ICO Registration Number: Z2282125
Pod Point Limited (“we”) is the operating company and a wholly subsidiary of the Pod Point Group Holding PLC. We are committed to safeguarding the privacy of our website visitors, app users and service users.
This policy sets out how we, as data controller, collect and use your personal information, why we use it, with whom we share it, the rights to which you may be entitled and your choices about our use of your personal information, that may arise from you buying and using our products and services.
Please do not share with us any other person’s data unless this has been agreed with us beforehand.
We process several types of personal data, in order to administer our business and services and/or fulfil our contract with you. The different categories of data we process; the reasons why we process; and our legal basis are detailed below:
Categories of Data | Purpose | Type of Data/ Source | Lawful basis for processing |
Website and services Usage Data | To enable us to improve our website, app and services to better fit your needs. | IP address; geographical location; browser type and version; operating system, referral source, length of visit, page views and website navigation paths, the timing, frequency and pattern of your service use gathered from our analytics tracking systems which track the behaviour of customers on the mobile app and website in order to determine the success of features and layouts so that improvements can be made; amount of energy drawn through charge points, energy usage data (an energy measurement collected at five minute intervals from the household by the Pod Point Current Clamp (“Energy Usage Data”)). | 1. Our legitimate interests to improve our website, products and services. 2. In the case of processing your Energy Usage Data, your consent. |
Account and Services Data | To enable us to operate a secure website and app and provide the services you expect and want from us based on our contract with you or your employer. Also, to maintain backups of databases and to communicate with you. We may also use your Account Data to make OZEV Grant applications on your behalf. | Name, address, email, telephone number, username, password, signature, vehicle registration number, VIN number (ID number of your vehicle found on the chassis), MPAN/MPRN number (serial number for every Pod Point meter), IP address, MAC address (the device ID which you use to access our website, app or services); amount of energy drawn through charge points, Energy Usage Data and account number. We get this information from you, the person who installs your Pod Point or your employer may provide data too if they have an account with us, namely your business address; email; telephone; driving licence details; job title and employers’ name. If you use the app the data may include your mobile device ID, account name and password. Whilst we do share Services Data with our business partners, which may include example Service usage profiles, this is always anonymised, aggregated data which means that it never discloses details about an identifiable individual. It discloses only patterns of use rather than anything about particular users. | 1. Our legitimate interests to properly and securely administer our products and services. 2. Performance of a contract with you or your employer. 3. In the case of processing your Energy Usage Data, your consent. 4. Our legitimate interests to build strong partnerships with our business customers. |
Publication data | To enable us to publish information that you post on our website or app. | Information that you post on our website, app or through our services. | 1. Our legitimate interests in using customer feedback to promote our products and services. |
Enquiry data | To offer, market, sell and provide relevant services to you. We may also share this data with 3rd party contractors, organisations who have relationships with these contractors and service providers who facilitate this data sharing so that:
| Any data you provide in your enquiry. | 1. Performance of a contract with you. 2. We have a legitimate business interest to tell you about the various products and services we can offer and to contact you to facilitate you purchasing them and having them installed. |
Transaction data | To allow us to process your purchases, and keep proper records. | Your contact details, your card details and the transaction details. | 1. Performance of a contract with you. 2. Our legitimate interests in ensuring our financial transactions with customers are managed efficiently. |
Notification Data | To send the emails or newsletters that you’ve subscribed to. | Your contact details. | 1. Your consent if you have expressly agreed to receive the emails from us. 2. Our legitimate business interests – if you have not opted out of being contacted during the online purchase journey of one of our products or if you are a corporate customer, it’s in our business interests to be able to market and promote our products to you. |
Correspondence Data | To communicate with you and to keep proper records. | The communication content and metadata associated (if communication is via our website contact form). | 1. Our legitimate interests |
We may also process and disclose any of your data identified in this policy to protect the legal rights of you, us and any other individual. This is because we have legitimate business interests to:
establish, exercise or defend legal claims, in court or an out-of-court procedure.
obtain or maintain insurance cover, manage risk or obtain professional advice, in order to properly protect our business against risk.
comply with any legal obligation to which we are subject, or in order to protect the vital interests of you or any other person.
We may share your personal data with any member of our group of companies (this means our subsidiaries and our holding company).
We may disclose personal data, on a “need to know” basis to:
● Our insurers and professional advisors.
● Our installation engineers and operations team, who may be subcontractors, to enable them to install the equipment you need to use our services. Our installers may also pass your Account and Services Data to us to activate your Pod Point post installation services and the warranty. Installers may also process your personal data on their own behalf, and you may wish to check the Installer’s own privacy policy for more details.
● Our payment services provider Stripe Payments Europe Ltd to enable them to process your payments. Data is limited to transaction data and is used to process or refund payment and to deal with complaints and queries. You can find more information here: https://stripe.com/gb/privacy
● Our IT service providers from whom we license technology. This enables us to carry out essential business operations.
● Any organisations or government departments who may offer funding or grants to you in respect of the services we provide.
● Affiliates or partners from whom you’ve consented to receive marketing.
