Privacy Policy - Social Media

Data protection is an important issue for us, and you can find all relevant topics here relating to the use of the Mercedes-Benz Tech Innovation GmbH social media pages.

Privacy policy for the use of the Mercedes-Benz Tech Innovation Instagram page

This Instagram page is operated by:

In general, Facebook Ireland Ltd. is the controller for the collection and further processing of personal user data on the websites of Instagram.

Please note that Instagram will collect and process certain information about your visit to our Instagram page even if you have no Instagram user account or are not logged into Instagram. Information on processing of personal data by Instagram can be found in the Privacy Policy of Instagram under https://help.instagram.com/519522125107875 .

As the operator of this Instagram page, we can only view your public profile on Instagram. Which information is visible here depends on your settings in your profile. In addition, we process your personal data (such as your name and the content of your messages, inquiries or other postings to us) when you contact us via our Instagram page. We then process this data for the purposes of handling and, if applicable, to responding to your postings.

Additionally, Instagram provides us with so-called page insights data. This data are anonymous statistics that we use to evaluate the quality of our Instagram page and content. These statistics are compiled based on usage data collected by Instagram about your interaction with our Instagram page; we do not have access to this usage data.

This processing is based on our legitimate interest pursuant to Art. 6 para. 1 letter f) of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), in particular in order to be able to contact you on your enquiries or contributions as well as to recognize user preferences (e.g. number of so-called followers, number of visits to individual page areas, user statistics according to age, geography and language). In addition, to be able to adapt and improve the offer on our Instagram page as closely as possible to the target group.

We store your personal data on our systems, i.e. outside of Instagram, if and for as long as necessary for the purposes of collection or as long as there are legal storage obligations.

You are not legally or contractually obliged to make available your personal data. However, it is possible that certain functions of our websites depend on the availability of personal data. If you do not make available personal data in these cases, this may result in functions not being available or only being available to a limited extent.

It is conceivable that Facebook Inc. based in the United States will also process some of the information collected outside the European Union. To ensure an adequate level of data protection, Facebook bases such data transfers on the EU Commission’s standard contractual clauses for the transfer of personal data, unless there is a corresponding adequacy decision of the EU Commission for the third country concerned.

For the design and support of this Instagram page, we use qualified service providers (dialogue marketing agencies). We pass on personal data to these only if this is necessary for the purposes mentioned above (e.g. answering your queries), for pursuing legitimate interests, if you have consented.

You have the following rights:

• In accordance with Art. 15 GDPR, you have the right to information about the personal data stored by us. This means that you have the right to obtain from us confirmation as to whether or not personal data concerning you is processed, and, where that is the case, to request access to the personal data. The access information includes – inter alia – the purposes of the processing, the categories of personal data concerned, and the recipients or categories of recipients to whom the personal data have been or will be disclosed. However, this is not an absolute right and the interests of other individuals may restrict your right of access.
• You may have the right to have incorrect personal data corrected in accordance with Article 16 GDPR. This means that you have the right to obtain from us the rectification of inaccurate personal data concerning you. Depending on the purposes of the processing, you may have the right to have incomplete personal data completed, including by means of providing a supplementary statement.
• You have the right to have your personal data erased in accordance with Art. 17 GDPR. This means that under certain circumstances, you may have the right to obtain from us the erasure of personal data concerning you and we may be obliged to erase such personal data.
• In accordance with Art. 18 GDPR, you have the right to request a restriction on the processing of your personal data. This means that, in this case, the respective data will be marked and may only be processed by us for certain purposes (e.g. with your consent or to raise legal claims).
• In accordance with Art. 20 GDPR, under certain circumstances, you may have the right to receive the personal data concerning you, which you have provided to us, in a structured, commonly used and machine-readable format and you may have the right to transmit those data to another entity without hindrance from us.
• You also have the right to lodge a complaint with the competent data protection supervisory authority, in particular in the EU Member State of your habitual residence or of an alleged infringement of the GDPR.

To exercise these rights with respect to data processing by Instagram, please kindly contact Instagram via the contact options provided by Instagram on the website. In other cases or if so desired, please send us an e-mail to techinnovation@mercedes-benz.com .

Under certain circumstances, you may have the right to object, on grounds relating to your particular situation, or where personal data are processed for direct marketing purposes at any time to the processing of your personal data by us and we can be required to no longer process your personal data. Moreover, if your personal data is processed for direct marketing purposes, you have the right to object at any time to our processing of personal data concerning you for such marketing, which includes profiling to the extent that it is related to such direct marketing. In this case your personal data will no longer be processed for such purposes by us. To exercise your right of objection, if possible please send us an e-mail to techinnovation@mercedes-benz.com .

For additional information on our handling of personal data, please refer to the Mercedes-Benz Privacy Policy .

