Volkswagen Group | Privacy Policy

The legal bases for processing your personal data can be found in local data protection laws. Below we would like to give you an overview of the respective scope of local data protection laws:

• Argentina: Law No. 25.326 on Personal Data Protection
• Brazil: Brazil’s General Personal Data Protection Law (LGPD)
• Canada: Canadian federal and provincial laws, including but not exclusively, the federal Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act (PIPEDA) and Quebec’s An Act to Modernize Legislative Provisions as Regards the Protection of Personal Information, 2021, c. 25 (Law 25)
• Chile: Chilean Personal Data Protection Act
• Columbia: Colombian data protection regulation
• European Union: General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)
• Mexico: Federal Law On Protection Of Personal Data Held By Private Parties (LFPDPPP) and its Regulation (RLFPDPPP)
• South Africa: Protection of Personal Information Act (POPIA)
• United States: US state privacy laws, including the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA)

We process your log files on the legal basis of Art. 6 (1) (b) GDPR.

During your visit to our website, we would like to provide you with the best possible experience. 

Please note that we only use cookies other than those that are technically necessary if you give us your consent. You can revoke this at any time with effect for the future. For more information on the use of cookies, please refer to the Cookie Policy.

The legal basis for the use of the following cookies is the consent in accordance with Section 25 (1) TDDDG in conjunction with Art. 6 (1) (a) GDPR. You consent by using the corresponding buttons, for example in a cookie manager. You can revoke your consent at any time. For more information about your rights, please refer to the relevant company-specific privacy policy.

We take into account your cookie settings and preferences in order to better understand the use of the website and to optimize your visit. For this purpose, we may use performance cookies. These cookies allow us to recognize, for example, how visitors behave on the website, such as which operating system or internet browser they use. The collected data is usually aggregated in such a way that the analysis results do not allow any conclusions to be drawn about the users of the website.

Cookies that increase the convenience and functionality of the application are called functional cookies.

In order to create a pseudonymized user profile, tracking cookies may be used.

For the personal registration on the recruiting website, the creation of a candidate profile and the associated further processing, a contract is concluded in accordance with Art. 6 (1) (b) GDPR. Please also note our Terms of Use

If you configure your candidate profile on the recruiting website in order to receive job notifications, to share your candidate profile with recruiters from other Group companies, or if you voluntarily provide us with other personal data, we and the affected Group companies process your data in this context on the basis of the consent you have previously given by means of targeted recruitment. The legal basis for this processing is consent, pursuant to Art. 6 (1) (a) GDPR. You can revoke your consent at any time – with effect for the future. You can revoke your consent yourself by changing the relevant settings in the candidate profile.

For Argentina, we refer to the following legal basis: Art. 14 Law No. 25.326 Personal Data Protection.

For Brazil, we refer to the following legal basis: Art. 7º V of LGPD.

For Colombia, we refer to the following legal basis: In compliance with Colombian data protection regulation, we processed your personal data on the legal basis of your consent (Art. 9, of Colombia’s data protection law 1581 of 2012 and Art. 2.2.2.25.2.2. of Colombia’s data protection law reglementary Decree 1074 of 2015).

For Mexico: All processing of personal data will be subject to the consent of the data owner except as otherwise provided by the LFPDPPP. Consent will be express when such is communicated verbally, in writing, by electronic or optical means or via any other technology, or by unmistakable indications. It will be understood that the data owner tacitly consents to the processing of his data when, once the privacy notice has been made available to him, he does not express objection. Consent may be revoked at any time without retroactive effects being attributed thereto.

For South Africa, we refer to the following legal basis: Section 11 (1) (a) of POPIA.