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General
The Bechtel Motorcompany GmbH take the protection of your personal data and the legal obligations that serve to protect it very seriously. The requirements of the german law require comprehensive transparency regarding the processing of personal data. Our data protection declaration explains to you in detail which so-called personal data (for definition see below, 2.1.) we process when using the website www.arthur-bechtel.com and all other Internet sites that refer to it (for definition see below, 2.2. ) will.

The company responsible within the meaning of the German General Data Protection Regulation, the Federal Data Protection Act) and other data protection regulations is

Bechtel Motorcompany GmbH
Charles Lindbergh Square 1
71034 Boeblingen
07031/3069522
info@arthur-bechtel.com
www.arthur-bechtel.com

Hereinafter referred to as "person responsible" or "we".

Please note that links on our website may take you to other websites that are not operated by us but by third parties. Such links are either clearly marked by us or can be recognized by a change in the address line of your browser. We are not responsible for compliance with data protection regulations and safe handling of your personal data on these websites operated by third parties. 

Definition

2.1. German Law: DS-GVO
This data protection declaration uses the terms of the legal text of the DS-GVO. You can view the definitions (Article 4) at https://dejure.org/gesetze/DSGVO/4.html, for example.

2.2. Cookie
Cookies are text files that are stored on your end device by a website or read out there. They contain combinations of letters and numbers, e.g. to recognize the user and their settings when connecting again to the website that sets the cookie, to enable them to remain logged in to a customer account or to statistically analyze certain usage behavior.

 

General Information
We only process personal data to the extent permitted by law. Personal data will only be passed on in the cases described below (see 4. below).

The personal data will be deleted or protected by technical and organizational measures (e.g. pseudonymisation, encryption) as soon as the purpose of the processing no longer applies. This also occurs when a prescribed storage period expires, unless there is a need for further storage of the personal data for the conclusion or fulfillment of a contract.

Unless we are legally obliged to store it for a longer period of time or to pass it on to third parties (in particular law enforcement authorities), the decision as to which personal data is collected from us, how long it is stored and to what extent you may have to disclose it depends on this which functions of the website you use in individual cases. 

Data processing in connection with the use of the website
The use of the website and its functions regularly requires the processing of certain personal data.

4.1. Informational use of the website
If you access our website and use it purely for information, i.e. without using additional functions such as a contact form or social media plugins, we will automatically collect personal data. This includes the following information: IP address of your end device and the date and time the website was accessed. This information is transmitted by your browser unless you have configured it in such a way that the transmission of the information is suppressed.

This personal data is processed for the purposes of the functionality and optimization of the website and to ensure the security of our information technology systems. This is also our legitimate interest.

The personal data is stored for a period of 4 weeks. We do not combine this personal data with other data sources. A transfer of data to third parties does not take place. A transmission to a third country or to an international organization is not intended.

4.2. Google Maps
Parts of our website use Google Maps functions to integrate map data. This content is provided by Google Inc., 1600 Amphitheater Parkway Mountain View, CA 94043, USA ("Google"). When you visit our website, your browser loads the necessary code from Google. For this purpose, the browser you are using must connect to the Google servers. This gives Google knowledge that our website was accessed via your IP address. At the same time, Google can store cookies on your end device, unless you have prohibited the use of cookies in your browser or read cookies. Location data may also be collected if you allow this in your browser.

Google Maps is used for the purpose of an attractive, user-friendly design of our website and to make it easier to find the places we have specified on the website. Data is transferred to the USA in accordance with the Implementing Decision (EU) 2016/1250 of the EU Commission (EU-US data protection shield).

Your IP address is collected by us to enable transmission to Google. You are not obliged to provide this personal data, but it is not possible to use the affected parts of our website without providing it.

Further information is contained in Google's data protection declaration, which can be found at https://www.google.com/policies/privacy/.

4.3. Google Analytics
When you visit our website, the Google Analytics service is loaded for statistical analysis of website use. This service is provided by Google Inc., 1600 Amphitheater Parkway Mountain View, CA 94043, USA ("Google"). By using the "anonymizeIp()" extension, we ensure that Google Analytics only transmits an abbreviated version of your IP address to Google. Google Analytics uses cookies, which are stored on your end device unless you prevent the use of cookies in your browser and which enable an analysis of your use of the website.The information generated by the cookie about your use of this online offer is transmitted to Google in the USA and stored there.

Google Analytics is used for the purpose of economic optimization and needs-based design of our website. This represents a legitimate interest within the meaning of Art. In addition, we have concluded an order processing contract with Google and fully implement the strict requirements of the German data protection authorities when using Google Analytics. Data is transferred to the USA in accordance with the EU Commission's Implementing Decision (EU) 2016/1250 (EU-US Privacy Shield).

