Privacy Policy
Last updated: February 18, 2021
This Privacy Policy describes our policies
and procedures on the collection, use and disclosure of your information when
you use the Service and tells you about your privacy rights and how the law protects
you.
We use your Personal data to provide and
improve the Service. By using the Service, you agree to the collection and use
of information in accordance with this Privacy Policy.
Interpretation and Definitions
Interpretation
The words of which the initial letter is
capitalized have meanings defined under the following conditions. The following
definitions shall have the same meaning regardless of whether they appear in
singular or in plural.
Definitions
For the purposes of this Privacy Policy:
- Account
means a unique account created for You to access our Service or parts of
our Service.
- App refers
to our Solar Champions App.
- Company
(referred to as either "the Company", "We",
"Us" or "Our" in this Agreement) refers to Solar for
Schools, Linden Square 146 Kings Road Bury St Edmunds IP33 3DJ, UK.
- For the purpose of the GDPR, the Company
is the Data Controller.
- Cookies
are small files that are placed on Your computer, mobile device or any
other device by a website, containing the details of Your browsing history
on that website among its many uses.
- Country
refers to: United Kingdom.
- Data Controller, for the purposes of the GDPR (General Data Protection
Regulation), refers to the Company as the legal person which alone or
jointly with others determines the purposes and means of the processing of
Personal Data.
- Device
means any device that can access the Service such as a computer, a
smartphone or a digital tablet.
- Personal Data is any information that relates to an identified or
identifiable individual.
- For the purposes for GDPR, Personal Data
means any information relating to You such as a name, an identification
number, location data, online identifier or to one or more factors
specific to the physical, physiological, genetic, mental, economic,
cultural or social identity.
- Service
refers to our Website and Apps.
- Service Provider means any natural or legal person who processes the data on
behalf of the Company. It refers to third-party companies or individuals
employed by the Company to facilitate the Service, to provide the Service
on behalf of the Company, to perform services related to the Service or to
assist the Company in analysing how the Service is used. For the purpose
of the GDPR, Service Providers are considered Data Processors.
- Third-party Social Media Service refers to any website or any social network website through
which a User can log in to interact with the Service.
- Usage Data
refers to data collected automatically, either generated by the use of the
Service or from the Service infrastructure itself (for example, the
duration of a page visit).
- Website
refers to Solar for Schools, accessible from https://www.solarforschools.co.uk
- You means
the individual accessing or using the Service, or the company, or other
legal entity on behalf of which such individual is accessing or using the
Service, as applicable.
Under GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation), You can be referred to as
the Data Subject or as the User as you are the individual using the
Service.
Collecting and Using Your Personal Data
Types of Data Collected
Personal Data
While using Our Service, We may ask You to
provide Us with certain personally identifiable information that can be used to
contact or identify You. Personally identifiable information may include, but
is not limited to:
- Email address
- First name and last name
- Date of birth
- Billing details
- Usage Data
We store personal information when You:
- enter on our website
- fill in forms on our website (including
username and password)
- sign up to participate in or receive a
service from any part of the website (such as newsletters, e-news, social
media updates, request membership, surveys, competitions, live chats,
message boards or register with the an online registration system used across
different parts of this website)
- contract with us or engage in any actual
or prospective projects with us
- correspond or interact with us by phone,
e-mail or otherwise
- participate in any transaction through
our website and through that transaction request services or information
from us
- and provide details of your visits to our
website including, but not limited to, IP address, browser type, traffic
data, location data, weblogs and other communication, data, whether this
is required for our own billing purposes or otherwise.
We do not request any of the following
"special categories" of personal data about you:
Your race or ethnicity, religious or
philosophical beliefs (other than your desire to engage in ethical trading),
sex life, sexual orientation, political opinions, trade union membership,
criminal convictions or offences, information about your health or genetic or
biometric data. If you volunteer this information we may hold it in recorded
format.
It should be noted that the personal
information that we collect on individuals may include, but is not limited to,
your name, date of birth, contact details (including email, home address,
telephone and billing address), payment details and other personal information
we collect in the course of a transaction or that you provide to us when you
contact us.
Usage Data
Usage Data is collected automatically when
using the Service.
Usage Data may include information such as
Your Device's Internet Protocol address (e.g. IP address), browser type,
browser version, the pages of our Service that You visit, the time and date of
Your visit, the time spent on those pages, unique device identifiers and other
diagnostic data.
When You access the Service by or through a
mobile device, We may collect certain information automatically, including, but
not limited to, the type of mobile device You use, Your mobile device unique
ID, the IP address of Your mobile device, Your mobile operating system, the
type of mobile Internet browser You use, unique device identifiers and other
diagnostic data.
We may also collect information that Your
browser sends whenever You visit our Service or when You access the Service by
or through a mobile device.
