We welcome you to our website and thank you for your interest in our company and our products.
The protection of your privacy when processing personal data as well as the security of all business data are important issues to us, which we consider in our business processes.
General Information
We, Scintilla AG (Bosch Power Tool Accessories), are responsible for processing your personal data on this website.
Our contact details are as follows:
Scintilla AG
Widistrasse 9
CH-4528 Zuchwil
E-Mail: contact@ch.bosch.com
For some processing activities, we can act as Joint Controller (according to Article 26 EU-GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation of the European Union)) together with other entities that are part of the Bosch group. Additionally, some data might be shared between multiple Bosch entities acting as independent Controllers. Please refer in both cases to the section “Data transfer to other controllers”, to learn more about processing activities in which we process your personal data jointly or independently with other Bosch entities.
1.1. Children
Please note that this website is not intended for children.
1.2. Categories of personal data
We process the following categories of personal data:
1.3 Duration of storage, retention periods
We store your data for as long as is necessary to provide our website and the associated services or for as long as we have a legitimate interest in continuing to store your data (e.g., we may still have a legitimate interest in postal marketing even after a contract has been fulfilled). In all other cases we delete your personal data except for such data that we are obliged to store in order to fulfill legal obligations (e.g., we are obliged to retain documents such as contracts and invoices for a certain period due to retention periods under tax and commercial law).
1.4 Data transfer to other controllers
In general, your personal data will only be transferred to other controllers if this is necessary for the fulfillment of a contract, if we or the third party have a legitimate interest in the transfer, or if you have given your consent. For details on the legal basis and the recipients or categories of recipients, please refer to the section Processing purposes and legal basis.
Additionally, data may be transferred to other controllers if we are obliged to do so by law or by enforceable official or court order.
For some processing activities, we process personal data jointly with one or multiple Bosch group entities. In these cases, the involved parties have jointly determined the purposes and the means of processing your personal data. The following table shall serve as an overview about potential processing activities under Joint Controllership in which multiple Bosch entities are involved. Please pay attention to the last column of the table “reference section”).
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Processing activity |
Involved parties |
Description of the joint processing |
Reference Section |
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Newsletter |
Us and all entities stated in the consent text you accepted |
Your personal data collected via your registration to our newsletter is made available to all Involved parties. The database is used jointly to enable each individual party to send out newsletter or initiate other marketing activities as described in the newsletter registration form. The involved parties therefore process the data to improve their individual sales and increase their market presence. |
Newsletter |
In addition to the responsibilities for the individual processing activities set out in the table above, the following applies:
- The involved parties shall provide you as data subject with the information required under Articles 13 and 14 GDPR in a precise, transparent, understandable and easily accessible form in clear and simple language free of charge. Each party shall provide the other involved party with all necessary information from its sphere of activity.
- The involved parties shall inform each other without undue delay of any data subject rights asserted by you as a data subject. They shall provide each other with all information required to respond to your requests for information.
- You assert your data subject rights directly against each involved party at any time.
1.5 Independent Controllership
If one of the parties mentioned above processes independently (for its own purposes) of the other party your personal data for the purposes stated in the table above, this is done under independent Controllership. In this case, the reference sections apply only to the respective entity processing your personal data. Only the parties mentioned above might process your personal data in independent Controllership. In addition, for marketing related communication, we state the Controllership in each marketing communication itself.
We involve external service providers with tasks such as sales and marketing services, contract management, payment handling, programming, data hosting and hotline services. We have carefully selected these service providers and monitor them regularly, in particular their careful handling and safeguarding of the data stored with them. All service providers are obliged to maintain confidentiality and to comply with the statutory provisions. Service providers may also be other companies from the Bosch Group.
We may transfer personal data to recipients located outside Switzerland and the EEA into third countries. In such cases, we ensure before the transfer that either the data recipient provides an adequate level of data protection or that your consent to the transfer has been obtained.
You can obtain a copy of the appropriate or suitable safeguards. Please use the information mentioned in the Contact section for this purpose.
We and service providers contracted by us process your personal data for the following processing purposes:
4.1 Provision of this online offer
Legal basis: Legitimate interest on our part in direct marketing, as long as this is done in accordance with data protection and competition law requirements.
4.2 Answering user inquiries as part of a contact form
Legal basis: Legitimate interest on our part in marketing and in improving our products and services, as long as this is done in accordance with data protection and competition law requirements or contract performance or consent.
4.3 To respond to user queries in the context of a chatbot
Legal basis: Our legitimate interest in improving our products and services or consent.
4.4 To identify faults and for safety reasons
Legal basis: Fulfilment of our legal obligations in the area of data security and legitimate interest in the elimination of disruptions and the security of our offers.
4.5 Self-advertising and third-party advertising as well as market research and
reach measurement to the extent permitted by law or on the basis of consent
Legal basis: Consent or legitimate interest on our part in direct marketing, as long as this is done in accordance with data protection and competition law requirements.
4.6 Safeguarding and defending our rights
Legal basis: legitimate interest on our part in asserting and defending our rights.
