Privacy Policy

LAST UPDATED:  10 April 2024

SolarBuddy.org Ltd (ABN 56 612 567 825), Barefoot Citizens Pty Ltd ABN: 42 639 857 953 and their affiliates, including SolarBuddy Inc. (collectively, “SolarBuddy,” “we,” or “us”) want you to be familiar with how we collect, use, and disclose information.  This Privacy Policy describes our practices in connection with information that we collect through: 

Our websites, including but not limited to www.solarbuddy.org and www.solarbuddylive.com (collectively, the “Websites”); 

Our social media pages, including but not limited to Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, YouTube, and Instagram (collectively, our “Social Media Pages”); 

HTML-formatted email messages that we send to you that link to this Privacy Policy or other communications with you; and 

Offline interactions you have with us. 

Collectively, we refer to the Websites, Social Media Pages, emails, and offline interactions as the “Services.” 

PERSONAL INFORMATION 

“Personal Information” is information that identifies you as an individual or relates to an identifiable individual.  We collect Personal Information through the Services, including:   

  • Name 
  • Date of Birth 
  • Postal address 
  • Telephone number 
  • Email address 
  • Employer 
  • School 
  • IP address (we may derive your approximate location from your IP address) 
  • Payment card information, to be used and stored exclusively by our payment card processors 
  • Demographic information, such as income and spending habits 

 

Collection of Personal Information 

We and our service providers collect Personal Information in a variety of ways, including:  

Through the Services. 

We collect Personal Information through the Services, for example, when you use our Websites, enter a promotion, complete a survey, sign up for a newsletter, attend one of our events, place an order over the phone, contact customer service, or make a purchase or donation. 

From Other Sources.  

We may receive your Personal Information from other sources, such as publicly available databases. 

 We need to collect Personal Information in order to provide the requested Services to you.  If you do not provide the information requested, we may not be able to provide the Services.  If you disclose any Personal Information relating to other people to us or to our service providers in connection with the Services, you represent that you have the authority to do so and to permit us to use the information in accordance with this Privacy Policy.  

Use of Personal Information 

We and our service providers use Personal Information for a variety of purposes.  In the chart below, we describe these different purposes, related activities, the categories of Personal Information involved, and, where applicable, the associated legal bases.   

PURPOSE ASSOCIATED ACTIVITIES PERSONAL INFORMATION LEGAL BASES
Providing the functionality of the Services and fulfilling your requests
Providing the Services’ functionality to you; responding to your inquiries and fulfilling your requests when you contact us via one of our online forms or otherwise; completing your transactions, verifying your information, and providing you with related benefits, special promotions, or customer or donor service; sending administrative information to you, such as changes to our terms, conditions, and policies and donation confirmations
Name; contact information; information specific to an inquiry or request; information and content you may choose to provide; and payment information specific to a donation
Managing our contractual relationship with you and/or complying with our legal obligations
Providing you with our newsletter and/or other materials and requests
Consent, where required by applicable law, and our legitimate interest
Name; contact information; communication and content preferences
Sending you information about our services and other news about our organization, including impact reports; contacting you to conduct market research or otherwise solicit your feedback
Analyzing Personal Information to provide personalized services
Personalizing content, such as delivering content specific to a region or language; identifying usage trends to understand which parts of our Services are of most interest to users
Name; contact information; IP address (for the purpose of obtaining approximate location); and information you may choose to provide
Legitimate interest, such as enhancing and improving our Service offerings
Accomplishing our organizational purposes
Data analysis, for example, to improve the efficiency of our Services; professional advisory services (including from accountants, auditors, and lawyers), to verify that our internal processes function as intended and to address legal, regulatory, or contractual requirements; fraud prevention and fraud security monitoring purposes, for example, to detect and prevent cyberattacks or attempts to commit identity theft; developing new products and services; enhancing, improving, repairing, maintaining, or modifying our current products and services, as well as undertaking quality and safety assurance measures; identifying usage trends, for example, understanding which parts of our Services are of most interest to users; determining the effectiveness of our promotional campaigns, so that we can adapt our campaigns to the needs and interests of our users; and operating and expanding our activities.
Name; contact information; IP address (for the purpose of obtaining approximate country location); and payment information
Managing our contractual relationship with you, complying with our legal obligations, and our legitimate interest, such as operating and expanding our activities

We may aggregate and/or anonymize Personal Information so that it will no longer be considered Personal Information.  We do so to generate other data for our use, which we may use and disclose for any purpose, as it no longer identifies you or any other individual.

 

Disclosure of Personal Information  

We disclose Personal Information: 

To our following affiliate for the purposes described in this Privacy Policy. 

