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This privacy policy explains how Molecular Energies PLC (“MEN”, “we”, “us”, “our”) use any personal information that is collected through your use of our website.

You can contact us at Molecular Energies PLC, 5 Carrwood Park, Selby Road, Leeds, LS15 4LG, United Kingdom at +44 (0) 20 7016 7950 or info@molecularenergiesplc.com.

We will treat your use of our website as confirmation that you accept the terms of our privacy policy.
This privacy notice describes how we collect and use your personal data in accordance with the General Data Protection Regulation (“GDPR“) and other applicable laws.

We are a “data controller“. This means that we are responsible for deciding how and why we hold and use your personal data. We are required under data protection legislation to notify you of the information contained in this privacy policy.

It is important that you read this policy, together with any other privacy policy we may provide on specific occasions when we are collecting or processing your personal data so that you are aware of how and why we are using your personal data.

Topics:

  • The data protection principles
  • What information do we collect about you?
  • How will we use your personal data?
  • Disclosure of your personal data
  • How long will we use your personal data?
  • Opting out
  • Your right to access your personal data etc
  • Cookies
  • Other websites
  • Changes to our privacy policy
  • How to contact us in relation to our use of your personal data

DATA PROTECTION PRINCIPLES

We will comply with data protection law in relation to your personal data. The law says that the personal data we hold about you must be:

  1. Used lawfully, fairly and in a transparent way.
  2. Collected only for valid purposes that we have clearly explained to you and not used in any way that is incompatible with those purposes.
  3. Relevant to the purposes we have told you about and limited only to those purposes.
  4. Accurate and kept up to date.
  5. Kept only as long as necessary for the purposes we have told you about.
  6. Kept securely

WHAT INFORMATION DO WE COLLECT ABOUT YOU?

We collect information about you when you use our website or when you contact us. We may also receive information about you from Brighter IR where you have subscribed to our news alert service.

This might include, for example, your email address, name, occupation, company employing you and your country of residence.

We may also collect information about your computer or device, including where available your IP address, operating system and browser type, for system administration purposes.

We collect personal information about you so that we can contact you so that you can receive the services which you have requested or for which you have subscribed and if you agree so that we can e-mail you information about us and our products and services which may be of interest to you.

We may also use this information to personalise or enhance your browser experience.

HOW WILL WE USE YOUR PERSONAL DATA?

We will only use your personal data when the law allows us to. Most commonly, we will use your personal data in the following circumstances:

  1. Where we need to perform a contract we have with you. We may also disclose your personal data to our business partners, suppliers and sub-contractors in order where necessary for us to do so.
  2. Where we need to comply with a legal obligation.
  3. Where it is necessary for our legitimate interests (or those of a third party) and your interests and fundamental rights do not override those interests. These interests may include:
    • providing you with information about other goods and services we offer that are similar to those that you have already purchased and told you about our other products and services; and
    • where we enter into discussions to, sell all or a part of our business;
    • processing necessary to administer the Site and for internal operations, including troubleshooting, data analysis, testing, research, statistical and survey
    • purposes, to improve the Site to ensure that content is presented in the most effective manner for you and for your computer and to allow you to participate in interactive features of our service when you choose to do so;
    • notifying you about changes to our services;
    • ensuring that content from our site is presented in the most effective manner for you and for your computer;
    • the use of analytics and search engine providers that assist us in the improvement and optimisation of our site as described in our cookies policy (below); and
    • as part of our efforts to keep the Site safe and secure and to measure or understand the effectiveness of advertising we serve to you and others, and to deliver relevant advertising to you; and
  4. Where you give your consent to processing.

We may share your information as part of aggregated information where this does not to provide any identifiable information about you with advertisers and advertising networks that require the data to select and serve relevant adverts to you and others.

We may also use your personal data in the following situations:

  1. Where we need to protect your interests (or someone else’s interests).
  2. Where it is needed in the public interest.

Where you must provide personal data to us in relation to a contract we may not be able to perform this agreement without such data.

We may process your personal data to assist in the prevention of crime or to protect the vital interest of you or any other person.

We may use your personal data to undertake searches against sanction lists maintained by the United Kingdom or United States governments, including those lists maintained by the United Kingdom Treasury and the United States Office of Foreign Assets Control or any other government list from time to time considered appropriate by us.

We may share your personal information with companies in our Group where this is in our legitimate interests, including for administration purposes.
Please note that, in some cases, a member of our Group may contact you in connection with a query that you have made.

