Specific Data Protection Notice for India

ETAS Automotive India Pvt Ltd (hereinafter “ETAS” or “We” or “Us”) welcome you to our inter-net pages and mobile applications (together also referred to as “Online Offer”). We thank you for your interest in our company and our products.

ETAS respects your privacy

The protection of your privacy throughout the course of processing personal data as well as the security of all business data are important concerns to us. We process personal data that is gathered during your visit of our Online Offers in a confidential manner and only in accordance with statutory regulations.

Data protection and information security are important aspects of our corporate policy.

1. Data Controller/Data Fiduciary

ETAS is the Data Fiduciary responsible for the processing of your data; exceptions are outlined in this data protection notice.

Our contact details are as follows:

ETAS Automotive India Pvt Ltd.
B519, Post Box No. 3000, Adugodi, Hosur Road,
Bangalore – 560030

2. Collection, Processing and Usage of Personal Data

2.1 Processed categories of data

The following categories of data are processed:

  • Communication data (e.g. name, telephone, e-mail, address, IP address)
  • Contractual master data (e.g. contractual relationships, contractual or product interest)
  • Client history

2.2 Principles

Personal data consists of all information related to an identified or identifiable natural person, this includes, e.g. names, addresses, phone numbers, email addresses, contractual master data, contract accounting and payment data, which is an expression of a person's identity.

We collect, process and use personal data (including IP addresses) only when there is either a statutory legal basis to do so or if you have given your consent to the processing or use of personal data concerning this matter, e.g. by means of registration.

2.3 Processing purposes and legal bases

We as well as the service providers commissioned by us; process your per-sonal data for the following processing purposes:

  • Provision of these Online Offers (Legal basis: Consent, Contract, Voluntary Disclosure)
  • Resolving service disruptions as well as for security reasons (Legal basis: Fulfillment of our legal and contractual obligations)
  • Self-promotion and promotion by others as well as market research and reach analysis done within the scope statutorily permitted or based on consent (Legal basis: Consent, Voluntary Disclosure).
  • Product or customer surveys (Legal basis: Consent)
  • Sending an email or SMS/MMS newsletter subject to the recipient’s consent (Legal basis: Consent)
  • Responding to user queries received through social media or contact form or any other medium of communication (Legal basis: Consent, Voluntary Disclosure, Fulfilment of contractual obligation)
  • Safeguarding and defending our rights (Legal basis: Legitimate use for safeguarding and defending our rights)

2.4 Registration

If you wish to use or get access to benefits requiring to enter into the fulfilment of a contract, we request for your registration. Basis your consent and registration, we collect personal data necessary for entering into the fulfillment of the contract (e.g. first name, last name, email address, user name) as well as further data on voluntary basis, if applicable. Mandatory information is marked with an *.

2.5 Log files

Each time you use the internet, your browser is transmitting certain information which we store in so-called log files.

We store log files to determine service disruptions and for security reasons(e.g., to investigate attack attempts) for a period of 30 days and delete them afterwards. Log files which need to be maintained for evidence purposes are excluded from deletion until the respective incident is resolved and may, on a case-by-case basis, be passed on to investigating authorities.

Log files are also used for analysis purposes (without the IP address or without the complete IP address)

In log files, the following information is saved:

  • IP address (internet protocol address) of the terminal device used to access the Online Offer;
  • Internet address of the website from which the Online Offer is accessed (so-called URL of origin or referrer URL);
  • Name of the service provider which was used to access the Online Offer;
  • Name of the files or information accessed;
  • Date and time as well as duration of recalling the data;
  • Amount of data transferred;
  • Operating system and information on the internet browser used including add-ons installed (e.g., Flash Player);
  • http status code (e.g., “Request successful” or “File requested not found”).

2.6 Children

This Online Offer is not meant for children under 18 years of age.

2.7 Data transfer

Data transfer to other Data Fiduciaries

Principally, your personal data is forwarded to other Data Fiduciaries only if re-quired for the fulfillment of a contractual obligation, or if we ourselves, or a third party, have a legitimate interest in the data transfer, or if you have given your consent. Particulars on the legal basis and the recipients or categories of recipients can be found in the Section – Processing purposes and legal basis.

Additionally, data may be transferred to other Data Fiduciaries when we are obliged to do so due to statutory regulations or enforceable administrative or judicial orders.

Service providers (general)

We involve external service providers with certain tasks for example programming, data hosting and hotline services. We have chosen those service providers carefully and monitor them on a regular basis, especially regarding their diligent handling of and protection of the data that they store. All service providers are obliged to maintain confidentiality and to comply with the statutory provisions. Service providers may also be other Bosch group companies.

Use of SalesViewer® technology:
This website uses SalesViewer® technology from SalesViewer® GmbH in order to collect and save data on marketing, market research and optimisation purposes.