Information from Third-Party Social Media Services
The Company allows shared content from the
Service through the following Third-party Social Media Services:
- Google
- Facebook
- Twitter
- LinkedIn
- Instagram
- Xing
If You decide to use or otherwise grant us
access to a Third-Party Social Media Service, We may collect Personal data that
is already associated with Your Third-Party Social Media Service's account,
such as Your name, Your email address, Your activities or Your contact list associated
with that account.
You may also have the option of sharing
additional information with the Company through Your Third-Party Social Media
Service's account. If You choose to provide such information and Personal Data,
during registration or otherwise, You are giving the Company permission to use,
share, and store it in a manner consistent with this Privacy Policy.
Tracking Technologies and Cookies
We use Cookies and similar tracking
technologies to track the activity on Our Service and store certain
information. Tracking technologies used are beacons, tags, and scripts to
collect and track information and to improve and analyse Our Service. The
technologies We use may include:
- Cookies or Browser Cookies. A cookie is a small file placed on Your Device. You can
instruct Your browser to refuse all Cookies or to indicate when a Cookie
is being sent. However, if You do not accept Cookies, You may not be able
to use some parts of our Service. Unless you have adjusted Your browser setting
so that it will refuse Cookies, our Service may use Cookies.
- Web Beacons. Certain sections of our Service and our emails may contain
small electronic files known as web beacons (also referred to as clear
gifs, pixel tags, and single-pixel gifs) that permit the Company, for
example, to count users who have visited those pages or opened an email
and for other related website statistics (for example, recording the
popularity of a certain section and verifying system and server
integrity).
Cookies can be "Persistent" or
"Session"
Cookies. Persistent Cookies remain on Your personal computer or mobile device
when You go offline, while Session Cookies are deleted as soon as You close
Your web browser.
Learn more about cookies: Cookies: What Do They Do?.
We use both Session and Persistent Cookies
for the purposes set out below:
Necessary / Essential Cookies
Type: Session Cookies
Administered by: Us
Purpose: These Cookies are essential to
provide You with services available through the Website and to enable You to
use some of its features. They help to authenticate users and prevent
fraudulent use of user accounts. Without these Cookies, the services that You
have asked for cannot be provided, and We only use these Cookies to provide You
with those services.
Cookies Policy / Notice Acceptance
Cookies
Type: Persistent Cookies
Administered by: Us
Purpose: These Cookies identify if users
have accepted the use of cookies on the Website.
Functionality Cookies
Type: Persistent Cookies
Administered by: Us
Purpose: These Cookies allow us to remember
choices You make when You use the Website, such as remembering your login
details or language preference. The purpose of these Cookies is to provide You
with a more personal experience and to avoid You having to re-enter your
preferences every time You use the Website.
Tracking and Performance Cookies
Type: Persistent Cookies
Administered by: Third-Parties
Purpose: These Cookies are used to track
information about traffic to the Website and how users use the Website. The
information gathered via these Cookies may directly or indirectly identify you
as an individual visitor. This is because the information collected is
typically linked to a pseudonymous identifier associated with the device you
use to access the Website. We may also use these Cookies to test new pages,
features or new functionality of the Website to see how our users react to
them.
Use of Your Personal Data
The Company may use Personal Data for the
following purposes:
- To provide and maintain our Service, including to monitor the usage of our Service.
- To manage Your Account: to manage Your registration as a user of the Service. The
Personal Data You provide can give You access to different functionalities
of the Service that are available to You as a registered user.
- For the performance of a contract: the development, compliance and undertaking of the purchase
contract for the products, items or services You have purchased or of any
other contract with Us through the Service.
- To contact You: To contact You by email, telephone calls, SMS, or other
equivalent forms of electronic communication, such as a mobile
application's push notifications regarding updates or informative
communications related to the functionalities, products or contracted
services, including the security updates, when necessary or reasonable for
their implementation.
- To provide You with news, special offers and general information about other
goods, services and events which we offer that are similar to those that
you have already purchased or enquired about unless You have opted not to
receive such information.
- To manage Your requests: To attend and manage Your requests to Us.
- For business transfers: We may use Your information to evaluate or conduct a merger,
divestiture, restructuring, reorganization, dissolution, or other sale or
transfer of some or all of Our assets, whether as a going concern or as
part of bankruptcy, liquidation, or similar proceeding, in which Personal
Data held by Us about our Service users is among the assets transferred.
- For other purposes: We may use Your information for other purposes, such as data
analysis, identifying usage trends, determining the effectiveness of our
promotional campaigns and to evaluate and improve our Service, products,
services, marketing and your experience.
