Privacy Notice

BSH Home Appliances FZE, PO Box 17312, Dubai, UAE („We“ in this notification) as the operator of this website http://www.siemens-home.bsh-group.com/ae/ is the responsible body for the handling of personal data of users of the BSH Group information services („You“).

We take the protection of your personal data seriously. We have taken technical and organizational steps to ensure that the data protection regulations are observed by ourselves and our service providers.

In accordance with the applicable data protection regulations, we have provided information below on the type, extent and purpose of the collection, processing and use of data obtained in connection with your use of BSH Group.

Personal data is any information that can be used to discover your identity. This type of information can be for example, your name, mailing address, email address, or telephone number. By using cookies (Extended Part, 1), not directly related to your identity, information can be collected, e.g. how you use BSH Group, can also be personal data. If such information based on a user-assigned identification and thus individualized collected, stored and evaluated. Non-personal data is information that is only aggregated, i.e. grouped into larger, not customizable units, summarized, collected and evaluated.

You can use the BSH Group Information Service without disclosing your identity. Details of the information that we gather as standard when you access the Information Service is set out below under Item “Web server log data” and “Usage profiles using pseudonyms”.

If you register for one of our personalized services (e.g. mySiemens) or order a product (e.g. in the supplies shop) we ask you for your name and other personal information, see Item “Registration on BSH Group”.

Any personal data made available by you is used and processed by us for the purposes for which you provided us with this data. The information provided via the contact form, for example, is used by us to process your enquiry.

In order to display the website on your internet browser, we use various technical devices to ensure that all content (text, images, video, etc.) is always up to date. To ensure that your user experience, in particular the loading speed of the website, is improved at all times, we also use technical service providers who enable us to provide the content required for the presentation of the website (so-called "Content Delivery Networks" or CDN). These technical CDN service providers act on our behalf and are bound to our instructions by corresponding agreements. The data collected in this way will only be used to display the contents of the website in your internet browser and will be deleted immediately after intermediate storage within the scope of delivery.

For technical reasons, each time your internet browser accesses our website it automatically sends information to our web server (i.e. log data). We store some of this information in log files, such as:

• date of the access

• time of the access

• URL of the website

• version of the HTTP protocol used.

• files accessed

• volume of data transferred

• internet browser type and version

• type of the operating system

• IP address (anonymised)

The aforementioned log data does not contain personal data. We only analyse log data event-driven when required, especially in order to remedy faults in the operation of our website or clarify security incidents. We store this log data indefinitely.

In addition, it may be necessary for us to collect the full IP address of the device as well as log data in order to remedy faults or preserve evidence relating to security incidents. We delete this data once the fault has been remedied or the security incident has been clarified in full, or if the original purpose of the processing no longer exists due to other factors. In the event of a security incident, we will transmit log data to the investigating authorities on a case-by-case basis, to the extent permitted and necessary.

We store such log data separately from other data collected that relates to the use of our website.

We use cookies and tracking pixels to gather data regarding your use of the Information Service (and its newsletters) for the purposes of advertising and market research, and in order to tailor the BSH Group Information Service to its users' needs. The gathering of this usage data and the creation of a usage profile is carried out on an anonymized basis using a cookie ID.

We create and store these usage profiles solely in anonymized form and do not combine them with your name or with any other information such as your email address which may reveal your identity.

We capture usage data and create usage profiles with the help of the Adobe Analytics service from Adobe Systems Software Ireland Ltd., 4-6 Riverwalk, Citywest Business Park, Dublin 24, Ireland ("Adobe"). Information regarding your use of the BSH Group Information Service is transferred to servers at Adobe, where it is analyzed and returned to us as cumulative data, which reveals trends in the general use of the website.

You are entitled to object to the gathering of your usage data and to the creation of an anonymized usage profile of this sort (opt-out). You can declare your objection to this on Adobe's opt-out website. For the functioning of the cookies and opt-out options in Adobe Analytics, please see the official documentation supplied by Adobe at the following URL: http://www.adobe.com/en/privacy/opt-out.html.

And / Or

To capture the usage data and to create the user profiles, we use the service Google Analytics of Google Inc. 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway Mountain View, CA 94043, USA („Google“).

The processing of data occurs in the United States. The information about your use of the BSH Group website will be transmitted to Google server, analyzed and given as cumulative data back to us, expressing trends in general site usage.

You are entitled to object to the gathering of your usage data and to the creation of an anonymized usage profile of this sort (opt-out). You can declare your objection to this on Google's opt-out website. For the functioning of the cookies and opt-out options in Google Analytics, please see the official documentation supplied by Google at the following

URL: https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=en.

In order to help us design our website appropriately, we may collect usage data relating to your visit to our website using analytics cookies and other technologies. As part of this, we record the mouse movements and clicks of randomly selected users of our website. Your IP address is anonymized as a matter of course. The resultant log of your use of our website is randomly analyzed so that we can derive potential improvements for our website from it.We use service provider Mouseflow ApS, Flaesketorvet 68, 1711 Copenhagen, Denmark for the purpose of collecting this usage data.

