Cookie Policy of ams OSRAM

(hereinafter referred to as the Company) Status: August 2024

I. GENERAL

Cookies are text files that are stored in or by the Internet browser on the user's computer system. If a user calls up a website, a cookie may be stored on the user's operating system. This cookie contains a characteristic string of characters that enables the browser to be identified when the website is called up again.

When calling up our website, users are informed about the use of cookies on our websites by a cookie banner containing basic information about cookies applied and related data processing activities.

There are following types of cookies are used:

technically necessary cookies,
performance cookies,
functional cookies and
marketing cookies (incl. US-American provider)

Processing of cookie-data based on individual consent

Before we process data or let data being processed in the context of the use of cookies, we ask users for their consent, which can be revoked at any time. Before consent has not been given, cookies will be used only if they are necessary for the operation of the website and the online offer (technically necessary).

Information on legal basis

If you give consent to the use of cookies, the legal basis for processing your data is the declared consent. Otherwise, the data processed by means of cookies will be processed on the basis of our legitimate interests (e.g. in the business operation of our online offer and its improvement) or, if the use of cookies is necessary to fulfil our contractual obligations, on the basis of the contract between users and ams OSRAM.

Consent revocation and objection to the processing

Irrespective of whether the processing is based on consent or a legitimate interest, you have the opportunity to revoke your given consent or to object to the processing of your data by cookie technologies at any time. However, some functions of the website, such as the shopping cart, contact form, etc., cannot be used properly without these cookies. Consequently, there is no possibility for the user to object to technically necessary cookies that allow these basic functionalities. These cookies can be deactivated by setting the respective browser.

You can also object to the use of cookies for range measurement and marketing purposes via the deactivation page of the network advertising initiative and additionally via the US website aboutads.info or the European website youronlinechoices.com

Please note that you can still visit our websites without providing consent on the use of cookies, but that certain parts and functionalities of the websites may not work properly or not work at all without cookies.

Your internet browser allows you to change your cookie settings. The browser settings for cookies are usually found in the "Options", "Tools" or "Preferences" menu of your Internet browser. You can also consult the "Help" menu of your browser. Different browsers may use different mechanisms for disabling cookies.

For more information on how to change your cookie settings, please refer to the links below:

Contact information/rights of persons concerned

Contact details ams OSRAM

If you have any questions regarding our cookie policy, please feel free to contact us by e-mail or via post at

ams-OSRAM AG
Tobelbader Strasse 30
8141 Premstaetten
AUSTRIA
Email: sensors@ams-osram.com
Website: https://ams-osram.com

Data subject rights

If, despite our obligation to process your data lawfully, your right to the lawful processing of your data is violated contrary to expectations, you have the following rights of data subjects:

Right to confirmation
Right of access
Right of rectification
Right of deletion (right to be forgotten)
Right to limit processing
Right to data portability
Right to object to data processing
Right to withdraw consent to the consent of data processing

ams OSRAM responsible supervisory authority

If, despite our obligation to lawfully process your data, your right to lawfully process your data is violated contrary to our expectations, you also have the right of appeal to the supervisory authorities:

Bavarian State Office for Data Protection Supervision
Postfach 1349
91504 Ansbach
Germany

II. COOKIES

You can find all details about the cookies in the corresponding descriptions of the cookie categories in the Privacy Settings

1. Technically necessary cookies

These cookies are necessary for the essential functioning of the website and cannot be deactivated in your systems. Generally, these cookies are only set in response to actions you take relating to a service request, such as setting your privacy preferences, logging in, or filling out forms.
You can set your browser to block these cookies or to notify you about these cookies. However, some areas of the website may not work properly. These cookies do not store any personal data. Technically necessary cookies help to make a website usable by enabling basic functions such as page navigation and access to secure areas of the website. The website cannot work properly without these cookies.

2. Performance cookies

These cookies enable us to count visits and traffic sources so that we can measure and improve the performance of our website. They help us answering questions which pages are most popular, which are least used and how visitors move around the website. All information collected by these cookies is aggregated and therefore anonymous. If you do not allow these cookies, your visit of our webpage will not be accounted for.

3. Functional cookies

These cookies enable the website to provide enhanced advantageous functionality and personalization. They may be set by us or by third parties whose services we use on our pages. If you do not allow these cookies, some or all of these enhanced functionalities may not work properly.

