Data Protection Notice

In this Data Protection Notice, we are informing you about the processing of your personal data by Audi AG, Auto-Union-Straße 1, 85045 Ingolstadt (“we”) in the context of www.audi.com.

Information related to our company, AUDI AG, is available on our website, www.audi.com.

Personal data means any information relating to an identified or identifiable natural person. An identifiable natural person is one who can be identified, directly or indirectly, in particular by reference to an identifier such as a name, an identification number, location data, an online identifier or to one or more factors specific to the physical, physiological, genetic, mental, economic, cultural or social identity of that natural person. Processing means any operation or set of operations which is performed on personal data or on sets of personal data, whether or not by automated means, such as collection, recording, organisation, structuring, storage, adaptation or alteration, retrieval, consultation, use, disclosure by transmission, dissemination or otherwise making available, alignment or combination, restriction, erasure or destruction.

This Data Protection Notice describes how AUDI AG processes your personal data in the context of www.audi.com and the utilisation and applications offered therein. Separate data protection or privacy notices may apply to other websites or other data processing operations of AUDI AG (e.g., www.audi.com/connect). General information on the processing of personal data at AUDI AG can be found on our website, www.audi.com/datenschutz.

1. Who is responsible for data processing and whom can I contact?

The entity responsible for the processing of your personal data (the Controller) is:
AUDI AG, Auto-Union-Straße 1, 85045 Ingolstadt.

If you have concerns about data protection, you can also contact our company's data protection officer:
AUDI AG
Data Protection Officer
Auto-Union-Straße 1
85045 Ingolstadt
Email: datenschutz@audi.de

If you want to assert your data protection rights, please use the contact options at
www.audi.de/betroffenenrechte

There, you will find more information on how to assert your data protection rights.

If you have general questions about this Data Protection Notice or the processing of your personal data by Audi AG, please address them to the following:

Audi Kundenbetreuung Deutschland, Postfach 10 04 57, 85045 Ingolstadt
Email: kundenbetreuung@audi.de

2. General Information

2.1 What data do we process and what sources do such data come from?

We process personal data that we collect about you in connection with the use of our website or our business relationship, such as your initiation of contact with us.

Relevant personal data generally include, for example, personal details (name, address and other contact information (e.g. telephone number, email address), date and place of birth, and nationality). In addition, depending relationship with you, additional personal data may be processed.

2.1.1 Access to the Website

In general, you can access the website www.audiquattrocup.com (“Website”) without providing personal data. Each time you access the website, your Internet browser automatically transmits certain information, which we store in so-called “log files”.

In particular, the following information are transmitted automatically:

  • IP address (Internet Protocol address) of the terminal from which the online service is accessed;
  • Internet address of the website from which the online service was accessed (the so-called "source URL" or "referrer URL");
  • Name of the service provider used to access the online offer;
  • Name of the files or information retrieved;
  • Date and time as well as duration of the retrieval;
  • Transferred data volume;
  • Operating system and information about the Internet browser used, including installed add-ons (e.g., Flash Player);
  • http status code (for example, "request succeeded" or "requested file not found").
  • In the log files, the above data is stored without your complete IP address, so that it is not possible to trace back to your IP address.

2.1.2 Data provided by you

The use of certain services requires registration or the disclosure of personal data. In addition, we process your personal data if you contact us via the website. We process the data that you provide when using the following functionalities:

Contact Form: You can contact our customer service department using the contact form. For handling your request, we process the data provided by you on the form and your disclosed contact data (using a third-party processor). To the extent necessary for processing, we transmit your data to our Audi partners in order to fully address your concern, such as following up on a complaint regarding a specific Audi partner. We take your concerns seriously and would like to resolve such concerns together with the affected sales partners. Please let us know if you do not wish this course of action in a particular case.

Car Dealership Careers: You can contact our applicant service using the contact form. For handling your request, we process the data provided by you on the form and the contact data you disclosed (using a third-party processor).

