Data Privacy Statement

1. Introduction

This privacy and cookie statement (Statement) is prepared by Voltison Renewables Limited (“Voltison”), and describes how we collect, use and protect your personal data on this website and when we interact with you.

2. Data Controller

The controller for the processing of personal data in the UK is:

  • Entity name: Voltison Renewables Limited
  • Address: 321 37 Cremer Street, London, United Kingdom, E2 8HD
  • Registration number: 16630475

3. Compliance team and Data Protection contact

For questions about data protection, please contact our Compliance team:

4. Collection and Use of Personal Data

Voltison collects and processes personal data for the following purposes:

  • Service: To provide and improve our products and services, we may collect identity data, including your name, title, address, telephone number, e-mail address and financial or transactional data if you conduct business with us.
  • Website optimization: For understanding and optimizing website functionality and performance, we may collect technical data including your internet protocol (IP) address, browser type and version, time zone setting and location, browser plug-in types and versions, operating system and platform, traffic data, weblogs and other communication data and usage data, including anonymous statistical data about website visitors’ browsing actions and patterns and use of our site.
  • Preference settings: To save preferences such as language settings, we may collect technical data including your internet protocol (IP) address, browser type and version, time zone setting and location, browser plug-in types and versions, operating system and platform, traffic data, weblogs and other communication data
  • Contact: To communicate with you when you complete a website contact form, correspond with us at events, or contact us or ask us to contact you by post, phone, email, or on social media. We may collect identity data, including your name, title, address, telephone number, and email address, and other types of information you may share with us, such as the number of hectares of land in your possession to assess whether a solar park is possible at your location.
  • Marketing: To provide you with relevant communications about our services, including if applicable, when you wish to download a brochure during your visit to the website, we may collect your name, title, and e-mail address.

5. Lawful Bases for Processing Personal Data

We will only use your personal data for the purposes for which we collected it. We process your personal data under the following lawful bases:

  • Where we need to perform the contract we are about to enter into or have entered into with you, we process your identity data, contact data, financial and transactional data.
  • Where it is necessary for our legitimate interests (or those of a third party) and your interests and fundamental rights do not override those interests, we process your identity data, contact data, financial and transactional data.
  • Where we need to comply with a legal obligation, we process your identity data, contact data, financial and transactional data.
  • With your consent, we process your identity data, contact data, marketing and communications data, and technical and usage data. You have the right to withdraw your consent to marketing at any time by contacting Voltison using the contact information above.

6. Cookies and Tracking Technologies

Voltison uses cookies to support the functionality of the website and improve the user experience. The following is an overview of the cookies used:

  • Strictly necessary cookies: These cookies are essential for basic website functionality and do not require consent.
  • Analytical cookies: Help us understand how the website is used, for example by tracking the number of visitors. These cookies require your consent.
  • Preference cookies: These cookies ‘remember’ your preferences on our site, for example which language you would like our site to be in. These cookies require your consent.

Visitors can access specific information about cookies in our Cookie policy.

7. Country Specific Adjustments

The processing of personal data and the use of cookies may be subject to additional local regulations. For more information, please contact Voltison using the contact details above or our Compliance team / Data Protection Contact.

8. Retention of Personal Data

The personal data you provide will be retained for as long as necessary to fulfil the purpose it was collected for, unless there is a legal obligation to retain the personal data for longer. Once the data is no longer needed, it will be deleted or anonymized securely.

9. Your Rights

Under certain circumstances, you have the following rights in relation to your personal data:

  • Right to access, correct, and request the deletion of the personal data that Voltison holds about you.
  • Right to request the restriction of processing and portability of data.
  • Right to object to data processing.
  • Right to lodge a complaint about our handling of your personal data with the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO), but we would appreciate the opportunity to deal with your concerns before you approach the ICO so please contact us in the first instance using the contact details above.
  • Address: UK Information Commissioner’s Office, Wycliffe House, Water Lane, Wilmslow, Cheshire, SK9 5AF
  • Tel: +44 (0) 01625 545745
  • Website: www.ico.org.uk

For more information on your rights, please contact our Compliance team using the contact details above.

10. Sharing Personal Data

We may share your personal data with:

  • Trusted third-party service providers and partners, including IT support providers, payment processors, legal advisors, and affiliated group entities (including Chint Solar Europe and Voltis). Where required, we may also disclose your data to public authorities or as part of a legal obligation
  • Prospective sellers or buyers of our business or assets or any such new owner, in the event we consider selling or buying any business or assets. Any such new owner shall process your personal data in the same was as set out in this Statement.
  • Professional bodies, law enforcement agencies, advisers, auditors and similar organizations, to comply with our legal obligations or where the disclosure is in our legitimate interests for example to enforce or protect our rights.

We require all third parties to respect the security of your personal data and to treat it in accordance with the law. We do not allow our third-party service providers to use your personal data for their own purposes and only permit them to process your personal data for specified purposes and in accordance with our instructions.

11. Automated Decision-Making

We do not use your personal data to perform any automated decision-making or profiling that produces legal or similarly significant effects concerning you.

12. International Transfers

We share your personal data with the above third parties. This may involve transferring your data outside the UK.
Whenever we transfer your personal data out of the UK, we ensure that appropriate safeguards are in place which afford you a similar degree of protection, such as ensuring we have carried out appropriate due diligence on our sub-processors, and utilizing specific contractual clauses approved for use in the UK, such as the UK International Data Transfer Agreement (IDTA) or the UK Addendum to the EU Standard Contractual Clauses.

13. Third Party Links

This website may include links to third-party websites, plug-ins and applications. Clicking on those links or enabling those connections may allow third parties to collect or share data about you. We do not control these third-party websites and are not responsible for their privacy statements. When you leave our website, we encourage you to read the privacy policy of every website you visit.

14. Changes to the Statement

Voltison reserves the right to modify this Statement. The most recent version of this Privacy and Cookie Statement is always available on this website.

15. Questions

For questions regarding this statement or the processing of personal data by Voltison, please contact our Compliance team using the Data Protection Contacts provided under section 3.