We do not conflate the resultant usage profiles with your name or any other details that could disclose your identity, such as your e-mail address. The usage data is deleted three months after the date on which it is collected.

Opt-out: Please use Mouseflow's opt-out website via the following link if you wish to prevent this usage data being collected:https://mouseflow.com/opt-out

We work with a range of different service providers to deliver the BSH Group Information Service. Provided that we have bound these services providers to act under our strict instructions when processing data, as commissioned data processors in accordance with local Data Protection Acts, your consent is not necessary for these external parties to process your data.

If, in other cases, the data protection provisions require us to obtain your consent in order to furnish service providers with personal data relating to users of the BSH Group Information Service, we will inform you separately and will not pass on your data without your prior consent.

When registering to use our personalized services, we collect certain personal data. During the registration process e.g. for mySiemens, and supplies store the following information will be requested:

Obligatory information:

• Salutation

• First and last name

• Full Address

• Phone number

• E-Mail-address

• Password

Optional information:

• Mobile number

• Date of birth

• Answering the question „How did you hear about Siemens?"

• Grant consent to receipt advertising.

If you are registered, you can access content and services that we offer to registered users only. Registered users also have the option to change or delete data given during the registration at any time. In addition, we can also provide all details regarding the personal information we have collected about you at any time. At your request we will correct or delete information held about you, unless there are statutory retention periods. To contact us in this regard, please use the contact information provided at the end of this Data Privacy Statement

Our website provides the option of subscribing to our newsletter. We use a double opt-in process to verify whether the owner of an e-mail address has actually registered to receive the newsletter. The newsletter is only successfully subscribed to if the owner of the e-mail address has expressly confirmed the activation of the newsletter by clicking on the link in the confirmation e-mail. We log the completion of the individual stages of the double opt-in process for evidence purposes.

As part of our newsletter campaigns, we use analysis tools to tailor our newsletter to your needs, for advertising purposes and for market research. For this purpose, we collect and process data about your use of our email newsletter. When you open an email newsletter from us, a file contained in the email (so-called web beacon) connects to our servers. This enables us to determine whether an email newsletter has been opened and, if so, which content has been clicked. In addition, we collect technical information about your end device with which the contents of the email newsletter are retrieved (e.g. time of retrieval, browser type and operating system). We use this data exclusively for statistical analysis of our newsletter campaigns.

If you subscribe to receive our newsletter, and therefore consent to it being sent to you, your details are solely used in order to send you the newsletter and analyze your use of the email newsletter. You can withdraw this consent at any time. The relevant link is included in each copy of our newsletter. We will make a note of the fact that you have unsubscribed from the newsletter in our database.

If you contact us outside of a concrete contractual relationship (e.g. for an order) or a registration, we provide various, also purely technical contact possibilities via our websites, including the possibility to contact us e.g. via (automated) chat.

In order to be able to process your specific request when making such contact, we may ask you to provide personal data. This includes, for example, your name and email address and other information such as the subject of your request and your message. Optional postal address and/or telephone number can be given. We collect the information requested in order to be able to deal with your request in an appropriate way.

The personal data transmitted to us in this way are used exclusively for the purpose for which you provide them to us when contacting us - in particular the processing of your request. The data will not be used for other purposes or passed on to third parties without your express consent. Excluded from this are - insofar as it is necessary to fulfil your request - the persons and companies (e.g. local service company) involved in carrying out the communication and answering the request. If there are no legal storage obligations, your personal data will be deleted after the request has been processed.

Minors should not transmit personal data to us without consent of their parents or guardians.

The Information Service contains links to other websites. We have no influence on the compliance or non-compliance of the operators of these sites with the data protection provisions.

Please address any questions on data protection or applications for the correction, blocking or deletion of your personal data directly to the contact persons specified in the site's legal notice

This data protection notice will be amended, if necessary, in order to communicate any changes to our services that are of relevance to data protection, e.g. where new services are introduced or in order to meet current legal requirements.

If you have any questions about data protection, please contact us using following address:

BSH Home Appliances FZE, PO Box 17312, Dubai, UAE

Cookies are small text files that are stored in a special memory area of your browser. However, cookies cannot be used to start programs or transfer viruses to a computer. Cookies are set when you visit our website or a so-called pixel-code/web beacon causes a cookie to be set. However, cookies can only be read by the web server of the same domain from which they were originally set.

You can also view our website without cookies. Internet browsers are regularly set to accept cookies. In order to prevent the use of cookies by your internet browser, you can deactivate the use of cookies via the settings of your internet browser and delete cookies that have already been set. The help functions of your internet browser tell you how to deactivate and delete cookies in your browser. Please note that the deactivation/deletion of cookies may result in individual functions of our website no longer functioning as expected. Cookies, which may be required for certain functions of our website, are shown below. In addition, the deactivation/deletion of cookies only affects the internet browser used here. For other internet browsers, the deactivation/deletion of cookies must therefore be repeated accordingly.