In order to do this, a javascript based code, which serves to capture company-related data and according website usage. The data captured using this technology are encrypted in a non-retrievable one-way function (so-called hashing). The data is immediately pseudonymised and is not used to identify website visitors personally.

The data stored by Salesviewer will be deleted as soon as they are no longer required for their intended purpose and there are no legal obligations to retain them.

The data recording and storage can be repealed at any time with immediate effect for the future, by clicking on https://www.salesviewer.com/opt-out in order to prevent SalesViewer® from recording your data. In this case, an opt-out cookie for this website is saved on your device. If you delete the cookies in the browser, you will need to click on this link again.

Transfer to recipients outside India

We might transfer personal data to recipients located outside India. In such cases, prior to the transfer we ensure that either the data recipient provides an appropriate level of data protection and the transfer is not statutorily prohibited.

2.8 Duration of storage, retention periods

Principally, we store your data for as long as it is necessary to render our Online Offers and connected services or for as long as we have a legitimate use for storing the data. In all other cases we delete your personal data with the exception of data we are obliged to store for the fulfillment of legal obligations (e.g. due to retention periods under the tax and commercial codes we are obliged to have documents such as contracts and invoices available for a certain period of time).

3. Usage of Cookies

In the context of our online service, cookies and tracking mechanisms maybe used.

Cookies are small text files that may be stored on your device when visiting our online service.

Tracking is possible using different technologies. In particular, we process information using pixel technology and/or during log file analysis.

3.1 Categories

We distinguish between cookies that are mandatorily required for the technical functions of the online service and such cookies and tracking mechanisms that are not mandatorily required for the technical function of the online service.

It is generally possible to use the online service without any cookies that serve non-technical purposes.

3.2 Technically required cookies

By technically required cookies we mean cookies without those the technical provision of the online service cannot be ensured. These include e.g. cookies that store data to ensure smooth reproduction of video or audio footage.

Such cookies will be deleted when you leave the website.

Name: Analytics
Provider: Ireland Limited, Gordon House, Barrow Street, Dublin4, Ireland
Function: Analysis of user behavior (page retrievals, number of visitors and visits, downloads), creation of pseudonymous user profiles based on cross-device information of logged-in users(cross-device tracking), enrichment of pseudonymous user data with target group-specific information provided by , retargeting, UXtesting, conversion tracking and retargeting in conjunction with Ads

Name: Tag Manager
Provider: Ireland Limited, Gordon House, Barrow Street, Dublin4, Ireland
Function: Administration of website tags via a user interface, integration of program codes on our websites

Name: Pixel Insight Tag
Provider: Ireland Unlimited Company, Wilton Place, Dublin 2,Ireland
Function: processes your personal data to create campaign reportings, to track conversions and click-events as well as for target-oriented advertising outside of our websites (retargeting) based on URL, referrer URL, IP-Address shortened or hashed (in case of cross device retargeting), devices and browser features (user agent) and time stamp. We don’t receive any of your personal data from .We only receive anonymized campaign reportings of website-target-groups and advertisement performance.
storage period: Pseudonymization after 7 days. Final deletion after 180 days.
Further information is available at: https://www..com/legal/privacy-policy

3.3 Newsletter analysis

We need statistical information about the usage of our newsletter to de-sign them to be more user-friendly, to perform range measurements, andmarket research.

For this purpose, we use analysis tools described in this section.

The usage profiles created by these tools using analysis cookies or byevaluating log files collect information about the usage of our newsletter.Data about opened newsletters and visited links can be stored and con-nected to a subscriber’s profile.

The tools sellers process data only as processors subject to our directivesand not for their own purposes. In the following, please find information oneach tool seller.

Evalanche
Evalanche is provided by SC Networks, Enzianstr. 2, 82319 Starnberg,Germany.

3.4 Social Plugins

In our Online Offers we use so-called social plugins from various social networks. They are individually described in this section.

When using plugins, your internet browser creates a direct connection to the respective social networks’ server. Hereby the respective provider receives the information that your internet browser accessed from the respective site of our Online Offers - even if you do not have a user account with this provider or are currently not logged into your account. Log files(including the IP address) are, in this case, directly transmitted from your internet browser to a server of the respective provider and might be stored there. The provider or its server may be located in another country (e.g. in the United States).

The plugins are standalone extensions by social network providers. For this reason, we are unable to influence the scope of data collected and stored by them.

Purpose and scope of the collection, the continued processing and usage of data by the social network as well as your respective rights and setting options to protect your privacy can be found by consulting the respective social network's data protection notices.

In case you do not wish social network providers to receive and, if applicable, store or use data, you should not use the respective plugins.

By using the so-called two click solution (provided by Heise Medien GmbH& Co. KG) we protect your visit to our web pages from being logged and processed by social network providers by default. When using a page of our internet presence which contains such plugins, these are initially de-activated. Only when you click on the respective button, the plugins are activated.


