Data Privacy Statement

The privacy protection of your personal data is a big issue for Mazda. The handling of your personal data, which are collected on our website, are underlying the law of the country, in which the website is maintained. Our website can contain links to other websites, which content cannot be controlled by us. Mazda assume no liability for the content of these websites.

Storage and processing of personal data

If you visit our website the web server stores automatically the name of your internet service provider, the website, from which you were redirected, the pages, which you visit, as well as the date and the duration of your visit. Only if you grant us your approval further personal data, like in the context of a registration, a poll or a contract for example, will be stored.

Usage and transfer of personal data and purpose

Mazda Austria GmbH uses all collected personal data for the customer management and for marketing purposes. This includes customer service and information about new products and services. Your data will be treated after the latest Data Protection Act and is provided to sub companies, related companies, agencies and dealers of Mazda Motors only for marketing purposes, customer management and customer support.

Choice

We would like to use your data to inform you about our products and services. In addition we would like you to ask for your opinion if necessary. Of course the participation is voluntary.

Security

Mazda uses technical and organizational measures to protect the data against accidentally or intentionally manipulation, loss, deletion or access by unauthorized individuals.

Legal reservation

Please note: Mazda Austria GmbH reserve the right to change technical data or configuration at anytime. All mentioned technical data can vary and is not available for your country.

Use of cookies

A cookie is a small text file, which will be stored on your computer when visiting our website. In this file it will be recorded how long and which page you visited.

On our website we use first-party cookies as well as third-party cookies. First-Party cookies will be set from our server and helps us to determine the page you visit. Furthermore they help us to recover the settings of your previous visit. On the other side third-party cookies are set from another server than Mazda. We track your navigation on our website with the help of third-party cookies. They are much easier to deactivate than first-party cookies.

Cookies are not storing personal data, but they serve to collect anonymous, accumulative statistics about the use of the website by a visitor. Cookies help us to measure how well our website performs. With these data we can adapt our contents in a way that you gain a higher benefit from your visit.

If you want you can deactivate all kinds of cookies (This also includes third-party cookies). Please note that some features of our website do not work correctly, if you deactivate all cookies.

Most browsers can adjust if cookies should be accepted or not. The common settings for the dealing with cookies on Pc’s are described below. If you are working on a Mac computer or if you use another browser or browser version than here presented, the procedure can differ. If you have troubles please have a look at the manual of your computer or call the hotline, which is listed in the documentation of your computer.

With Mozilla Firefox 3.5:

1. Click in the menu on "Tools" and then on
2. "Options".
3. Click on the "Privacy" tab and choose
4. "Use custom settings for history".
5. Uncheck "Accept cookies from sites" to disable all cookies (first- and third-party cookies)
6. or uncheck "Accept third-party cookies" to disable only third-party cookies.

With Internet Explorer 8:

1. Choose "Tools" and afterwards
2. "Internet Options".
3. Click on the tab "Privacy".
4. Click on "Advanced".
5. Activate the checkbox "Override cookie handling" and choose "Accept", "Block", or "Prompt".