Wight Community Energy Group Privacy Policy
In the following, “WCE” means the Wight Community Energy Group which for the time being includes Wight Community Energy Ltd, CORE Gemini Ltd and Homestead Community Solar CIC.
1. INTRODUCTION
WCE is committed to protectingand respecting your privacy.
This policy (together with our terms of use of this website) sets out the basis on which any personal data we collect from you, or that you provide to us, will be processed by us. Please read the following carefully to understand our views and practices regarding your personal data and how we will treat it.
For the purpose of the DataProtection Act 2018 (“the Act”), the data controller is Wight Community EnergyLtd whose details are shown in the footer of this page.
2. INFORMATION WE MAY COLLECT FROM YOU
We may collect andprocess the following data about you:
· Information that you provide by filling any form on our site. You can freely and voluntarily provide the information requested, except in the mandatory fields. The non-introduction of the information defined as mandatory may cause your request not to be fulfilled.
· If you contact us by any means we may keep arecord of that contact.
· We may also ask you to complete surveys that weuse for research purposes, although you do not have to respond to them. All such responses will be anonimised beforestoring.
· Details of your visits to our site including, but not limited to, traffic data, location data, weblogs and other communication data, whether this is required for our own billing purposes or otherwise and the resources that you access. This data will be anononimised and used solely for the purpose of improving our website or other services.
3. IP ADDRESSES
We may collect information about your computer, including where available your IP address, operating system and browser type, for system administration and to report aggregate information to members of our team and/or communication agencies we work with. This is statistical data about our users’ browsing actions and patterns, and does not identify any individual.
4. COOKIES
This website does not use cookies. The code issued by e-mail to access this Members Only area is not a cookie.
5. WHERE WE STORE YOUR PERSONALDATA
For sending our newsletters we use a marketing automation platforms: MailChimp. By authorizing the submission of the subscription form to our newsletter, you understand that the information provided will be processed and stored in MailChimp in accordance with their private policies and terms of use.
Unfortunately, the transmission of information via the internet is not completely secure. Although we will do our best to protect your personal data, we cannot guarantee the security of your data transmitted to our site; any transmission is at your own risk. Once we have received your information, we will use strict procedures and security features to try to prevent unauthorised access.
We inform you that you canchange your mind at any time bycontacting us at info@wightcommunityenergy.org.
6. USES MADE OF THE INFORMATION
We use information held about you in the following ways:
· To ensure that content on our site is presented in the most effective manner for you and for your computer.
· To administer our site or subscription servicesand for internal operations, including troubleshooting, data analysis, testing, research, statistical and survey purposes.
· To provide you with information on products or services that you request from us or which we believe may interest you based on the data you give us or your preferences, or where you have consented to be contacted for such purposes. This information includes opportunities for community-owned renewable energy investments, share or bond offers, community project updates, and news and analysis from within the community-owned renewable energy world.
· To carry out our obligations arising from any contracts entered into between you and us.
· To notify you about changes to our service or our contract with you.
7. DISCLOSURE OF YOURINFORMATION
We may disclose your personal information to any member of our team. We may also disclose your personal information to third parties under the following circumstances:
· Business partners, suppliers and sub-contractors for the performance of any contract we enter into with you;
· Business partners and suppliers where you have agreed to this;
· If we are under a duty to disclose or share your personal data in order to comply with any legal obligation, or in order to enforce or apply our rights, or to protect our rights, property, or safety, or that of our customers, or others. This includes exchanging information with other companies and organisations for the purposes of fraud protection and credit risk reduction.
8. YOUR RIGHTS
You have the to request access to, deletion of or correction of, your personal data. You can do so by contacting us at info@wightcommunityenergy.org.
9. EXTERNAL LINKS
Our site may, from time to time, contain links to and from the websites of our partner networks and affiliates. If you follow a link to any of these websites, please note that these websites have their own privacy policies and that we do not accept any responsibility or liability for these policies. Please check these policies before you submit any personal data to these websites.
10. ACCESS TO INFORMATION
You have the right to request a copy of the information that we hold about you. If you would like a copy of some or all of your personal information, please contact us at info@wightcommunityenergy.org.
We want to ensure that your personal information is accurate and up to date. If any of the information that you have provided to us changes, for example if you change your email addressor name, please let us know the correct details by writing to info@wightcommunityenergy.org.You may ask us, or we may ask you, to correct information you or we think is inaccurate, and you may also ask us to remove information which is inaccurate.
11. CHANGES TO OUR PRIVACY POLICY
Any changes we may make to our privacy policy in the future will be posted on this page.
12. HOW TO CONTACT US
Questions, comments and requests regarding this privacy policy are welcomed and should be sent to info@wightcommunityenergy.org.
