Privacy Statement for use of the website


The controller as per the EU General Data Protection Regulation ("GDPR") is:
Mercedes-Benz Trucks Molsheim („We“)
11 rue Mercedes-Benz, 67120 Molsheim
E-Mail: dataprotection_molsheim@daimlertruck.com

Privacy Officer

Daimler Truck AG

Chief Data Privacy OfficerHPC DTF2B

70745 Leinfelden-Echterdingen
Germany
E-Mail: dataprivacy@daimlertruck.com

 

 
Data Privacy

We appreciate you visiting our website and thank you for your interest in our company. The advancing technologization of our everyday lives opens up unimagined possibilities for us today. This brings with it a high level of responsibility on the part of the companies to which we make our personal data available. Daimler Truck AG is fully aware of this responsibility and the protection of your privacy when using our websites is of particular concern to us. In our privacy statement, we inform you how we collect and process your personal data, for what purpose, on what legal basis this is done and how long we store the data. We also inform you about your rights and claims and how you can assert them.


Purpose

We collect and process the personal data of our website visitors only insofar as this is necessary to provide a functional website and our content. In addition, we use the data to optimize the website and to protect our IT-systems.

 

Collecting and processing your personal data

There is no obligation to provide your personal data when you visit our website. However, it is possible that certain contents of our website depend on the provision of personal data. If you do not wish to provide personal data in these cases, this may result in content not being displayed or only being displayed to a limited extent.

 

Provision website

Temporary storage of the IP address by the system is necessary to enable delivery of the website to the visitor's computer. For this purpose, the anonymized IP address of the visitor must remain stored for the duration of the session. It is stored in log files to ensure the functionality of the website. Each time you visit our website, our system automatically collects and stores information that your browser transmits to us in log files. The following data is collected:

  • the browser and operating system used and their settings,
  • the date and time of the visit,
  • the access status (e.g. whether you were able to access a website or received an error message),
  • the use of website functions,
  • the search terms you may have entered,
  • the frequency with which you visit individual websites,
  • the website from which you accessed our websites and the website you visit from our websites, whether by clicking on links on our websites or entering a domain directly in the input field of the same tab (or window) of your browser in which you accessed our websites,
  • for security reasons, in particular, to prevent and detect attacks on our websites or attempts at fraud, we store your IP address and the name of your Internet service provider for seven days.

Transfer of personal data to third parties; social plug-ins; use of service providers

We use so-called social media buttons (also known as social media plugins) on our website. These are small buttons that allow you to publish content from our website on social networks under your profile.

If you activate such a button, a connection is established between our website and the respective social network. In addition to the relevant content, the operator of the social network receives further, in some cases personal information. This includes, for example, the fact that you are currently visiting our site.

The social media buttons are integrated using the so-called “Shariff solution”. This solution prevents a connection to a social network from being established simply because you access a page with a social media button without activating it. This means that information is only transmitted to the social network when you activate the button.

We use qualified service providers (including IT service providers, marketing agencies) for operating, improving and protecting our websites. The transfer of personal data to these providers is based on data processing agreements in accordance with Article 28 (3) of the GDPR, which we have concluded with each respective provider. These agreements ensure that the processing of personal data is carried out exclusively according to our instructions and in compliance with all legal data protection requirements.

Furthermore, we only transfer personal data if it is necessary for the pursuit of legitimate interests, for the fulfilment of legal obligations or if you have consented to this.

 

Cookies

Cookies may be used when you visit our websites. Cookies are text files that are stored in the visitor’s browser. When a visitor accesses a website, a cookie can be stored on the visitor’s operating system. This cookie contains a characteristic character string that enables the browser to be uniquely identified when the website is called up again. Technically, these are so-called HTML cookies and similar software tools such as web/DOM storage or local shared objects (so-called “flash cookies”), which we collectively refer to as cookies.

Cookies are small files that are stored on your desktop, notebook or mobile device when you visit a website. This can be used to: recognise whether there has already been a connection between the device and the websites, take into account your preferred language or other settings, provide you with certain functionalities (e.g. online shop, vehicle configurator) or recognise your interests based on usage. Cookies may also contain personal data.

