Information on how we process your personal data. ContiTech USA, Inc. processes your data as part of the use of this website in accordance with the pertinent legal regulations.
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1. General Information - Scope of This Data Protection Information
This Data Protection Information applies to how your personal data is processed on the website.
“Personal data” is any information about an identified or identifiable natural person. You are identifiable as a person if you can be identified directly (e.g. by your name) or indirectly (e.g. by a pseudonym email address) using this information.
“Processing” means any operation or sequence of operations performed upon personal data, whether or not by automated means.
Data Controller
The controller (hereinafter also “we” or “us”) responsible for your personal data processed on this website is:
ContiTech USA, Inc.
325 East 10th Street, Halstead, KS 67056, USA
eMail legg@continental.com
2. Processing of Data
Your data will be processed exclusively on the basis of the following data protection regulations (legal basis):
- Data Processing (Purpose): Contact / Interaction with Continental (e.g. contact form / field, chat, etc.)
- Legal Basis: Art. 6 para. 1 lit. a) EU GDPR (consent), Art. 6 para. 1 lit. b) EU GDPR (performance of contract), Art. 6 para. 1 lit. c) EU GDPR (legal obligation)
- Duration of Storage: Your data will be processed with your consent until revocation, otherwise deleted after final processing of your request, provided that there are no legal storage obligations to the contrary. We assume final processing if it can be deduced from the circumstances that the matter in question has been conclusively clarified.
To ensure the above-mentioned data processing, we transmit data to the following service providers (hereinafter referred to as Service Provider):
- Service Provider: com&on GmbH
Address / Location: Leisewitzstr. 47, 30175 Hannover, Germany - Service Provider: consentmanager GmbH
Address / Location: Eppendorfer Weg 183, 20253 Hamburg, Germany - Service Provider: Trakken GmbH
Address / Location: Zirkusweg 1, 20359 Hamburg, Germany
Service Provider will collect and process your personal data on our behalf based on an adequate data processing agreement.
3. Rights of the data subject(s)
We draw your attention to the fact that, as a data subject, you have the following rights in connection with the processing of your personal data in accordance to the EU - General Data Protection Regulation (EU GDPR):
- Right to revoke your consent at any time acc. Art. 7 para. 3 EU GDPR
- Right to be informed acc. Art. 13 and Art. 14 EU GDPR
- Right of access by the data subject acc. Art. 15 EU GDPR
- Right to rectification acc. Art. 16 EU GDPR
- Right to erasure acc. Art. 17 EU GDPR
- Right to restriction of processing acc. Art. 18 EU GDPR
- Right to data portability acc. Art. 20 EU GDPR
- Right to object at any time acc. Art. 21 EU GDPR
- Right to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority acc. Art. 77 EU GDPR
In case of compelling reasons for processing that outweigh your interests, rights and freedoms, or serve the assertion, exercise or defense of legal claims, the processing of personal data necessary for this purpose can take place despite your objection or request for deletion.
If you have any questions in this regard, feel free to contact our data protection officer: dataprotection@conti.de
Please send your revocation or requests regarding the exercise of the above listed rights in writing or by email to:
Address: ContiTech USA, Inc., 325 East 10th Street, Halstead, KS 67056, USA
eMail legg@continental.com
4. Protection of stored Data
Our company and our Service Provider use technical and organizational security measures to protect the personal data you provide to us from manipulation, loss, destruction or access by unauthorized persons. The security measures are continuously improved and adapted according to the state of the art.
Unencrypted data can possibly be viewed by third parties. For this reason, we would like to point out that no secure transmission can be guaranteed with regard to data transmission via the Internet (e.g. when communicating by unencrypted e-mail). Sensitive data should therefore either not be transmitted at all or only via a secure connection (SSL). You can determine the SSL status of the connection by looking at the address line of your browser ("https").
Cookies
When you visit our website / web app, information can be stored on your computer in the form of a so-called cookie (small text files). Technically necessary cookies are only used to ensure the operation of the website.
Further cookies (e.g. regarding the use of the website) are only set on the basis of your consent (see Cookie Overview).
Furthermore, you can also set the acceptance of cookies via your browser settings. However, please note that in this case you may not be able to use all functions of this website / web app to their full extent.
5. Recipients
Consent-Management-Tool: consentmanager
This website uses the consent management tool "consentmanager" by consentmanager AB, Håltgelvågen 1b, 72348 Västerås, Sweden.
This website uses "consentmanager" to obtain consent for data processing and use of cookies or comparable functions. With the help of "consentmanager" you have the possibility to give your consent for certain functionalities of the website. With the help of “consentmanager” you can grant or reject your consent for all functions or give your consent for individual purposes or individual functions. The settings you make can also be changed afterwards. The purpose of integrating “consentmanager” is to let the users of the website decide about the above-mentioned items and, as part of the further use of our website, to offer the option of changing settings that have already been made: Consent to Cookies & Data
By using “consentmanager”, personal data and information from the end devices used, such as IP address, are processed by consentmanager. In addition, the processed information may also be stored on your device.
The legal basis for processing is Art. 6 Para. 1 S. 1 lit. c) in conjunction with Art. 6 para. 3 sentence 1 lit. a) in conjunction with Art. 7 para. 1 GDPR and, in the alternative, lit. f). By processing the data, consentmanager helps us (according to GDPR this is the responsible party) to fulfill our legal obligations (e.g. obligation to provide evidence).
We have legitimate interests in processing in the form of storing user settings and preferences with regard to the use of cookies and other functionalities.