4.7 Sending newsletters
Legal basis: Article 31 (2) (a) FADP following. a) Federal Act on Data Protection; if you live within the European Economic Area, the legal basis for the processing is regulated, acc.
Art. 6 (1) (a) GDPR (consent – marketing-related processing to which you have consented), Art. 6 (1) (f) GDPR (legitimate interest – storage of data and marketing use) and Art. 6 (1) (c) GDPR (legal obligation – fulfilment of the legal obligation with regard to the storage of some data)
If you use our website solely for information purposes, that is, without registering or otherwise sending us information, we process your personal data to provide this website based on our legitimate interest to present us and to ensure stability and security.
6.1 Participation in product and customer surveys
On our website, you have the opportunity to participate in product and customer surveys. These surveys are generally anonymized.
If we conduct a product and customer survey by mail, we enable you to participate by using your personal data from an existing contractual relationship. The legal basis for this processing is our legitimate interest to optimize our own products and services, to develop new products and services and thus to maintain your satisfaction.
If you wish to participate in an electronic (e.g., by e-mail) or telephone product and customer survey, we will only contact you for this purpose with your express consent. Even if you have consented to be contacted, your participation in the survey is voluntary.
6.2. Prize draws, contests or discount promotions
If you participate in a prize draw, contest or a discount promotion from us, we will use your personal data to carry out the prize draw, contest/discount promotion. The details of which personal data we process for this purpose can be found in the respective registration form of the prize draw, contest / discount promotion. Further information on the price draw, contest or discount promotion can be found in the respective Terms and Conditions.
6.3. Newsletter
You can subscribe to newsletters as part of our website. We send these newsletters based on your consent.
To confirm your consent, we use a double opt-in procedure, according to which we will only send you a newsletter by e-mail if you have previously expressly confirmed the activation of the newsletter service by clicking on a link in a notification mail.
You can stop receiving the newsletter at any time by revoking your consent. The revocation takes place for e-mail newsletters via the link contained in the newsletter. Alternatively, please contact us using the details in the Contact section.
In order to design our newsletter according to demand and to optimize our offers, we analyze the reading behavior in our newsletters based on consent. For this analysis, the newsletters contain web beacons, also called pixels.
When you read the newsletter, we record which links you click on in the newsletter and infer your personal interests from this. We link this data with technical information about your terminal device (e.g., time of retrieval, browser type and operating system).
This analysis does not take place if you revoke your consent or have deactivated the display of images by default in your e-mail program. In this case, the newsletter will not be displayed to you in full and you may not be able to use all the functions. As soon as you display the images, the analysis just described will be reactivated.
We may also process your personal data to investigate service disruptions and for security reasons to comply with our legal obligations in the area of data security, as well as on the basis of our legitimate interest in the elimination of service disruptions and the security of our offers.
We may process your personal data to protect and defend our rights. This purpose also constitutes our legitimate interest.
Every time you use the internet, certain information is automatically transmitted by your internet browser and stored in log files.
Log files are stored by us for the purpose of investigating service disruptions and for security reasons (e.g., to clarify attempted attacks) for a period of 90 days. Log files whose further storage is necessary for the purpose of evidence are exempt from deletion until the final clarification of the respective incident and may be passed on to investigative authorities in individual cases.
The following information is stored in the log files:
9.1. Use of Cookies and other technologies
In the course of providing our website, cookies and other technologies may be used that either store information on your terminal equipment or gain access to information stored on your terminal equipment.
Cookies are small text files that can be stored on your end device when you visit a website.
The use of our website is possible without cookies that are not technically necessary.
9.2. Technical necessary mechanisms
By technically necessary cookies, we mean cookies without which the technical provision of the website cannot be guaranteed. This includes, for example, cookies that store data in order to ensure the interference-free playback of video or audio content.
These cookies are deleted at the end of your visit.
9.3. Technically not necessary mechanisms
We only use technically not necessary cookies and tracking mechanisms if you have given us your prior consent.
The only exception to this is the cookie that stores the current status of your privacy settings (selection cookie).
We use third-party tools to integrate technically not necessary cookies and mechanisms. These tools ensure that technically not necessary cookies and mechanisms are only set with your consent.
We use the following tools:
Name: Tealium
Provider: Tealium Inc., 11095 Torreyana Road San Diego, CA 92121
Function: Management of website tags via an interface, integration of program codes on our websites
9.3.1 Analysis
We use analysis tools to improve our products and services. We measure, for example, the number of page views or your behavior on our website. This may also include the evaluation of log files.
9.3.2 Conversion Tracking
Our conversion tracking partners place a cookie on your computer ("conversion cookie") if you have reached our website via an advertisement of the respective partner.
If you visit certain websites of ours, we and the respective conversion-tracking provider can recognize that a certain user clicked on the ad and was thus redirected to our site. This may also take place across devices.
The information collected using the conversion cookie is used to create conversion statistics and to record the total number of users who clicked on the relevant ad and were redirected to a page tagged with a conversion tracking tag.
