Privacy Policy of the Infineon Group

General Information

Data protection has a high priority for Infineon and its subsidiaries. We comply with the data protection legislation of the countries in which we do business. Internal data protection regulations ensure that consistent and high data protection standards apply at all companies within the Infineon Group. Our employees are obligated to comply with statutory and internal data protection regulations and to treating your data as confidential.
 

Extensive operational, technical and organizational security measures protect your data against accidental or deliberate manipulation, loss, destruction and access by unauthorized persons. We review our security measures regularly and adapt them to technological advances.

The Infineon Technologies AG, Am Campeon 1 – 15, 85579 Neubiberg, Germany, operates the www.infineon.com website and is controller of any personal data collected or otherwise processes on or through www.infineon.com as well as for other processing activities described in this privacy policy.
 

Depending on the case, our Infineon affiliates are acting as independent controller when processing personal data in their own responsibility.

You can contact the Group Data Protection Officer and staff at:

Infineon Technologies AG

Data Protection Officer

BC DPP Department

Am Campeon 1-15

85579 Neubiberg

Germany

By e-mail:      dataprotection@infineon.com

The California Privacy Rights Act (CPRA) is the State of California’s new data privacy law that grants California consumers broad rights to control their “personal information.”  


1. Collection

Our services have collected the following categories of personal information relating to consumers within the last twelve months: 

Do-not-track. As no workable standard has emerged for how our Services should handle so-called “do not track” signals, our Services do not respond to such signals.
 

Limiting Use and Disclosure of Sensitive Personal Information. We use performance and marketing cookies as well as similar technologies only if you have given us your prior consent.

With such mechanisms, we collect information about how users interact with our website and which pages have been visited. This information may include sensitive personal information. To understand more about your rights or to adjust your cookie settings please see our cookie policy. 

2. Sharing

We do not sell your personal information.  If you consent we may share your personal information to a third party as defined under § 1798.140 (ah)(1) of the CPRA. To do this we use cookies as well as similar technologies.  Upon your first visit to our website, you will have the opportunity to consent to the use of performance and marketing cookies.  To understand more about your rights or to adjust your cookie consent settings please see our cookie policy.

3. Business Purpose
 

We may disclose your personal information to a contractor or service provider for a business purpose as defined under § 1798.140(e) of the CPRA.  When we disclose personal information for a business purpose, we enter a contract that describes the purpose and requires the recipient to both keep that personal information confidential and not use it for any purpose except performing the contract.
 

We have disclosed the following categories (corresponding with the collection table above) of personal information for a business purpose:   

4. Data Subject Rights and Choices Under CPRA § 1798.100, 1798.105, 1798.106, 1798.110, 1798.115, 1798.125 and 1798.130

To exercise or understand more about your data subject rights please see Your rights section.

5. Changes To Notice

Infineon may make changes to this Notice. You should review this Notice periodically to keep up to date on our most current policies and practices.
Date Of Last Update:  December 30, 2022 

6. Questions And Contact Information

If you have questions regarding this Notice, please contact Infineon’s Group Data Protection Officer and his Team via e-mail at dataprotection@infineon.com.

This China Addendum to the Privacy Policy of the Infineon Group ("Addendum") only applies to the product(s) or service(s) of Infineon Technologies (China) Co., Ltd and its Affiliates listed below (collectively, "Infineon", "we", "us" or "our") that involve the Processing of Personal Information protected by Relevant Laws and Regulations of China. The provisions of this Addendum prevail in any conflict with the provisions of the Privacy Policy.
 

  • Infineon Technologies Centre of Competence (Shanghai) Co., Ltd.
  • Infineon Technologies (Shanghai) Co., Ltd.
  • Infineon Technologies (Wuxi) Co., Ltd.
  • Infineon Semiconductors (Wuxi) Co., Ltd.
  • Infineon Integrated Circuit (Beijing) Co., Ltd.
  • Infineon Semiconductors (Shenzhen) Co., Ltd
  • Infineon Technologies (Xi'an) Co., Ltd.
     

Latest update: May 2025

 

Please contact us using the details below if you have any questions:

 

  • By post: Pudong, Shanghai, No. 4, Lane 55, Chuanhe Road, Zhang Jiang Hi-Tech Park, China 201210;
  • By email: dataprotection@infineon.com; or
  • By telephone: Call +86-21-61649891 and ask to be connected to the China Data Protection Officer.
     

1. About this Addendum
  
This Addendum will help you better understand the following:

  • Definitions;
  • Personal Information we Process;
  • Our legal bases for Processing;
  • Transfer to third parties;
  • Storage of Personal Information;
  • Security of Personal Information;
  • How we use Cookies;
  • Your Data Subject rights;
  • How to contact us; and
  • Changes to this Addendum.
     

We understand the importance of your Personal Information to you and will do our best to ensure the security and reliability of your Personal Information. We are committed to maintaining your trust in us and Processing your Personal Information in accordance with principles of lawfulness, legitimacy, necessity, and good faith, and not acting in any manner that is misleading, fraudulent, or coercive.
 

We also take security measures to protect your Personal Information in accordance with mature industry standards.
 

2. Definitions
 

For the purposes of this Addendum only, except as otherwise provided in the context:
 

2.1 "Personal Information" or "PI" refers to any kind of information related to an identified or identifiable natural person as electronically or otherwise recorded, excluding information that has been anonymized.
 

2.2. "Sensitive Personal Information" or "Sensitive PI" refers to Personal Information that, once leaked or illegally used, will easily lead to the infringement of human dignity or harm to the personal or property safety of a natural person, including biometric recognition, religious belief, specific identity, medical and health condition, financial account, personal location tracking and other information of a natural person, as well as any Personal Information of a minor under the age of 14.
 

2.3 "Process", "Processed", or "Processing" includes the collection, storage, use, editing, transfer, provision, disclosure, and deletion of Personal Information.
 

2.4 "Data Subject" refers to the natural person identified by or associated with Personal Information.
 

2.5 "Personal Information Processor" refers to any organization or individual that independently determines the purpose and method of Processing in their Personal Information Processing activities and provides Personal Information to a recipient outside the territory of China.
 

2.6 "Entrusted Processor" refers to any organization or individual that Processes Personal Information on behalf of a Personal Information Processor.
 

2.7 "Overseas Recipient" refers to an organization or individual located outside the territory of China that receives Personal Information from the Personal Information Processor.
 

2.8 "Regulatory Authority" refers to the cyberspace administration department of China at or above the provincial level.
 

2.9 "Relevant Laws and Regulations" refers to the Cybersecurity Law of the People's Republic of China, the Data Security Law of the People's Republic of China, the Personal Information Protection Law of the People's Republic of China, the Civil Code of the People's Republic of China, and other applicable laws and regulations of the People's Republic of China.
 

2.10 The meanings of undefined terms in this Addendum are the same as those stipulated in Relevant Laws and Regulations.
 

3. Personal Information we Process
 

3.1. How we collect and use your Personal Information
 

To provide this service, we will collect your Personal Information as permitted by law and in accordance with this Addendum. Please note that if you do not provide relevant Personal Information or consent to our collection of relevant Personal Information, we may not be able to provide you with some or all of products or services.
 

Depending on the specific services you wish to receive, we may collect and use the Personal Information about you in the ways and for the purposes stated below.
 

In the table below, we have highlighted in bold the Sensitive Personal Information that we collect, and explain the purposes of such collection. If you do not agree to provide relevant Sensitive Personal Information, you will not be able to enjoy corresponding services or functions that require such Sensitive Personal Information.

3.2. How we collect and use the Personal Information of Minors
 

Our services are not intended for or targeted to the use of children under the age of 14, and we do not knowingly collect any Personal Information from such children. If you believe we have received Personal Information from a child under the age of 14, please contact us so that we can delete the information immediately.

 

4. Our legal bases for Processing
 

Infineon Processes your Personal Information:
 

  • where it is necessary for the conclusion or performance of a contract to which you are a contracting party;
  • where it is necessary for performing a statutory responsibility or statutory obligation;
  • where it is necessary for responding to a public health emergency or for protecting the life, health, or property of a natural person in an emergency;
  • where Personal Information, which has already been disclosed by you or otherwise legally disclosed, is Processed within a reasonable scope and in accordance with Relevant Laws and Regulations;
  • where it is necessary for carrying out human resources management under employment policies legally established or a collective contract legally concluded;
  • with your consent; or
  • under any other circumstance as provided by Relevant Laws and Regulations.
     

Sometimes we might need to collect your separate consent for Processing activities if required by Relevant Laws and Regulations. We will notify you if such separate consent is required and provide details about the Processing.
 

5. Transfers to third parties
 

We may need to transfer your Personal Information to other Infineon Group entities or third parties, especially to selected Entrusted Processors, distributors, partners, and sales representatives.
 

We conduct Personal Information protection impact assessments before transferring your Personal Information to third parties.
 

5.1. Entrusted Processors
 

We may transfer your Personal Information to our Entrusted Processors that need to know such information to fulfil one or more of the "Purposes of Processing PI" described in Section 3.1, such as our professional advisors and technology service providers. When we share your Personal Information with Entrusted Processors, we require them to:
 

  • process Personal Information only as we instruct them;
  • not transfer your Personal Information to other parties without our approval;
  • implement adequate operational, technical, and organizational security measures to protect your Personal Information from any unauthorized access, leakage, tampering, or loss;
  • keep your Personal Information confidential;
  • return or delete your Personal Information at our instruction;
  • submit to our supervision; and
  • act in a manner consistent with Infineon policies and Relevant Laws and Regulations.
     

5.2. Third-party Personal Information Processors in China
 

We may need to provide your Personal Information to the following third parties in China, who are separate Personal Information Processors of your Personal Information:

We do not provide your Personal Information to third parties without your separate consent unless such provision is in accordance with Relevant Laws and Regulations. For information that is relevant but not listed in the above table, we will supplement it in the Personal Information Consent Letter.


5.3. Overseas Recipient

Infineon has global business operations. As such, we may need to transfer your Personal Information from China to the following Overseas Recipients:
 

  • Infineon Technologies AG (which is the Overseas Recipient):
  • Location: Am Campeon 1-15, 85579 Neubiberg, Bavaria, Germany;
  • Contact Information: dataprotection@infineon.com;
  • Ways and Procedures to Exercise Your Rights: Send emails to dataprotection@infineon.com.
  • Other affiliates of the Infineon Group who assist the Overseas Recipient to realize the business goal (which should be considered as Other Overseas Recipients).
     

The details of the Processing conducted by the Overseas Recipient (i.e., Infineon Technologies AG) are as follows:

We shall only transfer your Personal Information to the Overseas Recipient in accordance with Relevant Laws and Regulations and, where necessary, with your separate consent.

We require the Overseas Recipient of your Personal Information to:
 

  • Process Personal Information only in accordance with the agreed purpose, method and scope of the transfer and the agreed purpose and method of Personal Information Processing by the Overseas Recipient.
  • Inform us of the place and period of data retention abroad.
  • Take certain measures for handling outbound data after the retention period expires, the agreed purpose is completed, or the agreements terminate.
  • Not make onward transfers of Personal Information to other organizations or individuals.
  • Inform Infineon when there is a substantial change in its actual control or business scope or when the data security protection policies and regulations of the country or region where it is located and the network security environment changes, as well as other force majeure circumstances that make it difficult to ensure data security.
  • Take appropriate emergency measures to safeguard your Personal Information when it is tampered with, destroyed, leaked, lost, transferred, illegally obtained, or illegally used.
     

6. Storage of Personal Information

Unless Relevant Laws and Regulations stipulate longer retention periods, we only store your Personal Information for the minimum period necessary for achieving the "Purposes of Processing PI" described in this Addendum.

After the retention period expires, we will delete or anonymize your Personal Information in accordance with Relevant Laws and Regulations. If deleting your Personal Information is technically difficult, we will stop all Processing activities other than storing your Personal Information and take necessary security measures.


7. Security of Personal Information

Data protection has a high priority for Infineon and its subsidiaries. We use various technical and organizational measures to protect your Personal Information. To understand more about how we protect your Personal Information, please see https://www.infineon.com/cms/en/about-infineon/sustainability/DPMS/?redirId=189805 and our Privacy policy.


8. How we use Cookies

We use Cookies as well as similar technologies. Upon your first visit to our website, you will have the choice to consent to our use of performance and marketing Cookies. To understand more about your rights or to adjust your Cookie consent settings, please see our section about Cookies.


9. Your Data Subject rights

9.1. Your rights over your Personal Information

Subject to Relevant Laws and Regulations, you have the following rights over your Personal Information:

  • Right to request access to and copies of your Personal Information.
  • Right to information about and to decide on our Processing.
  • Right to restrict or deny our Processing of your Personal Information.
  • Right to seek the transfer of your Personal Information to a third party under Relevant Laws and Regulations.
  • Right to request the rectification of your Personal Information.
  • Right to request the completion of your Personal Information.
  • Right to request the erasure of your Personal Information.
  • Right to unsubscribe to personalized marketing messages.
  • Right to request an explanation of automated decisions that have a material impact on your rights and interests.
  • Right to refuse decisions solely made by automated means that have a material impact on your rights and interests.
  • Right to request an explanation of our Personal Information Processing rules.
  • Right to require a copy of the Contract concluded between the Overseas Recipient and Infineon. If any trade secret or confidential business information is involved, relevant content in the copy of the Contract may be appropriately redacted.
     

