1. Name and contact details of the controller and the company Data Protection Officer

This privacy information applies to data processing by the following controller:

SEDOTEC Gesellschaft mit beschränkter Haftung & Compagnie Kommanditgesellschaft (SEDOTEC GmbH & Co. KG)
Wallstadter Strasse 59
D-68526 Ladenburg
Phone: +49 62 03 / 95 50-0

The company Data Protection Officer can be contacted at the above address, for the attention of Mr Julian Mikolaiczik, or at datenschutz@sedotec.de.

2. Collection and storage of personal data and the nature and purpose of its use

a) When visiting the website
When you access our website www.sedotec.de, the browser used on your device automatically sends information to our website server. This information is temporarily stored in a so-called log file. The following information is collected without any action on your part and stored until it is automatically deleted:

• IP address of the requesting computer,
• date and time of access,
• name and URL of the file accessed,
• website from which access is made (referrer URL),
• browser used and, where applicable, your computer’s operating system and the name of your access provider.

We process the above data for the following purposes:

• ensuring a smooth connection to the website,
• ensuring convenient use of our website,
• evaluating system security and stability, and
• for further administrative purposes.

The legal basis for data processing is Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR. Our legitimate interest follows from the purposes for data collection listed above. Under no circumstances do we use the data collected for the purpose of drawing conclusions about your person. In addition, we use cookies and analytics services when you visit our website. Further information can be found in Sections 4 and 5 of this Privacy Policy.

b) When subscribing to our newsletter

If you have expressly consented in accordance with Art. 6(1)(a) GDPR, we use your email address to send you our newsletter on a regular basis. Providing an email address is sufficient to receive the newsletter. You can unsubscribe at any time, for example via a link at the end of each newsletter.

3. Disclosure of data

Your personal data will not be transferred to third parties for purposes other than those listed below. We disclose your personal data to third parties only if:

• you have given your express consent in accordance with Art. 6(1)(a) GDPR,
• the disclosure is necessary pursuant to Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR for the establishment, exercise or defence of legal claims and there is no reason to assume that you have an overriding legitimate interest in your data not being disclosed,
• there is a legal obligation to disclose the data pursuant to Art. 6(1)(c) GDPR, and
• the disclosure is legally permissible and necessary pursuant to Art. 6(1)(b) GDPR for the performance of contractual relationships with you.

4. Cookies

We use cookies on our website. These are small files that your browser creates automatically and that are stored on your device (laptop, tablet, smartphone or similar) when you visit our website. Cookies do not cause any damage to your device and do not contain viruses, Trojans or other malware. Information relating to the specific device used is stored in the cookie. However, this does not mean that we thereby obtain direct knowledge of your identity. Cookies are used, on the one hand, to make using our services more convenient for you. For example, we use so-called session cookies to recognise that you have already visited individual pages of our website. These are automatically deleted after you leave our website.
In addition, we also use temporary cookies to optimise user-friendliness; these are stored on your device for a specified period. If you visit our website again to use our services, it is automatically recognised that you have already visited us and which entries and settings you made so that you do not have to enter them again. We also use cookies to statistically record the use of our website and to evaluate it for the purpose of optimising our services for you (see Section 5). These cookies enable us to automatically recognise, when you visit our website again, that you have already visited us. These cookies are automatically deleted after a defined period in each case. We use technically necessary cookies on the basis of Section 25(2) no. 2 TDDDG in conjunction with Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR; our legitimate interest lies in providing our website in a technically error-free and convenient manner. We use all other cookies, in particular for statistical and analytical purposes, only with your consent in accordance with Section 25(1) TDDDG in conjunction with Art. 6(1)(a) GDPR. You may withdraw your consent at any time with effect for the future via the cookie settings. Most browsers accept cookies automatically. However, you can configure your browser so that no cookies are stored on your computer or so that a notice always appears before a new cookie is created. However, completely disabling cookies may mean that you cannot use all functions of our website.

