Customer Privacy Notice
Pursuant to Articles 12 and following of Regulation (EU) 2016/679 (hereinafter “GDPR”), Sea Marconi Technologies S.a.s., with its registered office at Via Ungheria, Collegno (Italy), registered in the Turin Companies Register with Tax Code and VAT number 00889150017 (hereinafter the “Company”), informs you that, in the course of its ordinary activities, it processes your Personal Data (including, for example, registration, use, storage, communication).
1. Identity and contact details of the Data Controller and the Data Protection Officer
When processing Personal Data, the Company acts as a controller (hereinafter the “Data Controller” or the “Controller”).
For any matters related to the processing of your Personal Data by the Company, and in particular to exercise your rights (briefly mentioned in paragraph 7 below), you can contact the Controller at its registered office indicated above, or send an email to: privacy@seamarconi.it.
2. Type of Personal Data, Lawfulness, Purpose of Processing, and Consequences of Refusal
The Company collects and processes your Personal Data (such as, for example, identification and contact information, related to your activities), whether provided by you or by third parties.
Specifically, processing is carried out for the following purposes:
(A) purposes related and functional to marketing activities and/or to the subsequent establishment, management, execution, and termination of the contract entered into with the Company;
(B) administrative purposes;
(C) purposes related to compliance with pre-contractual, contractual, and tax obligations arising from relations with you;
(D) purposes related to obligations imposed by law, regulations, community legislation, or provisions of the Authorities (e.g., compliance with anti-money laundering legislation);
(E) purposes related to the necessity to establish, exercise, or defend a right, including in court;
(F) other purposes strictly related and instrumental to the management of the relationships with you.
The provision of your Personal Data for the above purposes is necessary.
Your refusal to provide the Company with your Personal Data, as described above, will result in the inability to update you on new developments and other marketing and commercial information, as well as to continue with the contract entered into with you.
3. Processing Methods
In relation to the purposes indicated, the processing of Personal Data is carried out in full compliance with the principles of confidentiality, integrity, fairness, minimization, accuracy, necessity, relevance, lawfulness, and transparency, using manual, IT, and telematic tools, strictly related to the purposes themselves and, in any case, by applying technical and organizational measures to ensure the security and confidentiality of Personal Data.
The Company emphasizes that, despite the appropriate technical and organizational measures in place, the transmission of Personal Data via the Internet does not guarantee complete security. Additionally, the use of certain methods of transmitting Personal Data, such as instant messaging applications (e.g., WhatsApp) on mobile devices, delivery of unencrypted USB drives, or Cloud tools, significantly increases the risk to the security of Personal Data. The Company cannot guarantee the security of transmitted Personal Data, thereby assuming that the risk of any transmission and the methods used rest with you.
Adequate guarantees regarding the security and confidentiality of the processing of your Personal Data will also be provided by the subjects referred to in paragraph 4.
4. Recipients of Personal Data
For the Company’s operations, your Personal Data may be communicated to:
(A) individuals, legal entities, entities, for purposes related to the provision of goods and services to the Controller or those that may carry out activities related, instrumental, or supportive to the activity carried out by the Controller, or activities necessary for the establishment, execution, or termination of the contractual relationship;
(B) subjects who have the legal right to access Personal Data by law or secondary or community regulations;
(C) tax authorities.
The subjects belonging to the above categories will process Personal Data, as appropriate, as (i) independent data controllers, in full autonomy, if unrelated to the original processing carried out by the Company (pursuant to Article 4, paragraph 1, no. 7 GDPR), (ii) joint controllers, if they jointly determine the purposes with the Company (pursuant to Article 26 GDPR), or (iii) data processors, if they carry out the processing on behalf of the Company (pursuant to Article 28 GDPR and Article 29 of the Privacy Code).
You may request from the Controller the nominative list, quality, and contact details of the subjects belonging to the above categories to whom your Personal Data has been communicated.
5. Transfer of Personal Data Abroad
For the Company’s operations, Personal Data may be communicated within Italy, to countries within the European Union, or to countries outside the European Union. Some countries outside the European Union may not have provisions on the processing of Personal Data equivalent to those of the GDPR and have not been subject to adequacy decisions by the European Commission: processing in such destination countries, where there are no laws on data protection, may impact the security of the data transferred and the exercise of rights.
In any case, where possible, the Company obtains guarantees from recipients of Personal Data regarding the security of their processing.
6. Data Retention Period
The Company will retain your Personal Data in its databases for the time permitted by law for the protection of its legal interests. You may request further information on this by contacting the Controller via the email provided in paragraph 1.
