Terms and Conditions of Participation and Privacy Policy for Competition
Art. 1 General information
Participating in the competition of Bosch Engineering GmbH, domiciled in Abstatt, registered in the Trade Register of the Local Court of Stuttgart under HRB [Trade Register B] 746374 (hereinafter referred to as “the Organizer”), is possible only in accordance with these Terms and Conditions of Participation. The competition is not sponsored, supported or organized by Instagram or Facebook in any way. The Organizer is the sole contact and responsible party. The information provided by the Participant within the scope of the competition will be processed by Bosch Engineering GmbH as necessary on behalf of and according to the instructions of the Organizer.
Art. 2 Participation requirements
All natural and legally competent persons with a minimum age of 18 years who have commented on the competition posting dated October 22, 2020, are entitled to participate. The Organizer’s associates and their relatives are disqualified from the competition. Competitions requiring a minimum age of 18 for participation shall be labelled as such separately. Minors require the consent of their legal representatives to be allowed to participate. Participation does not depend on purchasing certain goods or using certain services. Associates of the Organizer and its affiliates and relatives of the aforementioned groups are disqualified from the competition. You may withdraw from participation by notification to motorsport.bosch@bosch.com at any time. Every participant may participate in the competition only once. However, only one prize per participant is possible.
Art. 3 Start and end of the competition
The competition starts on Thursday, October 22, 2020, at 07:00 am (CET). The entry closing date is Monday, October 26, 2020, at 07:00 am (CET). Participating is only possible within this term indicated in the competition’s description.
Art. 4 Competition, prize and type of participation and distribution of prizes
The prize package contains the following items: Bosch Motorsport lanyard, Bosch Motorsport ear plugs, Bosch Motorsport backpack, Bosch Motorsport seat cushion, Bosch Motorsport original Steiff teddy bear, Bosch Motorsport thermo mug, Bosch Motorsport rubber duck. 10 packages in total are raffled. Drawing of the prizes will take place on October 26, 2020, at the latest.
The prize will be sent to the winner by mail. The Organizer will notify the winners via private Facebook or Instagram message until October 27, 2020, at the latest. By commenting on the competition posting, the Participant consents to being contacted in this way. The Participant is aware that they may withdraw this consent effective for the future at any time. If the winners do not respond to the notification of their win until October 30, 2020, their claim to the prize lapses.
Changing or paying out the prize in cash is excluded.
Art. 5 Selection process and notification of the winner
The winners are selected at random. All decisions are final and not subject to legal appeal.
Art. 6 Duties of the Participant
Within the scope of participation in the competition, the Participant may not
a. breach the rules of common decency and applicable law through their behavior as a user (included but not limited to insults or making false statements);
b. infringe on industrial property rights and copyrights or other proprietary rights;
c. transmit content containing viruses, Trojans or other programs that may damage software;
d. enter, save or send hyperlinks or content for which they are not authorized, including but not limited to cases in which those hyperlinks or content are in breach of confidentiality or are illegal; or
e. distribute advertisements or unfounded warnings for viruses, malfunctions or similar risks or calling for participation in competitions, Ponzi schemes, chain mail, pyramid scheme and similar activities.
Art. 7 Liability and exemption
Liability of the Organizer is excluded unless liability is mandatory, e.g. pursuant to the German Product Liability Act, due to willful intent, gross negligence, due to injury to life, body or health, due to granting of a guarantee of quality, due to malicious concealing of a defect or the breach of material contractual obligations. However, compensation for damages due to breach of material contractual obligations is limited to the foreseeable damage common for these types of contracts unless willful intent or gross negligence are involved. With this proviso, the Organizer’s liability does not include the security and existence of data communications performed using third-party communication networks. Likewise, the Organizer is not liable for disruptions of data transmission caused by technical errors or configuration issues on the Participants’ side with this proviso. The Organizer shall especially not be liable for damages arising from an impairment of availability of the competition page due to technical disruptions on which the Organizer does not have any influence and force majeure events. However, the Organizer shall make every effort to ensure the reliability and functionality of the competition’s page. Furthermore, the Organizer does not grant any guarantee for the competition platforms Facebook and Instagram functioning properly on the respective end device of the Participant.
Finally, the Organizer does not accept any liability for any infringement on third-party rights by the Participant, including but not limited to a breach of the Participant’s obligations pursuant to art. 6 above.
In the event of a breach of these Terms and Conditions of Participation, the Organizer reserves the right to ban the Participant from the competition. In these cases, the Organizer reserves the right to also revoke prizes retroactively and demand their return.
Insofar as the Organizer’s liability is excluded or restricted according to these provisions on exclusion of liability, this shall also apply for the personal liability of management bodies, employees, representatives and vicarious agents.
