Audi

We ding this product for sharing personal data with third parties for their own marketing purposes and for combining data they gather on you from third parties for advertising and marketing purposes.

Privacy Statement for Model Years 2019 and Newer, and Certain Older Vehicles

Audi uses information for "marketing, such as marketing our products or services or those of our affiliates, business partners, or other third parties. However, we will not use or disclose GPS location data or driver behavior data for AoA marketing purposes or the marketing purposes of unaffiliated third parties without your affirmative consent."

"We also provide your information to third parties who use it for the commercial purpose of marketing their products and services to you."

"We may combine information that we receive from the various sources described in this Privacy Statement, including third-party sources, and use or disclose it for the purposes identified below."

Audi shares data "to third parties for their own marketing purposes. We may your contact information and vehicle identification information to third parties for their own marketing purposes, such as Sirius XM and Audi Dealers." and "to third party entities that provide online advertising and analytics functionality. We may disclose your information to third parties that provide advertising and analytics services."

Data Protection Notice Audi Connect

"As a matter of principle, we will only disclose your personal data to third parties if this is necessary for the performance of the contract, if we or the third party have a legitimate interest in such disclosure, or if you have given your consent. In addition, data may be transferred to third parties (including investigative or security authorities) if we are obliged to do so by law or by enforceable official or court order."

"If we have transmitted your data to third parties, we will inform them about the erasure to the extent required by law.
Please note that your right to erasure is subject to certain limitations. For example, we may not and/or must not erase data that we are still required to retain due to statutory retention obligations. In addition, your right of erasure does not extend to data that we need for the establishment, exercise or defence of legal claims."

"To be able to display a high-resolution navigation map with satellite images in the MMI or the myAudi app, information about the map section that is to be displayed is transmitted to our service provider for the delivery of the satellite images. The data is sent in accordance with the principle of data minimisation. Under this principle, all queries from your vehicle are pseudonymised. "

"We may further use your personal data from the vehicle in an anonymised form. Anonymous means that it is no longer possible to draw conclusions or identify an individual person. For example, we remove identifying features such as the vehicle identification number, aggregate the data or only process statistical data. Anonymising the data serves to protect your privacy. "

"Control units process data to operate the vehicle. This includes for example:
- Vehicle status information (e.g., speed, deceleration, lateral acceleration, wheel revolution speed, whether the seat belts are fastened),
- Environmental conditions (e.g., temperature, rain sensor, distance sensor).
This data is generally volatile – it is not stored after the vehicle is switched off and is only processed in the vehicle itself. Control units often contain data memory (sometimes also including the vehicle keys). These are used to temporarily or permanently document information about vehicle status, component stress, maintenance requirements and technical events and errors.
Depending on technical equipment, the following information is stored:

- Operating conditions of system components (e.g., fill levels, tyre pressure, battery status)
- Deviations from system states in important system components (e.g., lights, brakes) that are documented in the internal vehicle systems event memory,
- System responses in specific driving situations (e.g., deployment of airbags, use of stability control systems)
- Information about vehicle-damaging events,
- For electric vehicles, the charge level of the high-voltage battery, estimated range.
In special cases (e.g., when the vehicle has detected a malfunction), it may be necessary to store data that would otherwise be volatile.

If you use services (e.g., repair services, maintenance work), the stored operating data and the vehicle identification number (VIN) might, to the extent necessary, be read out and accessed. The data may be read out from the vehicle by an employee of the service network (e.g., workshops and manufacturer) or third parties (e.g., roadside assistance services). The same applies to warranty cases and quality assurance measures.
The readout is generally carried out via the statutorily prescribed connection for OBD ("on-board diagnostics") in the vehicle. The readout operating data records the technical conditions of the vehicle or individual components and helps with error diagnostics, compliance with maintenance obligations and with quality improvement. This data, especially information about component stress, technical events, operating errors and other errors, is sent with the respective vehicle identification number (VIN) to the manufacturer, if necessary. In addition, the manufacturer is subject to product liability. For liability issues, such as vehicle recalls, the manufacturer also uses operating data from the vehicle. This data may also be used to review warranty and guarantee claims by customers."

We can not confirm that all users regardless of location can get their data deleted.

"As the data subject, you are entitled to the following data protection rights, depending on your place of jurisdiction. Please note that such rights might be extended or restricted under applicable local law. <...> Erasure. You have the right to obtain erasure of your personal data stored by AUDI AG without undue delay if the legal requirements are met."

"Every user of the vehicle has the option of deactivating data collection in the vehicle via the privacy settings in the vehicle. "

"The "Privacy Mode" feature allows you to partially or completely restrict data communication via the vehicle's internal SIM card. To do this, you can deactivate/activate the data processing displayed in the vehicle for each group. Safety-relevant services are excluded from deactivation through Privacy Mode. You can find an overview of which services and data processing are assigned to the respective group under "Privacy Settings" in your vehicle's MMI. Depending on the vehicle equipment and country, the primary user has the option of deactivating/activating individual services for all users of the vehicle in the myAudi portal, or the individual user can deactivate/activate individual services in the vehicle itself."

"Your information will be retained as long as necessary to fulfill the purposes we have outlined above unless we are required to do otherwise by applicable law. This includes retaining your information to provide you with the products or services you have requested and interact with you; maintain our business relationship with you; improve our business over time; ensure the ongoing legality, safety and security of our services and relationships; or otherwise in accordance with our internal retention procedures. Once you have terminated your relationship with us, we may retain your information in our systems and records in order to ensure adequate fulfillment of surviving provisions in terminated contracts, or for other legitimate business purposes, such as to demonstrate our business practices and contractual obligations or provide you with information about our products and services in case of interest. "