Terms and Conditions

Privacy Policy

We are committed to preserving the privacy of all visitors to our website. Please read the following privacy policy to understand how we use and protect the information that you provide to us.

By using this platform/website, you consent to the collection, use and potential transfer of your information under the terms of this policy.

Who we are

Our website address is: https://www.uowd.co.uk/

We are a Offshore Renewable Energy Catapult will be running and maintaining this website on behalf of the UK Offshore Wind Directory (the “UOWD”). The UOWD enables organisations to explore the potential of the UK offshore wind industry and identify any existing gaps. This comprehensive resource supports informed decision-making and strategic planning, fostering a more robust and efficient supply chain.

What personal data we collect and why we collect it

We may collect information about your usage of our website as well as information about you (including details of your company and contact information) where you post or share it via the website or through contact forms and any information you input to the website. Where you register your interest in the project, or for updates, we will record and store this information to allow us to contact you in this way. We have listed the types of information we will collect below:

  • Identity
  • Contact
  • Technical Company information
  • Usage
  • Marketing

The law requires us to have a legal basis for collecting and using your personal data. We rely on one or more of the following legal bases:

  • Legitimate interests: We may use your personal data where it is necessary to conduct our business and pursue our legitimate interests, for example to prevent fraud and enable us to give you the best and most secure customer experience. We make sure we consider and balance any potential impact on you and your rights (both positive and negative) before we process your personal data for our legitimate interests. We do not use your personal data for activities where our interests are overridden by the impact on you (unless we have your consent or are otherwise required or permitted to by law).
  • Legal obligation: We may use your personal data where it is necessary for compliance with a legal obligation that we are subject to. We will identify the relevant legal obligation when we rely on this legal basis.
  • 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 subscribe to an email newsletter.

Any information we collect will be stored securely and will only be used for the legitimate interests of the UOWD (to develop UOWD, maintain the website and for analytical purposes in line with the aims of the UOWD).

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

We do use cookies on our website to enhance your user experience with us. A cookie is a text file which contains information relating to your web journey and behaviour. It is stored in your web browser to enable us to personalise your experience next time you visit our website.

Cookies are extremely useful as they can quicken up the web journey for you and can also allow a website to recognise a user’s device.

Our tracking cookies collect information about how you browse and use our website, what pages you visit, how you entered the site and where you left it. This data is anonymous and not specific to you yet helps us to make improvements to your web experience by identifying pages where more visitors may be exiting the website or where visitors may be struggling to find necessary information.

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.

Analytics

We may use third-party Service Providers to monitor and analyse the use of our Service.

Who we share your data with

As set out above, all members of the UOWD shall have access to the information you provide to the UOWD website. In a circumstance where you may provide information to one partner directly, that partner may share the information with the other consortium partners.

We may occasionally pass aggregate information on the usage of our website to third parties for research purposes, but this will not include information that can be used to identify you. Unless required or permitted to do so by law, we will not otherwise share, sell or distribute any of the information we hold without prior and relevant consent.

How we protect your data

We employ security measures to protect your information from access by unauthorised persons and against unlawful processing, accidental loss, destruction and damage. We will retain your information for a reasonable period or as long as the law requires and in line with UK Data Protection Legislation as updated from time to time.

Your rights

Under certain circumstances, you have rights under data protection laws in relation to your personal data including the right to receive a copy of the personal data we hold about you and the right to make a complaint to the relevant supervisory authority, which in the UK is Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) (www.ico.org.uk).

Disclaimer

PLEASE READ CAREFULLY BEFORE ACCESSING AND/OR USING ANY INFORMATION FROM THIS WEBSITE:

This access agreement (Agreement) is a legal agreement between you (Account Holder/you/your) and Offshore Renewable Energy Catapult (“we”) a company incorporated and registered in England and Wales with company number 04659351 whose registered office is at Offshore House, Albert Street, Blyth, Northumberland, NE24 1LZ (Grantor). We run this website on behalf of the [Supply Chain Database], we provide access for the Account Holder to the Supply Chain Database (the “Website”).

We make this Website available to you on the subject to the terms and conditions set out below. We do not sell this website or any software contained herein to you. We or our licensors, remain the owners of the website and software at all times.

1. ACCOUNT

1.1. Access will be provided to the Account Holder upon the creation of an account. The Account Holder is responsible for all users under using the account.

1.2. The Account Holder is responsible for all information that it or anyone using its account uploads to the Website. The Account Holder is responsible for keeping the information up to date. The Grantor accepts no liability whatsoever for any information displayed on the Website.

2. DISCLAIMER

2.1. The information contained in this Website is for general information purposes only. While we endeavour to keep the information up-to-date, we make no representations or warranties of any kind, express or implied, about the completeness, accuracy, reliability, suitability or availability with respect to the Website or the information, products, services, or related graphics contained on the website for any purpose. Any reliance placed on such information is therefore strictly at your own risk.

2.2. We have no liability whatsoever or howsoever arising for any loss or damage as a result of you using the information found on the Website, to the maximum extent permitted by law.

2.3. We have no control over the nature, content and availability of any third party sites that are referenced on the Website. The inclusion of any links does not imply a recommendation or endorsement of the views expressed on such linked sites.

2.4. Every effort is made to keep the Website available. However, the Grantor takes no responsibility for, and will not be liable for, the website being temporarily unavailable for any reason.

3. INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY

3.1. You acknowledge that all intellectual property rights in the Website (including any software) anywhere in the world belong to the Grantor, and that you have no rights in, or to, the intellectual property other than the right to use it in accordance with the terms of this Agreement.

3.2. By uploading information to the Website you grant the Grantor a licence to use the information for the purposes of facilitating, maintaining and improving the Website. You grant a licence for all business information uploaded including any personal data for the purposes of sharing with other account holders and the members of the Supply Chain Database.

4. RESTRICTIONS AND ACCOUNT HOLDER OBLIGATIONS

4.1. Except as expressly set out in this Agreement you shall not:

  • 4.1.1. attempt to de-compile, reverse compile, disassemble, reverse engineer or otherwise reduce to human-perceivable form all or any part of the Website;
  • 4.1.2. access all or any part of the Website to build a product or service which competes with the Website;
  • 4.1.3. license, sell, rent, lease, transfer, assign, distribute, display, disclose, or otherwise commercially exploit, or otherwise make the Website available to any third party except the Account Holder; or
  • 4.1.4. attempt to obtain, or assist third parties in obtaining, access to the Website, other than as provided under this Agreement.

4.2. You shall not use the Website to:

  • 4.2.1. distribute or transmit to the Grantor any viruses or vulnerability and shall implement procedures in line with good industry practice to prevent such distribution or transmission;

4.3. The Account Holder warrants that none of the information uploaded to the website:

  • 4.3.1. contains defamatory or extreme material;
  • 4.3.2. is unlawful, harmful, threatening, defamatory, obscene, infringing, harassing or racially or ethnically offensive;
  • 4.3.3. facilitates illegal activity;
  • 4.3.4. depicts sexually explicit images;
  • 4.3.5. promotes unlawful violence;
  • 4.3.6. is discriminatory based on race, gender, colour, religious belief, sexual orientation, disability; or
  • 4.3.7. is otherwise illegal, breaches any third party intellectual property rights or causes damage or injury to any person, company or property,

We reserve the right to disable the Account Holder’s access to the Website if it is in breach of the terms of this Agreement.

5. GOVERNING LAW

This Agreement, its subject matter and its formation (and any non-contractual disputes or claims) are governed by English law. The courts of England and Wales shall have exclusive jurisdiction in the event of any claims or proceedings.