Privacy statement for our website

Last updated on 8 February 2024

Your privacy is important to us. In this privacy statement, we provide information about why we collect personal data on our website, what kind of data we collect, and how we use and store it.

Processor of personal data

Processor of personal data: Empower 4Wind OÜ (hereinafter E4W)
Contact person: Data Protection Officer, Kaisa Aadna kaisa.aadna@empower.ee

Legal basis for personal data

We process personal data in accordance with international and European principles of data protection as well as applicable legislation concerning personal data.

The legal basis for the processing of personal data is the controller’s legitimate interest or contract in accordance with the EU General Data Protection Regulation (2016/679).

What personal data we collect and why

We may process your personal data for the following purposes:

a) To answer your queries

We may process your personal data in order to respond to queries you make when you contact us via our online contact form. We may process your name and your contact information (business or private) (including email address, phone number, company name) and other information you have provided in the contact form.

We process this information on the basis of your consent, which you can withdraw at any time.

b) Developing business and services

We may process aggregated personal data for various purposes related to our business, such as developing our business and services or improving our website. We use aggregated data wherever possible. Sometimes we may process personal data about you, such as your name, email address, telephone number, and any other information you provide in this statement or otherwise provide to us. We carry out these activities to manage our contractual relationship with you and/or because we have a legitimate interest.

We will only use the personal data we collect from you for the purposes described in this privacy statement or for the purposes we explain to you when we collect your personal information.

If you provide us with information about another person, please make sure that you have that person’s permission to do so for the purposes described in this privacy statement. When you provide personal data about another person, you confirm that you have their consent or the right to consent to the processing of data on their behalf.

How we collect personal data

We only collect personal data through the online contact form. We do not use cookies to collect personal data.

Use of cookies

Cookies are short text files that the web server stores on your device. Cookies themselves do not read information from your device and do not transmit it to the web.

We only use essential cookies on our website. These cookies allow you to navigate our website and do not collect any personal data or information about you that could be used for marketing purposes. These cookies are only necessary for the functioning of the website; disabling them will limit the functioning of our website.

Who we disclose your personal data to

We do not transfer your data outside the European Economic Area and do not share your personal data with third parties (except under the conditions set out in the following section). All data will be used strictly for customer communication and service development purposes.

We may only share personal data in the following cases: debt recovery, requests by public supervisory authorities, with the customer’s consent

How we protect your personal data

We protect personal data by managing risks proactively and planning safety skilfully.

We make sure our website is secure. We only grant access rights to our website in a controlled manner and ensure that personal data is only processed by authorised and qualified people.

If we forward personal data to our partners, we require that they process and protect personal data in accordance with this privacy statement and applicable laws.

How long we store personal data for

We will store your personal data for as long as is necessary to fulfil the purposes set out in this statement, unless a longer storage period is required or permitted by applicable law.

Rights related to personal data

We are committed to complying with the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) with regard to data subjects’ rights in relation to collected data. According to the regulation, data subjects have the right to:

  • be informed of the processing of their personal data;
  • have access to their data;
  • have their data rectified;
  • erase their data and have it be forgotten;
  • restrict the processing of their data;
  • move their data;
  • object to processing of their data;
  • not be subject to automated decision-making.

Written queries must be sent to kaisa.aadna@empower.ee

E4W may reject a request if the request is manifestly unfounded or if E4W has other legitimate grounds on which to reject the request. Legitimate grounds may prevent E4W from erasing personal data that must be stored, for example, to comply with local laws or to maintain an audit trail until the end of the local claim period.

Changes to this privacy statement

E4W seeks to develop its website, business and data protection processes and tools continuously and therefore reserves the right to change this privacy statement. E4W encourages you to periodically review this privacy statement.