The information that we collect from you may be transferred to and stored at, a destination outside the European Economic Area (“EEA”), including Jersey, Bermuda, Republic of Macedonia, Republic of Kazakhstan and Republic of Chile. Your personal data may also be processed by our staff operating outside the EEA, including in Jersey, Bermuda, Republic of Macedonia, Republic of Kazakhstan and Republic of Chile. These jurisdictions may not have levels of protection for personal data considered appropriate by the European Union. Where your personal data is processed outside the EEA, we will take all reasonable steps to ensure that it is properly protected and will ensure that any transfer from the EEA is made in accordance with applicable law (including where appropriate by use of the EU model clauses). The EEA comprises the EU member states, Norway, Iceland and Liechtenstein.

You should note that the transmission of information via the internet is not completely secure. Although we will do our best to protect your personal data, we cannot guarantee the security of your data transmitted to our website. Any transmission is at your own risk.

We will retain your personal information for a reasonable period or for as long as the law requires. We will not normally retain it for longer than is necessary to provide you with the services which you have requested or for which you have subscribed.

DISCLOSURE OF YOUR PERSONAL DATA

We may disclose your personal data in the following circumstances:

  • to a regulatory or governmental body to which we are responsible, such as the London Stock Exchange, with whom we are requested to share information;
  • to our professional advisers (for example, our auditors, legal advisers, public relations advisers and nominated adviser), but always taking safeguards to protect the confidentiality of your personal information;
  • in the event that we sell or buy any business or assets, in relation to which we need to disclose your personal information to the prospective seller or buyer;
  • in the prevention or detection of crime or money laundering; or
  • where we are otherwise required to do so by law.

HOW LONG WILL WE USE YOUR PERSONAL DATA FOR?

We will only retain your personal data for as long as necessary to fulfil the purposes we collected it for, including for the purposes of satisfying any legal, accounting, or reporting requirements. To determine the appropriate retention period for your personal data, we consider the amount, nature, and sensitivity of the personal data, the potential risk of harm from unauthorised use or disclosure of your personal data, the purposes for which we process your personal data and whether we can achieve those purposes through other means, and the applicable legal requirements.

In some circumstances, we may anonymise your personal data so that it can no longer be associated with you, in which case we may use such information without further notice to you. Once you are no longer a customer we will retain and securely destroy your personal information in accordance with this policy and applicable law.

OPTING OUT

If you have requested information from us and subsequently change your mind, you can email us at  and we will make a note not to send you any more of this information.

YOUR ACCESS TO YOUR DATA

If you have any questions about this privacy policy or how we handle your personal data, please contact us on +44 (0) 20 7016 7950 or . You have the right to make a complaint at any time to the data protection authority including to the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO), the UK supervisory authority for data protection issues. You can find out more about your rights in relation to your personal data at www.ico.org.uk and other websites provided by data protection authorities.

Please note that you have rights to obtain a copy of your personal data and in certain situations to obtain correction, erasure, and restriction of processing of your personal data. You have a right to data portability.

Where processing is based on your consent you have a right to withdraw this at any time.

You have the right to ask us not to process your personal data for marketing purposes or for purposes that are in our legitimate interests. We will usually inform you (before collecting your personal data) if we intend to use your personal data for such purposes or if we intend to disclose your information to any third party for such purposes.

You can exercise any of your rights at any time by contacting us at 4 Carrwood Park, Selby Road, Leeds, LS15 4LG, United Kingdom.

COOKIES POLICY

A “cookie” is a bite-sized piece of data that is stored on your computer’s hard drive. They are used by nearly all websites and do not harm your system.

We use them to track your activity to help ensure you get the smoothest possible experience when visiting our website but the information does not usually identify you directly. We can use the information from cookies to ensure we present you with options tailored to your preferences on your next visit. We can also use cookies to analyse traffic and for advertising purposes.

These also include social media plug-ins which enable you to share our website content via your social media account(s) or easily share information with others.  We have a presence on YouTube, LinkedIn and Twitter, and if you click on any of these icons on our website, you will be taken to our pages or profiles on those platforms. The platforms may then start tracking your behaviour using cookies for their own purposes; for example, to better understand your interests so that they can present relevant content or advertising to you.  Data about you may also be transmitted to the social media channel even if you do not click on the plug-in.  The social media platforms will provide us with statistical information, which we use to help understand how you and our other users interact with our social medial presence.  All these platforms provide you with some control over their use of non-essential tracking technology and you can find details of how to exercise this control by reviewing their privacy and cookie notices.  We have contractual arrangements in place with the social media channels we use.  Please contact us for more information.