Status: SApril 2022

Privacy policy for the use of the Mercedes-Benz Tech Innovation YouTube page

This YouTube page is operated by:

In general, Google Ireland Limited is the controller for the collection and further processing of personal user data on the websites of YouTube.

Please note that YouTube will collect and process certain information about your visit to our YouTube page even if you have no YouTube user account or are not logged into YouTube. Information on processing of personal data by YouTube can be found in the Privacy Policy of YouTube under https://policies.google.com/privacy?hl=en&gl=en .

As the operator of this YouTube page, we can only view your public profile on YouTube. Which information is visible here depends on your settings in your profile. In addition, we process your personal data (such as your name and the content of your messages, inquiries or other postings to us) when you contact us via our YouTube page. We then process this data for the purposes of handling and, if applicable, to responding to your postings.

Additionally, YouTube provides us with so-called Analytics. This data are anonymous statistics that we use to evaluate the quality of our YouTube page and content. These statistics are compiled based on usage data collected by YouTube about your interaction with our YouTube page; we do not have access to this usage data.

This processing is based on our legitimate interest pursuant to Art. 6 para. 1 letter f) of the GDPR, in particular in order to be able to contact you on your enquiries or contributions as well as to recognise user preferences (e.g. number of so-called followers, number of visits to individual page areas, user statistics according to age, geography and language). In addition, to be able to adapt and improve the offer on our YouTube page as closely as possible to the target group.

We store your personal data on our systems, i.e. outside of YouTube, if and for as long as necessary for the purposes of collection or as long as there are legal storage obligations.

You are not legally or contractually obliged to make available your personal data. However, it is possible that certain functions of our websites depend on the availability of personal data. If you do not make available personal data in these cases, this may result in functions not being available or only being available to a limited extent.

It is conceivable that Google LLC and its wholly owned US subsidiaries based in the United States will also process some of the information collected outside the European Union. To ensure an adequate level of data protection, Google bases such data transfers on the EU Commission’s standard contractual clauses for the transfer of personal data, unless there is a corresponding adequacy decision of the EU Commission for the third country concerned.

For the design and support of this YouTube page, we use qualified service providers (dialogue marketing agencies). We pass on personal data to these only if this is necessary for the purposes mentioned above (e.g. answering your queries), for pursuing legitimate interests, if you have consented.

You have the following rights:

• In accordance with Art. 15 GDPR, you have the right to information about the personal data stored by us. This means that you have the right to obtain from us confirmation as to whether or not personal data concerning you is processed, and, where that is the case, to request access to the personal data. The access information includes – inter alia – the purposes of the processing, the categories of personal data concerned, and the recipients or categories of recipients to whom the personal data have been or will be disclosed. However, this is not an absolute right and the interests of other individuals may restrict your right of access.
• You may have the right to have incorrect personal data corrected in accordance with Article 16 GDPR. This means that you have the right to obtain from us the rectification of inaccurate personal data concerning you. Depending on the purposes of the processing, you may have the right to have incomplete personal data completed, including by means of providing a supplementary statement.
• You have the right to have your personal data erased in accordance with Art. 17 GDPR. This means that under certain circumstances, you may have the right to obtain from us the erasure of personal data concerning you and we may be obliged to erase such personal data.
• In accordance with Art. 18 GDPR, you have the right to request a restriction on the processing of your personal data. This means that, in this case, the respective data will be marked and may only be processed by us for certain purposes (e.g. with your consent or to raise legal claims).
• In accordance with Art. 20 GDPR, under certain circumstances, you may have the right to receive the personal data concerning you, which you have provided to us, in a structured, commonly used and machine-readable format and you may have the right to transmit those data to another entity without hindrance from us.
• You also have the right to lodge a complaint with the competent data protection supervisory authority, in particular in the EU Member State of your habitual residence or of an alleged infringement of the GDPR.

To exercise these rights with respect to data processing by YouTube, please kindly contact YouTube via the contact options provided by YouTube on the website. In other cases or if so desired, please send us an e-mail to techinnovation@mercedes-benz.com .

Under certain circumstances, you may have the right to object, on grounds relating to your particular situation, or where personal data are processed for direct marketing purposes at any time to the processing of your personal data by us and we can be required to no longer process your personal data. Moreover, if your personal data is processed for direct marketing purposes, you have the right to object at any time to our processing of personal data concerning you for such marketing, which includes profiling to the extent that it is related to such direct marketing. In this case your personal data will no longer be processed for such purposes by us. To exercise your right of objection, if possible please send us an e-mail to techinnovation@mercedes-benz.com .

For additional information on our handling of personal data, please refer to the Mercedes-Benz Privacy Policy .

Status: April 2022

Privacy policy for the use of the Mercedes-Benz Tech Innovation LinkedIn page

This LinkedIn page is operated by:

In general, LinkedIn Ireland Unlimited Company is the controller for the collection and further processing of personal user data on the websites of LinkedIn.

