Information on How We Process Your Personal Data

This Data Protection Information applies to how your personal data is processed on the website.

“Personal data” is any information about an identified or identifiable natural person. You are identifiable as a person if you can be identified directly (e.g. by your name) or indirectly (e.g. by a pseudonym email address) using this information.

“Processing” means any operation or sequence of operations performed upon personal data, whether or not by automated means.

The controller (hereinafter also “we” or “us”) responsible for your personal data processed on this website is:

ContiMotion GmbH

Continental-Plaza 1, 30175 Hannover, Germany

Email: kontakt@contimotion.de

If you have any questions about data protection or data security, you can contact our Data Protection Officer by writing to Continental-Plaza 1, 30175 Hanover, Germany, or by sending an email to dataprotection@conti.de.

Processing on our website

The purposes pursued with data processing on our website are explained below:

Recipients of personal data

During the above-mentioned data processing, we transfer data in part to the following service providers:

The service providers process your data as our contracted processors on the basis of a corresponding data processing contract. Insofar as the service providers are located outside the European Economic Area, the transfer takes place on the basis of the standard contractual clauses provided by the EU Commission and further technical and organizational measures to safeguard the security of your data.

We use cookies on or website.

A cookie is a small data file that is stored on your terminal device. Cookies are used to analyze user interest and to make our website more user-friendly. In principle, you can also use our website without cookies. However, if you want to use the full range of functions of our website and make your experience as user-friendly as possible, you should accept the cookies that enable the use of certain functions or provide convenience features. The purpose of the cookies we use is shown in the following list.

By using our website, you consent to the use of those cookies that your browser accepts based on your browser settings. You can, however, configure your browser so that you are notified before accepting cookies that you only want to accept or reject certain cookies or that you want to reject all cookies. You can also delete cookies from your device’s memory at any time.

Technically necessary cookies:

These cookies are technically necessary to provide the following core functions of the app and cannot be disabled by you:

• Display of website content

• De-identification of IP addresses in log files

• Cookie consent status

• Verification and identification of users

• Front-end login for sub-pages with access restrictions

The legal basis governing storage of the technically necessary cookies is Section 25 (2) (2) of the German Telecommunications and Telemedia Data Protection Act (TTDSG). The legal basis governing processing personal data resulting from the cookies is Art. 6 (1) sentence 1 (f) GDPR and, accordingly, a legitimate interest on our part in providing the functions of our website.

Deletion of your personal data

Your personal data will only be processed for the duration of the processing purposes specified in Section 4. In addition, however, there are further retention obligations or legal bases that make processing necessary for a longer period of time.

Legal retention periods

Your personal data will be stored if required by legal retention periods, in particular within the scope of the retention periods pursuant to Section 147 of the German Fiscal Code (AO), which provides for a retention period of six years for commercial and business letters including emails, and ten years for accounting records (e.g. invoices), as well as within the scope of Section 257 of the German Commercial Code (HGB), which provides for a corresponding retention period of six or ten years. Legal basis: Art. 6 (1) sentence 1 (c) GDPR (legal obligation).

Statutes of limitations

Your personal data may also be stored to preserve evidence for the assertion of or defense against legal claims under the statutes of limitation. According to Sections 195 et seq. of the German Civil Code (BGB), these statutes of limitation can be up to 30 years, with the regular statute of limitation being three years. The regular limitation period begins at the end of the year in which the claim arose and the creditor became aware of the circumstances giving rise to the claim and of the identity of the liable party, or should have become aware of them in the absence gross negligence. Legal basis: Art. 6 (1) sentence 1 (f) GDPR (legitimate interest: assertion, exercise or defense of or against legal claim(s)).

Your personal data may also be transferred to the following categories of recipients:

• Third parties who provide the contractually agreed services on our behalf and support us in the provision of our services;
• Providers who receive data for the purpose of arranging and providing services (e.g. our social media channels, content management providers, etc.);
• Payment service providers or service providers for the purpose of checking customer creditworthiness;
• Other internet users on our social media channels, insofar as you share personal data with them on the social media platform, and internet search engines;
• Our insurance partners;
• Authorities (e.g. tax authorities);
• Lawyers and courts in the event of legal disputes.

The GDPR grants you various rights with regard to your personal data, which are described in brief below.

• Right of access

You can request information about whether your personal data is being processed. If this is the case, you can request further information, in particular on the purposes of the processing, the categories of personal data processed, the recipients, the storage period or, if this is not possible, the criteria for determining the period, as well as further information.

You can request a copy of your personal data, which will be provided to you following receipt of a request to this effect by email in a common electronic format, provided that this does not affect the rights or freedoms of other persons. For this purpose, please specify precisely which data you require.

• Right to rectification

You can immediately request the correction of incorrect personal data pertaining to your person as well as the completion of incomplete personal data.

• Right to erasure

You have the right to request the erasure of your personal data, in particular if the data is no longer necessary for the purposes for which it was processed. Your data will be deleted immediately unless an exception applies, in which case your data may continue to be stored. This is the case, for example, if there is an obligation to store pertinent data for tax or commercial law reasons. In this case, processing will be restricted and will then only take place for that purpose.

• Right to restriction

You may request the restriction of processing of your personal data, in particular if:

• you contest the accuracy of the data and the data is being verified;
• the processing is unlawful and you object to the erasure;
• the data is no longer required, but you need it for the assertion, exercise or defense of legal claims, or
• you have objected to processing.

In the event that processing is restricted, your personal data may in principle only be stored; specifically, it may only be processed with your consent or for the assertion or exercise of as well as for the defense against legal claims.

• Right to data portability

You may request to receive the personal data concerning you that you have provided in a structured, commonly used and machine-readable format so that you can transmit it to another controller. You also have the right to have this data transmitted directly to another person responsible. However, the prerequisite for this right is that the processing of your data is based on consent, the implementation of pre-contractual measures or the performance of a contract.

• Right to object 

You may object to the processing of personal data pertaining to you if the processing is based on a legitimate interest (Art. 6 (1) sentence 1 (f) GDPR). Your right to object also applies in the case of any direct marketing (e.g. newsletter mailings), including any profiling that may be associated with this. The data will then no longer be processed unless compelling reasons are provided for such processing.

• Revocation of consent to data processing 

If you have consented to processing of your personal data, you can withdraw this consent at any time. Any processing that has taken place up to the time of revocation remains unaffected.

• Assertion of your rights

If you wish to exercise the rights described above, please contact our data protection officer (Section 3).

• Right of appeal to a data protection authority

You have a right of appeal to a supervisory authority.

The supervisory authority responsible for Continental AG is: 

The State Representative for Data Protection in Lower Saxony

Prinzenstraße 5

30159 Hannover, Germany

If you have any questions or complaints, please first contact us directly (see Section 3) – your concern is certain to be resolved to your satisfaction.

You are neither legally nor contractually obligated to provide us with personal data. To the extent that our website or the social media channels used by us require the provision of personal data, this is necessary in order to provide you with these services. Insofar as the provision of personal data beyond this purpose is not mandatory and you choose not provide it, we cannot supply any separate or individual information to you (e.g. we cannot answer or process any request or complaint you may have sent to us or send you a newsletter).

Your personal data is processed on servers within the scope of GDPR (in the EU / EEA). It will in principle not be transferred to third countries, unless explicitly stated otherwise in this Data Protection Information.

Status: March 2024