Data Protection Information

Thank you for your interest in our company and in our products. Protecting your privacy while using our online services is very important to us. We comply with the legal requirements of the country in which the site processing the data is located when collecting and processing personal data. In the Federal Republic of Germany, the applicable law is the Federal Data Protection Act.

Collecting and Processing Personal Data

When you visit our websites, our web servers save the name of your Internet service provider, the IP address, the website from which you are visiting our site, our sites visited by you, as well as the date and the duration of the visit. This data undergoes statistical analysis. It is not connected to any personal data. We use cookies in order to recognize the preferences of visitors so that we can improve the content of our websites accordingly. Each individual user remains anonymous. Personal details are only saved when you enter them voluntarily in the online services provided.

Using and Forwarding Personal Data, Collecting Data for Specific Purposes and Options

We use the technical data for website administration purposes. This means we use your personal data to manage customers and those generally interested in the company, to provide information about new products, product surveys and for internal marketing tasks in the scope required. Participation for users is voluntary. If you do not wish to take part, you can deregister from these services at any time. You can do this whilst using the services themselves or via email to the address stated on the site. We will then block your data for any further use. Our employees are obliged to keep your personal data confidential.

Security

Schaeffler Technologies AG & Co. KG uses technical and organizational security measures in order to safeguard the data we receive from you against accidental or deliberate deletion, manipulation, loss, and against unauthorized persons accessing the information. These security measures are constantly developed to meet new technical standards.

Our websites may contain links to other external websites. Our data protection policy does not apply for these websites.

Should you have any questions about how your personal data is processed, any comments or complaints, or should you require further information, please do not hesitate to contact the company or the company data protection officer.

On request, Schaeffler Technologies AG & Co. KG or the company responsible can provide you with information on whether your personal data has been stored by us and if so, which data has been stored. You will find the relevant person to contact on the company’s website.

Thomas Biedermann
Data Privacy Officer
Schaeffler AG
Industriestrasse 1-3
91074 Herzogenaurach
Federal Republic of Germany
Dataprivacy@schaeffler.com

Google Analytics

This website uses Google Analytics, a web analysis service of the Google Inc. ("Google"). Google Analytics uses so-called "Cookies", text files which are stored on your computer and which allows an analysis of the use of the website by you. The information generated by the Cookie about your use of this website (including your IP address) is transferred to a server by Google in the USA and is stored there. Google will use this information to evaluate your use of the website in order to put together a report about the website activities for the website operators and to produce linked services with the website use and the Internet use. Also Google will transfer this information if necessary to third parties, provided that this legally prescribed or as far as third parties process these data on behalf of Google. Google will associate in no circumstances your IP address with the other data which are stored by Google. They can prevent the installation of the Cookies by a suitable setting of your browsers software; we point out to you, nevertheless, to the fact that you cannot use all functions of this website in this case if necessary fully extensively. By the use of this website you agree with the treatment of the data upraised about you by Google in the before described way and for the before named purpose.