9.2. Your Rights as a Third-Party Beneficiary

Due to the necessity of Infineon global business operations, we need to transfer your Personal Information to the Overseas Recipient. To protect your Personal Information rights and interests, we sign the Standard Contract for Outbound Transfer of Personal Information ("Contract") formulated by the Cyberspace Administration of China with the Overseas Recipient. You will be a third-party beneficiary under the Contract and enjoy relevant rights, if you do not expressly refuse these rights within 30 days. Please rest assured that the Contract does not impose any liability on you. Your rights as a third-party beneficiary under the Contract include, but are not limited to:

  • Right to know about, decide on, restrict and refuse the Processing of your outbound Personal Information, the right to access, make copies of, correct, supplement and delete your outbound Personal Information, as well as other rights stipulated by Relevant Laws and Regulations;
  • Right to exercise the above rights over your outbound Personal Information by making a request to us and/or the Overseas Recipient using the contact details set out in this Addendum;
  • Right to assert the above rights by filing a complaint with a Regulatory Authority or filing a lawsuit with a competent Chinese People's Court.
     

If you do not want to be a third-party beneficiary under the Contract, please contact us within 30 days using the details provided in in Section 10. "How to contact us".


9.3. How to exercise your rights

If you would like to exercise any of the above rights, understand how we use your Personal Information, or have any questions about this Addendum, please contact us using the details provided in the Section 10. "How to contact us" below.

You also have the right to withdraw your consent to our Processing of your Personal Information carried out based on your consent. If you wish to withdraw your consent to our Processing of your Personal Information, contact us using the details provided in Section 10 below. Please note that the withdrawal of your consent does not affect the validity of any activity of Processing of your Personal Information already carried out before the withdrawal of your consent.

If you would like to exercise any of the above rights against any Third Party or the Overseas Recipient, please contact them directly using the information in Sections 5.2 and 5.3 above.

10. How to contact us

You can contact us at:

  • By post: Pudong, Shanghai, No. 4, Lane 55, Chuanhe Road, Zhang Jiang Hi-Tech Park，

China 201210;
 

  • By email: dataprotection@infineon.com; or
  • By telephone: Call +86-21-61649891 and ask to be connected to the China Data Protection Officer.
     

We will promptly respond to your requests to exercise your rights if you contact us.

11. Changes to this Addendum

Our services are not intended for, or targeted to the use of children under the age of 16 and we do not knowingly collect any personal information from such children. If you believe we have received personal information from a child under the age of 16, please contact us so that we can delete the information immediately.

Your Data

As users or registrants of our website, integrated online services and/or portals, we process the personal data that you proactively and voluntarily provide us with, for example, by contacting us or registering to use services offered by us.


1.1 Profile Information

Profile information is personal information on your person you share with us when registering for an account in order to make use of our online services and/or portals including events. This includes, for example:

  • your first and last name
  • your business contact details
  • your job role
  • demographic details like country
  • your login data (business email address, password)
     

You can complete your personal profile by supplementing data like subscriptions for receiving specific marketing information or by telling us about applications and products you are interested in.


1.2 Contacting Us

If you contact us, we will collect your contact details depending on how you contact us (e.g. by email or telephone) as well as the content of your message. This may include your name, business postal address and business email address.


1.3 Order Information

If you would like to purchase the IPOSIM Lifetime Estimation Service, we may collect your data provided by you during the ordering process. This data may include your name, business contact details incl. your email address, postal address, company, country and VAT number. You can decide for a free trial subscription where no payment is required. If you decide to subscribe for one of our paid services, we will forward product related data like subscription type and product price to our service provider Stripe (Stripe Payments Europe Ltd, Block 4, Harcourt Centre, Harcourt Road, Dublin 2, Ireland) for payment processing purposes. In addition, Stripe will directly collect and process further payment data from you in order to fulfill the payment processing. Here can find more information about Stripe's data protection: https://stripe.com/en-de/privacy.


1.4 Information for Campaigns and Surveys

We generally ask you for or use personal information like your name and email address if you take part in prize competitions or surveys. We conduct surveys for the purposes of receiving feedback from our customers and partners in areas such as (1) existing products and services (2) expectations and opinions regarding new products and services (3) and general opinions about, and experiences with, the Infineon brand and its affiliates.

Furthermore, if you provide feedback or ratings about our partners and their products and/or services, we may post your ratings on our website with your consent. To do so, we may collect and/or process your review, your centrally managed user account information and your alias.

For more detailed information, please click here.


1.5 Information on Your Interests

When you visit our website and/or integrated online services and portals, your activities and how you use our services are tracked and collected. This information is collected by using cookies and similar mechanisms, and is generally stored in a pseudonymized manner. When a user is logged in and uses one of our services, we may identify you as a user.

Furthermore, we may assign the information on how you interact with our services to your user profile for personalization purposes. This information in turn may be linked to your personal profile.

If, for example, you repeatedly visit a particular area of our website or you participate intensively in discussions about specific products and services, we can extrapolate your interests by means of usage analysis. This allows us to understand your interests from how you use our services in addition to the interests you have directly shared with us.

We may also supplement and analyze your personal profile with existing business information on a company level we have in our system, or other relevant information publicly available, or provided by third-parties where and as permitted under applicable law.


1.6 Device and Access Data

We collect and process technical connection data sent to us by the device being used by you (such as IP address, browser type, date and time of your query) and cookies and similar technologies in order to make our services useful.

Business partners are all parties with whom Infineon maintains an active business relationship or with whom it is initiating such a relationship. In particular, contact persons at customers, prospective customers, suppliers, sales partners and service providers are affected by the processing of personal data.

We process personal data that we receive from you through use of one or more of the following channels:

 

  • business relationships,
  • visits to trade fairs, attendance at events, such as webinars and product demos,
  • use of our website, integrated online services and portals.
     

Such data may include your name, your business contact details, such as your postal address, email address and phone number, payment information, information about your request, your contracts with us, your projects and your interests.

We also process data from public sources, information databases, and information providers such as LexisNexis.

Infineon shall, however, not be responsible for the personal data collected about you by such external sources. To find out more about how, for example, a provider like LexisNexis collects and uses your personal data, please read their data privacy statement: https://www.lexisnexis.com/global/privacy/de/article-14-bis.page

Click here for detailed information on how your personal data is handled as a holder of registered Infineon shares.

In the context of applications, we collect and process your personal data such as:
 

  • Login data to your application account: username and password
  • Your name and your contact data (e.g. address, email address, phone number etc.)
  • Personal data you provide in your CV (e.g. date of birth, photo, nationality, education, qualifications, degrees, work experiences, etc.)
     

Here you will find further information about our Applicant Portal.
 

Here you will find CPRA specific information.

In order to manage your visit and provide access to our facilities, we collect and process personal data such as first and last name, name of the company you work for, your contact person/inviting person at Infineon, reason for the visit, date and time of the visit and optionally equipment brought/taken along and/or vehicle data (such as license plate number) in case of visits with vehicles.

Infineon hosts or contributes to happenings, such as events, trade shows, and workshops. At this occasions Infineon might take pictures and record videos or engage a third party to take over this activity. On some occasions, name tags are used to facilitate contact.

We process your personal data in accordance with the applicable data protection law in particular to
 

  • provide and improve our services,
  • process and fulfill your inquiries, orders, applications, etc.,
  • manage and perform business relationships,
  • prepare, conclude and/or implement contracts,
  • complete and fulfill purchases,
  • enable you to use our services,
  • plan and perform events,
  • provide you with personalized services (such as product recommendations and other content corresponding to your interests) based on your explicitly mentioned interests and derived interests by analyzing your usage of our website, integrated online services and portals, performance measurement of content and marketing activities and conducting further business-relevant analysis (e.g. expected purchase behavior, interest evaluation, market and trends analysis) based on your individual profile,
  • administer and perform personalized direct marketing activities and conduct surveys for market research purposes
  • ensure the security and safety of Infineon facilities and our website through appropriate technical and organizational measures,
  • protect our services, applications and products against security risks and criminal activities
  • ensure compliance with legal obligations, export control and customs and to carry out compliance screenings in order to meet statutory standards and internal policies
  • to enforce our contractual agreements and enable the establishment, exercise or defense of legal claims and
  • Internal and external presentation of the company.

We process your personal data based on one or more of the following legal grounds:
 

  • your given consent to the processing of personal data for one or more specific purposes
  • to perform a contract with you.
  • to comply with legal obligations.
  • to safeguard Infineon’s legitimate interests. Infineon has legitimate interests in processing your data for the following purposes:

    • to manage, perform and improve our services
    • to initiate, manage and perform business relationships.
    • to comply with legal obligations and international industry standards as well as internal policies Infineon has voluntarily subjected itself.
    • to protect Infineon’s products, facilities, rights and interests and
    • to establish, exercise or defend legal claims.

When we are legally entitled to do so, we may transfer your personal data to other entities of the Infineon Group or to third-parties, especially to selected service providers, distributors, partners, and sales representatives. Please note that we do not sell your personal information to third parties or with any ad networks or ad server companies.

We enter into contracts with our service providers in which the requirements of relevant data protection laws are addressed. Service providers must take appropriate technical and organizational measures to ensure the protection of the rights and freedoms of the data subject and are prohibited from processing personal data in derogation of the Infineon's instructions.

If data is transferred outside the European Economic Area that may not be subject to equivalent data protection laws we will ensure that a transfer only takes place if an appropriate level of protection exists with the recipient and suitable safeguards like Standard Contractual Clauses are provided.

Your personal data is retained only for as long as it is required for the specified purposes, unless there are more extensive statutory or contractual retention obligations (such as retention obligations under commercial and tax law).

Your Rights

You have the right to demand that Infineon provide you with access to and information on the personal data it has stored concerning you. You also have the right to demand rectification and erasure of data or restriction to processing of it, as well as the right to demand that the stored data be transferred to you or a third party named by you in a suitable form.

You may object to the processing of your personal data for purposes of direct advertising. If we process your personal data to protect Infineon’s legitimate interests, you may object to this processing for reasons based on your specific situation. We will then stop processing your data unless it is predominantly used to serve interests worthy of protection on our part.

Do you want to exercise your privacy rights? Submit your request via this form

 

The declarations of consent you give us are voluntary and you can withdraw your consent at any time with future effect:

Please note that consent cannot be withdrawn retroactively since, once data has been processed, processing of it cannot be undone.

You may contact our Group Data Protection Officer (see above) or a data protection supervisory authority. The data protection supervisory authority responsible for Infineon Technologies AG is:

Bayerisches Landesamt für Datenschutzaufsicht (BayLDA)

Postfach 1349

91504 Ansbach

Complaints regarding a local processing activity pursued by an Infineon affiliate my be made directly with the regulator in your home country.

Online services and portals of Infineon

Our website offers you the opportunity of contacting us directly using contact forms, email, chat and/or telephone. Unless otherwise specified by you, we process the information provided by you via the above-mentioned channels exclusively to address your specified reason for contact. If you have previously consented, we will also process your data to send you relevant content or communications. If you voluntarily decide to contact us via chat, we will use selected samples of the chat’s contents for purposes of quality improvement and training.

When using the central account registration service, you register for a centrally managed user account for myInfineon, with which you can sign up for our online services and/or portals including events. Your account information consist of your basic profile information like your contact information. These are centrally stored, managed and shared with nearly every online service you decide to use (single sign on).

When you register on myInfineon, we process your following (personal) data: Country of residence, company e-mail address, password for your login and other information that you voluntarily provide to us.

When you use myInfineon, we also process the following information that you provide to us in the registered area of myInfineon or that is generated during your use. This includes, for example, your first and last name, company or language of communication. You can view and change the specific data at any time under myInfineon.

We process this data in order to offer you the PC tools in the context of the Infineon Developer Center - https://softwaretools.infineon.com/, in particular to provide you with exclusive and personalised recommendations, easy access to product-related updates, offers and services. This processing is based on the necessity of processing for the fulfilment of a contract (Art. 6 para. 1 lit. b GDPR).

We process your personal data until you have deleted your myInfineon account and as long as it is necessary for the fulfilment of mutual obligations in connection with myInfineon and existing contracts. In addition, we only store your personal data for the assertion of or defence against legal claims or as long as there are legal obligations to store it.

If you have questions about Infineon products, you are also encouraged to use our Infineon Developer Community. Here you can discuss with other members of the Community, and help each other to better understand our products and services. You’ll also find an expanded library of documentation and videos to help you learn and expand your knowledge, new blogs from knowledgeable and expert resources, code examples, knowledge articles, social media connections, and much more. If you want to create posts or engage on existing content, you must first register for a centrally managed user account. In addition to that, you will have a Community username that you can freely choose. Your profile data and any information related to it will be displayed to other users of the Community based on your preferences in order to enable open and transparent communication.

With a successful registration you also automatically take part in the ‘rewards and recognition program’. Based on your activity in the Community like your amount and quality of comments, submitting translations and code examples, you can achieve different membership statuses.

Qualtrics

We use the services of Qualtrics LLC (333 W. River Park Drive, Provo, UT 84604 , USA) to provide you with feedback opportunities on our website and/or by email and may invite you to participate in surveys. If required by law, we will obtain your consent in advance.


The gained information is used to improve customer experience with Infineon's services and operations. Therefore, we may process your feedback content and further data about you like date and time of feedback, email address and IP address. We may use artificial intelligence to identify the attributes that are most important to you. The feedback you provide may supplement your profile in order to personalize and optimize your experience with Infineon and our services. The participation in surveys or filling in feedback forms is always voluntary. To, among other things, exclude visitors from multiple participations, Qualtrics uses cookies. Please find more details here.