Career Advice: You can access the AUDI AG Audi Career Advice service on the website, which offers live consultation via video chat, text chat or voice calling. Further information regarding processing of your data can be found in the function.

Audi Experience Booking Form: After entering your contact details, you can book factory tours, etc. When you submit the booking form, we process the data provided by you (with the assistance of a processor) to check availability and, if applicable, book the requested event and contact you to confirm your participation. For changes on short notice, we shall inform you by telephone, if you have provided your telephone number.

Ordering Publications: On this website, you have the possibility of requesting publications such as the AUDI AG's annual report. For this purpose, we process the following personal data from you: last name, first name, address. We process this data (using a processor) only to establish, structure or modify the contract between you and us for ordering publications free of charge (Art. 6 para. 1 sentence 1 lit. b GDPR).

Newsletter Registration/Reminder for New Releases: This website also offers the possibility to order a newsletter, such as a reminder about new releases of our publications. We process the data provided by you in connection with the newsletter registration (email address, last name, first name and title) for the purpose of sending you the newsletter in accordance with the scope of your consent (Art. 6 para. 1 sentence 1 lit. a GDPR). To activate the email newsletter, we use the so-called “double opt-in procedure”, in which we will send you an email to the email address you provided with a request that you confirm your consent. You can withdraw your consent to AUDI AG with prospective effect at any time without stating reasons, either by clicking the “unsubscribe” link included in each newsletter or by contacting our customer service department. If you unsubscribe from the newsletter, your personal data will be deleted, unless we process your data on another legal basis or retention obligations have to be met. The newsletter is dispatched by a processor.

Consent to Advertising and Market Research: If you would like to receive information about our products, you can request such advertising. For this purpose, the following data will be processed for the purpose of providing advertising in accordance with the scope of your consent (Art. 6 para. 1 sentence 1 lit. a GDPR): last name, first name, email address and/or telephone number). If you give consent to contacting you via email, we will use the so-called “double opt-in procedure”, in which we will send you an email to the email address you provided with a request that you confirm your consent. To learn how you can withdraw your consent, please see the section “What rights do I have?”.

2.1.3 Other Data

We will process the personal data that you provide us when contacting us, such as via our customer service department.

Information about data processing in connection with the use of cookies and user tracking can be found in the relevant sections below.

2.2. For what purposes do we process your data and on which legal basis?

Unless already stated in section 2.1, we process your personal data on the following legal bases for the following purposes:

Purpose Legal Basis Legitimate Interest in the Balancing of Interests
Providing the website for the general public and for the purpose of enabling contact by customers and interested parties Performance of the contract or balancing of interests We have a legitimate interest in providing an Internet presence (website), also to unregistered users, to provide general information about our company.
Processing of orders and queries Contract performance  
Collection of statistical information on the use of the website (so-called “web analysis”) Balancing of interests We have a legitimate interest in receiving information about the use of the website, in particular to improve our services.
Identification of disruptions and assurance of system security, including detection and tracking of unauthorized access attempts and access to our web servers Satisfaction of our legal obligations with respect to data security and Balancing of interests We have a legitimate interest in eliminating disruptions, ensuring system security, and detecting and tracking unauthorized access attempts.
Protecting and defending our rights Balancing of interest We have a legitimate interest in asserting and defending our rights.
Submitting customer information Consent  

2.3 Do I have an obligation to provide data?

In the context of our business relationship, you need to provide only the personal information that is required to enter into or conduct a business relationship or that we are obligated to collect by law. These data are marked as mandatory fields in the respective forms or functions. Without this data, we will generally have to refuse to enter into the contract or to execute the order, or we will be unable to perform under an existing contract and possibly may have to terminate it. This means that the use of a service or a functionality requires that you provide the specified data. Unless you provide the data, we cannot provide the service to you.

2.4 Who receives my data?

Within Audi AG, your data is provided to the respective departments that need such data to fulfil our contractual and legal obligations and to protect our legitimate interests.

