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Our website address is: https://energizeelectrical.co.uk.

This policy sets out the basis on which any personal data we collect from you, or that you provide to us, via our website www.energizeelectrical.co.uk, 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.

 

OUR CONTACT DETAILS

Name: Energize Electrical (Scot) Ltd

Email Address  

Address: 59 Clermiston Grove, Edinburgh EH4 7DA

 

OUR COMMUNICATIONS PLATFORMS

Energize Electrical use our website to communicate about our service, our work and our thinking.

If you sign up for our mailing list, you will receive our regular newsletter. From time to time we will use our mailing list to notify you about Energize Electrical news.

 

INFORMATION WE MAY COLLECT FROM YOU

We may collect and process the following data about you:

• Information that you provide by filling in forms on our website (Energize Electrical) or by sending us emails. This includes information provided at the time of registering to use our site, subscribing to our service, posting material or requesting further services. We may also ask you for information when you report a problem to our site

• We may also ask you to complete surveys that we use for research purposes, although you do not have to respond to them.

• 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.

 

SUBSCRIBING TO OUR MAILING LIST

Like many organisations, we use a variety of third-party platforms to support our communications. You can subscribe our mailing lists to receive updates about our work and give your consent to be notified about new resources that we produce. We use Mailchimp a third party email platform, to share insights.

When you subscribe to our mailing lists we ask you for your name, contact details and your email address. Your data is held within these third party platforms. Mailchimp has its own security and privacy policy.

Mailchimp uses email tracking. Email tracking tells us when you opened an email and what links you clicked on. We use this information to improve our communications, and include general information such as open and click-through rates to inform communications planning and reporting.

HOW WE PROTECT YOUR PRIVACY

Energize Electrical is committed to respecting your privacy. Your data may be held within third-party platforms which we use, including Mailchimp. All of these platforms have published up to date privacy policies to comply with the GDPR.

Access to those platforms and your data is strictly limited to our communications team.

 

OPTING OUT

If at any time you decide that you no longer wish to hear from us you can unsubscribe from our mailing list. At the bottom of our emails you will be given the option to unsubscribe. When you click on this option we will remove your name from our mailing list.

You can also adjust the settings in your browser to decline cookies. This may have an impact on your experience of our website. To read more, click here.

IP ADDRESSES

We may collect information about your computer, including where available your IP address, operating system and browser type, for system administration. This is statistical data about our users’ browsing actions and patterns, and does not identify any individual.

COOKIES

Our website uses cookies to distinguish you from other users of our website. This helps us to provide you with a good experience when you browse our website and also allows us to improve our site. A cookie is a small file which asks permission to be placed on your computer’s hard drive. Once you agree, the file is added and the cookie helps analyse web traffic or lets you know when you visit a particular site. Cookies allow web applications to respond to you as an individual. The web application can tailor its operations to your needs, likes and dislikes by gathering and remembering information about your preferences.

We use traffic log cookies (Google Analytics) to identify which pages are being used. This helps us analyse data about web page traffic and improve our website in order to tailor it to customer needs. We only use this information for statistical analysis purposes and then the data is removed from the system.

Overall, cookies help us provide you with a better website, by enabling us to monitor which pages you find useful and which you do not. A cookie in no way gives us access to your computer or any information about you, other than the data you choose to share with us.

You can choose to accept or decline cookies. Most web browsers automatically accept cookies, but you can usually modify your browser setting to decline cookies if you prefer. This may prevent you from taking full advantage of the website.

WHERE WE STORE YOUR PERSONAL DATA

The data that we collect from you may be transferred to, and stored at, a destination outside the European Economic Area (“EEA”). It may also be processed by staff operating outside the EEA who work for us or for one of our suppliers. Such staff maybe engaged in, among other things, the fulfilment of your order, the processing of your payment details and the provision of support services. By submitting your personal data, you agree to this transfer, storing or processing. We will take all steps reasonably necessary to ensure that your data is treated securely and in accordance with this privacy policy.

All information you provide to us is stored on our secure servers. Where we have given you (or where you have chosen) a password which enables you to access certain parts of our site, you are responsible for keeping this password confidential. We ask you not to share a password with anyone.

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.

SENSITIVE INFORMATION

We do not collect any sensitive data about you e.g. details about your race or ethnicity, religious or philosophical beliefs, sex life, sexual orientation, political opinions, trade union membership, information about your health and genetic or bio-metric data.

USES MADE OF THE INFORMATION

We use information held about you in the following ways:

• To ensure that content from our site is presented in the most effective manner for you and for your computer.

• To provide you with information, products or services that you request from us or which we feel may interest you, where you have consented to be contacted for such purposes.

• To carry out our obligations arising from any contracts entered into between you and us.

• To allow you to participate in interactive features of our service, when you choose to do so.

• To notify you about changes to our service.

We may also use your data to provide you with information about goods and services which may be of interest to you and we may contact you about these by email, post or telephone.

If you are an existing client, we will only contact you by electronic means (e-mail) with information about goods and services similar to those which were the subject of a previous sale to you.

If you are a new client, we will contact you by electronic means only if you have consented to this.

If you do not want us to use your data in this way please tick the relevant box situated on the form on which we collect your data.

COMMENTS

Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service. When visitors leave comments on the site we collect the data shown in the comments form, and also the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to help spam detection.

 

MARKETING

You have the right to ask us not to process your personal data for marketing purposes. We will usually inform you (before collecting your data) if we intend to use your data for such purposes or if we intend to disclose your information to any third party for such purposes. You can exercise your right to prevent such processing by checking certain boxes on the forms we use to collect your data.  You can also exercise the right at any time by contacting us at   You can find out more here: https://ico.org.uk/for-organisations/guide-to-the-general-data-protection-regulation-gdpr/individual-rights/

 

LINKS TO OTHER WEBSITES

Our site may, from time to time, contain links to and from the websites of our partner networks, advertisers 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.

DATA RETENTION

We will decide the correct time to keep your personal data based on the purpose for which it was obtained and its nature. We will also retain and use your information as necessary to comply with our legal obligations.

In some circumstances we may anonymize your personal data for research or statistical purposes in which case we may use this information indefinitely without further notice to you.

YOUR ACCESS TO INFORMATION

Under data protection laws you have rights in relation to your personal data. This includes the right to request access, correction, deletion, restriction, transfer, to object to processing and portability of data. You also have the right to withdraw consent. If you wish to exercise any of these rights, please email us  at  

You will not have to pay a fee to access your personal data. However, we may charge a reasonable fee if your request is clearly unfounded, repetitive or excessive. We may also refuse to comply with your request in these circumstances.

We may need to request specific information from you to help us confirm your identity. We may also need to contact you to ask you for further information in relation to your request. We will try to respond to all legitimate requests within one month. Occasionally it may take us longer than a month if your request is particularly complex or you have made a large number of requests. In this case, we will contact you about this.

If you are unhappy with any aspect of how we collect and use your data, you have the right to complain to the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO), the UK supervisory authority for data protection issues (www.ico.org.uk). Before you do this however we would be grateful if you would contact us first so that we can have the opportunity to try and resolve it for you.

 

CHANGES TO OUR PRIVACY POLICY

Any changes we may make to our privacy policy in the future will be posted on this page and, where appropriate, notified to you by e-mail.

 

CONTACT

Questions, comments and requests regarding this privacy policy are welcomed and should be addressed to Energize Electrical at   .