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Privacy Policy

About Fairer Warmth and this Policy

This privacy notice applies to the functions of the Fairer Warmth website and the Fairer Warmth Application to provide support about energy saving advice and the potential energy grants and benefits available to you based on your property, including access to Energy Performance Certificate information if available, and household data.

 

You can delete your account at any time and you have further rights which are detailed below.

 

Your personal data is exactly that, so we don’t sell your data to any third parties. We also don’t use analytics cookies, only necessary cookies to make our site work.

Who should read this Privacy Policy?

If you visit our website and app, interact with our content, and use our website, app, and services, you should read this Privacy Policy to understand how we collect, use, and process your data.

Who is the Data Controller?

Company name: Centre for Energy Equality Ltd

Company postal address: 10 Farndon Close, Northwich, CW8 2QH

Company number: 13530142

How to contact us?

Business postal address: 10 Farndon Close, Northwich, CW8 2QH

Business contact email: contact@cee-uk.com

What categories of personal data do we collect about you?

When you visit our website, when you fill out the sign-up form, and when you voluntarily disclose your personal data to us, we collect various categories of personal data about you.

 

Data we automatically collect about you by using cookies, and similar technologies when you visit and browse through our website including:

 

  • IP Address

  • Your geographical location

  • Device information such as your device model, screen size, device ID number

  • Browser settings such as language settings

  • Information about your browsing activity on our website

  • Referral page from which you visited our website.

 

Data you voluntarily disclose to us when you sign up on our platform includes:

 

  • Name

  • Email Address

  • ​Phone Number

 

Information on your property and energy usage information including:

 

  • House Number

  • ​Postcode

  • ​Age range and occupants in the household

  • Energy performance data if available

  • Property age

  • Property construction methods

  • Insulation types

  • Type of heating

  • House ownership type

  • Type of energy meter information

  • Energy supplier

  • Household income

  • Benefit entitlement and ability to pay energy bills

  • Name of the organisation you are affiliated with

  • Other information related to any support options that may be available to you, to assist with eligibility and access to the support.

 

Data we collect from public sources:

 

We may collect demographic information, Energy Performance Certificate (EPC), building location data from public sources.

 

For what purposes do we collect and process your data?

We collect and process your data for the following purposes:

 

  • To provide support about energy saving advice and the potential energy grants and benefits available to you based on your property, including access to the energy performance certificate information if available, and household data.

  • To enable us to provide tailored options in respect to financial and non-financial support in relation to your home energy use.

  • To carry out research and statistical analysis on topics including:  energy usage, support option eligibility, grant eligibility, benefit provision, and fuel poverty.

  • To create an analytics report about EPC rating, energy usage, energy support option eligibility, grant eligibility on the household level.

  • To operate our Website and to allow you to access and use our Website and Services.

  • To improve, and personalise our Website, Platform and Service.

  • To provide you with customer support and to contact you to answer any questions you have and to resolve disputes.

  • To comply with the law.

  • To detect, prevent and investigate fraud, security breaches, and potentially prohibited or illegal activities and to protect ours or others’ rights, property, or safety.

  • To analyse how you browse through our website and content and to understand visitor traffic and platform usage patterns.

  • To share your data with third parties with your consent as described below.

  • To send you emails about our services and local support that may be available.

 

How do we share your data with third parties?

When you sign up on our platform, you are agreeing to share your data with relevant third parties.

 

What data do we share with third parties?

  • Name

  • Email Address

  • ​House Number

  • ​Postcode

  • Phone Number

  • ​Age range and occupants in the household

  • Energy performance data if available

  • Property age

  • Information on property energy usage including:

  • Property construction methods

  • Insulation types

  • Type of heating

  • House ownership type

  • Type of energy meter information

  • Energy supplier

  • Household income bracket

  • Benefit entitlement and ability to pay energy bills

 

We may share your data with the following third parties:
  • UK-based Local Authorities

  • UK-based Community Organisations: Organisations that can support their schemes to improve energy efficiency of homes.

  • UK-based Survey providers: Organisations that can do energy-related surveys of properties.

  • UK-based Retrofit providers: Organisations that can install measures to improve your home’s efficiency.

  • UK-based Equipment providers: Organisations that provide quotes for specific retrofit measures.

  • UK-based Support Option providers; organisations that manage grants and help provide other types of energy-related support.

  • Other organisations who are providing support to the organisational categories above in order to provide and improve Fairer Warmth services. 

 
For what purposes do these third parties access and use your data?

 

  • The specific categories of Organisations listed above may contact you to provide requested services that are relevant to your needs.

  • They may also use your data to focus primarily to carry out research and statistical analysis on topics including;  energy usage, support option eligibility, grant eligibility, benefit provision, and fuel poverty.

 

How to opt out of sharing data?

 

You can email us at support@cee-uk.com and state that you want to opt out of sharing your data with third parties and we shall remove your account.

 

​What legal basis do we rely on to collect, process, and share your data?
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Data retention period

We retain your data for as long as it is necessary for the purpose for which it is collected.

 

When deciding on how long to retain personal data, we take into account the following factors:

 

  • Statutory retention periods we are subject to.

  • Sensitivity of data.

  • Reasonable expectations of data subjects.

 

To learn the specific data retention periods for each category of data, you can contact us via email as described in this Policy.

International data transfers

When we transfer your data outside the UK to a jurisdiction without an adequacy status, we put in place appropriate measures as required by article 46 of the UK GDPR.

In particular, we rely on Standard Contractual Clauses.

​​What Are Your Rights Related to Your Data?

You are entitled to exercise the following rights under the UK GDPR:

  • Right to Restriction

  • Right to Object

  • Right to Be Forgotten

  • Right of Access and right to be informed

  • Right to Rectification

  • Right to Data Portability

 

For more information about your rights, you can visit the ICO’s Website for further Guidance:

https://ico.org.uk/for-organisations/uk-gdpr-guidance-and-resources/individual-rights/individual-rights/

 

How To Exercise Your Data Subject Rights

You can submit a request to us in one of the following methods:

 

  • Application by post: Centre for Energy Equality, 10 Farndon Close, Northwich, CW8 2QH

  • Application via email: contact@cee-uk.com

 

How To File A Complaint With The Supervisory Authority

If you wish to submit an official complaint to the Data Protection Authority in relation to the collection and use of your personal data, you can resort to one of the following ways:

 

The ICO’s postal address:

 

Information Commissioner’s Office

Wycliffe House

Water Lane

Wilmslow

Cheshire

SK9 5AF

 

ICO Helpline number: 0303 123 1113

 

ICO website: https://www.ico.org.uk

 

For country-specific information about how you can submit a formal complaint, you may refer to the following directory to contact the relevant supervisory authority:

https://iapp.org/resources/global-privacy-directory/

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