Third-party service providers engaged by us (so-called “processors”) may also receive data for these purposes.

Your personal data will be disclosed by us to third parties only if this is necessary for the performance of the contract, if we or the third party have a legitimate interest for sharing, or if you have given consent.

In addition, data may be transferred to third parties (including investigative or security authorities) where required by applicable law or by enforceable regulatory or judicial order.

Due to the size and complexity of data processing by Audi AG, it is not possible to list each recipient of your personal data individually in this Data Protection Notice, which is why we generally indicate only categories of recipients.

2.4.1 Processors

For the provision of specific services we use following categories of processors, which support us in the performance of our business processes. Specifically, these include companies in the following categories:

  • Tracking service providers
  • Web agencies
  • Hosting providers
  • Audi customer service (Audi Interaction GmbH)
  • Shipping service providers
  • Print service providers
  • Archiving service providers
  • IT Service Providers

2.4.2 Third Parties

  • Log files are shared with investigative authorities on a case-by-case basis.
  • Authorities within the scope of their jurisdiction (e.g., tax authority, police, prosecuting authority, or social security agency)
  • Courts
  • Other third parties, to the extent that you instruct us to share data or give your consent.

2.5 Are data transmitted to a third country?

A transfer of data to third countries (i.e., countries that are neither members of the European Union nor of the European Economic Area) may occur to the extent necessary to perform services for you, if required by law, or where you have given us your consent. In addition, we may also share your personal information with third-party processors in third countries.

Please note that not all third countries have a data protection level considered as adequate by the European Commission. For data transfers to third countries where there is no adequate level of data protection, before we share data, we will ensure that the recipient either has an adequate level of data protection (e.g., through self-certification by the recipient of the EU-US Privacy Shield or by agreement containing so-called “EU standard contractual clauses” of the European Union with the recipient) or if our users give their explicit consent.

You can obtain from us a copy of the specific applicable or agreed provisions to ensure an adequate level of data protection. To do so, please use the information in the Contact section.

See the section "User tracking and usage-based online advertising".

2.6 How long will my data be stored?

We store your data as long as necessary for providing our services to you or as long as we have a legitimate interest to do so, in particular to eliminate disruptions.

In addition, we are subject to various retention and documentation obligations pursuant to, inter alia, the German Commercial Code (Handelsgesetzbuch - “HGB”) and the Tax Code (Abgabenordnung - “AO”). The retention and documentation periods specified therein last up to ten years. Finally, the storage period is also governed by statute of limitations periods, which can be up to thirty years, for example, pursuant to sec. 195 et seq. of the German Civil Code (Bürgerliches Gesetzbuch - “BGB”), whereby the general limitations period is three years.

In certain circumstances, your data may also need to be retained for a longer period of time, such as when a legal hold or litigation hold (i.e., a prohibition of data deletion for the duration of the proceedings) is ordered in connection with an administrative or judicial proceeding.

2.7 Do I have a specific right to object?

In connection with user tracking, you may assert your right to object by technical means. See the section “User tracking and usage-based online advertising”.

2.8 What rights do I have?

As the data subject, you are generally entitled to the following data protection rights:

Access: You have the right of access to your personal data stored by Audi AG, be provided with information about to what extent your personal data will be processed or shared and to receive a copy of your stored personal data.

Rectification: You have the right to obtain from Audi AG without undue delay the rectification of inaccurate personal data concerning you and the right to have incomplete personal data completed.

Erasure: You have the right to obtain erasure of your personal data stored by Audi AG without undue delay, when the legal requirements are met.

This is particularly the case if

  • your personal information is no longer needed for the purposes for which it was collected;
  • the legal basis for processing was your consent, and you have withdraw your consent;
  • you have objected to processing your data which was based on the legal basis of legitimate interests due to personal reasons, and we cannot prove that there are overriding legitimate grounds for such processing;
  • your personal data were processed unlawfully; or your personal data must be erased in order to comply with legal requirements.
  • If we have transmitted your data to third parties, we will inform them about the erasure to the extent required by law.
  • Please note that your right to erasure is subject to certain limitations. For example, we may not and/or must not erase data that we are still required to retain due to statutory retention obligations. In addition, your right of erasure does not extend to data that we need in order to establish, exercise or defend against legal claims.

