Privacy Policy

Last updated: January 12th 2023

Company Statement

We are committed to ensuring that your privacy is protected. Please read the following Privacy Statement carefully to ensure you are aware of how we use and protect your Personal Information.

This Statement will apply to any Personal Information which the Green Finance Institute (“we“, “us“, “our“) collects or otherwise receives about third parties (“you“), including when you use our website ‘www.greenfinanceinstitute.com’ (the “website“) or otherwise engage with us.

We will only use Personal Information which is provided to us, or otherwise obtained by us, from which you can be identified (“Personal Information“) as set out in this Statement. We will ensure that your Personal Information is handled in accordance with the “Data Protection Legislation” (meaning the UK Data Protection Act 2018, the UK GDPR (as defined in the Data Protection, Privacy and Electronic Communications (Amendments etc) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019/419), the Privacy and Electronic Communications (EC Directive) Regulations 2003, and all similar or related legislation relating to the processing of personal information and/or privacy applicable to us).

By visiting and/or contacting us through the website (or otherwise engaging with us), you acknowledge that we may collect, use and transfer your Personal Information as set out in this Statement. The Green Finance Institute reserves the right to change this Statement from time to time and you should therefore check this page frequently to ensure that you are happy with any changes.

In this Statement, “Green Finance Institute“, “we“, “us” and “our” refer to the Green Finance Institute Limited, registered in England and Wales with registered address International House, 24 Holborn Viaduct, London, EC1A 2BN and with company registration number 11963728.

For the purpose of the Data Protection Legislation, we are deemed to be the “data controller” in respect of any Personal Information that you provide to us or we otherwise obtain about you.

Personal Information that we collect from you

When you engage with us via our website you may provide Personal Information about yourself including your name and contact details, such as your email address and telephone number.

There are a number of different ways in which you engage with us via our website including when you visit or make an enquiry through the website, when you report a problem with our website or subscribe to receive our newsletter.

You may also provide us with Personal Information when we meet you at conferences and other events in which we participate, this may include additional details such as your name, contact details (including your work address, work telephone and mobile numbers and work email address) and job title.

Technical Personal Information that we collect from you

Where you make use of our website or otherwise engage with us, we may also collect certain limited information about your device and your visits to our website, which may be considered “Technical Personal Information“. Technical Personal Information may include:

• Device data: We may collect information about the type of device or platform you use (such as a computer or mobile device) to access our website, the operating system and choice of web browser.

• Location data: Your use of our website may generate geographical data, such as the location and time zone setting of a device, the domain name or the internet protocol (IP) address used to connect your device to the internet.

Log data about your visit: Your use of our website automatically generates information about your visit which we may collect. This can include the full uniform resource locators (URL) clickstream to, through and from our site (including date and time) products you viewed or searched for; page response times, download errors, length of visits to certain pages, page interaction information (such as scrolling, clicks, and mouse-overs), and methods used to browse away from the page.

Some of the Technical Personal Information set out above will be collected by cookies that we use on our website. For more information regarding the ways in which we make use of cookies, please see our Cookies Policy, a copy of which is available here.