Schneider Electric Marketplace Data Privacy Notice
1. Changes to this Privacy Notice
Schneider Electric may modify this Privacy Notice as needed. This Privacy Notice is effective as of May 15, 2025.
Schneider Electric reserves the right to modify this Privacy Notice as needed, for example to comply with evolutions in laws, regulations, Schneider Electric practices and procedures, or requests by supervisory authorities.
In this case, Schneider Electric will inform impacted individuals of material changes in this Privacy Notice. Schneider Electric will post new versions on relevant internal and external websites and digital platforms.
2. Why Do We Provide this Privacy Notice?
Schneider Electric is committed to protecting your privacy and personal information. This Privacy Notice informs you of our privacy practices and of how personal information is protected. You should read it before accessing the Schneider Electric digital marketplace.
Schneider Electric strongly supports the fundamental rights to privacy and data protection as well as compliance with national and international privacy laws.
This Privacy Notice describes how Schneider Electric processes and protects personal information of individuals who use or provide information in relation to our e-commerce website, located at shop.se.com/pro/ca/ (our "digital marketplace").
3. What is the scope of this Privacy Notice?
This Privacy Notice applies to the Schneider Electric digital marketplace. If you interact with other Schneider Electric digital properties, you should check the privacy notices made available to you on each digital platform such as websites or applications.
This Privacy Notice describes how Schneider Electric processes and protects personal information of consumers, professionals, or others who interact with our digital marketplace.
Schneider Electric is a global company, with legal entities, business processes, management organizations, and system infrastructure that cross borders. This Privacy Notice applies to our digital marketplace. It may however be supplemented by another privacy notice/statement/policy or even superseded by another policy, specific to a particular Schneider Electric program, product, service, content, or entity. It is important that you read the statements made available to you for your full information. For instance, the processing of job candidate applications is governed by the privacy notice posted on our Career Portal. For additional information, you should also refer to the Schneider Electric Data Privacy Policy describing how Schneider Electric processes and protects personal information of individuals who use our websites and other digital platforms as well as in the context of our offline business activities, available at: https://www.se.com/ww/en/about-us/legal/data-privacy.jsp.
The data controllers of the data processing activities are the Schneider Electric subsidiaries who have determined the data processing means and purposes. They may vary on a case-by-case basis. For information you can contact us at Global-Data-Privacy@schneider-electric.com.
This Privacy Notice binds all Schneider Electric controlled subsidiaries, and their employees. Any order made by you online is also subject to the terms and conditions provided on the relevant sites. You must read them.
We do not knowingly or intentionally gather personal information about children. If we have inadvertently collected the personal information of a child under 16, or equivalent minimum age depending on jurisdiction, a parent or guardian of that child may contact us at Global-DataPrivacy@schneider-electric.com to request that we delete the information from our records or otherwise cease the use of that information.
4. Why do we collect and use personal information?
We collect and use personal information for various purposes, including to fulfill orders and requests; to manage customer and prospect relationships; conduct surveys; improve our products, services, digital content, our websites and mobile applications, as well as user journeys; manage user accounts and programs; analyze activities on our digital platforms; run marketing activities such as online targeting and advertising; provide user with contextual and relevant information; ensure the security of our activities, finance and quality control, trainings, reporting, and analytics; protect against fraud; and, more generally, run our business activities.
Our primary goal in collecting information is to provide you with superior service and a smooth, efficient, and personalized experience while using our digital content.
You can find more information in section 7.
5. What type of personal information do we process?
Schneider Electric processes various types of personal information including identity and contact related information, professional related information, information about preferences, interactions with us, financial related information, online traffic data, and the content you provide to us. In most instances, this information is obtained from customers, partners, and users. We also purchase lists from marketing agencies and obtain information from our partners, through cookies and social networks.
Personal information (also called personal data) is any information relating to an identified or identifiable individual. An identifiable individual is one who can be identified, directly or indirectly, in particular by reference to an identifier or to one or more factors specific to his physical, physiological, mental, economic, cultural, or social identity
This Privacy Notice does not cover personal information rendered anonymous, that is if individuals are no longer identifiable or are identifiable only with a disproportionately large expense in time, cost, or labor. If anonymized data becomes identifiable, then this Privacy Notice shall apply.