Restriction of Processing: Under certain conditions, you have the right to obtain restriction of processing (i.e., the marking of stored personal data with the aim of limiting its processing in the future). The requirements are:

  • The accuracy of your personal data is contested by you and Audi AG must verify the accuracy of the personal data;
  • the processing is unlawful, but you oppose the erasure of the personal data and request the restriction of their use instead;
  • Audi AG no longer needs the personal data for the purposes of the processing, but you require the data to establish, exercise or defend your legal claims.
  • you have objected to processing pending the verification of whether the legitimate grounds of Audi AG override your legitimate grounds.
  • Where processing has been restricted, such data will be marked accordingly and, with the exception of storage, will be processed only with your consent or for the establishment, exercise or defence of legal claims or for the protection of the rights of another natural or legal person or for reasons of important public interest the EU or an EU Member State.

Data Portability: To the extent that we automatically process your personal data that you have provided to us based on your consent or any contract with you (including your employment contract), you have the right to receive such data in a structured, commonly used and machine-readable format and have the right to transmit those data to another controller without hindrance from Audi AG. You also have the right to have the personal data transmitted directly from Audi AG to another controller where technically feasible, provided that such transmission does not adversely affect the rights and freedoms of others.

Right to Object: If we process your personal data on grounds of legitimate interests or in the public interest, then you have the right to object to the processing of your personal data on grounds relating to your particular situation. In addition, you have an unrestricted right to object if we process your data for our direct marketing purposes. Please see our separate note in the section "Information about your right to object".
In certain situations, and in the context of a balancing of interests, we will also grant you an additional unrestricted right to object that goes beyond the privacy settings. In this connection, please see the section "Special Information - Service".

Withdrawal of Consent: If you have given consent to the processing of your personal data, then you can withdraw such consent at any time. Please note that the withdrawal applies prospectively only. Processing that occurred before the withdrawal of consent is unaffected.

Complaint: Furthermore, you have a right to file a complaint with a data protection authority (Datenschutzaufsichtsbehörde), if you believe that the processing of your personal data is unlawful. The right to file a complaint is without prejudice to any other administrative or judicial remedies. The address of the data protection authority responsible for Audi AG is:

Bayerisches Landesamt für Datenschutzaufsicht
Promenade 27 (Schloss)
91522 Ansbach
Germany

2.9 Information about Your Right to Object

Right to object for personal reasons

You have the right to object to the processing of your personal data on grounds relating to your particular situation. The prerequisite for this is that the data processing takes place in the public interest or on the basis of a balancing of interests. This applies also to profiling.

Insofar as we base the processing of your personal data on a balancing of interests, we generally assume that we can demonstrate compelling legitimate grounds but will, of course, examine each individual case.

In the event of an objection, we will no longer process your personal data, unless

  • we can demonstrate compelling legitimate grounds for the processing of these data that override your interests, rights and freedoms, or
  • your personal data serves the establishment, exercise or defence of legal claims.
  • Objection to the processing of your data for our direct marketing purposes
  • To the extent that we process your personal data for direct marketing purposes, you have the right to object at any time to the processing of the personal data concerning you for such marketing; this also applies to profiling to the extent that it is related to such direct marketing.

If you object to the processing for direct marketing purposes, then we will no longer process your personal data for these purposes.

Exercise of the right to object

The objection may be lodged without any form and should be made to the contact details listed in this Data Protection Notice.

3. Cookies and User Tracking

3.1 Cookies

For purposes of targeted advertising, we generate pseudonym user profiles (pursuant to § 15 para. (3) of the German Telemedia Act). To that end, the website uses so-called “cookies”. These are small files that are stored on the user’s computer when he or she visits the website. Cookies can store various types of data and help in providing additional functionality (thereby making the website generally more user-friendly, more effective and more secure). To the extent that cookies are used, they contain no personal data, unless you have provided your exclusive consent.

