Last update: October 2023

10. COOKIES POLICY 

10.1  Our website use cookies. This helps us to provide you with a good experience when you browse our website and at the same time allows us to improve our website. Cookies are small text files which are stored on your hard drive allocated to the browser used by you which provide the party placing the cookie (in this case us) with certain information. Cookies do not damage your computer and do not contain any viruses. Cookies serve the purpose of making our services more user-friendly, effective and secure. For the most part, the cookies that we use are "session cookies". These cookies are deleted automatically at the end of your visit of our website. Other cookies remain on your terminal device until being deleted. These cookies enable us to recognise your browser on your next visit. The use of cookies is now standard for most websites. If you are uncomfortable with the use of cookies, you can manage and control them through your browser, including removing cookies by deleting them from your "browser history" (cache) when you leave the site. See the subsection "How to manage cookies" for further information.

10.2  We use the following categories of cookies:

Necessary cookies

We store cookies on your device if they are strictly necessary for the operation of this website or provision of our services. Necessary cookies in particular help make a website usable by enabling basic functions like page navigation and access to secure areas of the website. The website cannot function properly without these cookies. The processing is based on Regulation 6 of Privacy and Electronic Communications (EC Directive) Regulations 2003 ("PECR") and Art. 6 para. 1 lit. f) UK GDPR.

Analytical or performance cookies

These are cookies that are not strictly necessary for the operation of this website or provision of our services, but they enhance the use of Services by remembering certain choices you may make and providing enhanced features. For example, they are used to remember site preferences or choices, such as remembering preferences for language, country, region or other online settings made (e.g. text size, fonts).

These cookies allow us to recognise and count the number of visitors to our Sites and how visitors move around our Sites when they are using them. This helps us to improve the way our website works, for example, by ensuring that users are finding what they are looking for easily.

Some analytics and performance cookies are used in connection with services provided by third parties, including the following:

• Google Analytics is a web analytics service provided by Google (please see also the information below). Google Analytics may collect information about your use of the Online Services (including your IP address). Information generated will be transmitted to and stored by Google on servers in the United States of America. For more information, please visit Google's site. Google also provides a browser add-on that allows you to opt-out of Google Analytics across all websites. 

10.3  Before we use cookies which are not strictly necessary for the operation of our website or provision of our services, we obtain consent from you according to Regulation 6 PECR and Art. 6 para. 1 s. 1 lit. a UK GDPR. Please also see section "How to manage cookies" below.

Use of cookies

How to manage cookies

You can change your cookie preferences at any time by clicking on the cookie consent management tool on our website. Sungrow's Cookie Consent Manager is a tool that allows you to modify settings related to non-necessary Cookies. It is not possible to modify settings related to Necessary Cookies. You can then adjust the available sliders to "On" or "Off", then clicking "Save". You may need to refresh your page for your settings to take effect. These consent settings are stored in your browser's local storage, are never (as far as technology permits) transmitted to our servers and do not allow our servers to identify or track individual users.

Current versions of web browsers also offer enhanced user controls regarding the placement and duration of both first and third party cookies. Search for "cookies" under your web browser's "Help menu" for more information on cookie management features available to you. You can enable or disable cookies by modifying the settings in your browser. You can also find out how to do this, and find more information on cookies at www.allaboutcookies.org. However, if you choose to disable cookies in your browser, you may be unable to complete certain activities on our website or to correctly access certain parts of it. If you would like more information about interest-based advertising, including how to opt-out of these cookies, please visit http://youronlinechoices.eu/.

10.4. Google Analytics: This website uses Google Analytics, a web analytics service. It is operated by Google Inc., 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA. Google Analytics uses so-called "cookies". These are text files that are stored on your computer and that allow an analysis of the use of the website by you. We use the information to compile reports and to help us improve the website. The cookies collect specific information, including the number of visitors to the website where visitors have come to the website from and the pages they visited. Please note that the data processing is essentially carried out by Google and Google may use your data collected by Google Analytics for any of its own purposes, such as profiling, and will link it to other data such as any Google Accounts. The information generated by the cookie about your use of this website is usually transmitted to a Google server in the USA and stored there. Google Analytics cookies are stored and your relevant personal data is processed based on your consent according to Regulation 6 PECR and Art. 6 para. 1 lit. a) GDPR. Cookies in connection with Google Analytics have a lifespan of 13 months and will be deleted automatically after that. 

We have activated the IP anonymization feature on this website. Your IP address will be shortened by Google within the European Union or other parties to the Agreement on the European Economic Area or the UK prior to transmission to the United States. Only in exceptional cases the full IP address is sent to a Google server in the US and shortened there. Google will use this information on behalf of the operator of this website to evaluate your use of the website, to compile reports on website activity, and to provide other services regarding website activity and internet usage for the website operator. The IP address transmitted by your browser as part of Google Analytics will not be merged with any other data held by Google.

We have entered into an agreement with Google for the outsourcing of our data processing and fully implement the strict requirements when using Google Analytics.

10.5: Google Tag Manager This website also uses Google Tag Manager. Google Tag Manager is a solution operated by Google LLC. 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA ("Google") that allows marketed website tags to be managed using an interface. The Tag Manager tool itself (which implements the tags) is a cookie-less domain and does not register personal data. The tool causes other tags to be activated which may, for their part, register data under certain circumstances. Google Tag Manager does not access this information. If recording has been deactivated on domain or cookie level, this setting will remain in place for all tracking tags implemented with Google Tag Manager. You can find out more about Google Tag Manager by clicking the following link: https://marketingplatform.google.com/about/analytics/tag-manager/use-policy/