Privacy Policy

Encom Energy Limited (we) are committed to ensuring that your privacy is protected. This privacy policy will inform you as to how we look after your personal data when you visit our website (regardless of where you visit it from) and tell you about your privacy rights and how the law protects you.

IMPORTANT INFORMATION AND WHO WE ARE

Encom Energy Limited t/as Encom Energy Systems is the controller and is responsible for your personal data (collectively referred to as “we”, “us” or “our” in this policy).

  • Name:
    Encom Energy Ltd.

     
  • Address:
    Unit C4 & C5, 19 Heron Road, Belfast, BT3 9LE, Northern Ireland

     
  • Phone Number:
    028 95 380 910

     
  • Email Address:
    sales@encomenergy.co.uk

THE TYPE OF PERSONAL INFORMATION WE COLLECT

We currently collect and process the following information:

  • Identity Data includes your name, telephone number, email address, postal address.
  • Technical Data includes internet protocol (IP) address, your login data, browser type and version, time zone setting and location, browser plug-in types and versions, operating system and platform, and other technology on the devices you use to access this website.
  • Profile Data includes your username and password, purchases or orders made by you, your interests, preferences, feedback and survey responses.
  • Usage Data includes information about how you use our website, products and services.
  • Marketing and Communications Data includes your preferences in receiving marketing from us and our third parties and your communication preferences.

We also collect, use and share Aggregated Data such as statistical or demographic data for any purpose. Aggregated Data could be derived from your personal data but is not considered personal data in law as this data will not directly or indirectly reveal your identity. For example, we may aggregate your Usage Data to calculate the percentage of users accessing a specific website feature. However, if we combine or connect Aggregated Data with your personal data so that it can directly or indirectly identify you, we treat the combined data as personal data which will be used in accordance with this privacy policy.

We do not collect any Special Categories of Personal Data about you (this includes 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 and biometric data). Nor do we collect any information about criminal convictions and offences.

HOW IS YOUR PERSONAL DATA COLLECTED?

We use different methods to collect data from and about you including through:

  • Direct interactions. You may give us your Identity, Contact and Financial Data] by filling in forms or by corresponding with us by post, phone, email or otherwise. This includes personal data you provide when you:
  • apply for our products or services;
  • create an account on our website;
  • subscribe to our service or publications;
  • request marketing to be sent to you;
  • enter a competition, promotion or survey; or
  • give us feedback or contact us.
  • Automated technologies or interactions. As you interact with our website, we will automatically collect Technical Data about your equipment, browsing actions and patterns. We collect this personal data by using cookies, server logs and other similar technologies. Please see our cookie policy for further details.
  • Third parties or publicly available sources. We will receive personal data about you from various third parties and public sources as set out below:

Technical Data from the following parties:

  • Analytics providers such as Google and Mixpanel based outside the UK.

HOW WE USE YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION

Under data protection law, we can only use your personal data if we have a proper reason, eg:

  • where you have given consent;
  • to comply with our legal and regulatory obligations;
  • for the performance of a contract with you or to take steps at your request before entering into a contract; or
  • for our legitimate interests or those of a third party.

A legitimate interest is when we have a business or commercial reason to use your personal data, so long as this is not overridden by your own rights and interests. We will carry out an assessment when relying on legitimate interests, to balance our interests against your own.

YOUR DATA PROTECTION RIGHTS

We have set out below, in a table format, a description of all the ways we plan to use your personal data, and which of the legal bases we rely on to do so. We have also identified what our legitimate interests are where appropriate.

Note that we may process your personal data for more than one lawful ground depending on the specific purpose for which we are using your data. Please contact us if you need details about the specific legal ground we are relying on to process your personal data where more than one ground has been set out in the table below.

Purpose / activity

To register you as a new customer

Type of data
  1. Identity
  2. Contact
Lawful basis for processing including basis of legitimate interest

Performance of a contract with you


Purpose / activity

To process and deliver your order including:

  • Manage payments, fees and charges
  • Collect and recover money owed to us
Type of data
  1. Identity
  2. Contact
  3. Financial
  4. Transaction
  5. Marketing and Communications
Lawful basis for processing including basis of legitimate interest
  • Performance of a contract with you
  • Necessary for our legitimate interests (to recover debts due to us)

Purpose / activity

To manage our relationship with you which will include:

  • Notifying you about changes to our terms or privacy policy
  • Asking you to leave a review or take a survey
Type of data
  1. Identity
  2. Contact
  3. Profile
  4. Marketing and Communications
Lawful basis for processing including basis of legitimate interest
  • Performance of a contract with you 
  • Necessary to comply with a legal obligation 
  • Necessary for our legitimate interests (to keep our records updated and to study how customers use our products/services)

Purpose / activity

To enable you to partake in a prize draw, competition or complete a survey.

Type of data
  1. Identity
  2. Contact
  3. Profile
  4. Usage
  5. Marketing and Communications
Lawful basis for processing including basis of legitimate interest
  • Performance of a contract with you
  • Necessary for our legitimate interests (to study how customers use our products/services, to develop them and grow our business)

Purpose / activity

To administer and protect our business and this website (including troubleshooting, data analysis, testing, system maintenance, support, reporting and hosting of data).

