Who we are

Our website address is: https://solarnow.ie.

Comments

When visitors leave comments on the site we collect the data shown in the comments form, and also the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to help spam detection.

An anonymized string created from your email address (also called a hash) may be provided to the Gravatar service to see if you are using it. The Gravatar service privacy policy is available here: https://automattic.com/privacy/. After approval of your comment, your profile picture is visible to the public in the context of your comment.

Media

If you upload images to the website, you should avoid uploading images with embedded location data (EXIF GPS) included. Visitors to the website can download and extract any location data from images on the website.

Cookies

If you leave a comment on our site you may opt-in to saving your name, email address and website in cookies. These are for your convenience so that you do not have to fill in your details again when you leave another comment. These cookies will last for one year.

If you visit our login page, we will set a temporary cookie to determine if your browser accepts cookies. This cookie contains no personal data and is discarded when you close your browser.

When you log in, we will also set up several cookies to save your login information and your screen display choices. Login cookies last for two days, and screen options cookies last for a year. If you select “Remember Me”, your login will persist for two weeks. If you log out of your account, the login cookies will be removed.

If you edit or publish an article, an additional cookie will be saved in your browser. This cookie includes no personal data and simply indicates the post ID of the article you just edited. It expires after 1 day.

Embedded content from other websites

Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g. videos, images, articles, etc.). Embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact same way as if the visitor has visited the other website.

These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, including tracking your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.

Who we share your data with

If you request a password reset, your IP address will be included in the reset email.

We use WP Statistics, Google Analytics, and Google Site Kit on this website.

How long we retain your data

If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely. This is so we can recognise and approve any follow-up comments automatically instead of holding them in a moderation queue.

For users that register on our website (if any), we also store the personal information they provide in their user profile. All users can see, edit, or delete their personal information at any time (except they cannot change their username). Website administrators can also see and edit that information.

What rights you have over your data

If you have an account on this site, or have left comments, you can request to receive an exported file of the personal data we hold about you, including any data you have provided to us.

You can also request that we erase any personal data we hold about you. This does not include any data we are obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes.

You can request that we correct information we hold about you, which you have reason to believe is inaccurate or incomplete.

If you wish to exercise one of your data protection rights, please use the contact information at the bottom of this page.

Where we send your data

Visitor submissions may be checked through an automated spam detection service.

Caching

This site utilises caching in order to facilitate a faster response time and better user experience. Caching potentially stores a duplicate copy of every web page that is on display on this site.

All cache files are temporary, and are never accessed by any third party, except as necessary to obtain technical support from the cache plugin vendor.

Cache files expire on a schedule set by the site administrator, but may easily be purged by the admin before their natural expiration, if necessary.

Customer Polls

When visitors or users submit a poll, we capture the IP Address for spam protection and to set voter limitations.

When visitors or users vote on a poll we retain the IP Address data for 30 days and anonymise it.

Anonymised poll data may be shown publicly, or used to further our understanding of our customers and marketplace, based on votes.

Other websites privacy policies

Our website SolarNow.ie contains links to other websites.

This privacy policy relates solely to our website, https://solarnow.ie/, and not to other websites. If you click any link you should also read the privacy policy of third-party websites.

Changes to our privacy policy

SolarNow.ie keeps this privacy policy under regular review and places any updates to this privacy policy on this web page https://solarnow.ie/privacypolicy/.

Contact Information

Should you wish to contact us in relation to this privacy policy, or you wish to exercise one of your data protection rights you can do so by email to hi@solarnow.ie or by telephone/text to 087 385 1001.