Most browsers are configured in such way that cookies are automatically accepted. You may, at any time and with prospective effect, object to the use of cookies by adjusting the settings in your browser in a way that it no longer accepts any cookies or accepts only certain cookies or that you are informed as soon as any cookies are sent. As a consequence you will be unable to fully utilize all functions on our website. You can find more information in our Cookie Policy.

3.2 User Tracking and usage-based online advertising

User Tracking

Adobe Analytics

In order to keep the webpages updated, user-oriented and complete, this website relies on Adobe Analytics, Adobe Systems Software Ireland Limited, 4-6 Riverwalk, Citywest Business Campus, Dublin 24, Republic of Ireland (including Omniture Site Catalyst, Omniture Genesis, Omniture Discover, Omniture TagManager, Omniture SaintBernard), which is a web analysis tool that allows our services to be optimized and tailored to your needs. Adobe Analytics uses cookies that can track your preferences when visiting our pages. In this manner, for example, the navigation will be simplified, and we would be able to further improve the user-friendliness of our services. The processing is carried out for purposes of advertising, market research or in order to design the website in a needs-based manner (pursuant to § 15 para. (3) of the German Telemedia Act). As a standard practice, the information generated thereby (including IP address) is rendered anonymous prior to storage in order to prevent any personal reference or connection.. To that end, this website was adjusted to guarantee an anonymized collection of IP addresses (so-called "IP masking"). A direct personal connection (tracing) to the information stored on the Adobe servers is precluded, as Adobe Analytics is used with the settings "Before Geo-Lookup: Replace visitor's last IP octet with 0" and "Obfuscate IP-Removed". The use of the setting "Before Geo-Lookup: Replace visitor's last IP octet with 0" guarantees that by replacing the last octet of the IP address with a zero, the IP address will be anonymized prior to such so-called "geo-localization". The approximate location of the user will be added for statistical purposes to the tracking package, which still contains the complete IP address. Prior to storing the tracking package, the IP address will be replaced by a fixed IP address - often referred to as a generic IP address - if the "Obfuscate IP -Removed" setting is configured. The IP address is thereby no longer contained in a stored data set. An analysis for reporting purposes is carried out only after the data is rendered anonymous. As a rule, the information generated by these cookies will be transmitted to an Adobe server located within the European Union. Nevertheless, there is a risk that in the event of a technical emergency, the data will be transferred to the United States and stored there, meaning that a relevant EU standard contract (reasonable guarantee for data processing in non-European countries) was concluded. You have the right to be informed about such standard contract.

As a user of our webpages, you have the opportunity, of course, to refuse the acceptance of any cookies at any time by adjusting your browser settings. Most browsers generally allow cookies to be stored. If you adjust the setting, such change could result in some functional limitations in our offerings. You may at any time object to the acquisition of the data that are generated by the cookie and that relate to your use of the website - with prospective effect - for Adobe as well as the processing of such data by Adobe, by inserting an "OPT-OUT" cookie generated for that purpose. To do so, please use the "opt-out" button found at http://www.adobe.com/en/privacy/opt-out.html. Please note that your objection in the form of an opt-out cookie will function only if your browser is configured to allow the use of cookies. If you delete this cookie, use another browser or switch the device, then you once again need to reject the use of the Adobe Analytics. We would like to point out that upon deleting all of your cookies, the aforementioned cookie will also be deleted and would need to be reinstalled.

