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Privacy policy

This is an English translation for your convenience. Only the German version is legally binding.

Name and contact details of the controller under Article 4(7) GDPR

E-Device UA GmbH
Großer Kamp 25
32791 Lage
Germany

Represented by the managing director
Uwe Andrea

Contact
Phone: +49 (0) 5232 979 588 0
Fax: +49 (0) 5232 979 588 5
E-mail: E-Mail

Security and protection of your personal data

We consider it our primary task to keep the personal data you provide confidential and to protect it from unauthorised access. We therefore apply the utmost care and state-of-the-art security standards to ensure maximum protection of your personal data.

As a private company, we are subject to the European General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and the German Federal Data Protection Act (BDSG). We have taken technical and organisational measures to ensure that the data protection rules are observed both by us and by our external service providers.

Definitions

The law requires personal data to be processed lawfully, fairly and in a transparent manner in relation to the data subject (“lawfulness, fairness and transparency”). To ensure this, we explain the individual legal definitions that are also used in this privacy policy:

1. Personal data

“Personal data” means any information relating to an identified or identifiable natural person (“data subject”); an identifiable natural person is one who can be identified, directly or indirectly, in particular by reference to an identifier such as a name, an identification number, location data, an online identifier or to one or more factors specific to the physical, physiological, genetic, mental, economic, cultural or social identity of that natural person.

2. Processing

“Processing” means any operation or set of operations which is performed on personal data or on sets of personal data, whether or not by automated means, such as collection, recording, organisation, structuring, storage, adaptation or alteration, retrieval, consultation, use, disclosure by transmission, dissemination or otherwise making available, alignment or combination, restriction, erasure or destruction.

3. Restriction of processing

“Restriction of processing” means the marking of stored personal data with the aim of limiting their processing in the future.

4. Profiling

“Profiling” means any form of automated processing of personal data consisting of the use of personal data to evaluate certain personal aspects relating to a natural person, in particular to analyse or predict aspects concerning that natural person’s performance at work, economic situation, health, personal preferences, interests, reliability, behaviour, location or movements.

5. Pseudonymisation

“Pseudonymisation” means the processing of personal data in such a manner that the personal data can no longer be attributed to a specific data subject without the use of additional information, provided that such additional information is kept separately and is subject to technical and organisational measures to ensure that the personal data are not attributed to an identified or identifiable natural person.

6. Filing system

“Filing system” means any structured set of personal data which are accessible according to specific criteria, whether centralised, decentralised or dispersed on a functional or geographical basis.

7. Controller

“Controller” means the natural or legal person, public authority, agency or other body which, alone or jointly with others, determines the purposes and means of the processing of personal data; where the purposes and means of such processing are determined by Union or Member State law, the controller or the specific criteria for its nomination may be provided for by Union or Member State law.

8. Processor

“Processor” means a natural or legal person, public authority, agency or other body which processes personal data on behalf of the controller.

9. Recipient

“Recipient” means a natural or legal person, public authority, agency or another body, to which the personal data are disclosed, whether a third party or not. However, public authorities which may receive personal data in the framework of a particular inquiry in accordance with Union or Member State law are not regarded as recipients; the processing of those data by those public authorities complies with the applicable data protection rules according to the purposes of the processing.

10. Third party

“Third party” means a natural or legal person, public authority, agency or body other than the data subject, controller, processor and persons who, under the direct authority of the controller or processor, are authorised to process personal data.

“Consent” of the data subject means any freely given, specific, informed and unambiguous indication of the data subject’s wishes by which he or she, by a statement or by a clear affirmative action, signifies agreement to the processing of personal data relating to him or her.

Lawfulness of processing

Processing of personal data is only lawful if there is a legal basis for it. Under Article 6(1) GDPR, the legal basis may in particular be that:

  1. the data subject has given consent to the processing of his or her personal data for one or more specific purposes;
  2. processing is necessary for the performance of a contract to which the data subject is party or in order to take steps at the request of the data subject prior to entering into a contract;
  3. processing is necessary for compliance with a legal obligation to which the controller is subject;
  4. processing is necessary in order to protect the vital interests of the data subject or of another natural person;
  5. processing is necessary for the performance of a task carried out in the public interest or in the exercise of official authority vested in the controller;
  6. processing is necessary for the purposes of the legitimate interests pursued by the controller or by a third party, except where such interests are overridden by the interests or fundamental rights and freedoms of the data subject which require protection of personal data, in particular where the data subject is a child.