  • SolarBuddy Inc, 150 Post Street, Suite 200, San Francisco, CA 94108 USA. 
  • SolarBuddy Belgium VZW, Stephanie Square Centre, Ave Louise 65, Box 11, Brussels 1050 Belgium 
  • Stichting SolarBuddy Netherlands, Zuid Hollandlaan 7, 2596AL, The Hague 
  • SolarBuddy LIVE 3/11 Breene Place, Morningside, Queensland 4170 Australia 
  • SolarBuddy STEM 3/11 Breene Place, Morningside, Queensland 4170 Australia 
  • Barefoot Citizens Pty Ltd, 3/11 Breene Place, Morningside Queensland 4170 Australia 
  • Barefoot Citizens Inc, 150 Post Street, Suite 200, San Francisco, CA 94108 USA 
  • SolarBuddy STEM LLC 150 Post Street, Suite 200, San Franciso CA 94108 USA 

To our third-party service providers, to facilitate services they provide to us. 

These can include providers of such services as website hosting, data analysis, payment processing, order fulfillment, fraud prevention, information technology and related infrastructure provision, customer service, email delivery, auditing, and other services.

 

Other Uses and Disclosures

We also use and disclose your Personal Information as necessary or appropriate, in particular when we have a legal obligation or legitimate interest to do so: 

To comply with applicable law and regulations. 

  • This may include laws outside your country of residence.

To cooperate with public and government authorities. 

  • To respond to a request or to provide information we believe is necessary or appropriate. 
  • These can include authorities outside your country of residence. 

To cooperate with law enforcement. 

  • For example, when we respond to law enforcement requests and orders or provide information we believe is important, including when we reasonably believe that you are engaged in illegal activities. 

For other legal reasons. 

  • To enforce our terms and conditions, including when we reasonably believe that you are in breach of our terms and conditions; and 
  • To protect our rights, privacy, safety or property, and/or that of our affiliates, you or others. 

In connection with a sale or similar transaction. 

  • We have a legitimate interest in disclosing or transferring your Personal Information to a third party in connection with any reorganization, merger, sale, joint venture, assignment, transfer, or other disposition of all or any portion of our organization, assets, or stock (including in connection with any bankruptcy or similar proceedings). 

 

OTHER Information 

“Other Information” is any information that does not reveal your specific identity or does not directly relate to an identifiable individual.  Through the Services, we collect such Other Information as: 

  • Browser and device information 
  • Information collected through cookies, pixel tags, and other technologies 

 

Collection of Other Information 

We and our service providers may collect Other Information in a variety of ways, including:  

Through your browser or device. 

  • Certain information is collected by most browsers or automatically through your device, such as your Media Access Control (MAC) address, computer type (Windows or Mac), screen resolution, operating system name and version, device manufacturer and model, language, and Internet browser type and version. We use this information to ensure that the Services function properly.  

Through cookies. 

  • Cookies are pieces of information stored directly on the computer that you are using. Cookies allow us to collect information such as browser type, time spent on the Services, pages visited, language preferences, and other traffic data.  We and our service providers use the information for security purposes, to facilitate navigation, to display information more effectively, and to personalize your experience.  We also gather statistical information about use of the Services in order to continually improve their design and functionality, understand how they are used, and assist us with resolving questions regarding them.      
  • If you do not wish to receive cookies, you can set your browser or device to opt-out. If you do not want information collected through the use of cookies, most browsers allow you to automatically decline cookies or be given the choice of declining or accepting a particular cookie (or cookies) from a particular website.  You may also wish to refer to http://www.allaboutcookies.org/manage-cookies/index.html. If, however, you do not accept cookies, you may experience some inconvenience in your use of the Services. 
  • We do not currently respond to browser do-not-track signals. 

Through interest-based advertising 

  • We use third-party advertising services to serve advertisements that may be of interest to you when you access and use our Websites and other websites or online services. You may receive advertisements based on information relating to your access to and use of our Websites and other websites or online services on any of your devices, as well as on information received from third parties. These companies place or recognize a unique cookie on your browser (including through the use of pixel tags).  They may also use these technologies, along with information they collect about your online use, to recognize you across the devices you use, such as a mobile phone and a laptop.  To learn how to opt out of this practice in desktop and mobile browsers on the particular device on which you are accessing this Privacy Policy, please visit http://optout.aboutads.info/#/ and http://optout.networkadvertising.org/#/

Pixel tags and other similar technologies. 

  • Pixel tags. Pixel tags (also known as web beacons and clear GIFs) may be used to, among other things, track the actions of users of the Services (including email recipients), measure the success of our promotional campaigns, and compile statistics about use of the Services and response rates.  
  • Analytics. We use Google Analytics, which uses cookies and similar technologies to collect and analyse information about use of the Services and report on activities and trends.  This service may also collect information regarding the use of other websites.  You can learn about Google’s practices by going to google.com/policies/privacy/‌partners/ and exercise the opt-out provided by Google by downloading the Google Analytics opt-out browser add-on, available at https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout.    

Uses and Disclosures of Other Information

We may use and disclose Other Information for any purpose, except where we are required to do otherwise under applicable law. If we are required to treat Other Information as Personal Information under applicable law, we may use and disclose it for the purposes for which we use and disclose Personal Information as detailed in this Privacy Policy. In some instances, we may combine Other Information with Personal Information. If we do, we will treat the combined information as Personal Information as long as it is combined.