{Track:js}

In order to give you a secure and disruption-free access to our webpages, we use a tool known as "Track.js". This tool allows us to continually analyze and improve the compatibility between our web content and your operating/browser version in the event that there are any disruptions (e.g., when there is a change in the model or version of our pages or there is a pattern of delayed loading of individual pages/content). The data processing is done for purposes of advertising, market research and in order to design the website in a needs-based manner (pursuant to § 15 para. (3) of the German Telemedia Act). In this regard, absolutely no personal data about you (and no IP address) will be collected, processed or used. For the analysis, only technical information from your browser (type and version) and your operating system (type and version) will be used with the then-current time stamp. To this end, the last conditions existing prior to a disruption will be transmitted to a cloud-based central server of Track.js and will be processed and used there for additional analysis. If you do not wish the collection of anonymous data relating your visit, then please click the following opt-out link. Opt-out {Track:js}

Psyma

When visiting our website, you may be selected from time to time to participate in an anonymous online survey for market research purposes. By actively clicking the link displayed to you, you will directly access the online questionnaire. The data processing is carried out for purposes of advertising, market research and in order to design the website in a needs-based manner (pursuant to § 15 para. (3) of the German Telemedia Act). If you do not wish to participate in the survey, we insert an opt-out cookie on your client so that you are not selected again. During the ongoing survey, this cookie information will be used for approximately 30 days. Additional data protection or privacy notices for Psyma can be found at http://www.psyma.com/en/automotive/.
Follow the aforementioned link in order to insert an opt-out cookie. For your settings to take effect, Your browser must be configured to allow the use of cookies.. If you delete or deactivate your cookies or if you use another browser, then you must readjust your settings.

Usage-based online advertising

Usage-based online advertising, also referred to as “targeting”, allows advertising companies to identify a user for certain ad deliveries and to allocate them to a certain target group. With the help of this information, it is possible to present the user with more relevant advertisements. The data processing is carried out for purposes of advertising, market research or in order to design the website in a needs-based manner (pursuant to § 15 para. (3) of the German Telemedia Act).

DoubleClick

With the assistance of DoubleClick (Google Inc., 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA), Facebook Ireland Ltd. (4 Grand Canal Square, Grand Canal Harbour, Dublin 2, Ireland), nugg.ad (nugg.ad AG predictive behavioral targeting, Rotherstr. 16,10245 Berlin), AdAudience GmbH (Schwanthalerstraße 99, 80336 Munich using the technology of ADITION technologies AG, Am Gatherhof 44, 40472 Düsseldorf) and Adobe – using the Products Target and Audience Manager (Adobe Systems Software Ireland Limited, 4-6 Riverwalk, City West Business Campus, Dublin 24, Ireland) - data is collected and stored on our website in an anonymized form. When you visit our websites, a cookie will be stored on your device. Information about your activities on the websites you have visited will be collected (e.g., surfing behavior, searched subpages of the Internet offerings, advertising banners clicked, etc.). Based on these data, usage profiles are generated that cannot traced back to your personal information and hence used for personal identification.

Facebook Social Plugins

Within its website, AUDI AG uses so-called “social plugins” from the social media platform, facebook.com, which is operated by Facebook Inc., 1601 S. California Ave, Palo Alto, CA 94304, USA (“Facebook”). The plugins are identified with a Facebook logo or a notation “Facebook Social Plugin”.

When you access a webpage of AUDI AG that contains such a plugin, your browser will create a direct link to the Facebook servers. The content of the plugin will be transmitted by Facebook directly to your browser and from there embedded in the website.

By embedding the plugins, Facebook obtains information that you have viewed the relevant pages of AUDI AG’s website. If you are logged into Facebook, Facebook will assign the visit to your Facebook account. If you interact with the plugins, perhaps by clicking “Like” or posting a comment, then the relevant information will be transmitted from your browser directly to Facebook and will be stored there.

To learn about the purpose and scope of data collection and the additional processing and use of the data by Facebook and about your relevant rights and options for adjusting your settings to protect your privacy, please visit and view Facebook’s data privacy policy.

If you do not wish Facebook to collect data about you on the AUDI AG website, you must log-out of Facebook before you visit an AUDI AG website.

