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Information pursuant to Art. 13 GDPR

Privacy notice

This is a translation provided for information only. The legally binding version is the German one — Datenschutzerklärung.

This website is deliberately built lean. It sets only two technically necessary cookies, uses no analytics or audience measurement and embeds no social media services and no map services. It runs in ETEC's Odoo system, which Odoo S.A. operates in the European Union; enquiries from the form arrive there in the CRM (number 7). Everything that arises in the way of data is listed below — in full and without exception.

1. Controller

ETEC Pforzheim
Proprietor: Johannes März
Hanauerstraße 15, 75181 Pforzheim
Phone: +49 7231 2988358
E-mail: info@etec-pforzheim.de

No data protection officer has been appointed; the conditions of § 38 BDSG (German Federal Data Protection Act) are not met.

2. Accessing the website and server log files

When you access this website, your browser transmits technically necessary data to the server on which the site is held. The following is usually logged: the address requested, date and time, the volume of data transferred, notification of a successful retrieval, browser type and version, operating system, referring page and your IP address.

The legal basis is Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR. The legitimate interest lies in technical operation, in delivering the content and in defending against attacks. This data is not combined with other sources, and it is not evaluated for advertising purposes.

The website runs in ETEC's Odoo system. It is operated by Odoo S.A., Chaussée de Namur 40, 1367 Grand-Rosière, Belgium, on its Odoo.sh platform. The servers are located in a Google Cloud data centre in Belgium; Odoo S.A. keeps backups in France, the Netherlands and Sweden — all within the European Union. Odoo S.A. processes the data on our behalf and on our instructions; the terms for this are part of our contract with it (processing on behalf pursuant to Art. 28 GDPR). According to its own information, it keeps server log files for no more than twelve months, longer only where security, operation or a legal obligation requires it.

3. Encryption

The site is delivered over HTTPS with TLS encryption. You can recognise an encrypted connection by the padlock symbol in your browser's address bar. Content you transmit to us cannot be read by third parties in transit.

4. Storage on your device

This website sets two cookies that the Odoo system needs in order to operate, and stores three technical values in your browser's storage. None of them serves analytics, advertising or recognising you beyond this website.

Cookie: frontend_lang
Content: the language of the site, de_DE or en_US
Retention: one year

This cookie records the language in which you read the site, so that Odoo delivers the same language on your next visit. It contains only the language code.

Cookie: session_id
Content: a random session identifier
Retention: seven days

This cookie is created only when you open the enquiry form or switch language — including the automatic switch based on your browser's language setting. It links the form to a security token on the server so that nobody can submit an enquiry in your name from another website. It cannot be read by scripts on the page and is sent only over encrypted connections. Your form details are not held in the session but in the enquiry (number 7).

Of the three technical values, two are stored permanently in your browser's local storage (localStorage) and the third only for the lifetime of the browser tab (sessionStorage):

Key: etec.stufe
Content: one of the words low, mid or high

This value records which level of detail of the 3D view your device can display smoothly. It is set when the page determines that a lower level is needed, and read on your next visit so that the display does not have to stutter again.

Key: etec.ansicht
Content: one of the words karten or liste

This value records which of the two views you last used to read the overview of connection boxes — as cards with an image, or as a list. It is created only if you operate the switch yourself, and is read on your next visit so that you do not have to repeat your choice.

Key: etec.bruecke (sessionStorage only)
Content: a reduced image of the 3D view last displayed, together with a note of where on the page you were

This value is created on the product pages that carry a 3D view. It holds an image of the product model as your browser last drew it, so that reloading the same page brings back exactly the same view, with no placeholder and no loading bar in between. The image shows the product and nothing else; it is not a capture of your screen and contains nothing you have entered. It is not transmitted and is deleted as soon as you close the browser tab.

None of the three values contains an identifier, an IP address or any personal data whatsoever; none is transmitted and none is evaluated.

The two cookies and the three values are technically necessary for the display you have requested and for submitting the form securely, within the meaning of § 25(2) no. 2 TDDDG; no consent is required for them. Where personal data arises, the legal basis is Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR. You can delete all of them at any time by removing the site data for this page in your browser. The page then works exactly as before; it will choose the language from your browser setting again and show the overview as cards.