Further information on data protection at Qualtrics can be found here. Please also read the privacy policy of Qualtrics.


Hotjar

Infineon also uses the services (surveys and behavior analytics) of Hotjar Ltd (Hotjar Ltd, Level 2, St Julians Business Centre, 3, Elia Zammit Street, St Julians STJ 1000, Malta) to gain a better understanding of how users interact with our website and to identify issues our customers encounter when browsing. This helps us to optimize our services according to user’s feedback. Please find more details within our Cookie section.


Partner product ratings

Infineon additionally offers the opportunity for partner product ratings and reviews on our website. Let us know how satisfied you are with a product or a service of one of our partners and share your experience with other customers. This will help others to decide whether it is the right product for them. Please note that we use your centrally managed user account information only to verify your identity and decide whether you are authorized to provide feedback. If you allow us to publish your review on our website, we will publish it together with your selected alias which does not necessarily needs to be your real name.


If you have alternatively and/or additionally previously consented, we may forward your review including your email address and company name you are belonging to, to the relevant partner so that he can directly react to your review. Otherwise our partners have only the opportunity to directly react to your review on our website if you have previously consented to publish your review and will only receive the information you decided to publish including your alias.


We will also use the content of the reviews in order to improve the quality of service of our partners.

Customer reviews should give customers genuine product or service feedback from fellow shoppers. We do not tolerate any review designed to deceive or manipulate customers.


Slido


We offer you the possibility of active participation via polls and Questions & Answers. For that services we work with our service provider Sli.do s. r. o.. You can participate our polls and Questions & Answers without providing any personal data. Slido may automatically gather personal Data like website traffic and store it in log files. These personal data includes Internet protocol (IP) addresses, browser type, browser language, internet service provider (ISP), referring/exit pages, operating system of your device, date/time stamp, clickstream data and cookies that may uniquely identify your browser. For further information, please see sli.do’s Privacy Policy.

You may register for our newsletters and other email marketing communication, and regularly receive up-to-date information on our products, services and events.
 

The registration for our newsletters and other email marketing communication take place in a so-called double opt-in procedure. After your registration, you will receive an e-mail asking you to confirm your email address for purposes of dual-factor authentication. This confirmation is necessary to verify your email address. The registration for the newsletters and further email marketing communication will be logged in order to validate the registration process according to legal requirements.

Our newsletters and other email marketing communication are sent via Eloqua, a service provided by Oracle (oracle.com). Eloqua uses cookies and similar technologies to measure for example your email opening and click rate on articles as well as your usage of our services in order to provide you with personalized content and information.

If you do not wish to use the benefits offered by the Eloqua service, please click here: https://www.oracle.com/marketingcloud/opt-status.html 

You can terminate the receipt of our newsletters and other email marketing communication at any time, i.e. revoke your consent. A link to cancel the newsletter can be found in the footer of each e-mail as well as in the myInfineon Profile Center, subscription tab. You don’t need to have a centrally managed user account to update you e-mail subscriptions.

Our shopping cart makes it easier for you to purchase small quantities of Infineon products for design and prototyping purposes. The selection and compilation of our products is possible on our website. To complete your order you will be forwarded to a website controlled by our partner Mouser Electronics, Inc., where your personal data will be processed for this purposes.

The supplier portal offers Infineon suppliers the opportunity to exchange information with Infineon contact persons during supplier lifecycle management and electronic tendering processes. Therefore, you must create a separate account first. You cannot reach this portal using the central account registration service. The main goals are to manage the relationship in order to increase supplier performance, improve co-operation and optimize the entire value chain in collaboration with the suppliers.

Success Factors Learning is a password-protected learning platform that we offer to our distribution and sales partners so that they can receive further training and become qualified with respect to our products and services. You can check the learning platform at any time to view the training seminars, tests and certificates you have completed.

myInfineon is the portal for the Infineon community like Infineon customer contacts and everyone who is interested in Infineon. To use this portal, you must register for a centrally managed user account within myInfineon. We use your personal data to provide you valuable information about applications and products, and can use integrated services like our newsletter management or expanded functions of our design tools within your personal area. Technical support for our products as well as a feedback form is also available via myInfineon. To improve and develop myInfineon we use your recommendations from the feedback form. The feedback form is a first party service.
 

You can manage and update your personal details in your profile. Let us know what interests you the most and enjoy a personalized user experience through us displaying content that is of special interest to you,  e.g. personalized documents, videos, webinars and product recommendations.

myICP (myInfineon Collaboration Platform) is a password-protected area within myInfineon that allows our distributors, existing and prospective customer contacts to access documents classified as confidential. Using myICP requires a centrally managed user account and separate permissions.
 

myICP creates user-based reports about the history of downloads and notifications sent to ensure compliance with the contractual obligations of Infineon at any time and to support business relations.

iTrack is a password-protected portal exclusively offered to customer contacts. iTrack is a collaboration platform which provides separated project spaces where you and all members of a project can participate and get in contact with Infineon FAE’s to receive exclusive customer support. Access to iTrack requires the registration for a centrally managed user account.

The Infineon Developer Center (IDC) offers you the service to register your evaluation board and to receive board related content like relevant documents based on your board registration information. In addition, the IDC offers various services to provide different content, such as tools, software packages and related information on updates and notes.

We process the following data:

  • (personal) data such as country of residence, company e-mail address, password for your login and other information that you voluntarily provide to us as part of the central account registration,
  • evaluation board registration information like your name and e-mail address including your preferences for receiving marketing information as well as the serial number and/or name of registered board,
  • browser information that is automatically sent to us by your web browser or terminal device, such as your IP address, device type, browser type as well as date and time of the respective visitor request
  • client information that is automatically sent to us when using the IDC and related tools like version information, tool installation and uninstallation information, summary information of installed tools and information of devices and products that you use IDC on or with,
  • information on whether you use specific features or functionality of IDC and related tools,
  • configuration data of your IDC and related tools including selection of products, parameters or similar data.

We process your personal data in particular to:

  • perform technical analyses to safeguard Infineon’s legitimate interests. Infineon has legitimate interests to provide, operate IDC and related content as well as to run performance, failure and/or security analyses.
  • to provide you exclusive content as a download file and grant you access to your personal project space where you can store all project relevant data in one place and share it with others, in each case by e-mail based on your voluntarily provided registration information.
  • To provide functions within the tools offered in the context of the Infineon Developer Center - in particular to provide you with exclusive and personalized recommendations, easy access to product-related updates, offers and services. This processing is based on the necessity of processing for the performance of a contract (Art. 6 para. 1 lit. b GDPR).
  • perform direct marketing activities via email and/or telephone carried out by Infineon or one of its licensed distributors and partners if you have given us your previous consent.


If you decided for ‘personalization’, we additionally process your personal data in particular to:

  • run personalized usage analysis and reporting,
  • improve and enhance IDC Ecosystems and offered content and to
  • troubleshoot IDC Ecosystems and offered content, either if you contact us via our support channels, or if we identify issues through our own efforts. if you have given us you prior consent to perform product usage analysis.

Our design tools (e.g. Infineon IPOSIM, Infineon Designer) are used to simulate the electrical, thermal and magnetic properties of our products and systems to find the best fit for your application.

If you have given us your cookie consent and after logging in into myInfineon, your input configurations (e.g., selected circuit topologies, input/output parameters and simulation methods) may be recorded within the design tools, and shared together with your email address and company information with our regional sales and marketing staff. In this way, they can accommodate your project-specific needs and requirements individually and provide you with the best possible support for your system implementation.

IPOSIM Lifetime Estimation Service

Lifetime Estimation Service is a new IPOSIM service that performs a series of automated simulations estimating the lifetime of Infineon´s power modules, based on the user´s mission profile input. The results are delivered as a pdf report.

Within our Software Development Kits (e.g., AURIX™ Development Studio, DAVE™ Integrated Development Environment) you can update or synchronize your software projects with our Infineon GitHub repositories by downloading the latest software and code examples. In this way your software projects use always the latest version. With GitHub usage data we may create anonymous usage statistics, which will be shared with Infineon sales and marketing staff to better understand programmer needs and improve future software developments.

Our Online Documentation Platform is a comprehensive online repository of technical documentations like application notes, code examples, reference designs and software guides.
 

This platform helps users to speed up design-in by finding all the development documentation they need in one place, complete with real time updates from our software and support teams based on inputs and questions from our Infineon Developer Community.

The CIRRENT™ Console is the portal for CIRRENT™ Cloud Software Services, including CIRRENT™ Product Analytics. CIRRENT™ Product Analytics is a software-as-a-service solution which allows customers to analyze data from their IoT devices and solve problems with networking and product performance.  On the CIRRENT™ Console we process your personal data like user login, user name, IP address and login date and time to provide you our services and to improve our CIRRENT™ products and services.

The IoT XENSIV™ portal is a cloud platform to provide a testing and evaluation environment for using the Infineon Smart Downlight device or IoT XENSIV™ Lighting development kit. This service is only available for selected customers for testing purposes. In order to be able to use this portal, you must register for a centrally managed user account. With this account you can access, manage and control your devices to visualize the people count and LED electrical status. The portal also provides an API for data access as well as for online and offline alerts.

Infineon’s brand portal is a restricted access platform for selected partners. For registration and administration purposes, we collect your e-mail address, first and last name and contact details based on your consent. You can have your profile changed or deleted at any time via brandportal@infineon.com, if there are no retention obligations.

In addition, we offer you the opportunity to subscribe to our newsletter. If you have given us your consent to send you our newsletter, your personal data will be processed based on your consent. You can revoke your consent at any time without affecting the lawfulness of the processing carried out so far. If you no longer wish to receive a newsletter in the future, you can unsubscribe at any time by e-mail via brandportal@infineon.com or via this link.

Via our “My brand training” function, you can optionally take a picture or use a picture of yourself at the end of a successfully completed training and add graphic elements (e.g. trophy, lettering, etc.). The images are only processed locally in your browser and are not transmitted to Infineon.

To place your application you have to register at our Applicant Portal. There you can enter, view, add, change and delete your personal data and your applications yourself at any time within your profile.

Only persons involved in the application process and supporting groups get access to your application and your personal data. The service provider is also obligated to comply with applicable data protection regulations. Since Infineon is a global group, it may be necessary to transfer personal data between Infineon entities. We assure you that all relevant data protection regulations are obeyed in such cases.

In case of an employment we will use your personal data from your application to perform the employment relationship with you.

If you want us to use your application data for other job offers that meet your qualification, we need your separate consent to do so. You may withdraw your consent any time. Therefore, your can contact recruiting@infineon.com or withdraw your consent directly within your profile tab. If you withdraw your consent for further storage and use of your application for other job offers, the application and the personal data will no longer be used for other job offers.

Infineon strives to offer the best user experience to both applicants and recruiters. In order to match application as favorably as possible to open positions, we use automation techniques, which however do not constitute profiling or automated decision-making according to Art. 22 GDPR.

For citizens of Mainland China:

When uploading your CV, please take care not to include any sensitive personal information about yourself, including but not limited to a personal photo, ID number, current salary, etc.

Please be aware that Infineon may transfer your personal information outside of China and provide the personal information to Infineon's overseas affiliated companies or other processors of personal information.

The Smart Application Enablement is a platform offering for building smart and connected applications using Infineon Hardware components. The platform is provided as a service to selected customers for testing purposes. The Smart Application Enablement Hackathon platform is the lite version of the Smart Application Enablement platform specifically targeted towards hackathons, makeathons and events. To be able to use the platforms, you must register for a myInfineon user account. With this account, you can access the platforms to create new IoT devices, onboard IoT devices, visualize data, share it with other users etc.. The platform give you the feature to add to your Amazon Web Services (AWS) account as a project where we would deploy the software resources needed for you to create different smart applications. On the platforms, we only process your personal data like user name, and email address to provide you our services.

myCases is a password-protected portal for Infineon customers to ask for technical support and manage their support tickets. Direct customers or distribution partners directly ordering from Infineon can additionally open inquiries on order management, sales support and failure analysis requests. To use this portal, you must register for a centrally managed user account, which allows you to use other services of Infineon as well.

Infineon’s virtual event platform enables a seamless event experience for customers, partners, contacts and interested parties in Infineon while extending the visit at the tradeshows that Infineon participates in. Whether you attend the tradeshows on-site or not, you are able to access Infineon´s tradeshow content through this platform. In order to use the platform, you must first register for a centrally managed user account. On the platform you can learn about Infineon´s products and solutions, find the relevant demos and information (including the product details, videos, 3D models and more) for your projects, and gain a deeper insight into all the tradeshow topics. You can use the contact area on the platform to get in touch with Infineon's experts if you have questions or would like to plan a project.

The Infineon Register Viewer offers a comprehensive online service that enables users to explore and configure Infineon device registers with ease and efficiency. By accepting our cookies, we can track your usage and understand how you interact with our platform and improve and optimize it accordingly to provide you with a better and more personalized experience.

Infineon provides a whistleblowing system to employees and external persons in order to receive, process and manage reports of queries concerning (potential) infringements or violations against legal and internal regulations. 

For this purpose, Infineon has established various communication channels (e.g. portal, e-mail, telephone, mail), which may vary depending on the region. For more details for your region, please click here.

In compliance with legal regulations reports can be submitted personalized or anonymously. In any case, your data will be treated confidentially and processed securely.

