Who we are
The controller of your personal data is Solas Capital AG. References in this privacy notice (the Notice) to “Solas Capital”, “we” or “us” are references to Solas Capital AG, a company registered in Switzerland specialising in energy efficiency investment advisory services across the EU.
Contact Information
Solas Capital AG
Seestrasse 353
8038, Zurich
Switzerland
Email: info@solas.capital
Website: www.solas.capital
Introduction
We are committed to protecting and respecting your privacy. This Privacy Policy explains how we collect, use, and safeguard your personal data when you use our website or services. The use of our website is possible without any indication of personal data; however, if you wish to use certain services via our website, processing of personal data may become necessary.
The processing of personal data, such as name, address, email address, or telephone number, shall always be in line with the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and in accordance with the country-specific data protection regulations applicable to [Your Company Name]. By means of this privacy policy, we inform you about the nature, scope, and purpose of the personal data we collect, use, and process, and about your rights as a data subject.
Collection of general data and information
Our website collects general data and information when you or an automated system access the website. This general data and information are stored in server log files and may include:
- Browser types and versions used
- Operating system used by the accessing system
- Website from which an accessing system reaches our website (referrers)
- Sub-websites accessed on our site
- Date and time of access to our website
- Internet protocol address (IP address)
- Internet service provider of the accessing system
- Other similar data that may be used in the event of attacks on our IT systems
When using this general data and information, we do not draw any conclusions about you as a data subject. Rather, this information is needed to:
- Deliver the content of our website correctly
- Optimize the content of our website and its advertisement
- Ensure the long-term viability of our information technology systems and website technology
- Provide law enforcement authorities with information necessary for criminal prosecution in case of a cyber-attack
Therefore, we analyse anonymously collected data and information statistically, with the aim of increasing the data protection and data security of our enterprise, and to ensure an optimal level of protection for the personal data we process. The anonymous data of the server log files are stored separately from all personal data provided by a data subject.
Google Analytics
Our website uses Google Analytics, a web analytics service provided by Google LLC, USA. Google Analytics uses cookies to analyse how users interact with our website.
The purpose of Google Analytics is to analyse traffic on our website. Google uses the collected data to evaluate website usage, create reports on website activities, and provide other services related to website and internet usage.
Google Analytics places a cookie on your computer. With each visit to our website, data including your IP address will be transmitted to Google in the United States. To protect your privacy, we have implemented IP anonymization, which truncates your IP address before transmission to Google.
You can prevent the collection of your data by Google Analytics by:
- Adjusting your browser settings to block cookies
- Installing the Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-on available at: https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout
For more information about Google’s data privacy practices, please visit: https://policies.google.com/privacy and https://marketingplatform.google.com/about/analytics/terms/
Personal data
The use of the Internet pages of the Solas Capital group of companies is possible without any indication of personal data; however, if a data subject wants to contact us via our website, processing of personal data could become necessary.
Personal data we process about you includes:
- your name and contact details (for example name, address, phone number or email address), information about the company you work for, your position or title and your relationship to a person, and other basic information;
- identification and background information provided by you or collected as part of our on-boarding process;
- information in relation to materials and communications we send to you electronically, for example your use of marketing e-mails;
- any other information relating to you which you may provide to us.
We collect this information when you interact with us, for example when you communicate with our staff, sign up to receive information by e-mail, or participate at meeting, seminar or other event.
How we process your personal data
We process your personal data:
- to communicate with you;
- to carry out anti-money laundering, conflict and reputational checks;
- to provide and improve our services to you and our clients, including personal data of others provided to us or collected by us on behalf of our clients, for example processing identification and background information as part of our on-boarding, finance, administration and marketing processes;
- to administer our relationship with you and with our clients;
- to provide and improve our websites, including monitoring and evaluating its use (see sec. 4 below for additional information);
- to promote our services, including by sending publications, alerts, updates, event invitations etc.;
- to comply with our legal, regulatory and risk management obligations, including establishing, exercising or defending legal claims.
We process personal data for these purposes on the following basis: that it is necessary for us to perform a contract, such as engaging with an individual to provide legal or other services; for the establishment, exercise or defence of legal claims or proceedings; to comply with legal and regulatory obligations; for legitimate interests including the interests set out above; and/or based on consent.
We use various technical and organisational measures to help protect your personal data from unauthorised access, use, disclosure, alteration or destruction.
Cookies
The Internet pages of the Solas Capital group of companies use cookies. Cookies are text files that are stored in a computer system via an Internet browser.
You can find out more about our Cookie Policy here.
Data Security
We implement appropriate technical and organisational measures to protect your personal data from unauthorised access, use, disclosure, alteration, or destruction. However, please note that internet-based data transmissions may have security gaps, so absolute protection cannot be guaranteed.
Who we share your personal data with
Your data may be shared with Solas Capital group companies and/or specialised IT service providers. As such, your data may be transferred to countries outside Switzerland or the European Economic Area (EEA). Personal data is transferred outside the EEA on the basis of declarations of adequacy or other appropriate safeguards, in particular standard data protection clauses adopted by the European Commission.
Please contact us if you would like to request to see a copy of the specific safeguards applied to the export of your information (Article 13 para 1f of the GDPR).
How we retain your personal data
We retain your personal data for as long as it is necessary for the purposes for which the data is collected, and as long as we have a legitimate interest in keeping personal data, for example to enforce or defend claims or for archiving purposes and IT security. We also retain your personal data as long as it is subject to a legal retention obligation.
Your rights
Every data subject has the right to access according to Article 15 GDPR (Article 8 FADP), the right to rectification according to Article 16 GDPR (Article 5 FADP), the right to erasure according to Article 17 GDPR (Article 5 FADP), the right to restrict processing according to Article 18 GDPR (Articles 12, 13, 15 FADP), the right of object according to Article 21 GDPR (Article 4 FADP), and if applicable – the right to data portability according to Article 20 GDPR. Furthermore, if applicable on you, there is also a right to lodge a complaint with an appropriate data privacy regulatory authority (Article 77 GDPR).
You can withdraw consent granted to us for the processing of personal data at any time. This also applies to withdrawing declarations of consent that were made to us before the GDPR came into force, i.e. before May 25, 2018. Please note that the withdrawal only applies to the future. Processing that was carried out before the withdrawal is not affected by it.
Changes to Our Privacy Policy
We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time to reflect changes to our practices or for other operational, legal, or regulatory reasons. We will post the updated Privacy Policy on our website and, where appropriate, notify you by email. We encourage you to review this Privacy Policy periodically.