Privacy policy.
This website is hosted by Squarespace.
Thank you for visiting our web site. This privacy policy tells you how we use personal information collected at this site. Please read this privacy policy before using the site or submitting any personal information.
By using the site, you are accepting the practices described in this privacy policy. These practices may be changed, but any changes will be posted and changes will only apply to activities and information on a going forward, not retroactive basis.
You are encouraged to review the privacy policy whenever you visit the site to make sure that you understand how any personal information you provide will be used.
Please Note, the privacy practices set forth in this policy are for this web site only. If you link to other web sites, please review the privacy policies posted at those sites.
We protect your personal data in line with the requirements of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). The GDPR requires data controllers such as ourselves to document our lawful basis for processing personal data. It also gives you rights over how your data is processed. This privacy policy documents the data we collect, why and how we process it, and how to exercise your rights.
Data controller
The data controller responsible for this website is Birsay Energy, who can be contacted via the contact for on the Home page.
This website contains links to third-party websites, which have their own data controllers and privacy policies. This privacy policy applies to this website only.
Lawful basis for processing
For each method by which we collect personal data, this privacy policy documents our lawful basis for processing the data. Where we rely on your consent to process your data, we explain how you can withdraw your consent and delete your data.
Individual rights
The GDPR gives you rights over how your personal data is processed. You can exercise your rights by contacting us. In some cases you can also exercise your rights through automated systems, as described at the relevant points in this privacy policy.
Security
The GDPR requires us to implement appropriate technical measures to protect data. We verify the identity of any individual who requests access to data before granting access. We use Transport Layer Security (TLS, also known as SSL) to encrypt any data you supply to us through our website. Additional technical measures are described at the relevant points in this privacy policy.
Disclosures
In addition to any sharing of data described elsewhere in this privacy policy, we may disclose data for legal reasons. If we suspect criminal activity we may disclose data relating to those involved or affected to the appropriate authorities. We may also be obliged to disclose data if we receive a request from an appropriate authority.
Analytics
This website collects personal data to power our site analytics, including:
Information about your browser, network, and device
Web pages you visited prior to coming to this website
Your IP address
This information may also include details about your use of this website, including:
Clicks
Internal links
Pages visited
Scrolling
Searches
Timestamps
We share this information with Squarespace, our website analytics provider, to learn about site traffic and activity.
Fonts
This website uses font files from Google Fonts and Adobe Fonts. To properly display this site to you, servers where the font files are stored may receive personal information about you, including:
Information about your browser, network, or device
Your IP address
Visitor data
This website is hosted by Squarespace
Squarespace collects personal data when you visit this website, including:
Information about your browser, network and device
Web pages you visited prior to coming to this website
Your IP address
Squarespace needs the data to run this website, and to protect and improve its platform and services. Squarespace analyzes the data in a de-personalized form.
Access to your information and correction
You may request access to the data we hold about you. If you would like a copy of your data then please get in touch with us via the Contact page.
We want to make sure that your personal information is accurate. You may ask us to correct information you think is inaccurate or you may ask us to delete your data.
Collection of information
We collect personally identifiable information, like names, phone numbers, postal addresses, email addresses, etc., when voluntarily submitted by our visitors via the contact form. This information is only used to fulfil your specific request or reply to your message, unless you give us permission to use it in another manner, for example to add you to one of our mailing lists.
Your information is never shared or sold to any third party companies or organisations.
We do not collect or store any debit or credit card details on our servers - all payments are made by redirecting you to your chosen payment processor where they are responsible for taking payment. No payment details are passed back to us other than "success" or "failure
A cookie is a small text string which is an anonymous unique identifier that is sent to your browser from our servers and stored on your computer's hard drive. When you first visit our website a session cookie is set which is read back on subsequent pages and is used to identify your shopping cart and whether you are logged in.
You can configure your browser to accept all cookies, reject all cookies or notify you when a cookie is set. If you reject all cookies, you will not be able to use our services or products that require you to "log in" and you will not be able to add items to the shopping basket - without cookies you always appear to the website a first-time visitor.
We use our own cookies for a number of purposes, including to: Require you to re-enter your password after a certain period of time has elapsed to protect you against others accidentally accessing your account contents. Keep track of shopping cart contents while you are using the the website.
Cookies are not shared with any third-parties.
Distribution of information
We may share information with Governmental Agencies, Police or other companies assisting us in fraud prevention or investigation. We may do so when:
permitted or required by law; or,
trying to protect against or prevent actual or potential fraud or unauthorized transactions; or,
investigating fraud which has already taken place.
The information is not provided to these companies for marketing purposes.
Data security
Your personally identifiable information is kept secure. Only authorised employees, agents and contractors (who have agreed to keep information secure and confidential) have access to this information.
All marketing emails and newsletters from this site allow you to opt out of further mailings.
External websites
Our Website provide links to other websites. We do not control, and are not responsible for, the content or practices of these other websites. Our provision of such links does not constitute our endorsement of these other websites, their content, their owners, or their practices.
This Privacy Policy does not apply to these other websites, which are subject to any privacy and other policies they may have.
Google Analytics cookies
Google Analytics is a website monitoring tool that allows users to see volumes of website visitors, their source, and to analyse how the content of their website is viewed and navigated. This in turn allows optimisation of the content and pages on our website and the marketing programmes that drive traffic to the website. Google Analytics does not store any personal information about website visitors, but does use persistent cookies to identify repeat visitors.
You may universally opt-out of all Google Analytics tracking used by all websites by visiting the following url – https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout
Changes to this privacy policy
We may occasionally make changes to this privacy policy. Following any changes, the date at the top of this privacy policy will be updated. If any change allows for wider access to data, such changes will only apply to data collected after the date of the updated privacy policy.
Contact information
If you have any questions, concerns, or comments about our Privacy Policy, or if you want to know more what information we have collected about you, please email us via our online Contact form on the Home page.
You can also correct any factual errors in that information or require us to remove your details form any list under our control.