We will process your data to optimize and market products and services by using Lead Forensics. Lead Forensics is capable of identifying several information about your organization, including its name, general contact number, web address, SIC code, and a description of the company. Lead Forensics can provide a detailed report of your site visit, which includes the pages you visited and how much time you spent on each page. Your IP addresses will be anonymized immediately after collection. Lead Forensics will use the data collected to assess your website visit and create reports on site activity on behalf of Infineon. If you disagree with this process, you can object to the collection, processing, and storage of data by clicking on the following link, which will have an effect on future activities: https://optout.leadforensics.com/?clientID=782224 

Infineon uses Cisco Webex as platform for video conferencing and real-time collaboration. This service allows users to connect via voice and video, chat, and file sharing in virtual meeting rooms. All communications between participants are encrypted, except for voice communications from and to users dialing in over the public telephone network. Infineon will control all information related to the meetings subject to our company policies.
 

Connection data will be stored exclusively for the purpose of failure analysis for a maximum period of 12 months. Use of the voice, image, text, and data transmission features is voluntary and may be controlled by the user. Chat and documents will be stored in the cloud and can be deleted by the user. Voice and video will by default not persistently be stored. Please be aware that copies of your information may persist to the extent it has been shared with others.

The Infineon Academy is a password-protected learning platform that we offer to our customers, distribution and sales partners so that they can receive further training and become qualified with respect to our products and services. You can check the learning platform at any time to view the training seminars, tests and certificates you have completed. Data may be used for marketing purposes and campaigns (only if required Opt-ins are available).

Cookies and similar technologies

On this website we use Google Analytics, a web analysis service provided by Google Inc., 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, United States ("Google").
 

Google analyses your use of this website on behalf of Infineon. For this purpose, the following data are collected and transmitted to a Google server in the USA, which is not currently considered a safe third country, where the data are stored, analyzed and made available to us in anonymous form: information about your use of this website, the type and version of browser you use, the operating system you use, your language settings, the date and time of your query and the referrer URL (previously visited website). Google places a permanent cookie in your Internet browser for this purpose. With the help of this cookie, it is also possible to recognize your browser when you visit this website again.

We have activated the IP anonymization function offered by Google on this website so that your IP address is shortened by Google within member states of the European Union or the EEA (European Economic Area) and only transmitted to the USA in anonymized form. Only in exceptional cases the full IP address will be transmitted to a Google server in the USA and shortened there. Google might use this data for its own purposes, such as profiling, and might link it to other data, such as Google accounts. We have contractually agreed appropriate security measures with Google for these cases.

The IP address of your browser, which is collected by Google Analytics, is not merged with other data from Google.

We use Google Analytics to analyze the use of our website and to improve it regularly. The statistics obtained allow us to improve our services and make them more interesting for you as a user.
 

Additionally, we use the data collected by Google Analytics together with Google Optimize, a sub-service of Google Analytics. With the help of an additional cookie, Google Optimize enables us to display different versions of our website and test the reaction of the users to it. This data is statistically analyzed by us in order to improve the user experience and usability of our website.

You can generally revoke your consent to web analysis by Google at any time by downloading and installing the available Google browser plug-in. This option prevents web analysis only as long as you use a browser on which you have installed the plugin and as long as you do not delete the opt-out cookie.

Further information on data protection and the security of your data at Google Analytics can be found here. Please also read Google's privacy policy. 

Third party information: Google Dublin, Google Ireland Ltd, Gordon House, Barrow Street, Dublin 4, Ireland, Fax: +353 (1) 436 1001. Terms of use: https://marketingplatform.google.com/about/analytics/terms/us/

The Google Tag Manager is a solution that allows us to implement, trigger and manage so-called website tags via an interface. Therefore, we can integrate Google Analytics and other services (which also may collect data) into our online offering. The Tag Manager itself does not process any personal user data.

The usage guidelines can be found at: https://www.google.com/analytics/tag-manager/use-policy.

This website uses Google Ads (a service of Google) and Microsoft Advertising (a service of Microsoft) for conversion tracking. When you click an advertisement placed by Google or Microsoft, a conversion tracking cookie is set. This enables Google or Microsoft and us to recognize that someone has clicked an ad, was transferred to our website, and reached a predetermined target site (landing page). We only learn the total number of users who clicked on a Google or Microsoft ad and were transferred to the conversion site. No personal information about the user’s identity is disclosed.
 

If you are not interested in the services of Google Ads and/or Microsoft Advertising in general, you can object to their use by deactivating cookies in your browser settings. More information about data protection can be found under the following links:

For Google Ads: https://policies.google.com/privacy?hl=en

For Microsoft Advertising: https://privacy.microsoft.com/en-us/privacystatement

Our website uses the remarketing or "similar target groups" function of Google Inc. ("Google").

This allows us to target visitors to our website with personalizes, interest-based advertisements when they visit other websites in the Google Display Network. Google uses "cookies" to analyze how users use the site, which is the basis for creating interest-based advertising. For this purpose Google stores a small file with a sequence of numbers in the browsers of our website visitors. This number is used to record visits to our website and anonymous data on the use of the website. There is no storage of personal data about the visitors of our website. If you visit another website in the Google Display Network, you will see advertisements that most likely include previously viewed product and information areas. You are and remain anonymous to us throughout the entire process. If you have given Google permission to do so, Google will link your web and app browsing history to your Google Account. In this way, the same personalized advertising messages can be displayed on every device you sign in to with your Google Account. Google's authentication mechanisms used for this purpose are not shared with us. Google is solely responsible for this.
 

You can permanently deactivate the use of cookies by Google by following the link below and downloading and installing the plug-in provided there:

https://support.google.com/ads/answer/7395996?hl=en.

Further information on data protection and the security of your data in Google Remarketing is available here. Please also read the Google privacy policy.

On this website we use the Facebook pixel, an analytics tool from Facebook Ireland Ltd., 4 Grand Canal Square, Grand Canal Harbor, Dublin 2 Ireland (Facebook). This enables us to show visitors of our website relevant Infineon advertisements (so-called “Facebook ads”) on Facebook.
 

We use the Facebook pixel, which is essentially a piece of tracking code, to measure the effectiveness of our Facebook advertising campaigns and to optimize our ads offering. For this purpose, we track and send Facebook information about your activities on our website and other personal data you may leave there. This includes, for example, your Facebook ID, your IP address, information about your browser and the buttons you click on our website, registration information and the pages within our website you visit. We use the data collected to create Facebook advertisements, displayed only on Facebook, to purposefully target users of our website, in order to make our services and offers more interesting for you.
 

When you visit our website, the Facebook pixel is triggered and your browser automatically establishes a direct connection with the Facebook server. We have no influence on the scope and further use of the data that is collected by Facebook through the use of the pixel. By integrating Facebook Custom Audiences, Facebook receives the information that you have accessed a corresponding online offer from us, or clicked on an advertisement from us. If you are registered with Facebook, Facebook can assign the visit to your account. Even if you are not registered with Facebook or have not logged in, there is a possibility that the provider will save your IP address and other identification features. The Facebook pixel enables the measurement, evaluation and optimization of the effectiveness of Facebook advertisements for both statistical and market research purposes. We only receive reports from Facebook in an anonymous, aggregated format.
 

Here you can revoke at any time your consent to using the Facebook pixel:
 

https://www.facebook.com/login.php?next=https%3A%2F%2F
 

To do this, you need to be logged in to your Facebook account.
 

Further information on data protection at Facebook can be found here. Please also read the privacy policy of Facebook.

We use LinkedIn Insight Tag, an analytics tool provided by LinkedIn Ireland, Wilton Plaza, Wilton Place, Dublin 2, Ireland, to track website conversions tied to our LinkedIn ads. For example, LinkedIn can track when a user clicks on our LinkedIn ad and visits our website. For example, your IP address, device and browser properties, a time stamp and page activities are collected and processed.
 

In order to evaluate our advertising campaigns on LinkedIn, LinkedIn provides us with your data in an anonymous, aggregated format. We collect statistical information about website visitors, who have reached us via our LinkedIn campaigns.
 

In this context, we would like to inform you that this data may be stored and processed by LinkedIn for its own use, and the data may be assigned to your profile. Further information on data protection at LinkedIn can be found here. Further information on conversion tracking can be found here.
 

If you are not interested in the services provided by LinkedIn, you can object to their usage under the following link: https://www.linkedin.com/psettings/guest-controls/retargeting-opt-out

We use Hotjar, a web analytics service of Hotjar Ltd (Hotjar Ltd, Level 2, St Julians Business Centre, 3, Elia Zammit Street, St Julians STJ 1000, Malta). With Hotjar's technology we get a better understanding of our users' experiences (e.g. how much time users spend on which pages, what links they click, what they like and don't like, etc.). This helps us understand our users and to tailor our service to our users' feedback. It is also possible to ask for direct feedback from our users.
 

Hotjar uses cookies and other technologies to collect data about the behaviour of our users and their devices. Hotjar stores this information in a pseudonymized user profile. With the help of these profiles, we can only trace the course of your mouse, track and recognize which buttons are clicked, what screen size your device has, which browser you use and where your geographical location (country only) is. Areas of the website where personal information about you is displayed are automatically hidden by Hotjar and therefore cannot be traced at any time. In order to exclude the possibility of direct personal references, IP addresses are only stored and processed anonymously.

You can completely prevent the use of Hotjar for your device. To do this, please visit https://www.hotjar.com/privacy/do-not-track/.

We use Eloqua, a service provided by Oracle, to personalize communication with you. When you visit the Infineon website for the first time, a cookie of third-party provider Oracle will be stored in your browser. This cookie is used to record the pages you visit during your session. Although this cookie is set on many other third-party websites, the information about your visit to the Infineon website is visible to Infineon only and not shared with other users of the Eloqua system. Likewise, it is not possible for Infineon to use this cookie to record or view information about your visits to other websites.
 

Although this cookie does not contain any specific personal information, it may be possible to establish a connection to a person by subsequently linking the data with other information. If you provide Infineon with personal information by filling out a form on our website, this information may be combined with the browser information recorded by the Eloqua cookie. The information thus collected is used to improve the services we offer, including whether and how we communicate with you, and personalization of the content of such communication. We try to tailor this communication to your personal interests, as gleaned from your visits to the Infineon website or from the profile settings you have selected, thus focusing as far as possible only on offerings and promotional campaigns that we believe are of interest to you.

If you want to completely prevent the use of Eloqua cookies and tracking technologies for your device, you can do so on the Eloqua opt-out page: https://www.oracle.com/marketingcloud/opt-status.html. 

We also use Quantcast services on our website to collect statistical data on the usage of our web offerings in order to improve them accordingly for you. If you do not want to participate in general, you can click this opt-out link: https://www.quantcast.de/opt-out/.

When you visit the Infineon website for the first time, the myInfineon cookie will be stored in your browser. This cookie is a first-party cookie and is used to record the visited pages of the Infineon website during your session; excluding third parties websites. The collected data is stored in the myInfineon cookie, which is located in your web-browser. Initially, Infineon has no access to this data.
 

Although this cookie does not contain any specific personal information about you as a person (e.g. your name, e-mail address or IP address), it may be possible to establish a connection to you as a person by subsequently linking the data with other information about you. If you, for example, logon to myInfineon, your user name might be combined with the browser information recorded by the myInfineon cookie.

The information thus collected is used provide you a personalized and customized myInfineon user experience, especially by displaying a personalized myInfineon dashboard. We also use these data to improve our myInfineon services for you.

If you do not want to participate, you can manage your cookie preferences here or deactivate cookies.

On this website, we use Reddit Ads from Reddit, Inc, 548 Market St. #16093, San Francisco, California 94104 (Reddit). In addition, we use a Reddit pixel to track website conversions associated with Reddit Ads. For example, Reddit can track when a user clicks on our Reddit Ad and visits our website.
 

We use the Reddit Pixel, which is essentially a tracking code, to measure the effectiveness of our Reddit advertising campaigns and to optimize our ad offering. For this purpose, we track and submit to Reddit information about your activities on our website and other personal data you leave there. This includes, for example, your Reddit ID, your IP address, information about your browser and the buttons you click on our website, registration information, and the pages you visit within our website. We use the data collected to create Reddit ads that are displayed only on Reddit to target users of our website and to make our services and offers more interesting for you.

When you visit our website, the Reddit pixel is triggered and your browser automatically establishes a direct connection with the Reddit server. We have no influence on the scope and further use of the data collected by Reddit through the use of the pixel. If you are registered on Reddit, Reddit can assign the visit to your account. Even if you are not registered with Reddit or have not logged in, it is possible that the provider stores your IP address and other identification features. The Reddit pixel enables the measurement, evaluation and optimization of the effectiveness of Reddit advertisements for both statistical and market research purposes. We only receive reports from Reddit in anonymized, aggregated form.

You can change personal settings here: https://www.reddit.com/personalization/

You can find more information about Reddit's privacy policy here. Also read Reddit's privacy policy.

External Services or Content on our Website

If you use the below mentioned services, you will access the website via a frame. We have no influence on the scope of your personal data being processed and the handling of your data by the mentioned service providers, which result from access to the website. The mentioned service providers are themselves legally responsible for this. You can find more information on how your personal data is handled here:
 

The social media links embedded on our website (Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn, X, Reddit, TikTok, YouTube etc.) are not integrated via so-called plug-ins. When you visit our website, no direct link to social media servers will be established. When you click a social media button, you will be transferred to the selected social media service. Infineon accepts no responsibility for the content of other providers’ websites.