INFORMATION SECURITY

We seek to use reasonable organizational, technical, and administrative measures to protect Personal Information within our organization. Unfortunately, no information transmission or storage system can be guaranteed to be 100% secure. If you have reason to believe that your interaction with us is no longer secure, please immediately notify us in accordance with the “Contact Us” section below.

YOUR CHOICES AND ACCESS 

You may opt out from receiving marketing-related emails from us.  If you no longer wish to receive marketing related emails from us on a going-forward basis, you may opt out by following the instructions contained in any such message or by submitting a request here: Mailing List Unsubscribe

We will try to comply with your request as soon as reasonably practicable.  Please note that if you opt out of receiving marketing related emails from us, we may still send you important administrative messages, from which you cannot opt out. 

How you can request to access, change, correct, or delete your Personal Information 

If you would like to request to access, correct, update, suppress, restrict, or delete Personal Information, object to or opt out of the processing of Personal Information, or if you would like to request to receive a copy of your Personal Information for purposes of transmitting it to another organization (to the extent these rights are provided to you by applicable law), you may contact us in accordance with the “Contact Us” section below.  We will respond to your request consistent with applicable law.  In addition, if you are located in the European Economic Area, you may request that we delete your Personal Information by submitting a request here:  Right to Be Forgotten.

In your request, please make clear what Personal Information you would like to have changed or whether you would like to have your Personal Information suppressed from our database.  For your protection, we may only implement requests with respect to the Personal Information associated with the particular email address that you use to send us your request, and we may need to verify your identity before implementing your request.  We will try to comply with your request as soon as reasonably practicable.  Please note that we may need to retain certain information for recordkeeping purposes and/or to complete any transactions that you began prior to requesting a change or deletion.  

RETENTION PERIOD

We retain Personal Information for as long as needed or permitted in light of the purpose(s) for which it was obtained and consistent with applicable law.

 

The criteria used to determine our retention periods include: 

  • The length of time we have an ongoing relationship with you and provide the Services to you (for example, for as long as you keep using the Services);
  • Whether there is a legal obligation to which we are subject (for example, certain laws require us to keep records of your transactions for a certain period of time before we can delete them); or
  • Whether retention is advisable in light of our legal position (such as in regard to applicable statutes of limitations, litigation, or regulatory investigations).

THIRD-PARTY SERVICES

This Privacy Policy does not address, and we are not responsible for, the privacy, information, or other practices of any third parties, including any third party operating any website or service to which the Services link.  The inclusion of a link on the Services does not imply endorsement of the linked site or service by us or by our affiliates. 

In addition, we are not responsible for the information collection, use, disclosure, or security policies or practices of other organizations, such as any social media platform provider, operating system provider, wireless service provider, or device manufacturer, including with respect to any Personal Information you disclose to other organizations through or in connection with our Social Media Pages.

USE OF THE SERVICES BY MINORS

The Services are not directed to individuals under the age of sixteen (16), and we do not knowingly collect Personal Information from individuals under 16.

JURISDICTION AND CROSS-BORDER TRANSFER

Your Personal Information may be stored and processed in any country where we have facilities or in which we engage service providers, and will be held in France, Germany, Japan, the United Kingdom, and/or the United States.  By using the Services you understand that your information will be transferred to countries outside of your country of residence, including the United States, which may have data protection rules that are different from those of your country.  In certain circumstances, courts, law enforcement agencies, regulatory agencies or security authorities in those other countries may be entitled to access your Personal Information.

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION REGARDING THE EUROPEAN ECONOMIC AREA (EEA):  Some non-EEA countries are recognized by the European Commission as providing an adequate level of data protection according to EEA standards (the full list of these countries is available at https://ec.europa.eu/info/law/law-topic/data-protection/data-transfers-outside-eu/adequacy-protection-personal-data-non-eu-countries_en. For transfers from the EEA to countries not considered adequate by the European Commission, we have put in place adequate measures, such as standard contractual clauses adopted by the European Commission to protect your Personal Information.  You may obtain a copy of these measures by contacting us in accordance with the “Contact Us” section below.

SENSITIVE INFORMATION

Unless we request it, we ask that you not send us, and you not disclose, any sensitive Personal Information (e.g., Social Security numbers, information related to racial or ethnic origin, political opinions, religious beliefs, health, biometrics or genetic characteristics, criminal background, or trade union membership) on or through the Services or otherwise to us.

THIRD-PARTY PAYMENT SERVICE

The Services may provide functionality allowing you to make payments or donations to us using third-party payment services with which you have created your own account.  When you use such a service to make a payment to us, your Personal Information will be collected by such third party and not by us, and will be subject to the third party’s privacy policy, rather than this Privacy Policy.  We have no control over, and are not responsible for, this third party’s collection, use, and disclosure of your Personal Information.

 

UPDATES TO THIS PRIVACY POLICY

The “Last Updated” legend at the top of this Privacy Policy indicates when this Privacy Policy was last revised.  Any changes will become effective when we post the revised Privacy Policy on the Services.   

CONTACT US

SolarBuddy.org Ltd is the entity responsible for the collection, use, and disclosure of your Personal Information under this Privacy Policy.

