Privacy Policy
1. Important information
- 1.1Westbridge Renewable Energy Corporation respects your privacy and is committed to protecting your personal data. This privacy policy will inform you as to how we look after your personal data when you visit our website (regardless of where you visit it from) and tell you about your privacy rights and how the law protects you.
- 1.2It is important that you read this privacy policy together with any other privacy policy or fair processing notice we may provide on specific occasions when we are collecting or processing personal data about you so that you are fully aware of how and why we are using your data. This privacy policy supplements the other notices ad is not intended to override them.
- 1.3Westbridge Renewable Energy Corporation is the controller and responsible for this website and the personal data we collect from you as well as a data processor for the purposes of PIPEDA/GDPR (collectively referred to as “we”, “us” or “our” in this privacy notice).
- 1.4Questions, comments, and requests about this privacy notice are welcomed, including any requests to exercise your legal rights, and should be addressed to the Data Protection Officer using the details set out below.
- 1.5Contact details:
- – Full name of legal entity: Westbridge Renewable Energy Corporation.
- – Registered with the Information Commissioner’s Office under registration reference: ZA783094
- – Name of Data Protection Officer: Scott Kelly
- – Email address: skelly@westbridge.energy
- – Postal address: Westbridge Renewable Energy Corporation, Suite 1820, 205 – 5th Ave SW, Calgary, AB T2P 2V7
2. How we use your personal data
- 2.1In this section we have set out what personal data (personal information) we may process and why.
- 2.2We will only use your personal data when the law allows us to. Most commonly, we will use your personal data in the following circumstances:
- Where we need to perform the contract, we are about to enter into or have entered into with you and to provide you with the information that you request from us.
- Where it is necessary for our legitimate interests (or those of a third party) and your interests and fundamental rights do not override those interests.
- Where we need to comply with a legal or regulatory obligation.
- 2.3Website enquiries
- When completing our ‘contact us’ form, you will provide us with your name, email address ad a message. You may also provide your telephone number if you wish too, but it is not mandatory.
- We collect this information so that we can reply to your query and process it in our legitimate interests.
- 2.4Telephone enquiries
- When contacting our team, you will be asked for your name, email address, company name, a mobile phone number and reason for your call.
- We collect this information so that we can respond to your enquiry and process it in our legitimate interests.
- 2.5Prospective customer/partner/client
- We process business contact information such as names, company names, job roles, email and post addresses of prospective customers, partners, or clients.
- We use this information to keep track of our conversations and manage the relationship.
- We process this information in our legitimate interests and when entering into or in the performance of a contract.
- 2.6Usage data
- We may process data about your use of our website and services (usage data). The usage data may include your IP address, geographical location, browser type and version, operating system, referral source, length of visit, page views and website navigation paths, as well as information about the timing, frequency and pattern of your service use. The source of the usage data is our analytics tracking system. This usage data may be processed for the purposes of analysing the use of the website and services.
- We collect this information for monitoring and improving our website.
- 2.7Legal claims
- We may process any of your personal data identified in this policy where necessary for the establishment, exercise or defence of legal claims, whether in court proceeding or in an administrative or out of court procedure.
- 2.8Cookies
- We use cookies on our website, which help us to provide you with a better experience when you browse our website and allow us to make improvements to our site.
- If you would like more information on how we process cookies, please see our Cookie Policy document, which is available here.
3. How long we keep your information and how we secure it
- 3.1We only retain your data for as long as required by law or where we have an appropriate business justification.
- 3.2For further information on how long personal data is likely to be kept before being removed from our systems and databases, please contact us at IR@westbridge.energy or by writing to the Data Protection Officer, Westbridge Renewable Energy Corporation, Suite 1820, 205 – 5th Ave SW, Calgary, AB T2P 2V7
- 3.3Notwithstanding the other provisions of this section 3, we may retain your personal data where such retention is necessary for compliance with legal obligation to which we are subject, or in order to protect your vital interests or another natural person.
4. Protecting your personal data
- 4.1We have implemented a set of technical and organisational security measures to protect your personal data against unlawful or unauthorised access, use of modification, in addition to protection against accidental loss or damage.
- 4.2Your personal data will only be processed by a third-party Processor if that Processor agrees to comply with a set of agreed contractual clauses, in addition to appropriate technical and organisational security measures.
- 4.3Appropriate security means ensuring controls are in place to protect the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of your personal data:
- Confidentiality: We will protect your personal data from unlawful disclosure to third parties.
- Integrity: We will protect your personal data from being modified by unauthorised third parties.
- Availability: We will ensure that authorised parties are able to access your personal data when needed.
- 4.4In addition, we limit access to your personal data to those employees, agents, contractors and other third parties who have a business need to know. They will only process your personal data on our instructions, and they are subject to a duty of confidentiality.
5. Disclosure of personal data
- 5.1Depending on the purposes for which we collect your personal data, we may disclose it to the following categories of recipients, who will then process your personal data only within the context of the purposes detailed below.
