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Privacy Policy

We respect your privacy and are committed to handling your personal information carefully and openly. This policy explains what information we collect, why we use it and the choices available to you.

1. Who we are

ElectRoad Ltd ("ElectRoad", "we", "us") designs, installs and operates EV charging for destinations, businesses and other site hosts across the UK, with a focus on East Anglia. ElectRoad Ltd is the data controller for the personal information described in this policy and is registered in England and Wales (company number 14911198) and registered with the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) under registration number ZB877184.

Registered office: Heath Farm House, Loddon Road, Broome, Bungay, NR35 2RJ. If you have any questions about this policy or how we handle your information, please email info@electroad.uk.

2. What this policy covers

This policy covers personal information that ElectRoad handles through our websites, business enquiries and customer relationships, our customer relationship management (CRM) records, ElectRoad Insights emails, RFID key fob orders and our dealings with drivers, site hosts, suppliers and partners.

The ElectRoad EV app and charging payments are provided through Virta. Section 7 explains how this works and how Virta handles your information.

3. Information we collect

Depending on how you deal with us, we may collect:

  • Contact and identity details: your name, email address, telephone number, postal address and organisation.
  • Website and business enquiries: site details and anything you choose to include in your message.
  • Area availability enquiries: your business name, postcode, business type and email address. Holt opening requests: your email address and your permission for a one-off opening notification. Neither request subscribes you to ElectRoad Insights.
  • ROI calculator access: your contact details and your permission for us to contact you about your enquiry.
  • Driver accounts on our website: the email address and password you use to create an account.
  • RFID key fob orders: your name, contact details and delivery address.
  • ElectRoad Insights: your name, business email address, your company name if you provide it, and a record of your consent.
  • Business relationships: property and site information, contracts, correspondence and notes about our discussions with you.
  • Support and service records: faults you report, support requests, complaints and feedback.
  • Financial records: invoices and payment records for business customers and site hosts.

4. How we use your information and our legal reasons

We use your information only where the law allows us to:

  • Contract: to take steps at your request before entering into a contract, and to provide installation, operation, RFID key fobs and other services you ask for.
  • Legitimate interests: to respond to enquiries, manage business relationships, maintain our charging network, keep business records, and protect our services against fraud and misuse.
  • Legal obligation: to meet legal duties such as keeping financial records.
  • Consent: to send ElectRoad Insights emails, and for anything else where we ask for your permission.

Making an enquiry or ordering a product does not sign you up to ElectRoad Insights.

5. ElectRoad Insights

ElectRoad Insights provides occasional emails about EV charging, commercial opportunities and energy solutions for businesses. Subscribing is optional and relies on your consent, which you give by ticking the consent box on the signup form.

When you subscribe, we record the date and time, the source of the signup and the exact consent wording you accepted. We also keep a history of signup requests and withdrawals, so that we can show what you agreed to and respect your choices.

Signup records are held securely in our website systems, with access restricted to authorised ElectRoad administrators. We transfer subscriber details and any withdrawals to our Pipedrive CRM manually. Insights emails are sent using Pipedrive Campaigns, and every email includes an unsubscribe link.

You can withdraw your consent at any time by using the unsubscribe link or by emailing info@electroad.uk from the address you subscribed with. Once your withdrawal is recorded, we will not send you further Insights emails, and a later signup will not automatically reactivate your subscription. Withdrawing consent does not affect our earlier use of your information.

6. Business contacts and our CRM

We use Pipedrive to manage business contacts, organisations and sales opportunities. Information from enquiries, meetings and correspondence may be recorded there so we can follow up and manage our relationship with you.

Our business email and documents are handled using Microsoft 365. Emails you send us, and notifications from our website about enquiries, orders and Insights signups, are received and stored there.

7. Drivers, the ElectRoad EV app and charging payments

The ElectRoad EV app, driver accounts in the app, charging sessions and charging payments are provided through Virta’s charging service. When you register in the app, start a charging session or pay, Virta collects and processes the information needed to provide that service, such as account details, charging session data, payment information and, if you allow it, your location.

Virta’s charging-service privacy policy explains how Virta handles this information and how to exercise your rights with Virta.