General Information

Data protection has a high priority for Infineon and its subsidiaries. We comply with the data protection legislation of the countries in which we do business. Internal data protection regulations ensure that consistent and high data protection standards apply at all companies within the Infineon Group. Our employees are obligated to comply with statutory and internal data protection regulations and to treating your data as confidential.
 

Extensive operational, technical and organizational security measures protect your data against accidental or deliberate manipulation, loss, destruction and access by unauthorized persons. We review our security measures regularly and adapt them to technological advances.

The Infineon Technologies AG, Am Campeon 1 – 15, 85579 Neubiberg, Germany, operates the www.infineon.com website and is controller of any personal data collected or otherwise processes on or through www.infineon.com as well as for other processing activities described in this privacy policy.
 

Depending on the case, our Infineon affiliates are acting as independent controller when processing personal data in their own responsibility.

You can contact the Group Data Protection Officer and staff at:

Infineon Technologies AG

Data Protection Officer

BC DPP Department

Am Campeon 1-15

85579 Neubiberg

Germany

By e-mail:      dataprotection@infineon.com

The California Privacy Rights Act (CPRA) is the State of California’s new data privacy law that grants California consumers broad rights to control their “personal information.”  


1. Collection

Our services have collected the following categories of personal information relating to consumers within the last twelve months: 

Do-not-track. As no workable standard has emerged for how our Services should handle so-called “do not track” signals, our Services do not respond to such signals.
 

Limiting Use and Disclosure of Sensitive Personal Information. We use performance and marketing cookies as well as similar technologies only if you have given us your prior consent.

With such mechanisms, we collect information about how users interact with our website and which pages have been visited. This information may include sensitive personal information. To understand more about your rights or to adjust your cookie settings please see our cookie policy. 

2. Sharing

We do not sell your personal information.  If you consent we may share your personal information to a third party as defined under § 1798.140 (ah)(1) of the CPRA. To do this we use cookies as well as similar technologies.  Upon your first visit to our website, you will have the opportunity to consent to the use of performance and marketing cookies.  To understand more about your rights or to adjust your cookie consent settings please see our cookie policy.

3. Business Purpose
 

We may disclose your personal information to a contractor or service provider for a business purpose as defined under § 1798.140(e) of the CPRA.  When we disclose personal information for a business purpose, we enter a contract that describes the purpose and requires the recipient to both keep that personal information confidential and not use it for any purpose except performing the contract.
 

We have disclosed the following categories (corresponding with the collection table above) of personal information for a business purpose:   

4. Data Subject Rights and Choices Under CPRA § 1798.100, 1798.105, 1798.106, 1798.110, 1798.115, 1798.125 and 1798.130

To exercise or understand more about your data subject rights please see Your rights section.

5. Changes To Notice

Infineon may make changes to this Notice. You should review this Notice periodically to keep up to date on our most current policies and practices.
Date Of Last Update:  December 30, 2022 

6. Questions And Contact Information

If you have questions regarding this Notice, please contact Infineon’s Group Data Protection Officer and his Team via e-mail at dataprotection@infineon.com.

This China Addendum to the Privacy Policy of the Infineon Group ("Addendum") only applies to the product(s) or service(s) of Infineon Technologies (China) Co., Ltd and its Affiliates listed below (collectively, "Infineon", "we", "us" or "our") that involve the Processing of Personal Information protected by Relevant Laws and Regulations of China. The provisions of this Addendum prevail in any conflict with the provisions of the Privacy Policy.
 

  • Infineon Technologies Centre of Competence (Shanghai) Co., Ltd.
  • Infineon Technologies (Shanghai) Co., Ltd.
  • Infineon Technologies (Wuxi) Co., Ltd.
  • Infineon Semiconductors (Wuxi) Co., Ltd.
  • Infineon Integrated Circuit (Beijing) Co., Ltd.
  • Infineon Semiconductors (Shenzhen) Co., Ltd
  • Infineon Technologies (Xi'an) Co., Ltd.
     

Latest update: May 2025

 

Please contact us using the details below if you have any questions:

 

  • By post: Pudong, Shanghai, No. 4, Lane 55, Chuanhe Road, Zhang Jiang Hi-Tech Park, China 201210;
  • By email: dataprotection@infineon.com; or
  • By telephone: Call +86-21-61649891 and ask to be connected to the China Data Protection Officer.
     

1. About this Addendum
  
This Addendum will help you better understand the following:

  • Definitions;
  • Personal Information we Process;
  • Our legal bases for Processing;
  • Transfer to third parties;
  • Storage of Personal Information;
  • Security of Personal Information;
  • How we use Cookies;
  • Your Data Subject rights;
  • How to contact us; and
  • Changes to this Addendum.
     

We understand the importance of your Personal Information to you and will do our best to ensure the security and reliability of your Personal Information. We are committed to maintaining your trust in us and Processing your Personal Information in accordance with principles of lawfulness, legitimacy, necessity, and good faith, and not acting in any manner that is misleading, fraudulent, or coercive.
 

We also take security measures to protect your Personal Information in accordance with mature industry standards.
 

2. Definitions
 

For the purposes of this Addendum only, except as otherwise provided in the context:
 

2.1 "Personal Information" or "PI" refers to any kind of information related to an identified or identifiable natural person as electronically or otherwise recorded, excluding information that has been anonymized.
 

2.2. "Sensitive Personal Information" or "Sensitive PI" refers to Personal Information that, once leaked or illegally used, will easily lead to the infringement of human dignity or harm to the personal or property safety of a natural person, including biometric recognition, religious belief, specific identity, medical and health condition, financial account, personal location tracking and other information of a natural person, as well as any Personal Information of a minor under the age of 14.
 

2.3 "Process", "Processed", or "Processing" includes the collection, storage, use, editing, transfer, provision, disclosure, and deletion of Personal Information.
 

2.4 "Data Subject" refers to the natural person identified by or associated with Personal Information.
 

2.5 "Personal Information Processor" refers to any organization or individual that independently determines the purpose and method of Processing in their Personal Information Processing activities and provides Personal Information to a recipient outside the territory of China.
 

2.6 "Entrusted Processor" refers to any organization or individual that Processes Personal Information on behalf of a Personal Information Processor.
 

2.7 "Overseas Recipient" refers to an organization or individual located outside the territory of China that receives Personal Information from the Personal Information Processor.
 

2.8 "Regulatory Authority" refers to the cyberspace administration department of China at or above the provincial level.
 

2.9 "Relevant Laws and Regulations" refers to the Cybersecurity Law of the People's Republic of China, the Data Security Law of the People's Republic of China, the Personal Information Protection Law of the People's Republic of China, the Civil Code of the People's Republic of China, and other applicable laws and regulations of the People's Republic of China.
 

2.10 The meanings of undefined terms in this Addendum are the same as those stipulated in Relevant Laws and Regulations.
 

3. Personal Information we Process
 

3.1. How we collect and use your Personal Information
 

To provide this service, we will collect your Personal Information as permitted by law and in accordance with this Addendum. Please note that if you do not provide relevant Personal Information or consent to our collection of relevant Personal Information, we may not be able to provide you with some or all of products or services.
 

Depending on the specific services you wish to receive, we may collect and use the Personal Information about you in the ways and for the purposes stated below.
 

In the table below, we have highlighted in bold the Sensitive Personal Information that we collect, and explain the purposes of such collection. If you do not agree to provide relevant Sensitive Personal Information, you will not be able to enjoy corresponding services or functions that require such Sensitive Personal Information.

3.2. How we collect and use the Personal Information of Minors
 

Our services are not intended for or targeted to the use of children under the age of 14, and we do not knowingly collect any Personal Information from such children. If you believe we have received Personal Information from a child under the age of 14, please contact us so that we can delete the information immediately.

 

4. Our legal bases for Processing
 

Infineon Processes your Personal Information:
 

  • where it is necessary for the conclusion or performance of a contract to which you are a contracting party;
  • where it is necessary for performing a statutory responsibility or statutory obligation;
  • where it is necessary for responding to a public health emergency or for protecting the life, health, or property of a natural person in an emergency;
  • where Personal Information, which has already been disclosed by you or otherwise legally disclosed, is Processed within a reasonable scope and in accordance with Relevant Laws and Regulations;
  • where it is necessary for carrying out human resources management under employment policies legally established or a collective contract legally concluded;
  • with your consent; or
  • under any other circumstance as provided by Relevant Laws and Regulations.
     

Sometimes we might need to collect your separate consent for Processing activities if required by Relevant Laws and Regulations. We will notify you if such separate consent is required and provide details about the Processing.
 

5. Transfers to third parties
 

We may need to transfer your Personal Information to other Infineon Group entities or third parties, especially to selected Entrusted Processors, distributors, partners, and sales representatives.
 

We conduct Personal Information protection impact assessments before transferring your Personal Information to third parties.
 

5.1. Entrusted Processors
 

We may transfer your Personal Information to our Entrusted Processors that need to know such information to fulfil one or more of the "Purposes of Processing PI" described in Section 3.1, such as our professional advisors and technology service providers. When we share your Personal Information with Entrusted Processors, we require them to:
 

  • process Personal Information only as we instruct them;
  • not transfer your Personal Information to other parties without our approval;
  • implement adequate operational, technical, and organizational security measures to protect your Personal Information from any unauthorized access, leakage, tampering, or loss;
  • keep your Personal Information confidential;
  • return or delete your Personal Information at our instruction;
  • submit to our supervision; and
  • act in a manner consistent with Infineon policies and Relevant Laws and Regulations.
     

5.2. Third-party Personal Information Processors in China
 

We may need to provide your Personal Information to the following third parties in China, who are separate Personal Information Processors of your Personal Information:

We do not provide your Personal Information to third parties without your separate consent unless such provision is in accordance with Relevant Laws and Regulations. For information that is relevant but not listed in the above table, we will supplement it in the Personal Information Consent Letter.


5.3. Overseas Recipient

Infineon has global business operations. As such, we may need to transfer your Personal Information from China to the following Overseas Recipients:
 

  • Infineon Technologies AG (which is the Overseas Recipient):
  • Location: Am Campeon 1-15, 85579 Neubiberg, Bavaria, Germany;
  • Contact Information: dataprotection@infineon.com;
  • Ways and Procedures to Exercise Your Rights: Send emails to dataprotection@infineon.com.
  • Other affiliates of the Infineon Group who assist the Overseas Recipient to realize the business goal (which should be considered as Other Overseas Recipients).
     

The details of the Processing conducted by the Overseas Recipient (i.e., Infineon Technologies AG) are as follows:

We shall only transfer your Personal Information to the Overseas Recipient in accordance with Relevant Laws and Regulations and, where necessary, with your separate consent.

We require the Overseas Recipient of your Personal Information to:
 

  • Process Personal Information only in accordance with the agreed purpose, method and scope of the transfer and the agreed purpose and method of Personal Information Processing by the Overseas Recipient.
  • Inform us of the place and period of data retention abroad.
  • Take certain measures for handling outbound data after the retention period expires, the agreed purpose is completed, or the agreements terminate.
  • Not make onward transfers of Personal Information to other organizations or individuals.
  • Inform Infineon when there is a substantial change in its actual control or business scope or when the data security protection policies and regulations of the country or region where it is located and the network security environment changes, as well as other force majeure circumstances that make it difficult to ensure data security.
  • Take appropriate emergency measures to safeguard your Personal Information when it is tampered with, destroyed, leaked, lost, transferred, illegally obtained, or illegally used.
     

6. Storage of Personal Information

Unless Relevant Laws and Regulations stipulate longer retention periods, we only store your Personal Information for the minimum period necessary for achieving the "Purposes of Processing PI" described in this Addendum.

After the retention period expires, we will delete or anonymize your Personal Information in accordance with Relevant Laws and Regulations. If deleting your Personal Information is technically difficult, we will stop all Processing activities other than storing your Personal Information and take necessary security measures.


7. Security of Personal Information

Data protection has a high priority for Infineon and its subsidiaries. We use various technical and organizational measures to protect your Personal Information. To understand more about how we protect your Personal Information, please see https://www.infineon.com/cms/en/about-infineon/sustainability/DPMS/?redirId=189805 and our Privacy policy.


8. How we use Cookies

We use Cookies as well as similar technologies. Upon your first visit to our website, you will have the choice to consent to our use of performance and marketing Cookies. To understand more about your rights or to adjust your Cookie consent settings, please see our section about Cookies.


9. Your Data Subject rights

9.1. Your rights over your Personal Information

Subject to Relevant Laws and Regulations, you have the following rights over your Personal Information:

  • Right to request access to and copies of your Personal Information.
  • Right to information about and to decide on our Processing.
  • Right to restrict or deny our Processing of your Personal Information.
  • Right to seek the transfer of your Personal Information to a third party under Relevant Laws and Regulations.
  • Right to request the rectification of your Personal Information.
  • Right to request the completion of your Personal Information.
  • Right to request the erasure of your Personal Information.
  • Right to unsubscribe to personalized marketing messages.
  • Right to request an explanation of automated decisions that have a material impact on your rights and interests.
  • Right to refuse decisions solely made by automated means that have a material impact on your rights and interests.
  • Right to request an explanation of our Personal Information Processing rules.
  • Right to require a copy of the Contract concluded between the Overseas Recipient and Infineon. If any trade secret or confidential business information is involved, relevant content in the copy of the Contract may be appropriately redacted.
     

