Privacy Policy

Voltwise Power Holdings Limited (“Voltwise”) is a utility scale battery storage project developer across Europe and the United Kingdom with plans to own and operate projects. We are committed to processing any personal data in ways that comply with legal and regulatory obligations, and to being clear about what we do with your personal data.

Please read the following notice which sets out how Voltwise collects and processes your personal data as a data controller, if you visit this website or interact with Voltwise in any other way.

As an organisation, Voltwise is registered with the Information Commissioner in accordance with UK data protection laws. Our registration number is 00013277563. Voltwise is located in 125 Old Broad Street, London, EC2N 1AR, United Kingdom and can be contacted via e-mail

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‍Voltwise is also established in Germany and can be contacted via mail at Voltwise DE GmbH, Grünwalder Weg 32, 82041 Oberhaching.

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Scope, Purposes and Legal Basis of Processing

We process personal data as far as necessary to achieve a specified purpose and to the extent we have a legal basis for it in compliance with applicable data protection laws.

The types of personal data that we collect and the way we collect it depends on the context of your interaction with us, the choices you make and the products and features you use:

Visiting our website, events and contacting us

When you visit our website, we will collect and process technical information for the purpose of enabling access to the website, ensuring the website is properly and securely displayed, such as your IP-address, the name of the website from which you entered, your Internet Website provider name, web browser type, type of mobile device, and computer operating system. The processing of your personal data for this purpose is necessary to perform a service that you had requested by accessing our website and as it serves our legitimate interest to maintain a functioning and secure website. As far as we use cookies for the purpose above, these are strictly necessary to provide you with the service you had requested . Apart from that, we only use cookies if you have provided your consent to their use. For further information about cookies, please see our cookies policy.
When you use the contact form on our website, we will process the information that you provide (type of enquiry, name, e-mail and your message) to properly address your enquiry and provide you with a response. This processing is necessary to perform a service that you had requested by making an enquiry on our website and/or as it is necessary for our legitimate interests to ensure that website enquiries are responded to.
If you contact us via e-mail, we will process your e-mail address and any other information you provide such as your name, business name and contact details . This processing is necessary for our legitimate interests to ensure that emails we receive are appropriately dealt with.
If you visit one of our events, we will process any personal data that you provide to organise your participation, to contact you in the future and/or to inform about your presence at our event. This processing will be necessary to enable your participation and to pursue our legitimate interest in hosting the event and information about it. In some cases, we might also ask for your consent to the processing of your personal data.

Business partners, applicants and employees

If you apply for a position at Voltwise, we will process your personal data to evaluate your qualifications and aptitude for the position.
If we enter into a contract with you as an employee, we will process any personal data that you indicated and that we generate during the employment relationship for the purpose of fulfilling our contractual and legal obligations as an employer.
If we enter into a contract with you as a landowner, we will process personal data being relevant to the contract, for the purpose of concluding, administering and performing the contract.
We collect personal contacts from our business and corporate stakeholders and collaborative partners to be able to interact with them which is necessary for the purposes of our legitimate interests.
We may use contact details from our business and corporate clients for the purpose of sharing and promoting our products, services and offers where we believe that this will be of interest to our business and corporate clients. Such processing is necessary for the purposes of our legitimate interests to conduct targeted marketing activities or where we have obtained consent for the sending of marketing materials. You can ask us to stop sending marketing materials by contacting us at any time. Where you opt-out of receiving any marketing messages, this will not apply to personal information provided to us where we still need to use your personal data for other purposes.

Special category data

Where we process any special category personal data about you, such as personal data relating to your health, religious or philosophical beliefs or political opinions, we are required to rely on an additional legal basis for processing such data. Where we process any special category personal data, we rely on one or more of the following additional legal bases:

Explicit consent:
We rely on consent only where we have obtained your active agreement to use your personal data for a specified purpose, for example if you consent to us processing information about a food allergy prior to attending one of our events.
Carrying out our obligations and exercising specific rights in the field of employment law:
We will rely on this lawful basis where we are required to process any special category personal data to comply with our obligations under applicable employment law, such as where you apply for a job with us.
‍Processing is necessary for reasons of substantial public interest:
‍Reasons of "substantial public interest" include ensuring equality of opportunity or treatment, promoting or maintaining racial and ethnic diversity in our senior leadership, protecting or detecting unlawful acts and protecting the public against dishonesty.
To establish, exercise or defend a legal claim:
We will rely on this lawful basis where we are required to process your special category personal data to establish, exercise or defend a legal claim.

We do not conduct automated decision-making on your personal data.

Where you are not obliged to provide personal data, we will make this clear; however please note that some services or features might not work or function as intended without the provision of personal data.

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Do we Share your personal data?

Access to your personal data is only allowed when required by law or is required as part our fulfilling our service obligations. We will not share your information with any third parties for the purposes of direct marketing.

We may use data processors who are third parties who provide elements of services for us. We have contracts in place with our data processors. This means that they cannot do anything with your personal data unless we have instructed them to do it.

For the provision of our services, our website or in our role as an employer we use third party providers to:

administer our compliance registration and the sale of our energy
host our database and documentation
administer and process data in the recruitment and appointment of our staff
for financial administration and payroll
the hosting and administration our website by Webflow, Inc. (398 11th St., Floor 2, San Francisco, CA 94103, USA)
for our IT security and systems
for legal and other professional advice and guidance in matters related to our services, data protection and employees

We may be required to disclose certain personal data to external agencies and organisations (such as the relevant local authority, the UK Visas and Immigration department and other law enforcement agencies) for the purpose of complying with applicable legal and regulatory obligations.

