Privacy Policy
Last updated: August 11, 2026
AutosNova (“AutosNova”, “we”, “us”, or “our”) respects your privacy and is committed to protecting your personal data.
This Privacy Policy explains how we collect, use, store, share, and protect personal data when you visit or interact with our website, autosnova.eu (the “Website”). AutosNova is an educational platform that helps visitors understand autonomous vehicles, the future of mobility, and related transport technologies.
1. Who We Are
Data Controller: AutosNova
Website: https://autosnova.eu
Email: info@autosnova.eu
Location: Ireland
For questions about this Privacy Policy or how we handle your personal data, please contact us at info@autosnova.eu.
2. Information We Collect
Depending on how you use the Website, we may collect the following categories of information:
Information You Provide Directly
- Your name, email address, and message content when you contact us through a form or by email.
- Your email address and any preferences you provide when subscribing to updates or a newsletter, if this feature is available.
- Feedback, quiz responses, survey responses, or usability-testing information where you choose to submit it.
- Any information you voluntarily provide through social-media interactions, direct messages, or comments.
Information Collected Automatically
When you browse the Website, we may collect limited technical and usage information, such as:
- Your IP address.
- Browser type, device type, operating system, and screen size.
- Pages viewed, links clicked, approximate time spent on pages, and referring website.
- Date, time, and general location derived from IP address.
- Cookie and consent preferences.
We do not intentionally collect special-category personal data, such as health information, religious beliefs, political opinions, or biometric data.
3. How We Use Your Information
We may use your personal data to:
- Operate, maintain, secure, and improve the Website.
- Respond to messages, enquiries, feedback, or support requests.
- Send updates or newsletters where you have opted in.
- Understand how visitors use our educational content, including our automation-level guides and AV comparison tool.
- Evaluate and improve the accessibility, clarity, performance, and user experience of the Website.
- Monitor technical issues, prevent misuse, and protect the security of the Website.
- Meet legal obligations or respond to lawful requests.
AutosNova does not sell your personal data.
4. Legal Bases for Processing
Where the GDPR applies, we process personal data only where we have a valid legal basis:
| Purpose | Legal Basis |
|---|---|
| Replying to an enquiry or message | Legitimate interests or steps taken at your request |
| Operating and securing the Website | Legitimate interests |
| Essential cookies needed for website functionality | Legitimate interests and/or necessity to provide the requested service |
| Analytics cookies and non-essential tracking | Your consent |
| Newsletter or marketing emails | Your consent |
| Legal compliance, record-keeping, or responding to legal claims | Legal obligation or legitimate interests |
You may withdraw consent at any time. Withdrawal does not affect processing that was lawful before consent was withdrawn.
5. Cookies and Tracking
AutosNova may use cookies and similar technologies to make the Website work, remember preferences, understand website performance, and, where enabled, measure engagement.
Cookies that are strictly necessary for the Website to function may be placed without consent. Non-essential cookies, including analytics and marketing cookies, are only placed if you give clear consent through our cookie banner, in line with Irish Data Protection Commission guidance that consent for non-essential tracking must be freely given, specific, informed, unambiguous, and given through a clear affirmative action.
When you first visit the Website, you can choose to:
- Accept optional cookies.
- Reject optional cookies.
- Manage cookie preferences by category.
- Change or withdraw your consent at any time through our cookie settings.
Cookie Categories
| Category | Purpose | Consent Required |
|---|---|---|
| Strictly necessary | Supports core functions, security, and your selected privacy preferences | No, where strictly necessary |
| Functional | Remembers optional settings and improves your experience | Yes, unless strictly necessary |
| Analytics | Helps us understand visitor behaviour and improve our content | Yes |
| Marketing | Measures campaigns or provides personalised advertising | Yes |
6. Analytics and Third-Party Services
We may use carefully selected third-party service providers to support the Website, including:
- Website hosting provider: a GDPR-compliant hosting company responsible for keeping the Website online and secure.
