Information about processing of personal data through cookies and other web technologies

Welcome to the Skoda Ireland website (“this Website”) which is operated by Volkswagen Group Ireland Limited (“we”, “our”, “us” or “Volkswagen Group Ireland Limited ” as applicable). Please see the end of this policy for our legal and contact information. We use cookies and other similar technologies that access or store information on the device you use to visit this Website. To make this policy easier to read, we refer to all of these technologies using the expression “cookies”. This policy provides you with information about how cookies work and when, how and why we, and the third parties we work with, use them. Almost all cookies work by collecting and storing some form of personal data about you, so this policy also describes the personal data we process or allow others to access when using cookies, as well as your related data protection rights. Our separate Privacy Statement provides equivalent information relating to our processing of your personal data more broadly in connection with this Website. We may update this policy from time to time. All changes made to this policy will be published on this Website and in the event of any substantial changes, we will notify you of these using an appropriate communication method.

We set and read some cookies on your device in cooperation with Škoda Auto a.s. (“Škoda Auto”). Some cookies are set and read only by ourselves and some may be set by third parties such as our suppliers or our commercial partners. For the purposes of data protection laws, we and Škoda Auto are the “joint controllers” of the processing of your personal data for all of these cookies as described in Sections 5 and 6, unless this Cookie Policy expressly states that we are sole “controllers” of the processing of personal data in relation to certain cookies.
A controller is the person that decides why and how your personal data is processed. In relation to cookies set by third parties through this Website, those parties may also be a controller of your personal data, which means they will also have a legal responsibility to you in respect of the personal data they receive. Please see the section How we work with third parties and the legal reasons for processing for further details.

Cookies are small files or other information stored on your device or accessed from your device that help us and others to collect data about your activities. The expression ‘cookies’ can refer to browser cookies as well as a number of similar technologies including tracking pixels/web beacons, local shared objects/flash cookies and access to device information (including sensors). Please see the section 5 for details of the types of ‘cookies’ used by this Website.
Cookies allow us to deliver essential features of this Website. We also use them for purposes which are not essential but very useful to us or to you, including to store your settings and preferences, remember your access information, provide targeted content and marketing communications, help us to understand which part of this Website is the most popular and analyse the functioning of this Website.

We receive the following types of personal data about you through the cookies we use, which includes information we access directly from your computer, phone, tablet or other device without storing or accessing a file:

Cookie browser data: cookie identifiers, time/date, services/products selected, whether and to which cookies you have consented;
Device data: device type, screen resolution, operating system version, browser rendering core, its version and basic settings;
Log data: Time and duration of usage of this Website and search data;
Location data: Data about your country of access as proclaimed by your device;
Behavioural data: Data about your usage of this Website that we may process if you visit or use third party sites or applications to cooperate with us, and data on how you participate with the content of this Website (such as pages visited, if you came from a marketing campaign, button clicks, car configuration details etc.).
We may combine personal data about you or your activities with other information we receive from third parties or publicly available sources where this is permitted by law. Please see our general Privacy Statement for further details of the sources of information we may use.

Cookies are an extremely common technology for remembering certain information about how users interact with websites and use their devices. The vast majority of websites currently make use of cookies and they are commonly used for a wide range of reasons.
We, in cooperation with our other joint controller SKODA AUTO, use following categories of cookies:

Necessary Cookies

These cookies help us ensure basic functions, such as ensuring the functionality and security of the Website, access to secure parts of the Website, fast loading the Website content, user authentication or recording whether you have granted us consent according to this policy, including storing user preferences on this Website during the session. Such cookies are necessary for the functioning of the Websites, and therefore we do not need your consent in order to store and read them.

Analytics

Based on your consent, we use cookies that are used to create statistics, monitor and analyse user behaviour on the Websites. The data helps us determine the popularity of individual feature pages and serves as a basis for improving the Web

Functions and Preferences

With your consent, we use cookies that enable the use of advanced web content and advanced features and are used to store your preferences across our Websites. Thanks to these cookies, we can customize our Website according to your preferences, such as language and region settings.