- 5.2Within our organisations and our group we share personal data within our subsidiary companies’ and different legal entities.
- 5.3We will retain your personal data as follows:
- From time to time, we may disclose your personal data to trusted organisations who handle services on our behalf.
- When we disclose your personal data, we take steps to ensure that any third-party partners who handle your personal data comply with data protection legislation and protect your personal data appropriately.
- We only disclose the information that is necessary for them to provide the following services:
- Providers of IT related services
- Professional advisers such as lawyers, bankers, auditors, and insurers who provide consultancy, banking, legal, insurance and accounting services.
- 5.4In certain circumstances, we are under a legal obligation to share your personal data to official bodies, such as the Canadian Revenue Agency, Regulators and other such authorities.
- 5.5We do not sell personal information collected through this site.
6. International data transfers
- 6.1You acknowledge that personal data that you submit for publication through our website or services may be available, via the internet, around the world. We cannot prevent the use (or misuse) of such personal data by others.
7. Your legal rights
- 7.1Under certain circumstances, you have the rights under data protection laws in relation to your personal data.
- 7.2You have the right to:
- (a) Request access to your personal data (commonly known as a “data subject access request”). This enables you to receive a copy of the personal data we hold about you and to check that we are lawfully processing it.
- (b) Request correction of the personal data that we hold about you. This enables you to have any incomplete or inaccurate data we hold about you corrected, through we may need to verify the accuracy of the new data you provide to us.
- (c) Request erasure of your personal data. This enables you to ask us to delete or remove personal data where there is no good reason for us continuing to process it. You also have the right to ask us to delete or remove your personal data where you have successfully exercised your right to object to processing (see below), where we may have processed your information unlawfully or where we are required to erase your personal data to comply with local law. Note, however, that we may not always be able to comply with your request of erasure for specific legal reasons which will be notified to you, if applicable, at the time of your request.
- (d) Object to processing of your personal data where we are relying on a legitimate interest (or those of a third party) and there is something about your situation which makes you want to object to processing on this ground as you feel it impacts on your fundamental rights and freedoms. You also have the right to object where we are processing your personal data for direct marketing purposes. In some cases, we may demonstrate that we have compelling legitimate grounds to process your information which override your rights and freedoms.
- (e) Request restriction of processing of your personal data. This enables you to ask us to suspend the processing of your personal data in the following scenarios: (a) if you want to establish that data’s accuracy; (b) where our use of the data is unlawful but you do not want us to erase it; (c) where you need us to hold the data even if we no longer require it as you need it to establish, exercise or defend legal claims; or (d) you have objected to our use of your data but we need to verify whether we have overriding legitimate grounds to use it.
- (f) Request the transfer of your personal data to you or to a third party. We will provide to you, or a third party you have chosen, your personal data in a structured, commonly used, machine-readable format. Note that this right only applies to automated information which you initially provided consent for us to use or where we used the information to perform a contract with you.
- (g) Withdraw consent at any time where we are relying on consent to process your personal data. However, this will not affect the lawfulness of any processing carried out before you withdraw your consent. If you withdraw your consent, we may not be able to provide certain products or services to you. We will advise you if this is the case at the time you withdraw your consent.
- 7.3If you wish to exercise any of the rights set out above, please email us at IR@westbridge.energy with specific details of who to contact for subject access rights.
- 7.4No fee usually required
- Data Subjects have the right to access their personal data and supplementary information. The right of access allows individuals to be aware of and verify the lawfulness of the processing.
- You will not have to pay a fee to access your personal data (or to exercise any of the other rights). However, we may charge a reasonable fee if your request is clearly unfounded, repetitive or excessive or requires copies of previously provided information. Alternatively, we may refuse to comply with your request in these circumstances.
- In the event of manifestly unfair or excessive requests we may refuse to respond to the request and any such refusal will be notified to the requester (Data Subject) with a reason for the refusal and, in addition, information as to the Data Subject’s rights to complain to the Information Commissioner of Canada or judicial authority within one month of such a request being received.
- 7.5What 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.
- 7.6Time limit to respond:
- We try to respond to all legitimate requests within one month. Occasionally it may take us longer than a month if your request is particularly complex or you have made several requests. In this case, we will notify you and keep you updated.
8. Making a complaint
- 8.1If you wish to make a complaint, please contact our Data Protection Officer. If you are unhappy with the response from the Data Protection Officer, then you have the right to lodge a complaint with a Supervisory Authority, but you may also complain to a Supervisory Authority in your country of residence.
9. Policy changes
- 9.1When we make changes to this Policy or the way in which we process your personal data, we will draw your attention to this either through updates to this Policy on our website, through our service lines or by another means of communication such as email.
- 9.2This version was last updated on October 4, 2024.
10. Third party links
- 10.1This website may include links to third-party websites. Clicking on those links or enabling those connections may allow third parties to collect or share data about you. We do not control these third-party websites and are not responsible for their privacy statements. When you leave our website, we encourage you to read the privacy notice of every website you visit.