Our Online Offers use the video platform which is operated by , LLC, 901 Cherry Ave. San Bruno, CA 94066, USA („”). is a platform which allows the playback of audio and video files.

When you access a respective site of our Online Offers that contains an embedded player, this creates a connection to so that the video or audio file can be transmitted and played back. In doing so, data is transferred to as a data fiduciary. We are not responsible for the processing of such data by .

Additional information on the scope and purpose of collected data, on further processing and usage of data by , on your rights and the privacy options available to be chosen by you, can be found in 's data protection notice.

BoschTube
Our Online Offers use the BoschTube video platform which is operated by Robert Bosch GmbH, Robert-Bosch-Platz 1, 70839 Gerlingen-Schillerhöhe („BoschTube“). BoschTube is a platform which allows the playback of audio and video files.

When you access a respective site of our Online Offers that contains an embedded BoschTube player, this creates a connection to BoschTube so that the video or audio file can be transmitted and played back. In doing so, data is transferred to BoschTube as a data fiduciary. We are not responsible for the processing of such data by BoschTube.

Additional information on the scope and purpose of collected data, on further processing and usage of data by BoschTube, on your rights and the privacy options available to be chosen by you, can be found in BoschTube data protection notice (https://media.video.bosch.com/privacy-statement_en).

Fonts/web fonts
Monotype fonts (Neo® Sans) and external web fonts from Fonts(Noto Sans SC, Noto Sans JP, Nanum Gothic) are used in this online offer to display texts with different character sets. To this effect, a connection to the Monotype or Fonts servers is established and personal data such as IP address and browser data is sent to Monotype (Monotype Imaging Holdings Inc., 600 Unicorn Park Drive, Woburn, Massachusetts01801 USA)or Fonts ( Ireland Limited, incorporated and operating under the laws of Ireland, Gordon House, Barrow Street, Dublin 4,Ireland).

Monotype uses the data exclusively to register the number of hits.

Fonts uses the data exclusively to display the fonts and analyze their popularity.

4. Newsletter with opt-in; right of withdrawal

Within the scope of our Online Offer, you can sign up for newsletters. We provide the so-called double opt-in option which means that we will only send you a newsletter via email, mobile messenger (such as, e.g. WhatsApp), SMS or push notification after you have explicitly confirmed the activation of the newsletter service to us by clicking on the link in a notification. In case you wish to no longer receive newsletters, you can terminate the subscription at any time by withdrawing your consent. You can withdraw your consent to email newsletters by clicking on the link which is sent in the respective newsletter mail, or in the administrative settings of the online offer. Alternatively, please contact us via the contact details pro-vided in the Contact section.

5. External Links

Our Online Offers may contain links to internet pages of third parties, in particular by providers who are not related to us. Upon clicking on the link, we have no influence on the collecting, processing and use of personal data possibly transmitted by clicking on the link to the third party (such as the IP address or the URL of the site on which the link is located) as the conduct of third parties is naturally beyond our control. We do not assume responsibility for the processing of personal data by third parties.

6. Security

Our employees and the companies providing services on our behalf, are obliged to confidentiality and to compliance with the applicable data protection laws.

We take all necessary technical and organizational measures to ensure an appropriate level of security and to protect your data that are administrated by us especially from the risks of unintended or unlawful destruction, manipulation, loss, change or unauthorized disclosure or unauthorized access. Our security measures are, pursuant to technological progress, constantly being improved.

7. User Rights

To enforce your rights, please use the details provided in the Contact section. In doing so, please ensure that an unambiguous identification of your person is possible.

7.1 Right to information and access

You have the right to obtain confirmation from us about whether or not your personal data is being processed, and, if this is the case, access to your personal data.

7.2 Right to correction and deletion

You have the right to obtain the rectification of inaccurate personal data. As far as statutory requirements are fulfilled, you have the right to obtain the completion or deletion of your data.

This does not apply to data which is necessary for billing or accounting purposes or which is subject to a statutory retention period.

7.3 Withdrawal of consent

In case you consented to the processing of your data, you have the right to revoke this consent at any time with effect for the future subject to such withdrawal.

7.4 Right to grievance redressal

For any grievances, concerns or requests related to your personal data, please make use of the Contact section.

If you are unsatisfied with our response or in case of non-response to your grievances, you have the right to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority. You can appeal to the supervisory authority which is responsible for your place of residence or your state of residency or to the supervisory authority responsible for us.

8. Changes to the Data Protection Notice

We reserve the right to change our security and data protection measures.In such cases, we will amend our data protection notice accordingly.Please, therefore, notice the current version of our data protection notice,as this is subject to changes.

9. Contact

If you wish to contact us, please find us at the address stated in the Data Fiduciary section.

To assert your rights and to notify data protection incidents please use the following link: https://www.bkms-system.net/bosch-dataprotection

For suggestions and complaints regarding the processing of your personal data we recommend that you contact our data protection officer: DPO.India@in.bosch.com

Effective date: August 07, 2024