5. Fonts

The typeface used, “Inter”, is held as a file on the same server as this website and is loaded from there. There is no connection to Google Fonts or any other third-party provider; your IP address is not transmitted to anyone for this purpose.

6. Contacting us

If you reach us by e-mail or telephone, we process the details you provide — such as name, company, contact details and the content of your enquiry — solely in order to deal with that enquiry.

The legal basis is Art. 6(1)(b) GDPR where the enquiry is directed at a contract, and otherwise Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR. We delete this data as soon as the enquiry has been dealt with and no statutory retention obligations apply; commercial and tax law periods run up to ten years.

7. Enquiry form

On the enquiry page you can describe your project to us. Only your name and e-mail address are mandatory — without both we cannot reply. All other fields (company, telephone, number of cameras, mounting type, transmission, quantity, message) are voluntary; what you leave blank stays empty in the enquiry as well.

ETEC's Odoo system receives your details and files them as an enquiry in the CRM, our customer management system, where our sales team handles them. What is stored are the fields you filled in, plus the language and the address of the page from which you sent the form. No e-mail is sent in the process. No third-party form service is used; the data is held by Odoo S.A. as our processor (number 2).

The legal basis is Art. 6(1)(b) GDPR: you are asking for a quotation of your own accord, so the processing serves steps prior to entering into a contract. No consent is required for this and none is therefore requested. Number 6 applies accordingly to deletion.

Matching to your company. Shortly after the enquiry arrives, Odoo transmits only the domain of your e-mail address — the part after the @, for example example-ltd.com — to the enrichment service of Odoo S.A. What comes back is publicly available information about the company that owns the domain: name, address, country and telephone number. It supplements the enquiry in the CRM. Your name, the part before the @, your telephone number and your message are not transmitted. For addresses from general e-mail providers such as gmail.com, web.de or t-online.de, no lookup takes place. Odoo S.A. obtains the company data from providers of business information. The legal basis is Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR; our legitimate interest is to match enquiries to the right company and answer them faster. You can object to this at any time (number 9).

Protection against automated submissions. Instead of a CAPTCHA — which regularly requires a third-party provider — we use three means with no third-party involvement: an additional field, invisible to you, that only programs fill in; a comparison of the time between loading and submitting; and a limit on submissions per sender and hour. For that limit we do not store your IP address, but a non-reversible check value derived from the IP address and the current hour, together with a counter, and only in the server's working memory. The value changes every hour and is not used for anything else. The legal basis is Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR; our legitimate interest is protecting our customer management system from bulk submissions.

We do not send a confirmation copy of your enquiry, and your address is neither used for advertising nor added to any mailing list.

8. What this site does not do

For completeness, because it is unusual: this site has no audience measurement, no integration of Google Analytics or comparable services, no advertising networks, no social media plugins, no map services, no embedded videos from third-party providers, no sharing buttons and no newsletter. All files — program code, typeface, 3D models and images — are loaded from the same server as the page itself. When you access this website, your browser does not open a single connection to a third-party server. The only transmission to another service is the company data lookup under number 7; it is made by the server, not by your browser.

9. Your rights

You have the right, at any time and in relation to us, to

You can withdraw consent once given at any time; the lawfulness of the processing carried out up to that point remains unaffected. A message to the contact details given under number 1 is enough to exercise your rights.

10. Right to lodge a complaint with the supervisory authority

You have the right to lodge a complaint with a data protection supervisory authority (Art. 77 GDPR). The competent authority is:

Der Landesbeauftragte für den Datenschutz und die Informationsfreiheit Baden-Württemberg
Lautenschlagerstraße 20, 70173 Stuttgart
baden-wuerttemberg.datenschutz.de

11. No automated decision-making

Automated decision-making, including profiling within the meaning of Art. 22 GDPR, does not take place.

12. Changes

We adapt this notice when the technology of the website or the legal position changes. The version published here applies in each case.

Last updated: October 2026

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