In addition, there are various ways to prevent the setting of certain cookies either by selecting them in our tracking banner or individually to the respective service provider whose tools we use for certain purposes. We point out the latter possibility to you in direct connection with the respective tool.

Session cookies

As part of the provision of our websites, we use session cookies which we store on your device when you visit our website - regardless of your selection as part of the tracking banner - and which are always deleted automatically when you close the internet browser (i.e. close the program). This enables us to provide you with various functions on our website using the information in the cookies.

We use the following session cookies, which we use for certain functions, which do not contain personal data, for the following purposes:

• to ensure the failure free playback of video or audio content (for example, to play Vimeo or Youtube Videos);

• temporarily store certain user inputs (e.g. contents of a shopping basket or an online form);

• improvement of user-friendliness and statistical range measurement.

Session cookies, which we use for certain functions, with personal data:

• Session cookies that are used to temporarily identify or authenticate a user (e.g. by a session ID to temporarily save the contents of the shopping basket);

Session cookies are automatically deleted after the internet browser is closed, at the latest, however, at the end of the life-span of the respective cookie.

Persistent Cookies

Persistent cookies are cookies that remain stored on your device, even after you have closed your internet browser. We use the information in these cookies to provide you with convenient functions on our website (e.g. to save certain user preferences or for search or language settings), but also to collect your usage behaviour on our website and to use this information to improve our website (e.g. to detect errors) and to personalise advertising for you.

Persistent cookies with personal data to collect your usage behaviour are only processed with your consent, which you can give us the first time you visit our website via the tracking-banner displayed there. You can revoke your consent to the processing of your usage behaviour at any time by deleting all cookies set in your internet browser. In this case, however, it may be necessary to make a new decision about using cookies for the aforementioned purpose via the tracking-banner. You can also revoke your consent to individual web analytics/marketing tools, as shown hereinafter.

Data from persistent cookies are stored until the end of the term of the respective cookie or until the cookies are deleted by you.

Facebook Pixels and Custom Audiences

We use the online marketing tools "Facebook Pixels and Custom Audiences" of Meta Inc. 1 Hacker Way, Menlo Park, CA 94025, USA, and Meta Platforms Ireland Ltd. 4 Grand Canal Square, Grand Canal Harbour, Dublin 2, Ireland ("Facebook").

Facebook processes your data under a joint responsibility with us, in accordance with the contract we concluded with Facebook on our joint responsibility. The essence of this contract is available here: https://www.facebook.com/legal/controller_addendum. You can find information about Facebook ads and Facebook pixels with the following links:

https://www.facebook.com/policy and https://www.facebook.com/business/help/651294705016616

We do not have access to your individual tracking data processed by Facebook as Facebook provides us with aggregated data only. We may share this aggregated data with third parties, e.g. cooperation partner for marketing purposes.

Opt-out: To permanently prevent the collection of usage data, please use the following link: https://www.facebook.com/policies/cookies/ As a registered Facebook user, you can also set what types of ads are displayed to you within Facebook. Call the following link: https://www.facebook.com/settings/?tab=ads

About us and our website

We, BSH Home Appliances FZE, PO Box 17312, Dubai, UAE operate this website.

Our guiding principles

We take protecting your information very seriously. Your data is therefore processed with great care and in strict compliance with applicable data protection law. Organisational and technical security measures have been taken to protect all of our websites against the risks present in processing personal data. Our partners who support us in the provision of this website must comply with these provisions as well.

What we log as standard

You can use all the areas of our website that are not access-protected without disclosing your identity. We log every use of our website as standard in order to prevent attacks, remedy faults and investigate security incidents. You can find more about our log data in the section "How we process your data".

Which permissions do we have to process your data

We respect your privacy. Consequently, we only process your data when we are permitted to do so. You will find a summary of the relevant statutory authorisations, on which we base the data processing, at the end of this information Of course you can also give us permission to process your data by opting in to the corresponding data processing on our website. In other cases, we process your data because we are permitted to do so by law. If, for example, you place an order through our website, we are permitted to process your data in order to fulfil that contract. The same applies when you make use of other services on our website that require your data to be processed. We are also permitted to process your data when we have a legitimate interest in doing so. One example of this is the log data that we collect in order to ensure that e.g. our website can be operated without defects(indcluding the technical provision of the website). In any case, we will inform you. In any case, we will inform you about the corresponding processing of your personal data and, of course, your interests will always be taken into account in any such processing. In case that you have questions to your personal data, you can find your rights regarding the processing of your personal data in the latter section of this Data Protection Information.

The permissions we make use of, and when, are outlined in the following section. You can find more detailed information on how your data is collected, processed and used on our website (i.e. the type, scope and purpose of data processing) in the same section.

What else you should know:

Users below the age of 16 should only transmit personal data to us with the consent of their parent or legal guardian. The data protection law that applies may result in different age limits in this regard.

Our website may contain links to websites, which are not provided by us. We have no influence over how your data is processed on these websites or their compliance with provisions on data protection. Please note any Data Protection Information they provide.