9.2. Your Rights as a Third-Party Beneficiary

Due to the necessity of Infineon global business operations, we need to transfer your Personal Information to the Overseas Recipient. To protect your Personal Information rights and interests, we sign the Standard Contract for Outbound Transfer of Personal Information ("Contract") formulated by the Cyberspace Administration of China with the Overseas Recipient. You will be a third-party beneficiary under the Contract and enjoy relevant rights, if you do not expressly refuse these rights within 30 days. Please rest assured that the Contract does not impose any liability on you. Your rights as a third-party beneficiary under the Contract include, but are not limited to:

  • Right to know about, decide on, restrict and refuse the Processing of your outbound Personal Information, the right to access, make copies of, correct, supplement and delete your outbound Personal Information, as well as other rights stipulated by Relevant Laws and Regulations;
  • Right to exercise the above rights over your outbound Personal Information by making a request to us and/or the Overseas Recipient using the contact details set out in this Addendum;
  • Right to assert the above rights by filing a complaint with a Regulatory Authority or filing a lawsuit with a competent Chinese People's Court.
     

If you do not want to be a third-party beneficiary under the Contract, please contact us within 30 days using the details provided in in Section 10. "How to contact us".


9.3. How to exercise your rights

If you would like to exercise any of the above rights, understand how we use your Personal Information, or have any questions about this Addendum, please contact us using the details provided in the Section 10. "How to contact us" below.

You also have the right to withdraw your consent to our Processing of your Personal Information carried out based on your consent. If you wish to withdraw your consent to our Processing of your Personal Information, contact us using the details provided in Section 10 below. Please note that the withdrawal of your consent does not affect the validity of any activity of Processing of your Personal Information already carried out before the withdrawal of your consent.

If you would like to exercise any of the above rights against any Third Party or the Overseas Recipient, please contact them directly using the information in Sections 5.2 and 5.3 above.

10. How to contact us

You can contact us at:

  • By post: Pudong, Shanghai, No. 4, Lane 55, Chuanhe Road, Zhang Jiang Hi-Tech Park，

China 201210;
 

  • By email: dataprotection@infineon.com; or
  • By telephone: Call +86-21-61649891 and ask to be connected to the China Data Protection Officer.
     

We will promptly respond to your requests to exercise your rights if you contact us.

11. Changes to this Addendum

Our services are not intended for, or targeted to the use of children under the age of 16 and we do not knowingly collect any personal information from such children. If you believe we have received personal information from a child under the age of 16, please contact us so that we can delete the information immediately.

Your Data

As users or registrants of our website, integrated online services and/or portals, we process the personal data that you proactively and voluntarily provide us with, for example, by contacting us or registering to use services offered by us.


1.1 Profile Information

Profile information is personal information on your person you share with us when registering for an account in order to make use of our online services and/or portals including events. This includes, for example:

  • your first and last name
  • your business contact details
  • your job role
  • demographic details like country
  • your login data (business email address, password)
     

You can complete your personal profile by supplementing data like subscriptions for receiving specific marketing information or by telling us about applications and products you are interested in.


1.2 Contacting Us

If you contact us, we will collect your contact details depending on how you contact us (e.g. by email or telephone) as well as the content of your message. This may include your name, business postal address and business email address.


1.3 Order Information

If you would like to purchase the IPOSIM Lifetime Estimation Service, we may collect your data provided by you during the ordering process. This data may include your name, business contact details incl. your email address, postal address, company, country and VAT number. You can decide for a free trial subscription where no payment is required. If you decide to subscribe for one of our paid services, we will forward product related data like subscription type and product price to our service provider Stripe (Stripe Payments Europe Ltd, Block 4, Harcourt Centre, Harcourt Road, Dublin 2, Ireland) for payment processing purposes. In addition, Stripe will directly collect and process further payment data from you in order to fulfill the payment processing. Here can find more information about Stripe's data protection: https://stripe.com/en-de/privacy.


1.4 Information for Campaigns and Surveys

We generally ask you for or use personal information like your name and email address if you take part in prize competitions or surveys. We conduct surveys for the purposes of receiving feedback from our customers and partners in areas such as (1) existing products and services (2) expectations and opinions regarding new products and services (3) and general opinions about, and experiences with, the Infineon brand and its affiliates.

Furthermore, if you provide feedback or ratings about our partners and their products and/or services, we may post your ratings on our website with your consent. To do so, we may collect and/or process your review, your centrally managed user account information and your alias.

For more detailed information, please click here.


1.5 Information on Your Interests

When you visit our website and/or integrated online services and portals, your activities and how you use our services are tracked and collected. This information is collected by using cookies and similar mechanisms, and is generally stored in a pseudonymized manner. When a user is logged in and uses one of our services, we may identify you as a user.

Furthermore, we may assign the information on how you interact with our services to your user profile for personalization purposes. This information in turn may be linked to your personal profile.

If, for example, you repeatedly visit a particular area of our website or you participate intensively in discussions about specific products and services, we can extrapolate your interests by means of usage analysis. This allows us to understand your interests from how you use our services in addition to the interests you have directly shared with us.

We may also supplement and analyze your personal profile with existing business information on a company level we have in our system, or other relevant information publicly available, or provided by third-parties where and as permitted under applicable law.


1.6 Device and Access Data

We collect and process technical connection data sent to us by the device being used by you (such as IP address, browser type, date and time of your query) and cookies and similar technologies in order to make our services useful.

Business partners are all parties with whom Infineon maintains an active business relationship or with whom it is initiating such a relationship. In particular, contact persons at customers, prospective customers, suppliers, sales partners and service providers are affected by the processing of personal data.

We process personal data that we receive from you through use of one or more of the following channels:

 

  • business relationships,
  • visits to trade fairs, attendance at events, such as webinars and product demos,
  • use of our website, integrated online services and portals.
     

Such data may include your name, your business contact details, such as your postal address, email address and phone number, payment information, information about your request, your contracts with us, your projects and your interests.

We also process data from public sources, information databases, and information providers such as LexisNexis.

Infineon shall, however, not be responsible for the personal data collected about you by such external sources. To find out more about how, for example, a provider like LexisNexis collects and uses your personal data, please read their data privacy statement: https://www.lexisnexis.com/global/privacy/de/article-14-bis.page

Click here for detailed information on how your personal data is handled as a holder of registered Infineon shares.

In the context of applications, we collect and process your personal data such as:
 

  • Login data to your application account: username and password
  • Your name and your contact data (e.g. address, email address, phone number etc.)
  • Personal data you provide in your CV (e.g. date of birth, photo, nationality, education, qualifications, degrees, work experiences, etc.)
     

Here you will find further information about our Applicant Portal.
 

Here you will find CPRA specific information.

In order to manage your visit and provide access to our facilities, we collect and process personal data such as first and last name, name of the company you work for, your contact person/inviting person at Infineon, reason for the visit, date and time of the visit and optionally equipment brought/taken along and/or vehicle data (such as license plate number) in case of visits with vehicles.

Infineon hosts or contributes to happenings, such as events, trade shows, and workshops. At this occasions Infineon might take pictures and record videos or engage a third party to take over this activity. On some occasions, name tags are used to facilitate contact.

We process your personal data in accordance with the applicable data protection law in particular to
 

  • provide and improve our services,
  • process and fulfill your inquiries, orders, applications, etc.,
  • manage and perform business relationships,
  • prepare, conclude and/or implement contracts,
  • complete and fulfill purchases,
  • enable you to use our services,
  • plan and perform events,
  • provide you with personalized services (such as product recommendations and other content corresponding to your interests) based on your explicitly mentioned interests and derived interests by analyzing your usage of our website, integrated online services and portals, performance measurement of content and marketing activities and conducting further business-relevant analysis (e.g. expected purchase behavior, interest evaluation, market and trends analysis) based on your individual profile,
  • administer and perform personalized direct marketing activities and conduct surveys for market research purposes
  • ensure the security and safety of Infineon facilities and our website through appropriate technical and organizational measures,
  • protect our services, applications and products against security risks and criminal activities
  • ensure compliance with legal obligations, export control and customs and to carry out compliance screenings in order to meet statutory standards and internal policies
  • to enforce our contractual agreements and enable the establishment, exercise or defense of legal claims and
  • Internal and external presentation of the company.

We process your personal data based on one or more of the following legal grounds:
 

  • your given consent to the processing of personal data for one or more specific purposes
  • to perform a contract with you.
  • to comply with legal obligations.
  • to safeguard Infineon’s legitimate interests. Infineon has legitimate interests in processing your data for the following purposes:

    • to manage, perform and improve our services
    • to initiate, manage and perform business relationships.
    • to comply with legal obligations and international industry standards as well as internal policies Infineon has voluntarily subjected itself.
    • to protect Infineon’s products, facilities, rights and interests and
    • to establish, exercise or defend legal claims.

When we are legally entitled to do so, we may transfer your personal data to other entities of the Infineon Group or to third-parties, especially to selected service providers, distributors, partners, and sales representatives. Please note that we do not sell your personal information to third parties or with any ad networks or ad server companies.

We enter into contracts with our service providers in which the requirements of relevant data protection laws are addressed. Service providers must take appropriate technical and organizational measures to ensure the protection of the rights and freedoms of the data subject and are prohibited from processing personal data in derogation of the Infineon's instructions.

If data is transferred outside the European Economic Area that may not be subject to equivalent data protection laws we will ensure that a transfer only takes place if an appropriate level of protection exists with the recipient and suitable safeguards like Standard Contractual Clauses are provided.

Your personal data is retained only for as long as it is required for the specified purposes, unless there are more extensive statutory or contractual retention obligations (such as retention obligations under commercial and tax law).

Your Rights

You have the right to demand that Infineon provide you with access to and information on the personal data it has stored concerning you. You also have the right to demand rectification and erasure of data or restriction to processing of it, as well as the right to demand that the stored data be transferred to you or a third party named by you in a suitable form.

You may object to the processing of your personal data for purposes of direct advertising. If we process your personal data to protect Infineon’s legitimate interests, you may object to this processing for reasons based on your specific situation. We will then stop processing your data unless it is predominantly used to serve interests worthy of protection on our part.

Do you want to exercise your privacy rights? Submit your request via this form

 

The declarations of consent you give us are voluntary and you can withdraw your consent at any time with future effect:

Please note that consent cannot be withdrawn retroactively since, once data has been processed, processing of it cannot be undone.

You may contact our Group Data Protection Officer (see above) or a data protection supervisory authority. The data protection supervisory authority responsible for Infineon Technologies AG is:

Bayerisches Landesamt für Datenschutzaufsicht (BayLDA)

Postfach 1349

91504 Ansbach

Complaints regarding a local processing activity pursued by an Infineon affiliate my be made directly with the regulator in your home country.

Online services and portals of Infineon

Our website offers you the opportunity of contacting us directly using contact forms, email, chat and/or telephone. Unless otherwise specified by you, we process the information provided by you via the above-mentioned channels exclusively to address your specified reason for contact. If you have previously consented, we will also process your data to send you relevant content or communications. If you voluntarily decide to contact us via chat, we will use selected samples of the chat’s contents for purposes of quality improvement and training.

When using the central account registration service, you register for a centrally managed user account for myInfineon, with which you can sign up for our online services and/or portals including events. Your account information consist of your basic profile information like your contact information. These are centrally stored, managed and shared with nearly every online service you decide to use (single sign on).

When you register on myInfineon, we process your following (personal) data: Country of residence, company e-mail address, password for your login and other information that you voluntarily provide to us.

When you use myInfineon, we also process the following information that you provide to us in the registered area of myInfineon or that is generated during your use. This includes, for example, your first and last name, company or language of communication. You can view and change the specific data at any time under myInfineon.

We process this data in order to offer you the PC tools in the context of the Infineon Developer Center - https://softwaretools.infineon.com/, in particular to provide you with exclusive and personalised recommendations, easy access to product-related updates, offers and services. This processing is based on the necessity of processing for the fulfilment of a contract (Art. 6 para. 1 lit. b GDPR).

We process your personal data until you have deleted your myInfineon account and as long as it is necessary for the fulfilment of mutual obligations in connection with myInfineon and existing contracts. In addition, we only store your personal data for the assertion of or defence against legal claims or as long as there are legal obligations to store it.

If you have questions about Infineon products, you are also encouraged to use our Infineon Developer Community. Here you can discuss with other members of the Community, and help each other to better understand our products and services. You’ll also find an expanded library of documentation and videos to help you learn and expand your knowledge, new blogs from knowledgeable and expert resources, code examples, knowledge articles, social media connections, and much more. If you want to create posts or engage on existing content, you must first register for a centrally managed user account. In addition to that, you will have a Community username that you can freely choose. Your profile data and any information related to it will be displayed to other users of the Community based on your preferences in order to enable open and transparent communication.

With a successful registration you also automatically take part in the ‘rewards and recognition program’. Based on your activity in the Community like your amount and quality of comments, submitting translations and code examples, you can achieve different membership statuses.

Qualtrics

We use the services of Qualtrics LLC (333 W. River Park Drive, Provo, UT 84604 , USA) to provide you with feedback opportunities on our website and/or by email and may invite you to participate in surveys. If required by law, we will obtain your consent in advance.


The gained information is used to improve customer experience with Infineon's services and operations. Therefore, we may process your feedback content and further data about you like date and time of feedback, email address and IP address. We may use artificial intelligence to identify the attributes that are most important to you. The feedback you provide may supplement your profile in order to personalize and optimize your experience with Infineon and our services. The participation in surveys or filling in feedback forms is always voluntary. To, among other things, exclude visitors from multiple participations, Qualtrics uses cookies. Please find more details here.


