1. General 
ENGINEERING CENTER STEYR GmbH & Co KG places great value on the private sphere of each individual customer. The following regulations apply exclusively to personal information that ENGINEERING CENTER STEYR GmbH & Co KG receives via the website ecs.steyr.com from users of this website.
Personal data are only retained whenever this contributes to the optimization of the service from ENGINEERING CENTER STEYR GmbH & Co KG. ENGINEERING CENTER STEYR GmbH & Co KG retains personal data exclusively for the following purposes: users can arrange the contents of website ecs.steyr.com according to their personal requirements, receive information about concrete subject areas via e-mail upon request (such as answers to advertisements, tips about events), and possibly take advantage of services or purchase products via the website ecs.steyr.com.
Treatment by ENGINEERING CENTER STEYR GmbH & Co KG of personal data transmitted by users of the website ecs.steyr.com is guided by the following principles:

2. Access and Transparency
The purpose of this declaration of data protection is to inform all users about the use of personal data by ENGINEERING CENTER STEYR GmbH & Co KG, as well as about the data protection policy of the company. Since customers have the ability to ask concrete questions and receive specific information on the website ecs.steyr.com, ENGINEERING CENTER STEYR GmbH & Co KG needs information about the identity of the customer and the ability to initiate contact.
The current content of the website ecs.steyr.com is continually updated by ENGINEERING CENTER STEYR GmbH & Co KG. For this reason, ENGINEERING CENTER STEYR GmbH & Co KG requests that all users provide information about their field of work and career, and enter appropriate information about expectations and experiences with products and services offered by ENGINEERING CENTER STEYR GmbH & Co KG. 

3. Service-oriented Processing and Use of Data
Data are processed and used by ENGINEERING CENTER STEYR GmbH & Co KG only in order to offer customers the best possible service.  The data help, for instance, in completing transactions, sending information about products and services by ENGINEERING CENTER STEYR GmbH & Co KG, as well as the further improvement of the website ecs.steyr.com. Customer credit card information is used only in connection with payments, and is neither stored nor processed for other purposes.
ENGINEERING CENTER STEYR GmbH & Co KG may provide users of the website ecs.steyr.com with information about products or services, and may ask users their opinions of development and improvement of ecs.steyr.com. Users will always have the ability to refuse to provide such information, and to decline this type of request and information in the future. In this case, ENGINEERING CENTER STEYR GmbH & Co KG will, as far as reasonably possible, endeavour to prevent additional information from being sent to users of the website ecs.steyr.com. In addition, each user may declare in advance that he does not wish to receive such requests and information. 

4. Forwarding of Data
Personal data about users of the website ecs.steyr.com that are provided online to ENGINEERING CENTER STEYR GmbH & Co KG are generally provided only to other ENGINEERING CENTER STEYR GmbH & Co KG companies or business partners, when necessary. A list of these companies can be found here. In all other cases, personal data are provided to third parties only with prior permission of the affected person, or due to legal obligation. Any data that is provided online may also be combined with information that was provided when obtaining services or ordering products of ENGINEERING CENTER STEYR GmbH & Co KG.

5. Prior Information Requiring Approval
Personal data that are transmitted online are processed exactly in accordance with these requirements. In case these requirements are not adhered to, prior approval of the affected person will be obtained.

6. Accuracy, Information, and Corrections
ENGINEERING CENTER STEYR GmbH & Co KG continually updates and corrects the existing store of personal data. Users have the ability to inform ENGINEERING CENTER STEYR GmbH & Co KG of changes in their personal data at any time. The data are then updated and corrected appropriately. Users are requested to send all requests regarding accuracy, correcting, and deletion of their personal data, as well as all requests for information about their personal data, to the following e-mail address: office(at)ecs.steyr.com.

7. Data Security
ENGINEERING CENTER STEYR GmbH & Co KG endeavours, as much as possible according to the state of the art, to protect personal data from random and illegal destruction and loss, and to ensure that the use of the data is legal, and that the data are not available to unauthorized persons.  ENGINEERING CENTER STEYR GmbH & Co KG is entitled to store critical data in encrypted form.

8. Data Confidentiality 
Employees of ENGINEERING CENTER STEYR GmbH & Co KG are obligated to maintain data confidentiality, including for a certain period after ending their employment.

9. Further Development and Data Protection
The data protection policy of ENGINEERING CENTER STEYR GmbH & Co KG is applied out of recognition of active data protection and to maintain data confidentiality. ENGINEERING CENTER STEYR GmbH & Co KG considers the main task of a successful data protection policy to be the continual development and improvement of the data protection standards of ENGINEERING CENTER STEYR GmbH & Co KG.

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