"Consentmanager" stores your data as long as your user settings are active. After two years of setting your user settings, the consent will be asked again. The user settings made are then saved again for another two-year period.
You can object to the process and have the right to object to reasons arising from your situation. To object, please send an email to info@consentmanager.net.
6. Integration of Third-party Services and Content
Tag Management System: GTM - Google Tag Manager
This website uses the Google Tag Manager, of Google Ireland Ltd (provider of the service), Gordon House, Barrow Street, Dublin 4, Ireland and Google Inc, 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA.
The Google Tag Manager is a tag management system that can be used to incorporate code snippets on websites, to manage and control cookies, conversion pixels or tracking codes from programs such as Google Analytics. The Google Tag Manager is an organizational service and itself only processes data for technically necessary purposes. The Google Tag Manager takes care of loading other components, which in turn may collect data. Google Tag Manager does not access this data.
Data collected with Google Tag Manager: In order for Google to monitor the stability, performance, and installation quality of the system and to obtain data for diagnostic purposes, Google Tag Manager collects certain aggregate tag triggering data. This data does not include IP addresses or measurement IDs that are linked to a specific individual. Unlike data in standard HTTP request logs, which are all deleted within 14 days of receipt, and the diagnostic data described above, Google Tag Manager does not collect, store, or share information about visitors to clients' properties.
For more information about Google Tag Manager, please see Google's Privacy Policy: https://policies.google.com/privacy
Google Tag Manager is currently used to control the following services and components on this website:
- Google Analytics - web analytics service
Google Analytics
For the purpose of statistical evaluation, we obtain information about your use of our website in order to improve our website and its functionalities on this basis. However, no Personal Data is transmitted or stored that can be used to identify you as a user.
For this purpose, we use the analysis tool Google Analytics provided by Google Ireland Limited, Gordon House, Barrow Street, Dublin 4, Ireland ("Google") on our website. This tool supports us in analyzing the traffic to and on our website. For this purpose, Google collects various information about your visit of our website like for example your IP address, a User or Client-ID applied to you, your first visit to the website, your click on a link to a new domain, your scrolling to the end of the website, the viewing of a video, the length of stay on the website, internal searches on the website, country and city (latitude and longitude) from where you access the website, device information (brand, model), screen resolution, browser and operating system information. This data is evaluated by Google in order to create reports, which may include, among other things, statements about your length of stay, approximate geographical origin, origin of visitor traffic, exit pages and usage processes.
Information that Google generates about your use of our website is regularly transmitted to data centers in the USA and stored there. If you are using our website within the EU, the data collected by Google Analytics is first send to a Google data center in the EU, where the IP address is analyzed in terms of longitude and latitude and associated information and then deleted before the collected dataset is transferred to other Google data centers, possibly outside the EU, for further analysis. This function ensures the anonymization of the Personal Data before any data is stored and processed within the framework of Google Analytics, so that a clear determinability of your person by Google is excluded.
Google Signals
As part of Google Analytics, we also use the Google Signals extension, which enables tracking across multiple devices. For this purpose, Google uses the Personal Data of users who are logged into a Google service at the same time when visiting websites and have activated the "personalized advertising" option in their Google account settings: https://adssettings.google.com/authenticated
In Google Analytics, interactions with you as a visitor to our website are primarily recorded with the help of cookies. These cookies are used to store non-personal data and are not made accessible in browsers across domains. These cookies are only activated if you provide your consent in the cookie settings of our website. If you do not provide your consent for the use of cookies, Google Analytics will try to fill the resulting data gaps through AI-based extrapolation based on models using known user data.
The legal basis for the processing of your Personal data within the framework of Google Analytics is your consent in accordance with Art. 6 (1) p. 1 lit. a GDPR, which we also obtain via Consent to Cookies & Data of our website. Hence, if you do not provide your consent to the activation of the Google Analytics cookies, you also do not consent into the processing of your Personal Data in general and no processing in google Analytics will take place.
Data Processing Agreement: Google
We have concluded a data processing agreement with Google for data processing and fully implement the strict requirements of the German data protection authorities when using Google Analytics.
Personal data transferred to data centers in the U.S. is processed by Google LLC, 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway Mountain View, California 94043 and its subsidiaries as sub-processor of Google. Google LLC is certified under the EU-U.S. Privacy Framework. Against this background, an adequate level of data protection is assumed and the transfer of Personal data by Google is permitted based on Art. 45 (1) GDPR.
Revocation of your Consent
You can withdraw your consent to the processing of your Personal Data within the framework of Google Analytics at any time with effect for the future as follows:
- Revocation via our Consent Settings
You can deactivate the processing of your Personal Data within the framework of Google Analytics in the Consent Settings of our website and thus withdraw the consent you have given to the processing of your Personal Data in connection with Google Analytics. - Deactivation of Google Analytics by Browser add-on
You can deactivate Google Analytics by installing a small program, a so-called browser add-on, which you can download from the following address: https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout
The add-on prevents your Personal Data from being evaluated in Google Analytics. However, the use of the browser add-on to deactivate Google Analytics does not prevent Personal Data from being sent to our website or other web analysis services.
For more information on how Google Analytics handles Personal Data, please refer to Google's Google Analytics Privacy Notice.
7. Changes to This Data Protection Information
This Data Protection Information is updated on a periodic basis; changes or additions are published here. We therefore recommend that you check this page regularly. Thank you for reading this Data Protection Information.
Updated / Version: September 2025