Privacy Policy

Version 1 January 2023

1. Introduction

CARIFY AG, Cheesturmweg 21, 4624 Härkingen, is the operator of the car subscription platform www.carify.com and other platforms such as CARIFY Auctions or platforms for car manufacturers. We are aware of the importance of data protection and are committed to treating the personal data of our users (hereinafter referred to as "personal data") carefully and responsibly.

2. Responsible

The person responsible for the processing of your personal data is CARIFY AG. You can reach us at the following address:

CARIFY AG Cheesturmweg 21 4624 Härkingen 3. Collection and processing of personal data

We collect and process your personal data in order to conclude and process contracts with you, to provide our services, to meet our legal obligations and to operate our business activities.

We collect your personal data directly from you when you visit our website, use our apps or contact us. We also collect your personal data from third parties, such as credit reference agencies or vehicle inventory agencies.

The personal data that we collect from you in particular include:

  • Your name and first name

  • Your address

  • Your e-mail address

  • Your telephone number

  • Your date of birth

  • Your nationality

  • Your driver's license number

  • Your vehicle information

  • Your payment data

  • Your usage data

4. Purposes of processing and legal bases


We process your personal data for the following purposes:

  • Conclusion and processing of contracts with you

  • Provision of our services

  • Compliance with our legal obligations

  • Operation of our website and apps

  • Improvement of our products and services

  • Marketing and advertising

  • Market and opinion research

  • Fraud prevention

  • Customer service

  • Data analysis

  • Data security

  • Compliance with requests from authorities and courts

  • Compliance with legal requirements

The processing of your personal data is based on the following legal bases:

  • Your consent

  • The fulfillment of a contract with you

  • The fulfillment of a legal obligation

  • Our legitimate interest

5. Data transfer and data transmission

We only pass on your personal data to third parties if this is necessary for the conclusion and processing of a contract with you, for the fulfillment of a legal obligation or for our legitimate interest.

We pass on your personal data to the following recipients:

  • Credit reference agencies

  • Vehicle inventory agencies

  • Authorities

  • Courts

  • Service providers who support us in providing our services, e.g. IT service

    providers, call centers

  • Companies that support us in market and opinion research

  • Companies that support us in fraud prevention

6. Storage period of personal data

We store your personal data only as long as this is necessary for the fulfillment of the purposes for which they were collected.

We store your personal data for the following periods of time:

  • Personal data that are necessary for the conclusion and processing of a contract with you are stored for the duration of the contract and thereafter for the duration of the statutory retention periods.

  • Personal data that are necessary for the fulfillment of a legal obligation are stored for the duration of the statutory retention periods.

  • Personal data that are necessary to protect our legitimate interest are stored for the duration for which our legitimate interest exists.

7. Data security

We take all necessary technical and organizational measures to protect your personal data from unauthorized access, loss, misuse, modification or destruction.

8. Obligation to provide personal data

You are not obliged to provide us with your personal data. However, if you do not provide us with any personal data, we may not be able to conclude and process contracts with you, provide our services or fulfill our legal obligations.

9. Profiling and automated decision-making

We do not use your personal data for automated decision-making.

We partially process your personal data automatically in order to evaluate certain personal aspects and track the use and condition of our vehicles (profiling). Each

vehicle can continuously send data to us, which may also include personal data (in particular location/GPS data, data relating to the use of the vehicle and the control of vehicle functions, as well as telemetry data, insofar as they are actually data with a personal reference). These data are collected and used for administrative and contractual processing. They are generally not disclosed to third parties, unless the data must be disclosed on the basis of applicable laws, administrative orders or for other important reasons (e.g. investigation/clarification of damage cases, investigation of possible violations of contractual provisions, security defects, serious technical problems, violation of third-party rights or protection of our property).

We also use profiling to inform and advise you about products in a targeted manner. We use evaluation tools that enable us to communicate and advertise in a needs-based manner, including market and opinion research.

10. Rights of the data subject

You have the right to access, rectify, erase, restrict, transfer or object to the processing of your personal data. You also have the right to lodge a complaint with the competent data protection authority.

If you wish to exercise your rights or have any questions about our privacy policy, you can contact us at:

CARIFY AG Cheesturmweg 21 4624 Härkingen

11. Changes

We may change this privacy policy at any time without notice. The current, published version on our website applies.