- WordPress and website plugins: used to operate, display, and secure the Website.
- Analytics tools: where enabled, used to understand how visitors use our educational content, such as which automation-level guides or comparison tools are most popular.
- Email or newsletter provider: used only if you choose to subscribe to updates from AutosNova.
- Embedded content providers: such as YouTube, Vimeo, or Google Maps, if embedded content is enabled on the Website.
Third-party providers may process personal data only as needed to provide their services, under their own privacy notices and applicable contractual safeguards. Where embedded third-party content is used, it may set cookies or receive information about your visit; where required, we will ask for your consent before loading non-essential embedded content.
7. Sharing Your Data
We may share personal data with:
- Hosting, technical-support, security, analytics, and email service providers.
- Professional advisers where necessary, including legal, accounting, or insurance advisers.
- Public authorities, regulators, or law-enforcement bodies where legally required.
- A successor organisation in the event of a restructuring, merger, or transfer of assets.
We do not share personal data with third parties for their own direct-marketing purposes unless you have separately agreed to this.
8. International Transfers
Some service providers may process personal data outside the European Economic Area (“EEA”). Where this happens, we take appropriate steps to protect your data, such as relying on an adequacy decision, standard contractual clauses, or another lawful transfer mechanism. Contact us at info@autosnova.eu for more information about international transfers and the safeguards used.
9. How Long We Keep Data
We retain personal data only for as long as necessary for the purposes described in this policy, unless a longer period is required by law. Typical retention periods include:
- Contact-form messages: up to 12 months after resolving your enquiry.
- Newsletter subscriber information: until you unsubscribe or withdraw consent.
- Analytics data: up to 14 months, depending on your selected analytics settings.
- Cookie preferences: up to 12 months.
- Security and technical logs: up to 12 months, unless required for an investigation or legal obligation.
We may retain anonymised or aggregated information that can no longer identify you for research, evaluation, and website-improvement purposes.
10. Your Rights
Subject to applicable law, you may have the right to:
- Request access to the personal data we hold about you.
- Ask us to correct inaccurate or incomplete data.
- Request deletion of your data in certain circumstances.
- Ask us to restrict how we process your data.
- Object to processing based on our legitimate interests.
- Withdraw consent at any time where processing is based on consent.
- Request a portable copy of certain data you have provided to us.
- Complain to a data-protection authority.
To exercise any of these rights, email us at info@autosnova.eu. We may need to verify your identity before completing your request.
If you are in Ireland or the EEA and are unhappy with how we handle your personal data, you can lodge a complaint with the Irish Data Protection Commission:
Data Protection Commission
21 Fitzwilliam Square South, Dublin 2, D02 RD28, Ireland
Website: www.dataprotection.ie
11. Children’s Privacy
AutosNova is designed for a general audience and is not intended to knowingly collect personal data from children under the age of 16 without appropriate consent where required by law. If you believe that a child has provided us with personal data without appropriate permission, contact us at info@autosnova.eu, and we will take reasonable steps to delete it.
12. Security
We use reasonable technical and organisational measures to protect personal data against accidental loss, unauthorised access, alteration, disclosure, or destruction. However, no website, internet transmission, or storage system can be guaranteed completely secure, and you should avoid sending sensitive personal information through ordinary contact forms or unencrypted email.
13. Links to Other Websites
The Website may link to third-party websites or social-media platforms. We are not responsible for their content, security, or privacy practices. Please read the privacy policy of any external site before submitting personal data.
14. Changes to This Policy
We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time to reflect changes to the Website, the services we use, or legal requirements. The “Last updated” date at the top of this page shows when the policy was most recently changed. We encourage you to review this policy periodically.
15. Contact Us
If you have questions, requests, or concerns about this Privacy Policy, contact:
AutosNova
Email: info@autosnova.eu
Website: https://autosnova.eu