Appendix Definitions

In this online policy the following terms have the following meanings: –

“individual” or “you” means the person whose personal data is being collected, held or processed;

“Personal data or personal information” means any information identifying a living, identifiable person (e.g. a name, an email address, date of birth, CV, passport, employment forms, etc) which can be used alone, or combined with other information, to identify you personally;

“policy” means this Privacy Policy as amended from time to time;

Introduction

Your privacy is important to us and we are committed to safeguarding the privacy of our Website users and visitors. This policy summarises the key points about how we collect, use and otherwise handle “personal data” we receive from you when you use this Website and explains the circumstances in which we may transfer this to others whilst ensuring compliance with the laws and regulations throughout the world where we operate.

As Solar Legion Ltd t/a Yorkshire Solar operates on a national scale, various requirements may apply to your use of this website.

How, when and why do we collect and use personal data?

We will only collect, use and otherwise handle your personal data on the Website when it is necessary for our legitimate interests in connection with operating the website, in particular to:
• Host and administer this website and respond to your queries;
• Personalise the website for you;
• Enable your access to and use of the website services;
• Providing services and/or information to you
• Send you statements and invoices;
• Send you marketing communications;
• Transmitting personal data between our national office locations for internal administrative purposes; and
• Ensure network information and security

We ensure that in each case, these interests are in line with applicable law and your legal rights and freedoms where you have agreed to this for specified, explicit and legitimate purposes; and/or where this is necessary for legal obligations which apply to us.

  • Contact Forms – we may collect your personal information which you choose to provide when you fill in forms on our Website. This may include, for example, your name, position, company, contact details (such as business email, telephone number and business address) and your personal preferences, choices and requirements specific to particular requests or services. We may use this personal information to respond to your queries, and/or provide the services and/or information that you have requested.

  • Events – if you register for one of our events, we may share your name, professional title and your business email address with other people that are attending the same event.
  • Marketing – where you have provided us with your contact details, we may contact you by telephone or by post for marketing purposes relating to our services, our Website, and/or to research opinion on proposed legal or business developments where legally permitted to do so, unless you let us know that you do not want to receive this type of marketing. We will only contact you for these marketing purposes by electronic means where you have agreed to this. Your agreement to the use of your personal information for these purposes is optional and if you fail to provide your agreement, your visit to and use of the Website will not be affected.

Where we disclose your personal information to our agents or sub-contractors for these purposes, the agent or sub-contractor in question will be obligated to use that personal information in accordance with the terms of this policy.

In addition to the disclosures reasonably necessary for the purposes identified elsewhere above, we may disclose your personal information to the extent that it is required to do so by law, in connection with any legal proceedings or prospective legal proceedings, and in order to establish, exercise or defend our legal rights.

Securing your personal data

We will take all reasonable technical and organisational precautions to prevent the loss, misuse or alteration of your personal information. We will store all the personal information you provide on its secure servers.

Information that we collect may be stored and processed in and transferred between any of the countries in which Solar Legion Ltd t/a Yorkshire Solar operates to enable the use of the information in accordance with this policy.

In addition, personal information that you submit for publication on the website will be published on the internet and may be available around the world and you agree to such cross-border transfers of personal information.

This Website contains links to other websites. Solar Legion Ltd t/a Yorkshire Solar is not responsible for the privacy policies or practices of any third party.

Confidentiality

We acknowledge that the personal information you provide us with may be confidential. We do not sell, rent, distribute or otherwise make personal information commercially available to any third party, except that we may share information with our service providers for the purposes set out in this policy. We will maintain the confidentiality of and protect your information in accordance with our policy and all applicable laws.

How do we make changes to this policy?

We may change our policy from time to time. When we change our policy, we will publish the updated policy on our Website. Please check this policy regularly. Subject to applicable law, all changes will take effect as soon as we publish the new policy, but where we have already collected information about you and/or where legally required to do so, we may take additional steps to inform you of any material changes to our policy and may request that you agree to these changes.

How to contact us

If you have any questions in relation to this policy, or Solar Legion Ltd t/a Yorkshire Solar treatment of your personal information, please contact:

  • by email to info@solarlegion.co.uk 
  • by phone to 03301335622

Cookies

We use cookies on our Website. You can find out about the cookies we use and why by viewing our Cookie Policy below.