Generally, We use Your personal information
for a number of purposes including the following:
- to provide You with the information,
products and Services that you request from Us or expressly indicate are
relevant to You
- to provide You with the most
user-friendly navigation experience and to allow You to participate in
interactive features of our Service and when You choose to do so;
- to analyse, improve, personalise, manage,
enhance and customise Your experiences and the way content is presented to
You and for Your computer;
- to administer Our website and for
internal operations, including troubleshooting, data analysis, testing,
research, statistical and survey purposes; and in order to keep Our Website
safe and secure;
- to carry out and meet contractual
arrangements and obligations arising from any contracts entered into between
You and Us, including payment of invoices;
- to communicate, stay in contact with You,
contact You about a submission You have made to the Website (including
access to any ongoing information, service administration purposes,
opportunities and any content You provide) and to give You the opportunity
from time to time to receive email and 'e-newsletters' from Us
- to use IP addresses to identify the
location of users, the number of visits from different countries and also
to block disruptive use.
We may share
Your personal information in the following situations:
- With Service Providers: We may share Your personal information with Service Providers
to monitor and analyse the use of our Service, to contact You.
- For business transfers: We may share or transfer Your personal information in
connection with, or during negotiations of, any merger, sale of Company
assets, financing, or acquisition of all or a portion of Our business to
another company.
- With Affiliates: We may share Your information with Our affiliates, in which
case we will require those affiliates to honor this Privacy Policy.
Affiliates include Our parent company and any other subsidiaries, joint
venture partners or other companies that We control or that are under
common control with Us.
- With business partners: We may share Your information with Our business partners to
offer You certain products, services or promotions.
- With other users: when You share personal information or otherwise interact in
the public areas with other users, such information may be viewed by all
users and may be publicly distributed outside. If You interact with other
users or register through a Third-Party Social Media Service, Your
contacts on the Third-Party Social Media Service may see Your name,
profile, pictures and description of Your activity. Similarly, other users
will be able to view descriptions of Your activity, communicate with You
and view Your profile.
- With Your consent: We may disclose Your personal information for any other
purpose with Your consent.
Retention of Your Personal Data
The Company will retain Your Personal Data
only for as long as is necessary for the purposes set out in this Privacy
Policy. We will retain and use Your Personal Data to the extent necessary to
comply with our legal obligations (for example, if we are required to retain
your data to comply with applicable laws), resolve disputes, and enforce our
legal agreements and policies.
The Company will also retain Usage Data for
internal analysis purposes. Usage Data is generally retained for a shorter
period of time, except when this data is used to strengthen the security or to
improve the functionality of Our Service, or We are legally obligated to retain
this data for longer time periods.
Transfer of Your Personal Data
Your information, including Personal Data,
is processed at the Company's operating offices and in any other places where
the parties involved in the processing are located. It means that this
information may be transferred to -- and maintained on
-- computers located
outside of Your country or other governmental jurisdiction where the data
protection laws may differ than those from Your jurisdiction.
Your consent to this Privacy Policy
followed by Your submission of such information represents Your agreement to
that transfer.
The Company will take all steps reasonably
necessary to ensure that Your data is treated securely and in accordance with
this Privacy Policy and no transfer of Your Personal Data will take place to an
organization or a country unless there are adequate controls in place including
the security of Your data and other personal information.
Disclosure of Your Personal Data
Business Transactions
If the Company is involved in a merger,
acquisition or asset sale, Your Personal Data may be transferred. We will
provide notice before Your Personal Data is transferred and becomes subject to
a different Privacy Policy.
Law enforcement
Under certain circumstances, the Company
may be required to disclose Your Personal Data if required to do so by law or
in response to valid requests by public authorities (e.g. a court or a
government agency).
Other legal requirements
The Company may disclose Your Personal Data
in the good faith belief that such action is necessary to:
- Comply with a legal obligation
- Protect and defend the rights or property
of the Company
- Prevent or investigate possible
wrongdoing in connection with the Service
- Protect the personal safety of Users of
the Service or the public
- Protect against legal liability
Security of Your Personal Data
The security of Your Personal Data is
important to Us, but remember that no method of transmission over the Internet,
or method of electronic storage is 100% secure. While We strive to use
commercially acceptable means to protect Your Personal Data, We cannot
guarantee its absolute security.
Detailed Information on the Processing of Your Personal
Data
The Service Providers We use may have
access to Your Personal Data. These third-party vendors collect, store, use,
process and transfer information about Your activity on Our Service in
accordance with their Privacy Policies.
Analytics
We may use third-party Service providers to
monitor and analyse the use of our Service.
Google Analytics
Google Analytics is a web analytics service
offered by Google that tracks and reports website traffic. Google uses the data
collected to track and monitor the use of our Service. This data is shared with
other Google services. Google may use the collected data to contextualize and
personalize the ads of its own advertising network.
You can opt-out of having made your
activity on the Service available to Google Analytics by installing the Google
Analytics opt-out browser add-on. The add-on prevents the Google Analytics
JavaScript (ga.js, analytics.js and dc.js) from sharing information with Google
Analytics about visits activity.