4. Cookies for Marketing Purposes (incl. US American providers)

These cookies can be set via our website by our advertising partners. They may be used by these companies to create a profile of your interests and display relevant advertisements to you on other websites. They do not store any direct personal information. Instead, they are based on the unique identification of your browser and Internet device. If you do not allow these cookies, you will receive less targeted advertising.

US providers (Google LLC, YouTube LLC, Facebook LLC, Linkedin LLC)

Various cookies are operated by Google LLC and YouTube LLC, which process data in the USA (Google Analytics, Google AdWords). By agreeing to the use of cookies from these providers, you give your consent to the possible transfer and processing of your data into the USA (Art 49(1)(a) DSGVO). Please note that the USA is not certified by the ECJ as having an adequate level of data protection (C-311/18, Schrems II). The access of US authorities to these data is not limited by law to a mandatory level. Furthermore, no court authorization is required for such access and EU citizens have no effective legal remedies against such actions.

Use of Facebook Pixel

Within our online offer, the so-called "Facebook pixel" of the social network Facebook, which is operated by Facebook Inc, 1 Hacker Way, Menlo Park, CA 94025, USA, or if you are resident in the EU, Facebook Ireland Ltd, 4 Grand Canal Square, Grand Canal Harbour, Dublin 2, Ireland ("Facebook"), is used.

With the support of the Facebook pixel, Facebook is able to determine you as a visitor to our online offer as a target group for the display of ads (so-called "Facebook Ads"). We will inform you before you call up a website if it contains Facebook pixel functions. If you call up the corresponding website after this information, a connection to Facebook is established.

We use the Facebook pixel to display the Facebook ads placed by us only to those Facebook users who have also shown an interest in our online offering or who exhibit certain characteristics (e.g. interests in certain topics or products determined on the basis of the websites visited) that we transmit to Facebook (so-called "custom audiences"). With the help of the Facebook pixel, we also want to ensure that our Facebook Ads correspond to the potential interest of users and do not appear to be annoying. The Facebook pixel also enables us to track the effectiveness of Facebook ads for statistical and market research purposes by seeing whether users are redirected to our website after clicking on a Facebook ad (so-called "conversion").

Legal basis: Consent

The use of the Facebook pixel as well as the storage of "conversion cookies" is done by consent in the cookie banner, thus on the basis of your consent according to Art. 6 para. 1 lit. a GDPR.

The processing of the data by Facebook is carried out within the framework of the Facebook data usage guidelines.

Joint processing of personal data (Joint Controller Agreement)

In order to comply with the requirements of the GDPR, Facebook has described here that the respective site operator, in our case the Company, is jointly responsible with Facebook Ireland. Furthermore, it is confirmed that Facebook Ireland assumes the primary responsibility in accordance with the GDPR for the processing of data and also takes care of the rights of data subjects. The Company has taken note of the information about this agreement and made it part of the contract between the Company and Facebook.
The Company's responsibility is limited to the collection of the data in question and its disclosure by means of transmission (see also ECJ ruling, Ref.: C-40/17 "FashionID")

Objection to Facebook

Settings and objections to the use of data for advertising purposes are possible within the Facebook profile settings.

III. Use of LinkedIn

Our website uses features of the LinkedIn network. The provider is LinkedIn Corporation, 2029 Stierlin Court, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA. We will inform you before you access a website if it contains LinkedIn features. When you access the LinkedIn website following this information, a connection to LinkedIn's servers is established and you must consent to the processing of data on that website, LinkedIn will be notified that you have visited our website using your IP address. If you click on LinkedIn's "Recommend" button and are logged into your LinkedIn account, LinkedIn will be able to track your visit to our website to you and your account. We would like to point out that we, as the provider of these pages, have no knowledge of the content of the transmitted data or its use by LinkedIn.

For more information, please refer to the LinkedIn privacy policy.

IV. Use of YouTube

On some of our websites we embed YouTube videos. The operator of the corresponding plugins is YouTube, LLC, 901 Cherry Ave., San Bruno, CA 94066, USA (hereinafter "YouTube"). We will inform you before you access a website if these plug-ins contain YouTube functions. If, following this information, you visit a page with the YouTube plug-in and you agree to data processing by YouTube, a connection to servers of YouTube will be established. This tells YouTube which pages you visit. If you are logged in to your YouTube account, YouTube can personally attribute your surfing behavior to you. You can prevent this by first logging out of your YouTube account.

