UCPartners privacy policy | Term of use
Your privacy on ucpartners.eu
This website is administered by Utility Consultancy Partners B.V. (UCPartners). ucpartners.eu is designed to facilitate energy market dialogue and help you understand how best to use our subject matter expertise. It is important that you feel secure visiting our site. The following provides an overview of how we protect your privacy during your visit.
What information do we gather?
Information on ucpartners.eu is gathered directly and indirectly. Direct information gathering is visible to the user. Indirect information gathering is mainly triggered by our websites technology and as such less visible for you.
We collect information when you voluntarily submit it to us. Examples are your emails sent to us, ordering research papers or joining our online dialogue forums. For this type of information you decide whether or not you want to provide it. In some cases, ucpartners.eu uses cookies. Cookies are small data files which save and retrieve information about your visit to ucpartners.eu. If you are uncomfortable regarding the use of cookies, please keep in mind you can disable cookies on your computer by changing the settings in preferences or options menu in your browser. Our forum technology can be used with or without cookies although the latter might reduce the ‘dialogue experience’. We indirectly collect information through our internet access logs. When you access ucpartners.eu, your internet address is automatically collected and stored in internet access logs.
There is also the issue of sensitive personal data. Our definition of sensitive personal data is the categorisation as identified by European and other data privacy laws. UCPartners does not seek to collect sensitive personal data through this site. If we do seek to collect such data, we will ask you to consent to our proposed use of the data. We may also collect some sensitive personal data incidentally. By providing us with unsolicited sensitive personal data, you consent to our using the data subject to applicable law as described in this Privacy Statement.
How do we use this information?
We use this information to improve our website. Other use of data is described at the point of data collection and therefore is up to you if you want to provide it. We might share data internally amongst UCPartners for knowledge management purposes. We will not sell individual information and will share it only with our staff. You are entitled to know whether we hold information about you and, if we do, to have access to that information and require it to be corrected if it is inaccurate. You can do this by sending us an email. In terms of data security, we take appropriate steps to maintain the security of your data on ucpartners.eu. You should understand that the open nature of the internet is such that data may flow over networks without security measures and may be accessed and used by people other than those for whom the data is intended.
We have tried to keep this privacy policy short and crisp for your convenience. If you have any questions now or during your visit, please contact us.