Personalized offers

With your consent, we use cookies to show you personalized offers, content and advertisements based on your interests on this Website, on our other Websites, on third-party Websites and on social networks. With the help of these cookies, you can be informed about our products and services, events, competitions, newsletters, advertisements and catalogs. Thanks to the data you provide us with in this way, we can also provide you with tailored offers that will most closely match your interests.

The processing of personal data will include, in particular, collecting, storing on data carriers, sorting, using, storing and deleting personal data automatically or manually in order to fulfil the purposes defined above.

We may process some of the personal data based on a legitimate interest of us or a third party. This applies in particular to cookies processed for the purpose of: ensuring the functionality of the Website and the storage of user preferences on the domain during the session.

For other purposes, we process your personal data only based on your consent. Provision of personal data for such processing is voluntary, so you are not required to provide such data. If you have not granted us your consent, we will not process your personal data, because of this reason. For this purpose, when you first visit the Website, we will ask you to consent to the use of cookies and the processing of personal data that we obtain as a result of their use. You can consent to the use of all cookies, or you can modify your preference by clicking the “Manage cookies” button. If you give us your consent and log in to your user account, we may link data about your behavior on the website to your user account.

You can withdraw your consent and change your choices regarding the use of cookies by using the cookie manager on our Website, which you can activate on any page by clicking on the button located at the bottom left of the Website with the image of a cookie. Any use of the cookies or related personal data prior to the withdrawal of your consent will be valid and lawful. However, despite not granting or revoking consent, we will still process necessary cookies. 

With respect to cookies used to ensure the functionality of the Website, processing is terminated after the end of the session. 
Specific processing periods are stated in the List of cookies assorted by purpose in the chapter 3 above.

We may, in justified cases, make the provided and obtained personal data available to other parties, which are in particular: Marketing Agencies, Škoda Auto a.s. or other Group Companies, Providers of Analytical and Statistical services. Specific recipients are stated in the List of cookies assorted by purpose in the chapter 3.

Other parties
Your personal data may, upon request, be provided to public authorities, in particular the courts, the police and other law enforcement authorities, as necessary and within the limits of the law.

In most cases, we obtain personal data directly from you as part of ordering goods or services, creating and using an account, or communicating with us. We also collect personal data by tracking your behavior on the Website.

Any transfer of personal data outside Egypt will be carried out in accordance with the requirements of PDPL. Personal data may only be transferred outside Egypt where the destination ensures an adequate level of protection or where appropriate safeguards approved by the Egyptian Data Protection Centre are in place, or where the transfer is necessary and the data subject has expressly consented.

This only happens if you grant us your explicit consent or if we take steps to ensure that appropriate security measures are taken with the aim of ensuring that your privacy rights continue to be protected as outlined in this Statement.

We will send your personal data to companies located in the United States of America ("USA") to servers located there. Such transfers are based on the adequacy decision for the USA which states that USA provides sufficient protection for personal data for companies that are certified under EU-US Data Privacy Framework.

As part of this processing, there will not be any automated decision-making.

Personal data may be archived in the public interest and used for scientific, historical or statistical research purposes.We have no control over the content of the external websites, which are hyperlinked to on the Website. We are not responsible for processing of your personal data on external websites. These hyperlinks are provided as a service to users and are accessible at your own risk.

In order to ensure maximum protection against unauthorized access or unauthorized alteration, disclosure or destruction of data we collect and process, we have taken appropriate organizational and technical measures including physical, electronic and management procedures to protect and secure the information gathered through this site. Your sensitive data and / or personal data you have entered on our Website is encrypted and protected by an SSL certificate. Notwithstanding the above, we cannot guarantee that your personal data is safe if it is transferred by you or if you treat your personal data insecurely.