Your IP address is collected by us to enable transmission to Google. You are not obliged to provide this personal data; it is possible to use our website without providing it. You can prevent the provision of this personal data by installing the add-on at https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=de. Alternatively, you can click on this link, which sets a cookie that prevents data transmission to Google.

You can find more information about Google Analytics at http://www.google.com/intl/de_ALL/analytics. You can find Google's privacy policy at https://www.google.com/policies/privacy/.

4.4. Google Remarketing
Google Remarketing services are integrated on our website. The service is provided by Google LLC., 1600 Amphitheater Pkwy, Mountain View, CA 94043-1351, USA. With this technology, users who have already visited this website are addressed again through targeted advertising on the pages of the Google partner network. The integration of Google Remarketing thus allows us to create user-related advertising and to display interest-related advertising to the Internet user.

Google Remarketing sets a cookie on the visitor's device. With the setting of the cookie, Google is able to recognize the visitor to this website if he or she subsequently calls up websites that are also members of the Google advertising network. Each time a website is accessed on which the Google Remarketing service has been integrated, the Internet browser of the person concerned automatically identifies itself to Google. As part of this technical process, Google gains knowledge of personal data, such as the IP address or the surfing behavior of the user, which Google uses, among other things, to display interest-based advertising.

The cookie is used to store personal information, such as the Internet pages visited by the person concerned. Accordingly, each time the website is visited, personal data, including the IP address of the Internet connection used by the person concerned, is transmitted to Google in the USA and stored there.

This personal data is processed for the purpose of optimizing our offers and individualized advertising. Data is transferred to Google in the USA in accordance with the EU Commission's Implementing Decision (EU) 2016/1250 (EU-US Privacy Shield).

If you do not want to participate in the tracking process, you can also refuse the setting of a cookie required for this - for example via a browser setting that generally deactivates the automatic setting of cookies. Further information and Google's applicable data protection regulations can be found at https://www.google.de/intl/de/policies/privacy/.

4.5. YouTube
Parts of our website use the services of YouTube, LLC, 901 Cherry Ave., San Bruno, CA 94066, USA ("YouTube") to display video content. When you call up the corresponding pages, your browser loads the YouTube code required to display the video. For this purpose, the browser you are using must connect to the YouTube servers. This gives YouTube knowledge that our website has been accessed via your IP address. At the same time, YouTube can store cookies on your end device, unless you have prohibited the use of cookies in your browser or read cookies.

YouTube plugins are used for the purpose of an attractive design of our website and to enable the display of video content. Data is transferred to the USA in accordance with the Implementing Decision (EU) 2016/1250 of the EU Commission (EU-US data protection shield).

Your IP address is collected by us to enable transmission to YouTube. You are not obliged to provide this personal data, but it is not possible to use the affected parts of our website without providing it.

If you do not want YouTube to associate the personal information collected through our website with your YouTube account, you must log out of YouTube before visiting our website. You can find more information about YouTube at https://www.youtube.com/intl/de/yt/about/. YouTube's privacy policy can be found as part of Google's privacy policy at https://www.google.com/policies/privacy/.

4.6. Kontaktformular / Kontaktaufnahme per E-Mail
If you use the contact form on our website or send us an email, we will process the personal data you provide there. This information is transmitted by your browser or email client and stored in our information technology systems. The processing of this personal data is necessary to answer your request. In addition, your IP address and the date and time of the contact request will be saved if you send us an email.

The data processing serves to answer your request.

The personal data will be stored for as long as is necessary to answer your request. If your request leads to the conclusion of a contract at a later date, it will be stored for as long as this is necessary to carry out pre-contractual measures or to fulfill the contract. Thereafter, the personal data is routinely deleted every 4 weeks. We do not combine this personal data with other data sources. A transfer of data to third parties does not take place. A transmission to a third country or to an international organization is not intended. You are not obliged to provide this personal data, but it is not possible to use the contact form or send an e-mail without providing it.

4.7. Subscription of a newsletter
You can subscribe to a newsletter from us on our website. If you do this, the personal data you provide when registering will be transmitted to us by your browser and stored in our information technology systems. Your IP address and time of registration are also saved.

The processing of the personal data you enter serves the purpose of personalizing and sending the newsletter. This processing is lawful because you have given us your consent in accordance with Art. 6 Para. 1 Letter a DS-GVO. The storage of the IP address and time of registration serves the purpose of ensuring the security of our information technology systems.

The personal data you enter will be stored until your subscription is canceled with us. The IP address of the registration will be saved for a period of 4 weeks. A transfer of data to third parties does not take place. A transmission to a third country or to an international organization is not intended. You are not obliged to provide this personal data, but it is not possible to subscribe to our newsletter without providing it.

WhatsApp-Newsletters ist ohne die Bereitstellung jedoch nicht möglich.


