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The 2026 sap.com Privacy Statement PDF in the English language for the Australia country site. Download the DocumentEffective Date: January 1, 2026
Welcome!
Protecting the individual's privacy is crucial to the future of business. We have created this privacy statement to
demonstrate our firm commitment to the individual’s right to data protection and privacy. It outlines how we
handle information that can directly or indirectly identify an individual (“personal data”).
Respecting your time and with the goal of providing you with the quickest possible access to the relevant
passages of the privacy statement, we offer you the following summary:
Summary
The privacy statement aims to explain what personal data is processed by SAP, who uses your personal
data, for what purpose, for how long, and explains what rights you have in this context.
Who collects and processes your personal data? SAP does, in the form of the respective legal entity, being
either SAP SE in Walldorf, Germany or any other member of the global SAP Group. The sap.com Privacy
Statement describes in detail which processing activities of which SAP Group members apply.
SAP is processing information including personal data about the users of sap.com using cookies or similar
technologies for the purposes set out in the Cookie Statement. You will find further information and have the
option to exercise your preferences by clicking on the Cookie Preferences link in the footer of this page.
What personal data does SAP collect?
SAP may collect various types of personal data about you when conducting its business, including:
• personal contact data,
• personal data related to your or your employer’s business relationship with SAP,
• personal data SAP must collect due to legal- and compliance-related purposes,
• personal usage, registration, and participation data which SAP may generate through your use of its web and
online offerings,
• special categories of personal data,
• application-related personal data,
• personal data which SAP may receive from third parties,
• personal data SAP requires to ensure your or your employer’s satisfaction with our products, services, and
offerings.
For what purpose(s) does SAP collect personal data?
SAP processes your personal data to:
• pursue its business relationships with you, your employer, or your employer’s customers, including ensuring
your satisfaction with and keeping you up to date on the latest news about our products and services,
• develop and offer you its software products, cloud, and other services,
• protect the quality and safety of its premises, facilities, products, or services,
• secure and, if necessary, defend its protected legal assets against unlawful attacks, assert our rights or
defend SAP against legal claims,
• ensure compliance with statutory laws and regulations applicable to SAP,
• operate SAP’s internet pages, web offerings, or other online events including analyzing the behavior of the
users, enabling you to create a user profile, benefit from an identity service and to promote and continuously
improve your user experience,
• search you as a potential talent for SAP,
• transfer it to recipients like other members of the SAP Group, third-party service providers, SAP partners and
others.
Welcome!
Protecting the individual's privacy is crucial to the future of business. We have created this privacy statement to
demonstrate our firm commitment to the individual’s right to data protection and privacy. It outlines how we
handle information that can directly or indirectly identify an individual (“personal data”).
Respecting your time and with the goal of providing you with the quickest possible access to the relevant
passages of the privacy statement, we offer you the following summary:
Summary
The privacy statement aims to explain what personal data is processed by SAP, who uses your personal
data, for what purpose, for how long, and explains what rights you have in this context.
Who collects and processes your personal data? SAP does, in the form of the respective legal entity, being
either SAP SE in Walldorf, Germany or any other member of the global SAP Group. The sap.com Privacy
Statement describes in detail which processing activities of which SAP Group members apply.
SAP is processing information including personal data about the users of sap.com using cookies or similar
technologies for the purposes set out in the Cookie Statement. You will find further information and have the
option to exercise your preferences by clicking on the Cookie Preferences link in the footer of this page.
What personal data does SAP collect?
SAP may collect various types of personal data about you when conducting its business, including:
• personal contact data,
• personal data related to your or your employer’s business relationship with SAP,
• personal data SAP must collect due to legal- and compliance-related purposes,
• personal usage, registration, and participation data which SAP may generate through your use of its web and
online offerings,
• special categories of personal data,
• application-related personal data,
• personal data which SAP may receive from third parties,
• personal data SAP requires to ensure your or your employer’s satisfaction with our products, services, and
offerings.
For what purpose(s) does SAP collect personal data?
SAP processes your personal data to:
• pursue its business relationships with you, your employer, or your employer’s customers, including ensuring
your satisfaction with and keeping you up to date on the latest news about our products and services,
• develop and offer you its software products, cloud, and other services,
• protect the quality and safety of its premises, facilities, products, or services,
• secure and, if necessary, defend its protected legal assets against unlawful attacks, assert our rights or
defend SAP against legal claims,
• ensure compliance with statutory laws and regulations applicable to SAP,
• operate SAP’s internet pages, web offerings, or other online events including analyzing the behavior of the
users, enabling you to create a user profile, benefit from an identity service and to promote and continuously
improve your user experience,
• search you as a potential talent for SAP,
• transfer it to recipients like other members of the SAP Group, third-party service providers, SAP partners and
others.
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If you want to learn more about each of these purposes for which SAP may collect, transfer, and use your
personal data, including for how long your data is being retained and specific to the General Data Protection
Regulation (GDPR), the legal ground on which SAP is pursuing them, please refer to the full privacy statement
below.
What are your data protection rights?
