Klimascope Privacy Policy

Effective Date: Feb 5, 2025
Last Updated: Feb 5, 2025

Klimascope ("we", "us", "our") is committed to protecting your privacy. This Privacy Policy explains how we collect, use, disclose, and safeguard your information when you visit our website klimascope.com (the "Website"). This policy is specifically tailored to comply with the UK General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and the Data Protection Act 2018.

Information We Collect

We may collect information that you provide directly to us when you use our Website. This includes:

  • Account Information: Your name, email address, and password when you register for an account.
  • Profile Information: Your company name, job title, and investment preferences.
  • Content Information: Information you provide when you upload documents or enter data into our platform, such as financial reports, sustainability metrics, and project proposals.
  • Correspondence: Information you provide when you contact us, such as questions or feedback.

We may also collect certain information automatically when you use our Website, including:

  • Log Information: Your IP address, browser type, pages visited, and the date and time of your visit.
  • Usage Information: Your actions within our platform.
  • Cookie Information: We use cookies and similar technologies such as web beacons and pixels to collect information about your browsing activity. These technologies help us analyze website traffic, personalize your experience, and improve our services. We use the following types of cookies:
    • Essential Cookies: These cookies are necessary for the Website to function properly.
    • Analytics Cookies: These cookies collect information about how visitors use our Website, such as which pages they visit most often. We use this information to improve our Website. We use Google Analytics for this purpose. You can learn more about Google Analytics' privacy practices here: https://policies.google.com/privacy.
    • Functional Cookies: These cookies allow the Website to remember choices you make (such as your language preference) and provide enhanced, more personalized features.

You can manage your cookie preferences through our cookie consent banner/mechanism on the Website or via your browser settings.

Use of Information

We may use the information we collect for the following lawful bases under the GDPR:

  • Contractual Necessity: To provide, maintain, and improve our Website and platform, where processing is necessary for the performance of a contract with you.
  • Legitimate Interests: For our legitimate business interests, such as to send you technical notices, updates, security alerts, and support messages; to respond to your comments, questions, and requests and provide customer service; to monitor and analyze trends, usage, and activities in connection with our services; to detect, investigate, and prevent fraudulent transactions and other illegal activities; and to personalize your experience on the Website. We will only rely on legitimate interests where we have balanced our interests against your rights and freedoms.
  • Legal Obligation: To comply with applicable laws and regulations.
  • Consent: For marketing communications (where we will obtain your explicit consent). You have the right to withdraw your consent at any time.

Sharing of Information

We may share information about you as follows:

  • With Service Providers: With service providers, consultants, and other third parties we use to support our business, such as IT support, data storage providers, and marketing agencies. We have contracts in place with these third parties to ensure they protect your information in accordance with UK GDPR.
  • Legal Compliance: In response to a request for information if we believe disclosure is required by applicable law, regulation, legal process, such as a court order or subpoena, or governmental request.
  • Protection of Rights: If we believe your actions are inconsistent with our user agreements or policies, or to protect our rights, property, or safety, or the rights, property, or safety of others.
  • Aggregated or De-identified Information: We may share aggregated or de-identified information that cannot reasonably be used to identify you. This information is often used for statistical analysis and reporting.

Data Retention

We retain your personal data only for as long as necessary for the purposes for which we collected it, taking into account legal obligations and our legitimate business interests. We have a data retention policy that sets out specific retention periods for different types of data. You can request a copy of this policy by contacting us.

Security

We take reasonable measures to protect information about you from loss, theft, misuse, and unauthorized access, disclosure, alteration, and destruction. However, no data transmission over the Internet or electronic storage method is 100% secure.

Your Rights

Under the UK GDPR, you have the following rights:

  • Right of Access: You have the right to obtain confirmation that we are processing your personal data and a copy of that data.
  • Right to Rectification: You have the right to correct any inaccurate personal data we hold about you.
  • Right to Erasure ("Right to be Forgotten"): You have the right to request that we delete your personal data under certain circumstances.
  • Right to Restriction of Processing: You have the right to restrict the processing of your personal data under certain circumstances.
  • Right to Data Portability: You have the right to receive your personal data in a structured, commonly used, and machine-readable format and to transmit that data to another controller.
  • Right to Object: You have the right to object to the processing of your personal data under certain circumstances.
  • Right to Withdraw Consent: You have the right to withdraw your consent to processing at any time, where consent is our lawful basis for processing.
  • Right to Lodge a Complaint: You have the right to lodge a complaint with the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO), the UK supervisory authority for data protection issues.

To exercise any of these rights, please contact us at privacy@klimascope.com.

Children's Privacy

Our Website is not intended for children under [age - e.g., 13]. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children under this age. If you become aware that a child has provided us with personal information, please contact us.

International Transfers

[If you transfer data outside the UK, explain the safeguards you have in place to ensure adequate protection for the data, such as Standard Contractual Clauses or other appropriate mechanisms].

Changes to Our Privacy Policy

We may update our Privacy Policy from time to time. We will notify you of any changes by posting the new Privacy Policy on this page and updating the "Effective Date" above. We encourage you to review this Privacy Policy periodically.

Governing Law

This Privacy Policy is governed by the laws of England and Wales.

Contact Us

If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, please contact us at:

privacy@klimascope.com

Information Commissioner's Office (ICO)

https://ico.org.uk