If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, please contact us at hello@solarbuddy.org or 3/11 Breene Place, Morningside Queensland, 4170 Australia.

Because email communications are not always secure, please do not include credit card or other sensitive information in your emails to us. 

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION REGARDING THE EEA AND AUSTRALIA

You may:

  • Lodge a complaint with an EU/EEA data protection authority for your country or region where you have your habitual residence or place of work or where an alleged infringement of applicable data protection law occurs. A list of data protection authorities is available at http://ec.europa.eu/newsroom/article29/item-detail.cfm?item_id=612080.
  • Lodge a complaint with the Office of the Australian Information Commissioner at oaic.gov.au.

 

 

 

This Privacy Policy describes the sorts of personal information which SolarBuddy may collect from you, how the information may be used and how it will be protected in accordance with the requirements of Privacy Act 1988 (Cth).

1. Collecting information

We may collect personal information about you by your use of the Website, or where you otherwise provide us with information, including when you enter into SolarBuddy’s promotions or complete SolarBuddy’s surveys or generally engage with our organisation. The only personal information we collect is what you volunteer to tell us about yourself and certain information collected from third parties (which may include your employer, schools, key event organisers, donation platforms) from time to time. The personal information that we collect from these sources may include your name, address, date of birth, telephone number, email address, information about services that we provide to you and in some instances may also include demographics, income, spending habits and purchasing information. This is not an exhaustive list.

We use this information for research or to improve SolarBuddy’s goods, services and performance. We may also use this information for reasonable business purposes for example to contact you, via email regular mail, or telephone, to provide you with information we believe may be of interest, including marketing and promotional material.

Where you submit an enquiry or complaint, we will use that information to respond to your particular enquiry or complaint and may also use such information for internal corporate purposes such as monitoring and improving customer services of aspects of the Website.

We may also collect information from you by your use of the Website which is not personally identifiable. For example, we may track information about the date and time you access the site, the type of browser you use and the web site from which you connected to the site. Our website collects this information by depositing “cookies” in your computer. This does not collect any information which personally identifies you and does not have any effect on how your computer system works. We may analyse the data for certain trends and statistics, such as which parts of the Website users are visiting and how long they spend there.

This information is compiled and analysed in an aggregate form. We may share this aggregated information with our Content Providers to assist them to understand our services. If you do not wish to receive cookies, you can set your browser or device to opt-out. We provide further information under section 8 below (including unsubscribe forms) on how you can opt out of our mailing lists.

2. Use and disclosure of personal information

You acknowledge and consent to the use and disclosure of your personal information in circumstances that are: (a) set out in this Privacy Policy; or (b) clearly explained to you at the time the information is collected from you; or (c) permitted under the Australian Privacy Principles.

We may disclose your personal information to other third parties (service providers) that we may engage for the purpose of assisting us in operating our organisation. The third parties include information technology providers, marketing and advertising agencies and contractors, government and regulatory authorities, and our professional advisors (accountants, auditors, lawyers). We ask these third parties to hold, use and disclose your personal information in accordance with the Privacy Act. We will never sell your personal information to any third party and will only disclose your personal information in accordance with this policy. Otherwise, we will not disclose personal information unless: (a) required to do so by law, regulation or an industry code of practice; (b) for safety reasons; or (c) where we reasonably believe that you are in breach of our terms and conditions or are engaged in illegal activities.

We will not collect, use or disclose sensitive information (such as information about racial or ethnic origins, political or religious beliefs) except with your specific consent or in the circumstances permitted in the Australian Privacy Principles.

3. Information security and information held overseas

We will take all reasonable steps to keep any information we hold about you secure, accurate and up to date. We will store your information securely and take appropriate steps to protect it from misuse and loss, unauthorised access, modification and disclosure.However, no guarantee can be given that information sent over the Internet is always 100% secure. We will take reasonable steps to destroy or de-identify personal information if it is no longer needed for any purpose.

We may hold personal information about you in or may disclose this information to third party service providers located overseas. Your personal information will most likely be held in France, Germany, Japan, United Kingdom or the United States of America.

4. Accessing and correcting your information

You can request access to your personal information that we hold about you and we will do our best to provide you with access to it. Subject to exceptions permitted by law, we will provide access to you within a reasonable time. If you believe that any personal information that we hold about you is not correct, you may ask us to correct these details.

5. How to contact us and make a complaint

If you wish to raise a concern or query regarding your privacy, you can do so using the below contact details. We will review your concerns and respond as quickly as possible.

Email: enquiries@solarbuddy.org

Phone: +61 (0)7 3257 7380

If you are not satisfied with our response, you can lodge a complaint with the Office of the Australian Information Commissioner using the details outlined under section 6 below.

6. More on privacy

You can obtain further information about privacy in Australia and the protection of your personal information via the Office of the Australian Information Commissioner website (www.oaic.gov.au). This website also provides information on how to lodge queries or complaints in relation to your privacy.

7. Changes to our Privacy Policy

We will update our website when we make changes to our Privacy Policy. Visit our website regularly to review any changes that may have been made.

