INFORMATION ON THE PERSONAL DATA PROCESSING

OPERATION OF ŠKODA AUTO COMMUNICATION CHANNELS

With this document, as your personal data controller – ŠKODA AUTO a.s., headquartered at tř. Václava Klementa 869, Mladá Boleslav II, Post Code: 293 01, Company ID: 00177041, registered in the Commercial Register maintained by the Municipal Court in Prague under File No. B 332, (hereinafter as ‘ŠKODA AUTO’) – we provide you with information on the processing of personal data and your rights associated with the processing in question.

The processing takes place as part of the following activity:
Operation of ŠKODA AUTO communication channels

Operation of ŠKODA AUTO communication channels

Purpose of processing:
Handling requests, complaints and queries

Description of the purpose of processing:
We provide you with functional communication with us primarily through the following channels within the purpose of processing:

  • Phone line
  • E-mail
  • Chat on ŠKODA AUTO website (video chat a text chat)
  • Social networks (especially Facebook)

You can contact us via the channels above for any questions, demands, complaints, requests for assistance under the provided assistance service, or you can contact us through the provided ŠKODA Connect service in your car. We keep a written record (log) on our mutual communication, which contains your contact details (especially the phone number from which you are calling the info-line) and information about the content of our mutual communication, which in some cases may also include your identification data and technical data about the vehicle concerned, such as when providing assistance services.

If the subject of our communication is your request for assistance, we will pass your personal information to a member of our distribution network or a company providing contractual assistance services and its distribution network in the closest area, in order for this service to be provided.

If you contact us through the telephone line from the phone number saved in our client database, the operator will display also the information from this database for the above purpose. If you contact us through a telephone line, we also record and keep the text and voice recording. If you contact us via chat, we record and keep the text and video recording. The records are archived with very limited access rights, and it is not possible to systematically search in them.

Authorisation for processing:
We have a legitimate interest in performing this processing. We want to ensure that your request, complaint or inquiry is handled efficiently and objectively.

Categories of personal data that we process:
Identification data
Contact data
Voice records
Photos / video records
Product technical data
Information on mutual communication and interaction
Business profile

Time of processing and archiving:
10 years from the processing of the request, complaint or inquiry

Categories of processors or recipients to whom we may provide personal data:
A member of the distribution network, a company providing contractual assistance services or its distribution network Your personal data may be provided to public authorities upon request, in particular to courts, the Police of the Czech Republic and other prosecuting authorities to the necessary extent and within the limits of the law.

Source of personal data:
We obtain personal data directly from you.

Transfer of personal data to third countries or to multinational companies:
As part of this processing, your personal data will not be transferred to third countries or to multinational companies.

Automated decision-making based on personal data:
It does not occur within this processing.

Other information:
Archiving of personal data may be in the public interest and used for scientific, historical or statistical research purposes. In justified cases, personal data may be processed for the purpose of resolving legal matters, including the fulfilment of obligations towards public authorities, and the monitoring and ongoing evaluation of legal risks.