When you use our Services, we and authorised third-party providers make use of cookies and similar technologies. We make use of cookies and similar technologies which will not be saved on your device or which will only be saved on your device for as long as your browser is active (e.g. session cookies). Furthermore, we make use of cookies and similar technologies which will be saved on your device for a longer period (e.g. persistent cookies). Where possible, we take appropriate security measures to prevent unauthorised access to our cookies and similar technologies.

The cookies and similar technologies used by us have various functions:

• They can be (technically) necessary for the provision of our Services
• They help us to enhance our Services (e.g. monitoring of error messages and loading times)
• They help us to improve your user experience (e.g. by saving the font size and data entered into webforms)
• They enable us to show you more relevant ads

Some of our Services can only be offered using cookies, web beacons and similar technologies. In general, these technologies enable us to track your user behaviour and identify you - even across devices. You can find more information about the personal data that we collect using cookies and similar technologies in our User Privacy Notice and in our Privacy Settings.

The cookies, web beacons and similar technologies used in connection with our Services serve the following functions:

• Technologies which are operationally necessary: We use cookies, web beacons and similar technologies that are necessary for the operation of our Services. This includes technologies that allow you access to our sites, services, applications and tools or guarantee the security of our Services.
• Technologies which are performance-related. We use cookies, web beacons or other similar technologies to assess the performance of our Services. This happens, inter alia, to analyse how visitors use our services, how users use our messaging tools, if and how items and links are viewed or how to improve our services.
• Technologies which are functionality-related: We use cookies, web beacons or other similar technologies that allow us to offer you enhanced functionality when accessing or using our Services. These technologies may, inter alia, identify you when you sign in to our Services or they may store your settings or the items viewed, so that we can enhance the presentation of content within our Services and facilitate it (e.g. the 'staying logged in’ functionality).
• Technologies which are advertising- or targeting-related: We and service providers selected by us use cookies, web beacons or other similar technologies to deliver content tailored to your interests, including advertisements, in connection with the provision of our Services or within third-party online services (retargeting, remarketing). This includes using technologies to determine how relevant the advertisements and contents are for you, which ads have already been shown to you, how often they have been shown, when and where they have been shown and if you have reacted by carrying out an activity – such as clicking on an ad or purchasing an item. For this purpose, data will be combined with data already collected regarding your interests.

Inter alia, we collect data regarding your device (e.g. the operating system and its version) to provide a uniform service on all your devices. We also transmit the data we collect to third parties via server to server so that they can be processed for the above purposes. These third parties are both advertisers and intermediaries. You can find more information on this in our Privacy Settings under "Providing User Segment Data".

Regarding the usage of cookies, web beacons and similar technologies, we cooperate with authorised service providers. This includes, inter alia, ad networks and ad exchanges, which enable us to show you advertisements.

Authorised service providers are entitled to place web beacons and similar technologies within our online services and to place cookies on your device, as far as this is permissible according to applicable law. In this context, data for the identification of your device will be tracked, for example the IP address, the device ID or the advertising ID (IDFA - ID for Advertising or Google Advertising ID).

This enables the service providers to help us deliver content and more relevant advertisements, and to produce anonymous metrics and analytics, including conversion statistics. The processing of personal data by external service providers is subject to data protection and confidentiality agreements with us and applicable data protection laws. With regard to data processing by service providers, please check the privacy notices of the respective third-party providers.

• Facebook: We use the Facebook pixel in the basic version to display personalised advertising from carvector.com and third parties for you on Facebook platforms. For this purpose, we transmit information about your user activities on carvector.com and certain other personal information such as your cookie ID to Facebook via the Facebook pixel. For the collection and transfer of the data to Facebook we are jointly responsible with Meta Platforms Ireland Limited, 4 Grand Canal Square, Grand Canal Harbour, Dublin 2, Ireland ("Meta Platforms Ireland"). The information required under Article 13(1)(a) and (b) of the GDPR, as well as further information on how Meta Platforms Ireland processes personal data, including the legal basis on which Meta Platforms Ireland relies and how data subjects can exercise their rights against Meta Platforms Ireland, can be found in Meta Platforms Ireland's Privacy Notice. With respect to our joint responsibilities with Meta Platforms Ireland, we have entered into a specific contractual addendum with Meta Platforms Ireland to define the respective responsibilities for fulfilling the obligations under the GDPR with respect to joint processing. Under this agreement, carvector.com is required to provide the above information and Meta Platforms Ireland is responsible for enabling the rights of data subjects under Articles 15-20 of the GDPR with respect to personal data stored by Meta Platforms Ireland following the joint processing.
• Google: Provision of advertising services via the advertising and marketing platforms of Google, e.g. Google Analytics, Google Adsense (Google Privacy Policy; integration of tools and scripts into our website and app (Google Tag Manager).