Information about the collection of personal data

(1) Below we explain how personal data is collected when you use our website. Personal data includes, for example, name, address, e-mail addresses and user behaviour.

(2) When you contact us by e-mail, we store the data you provide (your e-mail address and, where applicable, your name and phone number) in order to answer your questions. We delete the data arising in this context once storage is no longer necessary, or restrict processing if statutory retention obligations apply.

Hosting

This website is hosted by goneo Internet GmbH, Dresdener Straße 18, 32423 Minden, Germany. The servers are located in a data centre in Frankfurt am Main. When the website is accessed, goneo processes the access data listed in the next section, and it also delivers the messages from our contact form by e-mail. The legal basis is our legitimate interest in providing the website securely and reliably (Article 6(1)(f) GDPR).

Collection of personal data when you visit our website

When you use the website for information only, i.e. if you do not register or otherwise send us information, we only collect the personal data that your browser transmits to our server. When you view our website, we collect the following data, which we need for technical reasons in order to display the website to you and to ensure its stability and security (the legal basis is Article 6(1)(f) GDPR):

  • IP address
  • date and time of the request
  • time zone difference to Greenwich Mean Time (GMT)
  • content of the request (specific page)
  • access status/HTTP status code
  • amount of data transferred in each case
  • website from which the request comes
  • browser
  • operating system and its interface
  • language and version of the browser software

Cookies and storage in your browser

This website does not set any cookies of its own and does not use any analytics or tracking services.

If you switch between the light and dark design, your browser saves this choice in its local storage (localStorage) so that it is kept for your next visit. If you switch the language, your browser remembers where you were reading for that one page change (sessionStorage). This information stays on your device, is not transmitted to us and can be deleted at any time in your browser settings. It is only stored after you click, and only because the function you asked for requires it (Section 25(2) no. 2 TDDDG).

For cookies of the Cloudflare Turnstile service on the contact page, see the section “Cloudflare Turnstile”.

Other functions and services of our website

(1) In addition to using our website purely for information, we offer various services that you can use if you are interested. For this, you will usually have to provide further personal data, which we use to provide the respective service and to which the data processing principles above apply.

(2) In some cases we use external service providers to process your data. They have been carefully selected and commissioned by us, are bound by our instructions and are checked regularly.

(3) We may also pass on your personal data to third parties if we offer promotions, competitions, contracts or similar services together with partners. You will receive more information about this when you provide your personal data or in the description of the offer below.

(4) If our service providers or partners are based in a country outside the European Economic Area (EEA), we will inform you of the consequences of this in the description of the offer.

Contact form

If you write to us using the contact form, we process the details from the form (name, e-mail address, topic and message, plus company and phone number if you provide them) in order to answer your enquiry. The message is delivered to us by e-mail; it is not stored in a database.

The legal basis is Article 6(1)(b) GDPR where your enquiry relates to a contract or steps prior to entering into one, and otherwise our legitimate interest in answering enquiries (Article 6(1)(f) GDPR). We delete the data once your enquiry has been fully dealt with, unless statutory retention obligations apply.

To protect the form against misuse, it uses Cloudflare Turnstile to check whether the enquiry comes from a human. For this, our server sends your browser’s check result together with your IP address to Cloudflare.

Cloudflare Turnstile

On the contact page we use Cloudflare Turnstile, a service of Cloudflare, Inc., 101 Townsend St., San Francisco, CA 94107, USA, to fend off automated requests (spam, bots). Only when you begin using the contact form does your browser load Turnstile from Cloudflare’s servers. In doing so, Cloudflare processes in particular your IP address, technical characteristics of your browser and connection (e.g. user agent and TLS characteristics) and the website you are visiting, in order to recognise whether a human is using the page. For this, Cloudflare may set technically necessary cookies. The data is not used for advertising. Cloudflare also processes these technical data independently to improve its bot detection.

The legal basis is our legitimate interest in protecting the contact form against misuse (Article 6(1)(f) GDPR). Where information is stored on or read from your device in the process, this is strictly necessary to protect the form you want to use (Section 25(2) no. 2 TDDDG).

