Cookie policy

Background:

The Go Renewable website uses Cookies and similar technologies in order to distinguish you from other users. By using Cookies, Go Renewable is able to provide you with a better experience and to improve its website by better understanding how you use it.

Please read this Cookie Policy carefully and ensure that you understand it. Your acceptance of this Cookie Policy is deemed to occur when you have selected your preferred Cookie options in Our Cookie pop-up and agreed the different Cookies. If you do not agree to this Cookie Policy, please stop using the website immediately.

1. Definitions and Interpretation
   1. In this Cookie Policy, unless the context otherwise requires, the following expressions have the following meanings:

      "Cookie"

      means a small file placed on your computer or device by our website when you visit certain parts of the website and/or when you use certain features of the website;

      "Cookie Law"

      means the relevant parts of the Privacy and Electronic Communications (EC Directive) Regulations 2003 and, where applicable, the UK GDPR;

      "Personal data"

      means any and all data that relates to an identifiable person who can be directly or indirectly identified from that data, as defined by the UK GDPR and the Data Protection Act 2018 (the “Data Protection Legislation”);

      "We/Us/Our"

      means Go Renewable, a joint venture partnership website between The MCS Service Company Ltd, registered office: First Floor Violet 3 Sci Tech Daresbury, Keckwick Lane, Warrington, Cheshire, England, WA4 4AB, company registration number 07759366 and The Energy Saving Trust Ltd, registered office: 223-231 Pentonville Road, London, England, N1 9NG, company registration number 02622374

2. How Does the Go Renewable Website Use Cookies?
   1. The website may place and access certain first party Cookies on your computer or device. First party Cookies are those placed directly by Go Renewable and are used only by Us. Go Renewable uses Cookies to facilitate and improve your experience of the website and to provide and improve the services. We have carefully chosen these Cookies and have taken steps to ensure that your privacy and personal data is protected and respected at all times.
   2. By using the website, you may also receive certain third-party Cookies on your computer or device. Third-party Cookies are those placed by websites, services, and/or parties other than by Go Renewable. Third party Cookies are used on the website for performance monitoring and checking visitor numbers.

   3. All Cookies used by and on the Go Renewable website are used in accordance with current Cookie Law. We may use some or all of the following types of Cookies:

      1. Strictly Necessary Cookies

         A Cookie falls into this category if it is essential to the operation of the website, supporting functions such as logging in.

      2. Analytics Cookies

         It is important for Go Renewable to understand how you use the website, for example, how efficiently you are able to navigate around it, and what features you use. Analytics Cookies enable Go Renewable to gather this information, helping Us to improve the website and your experience of it.

      3. Functionality Cookies

         Functionality Cookies enable Go Renewable to provide additional functions to you on the website such as personalisation and remembering your saved preferences. Some functionality Cookies may also be strictly necessary Cookies, but not all necessarily fall into that category.

      4. Targeting Cookies

         It is important for Go Renewable to know when and how often you visit the website, and which parts of it you have used (including which pages you have visited and which links you have visited). As with analytics Cookies, this information helps Go Renewable to better understand you and, in turn, to make the website and advertising more relevant to your interests. Some information gathered by targeting Cookies may also be shared with third parties such as Google.

      5. Third Party Cookies

         Third party Cookies are not placed by Go Renewable; instead, they are placed by third parties that provide services to Us and/or to you. Third party Cookies may be used by advertising services to serve up tailored advertising to you on the website, or by third parties providing analytics services to Go Renewable (these Cookies will work in the same way as analytics Cookies described above).

      6. Persistent Cookies

         Any of the above types of Cookie may be a persistent Cookie. Persistent Cookies are those which remain on your computer or device for a predetermined period and are activated each time you visit the website.

      7. Session Cookies

         Any of the above types of Cookies may be a session Cookie. Session Cookies are temporary and only remain on your computer or device from the point at which you visit the Go Renewable website until you close your browser. Session Cookies are deleted when you close your browser.

   4. The Cookies used on the website are not permanent and will expire as indicated in the table further below.
   5. For more details of the personal data that Go Renewable collect and use, the measures We have in place to protect personal data, your legal rights, and Our legal obligations, please refer to the Privacy Policy.
   6. For specific details concerning the Cookies We use, please refer to the table below.
3. What Cookies Does Our Site Use?

   1. The following first party Cookies may be placed on your computer or device:
4. Consent and Control
   1. In addition to the controls that Go Renewable provides, you can choose to enable or disable Cookies in your internet browser. Most internet browsers also enable you to choose whether you wish to disable all Cookies or only third-party Cookies. By default, most internet browsers accept Cookies but this can be changed.
   2. Before Cookies are placed on your computer or device, you will be shown a pop-up requesting your consent to set those Cookies. By giving your consent to the placing of Cookies you are enabling Go Renewable to provide the best possible experience and service to you. You may, if you wish, deny consent to the placing of Cookies unless those Cookies are strictly necessary; however certain features of the Go Renewable website may not function fully or as intended.
5. Changes to this Cookie Policy
   1. Go Renewable may alter this Cookie Policy at any time. Any such changes will become binding on you on your first use of the website after the changes have been made. You are therefore advised to check this page from time to time.
   2. In the event of any conflict between the current version of this Cookie Policy and any previous version(s), the provisions current and in effect shall prevail unless it is expressly stated otherwise.