Further information on data protection at Qualtrics can be found here. Please also read the privacy policy of Qualtrics.


Hotjar

Infineon also uses the services (surveys and behavior analytics) of Hotjar Ltd (Hotjar Ltd, Level 2, St Julians Business Centre, 3, Elia Zammit Street, St Julians STJ 1000, Malta) to gain a better understanding of how users interact with our website and to identify issues our customers encounter when browsing. This helps us to optimize our services according to user’s feedback. Please find more details within our Cookie section.


Partner product ratings

Infineon additionally offers the opportunity for partner product ratings and reviews on our website. Let us know how satisfied you are with a product or a service of one of our partners and share your experience with other customers. This will help others to decide whether it is the right product for them. Please note that we use your centrally managed user account information only to verify your identity and decide whether you are authorized to provide feedback. If you allow us to publish your review on our website, we will publish it together with your selected alias which does not necessarily needs to be your real name.


If you have alternatively and/or additionally previously consented, we may forward your review including your email address and company name you are belonging to, to the relevant partner so that he can directly react to your review. Otherwise our partners have only the opportunity to directly react to your review on our website if you have previously consented to publish your review and will only receive the information you decided to publish including your alias.


We will also use the content of the reviews in order to improve the quality of service of our partners.

Customer reviews should give customers genuine product or service feedback from fellow shoppers. We do not tolerate any review designed to deceive or manipulate customers.


Slido


We offer you the possibility of active participation via polls and Questions & Answers. For that services we work with our service provider Sli.do s. r. o.. You can participate our polls and Questions & Answers without providing any personal data. Slido may automatically gather personal Data like website traffic and store it in log files. These personal data includes Internet protocol (IP) addresses, browser type, browser language, internet service provider (ISP), referring/exit pages, operating system of your device, date/time stamp, clickstream data and cookies that may uniquely identify your browser. For further information, please see sli.do’s Privacy Policy.

You may register for our newsletters and other email marketing communication, and regularly receive up-to-date information on our products, services and events.
 

The registration for our newsletters and other email marketing communication take place in a so-called double opt-in procedure. After your registration, you will receive an e-mail asking you to confirm your email address for purposes of dual-factor authentication. This confirmation is necessary to verify your email address. The registration for the newsletters and further email marketing communication will be logged in order to validate the registration process according to legal requirements.

Our newsletters and other email marketing communication are sent via Eloqua, a service provided by Oracle (oracle.com). Eloqua uses cookies and similar technologies to measure for example your email opening and click rate on articles as well as your usage of our services in order to provide you with personalized content and information.

If you do not wish to use the benefits offered by the Eloqua service, please click here: https://www.oracle.com/marketingcloud/opt-status.html 

You can terminate the receipt of our newsletters and other email marketing communication at any time, i.e. revoke your consent. A link to cancel the newsletter can be found in the footer of each e-mail as well as in the myInfineon Profile Center, subscription tab. You don’t need to have a centrally managed user account to update you e-mail subscriptions.

Our shopping cart makes it easier for you to purchase small quantities of Infineon products for design and prototyping purposes. The selection and compilation of our products is possible on our website. To complete your order you will be forwarded to a website controlled by our partner Mouser Electronics, Inc., where your personal data will be processed for this purposes.

The supplier portal offers Infineon suppliers the opportunity to exchange information with Infineon contact persons during supplier lifecycle management and electronic tendering processes. Therefore, you must create a separate account first. You cannot reach this portal using the central account registration service. The main goals are to manage the relationship in order to increase supplier performance, improve co-operation and optimize the entire value chain in collaboration with the suppliers.

Success Factors Learning is a password-protected learning platform that we offer to our distribution and sales partners so that they can receive further training and become qualified with respect to our products and services. You can check the learning platform at any time to view the training seminars, tests and certificates you have completed.

myInfineon is the portal for the Infineon community like Infineon customer contacts and everyone who is interested in Infineon. To use this portal, you must register for a centrally managed user account within myInfineon. We use your personal data to provide you valuable information about applications and products, and can use integrated services like our newsletter management or expanded functions of our design tools within your personal area. Technical support for our products as well as a feedback form is also available via myInfineon. To improve and develop myInfineon we use your recommendations from the feedback form. The feedback form is a first party service.
 

You can manage and update your personal details in your profile. Let us know what interests you the most and enjoy a personalized user experience through us displaying content that is of special interest to you,  e.g. personalized documents, videos, webinars and product recommendations.

myICP (myInfineon Collaboration Platform) is a password-protected area within myInfineon that allows our distributors, existing and prospective customer contacts to access documents classified as confidential. Using myICP requires a centrally managed user account and separate permissions.
 

myICP creates user-based reports about the history of downloads and notifications sent to ensure compliance with the contractual obligations of Infineon at any time and to support business relations.

iTrack is a password-protected portal exclusively offered to customer contacts. iTrack is a collaboration platform which provides separated project spaces where you and all members of a project can participate and get in contact with Infineon FAE’s to receive exclusive customer support. Access to iTrack requires the registration for a centrally managed user account.

The Infineon Developer Center (IDC) offers you the service to register your evaluation board and to receive board related content like relevant documents based on your board registration information. In addition, the IDC offers various services to provide different content, such as tools, software packages and related information on updates and notes.

We process the following data:

  • (personal) data such as country of residence, company e-mail address, password for your login and other information that you voluntarily provide to us as part of the central account registration,
  • evaluation board registration information like your name and e-mail address including your preferences for receiving marketing information as well as the serial number and/or name of registered board,
  • browser information that is automatically sent to us by your web browser or terminal device, such as your IP address, device type, browser type as well as date and time of the respective visitor request
  • client information that is automatically sent to us when using the IDC and related tools like version information, tool installation and uninstallation information, summary information of installed tools and information of devices and products that you use IDC on or with,
  • information on whether you use specific features or functionality of IDC and related tools,
  • configuration data of your IDC and related tools including selection of products, parameters or similar data.

We process your personal data in particular to:

  • perform technical analyses to safeguard Infineon’s legitimate interests. Infineon has legitimate interests to provide, operate IDC and related content as well as to run performance, failure and/or security analyses.
  • to provide you exclusive content as a download file and grant you access to your personal project space where you can store all project relevant data in one place and share it with others, in each case by e-mail based on your voluntarily provided registration information.
  • To provide functions within the tools offered in the context of the Infineon Developer Center - in particular to provide you with exclusive and personalized recommendations, easy access to product-related updates, offers and services. This processing is based on the necessity of processing for the performance of a contract (Art. 6 para. 1 lit. b GDPR).
  • perform direct marketing activities via email and/or telephone carried out by Infineon or one of its licensed distributors and partners if you have given us your previous consent.


If you decided for ‘personalization’, we additionally process your personal data in particular to:

  • run personalized usage analysis and reporting,
  • improve and enhance IDC Ecosystems and offered content and to
  • troubleshoot IDC Ecosystems and offered content, either if you contact us via our support channels, or if we identify issues through our own efforts. if you have given us you prior consent to perform product usage analysis.

Our design tools (e.g. Infineon IPOSIM, Infineon Designer) are used to simulate the electrical, thermal and magnetic properties of our products and systems to find the best fit for your application.

If you have given us your cookie consent and after logging in into myInfineon, your input configurations (e.g., selected circuit topologies, input/output parameters and simulation methods) may be recorded within the design tools, and shared together with your email address and company information with our regional sales and marketing staff. In this way, they can accommodate your project-specific needs and requirements individually and provide you with the best possible support for your system implementation.

IPOSIM Lifetime Estimation Service

Lifetime Estimation Service is a new IPOSIM service that performs a series of automated simulations estimating the lifetime of Infineon´s power modules, based on the user´s mission profile input. The results are delivered as a pdf report.

Within our Software Development Kits (e.g., AURIX™ Development Studio, DAVE™ Integrated Development Environment) you can update or synchronize your software projects with our Infineon GitHub repositories by downloading the latest software and code examples. In this way your software projects use always the latest version. With GitHub usage data we may create anonymous usage statistics, which will be shared with Infineon sales and marketing staff to better understand programmer needs and improve future software developments.

Our Online Documentation Platform is a comprehensive online repository of technical documentations like application notes, code examples, reference designs and software guides.
 

This platform helps users to speed up design-in by finding all the development documentation they need in one place, complete with real time updates from our software and support teams based on inputs and questions from our Infineon Developer Community.

The CIRRENT™ Console is the portal for CIRRENT™ Cloud Software Services, including CIRRENT™ Product Analytics. CIRRENT™ Product Analytics is a software-as-a-service solution which allows customers to analyze data from their IoT devices and solve problems with networking and product performance.  On the CIRRENT™ Console we process your personal data like user login, user name, IP address and login date and time to provide you our services and to improve our CIRRENT™ products and services.

The IoT XENSIV™ portal is a cloud platform to provide a testing and evaluation environment for using the Infineon Smart Downlight device or IoT XENSIV™ Lighting development kit. This service is only available for selected customers for testing purposes. In order to be able to use this portal, you must register for a centrally managed user account. With this account you can access, manage and control your devices to visualize the people count and LED electrical status. The portal also provides an API for data access as well as for online and offline alerts.

Infineon’s brand portal is a restricted access platform for selected partners. For registration and administration purposes, we collect your e-mail address, first and last name and contact details based on your consent. You can have your profile changed or deleted at any time via brandportal@infineon.com, if there are no retention obligations.

In addition, we offer you the opportunity to subscribe to our newsletter. If you have given us your consent to send you our newsletter, your personal data will be processed based on your consent. You can revoke your consent at any time without affecting the lawfulness of the processing carried out so far. If you no longer wish to receive a newsletter in the future, you can unsubscribe at any time by e-mail via brandportal@infineon.com or via this link.

Via our “My brand training” function, you can optionally take a picture or use a picture of yourself at the end of a successfully completed training and add graphic elements (e.g. trophy, lettering, etc.). The images are only processed locally in your browser and are not transmitted to Infineon.

To place your application you have to register at our Applicant Portal. There you can enter, view, add, change and delete your personal data and your applications yourself at any time within your profile.

Only persons involved in the application process and supporting groups get access to your application and your personal data. The service provider is also obligated to comply with applicable data protection regulations. Since Infineon is a global group, it may be necessary to transfer personal data between Infineon entities. We assure you that all relevant data protection regulations are obeyed in such cases.

In case of an employment we will use your personal data from your application to perform the employment relationship with you.

If you want us to use your application data for other job offers that meet your qualification, we need your separate consent to do so. You may withdraw your consent any time. Therefore, your can contact recruiting@infineon.com or withdraw your consent directly within your profile tab. If you withdraw your consent for further storage and use of your application for other job offers, the application and the personal data will no longer be used for other job offers.

Infineon strives to offer the best user experience to both applicants and recruiters. In order to match application as favorably as possible to open positions, we use automation techniques, which however do not constitute profiling or automated decision-making according to Art. 22 GDPR.

For citizens of Mainland China:

When uploading your CV, please take care not to include any sensitive personal information about yourself, including but not limited to a personal photo, ID number, current salary, etc.

Please be aware that Infineon may transfer your personal information outside of China and provide the personal information to Infineon's overseas affiliated companies or other processors of personal information.

The Smart Application Enablement is a platform offering for building smart and connected applications using Infineon Hardware components. The platform is provided as a service to selected customers for testing purposes. The Smart Application Enablement Hackathon platform is the lite version of the Smart Application Enablement platform specifically targeted towards hackathons, makeathons and events. To be able to use the platforms, you must register for a myInfineon user account. With this account, you can access the platforms to create new IoT devices, onboard IoT devices, visualize data, share it with other users etc.. The platform give you the feature to add to your Amazon Web Services (AWS) account as a project where we would deploy the software resources needed for you to create different smart applications. On the platforms, we only process your personal data like user name, and email address to provide you our services.

myCases is a password-protected portal for Infineon customers to ask for technical support and manage their support tickets. Direct customers or distribution partners directly ordering from Infineon can additionally open inquiries on order management, sales support and failure analysis requests. To use this portal, you must register for a centrally managed user account, which allows you to use other services of Infineon as well.

Infineon’s virtual event platform enables a seamless event experience for customers, partners, contacts and interested parties in Infineon while extending the visit at the tradeshows that Infineon participates in. Whether you attend the tradeshows on-site or not, you are able to access Infineon´s tradeshow content through this platform. In order to use the platform, you must first register for a centrally managed user account. On the platform you can learn about Infineon´s products and solutions, find the relevant demos and information (including the product details, videos, 3D models and more) for your projects, and gain a deeper insight into all the tradeshow topics. You can use the contact area on the platform to get in touch with Infineon's experts if you have questions or would like to plan a project.

The Infineon Register Viewer offers a comprehensive online service that enables users to explore and configure Infineon device registers with ease and efficiency. By accepting our cookies, we can track your usage and understand how you interact with our platform and improve and optimize it accordingly to provide you with a better and more personalized experience.

Infineon provides a whistleblowing system to employees and external persons in order to receive, process and manage reports of queries concerning (potential) infringements or violations against legal and internal regulations. 

For this purpose, Infineon has established various communication channels (e.g. portal, e-mail, telephone, mail), which may vary depending on the region. For more details for your region, please click here.

In compliance with legal regulations reports can be submitted personalized or anonymously. In any case, your data will be treated confidentially and processed securely.

