Privacy Policy
UTILITY SAVINGS CORPORATION LIMITED (our registered office address is USC House, Choseley Road, Docking, King’s Lynn, Norfolk PE31 8LZ (Company number: 03625879)), ("We") are committed to protecting and respecting your privacy.
This policy (together with our terms of use and any other documents referred to on it) forms part of our terms and conditions which set out the basis on which any personal data we collect from you, or that you provide to us, will be processed by us.
Please read the following carefully to understand our views and practices regarding your personal data and how we will treat it. When you provide your personal data to us, you are deemed to have read this privacy policy.
For the purpose of the Data Protection Act 1998 (the "Act"), the data controller is Utility Savings Corporation Limited and our trading address is USC House, Choseley Road, Docking, King’s Lynn Norfolk, PE31 8LZ
By using our site and service, you indicate that you accept these terms of use and that you agree to abide by them. If you do not agree to these terms of use, please refrain from using our site.
- Information we may collect from you
www.usc-energy.co.uk is a site operated by UTILITY SAVINGS CORPORATION LIMITED ("We"). We may collect and process the following data about you:
- Information that you provide by filling in forms on our site www.usc-energy.co.uk ("our site"). This includes information provided at the time of registering on our site, posting material or requesting further services via the internet and or by telephone. We may also ask you for information when you report a problem with our site.
- If you contact us, we may keep a record of that correspondence.
- Please note that all telephone calls are recorded for training and verification purposes.
- We may also ask you to complete surveys that we use for research purposes, although you do not have to respond to them.
- Details of transactions you carry out via links through our site.
- Details of your visits to our site including, but not limited to, traffic data, location data, weblogs and other communication data and the resources that you access.
- IP Addresses and Cookies
We may collect information about your computer, including where available your IP address, operating system and browser type, for system administration and to report aggregate information to Suppliers. This is statistical data about our users' browsing actions and patterns, and does not identify any individual.
At the present time our site does not use cookies but please note that Suppliers may use cookies, over which we have no control.
- Where we store your personal data
The data that we collect from you may be transferred to, and stored at, a destination outside the European Economic Area ("EEA"). It may also be processed by staff operating outside the EEA who work for us or for one of our suppliers. Such staff maybe engaged in, among other things, the fulfilment of your order, the processing of your payment details and the provision of support services.
By submitting your personal data, you agree to this transfer, storing or processing. We will take all steps reasonably necessary to ensure that your data is treated securely and in accordance with this privacy policy. All information you provide to us is stored on our secure servers.
Unfortunately, the transmission of information via the Internet is not completely secure. Although we will do our best to protect your personal data, we cannot guarantee the security of your data transmitted to our site; any transmission is at your own risk. Once we have received your information, we will use strict procedures and security features to try to prevent unauthorised access.
- Uses made of the information
We use information held about you in the following ways:
- To ensure that content from our site is presented in the most effective manner for you and for your computer.
- To provide you with information or services that you request from us or which we feel may interest you, where you have consented to be contacted for such purposes.
- To carry out our obligations arising from any contracts entered into between you and us.
- To allow you to participate in interactive features of our service, when you choose to do so.
- To notify you about changes to our service.
We and other companies within our group may also use your data to provide you with information about goods and services which may be of interest to you and we or they may contact you about these by post, telephone or by electronic means (e-mail or SMS).
If you do not want us to use your data in this way please tick the relevant box situated on the form on which we collect your data. We do not pass your details to third parties outside our group.
- Disclosure of your information
We may disclose your personal information to any member of our group, which means our subsidiaries, our ultimate holding company and its subsidiaries, as defined in section 736 of the UK Companies Act 1985.
We may disclose your personal information to third parties:
- In the event that we sell or buy any business or assets, in which case we may disclose your personal data to the prospective seller or buyer of such business or assets.
- If Utility Savings Corporation Limited or substantially all of its assets are acquired by a third party, in which case personal data held by it about its users will be one of the transferred assets.
- If we are under a duty to disclose or share your personal data in order to comply with any legal obligation, or in order to enforce or apply our terms of use and other agreements; or to protect the rights, property, or safety of Utility Savings Corporation Limited, our users, or others. This includes exchanging information with other companies and organisations for the purposes of fraud protection and credit risk reduction.
- Your rights
You have the right to ask us not to process your personal data for marketing purposes. We will usually inform you (before collecting your data) if we intend to use your data for such purposes or if we intend to disclose your information to any third party for such purposes. You can exercise your right to prevent such processing by checking certain boxes on the forms we use to collect your data. You can also exercise the right at any time by contacting us at admin@usc.uk.com
Our site contains links to other organisations e.g. Ofgem & The Carbon Trust. If you follow a link to any of these websites, please note that these websites have their own privacy policies and that we do not accept any responsibility or liability for these policies. Please check these policies before you submit any personal data to these websites.
The Act gives you the right to access information held about you. Your right of access can be exercised in accordance with the Act. Any access request may be subject to a fee of £10 to meet our costs in providing you with details of the information we hold about you.
- Changes to our privacy policy
Any changes we may make to our privacy policy in the future will be posted on this page and, where appropriate, notified to you by e-mail.
- Contact
Questions, comments and requests regarding this privacy policy are welcomed and should be addressed to admin@usc.uk.com.