While visiting our website Home – Golden State Wind (‘the Website’), you may provide us with personal data, such as connection data (IP address, event logs) but also contacts, names, location data, addresses, commercial or professional information, and others. We will process such information in a lawful, fair, and transparent manner.
This privacy notice (‘Notice’) describes how GOLDEN STATE WIND LLC (‘OW’,‘we’, ‘our’, or ‘us’) collects, uses, and discloses personal data about you when you visit our Website. In accordance with Article 13 of the Regulation 2016/679 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 27 April 2016 on the protection of natural persons with regard to the processing of personal data and on the free movement of such data (‘GDPR’), and other applicable local laws, we are required to inform users on how we process the personal data that we collect through their use of the Website, or otherwise when they interact with us, including any data they may provide when they contact us via our online form or through any other communication channel available. If you are a California resident, please refer to the section on “Information for California Residents” below.
If, at any time, you have any questions concerning our Privacy Notice or our Data Protection Policy, or you want to exercise your data rights, please feel free to contact us at one of the addresses above.
The categories of information that we may collect about you include the following:
We collect the personal data described above from one or more of the below sources:
We may use your personal data for the following business purposes:
We also use the information in other ways for which we provide specific notice at the time of collection and obtain your consent to the extent required by applicable law. We may aggregate or de-identify any information collected about you and we may use that aggregated or de-identified information for any purpose. To the extent we deidentify any data originally based on personal data, we will maintain and use such data in deidentified form and will not attempt to reidentify the data.
Your personal data will not be processed further in any way that is incompatible with the purposes described above or with the law. The processing does not involve automated decision-making.
Please note that while provision of your data is not a requirement necessary to enter into a contract and you are not obliged to provide any of the personal data this notice refers to, in case of failure to provide your data, we may not be able to get in touch with you.
Personal data are processed on the basis of:
We store your information for as long as its processing is necessary for the purpose for which it was collected for.
This means that data collected for professional contact and commercial relation purposes will be kept for as long as the relationship with the data subject subsists and, once ended – or when you request to erase your data before date, during the limitation periods of the obligations arisen from the data processing. Regarding users subscribed to our commercial communications, we will process their data until they decide to unsubscribe or cancel their subscription.
In general, personal data collected through online forms or contact sections will be erased without delay upon the end of the purpose after the request has been resolved, in case we do not have an existing agreement with you (or with a company you represent or work at). Otherwise, please consult our privacy notice for contractors of employees.
Your information that is no longer needed is either irreversibly anonymized or destroyed securely.
We maintain rigorous physical, electronic and procedural safeguards designed to protect the personal data you provided against accidental, unlawful, or unauthorized destruction, loss, alteration, access, disclosure, or use, in compliance with the law.
We restrict access to your information to only those persons who need to use it for the relevant purpose and all our staff, regardless the stage of processing they are involved in, undertake to process your information with the utmost care, secrecy, and confidentiality and in accordance with the law.
We will not communicate your data to third parties unless strictly necessary, if needed to comply with a legal obligation and/or with your prior authorization.
We may disclose your data with competent authorities who have a right of access recognised by law, if legally required to do so, or if requested by a governmental entity or regulatory authority or when we believe in good faith that such action is necessary to comply with legal requirements or processes, prevent a crime or protect national security. The lawful basis for this sharing is complying with a legal obligation.
We can also share your personal data to other companies of the group to which OW belongs for (i) the implementation of pre-contractual measures; (ii) the conclusion or performance of a contract (both based on the legitimate basis of the performance of a contract/take pre-contractual measures with you); and/or (iii) the establishment, exercise or defense of legal claims (based on our legitimate interest, after conducting a legitimate interest assessment -available upon request- to verify that it prevails over the users rights and interests).
Information may be also given to third-party contractors or other persons or entities that we engage when outsourcing certain functions. Personal data will be shared with such third-party contractors, persons, or entities only to the extent reasonably necessary for them to perform services on our behalf and not for any other purpose and pursuant to reasonable confidentiality obligations.
When we rely on the cooperation of third-party service providers who may have access to your personal data and who will process the data on our behalf as part of their provision of services, we adhere to strict criteria for their selection and undertake to enter into corresponding data processing agreements with them, in compliance with applicable law, ensuring they implement appropriate technical and organisational measures to guarantee data security, and they process the personal data for the agreed purposes and only in accordance with our instructions.
Finally, we reserve the right to transfer any information that we collect about you through your use of the Website to any acquirers of OW’s business or in the event that we sell or otherwise transfer some or all of our assets, and to entities resulting from merger processes or any other type of transformation affecting our company, being the legal basis of processing the continuity of business and the satisfactory study and completion of the transaction.
We may disclose any of your personal data to the third parties noted above for the business purposes outlined in the “Purpose of processing” section above. We do not “sell” your personal data, as that term is defined under applicable law. We do not “share” your personal data, as defined by applicable law.
We do not have actual knowledge that we sell or share personal data of minors under 16 years of age.
Being a company with international presence, we may transfer your personal data to the companies in our Group, in accordance with our legitimate interests and for internal administrative purposes. Such companies can be based in or outside the European Union (EU).
In case of transfer of personal data outside the EU and the European Economic Area (EEA), we will make sure that appropriate and adequate safeguards to protect your information are implemented, ensuring an adequate level of security.
This entails that transfers are only made:
You may obtain a copy of the safeguards regarding the international transfer by requesting it to our data protection officer.
This Website may contain links to third-party websites over which we have no control. OW is not responsible for the privacy policies or practices of such other websites and we encourage you to review the privacy policies, if any, on such web pages.
In accordance with applicable regulations, you are entitled to all rights recognised to data subjects regarding personal data and you may exercise them by contacting our DPO at dpo@oceanwinds.com. Among others, you may:
In addition, as a data subject, should you consider that our processing of your personal data infringes the applicable data protection regulations, you have the right to lodge a complaint with the competent supervisory authority, in the country of your habitual residence, place of work or place of the alleged infringement.
California residents wishing to exercise their rights, or their authorized agents, may contact us using the contact details provided in the “Contact Us” section below. To help protect your privacy and maintain security, we will take steps and may require you, or your authorized agent, to provide certain information (such as your name, address, email address, and relationship to OW) to verify your identity before granting you access to your personal data or complying with your deletion or correction request. In addition, if you ask us to provide you with specific pieces of personal data, we will require you to sign a declaration under penalty of perjury that you are the consumer whose personal data is the subject of the request. If you designate an authorized agent to make an access, correction, deletion, or opt-out of sale request on your behalf, we may require you to provide the authorized agent written permission to do so and to verify your own identity directly with us (as described above).
Additional Information. If you choose to exercise any of your rights under the CCPA, you have the right to not receive discriminatory treatment by us. To the extent permitted by applicable law, we may charge a reasonable fee to comply with your request.
If you have questions about this Policy or our use of your personal data, please contact us at: dpo@oceandwinds.com.
We may modify or update this Policy from time to time. We encourage you to visit this Policy at least once per year to learn about any changes to the way we collect, use, or disclose your personal data. If we make a material change to this Policy, we will take reasonable steps to notify you, as required by applicable law.