Art. 8 Data protection
The Organizer will comply with all data protection provisions within the scope of the competition. The Organizer will not transmit any personal data to third parties or sell addresses. The Organizer will store the personal data of the respective Participant exclusively for the purpose of the competition. The Participant hereby expressly gives their consent to the storage and use of the provided personal data for the purpose of executing the competition, the notification of the winners and distribution of the prizes (in the event of a win, an address is also required for shipping the prize). The Participant is aware that they may withdraw this consent effective for the future at any time.
Art. 9 Severability clause
If individual provisions hereunder are invalid or if the provisions are found to be incomplete, the validity of the other provisions shall remain unaffected. The ineffective or missing provisions shall be replaced by a provision coming as close to the contractual object and the legal provisions as possible.
Art. 10 Place of jurisdiction/applicable law
In the event of disputes, German law shall apply exclusively. If legally admissible, the place of jurisdiction is the Organizer’s domicile. If the Participant does not have a general place of jurisdiction in Germany or takes up residence in a foreign country after participating in the competition, the Organizer’s domicile is also agreed to be the place of jurisdiction.
Art. 11 Reservation of right to make changes
The Organizer reserves the right to cancel the competition at any time for cause without prior notification. In the event of cancellation of the competition for cause, the Organizer will notify the Participants of this immediately. Cancellation for cause can take place especially in cases in which the proper execution of the competition is no longer being guaranteed for technical reasons. The Organizer does not assume any liability for lost chances to win due to disruptions of connections for technical reasons or similar reasons. The claim of already determined winners shall not be affected by cancellation.
Furthermore, the Organizer may change or amend these Terms and Conditions of Participation and the execution of the competition at any time within the scope of the legal provisions. In the event of such changes, the Participants will receive a notification requesting their consent. In the event of an objection, the competition can be terminated immediately by both parties.
In this event, the Organizer is entitled and obligated to erase the Participants’ personal data immediately.
Art. 12 Contact
If you have any questions about the execution of the competition and the processing and use of personal data, please contact:
motorsport.bosch@bosch.com
Information on data protection
1. General information
Bosch Engineering GmbH organizes the competition described above subject to the above Terms and Conditions of Participation.
The following information on data protection applies to the processing of personal data within the scope of execution of the competition. In addition, please also refer to the Privacy Policy of Bosch Engineering GmbH.
The data processing controller is
Bosch Engineering GmbH
Robert-Bosch-Allee 1
74232 Abstatt
If you have any questions or comments about data protection, please do not hesitate to contact our data protection officer: DPO@bosch.com
2. Scope of processing
2.1 Source, origin and type of data
We process personal data we have received directly from you within the scope of participation in the competition by way of Facebook or Instagram:
- Profile name
- Name (in case of a win)
- Address (in case of a win)
2.2 Purpose and legal basis of data processing
We process your personal data to execute the competition, among other things for determination and notification of the winners. Without the aforementioned data, participating in the competition or contacting you regarding notification of a win and shipping the prize is impossible.
The processing of your personal data for the aforementioned purposes is based on points (a) and (b) of Art. 6 (1) of the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).
2.3 Recipients of the data within the EU
Within our company, your data will be disclosed to such internal bodies or organizational units requiring your data within the scope of processing for the aforementioned purposes. Within our group of companies, your data will be transmitted to certain companies if these fulfill central data processing functions for the companies affiliated with each other within the group (e.g. marketing and IT support).
Any further transmission of your data to external bodies will be made exclusively
- for the purpose of complying with legal requirements pursuant to which we are obligated to disclose, report or transmit data or the data transmission is of public interest.
- insofar as external service providers process data on our behalf as data processors.
Beyond that, we will not transmit your data to third parties. Insofar as we make use of service providers within the scope of data processing, your data will be subject to the same security standards with them as they are with us. In other cases, the recipients may use the data only for those purposes for which they were transmitted.
2.6 Recipients of data outside of the EU
Where we transfer personal data to service providers or Group companies outside of the European Economic Area (EEA), such transfer will only take place if we are authorized to transmit the data, and the EU Commission has confirmed an adequate level of data protection for that third country or if other appropriate data protection guarantees (e.g. binding internal company data protection regulations or EU standard contract clauses) have been implemented.
2.7 Retention periods
We shall process and store your data for the execution of the competition only.
After the competition has ended, your data which was processed by us within the scope of the competition will generally be erased within 60 days unless there are conflicting retention obligations or - fixed-term - processing is required to fulfill the purpose arising from a largely justified interest.
2.8 Your rights
Under certain circumstances, you may assert your data protection rights towards us:
General rights
You have a right to access to your data, to request their rectification and erasure, to limit the processing, to object to the processing and to data portability. Insofar as processing is based on your consent, you are entitled to withdraw it effective for the future.
You may submit your requests to assert your rights directly by means of this online form.
In addition, you have the option to lodge a complaint with the aforementioned data protection officer or to a data protection authority.
Last updated in October 2020