Photon Energy’s Privacy Policy

Photon Energy Ltd is committed to protecting your privacy and recognise your need for the protection and management of any information that you choose to share.

The vast majority of the website can be used without revealing any personal information. Information may be requested should you wish to contact Photon Energy through the website or should you register to receive a newsletter.

This information is collected via an online form and when you email your details. This information may be kept in a database but will not be revealed to any third parties.

IP Address and Use of Cookies

Information about your computer may be collected, including where available your IP address, operating system and browser type, for system administration and to report aggregate information to our advertisers. This is statistical data about users' browsing actions and patterns, and does not identify any individual.

For the same reason, we may obtain information about your general internet usage by using a cookie file which is stored on your browser or the hard drive of your computer. We use cookies on the website for a more user friendly approach.

Cookies are identifiers containing certain information that can be sent from a website via your browser to be placed on your computer's hard drive. Thereafter when you visit a website, a message is sent back to the web server by the browser accessing the website. You may elect not to accept cookies by changing the designated settings on your web browser.

However, not utilising cookies may prevent you from using certain functions and features of websites. The information collected from the use of cookies is used and analysed to improve this website, such as by gaining a better understanding of your interests and requirements regarding our website.

You can set your browser to notify you when you are sent a cookie, giving you the chance to decide whether or not to accept it. The information we collect and analyse is used to improve our service to you and personalise your web-browsing experience.

Photon Energy does not register information on individual users through this technology, so no information about you in particular will be kept or used.

GDPR

We have always, and continue to, treat all data we receive and works submitted as strictly confidential . Under the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), we are required to publish information about what data we collect, why we need to store it, and your rights under the GDPR legislation.

Basis and scope of data storage:

  • We store and process data only as agreed by the user or as required in order to perform services requested by the user. We regard all details we do store as confidential.

  • We do not engage in any profiling activities.

  • We never share data with 3rd parties (e.g. for advertising, marketing, data analysis or similar).

Data we hold consists of:

  • Contact information: Your name. Email addresses (if applicable). Company Name. Phone Number.

    We collect and process this data when you voluntarily complete a contact us form or subscribe to our newsletter on our website.

  • Enquiries we have received via email, web-form or post.

  • We may also store your IP address for security reasons and to enable us to investigate technical problems if you experience a fault whilst using our site.

General enquires via web-form, email:

  • These are generally kept for a number of years so that we can refer back to them if you send a follow up to our reply, after that they are deleted: At scheduled times throughout the year enquiries over the specified number of years old are removed. The number of years will depend on the type of enquiry and how it was submitted.

Your rights:

  • The right to access - If you are a client you have the right to request Photon Energy for copies of your personal data. For security reasons we will need to ensure that you are the account holder (and may ask you to provide proof of your identity) before we can release any information.

  • The right to rectification - you have the right to request that our company correct any information that you believe is inaccurate.

  • The right to erasure - If you decide that you no longer need our services you have the right to request that Photon Energy erase your personal data, under certain conditions. You may also cancel your account at any tome and we will remove your data once we are legally able to do so.

  • The right to restrict processing - you have the right to request that Photon Energy restrict the processing of your personal data, under certain conditions.

  • The right to object to processing - you have the right to object to Photon Energy’s processing of your personal data, under certain conditions.

If you have any questions or concerns about information that we hold about you, or need to correct inaccurate information please contact us.

Opting Out

You may choose to opt out and remove your personal information from our files by following the unsubscribe instructions on any email to which you have subscribed.

Update of Policy

Photon Energy Ltd reserves the right to update these Terms and Conditions from time to time for legal or regulatory reasons or to allow the proper operation of the website. If you do not wish to accept the new Terms and Conditions you should not continue to use the website. If you continue to use the website after the date on which the change comes into effect, your use of the website indicates your agreement to be bound by the new Terms and Conditions. Please revisit this page from time to time to review any changes that may have been made.

Breach of These Terms and Conditions

If you breach any provision of these Terms and Conditions you may no longer use this website and you must destroy any downloaded or printed materials from the website. We may in our discretion refuse permission to access and use this website.

If you print off, copy or download any part of the website in breach of these Terms and Conditions, your right to use the website will cease immediately and you must, at our option, return or destroy any copies of the materials you have made.

Applicable Law

These Terms and Conditions are governed by English law.