We will process your data to optimize and market products and services by using Lead Forensics. Lead Forensics is capable of identifying several information about your organization, including its name, general contact number, web address, SIC code, and a description of the company. Lead Forensics can provide a detailed report of your site visit, which includes the pages you visited and how much time you spent on each page. Your IP addresses will be anonymized immediately after collection. Lead Forensics will use the data collected to assess your website visit and create reports on site activity on behalf of Infineon. If you disagree with this process, you can object to the collection, processing, and storage of data by clicking on the following link, which will have an effect on future activities: https://optout.leadforensics.com/?clientID=782224 

Infineon uses Cisco Webex as platform for video conferencing and real-time collaboration. This service allows users to connect via voice and video, chat, and file sharing in virtual meeting rooms. All communications between participants are encrypted, except for voice communications from and to users dialing in over the public telephone network. Infineon will control all information related to the meetings subject to our company policies.
 

Connection data will be stored exclusively for the purpose of failure analysis for a maximum period of 12 months. Use of the voice, image, text, and data transmission features is voluntary and may be controlled by the user. Chat and documents will be stored in the cloud and can be deleted by the user. Voice and video will by default not persistently be stored. Please be aware that copies of your information may persist to the extent it has been shared with others.

The Infineon Academy is a password-protected learning platform that we offer to our customers, distribution and sales partners so that they can receive further training and become qualified with respect to our products and services. You can check the learning platform at any time to view the training seminars, tests and certificates you have completed. Data may be used for marketing purposes and campaigns (only if required Opt-ins are available).

Cookies and similar technologies

On this website we use Google Analytics, a web analysis service provided by Google Inc., 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, United States ("Google").
 

Google analyses your use of this website on behalf of Infineon. For this purpose, the following data are collected and transmitted to a Google server in the USA, which is not currently considered a safe third country, where the data are stored, analyzed and made available to us in anonymous form: information about your use of this website, the type and version of browser you use, the operating system you use, your language settings, the date and time of your query and the referrer URL (previously visited website). Google places a permanent cookie in your Internet browser for this purpose. With the help of this cookie, it is also possible to recognize your browser when you visit this website again.

We have activated the IP anonymization function offered by Google on this website so that your IP address is shortened by Google within member states of the European Union or the EEA (European Economic Area) and only transmitted to the USA in anonymized form. Only in exceptional cases the full IP address will be transmitted to a Google server in the USA and shortened there. Google might use this data for its own purposes, such as profiling, and might link it to other data, such as Google accounts. We have contractually agreed appropriate security measures with Google for these cases.

The IP address of your browser, which is collected by Google Analytics, is not merged with other data from Google.

We use Google Analytics to analyze the use of our website and to improve it regularly. The statistics obtained allow us to improve our services and make them more interesting for you as a user.
 

Additionally, we use the data collected by Google Analytics together with Google Optimize, a sub-service of Google Analytics. With the help of an additional cookie, Google Optimize enables us to display different versions of our website and test the reaction of the users to it. This data is statistically analyzed by us in order to improve the user experience and usability of our website.

You can generally revoke your consent to web analysis by Google at any time by downloading and installing the available Google browser plug-in. This option prevents web analysis only as long as you use a browser on which you have installed the plugin and as long as you do not delete the opt-out cookie.

Further information on data protection and the security of your data at Google Analytics can be found here. Please also read Google's privacy policy. 

Third party information: Google Dublin, Google Ireland Ltd, Gordon House, Barrow Street, Dublin 4, Ireland, Fax: +353 (1) 436 1001. Terms of use: https://marketingplatform.google.com/about/analytics/terms/us/

The Google Tag Manager is a solution that allows us to implement, trigger and manage so-called website tags via an interface. Therefore, we can integrate Google Analytics and other services (which also may collect data) into our online offering. The Tag Manager itself does not process any personal user data.

The usage guidelines can be found at: https://www.google.com/analytics/tag-manager/use-policy.

This website uses Google Ads (a service of Google) and Microsoft Advertising (a service of Microsoft) for conversion tracking. When you click an advertisement placed by Google or Microsoft, a conversion tracking cookie is set. This enables Google or Microsoft and us to recognize that someone has clicked an ad, was transferred to our website, and reached a predetermined target site (landing page). We only learn the total number of users who clicked on a Google or Microsoft ad and were transferred to the conversion site. No personal information about the user’s identity is disclosed.
 

If you are not interested in the services of Google Ads and/or Microsoft Advertising in general, you can object to their use by deactivating cookies in your browser settings. More information about data protection can be found under the following links:

For Google Ads: https://policies.google.com/privacy?hl=en

For Microsoft Advertising: https://privacy.microsoft.com/en-us/privacystatement

Our website uses the remarketing or "similar target groups" function of Google Inc. ("Google").

This allows us to target visitors to our website with personalizes, interest-based advertisements when they visit other websites in the Google Display Network. Google uses "cookies" to analyze how users use the site, which is the basis for creating interest-based advertising. For this purpose Google stores a small file with a sequence of numbers in the browsers of our website visitors. This number is used to record visits to our website and anonymous data on the use of the website. There is no storage of personal data about the visitors of our website. If you visit another website in the Google Display Network, you will see advertisements that most likely include previously viewed product and information areas. You are and remain anonymous to us throughout the entire process. If you have given Google permission to do so, Google will link your web and app browsing history to your Google Account. In this way, the same personalized advertising messages can be displayed on every device you sign in to with your Google Account. Google's authentication mechanisms used for this purpose are not shared with us. Google is solely responsible for this.
 

You can permanently deactivate the use of cookies by Google by following the link below and downloading and installing the plug-in provided there:

https://support.google.com/ads/answer/7395996?hl=en.

Further information on data protection and the security of your data in Google Remarketing is available here. Please also read the Google privacy policy.

On this website we use the Facebook pixel, an analytics tool from Facebook Ireland Ltd., 4 Grand Canal Square, Grand Canal Harbor, Dublin 2 Ireland (Facebook). This enables us to show visitors of our website relevant Infineon advertisements (so-called “Facebook ads”) on Facebook.
 

We use the Facebook pixel, which is essentially a piece of tracking code, to measure the effectiveness of our Facebook advertising campaigns and to optimize our ads offering. For this purpose, we track and send Facebook information about your activities on our website and other personal data you may leave there. This includes, for example, your Facebook ID, your IP address, information about your browser and the buttons you click on our website, registration information and the pages within our website you visit. We use the data collected to create Facebook advertisements, displayed only on Facebook, to purposefully target users of our website, in order to make our services and offers more interesting for you.
 

When you visit our website, the Facebook pixel is triggered and your browser automatically establishes a direct connection with the Facebook server. We have no influence on the scope and further use of the data that is collected by Facebook through the use of the pixel. By integrating Facebook Custom Audiences, Facebook receives the information that you have accessed a corresponding online offer from us, or clicked on an advertisement from us. If you are registered with Facebook, Facebook can assign the visit to your account. Even if you are not registered with Facebook or have not logged in, there is a possibility that the provider will save your IP address and other identification features. The Facebook pixel enables the measurement, evaluation and optimization of the effectiveness of Facebook advertisements for both statistical and market research purposes. We only receive reports from Facebook in an anonymous, aggregated format.
 

Here you can revoke at any time your consent to using the Facebook pixel:
 

https://www.facebook.com/login.php?next=https%3A%2F%2F
 

To do this, you need to be logged in to your Facebook account.
 

Further information on data protection at Facebook can be found here. Please also read the privacy policy of Facebook.

We use LinkedIn Insight Tag, an analytics tool provided by LinkedIn Ireland, Wilton Plaza, Wilton Place, Dublin 2, Ireland, to track website conversions tied to our LinkedIn ads. For example, LinkedIn can track when a user clicks on our LinkedIn ad and visits our website. For example, your IP address, device and browser properties, a time stamp and page activities are collected and processed.
 

In order to evaluate our advertising campaigns on LinkedIn, LinkedIn provides us with your data in an anonymous, aggregated format. We collect statistical information about website visitors, who have reached us via our LinkedIn campaigns.
 

In this context, we would like to inform you that this data may be stored and processed by LinkedIn for its own use, and the data may be assigned to your profile. Further information on data protection at LinkedIn can be found here. Further information on conversion tracking can be found here.
 

If you are not interested in the services provided by LinkedIn, you can object to their usage under the following link: https://www.linkedin.com/psettings/guest-controls/retargeting-opt-out

We use Hotjar, a web analytics service of Hotjar Ltd (Hotjar Ltd, Level 2, St Julians Business Centre, 3, Elia Zammit Street, St Julians STJ 1000, Malta). With Hotjar's technology we get a better understanding of our users' experiences (e.g. how much time users spend on which pages, what links they click, what they like and don't like, etc.). This helps us understand our users and to tailor our service to our users' feedback. It is also possible to ask for direct feedback from our users.
 

Hotjar uses cookies and other technologies to collect data about the behaviour of our users and their devices. Hotjar stores this information in a pseudonymized user profile. With the help of these profiles, we can only trace the course of your mouse, track and recognize which buttons are clicked, what screen size your device has, which browser you use and where your geographical location (country only) is. Areas of the website where personal information about you is displayed are automatically hidden by Hotjar and therefore cannot be traced at any time. In order to exclude the possibility of direct personal references, IP addresses are only stored and processed anonymously.

You can completely prevent the use of Hotjar for your device. To do this, please visit https://www.hotjar.com/privacy/do-not-track/.

We use Eloqua, a service provided by Oracle, to personalize communication with you. When you visit the Infineon website for the first time, a cookie of third-party provider Oracle will be stored in your browser. This cookie is used to record the pages you visit during your session. Although this cookie is set on many other third-party websites, the information about your visit to the Infineon website is visible to Infineon only and not shared with other users of the Eloqua system. Likewise, it is not possible for Infineon to use this cookie to record or view information about your visits to other websites.
 

Although this cookie does not contain any specific personal information, it may be possible to establish a connection to a person by subsequently linking the data with other information. If you provide Infineon with personal information by filling out a form on our website, this information may be combined with the browser information recorded by the Eloqua cookie. The information thus collected is used to improve the services we offer, including whether and how we communicate with you, and personalization of the content of such communication. We try to tailor this communication to your personal interests, as gleaned from your visits to the Infineon website or from the profile settings you have selected, thus focusing as far as possible only on offerings and promotional campaigns that we believe are of interest to you.

If you want to completely prevent the use of Eloqua cookies and tracking technologies for your device, you can do so on the Eloqua opt-out page: https://www.oracle.com/marketingcloud/opt-status.html. 

We also use Quantcast services on our website to collect statistical data on the usage of our web offerings in order to improve them accordingly for you. If you do not want to participate in general, you can click this opt-out link: https://www.quantcast.de/opt-out/.

When you visit the Infineon website for the first time, the myInfineon cookie will be stored in your browser. This cookie is a first-party cookie and is used to record the visited pages of the Infineon website during your session; excluding third parties websites. The collected data is stored in the myInfineon cookie, which is located in your web-browser. Initially, Infineon has no access to this data.
 

Although this cookie does not contain any specific personal information about you as a person (e.g. your name, e-mail address or IP address), it may be possible to establish a connection to you as a person by subsequently linking the data with other information about you. If you, for example, logon to myInfineon, your user name might be combined with the browser information recorded by the myInfineon cookie.

The information thus collected is used provide you a personalized and customized myInfineon user experience, especially by displaying a personalized myInfineon dashboard. We also use these data to improve our myInfineon services for you.

If you do not want to participate, you can manage your cookie preferences here or deactivate cookies.

On this website, we use Reddit Ads from Reddit, Inc, 548 Market St. #16093, San Francisco, California 94104 (Reddit). In addition, we use a Reddit pixel to track website conversions associated with Reddit Ads. For example, Reddit can track when a user clicks on our Reddit Ad and visits our website.
 

We use the Reddit Pixel, which is essentially a tracking code, to measure the effectiveness of our Reddit advertising campaigns and to optimize our ad offering. For this purpose, we track and submit to Reddit information about your activities on our website and other personal data you leave there. This includes, for example, your Reddit ID, your IP address, information about your browser and the buttons you click on our website, registration information, and the pages you visit within our website. We use the data collected to create Reddit ads that are displayed only on Reddit to target users of our website and to make our services and offers more interesting for you.

When you visit our website, the Reddit pixel is triggered and your browser automatically establishes a direct connection with the Reddit server. We have no influence on the scope and further use of the data collected by Reddit through the use of the pixel. If you are registered on Reddit, Reddit can assign the visit to your account. Even if you are not registered with Reddit or have not logged in, it is possible that the provider stores your IP address and other identification features. The Reddit pixel enables the measurement, evaluation and optimization of the effectiveness of Reddit advertisements for both statistical and market research purposes. We only receive reports from Reddit in anonymized, aggregated form.

You can change personal settings here: https://www.reddit.com/personalization/

You can find more information about Reddit's privacy policy here. Also read Reddit's privacy policy.

External Services or Content on our Website

If you use the below mentioned services, you will access the website via a frame. We have no influence on the scope of your personal data being processed and the handling of your data by the mentioned service providers, which result from access to the website. The mentioned service providers are themselves legally responsible for this. You can find more information on how your personal data is handled here:
 

The social media links embedded on our website (Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn, X, Reddit, TikTok, YouTube etc.) are not integrated via so-called plug-ins. When you visit our website, no direct link to social media servers will be established. When you click a social media button, you will be transferred to the selected social media service. Infineon accepts no responsibility for the content of other providers’ websites.