In most instances we collect personal information directly from users or others who directly interact with us. We may also obtain information through a reseller or a business partner, by purchasing customer lists from marketing agencies, from your online browsing experience, from social networks when you connect with these network's credentials, and through cookies and similar technologies.
You can find more information in section 7.
6. Why do we disclose personal information to others?
We disclose personal information to other Schneider Electric subsidiaries and to our suppliers, advertising and marketing agencies, social networks if you use their login credentials, other companies if you register with Schneider Electric credentials, competent regulatory bodies and authorities, and business successors.
Schneider Electric is a global group of companies which works as one. To provide the best service to customers, prospects, and users, personal data may be accessed by personnel working for different entities. It may be the case, for example, for customer relationship management, sales or product support, marketing, product development purposes, improvement of the products, services, and digital content, data quality checks, or security, finance, regulatory, and compliance purposes. We use a payment processor when you engage in a transaction on our digital marketplace.
We use suppliers to carry out data processing activities and to provide our products, services, and online content to you. These suppliers include, without limitation, providers of hosting facilities, information systems, advertising and marketing agencies, IT support, security services, financial services, carriers who deliver products, outside accounting firms, lawyers, and auditors.
We take measures to ensure all suppliers working under contract for Schneider Electric are compliant with data privacy laws and aligned with Schneider Electric guidelines.
We also disclose personal information as follows:
- In connection with the provision of our products and services, we may disclose personal information to (and receive personal information from) those partners that provide product or service functionality. For example, we may partner with companies to integrate smart home functionality into our smart home hardware products. These disclosures are necessary for you to utilize the products and features.
- In connection with the provision of advertising, we may share some limited personal information (e.g., device identifiers, Cookie identifiers) with ad exchanges or agencies that manage advertising on third-party websites and apps on which you may see advertising. You can restrict this sharing by exercising Your Privacy Choices.
- You may access our digital content and/or register through login credentials of third-party websites (such as Facebook and LinkedIn). If you do so, we will be able to access some of the information you registered on these social networks, to assist you to pre-fill the registration form for Schneider Electric digital content. By using the login credentials of these third-party websites, you may at the same time inform your contacts on these sites that you have created an account with Schneider Electric. If you want to know more about the information accessible by your contacts on these sites and how to restrict their communication, we encourage you to read their terms of use and privacy policies.
- As necessary to potential buyers and successors in title, to facilitate a merger, consolidation, transfer of control, or other corporate reorganization in which Schneider Electric participates.
- In other ways described in this Privacy Notice or to which you have otherwise consented.
- Aggregated with other information, in such a way that your identity cannot reasonably be determined (for example, statistical compilations).
You can find more information in section 7.
We will not sell or rent your personal information for monetary consideration to a third party without your permission.
7. Categories of personal information, purposes, and disclosures
| Category of Personal Information, Representative Data Elements and Sources | Purpose for Collecting and Sharing the PI | Categories of Entities to whom this type of Personal Information is Disclosed for a Business Purpose |
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Contact Information
| We use this type of information to identify you and communicate with you, including:
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| Relationship Information We collect personal information about business professionals associated with our commercial customers, suppliers, and partners in the context of our relationships with these companies. This includes:
| We use this type of information:
| We may disclose this type of information to our Subsidiaries and Service Providers and to:
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Transaction and Interaction Information
| We use this type of information:
| We may disclose this type of information to our Subsidiaries and Service Providers and to:
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Inferred and Derived Information
| We combine inferred data with other relationship information and use this type of information:
| We may disclose this type of information to our Subsidiaries and Service Providers and to:
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Online & Technical Information
| We use this type of information:
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| Compliance data We collect this type of information from:
| We use this type of information:
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8. Your content
You may choose to contribute content to digital platforms operated by Schneider Electric. Your content must be harmless. It must respect the law and the rights and interests of others. You need to have obtained consent before sharing someone else's data. You should apply caution before sharing information in a forum.
The content provided to us must respect the rights and interests of others, including their rights to protection of personal information and privacy. It should not be offensive, disrespectful, or be harmful in any way.
Any provision of personal information to Schneider Electric about another individual must be compliant with privacy laws, including with notice and consent requirements for the disclosure of that information.
