Privacy policy

Using our digital services:

Data controller: Ørsted Onshore Ireland Limited

We process your personal data by using cookies and similar technologies when you use our digital services (website or apps). 

This is done for the following purposes:

• Delivery of the digital service you have requested. 

• Optimisation and development of the user experience of our website and the services we provide.

• Statistics for how our website is used and to improve the website.

Read more about this in our cookie policy.

We also use various third-party cookies and social media plugins to make it easier for you to share content from our website on Facebook, LinkedIn, etc. For these types of processing, Ørsted will in some instances be a joint data controller with the supplier of the third-party cookies in question. You can read more about this and find a link to the privacy policies of the relevant third parties on the cookie list, which is found in our cookie policy.

We collect the data from the following sources:

• Directly from you whenever you use our digital services.

We process the following data about you:

General personal data:

• Information about your behaviour on our digital services (e.g. number of visits, information about how you access our digital services, including IP address, use of browsers and operating system, cookies, your domains of origin as well as what content you read).

• Information about clicks on our advertisements, including if you are doing this from the website of another organisation or company.

We process your personal data as described on the following legal basis:

• GDPR, Article 6(1)(a) (consent).

• GDPR, Article 6(1)(f) (necessary to pursuit our legitimate interest in providing the service you have requested, improving customer experience, developing and improving our digital services (in terms of both functionality and the system itself) and making it possible to share content on social media).

We store your personal data as long as it is necessary for the purposes mentioned:

• We store your personal data for up to two years from the date on which we registered your visit on our website. The specific storage period depends on the individual cookie. 

Customer communication:

Data controller: Ørsted Onshore Ireland Limited

Ørsted processes your personal data in order to communicate with you and to respond to your requests (e.g. providing service to you as an investor and giving you the best possible service).

We collect the data from the following sources:

• Directly from you.

We process the following data about you:

General personal data:

• Name, telephone number, email address and company.

We process your personal data as described on the following legal basis:

• GDPR, Article 6(1)(f) (necessary to pursuit our legitimate interest in being able to respond to your enquiry and communicate with you).

We store your personal data as long as it is necessary for the purposes mentioned:

• We store your personal data for up to two years from the date on which you contact us. 

We process your personal data for marketing purposes, in order that we can:

• target our communication with you based on your areas of interest and focus,

• send you relevant marketing in the form of newsletters, etc.

Further, we use your personal data to send company announcements and other information and to identify anyone else who might be interested in Ørsted.

We also use first and third-party cookies to collect information about your behaviour when you receive our newsletters, company announcements and marketing information, to improve our communication with you.

• Directly from you. 

We process the following data about you:

General personal data:

• Name, email address, street address, IP address, country, and role.
  
  
• Newsletter subscription date.


• Areas of interest.
  
  
• Data you have submitted in response to marketing activities.
  
  
• Information about whether you choose to open newsletters, company announcements and marketing information you receive from us and when you open them (time and date).  
  
  
• Information about clicks on links in our newsletters, company announcements and marketing information (e.g. which links you choose to click on, what content you read, the number of links you click on and use of email client).

We process your personal data as described on the following legal basis:

• GDPR, Article 6(1)(a) – consent (when signing up for newsletter, company announcements and marketing information and cookies in newsletters, company announcements and marketing information)

• GDPR, Article 6(1)(f) (necessary to pursuit our legitimate interest in being able to send marketing material, newsletters, company announcements and information from Ørsted).

We store your personal data as long as it is necessary for the purposes mentioned:

•  We store your personal data as long as you wish to receive material from us and for two years after that.

• Personal data collected via cookies will be deleted in accordance with the expiry periods listed in our cookie policy.
   

Recordings and use of photo and video: 

Data controller: Ørsted Onshore Ireland Limited or group entities in Ørsted (a list of Ørsted’s legal entities is available here).

We process information in the form of images and recordings (‘recordings’). Recordings can be made on various occasions, e.g. Ørsted Day, design and innovation workshops, receptions, meetings, professional photo sessions, events and other arrangements. 

