We collect “Non-Personal Data” but also “Personal Data”.

Personal Data include, for example, your email, contact and company address information etc. that you provide us (e.g. through a registration process on www.avl.com or through other channels).

Non-Personal Datainclude all information that cannot be used to identify you as a person, such as usage data, generic demographic information, landing page hit rates referring to our website pages or URLs. When Non-Personal Data is being linked to Personal Data it becomes Personal Data.
 

Anyone may visit the public areas of the AVL DiTEST website www.avl.com without disclosing his or her name, address, etc. Such information is only requested by AVL DiTEST if needed to provide services to you or to fulfill requests you may have (such as registering, ordering documents, subscribing to a newsletter, registering for an event, etc.).

When you use our website for informational purposes, only, and for as long as you do not provide us with any information about you, then we only collect data that is technically necessary for us to show you our website and to ensure its stability and security (legal basis is Art. 6 (1) (f) GDPR). Such data are:

• IP address of the accessing computer
• Date and time of retrieval
• URL of the retrieved page
• Status message as to whether the retrieval was successful
• Transmitted amount of data
• The referrer URL from which the user came to the retrieved page
• HTTP user agent information (i.e. information about the accessing device, its operating system, and its browser)
• information stored in Cookies we have set
• log files we have created to be able to describe an event that has occurred during your visit (e.g. acceptance of Terms of Use).

If you want to enjoy content on our website in a user-targeted manner you are required to regi¬ster into secure areas, made available as part of our website (e.g. on "my AVL DiTEST"). The content and applications in such secure area are selected according your account settings and access rights.

The Personal Data we collect within such secure areas may include the following, depending on what you have provided:

• Name and Contact Details (first name, last name, email address, postal address)
• Registration Information (preferences, participation details of an event, food requests, special assistance requests for an event, event ticket prices and payment methods)
• Geographical Data (information about where you are located, such as country, city, postal code)
• Payment Data (payment details such as billing address, payment method and payment status)
• Interests and Preferences (your interests and preferences related to our products and solutions and what you have downloaded from avlditest.com)

The purpose of collecting Personal Data in such secure areas, is to make it possible for you, as an AVL DiTEST website user, to influence the content we will serve you with (by reflecting your own personal needs and preferences). Also, you enable us to provide you with information on specific topics via your preferred channel (website, email, postal, phone), if you have opted to receive such information. Further, the objective is to make it easier for you to engage and interact with our products and solution portfolios, receive offerings, and purchase products via the AVL DiTEST website.

According to Art. 6(1)(b) GDPR the processing of your data is necessary for fulfilling a contract with us or for carrying out precontractual measures, since without this we can not conclude the contract or take precontractual measures.
 

When you contact us by e-mail, through a form on our website (such as the registration form for the participation to an event, or to download a publication), or through other areas on the website made available to you to fill information, the information you provide (your e-mail address and, if applicable, your first name and last name, plus information explicitly asked for, or further information you provide us with) will be stored by us to answer your questions, to process transactions that you have requested, to pass on information about AVL DiTEST products and solutions (legal basis is Art. 6(1)(b) GDPR).
 

Sometimes, you have the possibility to point a friend to a section on our website if you believe this is useful to that friend. In that context you may enter another person's email address as the recipient of a message generated within our systems. The message will contain the link to the section of our website you deem to be useful, your email address (as the sender), your name, all of which will be visible to the recipient together with the other information you entered into the subject line and the body section of the respective message.

When you receive such a message you see all of the information that has been entered into the "Forward to a friend"-form. It may be the following: email address, first name, last name, any other information about you, which the website user has entered into the form.

Such information will only temporarily be stored, and processed for the time needed to have an email being sent on behalf of the website user. While we may keep logs to protect ourselves, we do not otherwise use the information provided to us via the corresponding form. Further processing does not take place in relation to information provided in this way, nor do we pass on such information to third parties. It is our legitimate interest to offer such functionality to keep up a conversation about our offerings that are, upon corroboration from a website user, of interest to the recipient (Article 6(1)(f)).
 

When you register for and use our shop or other areas of the website additional privacy statements apply.
 

We sometimes define Custom Audiences to deliver advertisements to Website Visitors on third party sites (mainly social media sites, e.g. Facebook, Linkedin, etc.) based on email addresses that we have collected. For example, on Facebook we use Facebook Custom Audiences and on Linkedin we use Matched Audiences. On these social media websites, we sometimes can Identify information about you, such as demographic and other information, such as your academic title, industry, or organization, to improve our marketing efforts. You will learn more about these programs under the following links:

We generally do not use any automated decision-making pursuant to Article 22 GDPR. If we use this procedure in individual cases, we will inform you of this separately, as long as this is a legal requirement.
 

Taking into account the state of the art, the costs of implementation and the nature, scope, context and purposes of processing as well as the risk of varying likelihood and severity for the rights and freedoms of natural persons AVL DiTEST makes appropriate effort to protect Personal Data against accidental and illegal destruction and loss. AVL DiTEST endeavors to ensure that Personal Data is used in a proper manner and to protect it from unauthorized access, use, or disclosure. We use a combination of process, technology and physical security controls to help protect personal information from unauthorized access, use, or disclosure.

Further, access to personal information is restricted to those employees, contractors, and agents of AVL DiTEST who need to know such data to perform their assigned functions and develop or improve our products and services.
 

Any Personal Data that you provide online through AVL DiTEST websites may be passed on to other AVL DiTEST Affiliates and/or AVL DiTEST companies. We will do so only if deemed appropriate. All AVL DiTEST Affiliates and/or AVL DiTEST companies are bound by a groupwide Data Protection Policy.

Sometimes, and least partially, your Personal Data will be processed outside the EU or the EEA, namely in the following countries: Brazil, China, India, Japan, South Korea, Russia, Thailand, Turkey, and the United States. Other destinations may be added over time. Please refer to the current list of AVL DiTEST Affiliates at https://www.avlditest.com Transfers to AVL DiTEST Affiliates and/or AVL DiTEST companies will be made on the basis of declarations of adequacy or other accepted safeguards according to the Articles 44 et seq. of the GDPR, in particular standard data protection clauses adopted by the European Commission.

Please contact us if you would like to request to see a copy of the specific safeguards applied to the export of your information (Art. 13 para 1(f) GDPR).
 

We use service providers for a range of services. If we do so we ensure to be in compliance with the requirements under Art. 28 GDPR (provision describing the safeguards to apply when data processors are being used).
 

In addition to the processing of your Personal Data for purchasing reasons, we may use your information for the following marketing purposes (legal basis is Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR):

• Sending interest-related newsletter
• Inviting you to events and webinars
• Informing you about the latest product and software releases, product recommendations, market trends/insights and promotions
• Inviting you to participate in surveys in order to help us to improve our communication and communication platforms
• Provide you with emails containing updates about technical developments and similar information.

Sometimes, we may ask you for your consent with respect to our marketing and promotional endeavors (legal basis then is Art. 6(1)(a) GDPR).
 

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