Privacy Policy
1. Responsible
Thank you for your interest in booking an appointment on this website, e.g. for a test drive or a guided tour of the stand at Volkswagen AG, Berliner Ring 2, 38440 Wolfsburg, registered in the Commercial Register at Braunschweig Local Court under the number HRB 100484 (“Volkswagen AG”).
Below you will find information about the processing of your personal data by Volkswagen AG in connection with the appointment booking and the subsequent execution of the appointment.
2. Processing of Your Personal Data
3. Processing Log Files
When you visit our portal (technically a website), we process the following log files from you:
- IP address of your end device with which you access the website
- the websites you have visited with us and
- the website from which you are visiting us and
- the date and time of your visit
- the operating system you are using, the web browser you are using and the screen resolution you have set
This data is processed by Avantgarde Gesellschaft für Kommunikation mbH, Atelierstraße 10, 81671 Munich, Germany, in accordance with Article 6(1)(b) GDPR. It is necessary in order to display the portal to you properly and to ensure the secure operation of the portal. This data is deleted after 30 days.
4. Booking a Test Drive
When you book a test drive, we process the following personal data about you: First name, last name, e-mail address, address, cell phone number (optional), confirmation that you are of legal age and the selected date. Before taking the test drive, you must also sign the “Declaration of participation for a test drive on public roads” and your driving license and ID card will be checked by our stand staff before the test drive begins (visual inspection).
This collection and transmission of data takes place as part of the contract initiation or on the basis of the contractual relationship (Art. 6 para. 1 lit. b GDPR) to carry out a test drive. The processing of your optional information is based on your consent (Art. 6 para. 1 lit. a GDPR). You have the right to withdraw your consent at any time and free of charge with effect for the future.
Your personal data will be deleted 3 months after a trip in Germany and 6 months after a trip abroad. If there is an accident during the journey, the data will be deleted after 18 months.
III Booking a stand tour
If you book another activity, we process the following personal data from you: First name, last name, e-mail address, telephone number (optional) and the selected date in the desired language.
This collection and transmission of data takes place on the basis of a contract initiation relationship (Art. 6 para. 1 lit. b GDPR) to carry out the event campaign and ensure eligibility to participate. The data will be deleted two weeks after the end of the event, provided there are no other retention periods to the contrary.
1. Use of Data Processors
For the aforementioned processing activities, we use processors with whom data processing contracts have been concluded in accordance with Art. 28 GDPR.
Avantgarde Gesellschaft für Kommunikation mbH (Atelierstraße 10 81671 Munich) is used as the processor for technical operations.
Accompanying drivers will be provided by D&T DRIVE & TRAINING AG (Ehreshoven 23, 51766 Engelskirchen).
2. Your rights
You can assert the following rights against VOLKSWAGEN AG at any time and free of charge. Further information on asserting your rights can be found in the following section.
Right to information: You have the right to request information from us (Art. 15 GDPR) about how we process your personal data.
Right to rectification: You have the right to obtain from us the rectification (Art. 16 GDPR) of inaccurate or incomplete personal data concerning you.
Right to erasure: You have the right to request the erasure of your data if the conditions set out in Art. 17 GDPR are met. Accordingly, you can, for example, request the erasure of your data if your data is no longer necessary for the purposes for which it was collected. You can also request the erasure of your data if our processing of your data is based on your consent and you withdraw this consent.
Right to restriction of processing: You have the right to request the restriction of the processing of your data if the conditions set out in Art. 18 GDPR are met. This is the case, for example, if you dispute the accuracy of your data. You can then request the restriction of processing while the accuracy of this data is verified.
Right to object: If the processing is based on an overriding interest or your data is used for the purpose of direct marketing, you have the right to object to the processing of your data. An objection is permissible if the processing is either in the public interest or in the exercise of official authority or is based on a legitimate interest of VOLKSWAGEN AG or a third party. If you object to data processing, please state the reasons why you object to this data processing. You also have the right to object to data processing for direct marketing purposes. This also applies to profiling insofar as it is associated with such direct advertising.
Right to data portability: If the data processing is based on consent or on the performance of a contract and the processing is also carried out by automated means, you have the right to receive your data in a structured, commonly used and machine-readable format and to transmit those data to another controller.
Right to withdraw consent: If the data processing is based on consent, you have the right to withdraw your consent at any time and free of charge with effect for the future.
Right to lodge a complaint: You also have the right to lodge a complaint against our processing of your data with a supervisory authority (e.g. the State Commissioner for Data Protection of Lower Saxony).
3. Ihre Ansprechpartner
The contact persons for exercising your rights and further information can be found on the following website https://datenschutz.volkswagen.de.
4. Data Protection Officer
Our data protection officer is available to you as a contact person for data protection-related concerns:
Data Protection Officer of Volkswagen AG
Berliner Ring 2, 38440 Wolfsburg
As of June 2026