5. Plugins and tools

Google Tag Manager
We use Google Tag Manager. The provider is Google Ireland Limited, Gordon House, Barrow Street, Dublin 4, Ireland.
Google Tag Manager is a tool that allows us to integrate tracking or statistical tools and other technologies on our website. Google Tag Manager itself does not create user profiles, store cookies or carry out any independent analyses. It is used solely to manage and deploy the tools integrated through it. However, when Google Tag Manager is loaded, your IP address is transmitted to Google for technical reasons; it may also be transferred to Google’s parent company in the United States.
Google Tag Manager is loaded only after you have given your consent in the cookie banner. The processing therefore takes place exclusively on the basis of your consent pursuant to Art. 6(1)(a) GDPR and Section 25(1) TDDDG. You may withdraw your consent at any time with effect for the future.
The company is certified under the “EU-US Data Privacy Framework” (DPF). The DPF is an agreement between the European Union and the USA intended to ensure compliance with European data protection standards when data is processed in the USA. Every company certified under the DPF undertakes to comply with these data protection standards. Further information is available from the provider at the following link: https://www.dataprivacyframework.gov/s/participant-search/participantdetail?contact=true&id=a2zt000000001L5AAI&status=Active

Google Analytics
This website uses functions of the Google Analytics web analytics service. The provider is Google Ireland Limited (“Google”), Gordon House, Barrow Street, Dublin 4, Ireland. Google Analytics enables the website operator to analyse the behaviour of website visitors. In doing so, the website operator receives various usage data, such as page views, time spent on the site, operating systems used and the user’s origin.
Google Analytics uses various modelling approaches to supplement the collected data sets and uses machine-learning technologies for data analysis.
Google Analytics uses technologies that enable users to be recognised for the purpose of analysing user behaviour (e.g. cookies or device fingerprinting). Google Analytics collects data from users in the EU via servers in the EU. Your IP address is used only to derive your approximate location and is then deleted without being stored. The remaining information collected about the use of this website may be transferred to Google servers in the USA and processed there.
This service is used on the basis of your consent pursuant to Art. 6(1)(a) GDPR and Section 25(1) TDDDG. Consent may be withdrawn at any time.
Data transfers to the USA are based on the European Commission’s Standard Contractual Clauses. Details can be found here: https://privacy.google.com/businesses/controllerterms/mccs/.
The company is certified under the “EU-US Data Privacy Framework” (DPF). The DPF is an agreement between the European Union and the USA intended to ensure compliance with European data protection standards when data is processed in the USA. Every company certified under the DPF undertakes to comply with these data protection standards. Further information is available from the provider at the following link: https://www.dataprivacyframework.gov/s/participant-search/participantdetail?contact=true&id=a2zt000000001L5AAI&status=Active.

Browser plug-in
You can prevent Google from collecting and processing your data by downloading and installing the browser plug-in available at the following link: https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=de.
Further information on how Google Analytics handles user data can be found in Google’s privacy policy: https://support.google.com/analytics/answer/6004245?hl=de.

Privacy provisions regarding the use of MailChimp
The newsletters are sent using “MailChimp”, a newsletter distribution platform of the US provider The Rocket Science Group LLC, 405 N. Angier Ave NE, Atlanta, GA 30308, USA.
Mailchimp is certified under the “EU-US Data Privacy Framework” (DPF). In addition, the European Commission’s Standard Contractual Clauses form part of the data processing agreement with Mailchimp, so that data transfers to the USA are also safeguarded if the DPF ceases to apply. Further information: https://mailchimp.com/de/help/mailchimp-european-data-transfers The email addresses of our newsletter recipients, as well as their other data described in this information, are stored on MailChimp servers in the USA. MailChimp uses this information to send and evaluate the newsletters on our behalf. In addition, according to its own information, MailChimp may use this data to optimise or improve its own services, e.g. for the technical optimisation of newsletter delivery and presentation or for commercial purposes in order to determine the countries from which recipients originate. However, MailChimp does not use the data of our newsletter recipients to contact them itself or to disclose the data to third parties.
MailChimp’s privacy provisions can be found here: https://mailchimp.com/legal/privacy