8. Right to be forgotten

You are entitled to request us to erase any personal data we hold about you under EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). We will do our best to respond promptly and in any event within one month of the following:

• Our receipt of your written request; or

• Our receipt of any further information we may ask you to provide to enable us to comply with your request, whichever happens to be later.

Please complete the following form to request removal of your personal information from SolarBuddy.org’s databases:

‘Right to be Forgotten’

You can also request to be removed from some or all of our mailing lists by submitting a request here:

‘Mailing List Unsubscribe’

Privacy Policy

LAST UPDATED:  22nd Sept 2022

SolarBuddy.org Ltd and its affiliates, including SolarBuddy Inc., (collectively, “SolarBuddy,” “we,” or “us”) want you to be familiar with how we collect, use, and disclose information.  This Privacy Policy describes our practices in connection with information that we collect through:

  • Our website at SolarBuddy.org (the “Website”);
  • Our social media pages, including but not limited to Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, YouTube, and Instagram (collectively, our “Social Media Pages”);
  • HTML-formatted email messages that we send to you that link to this Privacy Policy or other communications with you; and
  • Offline interactions you have with us.

Collectively, we refer to the Websites, Social Media Pages, emails, and offline interactions as the “Services.”

PERSONAL INFORMATION

Personal Information” is information that identifies you as an individual or relates to an identifiable individual.  We collect Personal Information through the Services, including:  

  • Name
  • Date of Birth
  • Postal address
  • Telephone number
  • Email address
  • Employer
  • School
  • IP address (we may derive your approximate location from your IP address)
  • Payment card information, to be used and stored exclusively by our payment card processors
  • Demographic information, such as income and spending habits

 

Collection of Personal Information

We and our service providers collect Personal Information in a variety of ways, including: 

  • Through the Services. 
  • We collect Personal Information through the Services, for example, when you use the Website, enter a promotion, complete a survey, sign up for a newsletter, attend one of our events, place an order over the phone, contact customer service, or make a purchase or donation.
  • From Other Sources. 
  • We may receive your Personal Information from other sources, such as publicly available databases.

 

We need to collect Personal Information in order to provide the requested Services to you.  If you do not provide the information requested, we may not be able to provide the Services.  If you disclose any Personal Information relating to other people to us or to our service providers in connection with the Services, you represent that you have the authority to do so and to permit us to use the information in accordance with this Privacy Policy. 

Use of Personal Information

We and our service providers use Personal Information for a variety of purposes.  In the chart below, we describe these different purposes, related activities, the categories of Personal Information involved, and, where applicable, the associated legal bases.  

PURPOSE ASSOCIATED ACTIVITIES PERSONAL INFORMATION LEGAL BASES
Providing the functionality of the Services and fulfilling your requests
Providing the Services’ functionality to you; responding to your inquiries and fulfilling your requests when you contact us via one of our online forms or otherwise; completing your transactions, verifying your information, and providing you with related benefits, special promotions, or customer or donor service; sending administrative information to you, such as changes to our terms, conditions, and policies and donation confirmations
Name; contact information; information specific to an inquiry or request; information and content you may choose to provide; and payment information specific to a donation
Managing our contractual relationship with you and/or complying with our legal obligations
Providing you with our newsletter and/or other materials and requests
Consent, where required by applicable law, and our legitimate interest
Name; contact information; communication and content preferences
Sending you information about our services and other news about our organization, including impact reports; contacting you to conduct market research or otherwise solicit your feedback
Analyzing Personal Information to provide personalized services
Personalizing content, such as delivering content specific to a region or language; identifying usage trends to understand which parts of our Services are of most interest to users
Name; contact information; IP address (for the purpose of obtaining approximate location); and information you may choose to provide
Legitimate interest, such as enhancing and improving our Service offerings
Accomplishing our organizational purposes
Data analysis, for example, to improve the efficiency of our Services; professional advisory services (including from accountants, auditors, and lawyers), to verify that our internal processes function as intended and to address legal, regulatory, or contractual requirements; fraud prevention and fraud security monitoring purposes, for example, to detect and prevent cyberattacks or attempts to commit identity theft; developing new products and services; enhancing, improving, repairing, maintaining, or modifying our current products and services, as well as undertaking quality and safety assurance measures; identifying usage trends, for example, understanding which parts of our Services are of most interest to users; determining the effectiveness of our promotional campaigns, so that we can adapt our campaigns to the needs and interests of our users; and operating and expanding our activities.
Name; contact information; IP address (for the purpose of obtaining approximate country location); and payment information
Managing our contractual relationship with you, complying with our legal obligations, and our legitimate interest, such as operating and expanding our activities

We may aggregate and/or anonymize Personal Information so that it will no longer be considered Personal Information.  We do so to generate other data for our use, which we may use and disclose for any purpose, as it no longer identifies you or any other individual.

 

Disclosure of Personal Information  

We disclose Personal Information:

  • To our following affiliate for the purposes described in this Privacy Policy.
  • SolarBuddy Inc, 150 Post Street, Suite 200, San Francisco, CA 94108 USA.
  • To our third-party service providers, to facilitate services they provide to us.
  • These can include providers of such services as website hosting, data analysis, payment processing, order fulfillment, fraud prevention, information technology and related infrastructure provision, customer service, email delivery, auditing, and other services.