7. Data Subject’s Rights
As a data subject, you can exercise all the rights specified in Articles 15-22 of the GDPR. Specifically, by contacting the Controller as indicated in paragraph 1, you have the right to:
- (A) obtain confirmation as to whether or not your Personal Data is being processed, even if not yet recorded, and its communication in an intelligible form;
- (B) obtain, among other things, the indication of (i) the origin of the Personal Data; (ii) the purposes and methods of processing; (iii) the identification details of the Controller; (iv) the recipients or categories of recipients to whom Personal Data may be communicated or who may become aware of it, also as data processors; (v) the categories of Personal Data in question; (vi) where possible, the envisaged retention period or the criteria used to determine it; (vii) the existence of the right to request the rectification, deletion of Personal Data, or restriction of the processing of Personal Data; (viii) the existence of the right to object to processing; (ix) the right to lodge a complaint with the supervisory authority; (x) the existence of automated decision-making, including profiling;
- (C) obtain: (i) the rectification or integration of Personal Data; (ii) the restriction of processing, where possible; (iii) the portability of Personal Data, where applicable; (iv) confirmation that the operations referred to in (i) and (ii) under this letter have been brought to the attention of the recipients to whom the Personal Data was disclosed, except where this proves impossible or involves the use of means manifestly disproportionate to the right being protected;
- (D) obtain the deletion of Personal Data in cases provided for by law; the Company preempts that there may be cases where it will be entitled to refuse the request for deletion of Personal Data from its databases, as it is legally obligated or entitled to retain a copy;
- (E) object, in whole or in part: (i) for legitimate reasons to the processing of Personal Data, even if pertinent to the purpose of collection; and (ii) to the processing of Personal Data for the purpose of sending communications.
Diego Pattaro holds a Bachelor and a Master Degree in Aerospace Engineering from the University of Padova. After experiences in the field of mechanical design, he embarked in his journey into the electrical world with DASOTEC Company. At DASOTEC, he has been active in various roles, ranging from promotion, sales and assistance of monitoring systems and electrical test equipment, primarily for power transformers, to performing on-site installations and commissioning of monitoring devices, organization of testing and maintenance tasks, and hands-on work with maintenance activities and transformer oil treatment, combining both the intellectual activity with practical application. Currently he serves as the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of DASOTEC, where he continues to sharpen his expertise and knowledge within the world of electromechanics.
James Reid holds a MSc Reliability Engineering & Safety Management from Heriot Watt University and a BEng Chemical Engineering from University of Edinburgh. He has been a chartered Chemical Engineer with the IChemE since 2002 and is also a member of ASTM. Based in the UK, James leads the technical applications team providing global support for all the ester-based products manufactured by global specialty materials company M&I Materials, including the MIDEL range of dielectric liquids. Prior to joining the technical team at M&I Materials in 2019, James has over two decades experience in technical and operational management roles with major UK utility, leading international chemical, and specialist oil companies.
Jean SANCHEZ is senior transformer engineer at EDF, French main generation utility, mostly on investigations, tests and its associated diagnosis, Factory Acceptance Tests, HV bushings, fleet assessments. He’s involved in IEC and CIGRE working groups. He completed a PhD degree on power transformers fault diagnosis in 2011 with a French power transformer reparation factory, TSV.
Ufuk Kivrak has BS and MS degrees in mechanical engineering. He has more than 25 years of industrial experience in transformers and power grid industries. He has worked for ABB in several management positions in Turkey, Thailand and Switzerland. He has led Supply Chain Management organization of ABB Transformer business globally from 2003 to 2015, which included explosive growth of transformer market from 2003 to 2008, which was followed by a market collapse in 2009 and onwards. In 2015, he has joined Alstom Grid as VP-Strategic Sourcing and continued as Head of Strategic Sourcing in GE Grid Solutions after Alstom was acquired by GE. Currently he is Managing Director of SCM Consulting GmbH.
Armando Pastore received his mechanical engineering master’s degree from University of Naples Federico II. After the graduation he had different experiences in automotive and railway sectors. He joined the power grid business sector in 2012 working as R&D mechanical engineer and product industrialization with special focus on transformer and wall bushings for HVDC application. Since 2015 he has been working at GE Grid Solution covering different roles as engineering manufacturing, production, technical and product manager. In 2022 he has been appointed chair for Italy SC 36A – Insulated bushings.
