Data Protection Notice


 

1. Data Protection Notice

We welcome you to our app and thank you for your interest in our company and our products.

 

The protection of your privacy when processing personal data as well as the security of all business data are important issues to us, which we consider in our business processes.

 

2. General Information

 

Controller

We, Robert Bosch Power Tools GmbH, are responsible for processing your personal data in this mobile application.

 

Our contact details are as follows: Robert Bosch Power Tools GmbH, Max-Lang-Straße 40-46, 70771 Leinfelden-Echterdingen, Germany, kontakt@bosch.de

 

3. Children

 

Please note that this app is not intended for children under the age of 16.

 

4. Categories of personal data

 

We process the following categories of personal data:

  • Communication data (e.g., name, telephone, e-mail, address, IP address)

 

5. Duration of storage, retention periods

 

We store your data for as long as is necessary to provide our app and the associated services or for as long as we have a legitimate interest in continuing to store your data (e.g., we may still have a legitimate interest in postal marketing even after a contract has been fulfilled). In all other cases we delete your personal data except for such data that we are obliged to store in order to fulfill legal obligations (e.g., we are obliged to retain documents such as contracts and invoices for a certain period due to retention periods under tax and commercial law).

 

6. Data transfer to other controllers

 

In general, your personal data will only be transferred to other controllers if this is necessary for the fulfillment of a contract, if we or the third party have a legitimate interest in the transfer, or if you have given your consent. For details on the legal basis and the recipients or categories of recipients, please refer to the section Processing purposes and legal bases.

 

Additionally, data may be transferred to other controllers if we are obliged to do so by law or by enforceable official or court order.

 

7. Processing purposes and legal bases

 

We process your personal data for the following processing purposes:

 

Provision of this app

If you use our app solely for information purposes, that is, without registering or otherwise sending us information, we process your personal data to provide this app based on our legitimate interest to present us and to ensure stability and security.

 

Payment (only applicable in Germany, Poland, France, Sweden, Spain, Switzerland, UK, Czech Republic, Romania, Hungary, Bulgaria, Slovakia, Belgium, Netherlands, Luxembourg, Austria). 

If you purchase a subscription in our app, you can pay for it using the method(s) you set up in your personal profile on Apple or Google Account. Bosch has no influence on this and does not receive or transfer any data in this regard.

 

8. Security and protection of rights

 

We may also process your personal data to investigate service disruptions and for security reasons to comply with our legal obligations in the area of data security, as well as on the basis of our legitimate interest in the elimination of service disruptions and the security of our offers.

We may process your personal data to protect and defend our rights. This purpose also constitutes our legitimate interest.

 

9. Information storage and access

 

Use of Cookies and other technologies

 

In the course of providing our app, cookies and other technologies may be used that either store information on your terminal equipment or gain access to information stored on your terminal equipment.

 

Cookies are small text files that can be stored on your end device when you visit a website.

 

The use of our app is generally possible without cookies that are not technically necessary.

 

  • Technically necessary cookies

By technically necessary cookies, we mean cookies without which the technical provision of the website cannot be guaranteed. This includes, for example, cookies that store data in order to ensure the interference-free playback of video or audio content.

 

These cookies are deleted at the end of your visit.

 

  • Technically not necessary mechanisms

 

We only use technically not necessary cookies and tracking mechanisms if you have given us your prior consent.

 

The only exception to this is the cookie that stores the current status of your privacy settings (selection cookie).

 

We use third-party tools to integrate technically not necessary cookies and mechanisms. These tools ensure that technically not necessary cookies and mechanisms are only set with your consent.

 

We use the following tools:

 

Name: Tealium (Not applicable in Russia)

Provider: Tealium Inc., 11095 Torreyana Road San Diego, CA 92121

Function: Management of website tags via an interface, integration of program codes on our websites

 

  • Analysis

We use analysis tools to improve our products and services. We measure, for example, the number of page views or your behavior on our mobile app. This may also include the evaluation of log files.

 

We use the following tools:

 

Name: Google Analytics (Not applicable in Russia)

Provider: Google Ireland Limited, Gordon House, Barrow Street, Dublin 4, Ireland

Function: Analyze user behavior (page views, number of visitors and visits, downloads), create pseudonymous user profiles based on cross-device information of logged-in Google users (cross-device tracking), enrich pseudonymous user data with target group-specific information provided by Google, retargeting, UX testing, conversion tracking and retargeting.

 

Additional information: We use the "anonymize IP" function, which anonymizes your IP address before writing it to disc.

 

We use the paid version of Google Analytics, in which the data collected on our website via Google Analytics is stored on own Google servers. Google may not use this data for its own purposes or mix it with other data that Google collects about you in other ways, such as when you are logged into your Google account on your browser while visiting our website.

 

10. Obligation to provide personal data

 

You must provide those personal data that are required for the establishment and implementation of a business relationship and for the fulfillment of the associated contractual obligations or for the processing of which we are legally obligated.

 

We mark such personal data in the respective forms or functions with an *.

Please note that without the provision of such personal data, we will not be able to enter into or perform a contract with you. In this case, certain services (see "Processing purposes and legal basis") cannot be used.

 

11. Data Subject Rights

 

Please use the information in the Contact section to assert your rights. When doing so, please ensure that we can clearly identify you.

 

You have the right to request access to the personal data concerning you, as well as the right to rectification, the right to erasure, the right to restriction of processing and the right to data portability. Insofar as you have given us consent to process your personal data, you may revoke this consent at any time with future effect.

 

Objection to data processing based on "legitimate interest"

 

If the processing of your personal data is based on “legitimate interest”, you also have the right to object to the processing of your personal data at any time on grounds relating to your particular situation. The reasons shall be stated.

 

We will then terminate processing your data unless we can prove - in accordance with the legal requirements - compelling legitimate grounds for the processing which override your rights.

 

Right to lodge complaint with supervisory authority

 

You have the right to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority.

 

12. Contact

 

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

 

To assert your rights and to notify data protection incidents please use the following link: https://request.privacy-bosch.com/entity/PTDE/lang/de-DE/?app=34e06089-8879-4d25-a67a-0fe012d2e960

For suggestions and complaints regarding the processing of your personal data we recommend that you contact our data protection officer:

 

Data Protection Officer
Information Security and Privacy (C/ISP)
Robert Bosch GmbH
P.O. Box 30 02 20
70442 Stuttgart, GERMANY

 

or

mail to: DPO@bosch.com

 

13. 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. Therefore, please note the current version of our Data Protection Notice, as it is subject to change.

 

Status: 24.08.2023