This Privacy Notice applies to the use of the websites belonging to Kia Motors Ireland, namely http://www.kia.com/ie and http://www.kiaservice.ie
Data Controller
The responsible data controller for any personal data collected and processed in connection with the use of the website http://www.kia.com/ie is Kia Motors Ireland ("Kia", "we" or "us"): Kia Motors Ireland, Unit A8 Calmount Park, Calmount Road, Dublin 12, Ireland.
If you have any questions etc. about or in connection with this Privacy Notice or would like to complain about our handling of your personal data or exercise any of your rights, please contact us by using one of the following contact details:
Contact Us
Email: support@kiaireland.ie Post: Kia Motors Ireland, Unit A8 Calmount Park, Calmount Road, Dublin 12, Ireland.
This Privacy Notice applies to the collection and processing of personal data of users of the website http://www.kia.com/ie
The Appendix Website Data and Cookies contains detailed information on: the categories of personal data we collect from you or from third parties (e.g., public authorities or public resources) in addition to other personal data that you actively provide to us (e.g., when you send an e-mail to us); the purposes for which we process these personal data; and the legal basis for the collection and processing of your personal data (unless otherwise provided, e.g., at the time we collect the data from you) we collect and process your personal data.
Please note
We process your personal data for other purposes only if we are obligated to do so on the basis of legal requirements (e.g., transfer to courts or criminal prosecution authorities), if you have consented to the respective processing or if the processing is otherwise lawful under applicable law. If processing for another purpose takes place we may provide you with additional information.
Any access to your personal data at KIA is restricted to those individuals that have a need to know in order to fulfill their job responsibilities. KIA may transfer your personal data for the respective purposes to the recipients and categories of recipients listed below – more details regarding the recipients and categories of recipients mentioned under the below can be found in the Appendix Website Data and Cookies.
Categories
Private third parties – Affiliated or unaffiliated private bodies other than us. Data processors – Certain third parties, whether affiliated or unaffiliated, may receive your personal data to process such data on behalf of KIA under appropriate instructions as necessary for the respective processing purposes. The data processors will be subject to contractual obligations to implement appropriate technical and organizational security measures to safeguard the personal data, and to process the personal data only as instructed. Governmental authorities, courts, external advisors, and similar third parties that are public bodies as required or permitted by applicable law.
Some of the recipients of your personal data will be located or may have relevant operations outside of your country and the EU, such as in the Republic of Korea, where the data protection laws may provide a different level of protection compared to the laws in your jurisdiction and with regard to which an adequacy decision by the European Commission does not exist. The countries which provide an adequate level of data protection from a European data protection law perspective include Andorra, Argentina, Canada, Switzerland, Faeroe Islands, Guernsey, the State of Israel, Isle of Man, Jersey, New Zealand and the Eastern Republic of Uruguay. Recipients in the US may partially be certified under the EU-U.S. Privacy Shield and thereby recognized as providing an adequate level of data protection from a European data protection law perspective. With regard to data transfers to such recipients outside of the EU we provide appropriate safeguards, in particular, by way of entering into data transfer agreements adopted by the European Commission (e.g. Standard Contractual Clauses (2010/87/EU and/or 2004/915/EC)) with the recipients or taking other measures to provide an adequate level of data protection.
More details
Details regarding cross-border data transfers, existence or absence of adequacy decisions and the appropriate safeguards taken with regard to cross-border data transfers can be found in the Appendix Website Data and Cookies.
Your personal data is stored by KIA and/or our service providers, strictly to the extent necessary for the performance of our obligations and strictly for the time necessary to achieve the purposes for which the personal data is collected, in accordance with applicable data protection laws. When KIA no longer needs to process your personal data, we will erase it from our systems and/or records and/or take steps to properly anonymize it so that you can no longer be identified from it (unless we need to keep your information to comply with legal or regulatory obligations to which KIA is subject. E.g., personal data contained in contracts, communications, and business letters may be subject to statutory retention requirements, which may require retention of up to 10 years. If applicable, any other personal data will in principle be deleted 5 years after the termination of the respective related contractual relationship between you and KIA, if applicable).
If you have declared your consent for any personal data processing activities, you can withdraw this consent at any time with future effect. Such a withdrawal will not affect the lawfulness of the processing prior to the consent withdrawal. Pursuant to applicable data protection law you may have the right to: request access to your personal data, request rectification of your personal data; request erasure of your personal data, request restriction of processing of your personal data; request data portability, and object to the processing of your personal data. Please note that these aforementioned rights might be limited under the applicable national data protection law.
Complaints
You also have the right to lodge a complaint with the competent data protection supervisory authority. To exercise your rights please contact us as stated in the section above.
When you use our website, we may send one or more cookies – small text files containing a string of alphanumeric characters – to your device. We may use both session cookies and persistent cookies. A session cookie disappears after you close your browser. A persistent cookie remains after you close your browser and may be used by your browser on subsequent visits of our website. Your web browser may provide you with some options regarding cookies. Please note that if you delete, or choose not to accept, cookies, you may not be able to utilize the features of the services provided via our website to their fullest potential. We may use third party cookies in connection with the services provided via our website as well. For instance, we use Google Analytics to collect and process certain analytics data. We may not process or respond to web browsers' "do not track" signals or other similar transmissions that indicate a request to disable online tracking of users who visit our website or use the services provided via our website. Clear GIFs/Web Beacons. Clear GIFs (also known as Web Beacons) are typically transparent very small graphic images (usually 1 pixel x 1 pixel) that are placed on a website that may be included on our services provided via our website and typically work in conjunction with cookies to identify our users and user behavior.
How we use cookies and similar technologies
We may use cookies and automatically collected information to: (i) personalize our website and the services provided via our website, such as remembering your information so that you will not have to re-enter it during your use of, or the next time you use, our website and the services provided via our website; (ii) provide customized advertisements, content, and information on the basis of profiling; (iii) monitor and analyze the effectiveness of our website and the services provided via our website and third-party marketing activities on the basis of profiling; (iv) monitor aggregate site usage metrics such as total number of visitors and pages viewed; and (v) track your entries, submissions, and status in any promotions or other activities offered through our website and the services provided via our website (profiling). Tracking technology (profiling) also helps us manage and improve the usability of the website, (i) detecting whether there has been any contact between your computer and us in the past and (ii) to identify the most popular sections of the website.
This privacy notice may require an update from time to time – e.g. due to the implementation of new technologies or the introduction of new services. We reserve the right to change or supplement this Website Privacy Notice at any time. We will publish the changes on this page.
The Data Protection Officer of Kia Motors Ireland, dpo@kia.co.uk, can be contacted for all further questions regarding this Privacy Policy or data protection in general.