Riccardo Actis was born in 1969 He holds a degree in mechanical engineering, obtained from Polytechnic University of Turin in 1995. Today he is the Global Operation Manager of the On-Site Service Department at Sea Marconi, with more than 25 years of experience in organization and follow-up of on-site work activities, in Italy, France, Spain, and other countries (KSA, Argentina, Uruguay, Japan). Riccardo has a deep knowledge of condition-based maintenance, as well as treatment and decontamination techniques of insulating liquids.
Dr. Diego Robalino is the Global Industry Director – Utilities Transformers at Megger. He specializes in the diagnosis of complex electrical testing procedures and the strategic development of state-of-the-art transformer testing technology. He has over 25 years of involvement in the electrical engineering profession with management responsibilities in the power systems, oil and gas, and research arenas.
Vojko Mrdic has been working as applications engineer in transformer testing group at DV Power, a well-known manufacturer of test and measurement equipment for electric power industry. His responsibilities include development of new methods for transformer testing, providing technical support to DV Power customers, as well as performing on-site field testing. Before joining DV Power 13 years ago, he had been working at the large apparatus manufacturer Energoinvest RAOP for 1 year as a junior engineer in circuit breakers and instrument transformers development department. Vojko has a BSc diploma degree in electrical engineering from the University of East Sarajevo.
Roberto Fernández is an experienced Electrical Engineer who has spent most of his career on the transformer design field and R&D activities focused on the magneto-electric and thermal design for a wide range of transformer applications. He is member of the IEC, CIGRE and several national and international working groups. He is currently the Application Technical Leader at Cargill Bioindustrial.
Field Service engineer since 1976 working for Merlin-Gerin on GIS Switchgear, Schneider Electric Equipment, JST Tranformateurs , following in SIEMENS as African Aera sales Manager and JST Maintenance as business development
Dr. Sameera completed his Bachelor of Science in Engineering (Honors) and Master of Science in Electrical and Electronic Engineering at the University of Peradeniya, Sri Lanka. After graduating, he worked as a High Voltage Laboratory Instructor at the University of Peradeniya and as a Research Assistant in the Condition Monitoring Team at the Engineering Design Centre. He then pursued his PhD at the University of Queensland, Australia. Following that, he joined the same university as a postdoctoral research fellow, where he investigated the use of drone footage and Machine Learning technologies for detecting overhead conductor defects. After completing his fellowship, he became a consultant at EA Technology, one of the world’s leading asset management consultancy service providers. Currently, he works as an asset strategy engineer at Energy Queensland, the largest distribution network service provider in Australia.
Christian Pößniker received the B.Sc. and M.Sc. degrees in electrical and computer engineering from the Technical University of Munich, Germany, in 2015 and 2019, respectively and the B.Eng. (Hons) and M.Eng. degrees in electrical engineering from the University of Queensland, Australia, in 2017. He is currently pursuing a Ph.D. degree within the Centre for Smart Grid, Department of Engineering, at the University of Exeter, United Kingdom. He has previously worked as a certified electronics technician after receiving a craftsman apprenticeship in Germany in 2010. His research interests include ageing transformer insulation systems and overloading constraints.
Vander Tumiatti is the founder and owner of SEA MARCONI GROUP (since 1968 – www.seamarconi.com), Torino, Italy, an international company that is involved in research, technologies, products, and services for energy and environment. He has developed BAT and BEP Sustainable Solutions for Life Cycle Management (LCM) of insulating liquids and transformers focalized on inventory, control, diagnosis, decontamination, depolarization (DBDS, TCS, and polar compounds) and dehalogenation / detoxification (PCBs/POPs). He holds more than 40 international patents and is the author of many international technical and scientific publications. He has been the Assistant Secretary of IEC TC10 from 2000 to 2024. He is also a member of several international groups, with major participation in technical normative activities (CEN, IEC, CIGRE, IEEE). In 2009 June, he received – “1906 Award”, the IEC’s award for “the precious contribution to the understanding of the potentially corrosive behaviour of mineral insulating oil used in power transformers and for his discoveries, recognized worldwide, in the development of diagnostic chemical analyses”. He also received the “Alessandro Volta” award as expert since 1978 in the standardization activities. He was the coordinator of European and national research projects in the field of circular and granular bioeconomy (BIOENPRO®). He also inventor of My Transfo Meeting since 2002 (www.mytransfo.com)
Dr Bruce Pahlavanpour BSC, DIC, PHD from Imperial College, London. Recently he joined Ergon International as consultant. Dr Pahlavanpour was Chief Specialist for the Electrical industry application group within Nynas TDMS.
Fabio Scatiggio was born in Venezia, Italy, in 1957.