Data protection

We are delighted that you are visiting our website and would like to thank you for the interest you are showing in our company, our products and our online information.

As the company responsible for the web pages, HELLA GmbH & Co. KGaA, Rixbecker Str. 75, D-59552 Lippstadt takes the issue of protecting personal data very seriously. Data protection and information security are part of our company policy. Accordingly, protecting your privacy when processing personal data and the security of all commercial information is an important matter for us, which we observe in our business processes. We treat personal information collected during your visit to our website confidentially and only use it in accordance with legal regulations.

Our web pages may contain links to third-party providers to which this statement on data protection does not apply. We have no influence on whether these parties comply with data protection regulations.

Personal data is information that can be used to discover your identity. This includes your name, address, postal address and phone number. Information that cannot be associated with your identity, such as the number of users on a website, is not considered personal data.

Whenever you visit our website, we save the name of your internet service provider, the browser type used, the website from which you visit ours, the web pages that you visit while on our website and the date and duration of your visit. No other personal information is stored. You can therefore use our website without having to disclose your identity.

When you visit special areas of our website or participate in certain campaigns, additional data may be collected and saved. Personal data may need to be entered to participate in a survey, forward an inquiry or process a contract, for example.

Specifying personal data is voluntary. When you submit a query using one of our contact forms or via e-mail, we save the personal data that you provide about yourself to facilitate communicating with you and to process your query.

Certain areas of our website require you to log in separately, at which point we will ask you to enter your name and/or other personal information during the registration and/or login. For areas such as Hella Tech World or HELLA Partner World, which address a specific target group, we use the registration procedure to appropriately identify the users of the respective target group. It's your decision whether you are willing to provide this data. For some campaigns or promotions, such as those that access specific information, certain information is mandatory. Mandatory entry fields are designated with an asterisk (*). Additional information that has not been highlighted as mandatory is optional and provided voluntarily.

We use your personal data to technically manage our websites, for customer management, product surveys and marketing to the extent required and permitted for each specific case only. We will never transmit your data to third parties outside the HELLA Group without your consent, especially with regard to marketing purposes. An overview of the HELLA Group is available at .www.hella.com/unternehmen.

We will transmit your data to authorities entitled to request such information insofar as this is required by law or has been mandated by a court order.

Selected employees within the HELLA Group have access to your data to ensure that our app operates correctly. The data must not be used by these employees for their own purposes. The employees tasked with data processing are committed to upholding confidentiality and data secrecy. Moreover, an appropriate level of data protection is guaranteed.

Information about cookies:
A cookie is a small text file that is stored on your device when visiting a web page and helps to identify your device in the process. Cookies are used to store information when you visit different pages of a website or when you return to a website. Cookies do not contain any personal information and cannot execute any programs that could activate a virus.

Functionality:
Cookies of this category are stored on the visitor's device so that the homepage can function as intended.

Statistics:
Cookies of this category are used to collect statistics of persons visiting the homepage to improve the experience of the visit. Data collected is used internally and is not transferred to third parties.

Web browsers are typically configured to automatically accept cookies. However, you can deactivate the function that automatically saves cookies or configure your web browser so that it notifies you accordingly as soon as cookies are sent.

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As part of visiting the pages on our website, the information that your browser sends is collected and evaluated. The data is collected by pixels (web beacons) that are incorporated into our website, and also through the use of cookies.

The data collected is used to create anonymous usage profiles that serve as the basis for web statistics. Individual users are not personally identified, however, nor is the data collated with other data.

You can prevent data from being collected and saved at any time by changing the settings of your web browser. This setting will also be recognised during any subsequent visits. For this purpose, access your browser's settings section and configure the browser to block or reject third-party cookies.

This website uses PIWIK PRO Cloud, a web analysis service provided by PIWIK. PIWIK PRO Cloud uses cookies – text files saved on your computer or smartphone – to help us analyse how visitors are using the website. The information compiled by the cookies concerning visitors' use of the website is saved and processed by PIWIK on servers in Germany.

IP addresses are fully anonymised before we are able to view the collated data via the PIWIK Suite. It's not possible to reverse the anonymisation of the IP addresses or match up the IP addresses with the collated data.

This information will help us analyse the behaviour of visitors to our website, create corresponding reports and ultimately improve the experience for visitors to our website. PIWIK will not pass on this information to third parties or use it for marketing or promotional purposes of any kind.

When logging into the newsletter, your e-mail address is used for our own marketing purposes until you have logged out of the newsletter. You can log out at any time, either by clicking the link in the newsletter or using the log-out function on the website.

To send our newsletter, we use the third parties Campaign Monitor, operated by Campaign Monitor Pty Ltd, and Salesforce, operated by Salesforce.com inc. Campaign Monitor offers extensive options to analyse how the newsletters are opened and used. These analyses are group-specific and not used by us for individual evaluation of newsletter recipients. You can find more information on Campaign Monitor and the data protection provided by Campaign Monitor at http://www.campaignmonitor.com/policies. Salesforce is the CRM solution that we use at HELLA. Your information is saved on servers in the EU. For more information, go to https://www.salesforce.com/company/privacy/.

We implement technical and organisational security measures to protect the data collected from you and managed by us against tampering, loss, destruction, access by unauthorised persons or unauthorised disclosure. Only a few, authorised individuals have access to your data.

As a rule, our website data and the information you send to our website are transferred in unencrypted format. Consequently, we cannot rule out that third parties may intercept and view and/or directly access the data transferred. Therefore, we ask that you take this aspect into account when deciding on whether, and to what extent, you are willing to transmit data to us over the Internet. On our portals that require registration and user login information, we use SSL (Secure Socket Layer) encryption for data transmission wherever possible.

Our security measures are continuously improved and adapted in accordance with technological developments.

We would also like to use your personal details to inform you about our products and where necessary to ask you questions about them. Naturally, participation in such activities is voluntary. If you do not consent to this, you can send us a message at any time requesting that we block and/or delete these details. All this requires is an e-mail sent to the address shown in our Legal Details section. You will find further information on the appropriate local website.

You have the right to obtain information on your data in written or electronic form at all times. Furthermore, you have the right at all times to have any personal data blocked or deleted, you have the right to object to the processing of data and you also have the right to have incorrect data corrected. (Please note: should country-specific, legal retention periods apply, the data will be blocked prior to deletion for a period laid down by the particular country.)

Should the processing of your data breach applicable law, you have the right to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority.

Should you have any suggestions or complaints regarding the processing of your personal data, you can contact our data protection officer by e-mail or post.

HELLA GmbH & Co. KGaA.
Rixbecker Str. 75
D-59552 Lippstadt/Germany
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Last changed: May 2018