We may disclose your personal information to police, regulatory authorities, governmental agencies or other law enforcement agencies where such third parties have jurisdiction over our activities and we are legally required to share your personal information.

We will also disclose your personal information to other third parties, for example:

in the event that we sell or buy any business or assets, we will disclose your personal information to the prospective seller or buyer of such business or assets;
if we or substantially all of our assets are acquired by a third party (or are subject to a reorganisation within our corporate group), personal information held by us will be one of the transferred assets, and may also be shared on an ongoing basis (i.e. if you contact us with a query after the acquisition and we have to pass it on to the third party acquirer in order to obtain an answer for you); and
if we are under a duty to disclose or share your personal information in order to comply with any legal obligation, or in order to enforce or apply our legal rights under any contract we have with you.

This will include sharing your personal information with other parties if and to the extent required under the terms of the relevant transaction. This may include sharing personal information pursuant to a transitional services agreement to ensure the continuity of a sold business.

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International Data Transfers

We are a UK based company and store and process personal data mainly in the UK or EEA. .

Please note however that your data may be exported, accessed, stored and processed in countries outside of the country in which you reside, including the United States.

For data subjects residing in the UK or EEA, this means that your personal data may be exported, stored, and processed outside of the UK or EEA. Whenever we transfer your personal data out of the UK or EEA, we ensure a similar degree of data protection is afforded to it by ensuring at least one of the following safeguards is implemented:

we will transfer your personal data to third countries that have been deemed to provide an adequate level of data protection for personal data by the UK and European Commission;
otherwise, we will implement additional safeguards such as Standard Contractual Clauses (SCCs) approved by the UK and the European Commission in conjunction with further appropriate safeguards, if required to ensure an adequate level of data protection in the third country.

In the absence of an adequacy decision for a third country and in case we are unable to conclude SCCs, we will only transfer your personal data to third countries, if one of the derogations for specific situations in Art. 49 GDPR applies. If you want further information on the specific mechanism used by us when transferring your personal data out of the UK or EEA, please contact us

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How long do we keep personal information?

We will only retain your personal data for as long as necessary to fulfil the purposes we collected it for, including for the purposes of satisfying any legal, accounting, or reporting requirements.

In some circumstances we may anonymise your personal data so that it can no longer be associated with you, in which case we may use such information without further notice to you.

Once your data is confirmed as no longer being required, we will securely delete or anonymise your personal data in accordance with our data retention policy and applicable laws and regulations.

In general terms this means we will retain personal data from:

our clients for the duration of the provision of our services and for 7 years after our last correspondence following a termination; and
our employees for up to 6 years after the termination of the employment contract; and
·our applicants in the recruitment process who were unsuccessful for up to 12 months.

‍We will retain the personal data for longer, as far as a legal retention obligation applies or, as long as necessary for the establishment, exercise or defence of a legal claim.

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How we use Cookies

We use cookies on our website. Please read our cookies policy for further information about how we use cookies and similar technologies.

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Links to Other Websites

This privacy statement does not cover the content of other websites. We encourage you to read the privacy statements on the other websites you visit.

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Controlling your personal information (Your Rights)

It is important that the personal data we hold about you is accurate and current. Please keep us informed if your personal data changes during your relationship with us.

You have the following rights under data protection law in relation to your personal data (subject to certain exemptions):

the right to request access to your personal data ;
the right to rectification of your personal data ;
the right to erasure of your personal data ;
the right to restriction of processing of your personal data ;
the right to data portability ;
the right to object to processing , where processing is based on our legitimate interests.

If any of the processing activities described above are based on your consent, you can withdraw your consent at any time by using the contact details below but this will not affect the lawfulness of the processing carried out before you withdraw your consent. We will stop the relevant processing activity, unless there is another legal basis for the processing.

Where your personal data are processed for direct marketing purposes, you have the unconditional right to object to such processing at any time.

If you wish to exercise any of the above rights or have any questions regarding anything in this policy or you are unhappy with any aspect of how we use your data, please contact us at:

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Mail: Voltwise Power Holdings Limited (UK), 125 Old Broad St, London, United Kingdom, EC2N 1AR

‍‍What we may need from you

We may need to request specific information from you to help us confirm your identity and ensure your right to access your personal data (or to exercise any of your other rights). This is a security measure to ensure that personal data is not disclosed to any person who has no right to receive it. We may also contact you to ask you for further information in relation to your request to speed up our response.

Time limit to respond

We try to respond to all legitimate requests within one month. Occasionally it could take us longer than a month if your request is particularly complex or you have made a number of requests. In this case, we will notify you and keep you updated.

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Right to lodge a complaint

You have the right to make a complaint at any time to the competent supervisory authority, which can be – among others – the supervisory authority of your habitual residence for example.

If you are a UK resident you can make a complaint to the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO), the UK regulator for data protection issues (www.ico.org.uk). We would, however, appreciate the chance to deal with your concerns before you approach the ICO so please contact us in the first instance.

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Changes to our Privacy Policy:

We reserve the right to update this privacy notice at any time, and we will provide you with details of our new privacy notice on this website.

This privacy policy was last updated in September 2024.

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