Privacy Policy

At the British Hydropower Association, we are committed to maintaining the trust and confidence of our visitors to our website and subscribers to our newsletter. Here you will find information on how we treat data that we collect from visitors to our website, or when someone subscribes to our newsletter.

Visitors to Our Website


When someone visits www.british-hydro.org/ we use a third-party service, Google Analytics, to collect standard internet log information and details of visitor behaviour patterns. We do this to find out things such as the number of visitors to the various parts of the site. This information is only processed in a way which does not identify anyone. We do not make, and do not allow Google to make, any attempt to find out the identities of those visiting our website. You can find more information on how cookies are used on this website in the Cookies Policy.

If we do want to collect personally identifiable information through our website, we will be explicit about this. We will make it clear when we collect personal information and will explain what we intend to do with it.

Newsletter Sign-up


As part of the registration process for our e-newsletter, we collect a small amount of personal information. We use that information to:

  • Inform you about developments and services you have asked us to tell you about
  • To contact you if we need to obtain or provide additional information
  • To check our records are right and to check every now and then that you are happy and satisfied

We do not share, rent or trade email lists with other organisations or businesses. We use a third-party newsletter distribution provider, Mailchimp, to deliver our newsletter. We gather statistics around email opening and clicks using industry-standard technologies to help us monitor and improve our e-newsletter.

For more information, please see Mailchimp’s privacy notice here.

You can unsubscribe to general mailings at any time of the day or night by clicking the unsubscribe link at the bottom of any of our emails or by emailing our data protection officer, Kate Gilmartin at kate.gilmartin@british-hydro.org.

Links to Other Websites


This privacy notice does not cover the links within this site to other websites. Those sites are not governed by this Privacy Policy, and if you have questions about how a site uses your information, you will need to check that site’s privacy statement.

Access to Your Personal Information


You are entitled to access the personal information that we hold. Email your request to our data protection officer, Kate Gilmartin at kate.gilmartin@british-hydro.org.

Changes to This Privacy Notice


We keep our privacy notice under review. This privacy notice was last updated on 12 April 2018.