Our website also lists charging locations operated by other charge point operators. At those locations, the operator provides charging, payments and driver support, and its own privacy policy applies.

Read Virta’s charging-service privacy policy

8. Who we share information with

We do not sell your personal information. We use service providers to run our website and business. They process information on our behalf and only for the purposes we set:

  • Lovable, which hosts our website and provides the secure database, account sign-in and email notification services behind it. Our website database is stored in the United Kingdom (London).
  • Pipedrive, our CRM system, which also sends ElectRoad Insights emails through Pipedrive Campaigns.
  • Microsoft 365, for business email and documents.
  • Virta, for the ElectRoad EV app, charging sessions and charging payments.

Where needed, we may also share information with installation and maintenance contractors working on our behalf, with distribution network operators when arranging grid connections, with grant bodies when you ask us to apply for funding, with professional advisers, or with authorities where the law requires it. If our business is sold or merged, information may transfer to the new owner.

9. International transfers

Some of our service providers operate internationally, so your information may be processed outside the United Kingdom. Where this happens, we rely on the safeguards required by UK data protection law, such as UK adequacy regulations or approved contract terms.

10. How long we keep information

We keep personal information only for as long as we need it for the purposes described in this policy, or as long as the law requires. We review records periodically and delete them earlier where there is no continuing business or legal reason to keep them. Our usual retention periods are:

  • Website and business enquiries that do not lead to a business relationship: up to 2 years from our last contact.
  • Business contacts in our CRM: for the duration of our relationship and up to 6 years afterwards, subject to periodic review.
  • ElectRoad Insights subscribers: while you remain subscribed. We review subscriptions that have been inactive for 3 years.
  • Insights withdrawals: when your withdrawal is recorded, we delete your name and company. We keep your email address, the date you withdrew, a brief note of how you asked to withdraw, and a record of your original consent (its date, source and wording). We keep these only so that we can make sure you are not sent further marketing and can show that we respected your choice.
  • RFID key fob orders: up to 2 years from dispatch, except where information is needed for accounting or contractual purposes, when it is kept for as long as those purposes require.
  • Driver accounts on our website: until you ask us to delete your account, subject to any records we must keep. We review accounts that have been inactive for 2 years.
  • General correspondence: up to 2 years, or up to 6 years where it relates to a contract or financial matter.
  • Financial and transaction records: 6 years, to meet our legal obligations.

You can ask us to delete your driver account or other information at any time. We will do so where it is legally and operationally appropriate.

11. Cookies and similar technologies

Our website does not use analytics or advertising cookies. It uses only a small number of technologies that are necessary for it to work:

  • A secure cookie that remembers you have requested access to our ROI calculator, so you do not need to submit your details again. It lasts for up to 30 days.
  • Browser storage that keeps you signed in if you create a driver account or sign in as an administrator. It is removed when you sign out.
  • Two technical cookies set by our hosting provider (named __dpl and __cf_bm) that route your visit to the correct version of the website and help protect it from automated abuse. The __cf_bm cookie expires after 30 minutes.
  • Temporary browser storage that remembers your scroll position while you move between pages. It is cleared when you close the tab.

12. Keeping your information safe

We use appropriate technical and organisational measures to protect personal information, including encrypted connections and access restricted to authorised staff. No method of transmission or storage can be guaranteed completely secure, but we take care to protect the information we hold. If a data breach is likely to put your rights at risk, we will notify the ICO and, where required, tell you.

13. Your rights

Depending on the circumstances, you have the right to access your personal information, correct it, ask us to delete it, restrict how we use it, or receive it in a portable format. You can object to certain uses, including direct marketing, and withdraw consent at any time where we rely on it.

To make a request, please email info@electroad.uk or write to our registered office. We may need to confirm your identity, and we will normally respond within one month. Some rights are subject to exceptions under data protection law. For information held by Virta about app use or charging, you can also contact Virta directly.

If you are unhappy with how we have handled your information, please contact us first so that we can try to help. You also have the right to complain to the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO), the UK data protection regulator, at ico.org.uk.

14. Changes to this policy

We may update this policy from time to time. The date at the top of this page shows when it was last updated.

Information Commissioner’s Office