● Energy tariff switching providers, if you have selected this functionality and agreed to your Energy Usage Data being shared.
● Any public or regulatory authority if we’re required to by law, or under any regulatory code or practice we follow, or if we are asked by such bodies.
● Selected other third party service providers to manage our customer relationships.
● Prospective sellers or buyers of our business or assets in the event that we sell or buy any business or assets.
Please note that on the termination of any relationship between you and us, personal data relating to you may be retained by or, as the case may be, transferred to one or more of the groups of companies listed above, their successors and assigns if that’s necessary for us to comply with contractual, legal or financial obligations.
We have offices and facilities in the United Kingdom and Norway, both subject to high standards of data protection and the hosting facilities for our website and app are situated in the EU.
Some of our IT service providers are situated in the United States of America. Transfers to the USA will be protected by data transfer agreements, incorporating applicable standard data protection clauses adopted by the European Commission and UK (as applicable) for the transfer of personal data from the EEA or UK (as applicable). If you would like to see a copy of the standard data protection clauses, please contact us and we will provide a copy to you.
You acknowledge that personal data you provide us for publication through our website, app or services may be available via the internet around the world. We cannot prevent the use (or misuse) of this personal data by others.
Personal data will not be kept by us for longer than is necessary to meet the purpose stated. We will however need to retain your personal data where such retention is necessary for compliance with a legal obligation, or in order to protect the vital interests of you or any other person. If you opt out or withdraw your consent to marketing, we will remove you from our marketing database.
We are committed to keeping your personal information safe. We’ve got physical, technical and administrative measures in place to prevent unauthorised access or use of your information and we ensure that we comply with our own internal security policies.
We also require that our suppliers protect such information from unauthorised access use and disclosure.
We will also routinely refresh our information to ensure we keep it up-to-date.
You can specify whether you would like to receive direct marketing communication from us and can withdraw your consent and unsubscribe by clicking the ‘unsubscribe’ link in the footer of the emails we send or contact us using the contact details specified in the ‘Our details’ section below.
If you have recently bought something from us (or expressed an interest in our products or services) and gave us your details and did not opt out of marketing messages at such time, we may rely on soft opt-in to send you marketing messages about similar products or services. We will give you the opportunity to opt out every time we contact you for marketing purposes.
We may update this policy from time to time by publishing a new version on our website. The last publication date will be referenced at the beginning of the Privacy Policy. You should check this page occasionally to ensure you are happy with any changes to this policy. We may notify you of material changes to the policy by email.
This is a summary of your rights under data protection law. Some of these rights are very complex so we have just summarised them. You may obtain guidance from the Information Commissioner Office (ICO) or the Data Protection Commission for Ireland for a more detailed explanation. Where you contact us to effect a right, we will seek to deal with your request without undue delay, and in any event within any time limits provided for in applicable data protection law.
● You can remove consent, where you have provided it, at any time, as well as update any of your opt-in marketing preferences by using the Subject Access Request form available here or contact us using the contact details provided in the ‘Our details’ section below.
● You can ask us to confirm if we are processing your information.
● You can ask for access to your information.
● You can ask to correct your information if it’s wrong.
● You can ask us to delete your information.
● You have a right to be forgotten and you can ask that our systems stop using your information.
● You can ask us to restrict how we use your information.
● You can ask us to help you move your information to other companies.
● You can ask us to stop using your personal information, but only in certain cases.
● You have the right to complain to the relevant supervisory authority.
We do not use automated decision making.
Please let us know if the personal information that we hold about you needs to be corrected or updated.
This website is owned and operated by Pod Point Limited. We are registered in England and Wales under registration number 06851754, and our registered office and principal place of business is at 28-42 Banner Street, London, EC1Y 8QE.
You can contact us by:
You have the right to make a data complaint or escalate a data dispute at any time to the Information Commissioner Office (ICO), the UK supervisory authority for data protection issues and the Data Protection Commission (the data protection Authority for Ireland) however we would appreciate for you to give us the chance in the first instance to deal with your concern before approaching these authorities.
The ICO contact details are as followed:
Information Commissioner’s Office
Wycliffe House
Water Lane
Wilmslow
Cheshire
SK9 5AF
ICO website: https://www.ico.org.uk
The Data Protection Commission contact details are as followed:
21 Fitzwilliam Square South
Dublin 2
D02 RD28
Ireland
Data Protection Commission website: https://www.dataprotection.ie/
We have appointed IT Governance Europe Limited to act as our EU representative. If you wish to exercise your rights under the EU General Data Protection Regulation (EU GDPR), or have any queries in relation to your rights or general privacy matters, please email our Representative at eurep@itgovernance.eu . Please ensure to include our company name in any correspondence you send to our Representative.
Our EU Representative postal address is:
IT Governance Europe Ltd
3rd Floor, Boyne Tower, Bull Ring, Lagvooren, Drogheda, Co. Louth,
A92 F682,
Ireland.
We are registered as a data controller with the UK Information Commissioner’s Office as our lead supervisory authority. Our data protection number is Z2282125.
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