We use retargeting on our website in order to categorize website users and assign them to certain user groups. Depending the relevant user group, we direct personalized ads about our products and services to website visitors when they are on other websites or in other Apps.

Google AdWords User Lists

For this purpose we use the Google AdWords User Lists of Google Ireland Ltd, Gordon House, Barrow Street, Dublin 4. Ireland (“Google”). Our website uses a pixel supplied by Google that creates a direct link to the Google servers. Google servers are transmitted information that you have visited our website. Google tags this information with a distinctive ID, which is stored on your end device or terminal in the form of a cookie or is supplied by your end device or terminal (“Advertising-ID” for smartphones). If you visit other websites that also use “Google AdWords User Lists”, then such information will also be linked to your distinctive ID. We will be unable to see, however, what other websites you have visited.

You may at any time object to the use of “Google AdWords User Lists” on our website. To do so, please use the following link: Opt-Out “Google AdWords User Lists”.

We save on your respective end device an opt-out cookie that has an unlimited validity period. If you use our website with two or more end devices or terminals, then you must object to the use on each end device or terminal because we are unable to ascribe numerous end devices or terminals to individual visitors. If an objection is made, the respective described pixel or cookie will not be embedded and there will be no data exchanged with Google.

Moreover, you may deactivate personalized advertisements directly with the ad networks (Werbenetzwerken). You will find more information on this matter, for example, on the webpages of Google.

Doubleclick Ad Exchange

If Doubleclick Ad Exchange, a web advertising service of Google Inc., USA (“Google”), advertises on this website (text displays, banners, etc.), your browser could store a cookie sent by Google Inc. or a third party. The information stored in the cookie could be mapped, collected and analyzed by Google Inc. or a third party. In addition, Doubleclick Ad Exchange also uses so-called “web bacons” (small hidden graphics) to collect information, the use of which allows simple activities like visitor traffic on the websites to be tracked, collected and analyzed. The information generated by the cookie and/or web bacon regarding your use of those websites is transmitted to, and stored on, a Google server located in the United States. Google uses such collected information in order to perform an analysis of your user behavior with respect to the Doubleclick Ad Exchange displays. Google will in some cases also transmit such information to third parties, to the extent prescribed by law or to the extent third parties process such data on behalf of Google.

If IP addresses are transmitted and stored in this context, then such action is carried out only to fight and filter spam/fraud (ad impression spam and click bait/spam). Such data is only available for access by the Anti-Abuse Team. The IP address will not be comingled with any other data stored by Google.

You may prevent cookies from being stored on your hard drive and prevent web bacons from being displayed. For that , you simply need to select the option in your browser’s privacy settings , “Do not accept cookies” (in the German version of Internet Explorer, go to "Extras / Internetoptionen / Datenschutz / Einstellung"; in the German version of Firefox, go to “Extras / Einstellungen / Datenschutz / Cookies”).

For additional information, please go to the following website: http://www.google.com/intl/de/policies/privacy/ads/

Google Remarketing

Our website uses the remarketing or “similar target groups” function of Google Inc. (“Google”). Using this function, visitors to the website can be targeted with advertising - exposed to personalized, interest-related advertising displays - if they had visited other websites in the Google Display Network. To carry out an analysis of the website use, which serves as the basis for generating the interest-related advertising, Google inserts so-called “cookies”. In this regard, Google stores a small file with a sequence of numbers in the browsers of the website visitors. Using this number, the visits to the websites and anonymized data about the use of the websites are recorded. No personal data of the website visitor is stored. If you thereafter visit another website within the Google Display Network, you will encounter certain advertising that will very likely reflect the products and information that you previously viewed.

You may permanently deactivate Google’s use of cookies by clicking the following link and then downloading and installing the plugin found there: https://www.google.com/settings/ads/plugin?hl=de

Alternatively, you may deactivate the use of cookies by third-party providers by going to the deactivation page of the network initiative known as “Network Advertising Initiative” at http://www.networkadvertising.org/choices/ and implementing the more extensive information regarding opt out located there.