Data may be transferred to the USA in this context. Cloudflare is certified under the EU-U.S. Data Privacy Framework, for which the European Commission has found an adequate level of data protection (Article 45 GDPR). More information: Turnstile privacy addendum and Cloudflare privacy policy.

Fonts

The fonts on this website are stored on our own server. No connection to Google or other font providers is made when you open our pages.

We link to services of other providers, for example to Google Maps for directions. The provider’s page is only opened when you click such a link, and its privacy policy then applies. No data is transmitted to the provider before that.

Children

Our offer is generally aimed at adults. Persons under the age of 18 should not send us any personal data without the consent of their parents or legal guardians.

Rights of the data subject

Where the processing of personal data is based on consent, you have the right to withdraw your consent at any time. The withdrawal of consent does not affect the lawfulness of processing based on consent before its withdrawal. You can contact us at any time to exercise this right.

(2) Right to confirmation

You have the right to obtain confirmation from the controller as to whether or not we process personal data concerning you. You can request this confirmation at any time using the contact details above.

(3) Right of access

Where personal data is processed, you can at any time request access to that personal data and to the following information:

  1. the purposes of the processing;
  2. the categories of personal data concerned;
  3. the recipients or categories of recipients to whom the personal data have been or will be disclosed, in particular recipients in third countries or international organisations;
  4. where possible, the envisaged period for which the personal data will be stored, or, if not possible, the criteria used to determine that period;
  5. the existence of the right to request from the controller rectification or erasure of personal data or restriction of processing of personal data concerning you, or to object to such processing;
  6. the right to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority;
  7. where the personal data are not collected from the data subject, any available information as to their source;
  8. the existence of automated decision-making, including profiling, referred to in Article 22(1) and (4) GDPR and, at least in those cases, meaningful information about the logic involved, as well as the significance and the envisaged consequences of such processing for the data subject.

Where personal data are transferred to a third country or to an international organisation, you have the right to be informed of the appropriate safeguards pursuant to Article 46 GDPR relating to the transfer. We provide a copy of the personal data undergoing processing. For any further copies you request, we may charge a reasonable fee based on administrative costs. If you make the request by electronic means, the information is provided in a commonly used electronic form, unless you request otherwise. The right to obtain a copy under paragraph 3 must not adversely affect the rights and freedoms of others.

(4) Right to rectification

You have the right to obtain from us without undue delay the rectification of inaccurate personal data concerning you. Taking into account the purposes of the processing, you have the right to have incomplete personal data completed, including by means of providing a supplementary statement.

(5) Right to erasure (“right to be forgotten”)

You have the right to obtain from the controller the erasure of personal data concerning you without undue delay, and we are obliged to erase personal data without undue delay where one of the following grounds applies:

  1. The personal data are no longer necessary in relation to the purposes for which they were collected or otherwise processed.
  2. The data subject withdraws consent on which the processing is based according to Article 6(1)(a) or Article 9(2)(a) GDPR, and there is no other legal ground for the processing.
  3. The data subject objects to the processing pursuant to Article 21(1) GDPR and there are no overriding legitimate grounds for the processing, or the data subject objects to the processing pursuant to Article 21(2) GDPR.
  4. The personal data have been unlawfully processed.
  5. The personal data have to be erased for compliance with a legal obligation in Union or Member State law to which the controller is subject.
  6. The personal data have been collected in relation to the offer of information society services referred to in Article 8(1) GDPR.

Where the controller has made the personal data public and is obliged under paragraph 1 to erase them, the controller, taking account of available technology and the cost of implementation, takes reasonable steps, including technical measures, to inform controllers which are processing the personal data that the data subject has requested the erasure by such controllers of any links to, or copies or replications of, those personal data.

The right to erasure (“right to be forgotten”) does not apply to the extent that processing is necessary:

  • for exercising the right of freedom of expression and information;
  • for compliance with a legal obligation which requires processing by Union or Member State law to which the controller is subject, or for the performance of a task carried out in the public interest or in the exercise of official authority vested in the controller;
  • for reasons of public interest in the area of public health in accordance with Article 9(2)(h) and (i) and Article 9(3) GDPR;
  • for archiving purposes in the public interest, scientific or historical research purposes or statistical purposes in accordance with Article 89(1) GDPR, in so far as the right referred to in paragraph 1 is likely to render impossible or seriously impair the achievement of the objectives of that processing; or
  • for the establishment, exercise or defence of legal claims.