The recordings may be transmitted live.

We process the recordings for both commercial and non-commercial purposes, for publication internally on our intranet, on websites, at conferences and in connection with similar marketing, education, training, branding, and commercial purposes. 

We may also process your personal data in connection with payment of remuneration if you have entered into a licence agreement with us.

We collect personal data about you from the following sources:

• Directly from you when you provide us with your personal data and remuneration information.

• From group entities or subsidiaries when we share recordings and personal data about you. 

• From third parties, comprising:

• Professional photographers hired to shoot the recordings.

• Professional model agencies.
  
  
  

We process the following data about you:

Ordinary personal data: 

• Photos, video and audio recordings, and information relating to the recording (where it was recorded, what is going on, etc.).
  
  
• Name, email, contact information*.
  
  
• Bank account or other payment information and fee amounts*.

We process your personal data as described on the following legal basis:

• GDPR, Article 6(1)(a) (consent); if you have signed a consent form. 

• GDPR, Article 6(1)(b) (necessary for the performance of a contract between you and us); when we have entered into a licence agreement with you).

• GDPR, Article 6(1)(c), (necessary for us to comply with a legal obligation; the Bookkeeping Act and tax legislation in cases where we pay you remuneration).  

• GDPR, Article 6(1)(f), (necessary to pursuit our legitimate interest in marketing and using images from events for education, training, branding, and other commercial and non-commercial purposes). 
  
  

We store personal data as long as necessary to meet these purposes. As a general rule, personal data will be erased:

• After 5 years from signing the consent form.

• After 5 years from the event/situation in question (when the legal basis is our legitimate interest).

• After 20 years from the recording was made if we have entered into a licence agreement with you, unless there are special reasons for a longer storage period.

• If you are a professional model employed by an agency: After the expiry of the period stated in the contract.  

Social media: 

Data controller: Ørsted Onshore Ireland Limited

We collect your personal data when you visit our pages on social media, when you tag, recommend or mention us, our brand, etc., on the Internet, including social media, and otherwise whenever you communicate with us in these contexts.  

We have profiles on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, LinkedIn, YouTube and other platforms. 

Together with Facebook and LinkedIn (‘social media’), Ørsted Services A/S is the joint data controller for the collection of personal data about you whenever you visit our company’s social media sites. You can read more in the agreement on joint data responsibility with Facebook here, and LinkedIn here. 

You can read more about the specific data that social media process about you when you visit our company site on social media in the privacy policies of the relevant third parties, which we have a link to in the cookie list found in our cookie policy.

We also use media monitoring providers to monitor coverage of our company on the Internet, including on social media.

We collect data from the following sources:

• Directly from you when you visit our digital services and our company’s social media sites or if you send enquiries to us via social media.
  
  
• Social media.

We process the following data about you: 

General personal data: 

• Name, profile photo, username, IP address.
  
  
• The data you have made available via social media settings, as well as your responses to our social media posts and your sharing of these. 
  
  
• In addition, Ørsted processes the data about you that you send to Ørsted, for example in connection with a direct enquiry from you to us on social media. This will typically be your name and the question you are asking us.

We process your personal data as described on the following legal basis:

• GDPR, Article 6(1)(f) (necessary  to pursuit our 
  legitimate interest in marketing and to obtain knowledge about users of Ørsted’s social media sites, as well as to communicate with users of Ørsted’s social media sites. 

We store personal data for as long as necessary to meet these purposes:

• Erasure of the personal data we receive when you communicate with us on social media will depend on the content of the communication, pursuant to the other storage periods specified in this privacy policy.
  
  
• We erase enquiries received in our social media inbox no later than after one year, unless Ørsted has a legitimate interest in storing the enquiry for a longer period. Examples of this are pending cases or if the processing of a response has not been finalised. 
  
  
• Comments and similar public reactions to our profiles and posts are usually not deleted, unless you decide to delete these yourself, or in the event the tone is derogatory or abusive.
  
  
• Data on social media, such as Facebook and Instagram, is stored by the social media companies according to the specifications in their own privacy policy.