While Schneider Electric strives to protect your personal information, providing it online on shared forums is not risk-free. If you post, comment, indicate interest, or share personal information, including photographs, to any forum, social network, or blog, please be aware that any personal information you submit can be read, viewed, collected, or used by other users of these forums, and could be used to contact you, send you unsolicited messages, or for purposes that neither you nor Schneider Electric have control over. Schneider Electric is not responsible for the personal information you choose to submit in these forums. You should apply caution before deciding to share information about yourself or another person.
9. How do we protect personal information?
Schneider Electric complies with widely recognized key data protection principles (fairness, purpose limitation, data quality, data retention, compliance with individuals' rights, security) and takes reasonable measures for the security of personal information.
Schneider Electric respects the privacy rights and interests of individuals. Schneider Electric and its subsidiaries observe the following principles when processing personal information:
- Processing personal information fairly and lawfully;
- Collecting personal information for specified, legitimate purposes and not processing it further in ways incompatible with those purposes;
- Collecting personal information which is relevant to and not excessive for the purposes for which it is collected and used. We may render information anonymous when feasible and appropriate, depending on the nature of the data and the risks associated with the intended uses;
- Maintaining accurate personal information, and where necessary, kept up-to-date. We will take reasonable steps to rectify or delete information that is inaccurate or incomplete;
- Keeping personal information only as long as it is necessary for the purposes for which it was collected and processed;
- Processing personal information in accordance with individuals' legal rights;
- Taking appropriate technical, physical, and organizational measures to prevent unauthorized access, unlawful processing, and unauthorized or accidental loss, destruction, or damage to personal information;
- When processing sensitive personal information, ensuring appropriate notice and consent or that the processing otherwise complies with applicable law;
- Schneider Electric and all its subsidiaries must ensure that the above principles are complied with.
Schneider Electric and its subsidiaries are committed to taking commercially reasonable technical, physical, and organizational measures to protect personal information against unauthorized access, unlawful processing, accidental loss or damage, and unauthorized destruction. We offer the use of secure servers to enable you to place orders or to access your account information. We implement access control measures for our internal systems that hold personal information. Authorized users are given access to such systems through the use of a unique identifier and password. Access to personal information is provided to our staff for the sole purpose of performing their job duties. We train our employees on proper use and handling of personal information. We also require our service providers to maintain compliant security measures. We implement security measures to determine the identity of registered users, so that appropriate rights and restrictions can be enforced for these users. In case of a registered user, we use both log ins and passwords for authentication. You are responsible for maintaining the security of your log-in credentials.
By using our digital content or providing personal information to us, you agree that we may communicate with you electronically or otherwise about related security, privacy, use, and administrative activities.
In spite of our efforts to implement appropriate security measures, online browsing carries inherent risks and we cannot guarantee that it is risk-free.
10. How long do we retain personal information?
Schneider Electric will retain your personal information for as long as the information is needed for the purposes for which it was collected and for any additional period that may be required or permitted by law, such as for business, legal, accounting, or reporting requirements. The length of time your personal information is retained depends on the purpose(s) for which it was collected, how it is used, and the requirements to comply with applicable laws, regulations, or contracts.
More precise information is provided in privacy notices applicable to specific digital content. In general, data retention periods are determined taking into consideration:
- The duration of our relationship (e.g., contract performance duration, account deactivation, your legitimate need to be recognized when contacted by us)
- Legal requirements for keeping data
- Statute of limitations
For marketing purposes, we keep relevant customer data for three years after the end of our relationship or since the last interaction with us.
11. Third-party websites and social media
You should read the privacy policy of third-party websites and social media and adjust privacy settings as you see fit. Non-Schneider Electric websites and platforms are not covered by this Privacy Notice.
Schneider Electric digital platforms may provide links to third-party applications, products, services, or websites for the user convenience and information. If you access those links, you will leave the Schneider Electric digital platform. Schneider Electric does not control those thirdparty sites or their privacy practices, which may differ from Schneider Electric's practices. We do not endorse or make any representations about third-party sites. The personal information you choose to provide or that is collected by these third parties are not covered by this Electric Privacy Notice. We encourage you to review the privacy policy of any site you interact with, before allowing the collection and use of your personal information.
We also provide social media links that enable you to share information with your social networks and to interact with Schneider Electric on various social media sites. The use of these links may result in the collection or sharing of information about you. We encourage you to review the privacy policies and the privacy settings of the social media sites with which you interact to make sure you understand the information that may be collected, used, and shared by those sites and to adjust these settings as you see fit.
Last update: April 23, 2026