Data Privacy
We, Automotive Artificial Intelligence (AAI) GmbH, want you to be familiar with how we collect, use and disclose personal data (information that identifies you as an individual) on our website. This policy informs you what are your rights according to the personal data you provide us.
Automotive Artificial Intelligence (AAI) GmbH is the responsible party:
Automotive Artificial Intelligence (AAI) GmbH
Franklinstraße 26b, 10587 Berlin
Commercial register: Munich HRB 231934
Managing Director: Intakhab Mehboob Khan
What is personal data?
Personal data is any information, which refers to an identified or identifiable natural person. This is therefore all data, which identify you as an individual or make identifiable. For example, name, postal address, telephone number, E-Mail address, IP address, etc.
How do we use personal data and what our legal justifications?
When you visit websites, certain information is automatically created and stored.
Our server automatically stores data like:
- Address (URL) of accessed web page, address (URL) of previously visited web page;
- Web browser and version;
- Operating system;
- Host name and IP-address of the device from which access is made;
- Unique device identifiers (UDIDs);
- Country, date and time.
As a standard, web server log files are stored for 1 day and will be deleted automatically. We do not pass this data to third-parties.
Further personal information we may collect, depending on how you interact with AAI:
- First name and surname;
- E-Mail address;
- Company and job position;
- Country and city.
To make our products and services available to you
We use your personal data to provide you with the information, products, and services that you request and to communicate with you regarding those services and respond to your questions and comments. As well we need personal data for our application process and to improve our website layout.
We refer on our contractual arrangements with you on which we collect and process your personal data when you contact us. Alternatively, in some cases, we refer on our legitimate interests as a business (for example, to assess application). Where we refer on our legitimate interests, we will always make sure that we balance these interests against your rights. The use of the entered personal data based on the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), regarding Art. 6 Para. GDPR.
Here you can read the entire text of the GDPR law.
For administrative and internal business purposes
We may use your personal data for our internal business purposes, such as improving our site, improving our services and products. We may also use the data to ensure that our website is presented in the most effective and relevant manner for you and your device.
We process your data in accordance of following principles (defined in Art. 5 GDPR)
- Lawfulness, transparency: need of consent, purpose, public interest, protection of life & health;
- Purpose: need of specified, explicit & legitimate purpose;
- Accuracy: need of accuracy, truth & up to date data;
- Minimization: process data adequate, limit data in relation to the purpose;
- Integrity, confidentiality: ensure security of personal data;
- Storage limitation: ensure safe storage - no identification possible & limit storage time.
With whom we share your personal data?
We will never sell any of your personal data to a third party. In some cases, to provide our services to you, we share some data with our trusted third-party service providers. Whenever we share your data, we put safeguards in place which oblige them to keep your data safe and to ensure that they do not use your data for own purposes.
Web hosting
This website is now hosted by Odoo S.A. (Belgium), our professional cloud platform provider.
Personal data collected through this website is stored on secure servers operated by Odoo within the European Economic Area (EEA).
Odoo processes your data exclusively based on our instructions and only to the extent necessary for the operation and maintenance of this website. All data transfers and processing activities are subject to strict data protection obligations in accordance with the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).
To ensure compliance, we have concluded a Data Processing Agreement (DPA) with Odoo S.A. under Article 28 GDPR.
Odoo's hosting infrastructure guarantees:
- Secure, encrypted data transfer (HTTPS)
- EU-based data centers
- Regular backups and server-side security measures
This hosting arrangement ensures the secure, fast, and reliable delivery of our website content (Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f GDPR — legitimate interest).
For more information on Odoo's privacy compliance, visit:
👉 https://www.odoo.com/privacy
Integration of third party services
We work with carefully selected third parties, such as our customer database hosting provider and advertising partners who assist us in providing you with a positive customer experience. We work with these third parties to place relevant content for you on our website, other websites, online media channels and apps. In order to do this, we use pixels and cookies.
Cookies and Consent Management
We use cookies to enhance your experience and ensure the proper functioning of our website. Cookies are small text files stored on your device that help us recognize your browser, remember your preferences, and analyze user behavior.
When you visit our website for the first time, you are shown a cookie banner where you can:
- Accept all cookies,
- Reject non-essential cookies, or
- Customize your preferences.
You may update or revoke your consent at any time via the “Cookie Settings” link available in the footer.
Types of Cookies We Use
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Essential Cookies
Required for website functionality (e.g. session management, navigation). Processed under Art. 6 (1)(f) GDPR (legitimate interest). -
Analytics Cookies
Help us understand website usage to improve performance. Set only with your consent under Art. 6 (1)(a) GDPR. -
Marketing Cookies
Used to display personalized content and advertising. Set only with your consent under Art. 6 (1)(a) GDPR.
