Product/Version

Interfaces To Insurance Companies

Function as provided in November 2014

Qualification: IT-based service

View the Carglass Interfaces to Insurance Companies Certificate

Cert. No.

EP-S-8V636C

Validity

13/01/2015 - 31/01/2017

Monitoring

09/2015 (O.K.)

05/2016 (O.K.)

Public report

Interfaces To Insurance Companies Short Public Report   

Manufacturer/Provider

Carglass GmbH
Godorfer Hauptstr. 175
50997 Köln

Germany

BEST

Employees of insurance companies who use the web portal www.carglass4partners.de are informed about relevant data protection requirements concerning the transfer of personal data on vehicle owners to Carglass by means of a detailed and comprehensible data protection leaflet. The leaflet is available at www.carglass4partners.de/datenschutz/merkblatt.html.

ATTENTION:

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Summary

The focus of the services that are provided by Carglass GmbH is on the repair or replacement of car windows. Providing the services, Carglass aims at assisting its customers in the overall process which involves communication with vehicle insurance companies. The main purpose of this communication is to clarify whether in a given case the relevant vehicle insurance company will accept the cost of repair.

Details

The target of evaluation comprises the interfaces between Carglass GmbH and vehicle insurance companies. The data exchance that is made over these interfaces serves the following purposes:

1. Clarification whether the relevant insurance company will accept the cost of repair (if not, customers will have to pay for Carglass' services themselves),
2. Transmission of notice of damage of glass (to be signed by the customer - vehicle owner) from Carglass to the relevant insurance company,
3. Billing between Carglass and insurance company after the repair of a glass damage,  
4. Transmission of personal data about prospective customers from insurance companies to Carglass (employees of insurance companies may receive a commission when advising vehicle owners to rely on Carglass).

The ToE includes:

1. Technical interfaces between Carglass and insurance companies for the purpose of sending requests for acceptance of cost of repair and receiving answers to these requests; 
2. The web portal www.carglass4partners.de, if it is used by employees of insurance companies to communicate personal data about prospective customers to Carglass;
3. Procedures that are used by Carglass to obtain the consent of the (prospective) customers for exchange of personal data with insurance companies (if applicable). 

Technical Evaluator

Hans-Joachim Bickenbach
2B Advice GmbH – the privacy benchmark
Joseph-Schumpeter-Alle 25
53227 Bonn
Germany

Legal Evaluator

Marco Schröder
2B Advice GmbH – the privacy benchmarkJoseph-Schumpeter-Alle 25
53227 Bonn
Germany

Formerly Certified Versions

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