Please note that LinkedIn will collect and process certain information about your visit to our LinkedIn page even if you have no LinkedIn user account or are not logged into LinkedIn. Information on processing of personal data by LinkedIn can be found in the Privacy Policy of LinkedIn under LinkedIn Privacy Policy .

As the operator of this LinkedIn page, we can only view your public profile on LinkedIn. Which information is visible here depends on your settings in your profile. In addition, we process your personal data (such as your name and the content of your messages, inquiries or other postings to us) when you contact us via our LinkedIn page. We then process this data for the purposes of handling and, if applicable, to responding to your postings.

Additionally, LinkedIn provides us with so-called Page Insights data. This data are anonymous statistics that we use to evaluate the quality of our LinkedIn page and content. These statistics are compiled based on usage data collected by LinkedIn about your interaction with our LinkedIn; we do not have access to this usage data. LinkedIn has agreed to be primarily responsible, and fulfill your rights, under the EU General Data Protection Directive (“GDPR”; see below for more information) regarding the processing of Page Insights data, and to make available to you the essence of the pertinent arrangement.

This processing is based on our legitimate interest pursuant to Art. 6 para. 1 letter f) of the GDPR, in particular in order to be able to contact you on your enquiries or contributions as well as to recognise user preferences (e.g. number of so-called followers, number of visits to individual page areas, user statistics according to age, geography and language). In addition, to be able to adapt and improve the offer on our LinkedIn page as closely as possible to the target group.

We store your personal data on our systems, i.e. outside of LinkedIn, if and for as long as necessary for the purposes of collection or as long as there are legal storage obligations.

You are not legally or contractually obliged to make available your personal data. However, it is possible that certain functions of our websites depend on the availability of personal data. If you do not make available personal data in these cases, this may result in functions not being available or only being available to a limited extent.

It is conceivable that LinkedIn Corporation and their US subsidiaries ("LinkedIn") based in the United States will also process some of the information collected outside the European Union. To ensure an adequate level of data protection, LinkedIn bases such data transfers on the EU Commission’s standard contractual clauses for the transfer of personal data, unless there is a corresponding adequacy decision of the EU Commission for the third country concerned.

For the design and support of this LinkedIn page, we use qualified service providers (dialogue marketing agencies). We pass on personal data to these only if this is necessary for the purposes mentioned above (e.g. answering your queries), for pursuing legitimate interests, if you have consented.

You have the following rights:

• In accordance with Art. 15 GDPR, you have the right to information about the personal data stored by us. This means that you have the right to obtain from us confirmation as to whether or not personal data concerning you is processed, and, where that is the case, to request access to the personal data. The access information includes – inter alia – the purposes of the processing, the categories of personal data concerned, and the recipients or categories of recipients to whom the personal data have been or will be disclosed. However, this is not an absolute right and the interests of other individuals may restrict your right of access.
• You may have the right to have incorrect personal data corrected in accordance with Article 16 GDPR. This means that you have the right to obtain from us the rectification of inaccurate personal data concerning you. Depending on the purposes of the processing, you may have the right to have incomplete personal data completed, including by means of providing a supplementary statement.
• You have the right to have your personal data erased in accordance with Art. 17 GDPR. This means that under certain circumstances, you may have the right to obtain from us the erasure of personal data concerning you and we may be obliged to erase such personal data.
• In accordance with Art. 18 GDPR, you have the right to request a restriction on the processing of your personal data. This means that, in this case, the respective data will be marked and may only be processed by us for certain purposes (e.g. with your consent or to raise legal claims).
• In accordance with Art. 20 GDPR, under certain circumstances, you may have the right to receive the personal data concerning you, which you have provided to us, in a structured, commonly used and machine-readable format and you may have the right to transmit those data to another entity without hindrance from us.
• You also have the right to lodge a complaint with the competent data protection supervisory authority, in particular in the EU Member State of your habitual residence or of an alleged infringement of the GDPR.

To exercise these rights with respect to data processing by LinkedIn, please kindly contact LinkedIn via the contact options provided by LinkedIn on the website. In other cases or if so desired, please send us an e-mail to techinnovation@mercedes-benz.com .

Under certain circumstances, you may have the right to object, on grounds relating to your particular situation, or where personal data are processed for direct marketing purposes at any time to the processing of your personal data by us and we can be required to no longer process your personal data. Moreover, if your personal data is processed for direct marketing purposes, you have the right to object at any time to our processing of personal data concerning you for such marketing, which includes profiling to the extent that it is related to such direct marketing. In this case your personal data will no longer be processed for such purposes by us. To exercise your right of objection, if possible please send us an e-mail to techinnovation@mercedes-benz.com .

For additional information on our handling of personal data, please refer to the Mercedes-Benz Privacy Policy .

Status: April 2022