You can also manage cookies through your browser settings. For more information:
We use a Button with the link to the social media network LinkedIn (LinkedIn Corporation, US) on our website. Our LinkedIn presence is intended to ensure the most comprehensive presence possible on the Internet. This is a legitimate interest within the meaning of Art. 6 (1) lit. f GDPR. The analysis processes initiated by LinkedIn may be based on different legal bases, which are to be specified by the operators of LinkedIn (e.g. consent within the meaning of Art. 6 (1) lit. a DS-GVO). This LinkedIn button is a link to our LinkedIn company page. It is clearly marked with the familiar LinkedIn logo and you will find it in the lower right corner of our landing page. For the European Area, Switzerland and the United Kingdom, LinkedIn Ireland Unlimited Company Wilton Place in Dublin is responsible for the data processing.
However, this is not a usual social plug-in, but a button with a link. The button will be activated by clicking on it. As long as the button is not clicked, no data is transmitted to the social network. Only when you click on the button, you declare your consent to communicate with the servers of the social network and the button becomes active and the connection is established.
By activating the button, the social network then receives, among other things, the information that and when you accessed the corresponding page of our website, as well as, e.g., your IP address, information on the browser used and the language settings. If you click the button, your click will be transmitted to the social network and used according to its data usage guidelines.
If you visit our social media site, we are jointly responsible with the operator of the social media platform for the data processing operations triggered during your visit. In principle, you can insist on your rights (information, correction, deletion, restriction of processing, data portability and complaint) both vis-à-vis us as well as vis-à-vis LinkedIn.
Please note that despite the joint responsibility, we do not have full influence on the data processing of LinkedIn. Our options are largely determined by the corporate policy of LinkedIn. For the purpose and scope of the data collection, processing and use of the data by LinkedIn, as well as your rights in this regard and setting options for protecting your privacy, please refer to the information:
LinkedIn Privacy Policy: https://www.linkedin.com/legal/privacy-policy
Contact and support form
By clicking the „Submit“-button on the contact and support form, you give your content to our processing and storing of the information you’ve entered. All your private data we process just for the purpose of responding to your request. We process the data based on the consent in accordance of Art. 6 (1)(a) GDPR. Your data will be encrypted and transferred to our E-Mail (info@automotive-ai.com). Further we ensure the security of your data regarding the principle of integrity and confidentiality (Art. 5 GDPR). We will delete such data as soon as it is no longer needed for its intended purpose, latest after 3 months.
You may, at any time, revoke your consent. Please send an E-Mail to dsb@automotive-ai.com with the information that you wish to withdraw. No special wording needed. This revocation has no effect on the legality of data processing activities carried out prior to the revocation.
Post and comments
For the comment function below our blog entries, we will store beside your post, also the information about the time the comment was created, your chosen name/alias and the optional provided E-Mail address. Our comment function stores the IP addresses of users who post comments. As we do not check comments on this website before they were submitted, we need this data in order to be able to take actions against the author in the event of legal violations such as insults or propaganda (for further information see our Community Guidelines).
The comments and the associated data are saved and remain on this website, until the commented content has been completely deleted, the comments must be deleted for legal reasons (e.g. offensive comments) or you withdraw your consent.
Posts and comments are stored on the basis of your consent (Art. 6 (1)(a) GDPR). You can withdraw your consent at any time. An informal notification by E-mail (dsb@automotive-ai.com) is sufficient for the revocation. The legality of data processing operations that have already taken place remains unaffected by the cancellation.
Download research materials
If you would like to get access to the download materials on our website, we request you to register on our website. The data transmitted is the prerequisite of using the respective offer or service. Mandatory information requested during registration must be provided in full. Otherwise the download will be refused.
In the event of important changes, for example for technical reasons, we will inform you by E-Mail. The E-Mail will be sent to the address provided.
The processing of the data entered is based on your consent (Art. 6 (1)(a) GDPR). You can withdraw your consent at any time. An informal notification by E-Mail (dsb@automotive-ai.com) is sufficient for the cancellation. The legality of the data processing that has already taken place remains unaffected by the cancellation.
Google reCAPTCHA
Type and Scope of data processing
We have integrated Google reCAPTCHA components on our website. Google reCAPTCHA is a service of Google Ireland Limited and enables us to distinguish whether a contact request originates from a natural person or is automated by means of a programme. When you access this content, you establish a connection to the servers of Google Ireland Limited, Gordon House, Barrow Street, Dublin 4, Ireland, whereby your IP address and possibly browser data such as your user agent are transmitted. In addition, Google reCAPTCHA records the time spent on the website and the user's mouse movements in order to distinguish between automated and human requests. This data is processed exclusively for the above-mentioned purposes and to maintain the security and functionality of Google reCAPTCHA.
