Data protection notice
BGSW Data Protection Notice
Bosch Global Software Technologies Private Limited (hereinafter “BGSW” or “We” or “Us”) welcomes you to our mobile applications “Associate Arena” (hereinafter referred to as “Application”). We thank you for your interest in our company and our products.
BGSW respects your privacy
The protection of your privacy throughout the course of processing personal data as well as the security of all business data are important concerns to us. We process personal data that was gathered during your visit of our Application confidentially and only in accordance with statutory regulations.
Data protection and information security are included in our corporate policy.
Data Fiduciary (Controller)
BGSW is the Data Fiduciary responsible for the processing of your data; exceptions are outlined in this data protection notice.
Our contact details are as follows:
Bosch Global Software Technologies Private Limited.
No.123, Industrial Layout, Hosur Road, Koramangala, Bengaluru 560095, Karnataka, India.
Name______________: Ganesh Mahadevan Vaidyanathan
Department_________: BGSW/BDO
Email id___________: Vaidyanathan.GaneshMahadevan@in.bosch.com
For the purpose of providing parking solutions, Automobility Services and Solutions Private Limited acts as a joint controller alongwith BGSW.
Automobility Services and Solutions Private Limited
PO Box: 3000
Hosur Road,
Adugodi, Bengaluru – 560030
Karnataka , India
For the purpose of My Bosch App solution, Robert Bosch GmBH also acts as a controller.
Robert Bosch GmbH
Borsigstrasse 14
70469 Stuttgart-Feuerbach
Germany
E-mail: kontakt@bosch.de
For the purpose of WYSA Consulting application, Touchkin eServices Private Limited also acts a controller.
For the purpose of MoveInSync application, data is also shared with MoveInSync to facilitate transportation.
Collection, processing and usage of personal data
Processed categories of data
The following categories of data are processed:
- Official employee number, official e-mail ID, optional phone number and live location of the user on enabling social distancing features and in-campus navigation/wayfinding features.
- Details related to employment like payslips, leaves and other information available via HR ESS and accessible via the Application
- Any information or content posted by you in the different modules like Communities, Associate Voice, Spark-I or Alt Future, Fit for Future, Bosch stories or the Buy/Sell module of the Application
Principles
Personal data consists of all information related to an identified or identifiable natural person, this includes, e.g. names, addresses, phone numbers, email addresses, contractual master data, contract accounting and payment data, which is an expression of a person's identity.
We collect, store, process, and use personal data (including IP addresses) only when there is a statutory legal basis to do so and/or if you have given your consent to the processing or use of personal data pertaining to registration.
Processing purposes and legal bases
We as well as the service providers commissioned by us; process your personal data for the following processing purposes:
Provision of this Application as well as processing content made available by Associates.
(Legal basis: Consent, employment with Bosch and Fulfilment of our contractual obligations to you).
Please refer to the Terms of Use for more details
Resolving service disruptions as well as for security reasons.
(Legal basis: Fulfilment of our legal obligations within the scope of data security as well as in the protection of our Application).
Safeguarding and defending our rights.
(Legal basis: Legitimate use for safeguarding and defending our rights).
Navigation to the User Live location.
(Legal basis: Consent/Voluntary Disclosure).
Please refer to the Terms of Use for more details
Feedback or survey
(Legal basis: Consent/Voluntary Disclosure).
Registration
To access the Application, you are requested to register on it. On the basis of your consent given during registration, we collect and process personal data (Name, Contact number, NT ID and official email-ID) only for the Log-in purpose to the Associate Arena application. Some Personal Data may be further collected on voluntary basis during your use of the Application.
Log files
Each time you use the internet, your browser is transmitting certain information which we store in so-called log files.
We store log files to determine service disruptions and for security reasons (e.g., to investigate attack attempts) for a period of [180 Days] and delete them afterwards.
Log files which need to be maintained for evidence purposes are excluded from deletion until the respective incident is resolved and may, on a case-by-case basis, be passed on to investigating authorities.
In log files, the following information is saved:
- Information uploaded or accessed at a particular timestamp (Ex: Ad configuration viewed).
- Http status code (e.g., “Request successful” or “File requested not found”).
Children
This Application is not meant for children under 18 years of age or any other minimum age as prescribed by applicable laws i.e. in the country where such app is downloaded/accessed from.
Data transfer to other Data Fiduciaries
Your personal data is not forwarded to other Data Fiduciaries only if consented to or required for the fulfilment of our contractual obligation to you. Particulars on the legal basis and the recipients or categories of recipients can be found in the Section – Processing purposes and legal basis.
Additionally, data may be transferred to other controllers when we are obliged to do so due to statutory regulations or enforceable administrative or judicial orders.
Service providers (general)
We involve external service providers with tasks such as statistical analysis and measurement along with personalised advertising services. We have chosen those service providers carefully and monitor them on a regular basis, especially regarding their diligent handling of and protection of the data that they store. All service providers are obliged to maintain confidentiality and to comply with the statutory provisions. Service providers may also be other Bosch group companies.
Duration of storage, retention periods
Principally, we store your data for as long as it is necessary to render access to our Application and connected services or for as long as we have a legitimate use in storing the data. In all other cases we delete your personal data with the exception of data we are obliged to store for the fulfillment of legal obligations (e.g. due to retention periods under the tax and commercial codes we are obliged to have documents such as contracts and invoices available for a certain period of time). The stored data is used for statistical measurement and analysis and personalized advertising.
External links
Our Application may contain links to internet pages of third parties, in particular providers who are not related to us. Upon clicking on the link, we have no influence on the collecting, processing and use of personal data possibly transmitted by clicking on the link to the third party (such as the IP address or the URL of the site on which the link is located) as the conduct of third parties is naturally beyond our control. We do not assume responsibility for the processing of personal data by third parties.
Security
Our employees and the companies providing services on our behalf, are obliged to confidentiality and to compliance with the applicable data protection laws.
We take all necessary technical and organizational measures to ensure an appropriate level of security and to protect your data that are administrated by us especially from the risks of unintended or unlawful destruction, manipulation, loss, change or unauthorized disclosure or unauthorized access. Our security measures are, pursuant to technological progress, constantly being improved.
User rights
To enforce your rights, please use the details provided in the Contact section. In doing so, please ensure that an unambiguous identification of your person is possible.
Right to information and access
You have the right to obtain confirmation from us about whether or not your personal data is being processed, and, if this is the case, access to your personal data.
Right to correction and deletion
You have the right to obtain the rectification of inaccurate personal data. As far as statutory requirements are fulfilled, you have the right to obtain the completion or deletion of your data.
This does not apply to data which is necessary for billing or accounting purposes or which is subject to a statutory retention period. If access to such data is not required, however, its processing is restricted (see the following).
Withdrawal of consent
In case you consented to the processing of your data, you have the right to revoke this consent at any time with effect for the future subject to such withdrawal.
Changes to the Data Protection Notice
We reserve the right to change our security and data protection measures. In such cases, we will amend our data protection notice accordingly. Please, therefore, notice the current version of our data protection notice, as this is subject to changes.
Contact
If you wish to contact us, please find us at the address stated in the "Data Fiduciary" section.
To assert your rights and to notify data protection incidents please use the following link:
https://www.bkms-system.net/bkwebanon/report/clientInfo?cin=18rbds19&language=eng.
For suggestions and complaints regarding the processing of your personal data we recommend that you contact our data protection officer:
DPO.India@in.bosch.com
Effective date: [Jan 1, 2025]