 

Other Uses and Disclosures

We also use and disclose your Personal Information as necessary or appropriate, in particular when we have a legal obligation or legitimate interest to do so:

  • To comply with applicable law and regulations.
  • This may include laws outside your country of residence.
  • To cooperate with public and government authorities.
  • To respond to a request or to provide information we believe is necessary or appropriate.
  • These can include authorities outside your country of residence.
  • To cooperate with law enforcement.
  • For example, when we respond to law enforcement requests and orders or provide information we believe is important, including when we reasonably believe that you are engaged in illegal activities.
  • For other legal reasons.
  • To enforce our terms and conditions, including when we reasonably believe that you are in breach of our terms and conditions; and
  • To protect our rights, privacy, safety or property, and/or that of our affiliates, you or others.
  • In connection with a sale or similar transaction.
  • We have a legitimate interest in disclosing or transferring your Personal Information to a third party in connection with any reorganization, merger, sale, joint venture, assignment, transfer, or other disposition of all or any portion of our organization, assets, or stock (including in connection with any bankruptcy or similar proceedings).

 

OTHER Information

Other Information” is any information that does not reveal your specific identity or does not directly relate to an identifiable individual.  Through the Services, we collect such Other Information as:

  • Browser and device information
  • Information collected through cookies, pixel tags, and other technologies

 

Collection of Other Information

We and our service providers may collect Other Information in a variety of ways, including: 

  • Through your browser or device.
  • Certain information is collected by most browsers or automatically through your device, such as your Media Access Control (MAC) address, computer type (Windows or Mac), screen resolution, operating system name and version, device manufacturer and model, language, and Internet browser type and version. We use this information to ensure that the Services function properly. 
  • Through cookies.
  • Cookies are pieces of information stored directly on the computer that you are using. Cookies allow us to collect information such as browser type, time spent on the Services, pages visited, language preferences, and other traffic data.  We and our service providers use the information for security purposes, to facilitate navigation, to display information more effectively, and to personalize your experience.  We also gather statistical information about use of the Services in order to continually improve their design and functionality, understand how they are used, and assist us with resolving questions regarding them.     
  • If you do not wish to receive cookies, you can set your browser or device to opt-out. If you do not want information collected through the use of cookies, most browsers allow you to automatically decline cookies or be given the choice of declining or accepting a particular cookie (or cookies) from a particular website.  You may also wish to refer to http://www.allaboutcookies.org/manage-cookies/index.html. If, however, you do not accept cookies, you may experience some inconvenience in your use of the Services.
  • We do not currently respond to browser do-not-track signals.
  • Through interest-based advertising
    • We use third-party advertising services to serve advertisements that may be of interest to you when you access and use our Website and other websites or online services. You may receive advertisements based on information relating to your access to and use of our Website and other websites or online services on any of your devices, as well as on information received from third parties. These companies place or recognize a unique cookie on your browser (including through the use of pixel tags).  They may also use these technologies, along with information they collect about your online use, to recognize you across the devices you use, such as a mobile phone and a laptop.  To learn how to opt out of this practice in desktop and mobile browsers on the particular device on which you are accessing this Privacy Policy, please visit http://optout.aboutads.info/#/ and http://optout.networkadvertising.org/#/.
  • Pixel tags and other similar technologies.
  • Pixel tags. Pixel tags (also known as web beacons and clear GIFs) may be used to, among other things, track the actions of users of the Services (including email recipients), measure the success of our promotional campaigns, and compile statistics about use of the Services and response rates. 
  • Analytics. We use Google Analytics, which uses cookies and similar technologies to collect and analyze information about use of the Services and report on activities and trends.  This service may also collect information regarding the use of other websites.  You can learn about Google’s practices by going to google.com/policies/privacy/‌partners/ and exercise the opt-out provided by Google by downloading the Google Analytics opt-out browser add-on, available at https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout.   

Uses and Disclosures of Other Information

We may use and disclose Other Information for any purpose, except where we are required to do otherwise under applicable law.  If we are required to treat Other Information as Personal Information under applicable law, we may use and disclose it for the purposes for which we use and disclose Personal Information as detailed in this Privacy Policy.  In some instances, we may combine Other Information with Personal Information.  If we do, we will treat the combined information as Personal Information as long as it is combined.

INFORMATION SECURITY

We seek to use reasonable organizational, technical, and administrative measures to protect Personal Information within our organization.  Unfortunately, no information transmission or storage system can be guaranteed to be 100% secure.  If you have reason to believe that your interaction with us is no longer secure, please immediately notify us in accordance with the “Contact Us” section below.

YOUR CHOICES AND ACCESS 

You may opt out from receiving marketing-related emails from us.  If you no longer wish to receive marketing related emails from us on a going-forward basis, you may opt out by following the instructions contained in any such message or by submitting a request here:  Mailing List Unsubscribe

We will try to comply with your request as soon as reasonably practicable.  Please note that if you opt out of receiving marketing related emails from us, we may still send you important administrative messages, from which you cannot opt out.

