Privacy

How we process your personal data when you register on applications-rail.knorr-bremse.com

Protecting your personal data is very important to us, so Knorr-Bremse processes your data in compliance with the provisions of the European General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and other relevant data protection and data security legislation.

This Privacy Notice explains why and how we process the personal data we ask you to provide when you register on this platform, as well as your rights with respect to your personal data.

1. Organization responsible

The organization responsible for your personal data within the meaning of the General Data Protection Regulation is: You can contact the Data Protection Officer by writing to:

2. What data do we process?

a.) Contact details (business email address, first and last names)
b.) Employment details (department)
c.) User details (password)

3. What do we use your personal data for, and on what legal basis?

We need your personal data to ensure that you can register on and log into the platform. We also use your data for access management purposes, meaning that we assign certain access rights to you as a user of the platform.

We (the organization) have a legitimate interest for needing to process your personal data, because otherwise the platform and associated website would not function correctly.

4. Who do we transfer your personal data to?

Your personal data is collected and processed exclusively by the Customer & Market Development / Marketing (R/CMM) department of Knorr-Bremse Systeme für Schienenfahrzeuge GmbH, and by the external service provider responsible for programming and hosting the website:
Other companies in the Knorr-Bremse Group have no access whatsoever to your personal data. Your data is processed exclusively in the EU/EEA.

5. How long do we retain your personal data?

We store your personal data for the duration of your employment by Knorr-Bremse Systeme für Schienenfahrzeuge GmbH. We review your personal data on an annual basis to check whether you are still employed by Knorr-Bremse Systeme für Schienenfahrzeuge GmbH, or whether you have moved from one department to another. If this is the case, your personal data is irretrievably erased.

6. What rights do you have?

Within the bounds of the relevant legal and statutory provisions, you have the following rights:

• to obtain full details of any personal data concerning yourself,
• to request the rectification or completion of inaccurate or incomplete personal data,
• to request the erasure of your personal data,
• to request that the processing of your personal data be restricted,
• depending on the relevant legal provisions, to request that your personal data be transferred to you or a third party in a structured, machine-readable format (data portability),
• to object to the processing of any personal data concerning yourself.

Because we process your personal data on condition that you consent to our doing so, you may revoke this consent at any time. Please note that revoking your consent does not affect the legality of any data processing carried out on the basis of this consent before you revoked it.

7. Who can you contact if you have questions or wish to exercise your rights?

If you have any questions about our data protection policy or procedures, or would like to exercise your rights, please contact the Knorr-Bremse data protection organization at privacy@knorr-bremse.com

We take your questions, inquiries and concerns very seriously, and make every effort to respond to them. However, you also have the right to lodge a complaint with a competent data protection authority at any time. In Bavaria, the competent supervisory authority is: Bayerische Landesamt für Datenschutzaufsicht (BayLDA), Promenade 18, 91522 Ansbach, Germany.

Changes to this document

We reserve the right to amend this Privacy Notice from time to time. Any changes will be published on this page.

Updated on: January 19, 2023