9.3.3 Retargeting
Retargeting tools use advertising cookies or third-party advertising cookies, web beacons (invisible graphics also known as pixels or tracking pixels), or similar technologies to create user profiles.
These are used for interest-based advertising and to control the frequency with which the user sees certain ads.
We use the following tools:
Name: Google Analytics 4
Provider: Google Ireland Limited, Gordon House, Barrow Street, Dublin 4, Ireland
Function: Analyze user behavior (page views, number of visitors and visits, downloads), create pseudonymous user profiles based on cross-device information of logged-in Google users (cross-device tracking), enrich pseudonymous user data with target group-specific information provided by Google, retargeting, UX testing, conversion tracking and retargeting.
Additional information: We use the "anonymize IP" function, which anonymizes your IP address before writing it to disc.
We use the paid version of Google Analytics, in which the data collected on our website via Google Analytics is stored on own Google servers. Google may not use this data for its own purposes or mix it with other data that Google collects about you in other ways, such as when you are logged into your Google account on your browser while visiting our website.
Name: Google Floodlight
Provider: Google Ireland Limited, Gordon House, Barrow Street, Dublin 4, Ireland
Function: Placement of advertisements, remarketing, conversion tracking
Name: Meta Pixel
Provider: Meta Platforms Ireland Limited Merrion Road Dublin 4. Dublin D04 X2K5 Ireland
Function: "Meta" processes your personal data on the basis of your consent via the Meta-Pixel to create campaign reports, track conversions, click events as well as targeted advertising outside our websites (retargeting) using HTTP headers (including IP address, device and browser properties, URL, referrer URL, your person), pixel-specific data (including pixel ID and facebook cookie), click behavior, optional values (for example, conversions, page type), form field names (such as "email", "address", "quantity" for the purchase of a product or service).
We do not receive any personal data from you from "Meta", only anonymized campaign reports about website audience and ad performance.
You may opt-out of receiving interest-based ads from “Meta” by changing your advertising preferences directly on facebook or Instagram. Alternatively, you can opt-out of third-party cookie use by visiting the Digital Advertising Alliance opt-out page at http://optout.aboutads.info/?c=2&lang=EN or the http://www.youronli-nechoices.com page.
Managing cookies and tracking mechanisms
In the browser and/or in our Privacy Settings, you can manage your cookie and tracking mechanism settings.
Please note: The settings you make each apply only to the browser you are using.
If you would like to disable all cookies, please go to your browser settings and disable the setting of cookies. Please note that this may affect the functionality of this website.
You must provide those personal data that are required for the establishment and implementation of a business relationship and for the fulfillment of the associated contractual obligations or for the processing of which we are legally obligated.
We mark such personal data in the respective forms or functions with an *.
Please note that without the provision of such personal data, we will not be able to enter into or perform a contract with you. In this case, certain services (see "Processing purposes and legal basis") cannot be used.
Our websites may contain links to internet pages of third parties, in particular providers who are not related to us. Upon clicking on the link, we have no influence on the collecting, processing and use of personal data possibly transmitted by clicking on the link to the third party (such as the IP address or the URL of the site on which the link is located) as the conduct of third parties is beyond our control. We do not assume responsibility for the processing of personal data by third parties.
Please use the information in the Contact section to assert your rights. When doing so, please ensure that we can clearly identify you.
You have the right to request access to the personal data concerning you, as well as the right to rectification, the right to erasure, the right to restriction of processing and the right to data portability. Insofar as you have given us consent to process your personal data, you may revoke this consent at any time with future effect.
13.1. Objection to direct marketing
You can object to the processing of your personal data for advertising purposes ("advertising objection") at any time. Please note that, for organizational reasons, there may be an overlap between your objection and the use of your data in the context of an already ongoing campaign.
13.2. Objection to data processing based on "legitimate interest"
If the processing of your personal data is based on “legitimate interest”, you also have the right to object to the processing of your personal data at any time on grounds relating to your particular situation. The reasons shall be stated.
We will then terminate processing your data unless we can prove - in accordance with the legal requirements - compelling legitimate grounds for the processing which override your rights.
13.3. Right to lodge complaint with supervisory authority
You have the right to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority. Federal Data Protection and Information Commissioner
Feldeggweg 1
CH - 3003 Bern
Phone: +41 (0) 58 0462 43 95
If you wish to contact us, please find us at the address stated in the Controller section.
To assert your rights and to notify data protection incidents please use the following link:
https://www.bkms-system.net/bosch-dataprotection
For suggestions and complaints regarding the processing of your personal data we recommend that you contact our data protection officer:
Data Protection Officer
Information Security and Privacy (C/ISP)
Robert Bosch GmbH
P.O. Box 30 02 20
70442 Stuttgart, GERMANY
Or
mail to: DPO@bosch.com
We reserve the right to change our security and data protection measures. In such cases, we will amend our Data Protection Notice accordingly. Therefore, please note the current version of our Data Protection Notice, as it is subject to change.
Published: [24 04 2025]