How you can request to access, change, correct, or delete your Personal Information 

If you would like to request to access, correct, update, suppress, restrict, or delete Personal Information, object to or opt out of the processing of Personal Information, or if you would like to request to receive a copy of your Personal Information for purposes of transmitting it to another organization (to the extent these rights are provided to you by applicable law), you may contact us in accordance with the “Contact Us” section below.  We will respond to your request consistent with applicable law.  In addition, if you are located in the European Economic Area, you may request that we delete your Personal Information by submitting a request here:  Right to Be Forgotten.

In your request, please make clear what Personal Information you would like to have changed or whether you would like to have your Personal Information suppressed from our database.  For your protection, we may only implement requests with respect to the Personal Information associated with the particular email address that you use to send us your request, and we may need to verify your identity before implementing your request.  We will try to comply with your request as soon as reasonably practicable.  Please note that we may need to retain certain information for recordkeeping purposes and/or to complete any transactions that you began prior to requesting a change or deletion. 

RETENTION PERIOD

We retain Personal Information for as long as needed or permitted in light of the purpose(s) for which it was obtained and consistent with applicable law. 

 

The criteria used to determine our retention periods include: 

  • The length of time we have an ongoing relationship with you and provide the Services to you (for example, for as long as you keep using the Services);
  • Whether there is a legal obligation to which we are subject (for example, certain laws require us to keep records of your transactions for a certain period of time before we can delete them); or
  • Whether retention is advisable in light of our legal position (such as in regard to applicable statutes of limitations, litigation, or regulatory investigations).

THIRD-PARTY SERVICES

This Privacy Policy does not address, and we are not responsible for, the privacy, information, or other practices of any third parties, including any third party operating any website or service to which the Services link.  The inclusion of a link on the Services does not imply endorsement of the linked site or service by us or by our affiliates.

In addition, we are not responsible for the information collection, use, disclosure, or security policies or practices of other organizations, such as any social media platform provider, operating system provider, wireless service provider, or device manufacturer, including with respect to any Personal Information you disclose to other organizations through or in connection with our Social Media Pages.

USE OF THE SERVICES BY MINORS

The Services are not directed to individuals under the age of sixteen (16), and we do not knowingly collect Personal Information from individuals under 16.

JURISDICTION AND CROSS-BORDER TRANSFER

Your Personal Information may be stored and processed in any country where we have facilities or in which we engage service providers, and will be held in France, Germany, Japan, the United Kingdom, and/or the United States.  By using the Services you understand that your information will be transferred to countries outside of your country of residence, including the United States, which may have data protection rules that are different from those of your country.  In certain circumstances, courts, law enforcement agencies, regulatory agencies or security authorities in those other countries may be entitled to access your Personal Information.

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION REGARDING THE EUROPEAN ECONOMIC AREA (EEA):  Some non-EEA countries are recognized by the European Commission as providing an adequate level of data protection according to EEA standards (the full list of these countries is available at https://ec.europa.eu/info/law/law-topic/data-protection/data-transfers-outside-eu/adequacy-protection-personal-data-non-eu-countries_en. For transfers from the EEA to countries not considered adequate by the European Commission, we have put in place adequate measures, such as standard contractual clauses adopted by the European Commission to protect your Personal Information.  You may obtain a copy of these measures by contacting us in accordance with the “Contact Us” section below.

SENSITIVE INFORMATION

Unless we request it, we ask that you not send us, and you not disclose, any sensitive Personal Information (e.g., Social Security numbers, information related to racial or ethnic origin, political opinions, religious beliefs, health, biometrics or genetic characteristics, criminal background, or trade union membership) on or through the Services or otherwise to us.

THIRD-PARTY PAYMENT SERVICE

The Services may provide functionality allowing you to make payments or donations to us using third-party payment services with which you have created your own account.  When you use such a service to make a payment to us, your Personal Information will be collected by such third party and not by us, and will be subject to the third party’s privacy policy, rather than this Privacy Policy.  We have no control over, and are not responsible for, this third party’s collection, use, and disclosure of your Personal Information.

 

UPDATES TO THIS PRIVACY POLICY

The “Last Updated” legend at the top of this Privacy Policy indicates when this Privacy Policy was last revised.  Any changes will become effective when we post the revised Privacy Policy on the Services.   

CONTACT US

SolarBuddy.org Ltd is the entity responsible for the collection, use, and disclosure of your Personal Information under this Privacy Policy.

If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, please contact us at enquiries@solarbuddy.org or 1/36 Wyandra Street, Newstead QLD 4006 Australia.

Because email communications are not always secure, please do not include credit card or other sensitive information in your emails to us. 

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION REGARDING THE EEA AND AUSTRALIA

You may:

  • Lodge a complaint with an EU/EEA data protection authority for your country or region where you have your habitual residence or place of work or where an alleged infringement of applicable data protection law occurs. A list of data protection authorities is available at http://ec.europa.eu/newsroom/article29/item-detail.cfm?item_id=612080.
  • Lodge a complaint with the Office of the Australian Information Commissioner at oaic.gov.au.