In addition, we cooperate with the other service providers listed in our Privacy Settings and this Cookie Notice for the purposes described in each case. With the exception of the use of such technologies by our service providers, we do not allow any third-party content (such as item listings, communication between users, classified listings, comments etc.) that use cookies, web beacons or similar technologies to process your personal data for their own purposes in connection with the provision of our services.

More information about these and other service providers and their privacy policies can be found in the Privacy Settings.

We use Google Analytics (website) and Google Analytics for Firebase (app), an analytics service provided by Google Ireland Ltd ("Google"), to help us continually improve our website and app. Google Analytics uses cookies that are stored on your computer and enable the analysis of your use of our website. The information generated by the cookies about your use of our online services (including your IP address) is sent to a Google server in Europe (or in a member state of the Agreement on the European Economic Area) to anonymise the IP address so that it cannot be traced back to a specific person. Only after the IP address has been anonymised is the shortened IP address transmitted to a Google server in the USA and stored there. Only in exceptional cases will the full IP address be transmitted to a Google server in the USA and shortened there. Google will use this information on our behalf for the purpose of evaluating your use of the website, compiling reports on website activity and providing us with other services relating to website activity and internet usage. Your IP address will not be merged with other Google data.

We also use Google Analytics reports
• to provide anonymous information about demographic characteristics (e.g. age and gender) and interests of our website visitors; and
• to evaluate the success of our advertising on other websites (e.g. number of impressions, clicks on ads), which we receive via third-party cookies and process in Google Analytics. The third-party providers have obtained this information via interest-based advertising. We also use this information for targeting and retargeting purposes in order to provide or have third-party providers provide (in connection with the use of third-party cookies) content tailored to your interests, including advertisements, on our and other websites.

For the above purposes, we use the feature Google Signals. If you use our services, are logged into your Google account and have consented to personalised advertising via your Google account, your data will be processed by Google to provide us with aggregated data about the demographic characteristics and interests of our users (e.g., gender, age and products in which users are interested). We use this data to better understand our users.

In addition, the feature Google Signals allows us to serve personalised advertising to our users and to measure the success of this advertising (conversion tracking).

We would like to point out that the code "gat._anonymizeIp();" has been added to Google Analytics on our website in order to ensure anonymised collection of IP addresses (so-called IP masking).

We make use of Google reCAPTCHA ("reCAPTCHA") within the provision of our Services. reCAPTCHA is used to check and prevent interactions through automated access, for example through so-called bots (computer programs that perform tasks automatically and independently). reCAPTCHA is used in particular to check whether data input in connection with our Services (e.g. in a contact form) is carried out by a human or by an automated program. For this purpose, reCAPTCHA analyses the behaviour of the user on the basis of various characteristics. This analysis automatically begins as soon as the user connects with the online service, e.g. visits the website. For the purposes of this analysis, reCAPTCHA evaluates various pieces of information (e.g. IP address, duration of the user's visit to the online service or the user's mouse movements). The data collected during the analysis is forwarded to Google. The analyses by reCAPTCHA are carried out entirely in the background.

Data processing is carried out for the purposes of providing sufficient data security. We have a legitimate interest in protecting our websites, services, applications, tools or news functions from abusive or unwanted, automated spying and access, as well as from SPAM, and to enable you to use our website safely.

Please find details regarding Google reCAPTCHA here and in Google's Privacy Policy.

We also use our own user analysis tool in order to recognise our users' preferences when they visit and use our websites, services, applications and tools and to collect statistical data (e.g. with respect to the number of visitors and website accesses or the interaction with our services such as use of the contact function in the ads or clicks on banner ads). This way, we can adjust the content of our websites, services, applications and tools more specifically to your needs and preferences and thus improve our services for you.

We collect the data relating to use in pseudonymised form. When you are logged in to your carvector.com user account, the analysis can take place across different end devices.

You can decide to what extent we may use cookies and similar technologies within the provision of our Services. Your choice options will depend on the purposes for which we use these technologies.