Purpose and legal basis
The use of Google reCAPTCHA is based on your consent in accordance with Art. 6 (1)(a) GDPR and § 25 (1) TTDSG. Google reCAPTCHA will transfer personal data to third countries outside the European Economic Area, in particular the USA. In cases where there is no adequacy decision by the European Commission (e.g. in the USA), we have agreed other suitable guarantees with the recipients of the data within the meaning of Art. 44ff. GDPR have been agreed. Unless otherwise stated, these are standardcontractual clauses of the EU Commission in accordance with Implementing Decision (EU) 2021/914 of 4 June 2021. You can view a copy of these standardcontractual clauses at https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/DE/TXT/HTML/?uri=CELEX:32021D0914&from=DE.
In addition, prior to such a third country transfer, we will obtain your consent in accordance with Art. 49 (1)(a) GDPR, which you give via the consent in the Consent Manager (or other forms, registrations, etc.). We would like to point out that in the case of third country transfers, there maybe risks that are unknown in detail (e.g. data processing by security authorities in the third country, the exact scope and consequences of which we do not know, over which we have no influence and of which you may not become aware).
Storage duration
The specific storage period of the processed data cannot be influenced by us, but is determined by Google Ireland Limited. Further information can be found in the privacy policy for Google reCAPTCHA: https://policies.google.com/privacy?hl=en-US.
YouTube
We embedded YouTube (subsidiary of Google, US) videos on our website. This way we can present interesting videos directly on our site. By clicking the “Watch Video” button, data will be transmitted. In this case Google Ireland Limited (Dublin, Ireland) is responsible for all data processing in the European area.
We have embedded our videos in the so-called "enhanced privacy mode" to provide you with a privacy-friendly view. Cookies from YouTube are only set when the user actively activates the playback of the video. When you play the videos, a connection to a YouTube server is established. This transmits to YouTube which of our web pages you have visited. If you are logged in with your YouTube account, YouTube assigns this information to your personal account. You can prevent this by logging out of your user account and deleting the corresponding cookies, before using our videos. Further information about the YouTube’s Privacy Policy and how adjust the setting options to protect your privacy, here: https://policies.google.com/privacy?gl=DE&hl=en.
How long do we store your data?
In broad terms, we will only retain your personal data for as long as it is necessary for the purposes described in this Privacy Policy. This means that the retention periods will vary according to the type of the data and the reason that we have the data.
If you have given your consent for the data processing, we will delete your personal data if you withdraw your consent and there is no other legal basis for the processing.
We will delete your personal data if you object to the processing and there are no overriding legitimate grounds for the processing.
If a deletion is not possible because the processing is still necessary to be compliance with legal obligations (statutory retentions periods, etc.) or to defend legal claims, we will restrict the processing of your personal data.
Security
In order to guarantee the protection of the personal data controlled by us, we take all organizational, technical and administration-related measures to a reasonable extent.
If you have cause to assume that your interaction with us is no longer secured, you must inform us without delay by using the contact information on the website below (please note that if you contact us by normal post the processing of your problem by us may be delayed).
SSL- and/or TLS encryption
For security reasons and to protect the transmission of confidential content, this website uses an SSL encryption programme (GoGet SSL, part of EnVers Group Ltd, located in Latvia, EU). You can recognise an encrypted connection by checking whether the address line of the browser switches from „http://“ to „https://“ and also by the appearance of the lock icon in the browser line.
Do you saw our sensor car on the road?
Autonomous Driving becomes reality. We are working hard to support this advancement.
In the following we inform you about the recording and processing of data in connection with the use of a Sensor Car on publics roads. AAI uses a so-called Sensor vehicle to collect road data and analyse them for our development and testing purposes. The car is equipped with sensors, Lidars, measuring devices and cameras. It is marked accordingly.
The installed measurements record video and picture images of the public road traffic incl. vehicle license plates and pedestrians. This kind of personal data will be anonymized directly on the installed hard drive before we continue to process this data. Therefore, the data do not allow any further conclusions to be made about individuals.
Based on the legitimate interest to carry out our business regarding Art. 6 Para. 1 f) GDPR, AAI processes the data exclusively for recording purposes (anonymization right after the recording process). Any further use is excluded. The legitimate interest lies primarily in the analysis of the real vehicle behaviour/ traffic interaction and road architecture. Since the recording of data takes place in public area, occurs as a by-product of our main activity, there does not exist reasonable alternatives, we do not use the cameras with a “monitoring intention” and moreover, any subsequent processing only serves the purpose of anonymizing the data, the restriction of the rights of data subjects is classified as rather low.
Your rights
You have several rights relating to your personal information and what happens to them. You are entitled to (according to the GDPR):
Right of information, correction and deletion
Do you have further question?
Contact information of AAI data protection officer:
Our data protection officer can be reached via E-Mail (dsb@automotive-ai.com) or phone (+49 176 248 329 68), if you have any questions regarding this Privacy Policy.
For further question please contact us by E-Mail under the following address: info@automotive-ai.com.
We reserve the right to replenish this Website Privacy Policy in the future. That is why you should check the Privacy Policy regularly when you visit our website.
The Privacy Policy was last updated on 15.12.2023.