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Privacy Policy

Privacy policy

The purpose of this privacy policy is to describe how your information is collected and used when you visit stromarwind.co.uk.

 

1. Data controller

The legal entity responsible for collecting and processing your personal data is: 

Stromar Offshore Wind Farm Ltd 

2nd Floor 

2 Lochrin Square

96 Fountainbridge

Edinburgh

EH3 9QA

info@stromarwind.co.uk 

1. Processing activities 

We may collect personal data about you whenever we contact you, you contact us, or if 

we are in (or preparing to enter into) a contract with one another.

We process your personal data by using cookies when you use our digital services. You can read more about this in our cookie policy. 

Purpose: 

We use the data for the following purposes:

  • Delivery of the digital service you have requested.
  • Optimisation and development of the user experience of our website and the services we provide.
  • Statistics for how our website is used and to improve the website.

Categories of personal data: 

We process the following personal data about you:

  • Information about your behaviour on our digital services (e.g. number of visits. Information about how you access our digital services, including IP address, use of browsers and operating system, cookies, your domains of origin as well as what content you read).
  • Information such as contact details provided by filling in forms or following email links on our website, or received from you when we contact each other by phone, email, post or other methods.
  • Information about your company gathered when you submitted a Suppliers’ Registration Form on our website,
  • Information such as the contact form you completed on our website to better provide you with required services or information about our projects, developments, policies and activities.

Legal basis:

We process your personal data as described on the following legal basis:

  • GDPR, Article 6(1)(a) (consent).
  • GDPR, Article 6(1)(f) (necessary to pursue our legitimate interest in providing the service you have requested, improving customer experience, developing and improving our digital services (in terms of both functionality and the system itself) and making it possible to share content on social media.)

2. Recipients of your personal data 

Depending on the circumstances, Stromar Offshore Wind may share your data with:

  • The companies who are partners in Stromar Offshore Wind – BlueFloat Energy International SL, Orsted Scotland Renewables Holdco 2 Limited and Renantis S.p.A
  • Suppliers, including IT suppliers, insurers, legal firms, support and financial institutions cooperating with us in order to assist Stromar Offshore Wind
  • Government agencies such as Ofgem
  • Business partners

3. Personal data about other parties 

If you provide personal data about other people (e.g. contact information for colleagues in the company in which you are employed), you must make sure that they agree to it, and that you have permission to provide us with such data. In addition, you must refer them to this privacy policy, when you provide us with their data.

4. Transfer to third countries

In certain situations, Stromar Offshore Wind will transfer personal data to countries outside EU/EEA. Such transfers to third countries will be made on the following legal basis:

  • If the countries have been deemed by the Commission of the European Union to have an adequate level of protection of personal data (so called safe third countries)
  • If the countries have not been deemed by the Commission of the European Union to have an adequate level of protection of personal data: Stromar Offshore Wind will provide appropriate safeguards for the transfer through standard contractual clauses, as published by the Commission of the European Union, for the transfer of personal data to third countries. You can obtain a copy of this contract by contacting us on info@stromarwind.co.uk.

5. Storage

We will store your personal data as long as it is necessary for the purpose described in Section 1 above and/or as required under applicable law, and we will then delete or anonymise your personal data appropriately.

Personal data collected via cookies will be deleted in accordance with the expiry periods listed in our cookie policy.

The criteria we will use to determine the storage period of your personal data will therefore depend on the purpose for which the personal data have been collected as well as the rules on storage which is required by specific national legislation.

6. Your rights

When we process your data, you have the following rights:

  • You have the right of access to, rectification, or erasure of your personal data.
  • You also have the right to object to the processing of your personal data and to have the processing of your personal data restricted.
  • In particular, you have an unconditional right to object to the processing of your personal data for use for direct marketing purposes.
  • If the processing of your personal data is based on your consent, you have the right to withdraw your consent at any time. Your withdrawal of consent will not affect the lawfulness for the processing performed before the withdrawal of your consent.
  • You have the right to receive the personal data that you have provided yourself in a structured, commonly used and machine-readable format (data portability).
  • You have the right to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority, for instance the Information Commissioner’s Office (“ICO”).

You can exercise your rights by contacting us by email at info@stromarwind.co.uk.

These rights may be conditioned or restricted. For example, you may not have the right to data portability in this particular case. It depends on the specific circumstances in connection with the processing operations.

7. Contact Stromar Offshore Wind regarding the processing of personal data

If you wish to contact Stromar Offshore Wind regarding our processing of your personal data, please write to info@stromarwind.co.uk.

If you are unhappy with our response, you can lodge a complaint with your local data protection authority, the UK Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) by contacting:

Information Commissioner’s Office
Wycliffe House
Water Lane
Wilmslow
Cheshire
SK9 5AF

Tel: 0303 123 1113

8. Changes in our privacy policy

It will be necessary to update and amend this policy on an ongoing basis, and we reserve the right to update and amend it. In the event of an important amendment, we will notify you at stromarwind.co.uk or send an email if we deem this necessary.

This privacy policy was last updated January 2024.

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