Infinity Energy Organisation values your privacy and cares about the way in which your personal information is treated. This policy describes what personal information we collect about you, how we obtain it, how we use it, on what basis we use it, how long we keep it, who we share it with, how we protect it, and your rights regarding your personal information.
Use of Personal Data Notice
This notice is published by Renewable Energy Assurance Limited ("REAL" or "we"), a limited company registered in England (company number 05720606), whose registered office is 80 Strand, London, UK, WC2R 0DT.
Why Have You Been Given This Notice?
REAL administers the Renewable Energy Consumer Code (RECC, the Code), which is a Chartered Trading Standards Institute (CTSI) approved Consumer Code. In its administration of the Code, REAL monitors and regulates installers of renewable energy products who have been approved to become members of the Code (Members).
If you have signed a contract with, or been visited by, a Code Member, it is likely that that Member has made a record of some of your personal data. In monitoring its Members, REAL may collect and use the personal data a Member holds about you. Code Members are obliged to give you this notice to ensure that you understand how REAL will use any of your personal data.
What Information Might We Collect About You?
Occasionally REAL may collect the following personal data about you from Members during the monitoring and disciplinary processes:
- Name, email address, phone number, and postal address
- Information about any disputes or aftersale queries between you and a Member
- Details of quotes and services provided to you
- Details of any contracts for the supply of goods and services agreed to by you
Why Might We Collect Your Data?
In order to comply with its obligations as the administrator of a CTSI approved Consumer Code, REAL must satisfy itself that its Members are complying with the requirements of the Code and any applicable law. As part of its monitoring activities, REAL may request to see any contracts, performance estimates, quotations, or other documents that were provided to you by the Member, and will analyse those documents for compliance with the Code and any applicable law. By doing this, REAL will be collecting and processing your personal data.
When REAL holds and uses your personal data in this way, it relies on one of the following as its lawful basis: because the use of your personal data is necessary to pursue REAL's legitimate business interests, which are not overridden by your interests and fundamental rights and freedoms (REAL's legitimate interest is to be able to monitor and enforce its Members' compliance with the Code and applicable law); or to comply with the law.
What Do We Do With Your Personal Data?
REAL will always store your personal data securely. Where REAL has collected your personal data, it will not share it for any reason except where it is required to do so by law, in order to enforce its own legal rights, or where it is required to pass the documentation which contains it to its external auditors (who carry out a compliance assessment of the documentation) and/or its Applications Panel, Non-Compliance Panel, and Appeals Panel.
As part of its obligation to monitor its Members, REAL must take proportionate disciplinary action if it finds that there are any compliance issues. The Panels listed above are comprised of independent panel members who must comply with the relevant data protection law. REAL will not transfer your personal data outside the UK or European Economic Area unless appropriate safeguards are in place to comply with data protection law.
How Long Will We Hold Your Personal Data?
REAL will retain your personal data for a maximum of 10 years. After this it will be securely deleted unless otherwise required by law, or unless you have made a written request within that 10-year period for REAL to continue to hold your personal data for a longer period.
Your Rights
Where REAL has collected your personal data from its Member(s), you have certain rights regarding that data:
- You have a right to request access to copies of the data REAL holds about you
- You have a right to correct any error in your data
Under Certain Conditions You Would Also Have a Right To
Under certain conditions, you would also have a right to:
- Request the deletion of your data
- Restrict the use of your data
- Object to our use of your data
- Request a transfer of your data to another organisation or directly to you
Making a Complaint
If you think that REAL has not used your personal data in accordance with data protection law, you should let REAL know in writing using the REAL contact details below. REAL will always take your concern seriously and work to resolve it speedily and effectively. However, if you are not happy with how REAL responds to your complaint, you can make a complaint to the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO), whose contact details are:
How to Contact Us
If you have any questions about this notice, about the personal data we may hold about you, or about our data protection practices generally, please contact our Data Protection Officer, Rita Patel.
