Privacy Policy

January 2023

Our contact details

Name: Buchan Offshore Wind Limited

Address: 3b, 58 Waterloo Street, Glasgow, G2 7DA

Phone Number: +44 (0)131 466 3723  

E-mail: fea.info@buchanoffshorewind.com

The type of personal information we collect

We currently collect and process the following information:

  • Identity data

  • Contact data

  • Financial data

  • Technical data

  • Usage data

  • Marketing and communications data

How we get the personal information and why we have it

Most of the personal information we process is provided to us directly by you for one of the following reasons:

  • You have contacted us in the course of business or with a view to working together.

  • You work for or with us.

We also collect technical data through interactions with our website.

We also receive personal information indirectly, from the following sources in the following scenarios:

  • Recruiters and/or recruitment websites for the purposes of recruitment.

We use the information that you have given us when the law allows us to, in order to:

  • Progress the development of Buchan Offshore Wind Farm.

  • Establish relationships and contacts with potential and actual suppliers, consultants, stakeholders and other parties relevant to our business.

  • Comply with our contractual, legal, and regulatory obligations.

We may share this information with the joint venture partners, being BW Ideol, Elicio NV, and BayWa r.e. More information about the partners is available here: https://www.fe-allyance.co.uk/who-we-are

Under the UK General Data Protection Regulation (UK GDPR), we may rely on lawful bases for processing this information. These are usually:

(a) Your consent. You are able to remove your consent at any time. You can do this by contacting fea.info@buchanoffshorewind.com

(b) We have a contractual obligation.

(c) We have a legal obligation.

(d) We have a legitimate interest.

How we store your personal information

Your information is securely stored.

We keep your data until the business relationship ends, or for certain data, for as long as we are required to retain it for the purposes of contractual and regulatory compliance.  

We will then dispose your information by deleting any electronic documents  and contact details, and  destroying any paper records securely.

Your data protection rights

Under data protection law, you have rights including:

Your right of access - You have the right to ask us for copies of your personal information.

Your right to rectification - You have the right to ask us to rectify personal information you think is inaccurate. You also have the right to ask us to complete information you think is incomplete.

Your right to erasure - You have the right to ask us to erase your personal information in certain circumstances.

Your right to restriction of processing - You have the right to ask us to restrict the processing of your personal information in certain circumstances.

Your right to object to processing - You have the the right to object to the processing of your personal information in certain circumstances.

Your right to data portability - You have the right to ask that we transfer the personal information you gave us to another organisation, or to you, in certain circumstances.

You are not required to pay any charge for exercising your rights. If you make a request, we have one month to respond to you.

Please contact us at fea.info@buchanoffshorewind.com, +44 (0)131 466 3723 , 3b, 58 Waterloo Street, Glasgow, G2 7DA if you wish to make a request.

How to complain

If you have any concerns about our use of your personal information, you can make a complaint to us at Buchan Offshore Wind Limited, 3b, 58 Waterloo Street, Glasgow, G2 7DA, Phone Number: +44 (0)131 466 3723, E-mail: fea.info@buchanoffshorewind.com

You can also complain to the ICO if you are unhappy with how we have used your data.

The ICO’s address:           

Information Commissioner’s Office
Wycliffe House
Water Lane
Wilmslow
Cheshire
SK9 5AF

Helpline number: 0303 123 1113

ICO website: https://www.ico.org.uk