This Privacy Policy explains how both the London Energy Brokers’ Association and LEBA Limited (“LEBA”, “we”, “us” or “our”), a trade association whose main offices are at Warnford Court, 29 Throgmorton Street, London EC2N 2AT and a company set up by that association and with company number 6617701 collect information from you when you visit or register to use www.leba.org.uk or www.lebaltd.com (collectively the “website”) and how this information is then used. If you have any questions about this statement or your personal information that we may collect from you, please contact us using the “Contacting Us” section below.
We are registered as a data controllers with the Information Commissioners Office (https://ico.org.uk) as follows;
Z1383974 - LEBA Limited
Z1192859 - London Energy Brokers’ Association
This Privacy Policy applies to you whether you use the website as a casual browser or have registered to use the website or have entered into a contract with LEBA in relation to the supply of specific services and/or products. In the event of any conflict between this Privacy Policy and the terms of a contract you have with LEBA, the relevant provision of that contract shall prevail to the extent of any inconsistency.
You may choose to provide us with personal data when we are in contact by phone, email, via our website or otherwise.
The categories of personal data you provide includes:
We collect, store and use information about your visits to our website and about your computer, tablet, mobile or other device through which you access our website. This includes the following:
We do not seek to collect sensitive (or special categories of) personal data. Sensitive personal data is defined by data protection laws to include personal data revealing a person’s racial or ethnic origin, religious or philosophical beliefs, or data concerning health.
Our website is not intended for or directed at children under the age of 16 years and we do not knowingly collect data relating to children under this age.
Information you provide to us is used to:
Legal basis for processing these categories of information are:
Information automatically collected when you visit our website is used to:
Legal basis for processing these categories of information are:
The data that we collect from you will not be transferred to, and stored at, a destination outside the European Economic Area (“EEA").
We will only use your personal data for the purposes for which we collected it, unless we reasonably consider that we need to use it for another reason and that reason is compatible with the original purpose. If we need to use your personal data for an unrelated purpose, we will notify you in a timely manner and we will explain the legal basis which allows us to do so.
We may employ the services of a third party to help us in certain areas, such as website hosting, marketing and market researching. In some cases, that third party may receive your information. However, at all times we will control and be responsible for the use of your information.
If you do not wish to provide us with your personal data and processing such information is necessary for the performance of a contract with you, we may not be able to perform our obligations under that contract.
We may disclose your personal information to third parties if we are under a duty to disclose or share your personal data to comply with any legal obligation, or in order to enforce or apply our terms of use on this or within other agreements; or to protect the rights, property or safety of LEBA, our Members, or others. This includes exchanging information with other companies and organisations for the purposes of fraud protection and credit risk reduction.
You have the right to:
If your personal information changes, you should update it by using the "Edit Profile" section of our website. Or, if you want us to delete your registration you can contact us using the details set out in the "Contact Us" section.
Your personal data will not be kept for longer than is necessary for the purposes for which it was collected and processed and for the purposes of satisfying any legal, accounting, or reporting requirements.
We use industry standard physical and procedural security measures to protect information, including encryption, firewalls, access controls, policies and other procedures to protect information from unauthorised access.
Where data processing is carried out on our behalf by a third party, we take steps to ensure that appropriate security measures are in place to prevent unauthorised disclosure of personal data.
Whilst we use all reasonable endeavours to protect your security in the manner described above, we consider that it is only appropriate to advise users that data transmission over the Internet and the World Wide Web cannot always be guaranteed as 100% secure, and therefore that you use the website at your own risk.
In the event of a suspected data breach, we have procedures in place to deal with this and will notify you and any applicable regulator of a breach where required to do so.
We use cookies for certain areas of our website. Cookies are small text files that store information on your hard drive or browser that means that our website can recognise that you have visited our website before. Cookies make it easier for you to maintain your preferences on the website, and by monitoring and measuring usability of the website, we can tailor the website to optimise your experience.
Cookie Name: CFGLOBALS, CFID, CFTOKEN
Type: First Party: our website only
Purpose: Set by the web application server software to keep track of each complete visit to the website. Used for login, mail script.
Cookie Name: utma, utmb, utmc, utmz
Type: Third Party: Google Analytics
Purpose: Anonymous cookies that monitor how the site is used by visitors. Used by us to analyse usage and improve the website. Includes number of visits to the website, where a visitor has come from and what pages are visited. You can opt out of Google Analytics here.
Cookie Name: SITEID
Type: First Party: our website only
Purpose: Records which of our websites a visitor has requested.
We do not use Flash/Flash cookies (also known as LSO's).
The above information is subject to constant review and is liable to change.
No information obtained from cookies will be used by us for marketing purposes. We do recognise and understand that you can, should you choose, disable cookies on your browser and delete all cookies currently stored on your computer. This may prevent you from taking full advantage of the website. You can find out how to delete and block cookies for your particular browser by using the help function within your browser or by visiting http://www.allaboutcookies.org/manage-cookies/index.html.
When you visit our site we may automatically log your IP address, a unique identifier for your computer or other access device. We will not use your IP address to identify you in any way. However, any activity we deem to be harmful to the website which can be attributed to a particular IP address may result in that IP address, or range of IP addresses, being prevented further access to the website.
LEBA reserves the right, at its sole discretion, to make changes to any part of the Website, the Information or this Privacy Policy. Should this Privacy Policy be amended, LEBA will publish details of the amendments on the Website to ensure that you are fully aware of what information is collected, how it is used and under what circumstances it will be disclosed. By continuing to use the Website you agree to be bound by this Privacy Policy as amended.
This Privacy Policy applies only to information collected by the website. The website may contain links to other websites outside of the control of LEBA. Please be aware that we are not responsible for the privacy policies of such other websites and we would advise you to read the privacy statement of any website that collects personal information from you.
Questions, comments and requests regarding this Privacy Policy are welcomed and should be addressed to leba@leba.org.uk.
You have the right to make a complaint at any time with a supervisory authority. The supervisory authority in the UK is ICO who can be contacted at https://ico.org.uk.