Whether and which cookies are used when you visit our websites depends on which areas and functions of our websites you use and whether you consent to the use of cookies that are not technically necessary in our consent management system. Technically necessary cookies are small text files that are stored by a website in your browser when you surf the Internet. They ensure that a website works and that users see it the same way the next time they visit it. These cookies are necessary for the website to function and do not require the user’s consent. Further information and decision-making options can be found here: Privacy-first Google Analytics Alternative - App & Web Analytics - Matomo.

Please note that you can set your browser so that you are informed about the setting of cookies and can decide individually whether to accept them or to exclude the acceptance of cookies in certain cases or generally. Each browser is different in the way it manages cookie settings. This is described in the help menu of each browser, which explains how to change your cookie settings. You can find these settings for the respective browsers under the following links:

  • Internet Explorer
  • Firefox
  • Chrome
  • Safari

If you decide against the use of cookies or delete them, it is possible that not all functions of our websites will be available or individual functions will only be available to you to a limited extent.


Legal basis for processing

Provision website

The legal basis for the temporary storage of data in the log files is Art. 6 Para. 1 sentence 1 letter b GDPR. In this respect, we fulfil the existing contract with the user – also in the case of free offers – for the use of the website.

We also process the data to pursue our legitimate interests in accordance with Art. 6 Para. 1 sentence 1 letter f GDPR, in order to be able to provide you with the website technically. Our legitimate interest is to be able to provide you with an attractive, technically functioning, user-friendly and secure website.


Further possible uses

We process personal data for the purposes of pursuing our legitimate interests as well as the legitimate interests of third parties in accordance with Art. 6 Para. 1 sentence 1 letter f GDPR for the following processing operations in particular: maintaining the functionality of our IT systems,

We also process your personal data in order to be able to provide you with our website technically. Our legitimate interest is to be able to provide you with an attractive, technically functional, user-friendly and secure website/product.

Within the scope of the respectively required balancing of interests, we take into account in particular the type of personal data, the purpose of processing, the processing circumstances and your interest in the confidentiality of your personal data.


Deletion of your personal data

Your personal data will be deleted as soon as it is no longer necessary to achieve the purpose for which it was collected.

Declaration of consent
You can revoke your consent to the processing of personal data at any time, free of charge and with future effect. Please note that the revocation will only take effect for the future. Processing that took place before the revocation is not affected. Withdrawal of your consent may result in us no longer being able to provide our services in whole or in part without processing this data and therefore having to terminate the existing contract.

Further possible uses
Processing takes place via the previously mentioned storage, data is only stored to the extent required by the laws, regulations or other legal provisions to which we are subject in the EU or by legal provisions in third countries, if there is an appropriate level of data protection. If deletion is not possible in individual cases, the corresponding personal data will be marked with the aim of restricting further processing.

 


Data subject rights

As a data subject, you have the right to access (Art. 15 GDPR), rectification (Art. 16 GDPR), erasure (Art. 17 GDPR), restriction of processing (Art. 18 GDPR) and data portability (Art. 20 GDPR).

If you have consented to the processing of your personal data by us, you have the right to withdraw your consent at any time without giving reasons. The lawfulness of the processing of your personal data up to the point of revocation remains unaffected by the revocation. Further processing of this data on the basis of a different legal basis and for the purposes based thereon also remains unaffected.

Right to object
You have the right, for reasons arising from your particular situation, to object at any time to the processing of personal data concerning you that is processed on the basis of Art. 6 Para. 1 sentence 1 letter f GDPR (data processing on the basis of legitimate interests). If you file an objection, we will only continue to process your personal data if we can prove compelling legitimate reasons that outweigh your interests, rights and freedoms, or if the processing serves the assertion, exercise or defence of legal claims. Insofar as we process your personal data for the purposes of direct marketing in order to pursue legitimate interests on the basis of a balance of interests, you have the right to object to this at any time without giving reasons.

You can exercise your rights at the following contact address: dataprotection_molsheim@daimlertruck.com

If you are of the opinion that the processing of your personal data infringes data protection law, you have the right to lodge a complaint with a data protection supervisory authority (Art. 77 GDPR).

The competent supervisory authority is the „Commission Nationale de l’Informatique et des Libertés (CNIL)“.