Source: https://www.volkswagen-karriere.de/en/rechtliches/datenschutz.html
Timestamp: 2019-04-25 04:59:37+00:00

Document:
We are delighted that you have chosen to visit a website operated by Volkswagen AG, Berliner Ring 2, 38440 Wolfsburg, Germany, e-mail: einstieg@volkswagen.de , listed in the Commercial Register at Braunschweig District Court under the number HRB 100484 ("Volkswagen AG"). We would like to inform you about how your data is collected, processed and used in the section below.
Unless otherwise specified in the following, your data is processed solely by Volkswagen AG.
Your personal data includes information like your name, your postal address, your telephone number or your e-mail address. Personal data shall be collected, processed and/or used only if you transmit it to us willingly, for example for the purposes of initiating, specifying the content of or amending a contractual relationship between yourself and us, or registering for personalised services or if you send us a request via the website. Furthermore, your personal data shall only be used if you have consented to such use in advance, e.g. for the receipt of advertising and market research information.
We only distribute personal data to third parties insofar as this is necessary, especially with respect to processing contracts. This is, for example, the case if you search for a dealership using Google Maps from Google Inc. (“Google”) and the dealership is then shown to you on the map.
On this website we provide a contact form for your questions and notes to us. In order to use this contact form you need to fill the input fields Category, Site (Volkswagen), First name, Last name, Email and your Message. We will only use your personal data to answer your question or note. This also applies to our hotlines.
We process and use your personal data in our online application system only for the purposes required to ensure that the application process runs efficiently and correctly. The same applies to additional data received in the course of the application process, e.g. data obtained from queries and subsequently submitted documents. As part of the online application process, data is requested that is required for online applications. The corresponding fields are marked as “mandatory fields”. Further information can be entered voluntarily in “optional fields”.
Core data (e.g. name, title, academic title, gender, place and date of birth, nationality, private contact details, marital status, photos, language skills etc.).
Job application data (e.g. covering letter and CV, references, credentials, certificates etc.).
Marital status details (marriage, civil partnership, children) that could possibly indicate sexual orientation, provided you have disclosed such details as part of your application.
You are also given the option of approving your applicant profile. This means that your applicant profile can then be considered for jobs matching your applicant profile, regardless of any application you may have submitted. In such a scenario, we would contact you without obligation.
If you do not wish this to happen, you can independently block your applicant profile at any time, with effect for the future. This can be done by clicking the corresponding button (removing the checkmark).
Your registration data (first name, last name, user name, e-mail address and password) is then collected so that we can send you the necessary access data for our careers portal. If you create an individual applicant profile after successfully registering, your registration data will be automatically copied over into your applicant profile, with the exception of your user name and password. You no longer have to enter this data separately. In this respect, your registration data will be treated as application data when it is further processed.
Your data is sent in encrypted format using a suitable system.
We process your data primarily to enable us to conduct the job application process and to decide whether to offer you employment or not based on § 26 Par. 1 Sentence 1 of the Federal Data Protection Act (BDSG). If necessary, we process your personal data to enable us to assess your employability on the basis of § 22 Par. 1 No. 1 lit. c) BDSG.
Your application will not be machine-reviewed either as part of the screening process or as part of the subsequent selection process. The application will be read and reviewed by employees in the Human Resources department and by employees in the specialist department of our company that you are applying to. This also applies to when an advised vacancy matches an existing applicant profile, provided you have created and approved such a profile in our system. All of the people involved in processing the application are separately required to maintain confidentiality and will treat your data as strictly confidential. Volkswagen AG reserves the right to employ service providers to undertake so-called "contract data processing" to enable it to properly operate its online application system.
Applications are only reviewed for jobs within Volkswagen AG in Germany. If you are interested in vacancies outside Volkswagen AG, but within the Volkswagen Group, you are requested to apply to the relevant company. Your data will only be passed on to other Group companies outside Volkswagen AG with your express consent.
Once the application process, for the purposes of which we have received your data, has been completed, your data will be automatically deleted from our system after a period of 180 days. Your applicant profile will be automatically deleted if you have not logged in to your profile for more than 180 days. You will receive an automated notification e-mail to this effect 30 days before expiry of this deadline.
you are involved in an ongoing application process.
you have approved your applicant profile.
In the case of applications for an apprenticeship or the dual-study programme (Volkswagen dual), your data will be deleted by 1 September of the following year, based on the selection process.
Furthermore you can update or delete your data/your applicant profile in/from the system by yourself at any time.
You can withdraw your application at any time and/or deselect your approval. These options are included within the application process.
In addition, you can delete your external profile at any time or ask us to do so.
Volkswagen AG produces browser-related user profiles for the purposes of targeting content and advertising (in accordance with § 15 Par. 3 of the German Teleservices Act). Browser-related means in this case that it is not possible to identify you as a physical person and that only your browser can be recognised due to the use of identifiers in cookies. Cookies are small files containing configuration information and are saved on your computer. The cookie tracks information about your activities on the website in question (for example, your browsing habits, which pages you visit, which ad banners you click on, etc.). In principle, content is stored in pseudonymised form. That means potential identifying features are replaced with an indicator in order to make it considerably more difficult or impossible to identify the person concerned.
