This policy refers to personal data, this is defined as information concerning any living person (a 'Data Subject') that is not already in the public domain.
The General Data Protection Regulations (GDPR) aim to protect and enhance the rights of data subjects. These rights cover the safeguarding of personal data, protection against the unlawful processing of personal data and the unrestricted movement of personal data within the EU.
CarbonGate is a sustainability consultancy to businesses, public and third sector organisations and also to consumers.
You do not have to provide any personal data to use our web-site and the carbon calculators, though you may find this beneficial to do so (e.g. for Business Calculator usage).
We may use information collected from you to provide quotations, make telephone contact and to email you legislative and best practice information that we believe to be beneficial to you/your business in terms of your legislative compliance, business reputation and reducing operational costs.
By making initial contact with us (by telephone, email or on-line form) you consent to CarbonGate maintaining a dialogue towards your request until you request otherwise/ we decide to desist.
Some personal data may be collected about you from the forms and surveys you complete, from records of our correspondence and phone calls and details of your visits to our website, including but not limited to personally-identifying information, e.g. Internet Protocol (IP) addresses. CarbonGate may from time to time use such information to identify its visitors. CarbonGate may also collect statistics about the behaviour of visitors to its website.
CarbonGate website uses cookies - strings of information that a website stores on a visitor’s computer. The visitor’s browser provides to the website each time the visitor returns. CarbonGate does not use cookies to identify visitors. CarbonGate website visitors who do not wish to have cookies placed on their computers should set their browsers to refuse cookies before using CarbonGate website.
Any information CarbonGate holds about you and your business encompasses all the details we hold about you and any sales transactions including any third-party information we have obtain about you from public sources and our own suppliers; e.g. credit referencing agencies.
CarbonGate will only collect the information needed so that it can provide you with sustainability services; we do not sell or broker your data.
To meet CarbonGate contractual obligations to clients and to also respond to inbound enquiries.
To benefit our contacts in terms of their legal compliance.
To promote the sustainability services offered by CarbonGate and/or to market the services to CarbonGate existing clients and contacts in the interests of protecting brand reputation/standing, operational costs and general environmental protection and best practice.
CarbonGate may on occasions pass some personal data to third party suppliers in support of fulfilment of the client request/web-site experience – these include but are not limited to Paypal, GoogleAnalaytics, and social media (only on user action – e.g. clicking ’like’ icons). CarbonGate never knowingly engages with third parties whose own processing is in breach of GDPR. CarbonGate do not broker or pass on information gained from your engagement with the agency without your consent. However, CarbonGate may disclose your Personal Information to meet legal obligations, regulations or valid governmental request. CarbonGate may also enforce its Terms and Conditions, including investigating potential violations of its Terms and Conditions to detect, prevent or mitigate fraud or security or technical issues; or to protect against imminent harm to the rights, property or safety of CarbonGate, its clients/staff and wider public.
