Last updated: April 6, 2025
1. Introduction
At Solar Insolation Calculator, we respect your privacy and are committed to protecting your personal data. This privacy policy will inform you about how we look after your personal data when you visit our website and tell you about your privacy rights and how the law protects you.
2. Information We Collect
We collect several types of information for various purposes to provide and improve our Service to you:
2.1 Personal Data
While using our Service, we may ask you to provide us with certain personally identifiable information that can be used to contact or identify you ("Personal Data"). This may include:
- Email address (if you contact us or subscribe to our newsletter)
- First name and last name (if you contact us)
- Location data (when you use our calculator)
2.2 Usage Data
We may also collect information on how the Service is accessed and used ("Usage Data"). This Usage Data may include information such as your computer's Internet Protocol address (e.g., IP address), browser type, browser version, the pages of our Service that you visit, the time and date of your visit, the time spent on those pages, unique device identifiers, and other diagnostic data.
2.3 Location Data
Our calculator requires location information to provide solar insolation estimates. When you enter an address or coordinates, we use this information solely to retrieve solar data for that location. We do not store this location data with any personally identifiable information.
3. How We Use Your Information
We use the collected data for various purposes:
- To provide and maintain our Service
- To notify you about changes to our Service
- To provide customer support
- To gather analysis or valuable information so that we can improve our Service
- To monitor the usage of our Service
- To detect, prevent and address technical issues
4. Cookies and Tracking Technologies
We use cookies and similar tracking technologies to track activity on our Service and hold certain information.
Cookies are files with a small amount of data which may include an anonymous unique identifier. Cookies are sent to your browser from a website and stored on your device. You can instruct your browser to refuse all cookies or to indicate when a cookie is being sent. However, if you do not accept cookies, you may not be able to use some portions of our Service.
We use the following types of cookies:
- Essential Cookies: Required for the operation of our website.
- Analytical/Performance Cookies: Allow us to recognize and count the number of visitors and see how visitors move around our website.
- Functionality Cookies: Used to recognize you when you return to our website.
5. Third-Party Services
Our Service may use third-party services that collect information used to identify you:
- Google Analytics (for website usage analysis)
- Google AdSense (for displaying advertisements)
- OpenStreetMap/Nominatim (for geocoding addresses)
- NREL APIs (for solar data)
Each of these services has its own privacy policy governing how they use your information.
6. Data Security
The security of your data is important to us, but remember that no method of transmission over the Internet or method of electronic storage is 100% secure. While we strive to use commercially acceptable means to protect your Personal Data, we cannot guarantee its absolute security.
7. Your Data Protection Rights
Depending on your location, you may have certain rights regarding your personal information:
- The right to access, update, or delete the information we have on you
- The right of rectification (to correct information)
- The right to object (to processing of your personal data)
- The right of restriction (to restrict processing of your data)
- The right to data portability (to receive a copy of your data)
- The right to withdraw consent
If you wish to exercise any of these rights, please contact us.
8. Children's Privacy
Our Service does not address anyone under the age of 13. We do not knowingly collect personally identifiable information from anyone under the age of 13. If you are a parent or guardian and you are aware that your child has provided us with Personal Data, please contact us.
9. Changes to This Privacy Policy
We may update our Privacy Policy from time to time. We will notify you of any changes by posting the new Privacy Policy on this page and updating the "Last updated" date.
You are advised to review this Privacy Policy periodically for any changes. Changes to this Privacy Policy are effective when they are posted on this page.
10. Contact Us
If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, please contact us through our Contact page.