For more information on the privacy
practices of Google, please visit the Google Privacy & Terms web page: https://policies.google.com/privacy
Email Marketing
We may use Your Personal Data to contact
You with newsletters, marketing or promotional materials and other information
that may be of interest to You. You may opt-out of receiving any, or all, of
these communications from Us by following the unsubscribe link or instructions
provided in any email We send or by contacting Us.
We may use the following Email Marketing
Service Providers to manage and send emails to You.
GDPR Privacy
Legal Basis for Processing Personal Data under GDPR
We may process Personal Data under the
following conditions:
- Consent:
You have given Your consent for processing Personal Data for one or more
specific purposes.
- Performance of a contract: Provision of Personal Data is necessary for the performance
of an agreement with You and/or for any pre-contractual obligations
thereof.
- Legal obligations: Processing Personal Data is necessary for compliance with a
legal obligation to which the Company is subject.
- Vital interests: Processing Personal Data is necessary in order to protect
Your vital interests or of another natural person.
- Public interests: Processing Personal Data is related to a task that is carried
out in the public interest or in the exercise of official authority vested
in the Company.
- Legitimate interests: Processing Personal Data is necessary for the purposes of the
legitimate interests pursued by the Company.
In any case, the Company will gladly help
to clarify the specific legal basis that applies to the processing, and in
particular whether the provision of Personal Data is a statutory or contractual
requirement, or a requirement necessary to enter into a contract.
Your Rights under the GDPR
The Company undertakes to respect the
confidentiality of Your Personal Data and to guarantee You can exercise Your
rights.
You have the right under this Privacy
Policy, and by law if You are within the EU, to:
- Request access to Your Personal Data. The right to access, update or delete the information We have
on You. Whenever made possible, you can access, update or request deletion
of Your Personal Data directly within Your account settings section. If
you are unable to perform these actions yourself, please contact Us to
assist You. This also enables You to receive a copy of the Personal Data
We hold about You.
- Request correction of the Personal
Data that We hold about You. You have the
right to to have any incomplete or inaccurate information We hold about
You corrected.
- Object to processing of Your Personal
Data. This right exists where We are relying
on a legitimate interest as the legal basis for Our processing and there
is something about Your particular situation, which makes You want to
object to our processing of Your Personal Data on this ground. You also
have the right to object where We are processing Your Personal Data for
direct marketing purposes.
- Request erasure of Your Personal Data. You have the right to ask Us to delete or remove Personal
Data when there is no good reason for Us to continue processing it.
- Request the transfer of Your Personal
Data. We will provide to You, or to a
third-party You have chosen, Your Personal Data in a structured, commonly
used, machine-readable format. Please note that this right only applies to
automated information which You initially provided consent for Us to use
or where We used the information to perform a contract with You.
- Withdraw Your consent. You have the right to withdraw Your consent on using your
Personal Data. If You withdraw Your consent, We may not be able to provide
You with access to certain specific functionalities of the Service.
Exercising of Your GDPR Data Protection Rights
You may exercise Your rights of access,
rectification, cancellation and opposition by contacting Us. Please note that
we may ask You to verify Your identity before responding to such requests. If
You make a request, We will try our best to respond to You as soon as possible.
You have the right to complain to a Data
Protection Authority about Our collection and use of Your Personal Data. For
more information, if You are in the European Economic Area (EEA), please
contact Your local data protection authority in the EEA.
Children's Privacy and Safeguarding
Solar for Schools works with children and
schools in using online education platforms and resources to deliver social value by helping society become more sustainable from
education through solar. Our Online Safety Policy Statement describes how We ensure the safety and wellbeing of children
and young people when using our Service. The policy
statement applies to all staff, volunteers, children and young people and
anyone involved in Solar for Schools activities.
[Solar for Schools Online Safety Policy
Statement]
Links to Other Websites
Our Service may contain links to other
websites that are not operated by Us. If You click on a third party link, You
will be directed to that third party's site. We strongly advise
You to review the Privacy Policy of every
site You visit. An example of this could be embedding external educational
content videos into Our Service.
We have no control over and assume no
responsibility for the content, privacy policies or practices of any third
party sites or services.
Changes to this Privacy Policy
We may update Our Privacy Policy from time
to time. We will notify You of any changes by posting the new Privacy Policy on
this page.
We will let You know via email and/or a
prominent notice on Our Service, prior to the change becoming effective and
update the "Last updated" date at the top of this Privacy Policy.
You are advised to review this Privacy
Policy periodically for any changes. Changes to this Privacy Policy are
effective when they are posted on this page.
Contact Us
If you have any questions about this
Privacy Policy, You can contact us:
By email: info@solarforschools.co.uk