You can set your browser to refuse all or some browser cookies, or to alert you when websites set or access cookies. If you disable or refuse cookies, please note that some parts of this website may become inaccessible or not function properly. For more information generally on cookies, including how to disable them, please refer to aboutcookies.org. You will also find details on how to delete cookies from your computer.

Below we describe the cookies which are installed upon this website.

You can change your cookie preferences at any time by clicking on the icon at the bottom left of this webpage.  You can then adjust the available sliders to “On” or “Off” and then click “Save and close”. You may need to refresh your page for your settings to take effect.

Alternatively, most web browsers allow some control of most cookies through the browser settings. Find out how to manage cookies on popular browsers:

If you use a smart phone, you can usually prevent cross-site tracking and block cookies in the settings section on your device. You may also be able to visit websites without leaving a history by turning private browsing on.   You should visit the support section of the website of your device for more information on how to do this.

Strictly necessary cookies

These cookies are always active and are necessary for this website to function. They cannot be switched off. They are usually only set in response to actions made by you which amount to a request for services, such as setting your privacy preferences.

You can set your browser to block or alert you about these cookies, but some parts of the site will not then work. These cookies do not store any personally identifiable information.

FUNCTION PROVIDER COOKIE NAME DATA STORED PURPOSE DURATION
Youtube.com LOGIN_INFO, 1p_JAR, ANID, APSID, CONSENT, DSID, GPS, HSID, SID, SSID, IDE, NID, OGP, OGPC, PREF, SAPISID, SID, SIDCC, SSID, VISITOR_INFO1_LIVE, YSC, permutive-id, permutive-session, watched_video_id_list, demographics Various unique identifiers, as well as login information that may relate to a Google account. Video functionality Some of the cookies expire up to 20 years after your last visit to a page containing a Youtube video, although some expire sooner.
molecularenergiesplc.com PHPSESSID Works by creating a unique id (UID) for each visitor and stores variables based on this UID. Session cookie When browsing session ends.
moove_gdpr_popup Cookie set by the UK cookie consent plugin to record that you accept the fact that the site uses cookies.
pum-* These control the repeated display of popups in the browser. Cookies are assigned an identification (ID) number formatted as ‘pum-{integer}’. 14 days
BrighterIR AWSALB, AWSALBCORS Cookie set by Amazon Web Services Load Balancer to preserve server session stickiness. 1 week
XSRF-TOKEN Cookie set by Laravel framework to protect against cross-site exploits. 2 hours
Laravel_session Cookie set by Laravel framework to preserve session data on investor relations tools. 2 hours
Performance cookies

These cookies allow us to count visits and traffic so we can measure and improve the performance of our site. They help us to know which pages are the most and least popular, and see how visitors move around the site.

All information that is collected by these cookies is aggregated, and therefore anonymous. If you do not allow these cookies we will not know when you have visited our site, and will not be able to monitor its performance.

These cookies are set by the Google Analytics service, but hosted by Molecular Energies PLC.

HOST COOKIE NAME DURATION
molecularenergiesplc.com _ga 1 year
molecularenergiesplc.com _gat 1 minute
molecularenergiesplc.com _gid 24 hours
Targeting cookies

We do not currently use targeting cookies.

Change of purpose

We will only use your personal data for the purposes for which we collected it, unless we reasonably consider that we need to use it for another reason and that reason is compatible with the original purpose. If you require further information please contact us by emailing .

If we need to use your personal data for an unrelated purpose, we will notify you and we will explain the legal basis which allows us to do so.

Please note that we may process your personal data without your knowledge or consent, in compliance with the above rules, where this is required or permitted by law.

OTHER WEBSITES

Our website may contain links to other websites. This privacy policy only applies to this website so when you link to other websites you should read their own privacy policies.

Brighter IR provides a service to our website where if you input your details you can receive the latest RNS announcements when they are released. This service is governed by Brighter IR’s terms and conditions and privacy policy.

CHANGES TO OUR PRIVACY POLICY

We keep our privacy policy under regular review and we will place any updates on this webpage. Please check back frequently to see any updates or changes.

HOW TO CONTACT US

If you have any questions about our privacy policy or use of your personal data, please contact us on +44 (0) 20 7016 7950 or at .

3 November 2020