Privacy policy

When you visit this website, you may be asked to provide your personal information and you are free to choose whether or not to do so. The ultimate purpose of collecting your personal information is to provide you with quality products and services that enrich your user experience. If you wish to provide, we will collect, use, disclose and share your personal information within the scope of these Privacy Policy and protect your personal information in accordance with the law. If you choose not to do so, we may not be able to provide our products or services in a timely and quality manner, or may have an impact on your use of the products or services.

Cookies

Cookies are data, stored in small text files. They are stored on the hard disk of your computer and do not cause any damage there. The cookies of our Website do not contain any personal data about you. Among other purposes, Cookies are used for identifying repeated visitors by saving a random generated ID on your browser.

Cookies can save you having to enter data more than once, facilitate the transmission of specific contents and help us to identify those parts of our online service that are particularly popular. This enables us, among other things, to adapt our web pages exactly to your requirements.

If you want, you can deactivate the use of cookies at any time by changing the settings in your browser. Please use the help functions of your internet browser to find out how to change these settings.

Audi China uses Adobe Analytics Tool to analyze the visits to this Website. Adobe Analytics Tool collects your IP address in order to locate which area you are from. For such purpose, Audi China would need to collect and transfer your IP address to a server located outside China (London, UK). Audi China will anonymize your IP address after the aforementioned location process is completed. Besides, we will use random ID on your browser to track each of your visit to this Website. Audi China is not able to and will not use the random ID to identify you. The data we stored during the use of Adobe Analytics Tool does not involve your personal data. We will only activate Adobe Analytics Tool based on your consent.

General Information

Audi China is the administrator who processes the personal data collected via this Website. Audi China greatly respects your privacy and processes your data in accordance with the legal provisions on personal data protection of the People’s Republic of China.

This Privacy Policy will give an introduction about the scope of the personal data collected via the Website, how we process the personal data collected via the Website and your rights to access and correct your personal data.

Collection

Audi China will receive following data from you when you visit and use the Website, which includes but is not limited to:

• The name of your internet service provider;
• The websites you actually visit;
• The date and length of your visit;
• Personal data volunteered provide by you when you apply for a career opportunity through the Website (which mainly includes name, date of birth, phone number, e-mail address, educational background, career path, etc.).

Users under age 18 shall submit personal data via the Website with the approval of his/her legal guardian after such guardian has understood and accepted this Privacy Policy.

Usage

Audi China may use above-mentioned data for the following purposes:

• To technically administrate the Website;
• To improve service quality;
• To answer your questions;
• For research and statistical analysis;
• To assess the profiles you submitted to apply for a career opportunity;

Disclosure

The data you provide to us may also be made available to third parties including vendors and/or sub-contractors working with and/or on behalf of Audi China, as well as to AUDI AG and AUDI AG’s affiliates for fulfilling the afore-mentioned usage purposes. We will also disclose your data to the extent required by law, to respond to any court decisions, or to respond to any lawful requests by governmental authorities. Our employees, vendors, sub-contractors are all obliged by us to treat all such data confidential. Please kindly be aware that AUDI AG and many of its affiliated companies are located in Germany. If you have any concerns or objections to transfer your data outside of China, please kindly contact us through the means provided on this Website.

Security and Retention Period

Audi China employs technical and organizational security measures to protect the personal data you have given to us from any fortuitous or willful manipulation, loss, destruction or access by unauthorized persons. Our security measures are improved and adapted on a regular basis according to applicable laws and regulations.

The time we store your personal data will not exceed the reasonable time required for the intended usage of the data, or the time required for any applicable laws or contract.

Visit, Correction and Deletion

You may at any time request permission to have access to your personal data collected by this Website. If you find mistakes to any of your personal information processed by us, you have right to contact us through the means provided on this Website to request correction of your personal information.

You may request us to delete your personal information under any of the following circumstances:

• If our processing of your personal information is in violation of any law or regulation; or
• If we collected or used your personal information without your consent; or
• If we processed your personal information in breach of our agreement with you.

Contact

If you have further queries about this Privacy Notice, or if you require further explanations or wish to obtain further information about your personal data stored by Audi China, or if you wish such data to be corrected, cancelled or deleted, please contact:

Audi (China) Enterprise Management Co., Ltd.

Tel: 0086-10-6531-3000

Please read the above terms carefully, and when you have read and continue to provide your personal information, or browse and use our products or services, you fully understand and accept the full terms and contents of this Statement, agree to authorize us to collect and use your personal information within the scope of the fore above purposes, and agree to be bound by these Terms.