 

 

 

This Privacy Policy describes the sorts of personal information which SolarBuddy may collect from you, how the information may be used and how it will be protected in accordance with the requirements of Privacy Act 1988 (Cth).

1. Collecting information

We may collect personal information about you by your use of the Website, or where you otherwise provide us with information, including when you enter into SolarBuddy’s promotions or complete SolarBuddy’s surveys or generally engage with our organisation. The only personal information we collect is what you volunteer to tell us about yourself and certain information collected from third parties (which may include your employer, schools, key event organisers, donation platforms) from time to time. The personal information that we collect from these sources may include your name, address, date of birth, telephone number, email address, information about services that we provide to you and in some instances may also include demographics, income, spending habits and purchasing information. This is not an exhaustive list.

We use this information for research or to improve SolarBuddy’s goods, services and performance. We may also use this information for reasonable business purposes for example to contact you, via email regular mail, or telephone, to provide you with information we believe may be of interest, including marketing and promotional material.

Where you submit an enquiry or complaint, we will use that information to respond to your particular enquiry or complaint and may also use such information for internal corporate purposes such as monitoring and improving customer services of aspects of the Website.

We may also collect information from you by your use of the Website which is not personally identifiable. For example, we may track information about the date and time you access the site, the type of browser you use and the web site from which you connected to the site. Our website collects this information by depositing “cookies” in your computer. This does not collect any information which personally identifies you and does not have any effect on how your computer system works. We may analyse the data for certain trends and statistics, such as which parts of the Website users are visiting and how long they spend there.

This information is compiled and analysed in an aggregate form. We may share this aggregated information with our Content Providers to assist them to understand our services. If you do not wish to receive cookies, you can set your browser or device to opt-out. We provide further information under section 8 below (including unsubscribe forms) on how you can opt out of our mailing lists.

2. Use and disclosure of personal information

You acknowledge and consent to the use and disclosure of your personal information in circumstances that are: (a) set out in this Privacy Policy; or (b) clearly explained to you at the time the information is collected from you; or (c) permitted under the Australian Privacy Principles.

We may disclose your personal information to other third parties (service providers) that we may engage for the purpose of assisting us in operating our organisation. The third parties include information technology providers, marketing and advertising agencies and contractors, government and regulatory authorities, and our professional advisors (accountants, auditors, lawyers). We ask these third parties to hold, use and disclose your personal information in accordance with the Privacy Act. We will never sell your personal information to any third party and will only disclose your personal information in accordance with this policy. Otherwise, we will not disclose personal information unless: (a) required to do so by law, regulation or an industry code of practice; (b) for safety reasons; or (c) where we reasonably believe that you are in breach of our terms and conditions or are engaged in illegal activities.

We will not collect, use or disclose sensitive information (such as information about racial or ethnic origins, political or religious beliefs) except with your specific consent or in the circumstances permitted in the Australian Privacy Principles.

3. Information security and information held overseas

We will take all reasonable steps to keep any information we hold about you secure, accurate and up to date. We will store your information securely and take appropriate steps to protect it from misuse and loss, unauthorised access, modification and disclosure.However, no guarantee can be given that information sent over the Internet is always 100% secure. We will take reasonable steps to destroy or de-identify personal information if it is no longer needed for any purpose.

We may hold personal information about you in or may disclose this information to third party service providers located overseas. Your personal information will most likely be held in France, Germany, Japan, United Kingdom or the United States of America.

4. Accessing and correcting your information

You can request access to your personal information that we hold about you and we will do our best to provide you with access to it. Subject to exceptions permitted by law, we will provide access to you within a reasonable time. If you believe that any personal information that we hold about you is not correct, you may ask us to correct these details.

5. How to contact us and make a complaint

If you wish to raise a concern or query regarding your privacy, you can do so using the below contact details. We will review your concerns and respond as quickly as possible.

Email: enquiries@solarbuddy.org

Phone: +61 (0)7 3257 7380

If you are not satisfied with our response, you can lodge a complaint with the Office of the Australian Information Commissioner using the details outlined under section 6 below.

6. More on privacy

You can obtain further information about privacy in Australia and the protection of your personal information via the Office of the Australian Information Commissioner website (www.oaic.gov.au). This website also provides information on how to lodge queries or complaints in relation to your privacy.

7. Changes to our Privacy Policy

We will update our website when we make changes to our Privacy Policy. Visit our website regularly to review any changes that may have been made.

8. Right to be forgotten

You are entitled to request us to erase any personal data we hold about you under EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). We will do our best to respond promptly and in any event within one month of the following:

• Our receipt of your written request; or

• Our receipt of any further information we may ask you to provide to enable us to comply with your request, whichever happens to be later.

Please complete the following form to request removal of your personal information from SolarBuddy.org’s databases:

‘Right to be Forgotten’

You can also request to be removed from some or all of our mailing lists by submitting a request here:

‘Mailing List Unsubscribe’