(6) Right to restriction of processing

You have the right to obtain from us restriction of processing of your personal data where one of the following applies:

  1. the accuracy of the personal data is contested by the data subject, for a period enabling the controller to verify the accuracy of the personal data;
  2. the processing is unlawful and the data subject opposes the erasure of the personal data and requests the restriction of their use instead;
  3. the controller no longer needs the personal data for the purposes of the processing, but they are required by the data subject for the establishment, exercise or defence of legal claims; or
  4. the data subject has objected to processing pursuant to Article 21(1) GDPR, pending the verification whether the legitimate grounds of the controller override those of the data subject.

Where processing has been restricted under the conditions above, such personal data shall, with the exception of storage, only be processed with the data subject’s consent or for the establishment, exercise or defence of legal claims or for the protection of the rights of another natural or legal person or for reasons of important public interest of the Union or of a Member State.

To exercise the right to restriction of processing, the data subject can contact us at any time using the contact details above.

(7) Right to data portability

You have the right to receive the personal data concerning you, which you have provided to us, in a structured, commonly used and machine-readable format, and you have the right to transmit those data to another controller without hindrance from the controller to which the personal data have been provided, where:

  • the processing is based on consent pursuant to Article 6(1)(a) or Article 9(2)(a) GDPR or on a contract pursuant to Article 6(1)(b) GDPR, and
  • the processing is carried out by automated means.

In exercising the right to data portability under paragraph 1, you have the right to have the personal data transmitted directly from one controller to another, where technically feasible. Exercising the right to data portability is without prejudice to the right to erasure (“right to be forgotten”). This right does not apply to processing necessary for the performance of a task carried out in the public interest or in the exercise of official authority vested in the controller.

(8) Right to object

You have the right to object, on grounds relating to your particular situation, at any time to processing of personal data concerning you which is based on Article 6(1)(e) or (f) GDPR, including profiling based on those provisions. The controller shall no longer process the personal data unless it demonstrates compelling legitimate grounds for the processing which override the interests, rights and freedoms of the data subject, or for the establishment, exercise or defence of legal claims.

Where personal data are processed for direct marketing purposes, you have the right to object at any time to processing of personal data concerning you for such marketing, which includes profiling to the extent that it is related to such direct marketing. If you object to processing for direct marketing purposes, the personal data will no longer be processed for such purposes.

In the context of the use of information society services, and notwithstanding Directive 2002/58/EC, you may exercise your right to object by automated means using technical specifications.

Where personal data are processed for scientific or historical research purposes or statistical purposes pursuant to Article 89(1) GDPR, you have the right, on grounds relating to your particular situation, to object to processing of personal data concerning you, unless the processing is necessary for the performance of a task carried out for reasons of public interest.

You can exercise the right to object at any time by contacting the respective controller.

(9) Automated individual decision-making, including profiling

You have the right not to be subject to a decision based solely on automated processing, including profiling, which produces legal effects concerning you or similarly significantly affects you. This does not apply if the decision:

  • is necessary for entering into, or performance of, a contract between the data subject and the controller,
  • is authorised by Union or Member State law to which the controller is subject and which also lays down suitable measures to safeguard the data subject’s rights and freedoms and legitimate interests, or
  • is based on the data subject’s explicit consent.

The controller implements suitable measures to safeguard the data subject’s rights and freedoms and legitimate interests, at least the right to obtain human intervention on the part of the controller, to express his or her point of view and to contest the decision.

The data subject can exercise this right at any time by contacting the respective controller.

(10) Right to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority

Without prejudice to any other administrative or judicial remedy, you also have the right to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority, in particular in the Member State of your habitual residence, place of work or place of the alleged infringement, if you consider that the processing of personal data relating to you infringes the GDPR.

(11) Right to an effective judicial remedy

Without prejudice to any available administrative or non-judicial remedy, including the right to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority pursuant to Article 77 GDPR, you have the right to an effective judicial remedy if you consider that your rights under the GDPR have been infringed as a result of processing of your personal data in non-compliance with the GDPR.

Last updated: September 2026