If a YouTube video is started, the provider uses cookies that collect information about user behavior. The call to YouTube automatically triggers a connection to Google.
Further information on the purpose and scope of data collection and its processing by YouTube can be found in the provider's privacy policy. There you will also find further information on your rights and settings to protect your privacy. Google processes your data in the USA.

If you have deactivated the storage of cookies for the Google Ad program, you will not have to expect such cookies even when watching YouTube videos. YouTube also stores non-personal usage information in other cookies. If you want to prevent this, you must block the storage of cookies in the browser.

V. Use of Soundcloud player

Our website uses services of SoundCloud Limited & Co., Rheinsberger Str. 76/77, 10115 Berlin, Germany (“SoundCloud”) by embedding individual audio files (podcasts) from the platform on our website so that they can be played directly on our website.
If you carry out an opt-in on the SoundCloud player embedment frame installed on our webpage, a connection to the SoundCloud servers will be established and the audio file will be displayed on our website. This transmits to SoundCloud which website you have visited. In this case your personal data, including your IP address may be transmitted to SoundCloud. Once you click on the embedded audio file, this information is also sent to SoundCloud. Additionally, if you are logged in as a SoundCloud user, SoundCloud will assign this information to your account. The collected data may be used by SoundCloud for analytical purposes.

More information about SoundCloud Cookies can be found here.

VI. Use of Apple Podcasts web player

Our website uses services of Apple Inc. or its subsidiaries (further referred to as “Apple) by embedding Apple Podcasts web player so that audio files (podcasts) from the Apple Podcasts platform could be played directly on our website.

Apple collects information about where the web player is embedded and how you interact with it to understand how the web player is used and to improve the web player experience. This includes the domain of the embedding page, information about your browser or device, general geographic information based on your connecting IP address (we only store a truncated IP address), and what podcast you play.

If you have an Apple ID and are or were signed in using this browser to an Apple media service, such as Apple Music or Apple TV+, the information Apple collects may be associated with your Apple ID. If you do not have an Apple ID or are not signed in to an Apple media service on your web browser, this information is associated with a random unique identifier specific to the web player in your browser and the domain of the embedding page. The identifier resets after one day.

To collect this information, we Apple uses cookies, or similar local storage technology, to store website data on your device in your web browser profile. Learn how to manage cookies and website data in the Safari web browser on your Mac or on your iOS device. For other browsers, check with your web browser provider. Disabling cookies or local storage may affect how the player works.

At all times, information collected by Apple will be treated in accordance with Apple’s Privacy Policy, which can be found here.

VII. Use of GA Connector

This website uses GA Connector, a solution provided by MarTech Solutions LLC, a company located at #12578, 8 The Green, Dover, DE, 19901 Kent, USA. This solution allows tracing sources of web leads through a cookie-based integration. Specifically, this is done by linking Google Analytics and the ams OSRAM CRM system. If a user sends a request via a contact form on the website, GA Connector forwards the following information from Google Analytics to CRM System: First Click Source, Last Click Source, First Click Medium, Last Click Medium, Browser, Operating System. The cookie-based integration of GA Connector does not store any personal data on the GA Connector server; the information is stored in the cookies stored in the user's browser and erased after the browser is closed.

The processing is carried out based on Art. 6 para. 1 lit. (a) EU GDPR; consent is granted in the Cookie Banner upon the initial visit of ams OSRAM page that uses GA Connector and can be revoked at any time with help of the Cookie Banner. Since MarTech Solutions LLC engages service providers that are based outside of the European Union, the collection and processing of personal data of users is only possible once the explicit consent thereto in the Cookie Banner is granted.

More information on the compliance of GA Connector with the EU GDPR can be found here.

Privacy Policy of the GA Connector can be found here.

VIII. Use of LeadInfo

We use the lead generation service provided by LeadInfo B.V., Rotterdam, The Netherlands, which recognizes visits of companies to our website based on IP addresses and shows us related publicly available information, such as company names or addresses. In addition, LeadInfo places two first-party cookies for providing transparency on how our visitors use our website and the tool processes domains from provided form inputs (e.g. “leadinfo.com”) to correlate IP addresses with companies and to enhance its services. For additional information, please visit http://www.leadinfo.com. On this page you have an opt-out option. In the event of an opt-out, your data will no longer be used by LeadInfo.

More information on data processing by LeadInfo can be found here and here.