Privacy Statement

Below you will find the information that has to be provided in accordance with Articles 13 and 14 of the General Data Protection Regulation (“GDPR”) on the processing of your personal data when you visit (hereinafter “you” or “your”) our website www.kostal-electro-mobility.com (hereinafter each referred to as “Website”) by KOSTAL Electro Mobility Deutschland GmbH & Co. KG (hereinafter “we” or “us”).

A. Data controller and data protection officer

KOSTAL Electro Mobility Deutschland GmbH & Co. KG, An der Bellmerei 10, 58513 Lüdenscheid, info@kostal.com, Telefon +49 (0)2351 16 0.
Data Protection Officer of the KOSTAL Group, An der Bellmerei 10, 58513 Lüdenscheid, dataprotection@kostal.com 
 

B. Information on the processing of personal data 

Below you will find information on the processing of your personal data for the purposes specified in more detail there and, for example, about the legal basis for this processing. If the legal basis for the processing specified there is the balancing of interests, you can request additional information about the balancing of interests carried out by us using the contact details specified in Section A.
 

I. Use of the Website

1. Use of the Website for information purposes 

When you visit our Website, we process the IP address of your device for technical reasons, i.e. in order to be able to display the Website at all. We cannot provide the Website content accessed without the provision of this data.

In order to protect our IT infrastructure, we also process the IP address of your device, the type and version of the internet browser used by you, information on the operating system of your device, information on the pages accessed, the site previously visited (referrer URL) and the access date and time and store this information in so-called log files.

The legal basis of this processing is the balancing of interests (point (f) of Article 6 paragraph 1 of the GDPR). Our legitimate interest for this processing is the provision of the Website content accessed by you and the protection of the IT infrastructure used to provide the Website, in particular to identify, remedy and document IT disruptions (e.g. DDoS attacks) for evidence purposes. For more information please refer to the contact details specified in Section A.

The recipient of these data is our hosting provider Microsoft Azure, which acts for us as processor. A further recipient is comspace GmbH & Co. KG, which likewise acts as processor and has been commissioned with the development of the Website as well as its maintenance and servicing. 
We generally store these personal data in the log files for 3 (three) months. In the case of any security-relevant event (e.g. an attack), we also store the log files until the security-relevant event has been eliminated and clarified in full. 

2. Sitecore

To provide this website we use the web content management system Sitecore, which provides analysis functions to evaluate the surfing behaviour. For this purpose, cookies are used to generate information about the use of this website. This information stored in a database on a server of a service provider contractually bound to us. The collected data is anonymized by technical means (e.g. by deleting the last digits of the IP address), including the anonymized IP address (anonymization is achieved by deleting the last digit).

The legal basis for the use of Sitecore is the balancing of interests (point f of Art. 6(1) GDPR). Our legitimate interest is the provision of the website content accessed by the user and the protection of the IT infrastructure used to provide the website. 

You can prevent the installation of cookies by setting your browser software accordingly. This is described in Section D.2. However, we would like to point out that this may mean that not all functions of this website can be used to their full extent.
The recipient of this data is our hosting provider Microsoft Azure, which acts as an order processor for us. Another recipient is Sitecore, which also acts as an order processor.

We generally store this personal data in the log files for thirty (30) days. In the event of a security-relevant event (e.g. an attack), we store the log files until the security-relevant event has been eliminated and fully clarified.
 

3. Usercentrics

The Usercentrics Consent Manager is used by us to manage your consents, possible revocations of consents and objections to the use of cookies.
The data processing in this context is carried out to manage the user decisions regarding cookies (consent, revocation, opt-out) and to ensure the security of the application.

The IP address of your terminal device, the type and version of the Internet browser you are using, information about the operating system of your terminal device, information about the pages accessed, the previously visited page (referrer URL) and the date and time of access are processed. In addition, the user's decision on individual cookies or groups of cookies is stored at the time of the decision and the last visit.
Legal basis for the processing of the balance of interests (point f of Art. 6(1) GDPR). Our legitimate interest is the simple and reliable control of Cookies.
The recipient of the data is Usercentrics GmbH, which acts as our order processor.
We store the data for a period of 6 months. The revocation of a previously given consent is stored for three years (accountability). Server log data is anonymized before storage.

We would like to point out that it is not possible to use the website without transmitting personal data, such as the IP address. An automatic decision-making process for consenting to the use of cookies does not take place.
 

II. Job vacancies

You can also find links to job vacancies on our Website. These links lead