Maidstone Audi Privacy Policy

For AUDI AG, the protection of personal data is of utmost importance. We would therefore like to inform you how we protect your privacy when you give your personal data to us.
It goes without saying that we shall comply with data protection regulations, but in addition, in giving you the following information, we would like to commit ourselves to using your data in a responsible way, making sure that your privacy is protected at any time. We want you to feel good and safe when visiting our web pages.

We want to constantly improve our service and make our online service more attractive for you. Only if we know which subareas of our internet pages are visited most and for the longest time, we can optimize the contents of the AUDI web pages according to your demands. Personal information is used by AUDI AG for marketing, for attracting prospective customers, for conducting surveys and providing information.
The better we understand what you want, the faster you will find the desired information on our internet pages.

If you visit the web pages of AUDI AG, information of general nature is collected automatically. This information includes, for example, such things as the kind of web browser, the operating system which is used, or the domain names of your internet service providers. Exclusively such information is collected which does not allow any conclusions as to your identity. Besides, these data are also generated when visiting any other web page on the internet, i. e. this is not a function specific of the AUDI internet pages. This kind of information is collected exclusively in an anonymizated way and interpreted by us for statistical purposes.

If you are asked to give personal information on our pages, such as for example your name, address or phone number, this is subject to special provisions, which are indicated to you in the following wording:
We will use these data for marketing purposes for AUDI AG, to attract prospective customers, conduct surveys and provide information. Your data will not be passed on to any third parties. This shall not apply to service providers acting on behalf of AUDI AG, or third parties such as the Audi trade organization and affiliates and subsidiary companies of the Audi group. Apart from the data which you give to us, we will use information derived from the way in which you use our service to be able to lead you to the information which could be interesting for you as fast as possible, and to constantly optimize our service. You will find further information on the subject of the protection of data privacy under the rubric „data protection“ on our internet pages

Cookies are text files containing information which makes it possible to identify repeated visitors exclusively for the duration of their visit to our web pages. Cookies are stored on the hard disk of your computer and do not cause any damage there. The cookies of our internet pages do not contain any personal data on you. Cookies will save you having to enter data several times, facilitate the transmission of specific contents and will help us to identify those parts of our online service that are particularly popular. This will enable us, among other things, to adapt our web pages exactly to your requirements.
If you want, you can deactivate the use of cookies any time by changing the preferences of your browser. Please use the help functions of your internet browser to see how you can make these changes.

AUDI AG employs technical and organizational security measures to protect the personal data you give to us from any deliberate or undeliberate manipulation, loss, destruction or access by unauthorized persons. Our security measures are improved and adapted on a regular basis according to the state of the art.

If you have any queries, requests or complaints on the subject of data protection, please do not hesitate to contact our data protection officer:

AUDI AG
Norbert Ziesler
I/GO
D-85045 Ingolstadt

The data protection officer herewith makes the information required by law available to everybody.

Name of the responsible corporate body:
AUDI AG

Managing Board:
Prof. Dr. Martin Winterkorn (President of the Board)
Ralph Weyler
Dr. Jochem Heizmann
Dr. h.c. Andreas Schleef
Erich Schmitt
Dr. Horst Neumann
Rupert Stadler

Data Processing
Manager in charge:
Klaus Hardy Mühleck

Address of the responsible corporate body:
AUDI AG
D-85045 Ingolstadt

Defined purpose of the collection, processing or use of data:

The object of the company is the development, manufacturing and the distribution of motor vehicles, of vehicles and engines of all kinds, of the accessories that go with these, and of all machines, tools and other technical articles. (extract from article 2 of the certificate of incorporation of AUDI AG)

Specification of the group of persons concerned and the corresponding data or data categories:

Customer data, staff data and necessary data of associated companies which serve the purpose.

Recipients or categories of recipients to whom the data can be disclosed:

Public bodies in the sense of a priority legal provision Contractors in the sense of a partnership according to Section 11 of the BDSG (German Data Protection Act) Companies and dealer organisations for serving the purpose.

Standard periods for the deleting of the data:
Pursuant to legal provisions, a variety of retention obligations and periods are applicable. On the expiry of these periods, the data concerned are deleted as a matter or routine.

Planned data transmission to third countries:
There are no plans for a data transmission to third countries.

AUDI AG
Data Protection Officer:

as at 11/2003