Statistical surveys and analyses
The newsletters contain a so-called “web beacon”, i.e. a pixel-sized file that is retrieved from the MailChimp server when the newsletter is opened. During this retrieval, technical information, such as information about the browser and your system, as well as your IP address and the time of retrieval, is initially collected. This information is used to technically improve the services on the basis of the technical data or to analyse target groups and their reading behaviour on the basis of their retrieval locations (which can be determined using the IP address) or access times.
The statistical collection also includes determining whether newsletters are opened, when they are opened and which links are clicked. For technical reasons, this information can be assigned to individual newsletter recipients. However, neither we nor MailChimp seek to monitor individual users. Rather, the analyses help us to identify the reading habits of our users and to tailor our content to them or to send different content according to our users’ interests.

VAMOCAD
VAMOCAD is a configuration program for the kit system for VAMOCON low-voltage switchgear.
As a user, you register with your data to use VAMOCAD. If your registration is accepted, your data will be stored internally. If access to VAMOCAD is not granted, the data provided by the user will be deleted.
User behaviour is evaluated to improve the software tools and services. These evaluations are carried out and used internally only and are not made available to third parties.

6. Rights of data subjects

You have the right,

• request access pursuant to Art. 15 GDPR to your personal data processed by us. In particular, you may request information about the purposes of processing, the categories of personal data, the categories of recipients to whom your data has been or will be disclosed, the envisaged storage period, the existence of a right to rectification, erasure, restriction of processing or objection, the existence of a right to lodge a complaint, the source of your data where it was not collected from us, as well as the existence of automated decision-making, including profiling, and, where applicable, meaningful information about its details;
• request the immediate rectification of inaccurate personal data stored by us or completion of your personal data pursuant to Art. 16 GDPR;
• request the erasure of your personal data stored by us pursuant to Art. 17 GDPR, unless processing is necessary for exercising the right of freedom of expression and information, for compliance with a legal obligation, for reasons of public interest or for the establishment, exercise or defence of legal claims;
• request restriction of the processing of your personal data pursuant to Art. 18 GDPR where you contest the accuracy of the data, the processing is unlawful but you oppose its erasure and we no longer need the data, but you require it for the establishment, exercise or defence of legal claims, or you have objected to the processing pursuant to Art. 21 GDPR;
• receive, pursuant to Art. 20 GDPR, the personal data you have provided to us in a structured, commonly used and machine-readable format, or request that it be transmitted to another controller;
• withdraw at any time, pursuant to Art. 7(3) GDPR, consent you have previously given to us. As a result, we may no longer continue the data processing based on that consent in the future, while the lawfulness of processing carried out up to the time of withdrawal remains unaffected; and
• lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority pursuant to Art. 77 GDPR. As a rule, you may contact the supervisory authority of your habitual residence or place of work or of our registered office.

7. Right to object

If your personal data is processed on the basis of legitimate interests pursuant to Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR, you have the right to object to the processing of your personal data pursuant to Art. 21 GDPR where there are grounds relating to your particular situation or where the objection is directed against direct marketing. In the latter case, you have a general right to object, which we will implement without you having to state a particular situation. If you wish to exercise your right to withdraw consent or your right to object, an email to datenschutz@sedotec.de is sufficient.

8. Data security

We transmit the contents of our website in encrypted form via HTTPS using the current TLS (Transport Layer Security) standard. You can recognise an encrypted connection by the padlock symbol in your browser’s address bar and by the fact that the address begins with “https://”. In addition, we use appropriate technical and organisational security measures to protect your data against accidental or intentional manipulation, partial or complete loss, destruction or unauthorised access by third parties. Our security measures are continuously improved in line with technological developments

9. Currency and amendment of this Privacy Policy

This Privacy Policy is currently valid and is dated September 2026. As our website and the services offered through it are further developed, or due to changes in legal or regulatory requirements, it may become necessary to amend this Privacy Policy. The current Privacy Policy can be accessed and printed from this page at any time.

Non-binding information version. This English text is provided for convenience only. The German version shall prevail and is the sole legally binding version.