Voltalia website privacy policy

Your privacy is important to Voltalia and we are committed to process your Personal Data with lawfulness, fairness and transparency.

In accordance with the applicable regulations on the protection of Personal Data, Voltalia is the "data controller" of the data that Users provide us with during their visit to the website www.voltalia.com ("the Site").

You will find below our entire Privacy Policy ("the Policy") in accordance with the requirements of European Regulation 2016/679 ("the GDPR"), as well as any legislation made under this Regulation.

The terms "we", "us" or "our" that we use in this document means Voltalia, and "you", "your" and "yours" refer to the User of the Site.

Through this Policy Voltalia commits itself to:

1. Respect your privacy and your choices.

2. Ensure that all questions concerning the protection of Personal Data and security are at the heart of our activities.

3. Collaborate only with partners who share the same values than us.

4. Respect your rights to meet your demands as much as possible.

Voltalia will only process the Personal Data you provide to us through this website in accordance with this Policy and remains at your disposal for any questions concerning your Personal Data.

You can send us an email anytime at the following email address: privacy@voltalia.com.

Who we are?

Founded in 2005, Voltalia is a power producer and service provider in renewable electricity production from solar, wind, hydro and biomass energies (combining storage solutions).

Voltalia’s mission is to improve the global environment by fostering local development. All collaborators are expected to contribute to achieving this mission. This mission, however, is meaningful only if, in implementing it, we act in accordance with the ethical principles of a corporate citizen.

What is personal data?

Personal Data means any information relating to an identified or identifiable individual; an identifiable person is one who can be identified, directly or indirectly, in particular by reference to an identification number or one or more factors specific to his physical, physiological, mental, economic, cultural or social identity.

What personal data do we collect from you and how do we use it?

As a User, you can share with us Personal Data when you contact us directly through Contacts, Newsletter, Careers, Voltalia Dashboard sections’ or at a show and an event in which Voltalia participates (mainly surname, first name, nationality, date of birth and personal details).

Voltalia also collects data by using cookies to obtain information that is used solely to produce anonymous statistics, which does not allow to follow your browsing on other sites or for more accurate location data than the country information only for the purpose of identifying the browser language.

The Site contains links to social networks such as LinkedIn, Instagram, Twitter, Facebook and YouTube.

Voltalia will not be held responsible, directly or indirectly, for the data they collect. We invite you to learn more about their own policies on privacy and data protection.

What are the lawful bases for processing?

Voltalia relies on at least one of the following legal bases to process your data:

1. The processing is necessary to comply with a legal obligation to which Voltalia is subject.

2. The processing is necessary in order to take pre-contractual measures following a request from you (especially following your request for contact on the Site in order to enter in a business relationship with Voltalia).

3. The processing is necessary to pursue the legitimate interests of Voltalia (such as the recruitment process).

Access to your personal data by third parties and security of processing

The Personal Data we collect, and those we obtained subsequently, are intended for us in our capacity as controller. We ensure that only authorized persons have access to this data.

Your data may also be disclosed to third parties in order to meet our legal and regulatory obligations, or to its trusted service providers, and to enable the execution of measures in the legitimate interest of Voltalia.

We apply reasonable standards of physical, technical and administrative security to protect your data against loss, unauthorized access, misuse, modification, destruction or damage. However, sending information on the internet is not completely secure. Although we do our best, we cannot guarantee the security of your data delivered on the Site.

For how long we will keep your data

Regarding the cookies and tracers on the Site:

Cookies are small text files that might be stored on your device in order to allow the Site works more efficiently by saving your preferences for a maximum of thirteen months.

Please check the Cookies Privacy Policy for more information.

Concerning the data communicated in the Careers’ section

Our general approach is to only keep the candidate's data for a period of two years after the last contact with us so that we can consider your application for future employment opportunities, unless you expressly object to it. Voltalia will provide you with the due policy in this regard.

Concerning the data communicated in the sections Contacts, Newsletter, Voltalia Dashboard

We will not keep your Personal Data for longer than the time necessary for the purpose for which they are processed.

Your rights?

The individual rights are:

The right to be informed;

The right of access;

The right to rectification;

The right to erasure or restrict processing; and

The right not to be subject to automated decision-making.

Certain rights under the UK GDPR, such as the right to object and the right to data portability, do not exist in Part 3 of the DPA 2018. As with the UK GDPR, there are also exemptions and restrictions that can, in some circumstances, be legitimately applied to exempt or qualify the exercise of individuals’ rights.

You can contact the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) for more information and to make a complaint if necessary: https://ico.org.uk/for-organisations/data-sharing-a-code-of-practice/the-rights-of-individuals/