Cookie Policy of yorkshire-solar.com

Cookies consist of portions of code installed in the browser that assist the Owner in providing the Service according to the purposes described. Some of the purposes for which Cookies are installed may also require the User’s consent.

Where the installation of Cookies is based on consent, such consent can be freely withdrawn at any time following the instructions provided in this document.

Technical Cookies and Cookies serving aggregated statistical purposes

  • Activity strictly necessary for the functioning of the Service

    This Application uses Cookies to save the User’s session and to carry out other activities that are strictly necessary for the operation of this Application, for example in relation to the distribution of traffic.

  • Activity regarding the saving of preferences, optimization, and statistics

    This Application uses Cookies to save browsing preferences and to optimize the User’s browsing experience. Among these Cookies are, for example, those used for the setting of language and currency preferences or for the management of first party statistics employed directly by the Owner of the site.

Other types of Cookies or third parties that install Cookies

Some of the services listed below collect statistics in an anonymized and aggregated form and may not require the consent of the User or may be managed directly by the Owner – depending on how they are described – without the help of third parties.

If any third party operated services are listed among the tools below, these may be used to track Users’ browsing habits – in addition to the information specified herein and without the Owner’s knowledge. Please refer to the privacy policy of the listed services for detailed information.

  • Advertising

    This type of service allows User Data to be utilized for advertising communication purposes displayed in the form of banners and other advertisements on this Application, possibly based on User interests.
    This does not mean that all Personal Data are used for this purpose. Information and conditions of use are shown below.
    Some of the services listed below may use Cookies to identify Users or they may use the behavioural retargeting technique, i.e. displaying ads tailored to the User’s interests and behaviour, including those detected outside this Application. For more information, please check the privacy policies of the relevant services.

    Facebook Audience Network (Facebook, Inc.)

    Facebook Audience Network is an advertising service provided by Facebook, Inc. In order to understand Facebook’s use of Data, consult Facebook’s data policy.

    This Application may use identifiers for mobile devices (including Android Advertising ID or Advertising Identifier for iOS, respectively) and technologies similar to cookies to run the Facebook Audience Network service. One of the ways Audience Network shows ads is by using the User’s ad preferences. The User can control this in the Facebook ad settings.

    Users may opt-out of certain Audience Network targeting through applicable device settings, such as the device advertising settings for mobile phones or by following the instructions in other Audience Network related sections of this privacy policy, if available.

    Personal Data collected: Cookies, unique device identifiers for advertising (Google Advertiser ID or IDFA, for example) and Usage Data.

    Place of processing: United States – Privacy Policy – Opt Out. Privacy Shield participant.

  • Analytics

    The services contained in this section enable the Owner to monitor and analyze web traffic and can be used to keep track of User behavior.

    Google Analytics (Google Inc.)

    Google Analytics is a web analysis service provided by Google Inc. (“Google”). Google utilizes the Data collected to track and examine the use of this Application, to prepare reports on its activities and share them with other Google services.
    Google may use the Data collected to contextualize and personalize the ads of its own advertising network.

    Personal Data collected: Cookies and Usage Data.

    Place of processing: United States – Privacy Policy – Opt Out. Privacy Shield participant.

    Facebook Ads conversion tracking (Facebook pixel) (Facebook, Inc.)

    Facebook Ads conversion tracking (Facebook pixel) is an analytics service provided by Facebook, Inc. that connects data from the Facebook advertising network with actions performed on this Application. The Facebook pixel tracks conversions that can be attributed to ads on Facebook, Instagram and Audience Network.

    Personal Data collected: Cookies and Usage Data.

    Place of processing: United States – Privacy Policy. Privacy Shield participant.

  • Remarketing and behavioural targeting

    This type of service allows this Application and its partners to inform, optimize and serve advertising based on past use of this Application by the User.
    This activity is performed by tracking Usage Data and by using Cookies, information that is transferred to the partners that manage the remarketing and behavioural targeting activity.
    In addition to any opt out offered by any of the services below, the User may opt out of a third-party service’s use of cookies by visiting the Network Advertising Initiative opt-out page.

    Facebook Custom Audience (Facebook, Inc.)