You have the right to request from SAP access to, correction of, and/or the return or the deletion of your personal
data. You may request from SAP to restrict the access to your personal data or to exclude it from further
processing. You may revoke a once given consent or object to processing activities which SAP may intend to
pursue in a given case. When you believe that SAP was processing your personal data not in accordance with this
privacy statement or under breach of applicable data protection laws, you have the right to lodge a complaint
with a relevant supervisory authority. The sap.com Privacy Statement describes each of these rights in detail,
including how you can reach us to exercise any of these rights against SAP and how to identify, if necessary, the
relevant data protection authority.
In the final section below, SAP addresses several country-specific aspects that must be explained in a privacy
statement under relevant country laws. The country-specific requirements include but are not limited to those
from the EU and EEA, Australia, Brazil, Canada, Colombia, the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, India, Indonesia, Malaysia,
Mexico, New Zealand, the Philippines, Singapore, South Africa, South Korea, Thailand, and the United States of
America.
SAP Privacy Statement
(for details on each section, expand/contract the text by using the “+/-” icons)
+ Who is the responsible SAP Group member
This privacy statement applies to the collection and processing of personal data:
• during the central operation of this website and other globally operated SAP business activities by
o SAP SE, Dietmar-Hopp-Allee 16, Walldorf 69190, Germany if you are in a member state of the EU
or the EWR or in any of the countries of Andorra, Faroe Islands, Guernsey, Isle of Man, Jersey,
Switzerland, or the United Kingdom or by
o SAP America Inc., 3809 West Chester Pike, Suite 200, Newtown Square, PA 19073, USA if you
are in any other country, or by
o a specific SAP Group member as may be stated in the Additional Country and Regional
Specific Provisions at the end of this privacy statement.
• in the context of a pre-contractual or contractual business relationship with you or your employer by a
local SAP Group member.
• in the context of a registration form when a specific SAP Group member is directly collecting personal
data for the purpose of registering to a service or event and is therefore presented as the relevant
controller on this registration page or website by referencing to this privacy statement.
SAP SE, SAP America, Inc., and each relevant SAP Group member are, depending on the given case, hereinafter
referred to as “SAP”.
This privacy statement does not apply to SAP internet-pages or web-services which present their own privacy
statement.
+ For what purposes does SAP process your Personal Data and based on what legal
basis?
Depending on the applicable law there must be a justification for processing of personal data, which is
sometimes referred to as legal basis. Here are details on both the purpose of processing and the legal basis for
doing so.
If you want to learn more about each of these purposes for which SAP may collect, transfer, and use your
personal data, including for how long your data is being retained and specific to the General Data Protection
Regulation (GDPR), the legal ground on which SAP is pursuing them, please refer to the full privacy statement
below.
What are your data protection rights?
You have the right to request from SAP access to, correction of, and/or the return or the deletion of your personal
data. You may request from SAP to restrict the access to your personal data or to exclude it from further
processing. You may revoke a once given consent or object to processing activities which SAP may intend to
pursue in a given case. When you believe that SAP was processing your personal data not in accordance with this
privacy statement or under breach of applicable data protection laws, you have the right to lodge a complaint
with a relevant supervisory authority. The sap.com Privacy Statement describes each of these rights in detail,
including how you can reach us to exercise any of these rights against SAP and how to identify, if necessary, the
relevant data protection authority.
In the final section below, SAP addresses several country-specific aspects that must be explained in a privacy
statement under relevant country laws. The country-specific requirements include but are not limited to those
from the EU and EEA, Australia, Brazil, Canada, Colombia, the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, India, Indonesia, Malaysia,
Mexico, New Zealand, the Philippines, Singapore, South Africa, South Korea, Thailand, and the United States of
America.
SAP Privacy Statement
(for details on each section, expand/contract the text by using the “+/-” icons)
+ Who is the responsible SAP Group member
This privacy statement applies to the collection and processing of personal data:
• during the central operation of this website and other globally operated SAP business activities by
o SAP SE, Dietmar-Hopp-Allee 16, Walldorf 69190, Germany if you are in a member state of the EU
or the EWR or in any of the countries of Andorra, Faroe Islands, Guernsey, Isle of Man, Jersey,
Switzerland, or the United Kingdom or by
o SAP America Inc., 3809 West Chester Pike, Suite 200, Newtown Square, PA 19073, USA if you
are in any other country, or by
o a specific SAP Group member as may be stated in the Additional Country and Regional
Specific Provisions at the end of this privacy statement.
• in the context of a pre-contractual or contractual business relationship with you or your employer by a
local SAP Group member.
• in the context of a registration form when a specific SAP Group member is directly collecting personal
data for the purpose of registering to a service or event and is therefore presented as the relevant
controller on this registration page or website by referencing to this privacy statement.
SAP SE, SAP America, Inc., and each relevant SAP Group member are, depending on the given case, hereinafter
referred to as “SAP”.
This privacy statement does not apply to SAP internet-pages or web-services which present their own privacy
statement.
+ For what purposes does SAP process your Personal Data and based on what legal
basis?
Depending on the applicable law there must be a justification for processing of personal data, which is
sometimes referred to as legal basis. Here are details on both the purpose of processing and the legal basis for
doing so.