Effective date: August 24, 2026
Last modified date: April 24, 2026
Energy Web AG, a Swiss company located at Baarerstrasse 10, 6300 Zug, Switzerland, registered under CHE-374.087.679 ("Energy Web", "we", "us") is the operator of energyweb.org and is the controller of the personal data described in this policy. Energy Web AG is a subsidiary of the Energy Web Foundation (EWF), a Swiss nonprofit foundation.
As the operator of the website, we take the protection of your personal data very seriously. We collect, process, and use your personal data in accordance with this privacy policy and in compliance with the Swiss Federal Act on Data Protection ("FADP"), the Swiss Ordinance to the Federal Act on Data Protection ("OFADP") and the General European Data Protection Regulation ("GDPR"). This privacy policy ("Privacy Policy") will inform you about the collection, processing and use of your personal data when using the website.
We have not appointed a data protection officer, as we are not required to do so. Responsibility for data protection sits with our Chief Technology Officer as owner of our information security management system.
This Privacy Policy applies to energyweb.org, to our service status page at status.energyweb.org, to correspondence you send us using the contact addresses published on our website, and to the business contact records we hold about people we deal with professionally.
It does not cover Energy Web-operated registries and platforms, each of which has its own data controller and respective privacy information, nor our hosted dashboards, which are covered by a separate notice at energyweb.org/dashboards-privacy. It does not cover Energy Web Foundation, which is a separate legal entity.
An archived copy of our previous website remains temporarily available at legacy.energyweb.org while we complete our migration. It is not maintained, and any privacy or cookie information published there is out of date and superseded by this policy.
Our website does not set any cookies. We use no analytics, no advertising technology and no tracking of any kind, so there is nothing for you to consent to or to opt out of. Our Cookie Policy at energyweb.org/cookies explains this in full.We will never sell, lease, or otherwise share your personal information with unaffiliated, third-party individuals and organizations unless you have expressly consented to it of if we are legally obliged to. Your personal information will only be used: a) across the EWF team to deliver services and communications, and b) with vendors (e.g., Google Analytics, MailChimp, Solved, Slack) only as necessary to deliver and improve EWF services and communications and to perform the functions described above.
The contact links on our website open your own email program. Nothing is submitted through our website, and we receive no information about you until your email arrives.
Enquiries sent to our published commercial address are received by members of our commercial team, and a record of your enquiry is also created in our customer relationship management system so that we can track it and respond properly.
Where a colleague logs the exchange, a copy of the correspondence, including any attachments, is stored on your contact record.We do this to respond to you, and where relevant to take steps towards a possible working relationship. Our legal basis is our legitimate interest in responding to enquiries and managing our business relationships in the sense of Art. 6 Par. 1 lit. f GDPR, or where applicable, steps taken at your request before entering a contract in the sense of Art. 6 Par. 1 lit. b GDPR.
They are obliged to protect data privacy to the same extent as us. If the level of data protection in a given country does not correspond to the Swiss and European data protection level, we ensure in our contracts to them that the protection of your personal data corresponds to that in Switzerland and the EU at all times using the standard contractual clauses and complying with the GDPR.
We hold contact details for people we deal with professionally, including at partner organizations, customers, standards bodies and regulators. This usually consists of a name, an employer, a role, an email address and a record of our correspondence. We obtain these details either directly from you, or from your public professional profile or website.
Where we hold a recording or transcript of a call you took part in, it is stored on your contact record and kept for the same period. Participants are told before any call is recorded.
Our legal basis is our legitimate interest in maintaining professional relationships in the sense of Art. 6 Par. 1 lit. f GDPR. You can object at any time by writing to info@energyweb.org, and we will stop, keeping only a minimal record of your objection so that we do not contact you again by mistake.
We will never sell, lease, or otherwise share your personal information with unaffiliated, third-party individuals and organizations unless you have expressly consented to it or if we are legally obliged to. Your personal information will only be used across the Energy Web team to deliver services and communications, and with service providers only as necessary to deliver and improve those services and to perform the functions described above.
Our service providers process personal data on our behalf under written contracts that restrict what they may do with it. They fall into the following categories:
We are entitled to transfer your personal data to third parties abroad for the purpose of data processing described in this Privacy Policy. Most of our processing takes place in Switzerland or the European Economic Area, and some of our service providers are located in other countries, including the United States.
They are obliged to protect data privacy to the same extent as us. Where personal data leaves Switzerland or the EEA, we rely on a decision by the European Commission or the Swiss Federal Council that the destination country provides adequate protection, on the provider's certification under the EU-US or Swiss-US Data Privacy Framework, or on the standard contractual clauses together with a documented assessment of the destination country's laws and of the technical and organizational measures protecting the data. We keep these assessments on file and will describe the safeguards applying to a particular provider on request.
We keep personal data only for as long as we need it:
We use appropriate technical and organizational security measures to protect your stored personal data against manipulation, partial or complete loss, and unauthorized access by third parties. We operate an information security management system with documented policies covering access control, joiner-mover-leaver processes, operations security, supplier management and acceptable use of tools. Access to systems holding personal data is restricted to those who need it, requires multi-factor authentication, and is reviewed periodically.
Please note that any data transmitted via internet is generally not secure and absolute protection is not technically possible. If a personal data breach affecting you occurs, we will notify you and the relevant authorities where the law requires it.
If you use a website of third parties with the corresponding links given on our website, this information does not apply, and Energy Web assumes no responsibility and liability for these.
You have the right to obtain from Energy Web, without undue delay, the rectification of inaccurate personal data concerning you.
You have the right to obtain confirmation from Energy Web whether or not personal data concerning you is being processed.
You have the right to obtain free information from Energy Web about your personal data stored and you can request at any time access to this information, including the purpose of the processing, the data concerned, and the period for which the personal data will be stored.
If you wish to avail yourself of this right, you may contact the address info@energyweb.org anytime. We will respond within one month. If a request is complex we may extend that period, and we will tell you if we do.
You have the right to request from Energy Web the complete erasure of your personal data under the following circumstances:
If you wish to request the erasure of personal data stored by the Foundation, you may at any time contact following address info@energyweb.org
You have the right to request that we restrict the processing of your personal data, and the right to object at any time to processing we carry out on the basis of our legitimate interest, including at any time to any direct marketing.Where our processing is based on your consent or on a contract, you have the right to receive the personal data concerning you in a structured, commonly used and machine-readable format. Where we have relied on your consent, you may withdraw it at any time.
If you are not satisfied with how we have handled your personal data, you can lodge a complaint with the Swiss Federal Data Protection and Information Commissioner (FDPIC), or with the data protection authority of the country where you live or work.
We do not make decisions about you by automated means, and we do not carry out profiling. Our website is aimed at professional and business audiences, is not directed at children, and we do not knowingly collect information about them.
If you have questions about this Privacy Policy, please email info@energyweb.org or contact us in writing via post at Energy Web AG | Baarerstrasse 10 | 6300 Zug | Switzerland.
We review this Privacy Policy at least once a year, and whenever we change how we handle personal data. The effective date at the top of this page shows when it last changed.Our representative in the EU according to article 27 GDPR is:
Energy Web DevHub GmbHHohenzollernstrasse 24, 14163 Berlin, Germany
Email: info@energyweb.org