    Facebook Custom Audience is a remarketing and behavioural targeting service provided by Facebook, Inc. that connects the activity of this Application with the Facebook advertising network.

    Personal Data collected: Cookies and email address.

    Place of processing: United States – Privacy Policy – Opt Out. Privacy Shield participant.

    Facebook Remarketing (Facebook, Inc.)

    Facebook Remarketing is a remarketing and behavioural targeting service provided by Facebook, Inc. that connects the activity of this Application with the Facebook advertising network.

    Personal Data collected: Cookies and Usage Data.

    Place of processing: United States – Privacy Policy – Opt Out. Privacy Shield participant.

How to provide or withdraw consent to the installation of Cookies

In addition to what is specified in this document, the User can manage preferences for Cookies directly from within their own browser and prevent – for example – third parties from installing Cookies.
Through browser preferences, it is also possible to delete Cookies installed in the past, including the Cookies that may have saved the initial consent for the installation of Cookies by this website.
Users can, for example, find information about how to manage Cookies in the most commonly used browsers at the following addresses: Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox, Apple Safari and Microsoft Internet Explorer.

With regard to Cookies installed by third parties, Users can manage their preferences and withdrawal of their consent by clicking the related opt-out link (if provided), by using the means provided in the third party’s privacy policy, or by contacting the third party.

Notwithstanding the above, the Owner informs that Users may follow the instructions provided on the subsequently linked initiatives by the EDAA (EU), the Network Advertising Initiative (US) and the Digital Advertising Alliance (US), DAAC (Canada), DDAI (Japan) or other similar services. Such initiatives allow Users to select their tracking preferences for most of the advertising tools. The Owner thus recommends that Users make use of these resources in addition to the information provided in this document.

Owner and Data Controller

Solar Legion Ltd t/a Yorkshire Solar

Owner contact email: info@solarlegion.co.uk

Since the installation of third-party Cookies and other tracking systems through the services used within this Application cannot be technically controlled by the Owner, any specific references to Cookies and tracking systems installed by third parties are to be considered indicative. In order to obtain complete information, the User is kindly requested to consult the privacy policy for the respective third-party services listed in this document.

Given the objective complexity surrounding the identification of technologies based on Cookies, Users are encouraged to contact the Owner should they wish to receive any further information on the use of Cookies by this Application.

Definitions and legal references

Personal Data (or Data)

Any information that directly, indirectly, or in connection with other information — including a personal identification number — allows for the identification or identifiability of a natural person.

Usage Data

Information collected automatically through this Application (or third-party services employed in this Application), which can include: the IP addresses or domain names of the computers utilized by the Users who use this Application, the URI addresses (Uniform Resource Identifier), the time of the request, the method utilized to submit the request to the server, the size of the file received in response, the numerical code indicating the status of the server’s answer (successful outcome, error, etc.), the country of origin, the features of the browser and the operating system utilized by the User, the various time details per visit (e.g., the time spent on each page within the Application) and the details about the path followed within the Application with special reference to the sequence of pages visited, and other parameters about the device operating system and/or the User’s IT environment.

User

The individual using this Application who, unless otherwise specified, coincides with the Data Subject.

Data Subject

The natural person to whom the Personal Data refers.

Data Processor (or Data Supervisor)

The natural or legal person, public authority, agency or other body which processes Personal Data on behalf of the Controller, as described in this privacy policy.

Data Controller (or Owner)

The natural or legal person, public authority, agency or other body which, alone or jointly with others, determines the purposes and means of the processing of Personal Data, including the security measures concerning the operation and use of this Application. The Data Controller, unless otherwise specified, is the Owner of this Application.

This Application

The means by which the Personal Data of the User is collected and processed.

Service

The service provided by this Application as described in the relative terms (if available) and on this site/application.

European Union (or EU)

Unless otherwise specified, all references made within this document to the European Union include all current member states to the European Union and the European Economic Area.

Cookies

Small sets of data stored in the User’s device.

Legal information

This privacy statement has been prepared based on provisions of multiple legislations, including Art. 13/14 of Regulation (EU) 2016/679 (General Data Protection Regulation).

This privacy policy relates solely to this Application, if not stated otherwise within this document.