The profile information contains a limited amount of business-related behavioural elements. They enable algorithms to analyse your click behaviour on Volkswagen’s websites in real time and to use forecasts without personal data being disclosed, so that selective, personalised and relevant advertising can be addressed to you and online campaigns can be targeted toward you.
Please click here to reactivate the pseudonymised data collection.
AdForm is a provider of technology for flexible distribution of advertising measures, as well as tracking and control of advertising measures, and stores cookie information for up to 60 days. You can find more information in the section "General Practice" at https://site.adform.com/privacy-policy-opt-out/.
Evergage is a client-based personalisation tool. Based on the analysis of usage described above, this solution enables personalised content to be displayed, even without knowledge of personal data.
Sizmek is a provider that specialises in management of advertising campaigns. Cookies store information for tracking, controlling and optimising advertising measures for the purpose of targeting and retargeting for up to 90 days. You can find more information in the section "Data Collection through Sizmek Services" at https://www.sizmek.com/privacy-policy/.
Sophus3 is a provider of website analysis and optimisation. You can find more information at https://www.sophus3.com/services-privacy-policy /.
This solution is used to create and use target group segments as a data management platform for digital channels.
Based on the analysis of usage described above, Smart Signals controls distribution of personalised content on Volkswagen’s websites. No personal data is collected or processed as part of that.
Ensighten is a tag management tool and controls the tag integration described here. Ensighten itself does not collect any personal data as part of that.
This website uses Adobe services (Analytics and Dynamic Tag Manager) to evaluate user access to this website. Data is processed for the purposes of advertising/promotion, market research or appropriate design of our website (in accordance with § 15 Par. 3 of the German Teleservices Act). The Analytics solution from Adobe enables us to analyse the usage of Volkswagen’s web offerings and to continuously improve them on the basis of that. The elements analysed include websites or services visited, page dwell time, click paths – i.e. usage patterns that can be technically tracked. This usage helps us understand what pages, topics, products or content are important for our visitors, without personal data being recorded.
For the purposes of evaluation with Adobe services, cookies are stored on your device to collect information, which is also stored on the servers of Adobe Systems Software Ireland Limited ("Adobe"). Access to the information by Adobe Systems Incorporated, based in the USA, cannot be ruled out, meaning a relevant EU standard contract (appropriate guarantees relating to data processing in non-European countries) has therefore been concluded. As part of information arrangements you have a right to be informed about this standard contract.
Please click here to consent to the evaluation by Adobe Analytics.
It is not possible to link the information stored on the Adobe servers directly to a specific person, since Adobe Analytics is used with the "Before Geo-Lookup: Replace visitor's last IP octet with 0" and "Obfuscate IP-Removed" settings selected. The "Before Geo-Lookup: Replace visitor's last IP octet with 0" setting ensures that the IP address is anonymised before this geolocalisation by replacing the final octet of the IP address with zeroes. For the purposes of statistical evaluation, the user's approximate location is added to the tracking package, which still contains the full IP address. Before the tracking package is saved, the IP address is then replaced with an individual, fixed IP address – referred to as a generic IP address – if the "Obfuscate IP-Removed" setting has been configured. This means that the IP address is no longer contained in a data set that is saved.
You can exercise your rights, as listed below, against Volkswagen AG free of charge at any time. You can obtain further information about exercising your rights at the following website: https://datenschutz.volkswagen.de.
Right to information: you have the right to receive information from us about how your personal data is processed.
Right of correction: you have the right to require us to correct any personal data relating to you that is incorrect or incomplete.
Right of deletion: you have the right to request the deletion of your data, provided the preconditions stated in Art. 17 GDPR have been met. According to that, you can, for example, require your data to be deleted if it is no longer required for the purposes for which it was collected. Furthermore you can request deletion if we process your data on the basis of your consent and you withdraw this consent.
Right of data processing restriction: you have the right to request a restriction be put on processing your data, provided the preconditions stated in Art. 18 GDPR have been met. This is, for example, the case if you dispute the accuracy of your data. You can then request that a restriction be put on processing your data while this data is being checked for accuracy.
Right of objection: you have the right to object to the processing of your data if processing is based on an overriding interest or your data is used for direct advertising purposes. An objection is permitted if data is processed either in the public interest or in the exercise of public authority or based on a legitimate interest of Volkswagen AG or a third party. If you do object, we request you to state your reasons for objecting to the processing of your data. You additionally have the right to object to data processing for the purposes of direct advertising. That also applies to profiling, insofar as this is linked to direct advertising.
Right of data transferability: you have the right to receive your data in a structured, commonly used and machine-readable format and transfer this data to another data processor, provided that data processing is based on consent or contract fulfilment and that automated processing methods are used.
Right of withdrawal: provided data processing is based on you providing consent, you have the right to withdraw that consent to the processing of your personal data free of charge at any time, effective going forward.
Right of complaint: you also have the right to complain to a supervisory authority (e.g. the Lower Saxony State Commissioner for Data Protection) about how we process your data.
Here you find contacts and an overview of the data subject rights according to General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and how you can perceive your rights at Volkswagen AG: https://datenschutz.volkswagen.de.
Customer surveys (e.g. on customer satisfaction).

References: § 26
 § 22
 § 15
 § 15
 Art. 17
 Art. 18