Type of data
  1. Identity
  2. Contact
  3. Technical
Lawful basis for processing including basis of legitimate interest
  • Necessary for our legitimate interests (for running our business, provision of administration and IT services, network security, to prevent fraud and in the context of a business reorganisation or group restructuring exercise)
  • Necessary to comply with a legal obligation

Purpose / activity

To deliver relevant website content and advertisements to you and measure or understand the effectiveness of the advertising we serve to you.

Type of data
  1. Identity
  2. Contact
  3. Profile
  4. Usage
  5. Marketing and Communications
  6. Technical
Lawful basis for processing including basis of legitimate interest

Necessary for our legitimate interests (to study how customers use our products/services, to develop them, to grow our business and to inform our marketing strategy)


Purpose / activity

To use data analytics to improve our website, products / services, marketing, customer relationships and experiences

Type of data
  1. Technical
  2. Usage
Lawful basis for processing including basis of legitimate interest

Necessary for our legitimate interests (to define types of customers for our products and services, to keep our website updated and relevant, to develop our business and to inform our marketing strategy)


Purpose / activity

To make suggestions and recommendations to you about goods or services that may be of interest to you

Type of data
  1. Identity
  2. Contact
  3. Technical
  4. Usage
  5. Profile
  6. Marketing and Communications
Lawful basis for processing including basis of legitimate interest

Necessary for our legitimate interests (to develop our products / services and grow our business)


COOKIES

You can set your browser to refuse all or some browser cookies, or to alert you when websites set or access cookies. If you disable or refuse cookies, please note that some parts of this website may become inaccessible or not function properly. For more information about the cookies we use, please see our cookie policy

WHO WILL WE SHARE YOUR PERSONAL DATA WITH?

We routinely share personal data with:

  • third parties we use to help deliver our products and/or services to you, eg payment service providers, warehouses and delivery companies;
  • other third parties we use to help us run our business, eg marketing agencies cloud storage providers or website hosts;
  • our bank;

We only allow those organisations to handle your personal data if we are satisfied they take appropriate measures to protect your personal data. We also impose contractual obligations on them to ensure they can only use your personal data to provide services to us and to you.

We occasionally also share personal data with:

  • our external auditors, eg in relation to the audit of our accounts, in which case the recipient of the information will be bound by confidentiality obligations;
  • our professional advisors (such as lawyers and other advisors), in which case the recipient of the information will be bound by confidentiality obligations;
  • law enforcement agencies, courts, tribunals and regulatory bodies to comply with our legal and regulatory obligations;
  • other parties that have or may acquire control or ownership of our business (and our or their professional advisers) in connection with a significant corporate transaction or restructuring, including a merger, acquisition, asset sale, initial public offering or in the event of our insolvency—usually, information will be anonymised but this may not always be possible. The recipient of any of your personal data will be bound by confidentiality obligations.

We will not share your personal data with any other third party.

TRANSFERRING YOUR PERSONAL DATA OUT OF THE UK AND EEA

Countries outside the EEA and the UK have differing data protection laws, some of which may provide lower levels of protection of privacy.

It is sometimes necessary for us to transfer your personal data to countries outside the UK and EEA. In those cases we will comply with applicable UK and EEA laws designed to ensure the privacy of your personal data.

HOW WE STORE YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION

Your information is securely stored.

We will not keep your personal data for longer than we need it for the purpose for which it is used.

If you no longer have an account with us, we are no longer providing goods or services to you, or the warranty or guarantee periods in relation to the goods or services we provide to you have expired, we will delete or anonymise your account data after 1 year.

YOUR DATA PROTECTION RIGHTS

Under data protection law, you have rights including:

  • Your right of access

You have the right to ask us for copies of your personal information.

  • Your right to rectification

You have the right to ask us to rectify personal information you think is inaccurate. You also have the right to ask us to complete information you think is incomplete.

  • Your right to erasure

You have the right to ask us to erase your personal information in certain circumstances.

  • Your right to restriction of processing

You have the right to ask us to restrict the processing of your personal information in certain circumstances.

  • Your right to object to processing

You have the right to object to the processing of your personal information in certain circumstances.

  • Your right to data portability

You have the right to ask that we transfer the personal information you gave us to another organisation, or to you, in certain circumstances.

You are not required to pay any charge for exercising your rights. If you make a request, we have one month to respond to you.

IF YOU WISH TO MAKE A REQUEST OR COMPLAINT

Please contact us if you have any queries or concerns about our use of your personal data (see below How to contact us). We hope we will be able to resolve any issues you may have.

You also have the right to lodge a complaint with:

  • the Information Commissioner in the UK

The UK's Information Commissioner may be contacted using the details at ico.org.uk or by telephone: 0303 123 1113.

CHANGES TO THIS PRIVACY POLICY

This privacy notice was last updated in April 2023.

We may change this privacy notice from time to time—when we do we will inform you via our website.

You can contact us by post, email or telephone if you have any questions about this privacy policy or the information we hold about you, to exercise a right under data protection law or to make a complaint.

Our contact details are shown below:

Compliance Director

028 95 380 910

sales@encomenergy.co.uk