Data will generally only be stored until they are no longer necessary in relation to the purposes for which they were collected (or otherwise processed).
As an exception, Personal Data may be stored longer where their processing is necessary for compliance with a legal obligation - including compliance with statutory retention periods - to which we are subject or for the establishment, exercise or defense of legal claims.
You have the following rights under the GDPR provided that the legal requirements are met:
–Right to information
–Right to rectification or erasure
–Right to restriction of processing
–Right to object to processing
–Right to data portability
–Right to object to advertising and to revoke consent.
- Right to lodge a complaint: You also have the right to complain to a data protection supervisory authority about the processing of your Personal Data by us.
In the context of this website no automated decision-making takes place.
We reserve the right to amend or modify this Privacy Policy at any time to ensure compliance with applicable laws. Please check regularly whether this Privacy Policy has been updated.
This Privacy Policy has been updated last in August 2025.