Preamble
In the following text, we inform you about the collection of personal data during the use of our website. Personal data includes all data that relates to you personally, such as your name, address, email address, and user behavior.
1. Party Responsible for Data Processing
Seal Robotics GmbH
Am Lenzenfleck 17e
85737 Ismaning
Germany
Legal Representatives:
Marie-Elisabeth Makohl
Dr.-Ing. Daniel Leidner
2. Methods of Contacting the Data Protection Office
You can contact our Data Protection Officer by email at contact@seal-robotics.com using the subject line “Data Protection Officer”, or by post to our address with the additional note “Data Protection Officer”.
3. General Data Collection When Visiting Our Website
If you use our website for informational purposes only, without registering or otherwise transmitting information to us, we collect technical information about your device and browser, including:
- Operating system
- Screen resolution
- Browser version
- Browser language settings
- Public IP address
- Date and time of access
The collection of this data is necessary for technical reasons in order to provide our website, ensure its stability and security, and protect against misuse.
The legal basis for processing is our legitimate interest pursuant to Art. 6 Para. 1 lit. f GDPR. We have carefully balanced our legitimate interests against your interests and fundamental rights and concluded that processing is necessary for the secure and reliable operation of our website.
Recording this data and storing it in log files is essential for operating the website. Therefore, users do not have the option to object to this processing.
4. Cookies – General Information
We use cookies on our website to make visits more convenient and to enable certain functions. Cookies are small text files stored on your device.
Some cookies are deleted automatically when you close your browser (session cookies). Other cookies remain on your device and allow us to recognize your browser on future visits (persistent cookies).
Cookies cannot access other files on your computer and cannot be used to determine your email address.
Your consent applies to the following domain: seal-robotics.com
Your cookie choice
When you click “Accept all” or “Essential only” in our cookie banner, we store your choice in a cookie named seal_consent on your device, so that the banner does not ask again on every page. It contains only the value all or essential and is deleted after 180 days. We set it because it is strictly necessary for the service you requested (Section 25 (2) no. 2 TDDDG); the processing is based on Art. 6 (1) (c) GDPR in conjunction with Art. 7 (1) GDPR. Before you decide, our website stores nothing on your device.
You can change or withdraw your choice at any time with “Cookie settings” at the bottom of every page. If you withdraw your consent, we delete the cookies that optional services have set on our domain and reload the page without those services.
Embedded YouTube videos
Some pages, including our interactive Aiolos demonstration at seal-robotics.com/aiolos, show videos from YouTube, a service of Google Ireland Limited, Gordon House, Barrow Street, Dublin 4, Ireland. We use YouTube’s privacy-enhanced mode (youtube-nocookie.com).
Before you agree, our pages show only a preview image that we host ourselves, and no connection to YouTube is made. A video loads only after you have accepted optional services in our cookie banner or clicked “Load video” on the video itself. From then on, your browser connects to Google’s servers, which receive your IP address and information about the page you are on, and YouTube may store data on your device. Google may transfer data to the United States; Google LLC is certified under the EU-U.S. Data Privacy Framework.
The legal basis is your consent (Art. 6 (1) (a) GDPR, Section 25 (1) TDDDG). You can withdraw it at any time with “Cookie settings”; a “Load video” click applies only to the visit in which you made it. Google’s privacy policy: policies.google.com/privacy
5. Contact Forms and Email Communication
If you contact us by email or via a contact form, we store the information you provide in order to process and respond to your inquiry.
This may include your email address, name, phone number, customer number, order number, or any other information you voluntarily provide.
Optional fields are clearly marked. Any information entered into such fields is provided voluntarily and based on your consent pursuant to Art. 6 Para. 1 lit. a GDPR.
We will delete this data once it is no longer necessary for the purpose for which it was collected, unless statutory retention obligations require continued storage.
Our contact chat
On our website you can contact us through a chat in the style of a command line. It asks what Boreas should automate for you, your name, your company and your email address. All four answers are required, because we need them to answer you.
When you send your last answer, our website passes all answers to our email inbox as one message and does not store them on the web server. Your email address is set as the reply address, so that we can answer you directly. Our email is hosted by Microsoft Ireland Operations Limited, One Microsoft Place, South County Business Park, Leopardstown, Dublin 18, Ireland, under a data processing agreement pursuant to Art. 28 GDPR. Microsoft may transfer data to the United States; Microsoft Corporation is certified under the EU-U.S. Data Privacy Framework.
To protect the chat against misuse, our website keeps a pseudonymised (hashed) form of your IP address for up to one hour and counts the messages sent from it; after five messages within one hour it accepts no more. The legal basis is our legitimate interest in keeping the form free of automated spam (Art. 6 (1) (f) GDPR).
We process your answers to deal with your inquiry. If it concerns a contract with us or steps prior to one, the legal basis is Art. 6 (1) (b) GDPR, otherwise our legitimate interest in answering inquiries (Art. 6 (1) (f) GDPR). We delete your message once your inquiry has been dealt with, unless statutory retention obligations for business correspondence require us to keep it longer.
6. Forwarding of Data
We do not transfer your personal data to third parties except in the following cases:
- You have provided explicit consent.
- The transfer is necessary for legal claims.
- There is a legal obligation to transfer the data.
- The transfer is required for contractual purposes.
- The transfer is based on our legitimate interests.
Data submitted through contact forms may be forwarded internally within Seal Robotics to ensure the most appropriate response to your inquiry.
The legal basis for this internal forwarding is Art. 6 Para. 1 lit. f GDPR.
In addition, our hosting provider may technically have access to personal data as part of the hosting process. Appropriate contractual safeguards ensure that such data is stored securely and not used without authorization.
7. Rights of Data Subjects
Under the GDPR, you have the following rights:
- Right of access (Art. 15 GDPR)
- Right to rectification (Art. 16 GDPR)
- Right to erasure (Art. 17 GDPR)
- Right to restriction of processing (Art. 18 GDPR)
- Right to data portability (Art. 20 GDPR)
- Right to object (Art. 21 GDPR)
Right to Lodge a Complaint
You have the right to lodge a complaint with the competent data protection supervisory authority regarding our processing of your personal data.
Withdrawal of Consent
You may withdraw any consent granted for the processing of your personal data at any time with future effect.
Right to Object
Pursuant to Art. 21 GDPR, you may object at any time to the processing of personal data based on Art. 6 Para. 1 lit. e or f GDPR.
Processing may continue if compelling legitimate grounds outweigh your interests, rights, and freedoms, or if processing is required for the establishment, exercise, or defense of legal claims.
8. Links to Other Websites
Our website may contain links to external websites. This Privacy Policy applies only to the websites operated by Seal Robotics.
We have no influence over external websites and cannot guarantee that their operators comply with applicable data protection regulations.
9. Changes to this Privacy Policy
We reserve the right to amend or update this Privacy Policy at any time in accordance with applicable data protection legislation.