4.8 Google Ads
For advertising purposes in the Google search results and on the websites of third parties, the so-called Google remarketing cookie is set when you visit our website, which is automatically generated by collecting and processing data (IP address, time of visit, device and browser information and information about your use of our website) and by means of a pseudonymous cookie ID and on the basis of the pages you visit enables interest-based advertising. Any further data processing will only take place if you have activated the "Personalized advertising" setting in your Google account. In this case, if you are logged in to Google while visiting our website, Google uses your data together with Google Analytics data to create and define target group lists for cross-device remarketing.

For website analysis and event tracking, we use Google Ads Conversion Tracking to measure your subsequent usage behavior if you came to our website via a Google Ads advertisement. Cookies can be used for this and data (IP address, time of visit, device and browser information as well as information about your use of our website based on events specified by us, such as visiting a website or subscribing to a newsletter) can be recorded, from which pseudonyms are used User profiles are created.

Notes on the newsletter and consents
With the following information we will inform you about the contents of our newsletter as well as the registration, dispatch and statistical evaluation procedures as well as your rights of objection. By subscribing to our newsletter, you agree to receive it and the procedures described.

Content of the newsletter
We send newsletters, e-mails and other electronic notifications with advertising information (hereinafter "newsletter") only with the consent of the recipient or legal permission. If the contents of the newsletter are specifically described when registering for the newsletter, they are decisive for the consent of the user. In addition, our newsletters contain information about our vehicles, references to blog posts, events or other changes in the company that are part of our services or online presence.

Use of the shipping service provider "MailChimp"
The newsletter is sent using “MailChimp”, a newsletter mailing platform from the US provider Rocket Science Group, LLC, 675 Ponce De Leon Ave NE #5000, Atlanta, GA 30308, USA.

The e-mail addresses of our newsletter recipients, as well as their other data described in this notice, are stored on the MailChimp servers in the USA. MailChimp uses this information to send and evaluate the newsletter on our behalf. Furthermore, according to its own information, MailChimp can use this data to optimize or improve its own services, e.g. for the technical optimization of the dispatch and the presentation of the newsletter or for economic purposes, in order to determine from which countries the recipients come. However, MailChimp does not use the data of our newsletter recipients to write to them or pass them on to third parties.

We trust in the reliability and the IT and data security of MailChimp. MailChimp is certified under the US-EU data protection agreement "Privacy Shield" and is therefore committed to complying with EU data protection regulations. Furthermore, we have concluded a "Data Processing Agreement" with MailChimp. This is a contract in which MailChimp undertakes to protect the data of our users, to process it on our behalf in accordance with their data protection regulations and, in particular, not to pass it on to third parties. You can view MailChimp's privacy policy here: https://mailchimp.com/legal/privacy.

Termination/Revocation
You can cancel the receipt of our newsletter at any time, i.e. revoke your consent. At the same time, your consent to its dispatch via MailChimp and the statistical analyzes expire. A separate revocation of the dispatch via MailChimp or the statistical evaluation is unfortunately not possible.

You will find a link to cancel the newsletter at the end of each newsletter.

Legal bases of the General Data Protection Regulation
The use of the mail service provider MailChimp, the implementation of statistical surveys and analyzes as well as logging of the registration process are based on our legitimate interests in accordance with Article 6 Paragraph. Our interest is focused on the use of a user-friendly and secure newsletter system that serves both our business interests and meets user expectations.

The objection can be made in particular against processing for direct advertising purposes.

6. Automated decisions on a case-by-case basis, including profiling
Automated decisions in individual cases, including profiling, are not made. 

7. Notification Obligations of the Controller
We will inform all recipients to whom your personal data has been disclosed of any correction or deletion of their personal data or a restriction of processing in accordance with Art. 16, Art. 17 Para. 1 and Art. 18 DS-GVO, unless the notification is impossible or involves a disproportionate effort.

We will inform you about the recipients if you request this. 

8. Right to object
You have the right, for reasons arising from your particular situation, to object at any time to the processing of your personal data. If personal data is processed in order to operate direct advertising, you have the right to object at any time to the processing of personal data relating to you for the purpose of such advertising. 

9. Right to withdraw consent to the processing of personal data
You have the right to revoke your consent at any time. This does not affect the lawfulness of the processing carried out on the basis of the consent until the revocation. This means that the revocation only applies to the processing planned after the revocation. The revocation is possible informally by post or e-mail. If you file an objection, we will no longer process your personal data unless another (legal) basis permits this. However, if a revocation is made and there is no other reason for permission, the personal data must be deleted immediately at your request in accordance. The revocation can be made informally and should be addressed to:

Bechtel Motorcompany GmbH
Charles-Lindbergh-Platz 1
71034 Böblingen
info@arthur-bechtel.com