Privacy policy for the use of our solar management app

Effective Date: October 16, 2023

Scope of this privacy policy

This privacy policy only applies to the use of this app.

For more information on data protection in our company, please visit [https://shop.pvstar.com/]

 

To provide you with app services, and ensure the function realization and safe operation of app, our app may require Internet access and the permissions to Storage (to store files and update the app), Location (to recommend quick services available in your area), Phone (to obtain your device identifier and let you check warranty status and request maintenance services), Calendar (to read calendar events and details and modify calendar). Smart Diagnosis requests permissions to Storage, Location, Phone, Camera, Contacts, Messaging and Microphone to check the status of your hardware. You can manage the permissions for app from system settings. For details, please refer to "Permission Usage Instructions".

Information about the collection of personal data

In order to provide the services - such as monitoring of the system, maintenance and predictive analysis of data - your personal data as described below will be processed by the Chint PVSTAR Energy Solutions GmbH, having its address at Stralauer Platz 33-34, 10243 Berlin, Germany as the responsible party.

 


The data processing is based on Art. 6 (1) a) of the European Data Protection Regulation (EU GDPR), if you consent to its use, and/or on Art. 6 (1) b) EU GDPR for the service provision by us and our contractual partners (installers).

As the responsible party, we process your personal data as follows:

Data (mandatory data are marked with *)

1. customer data: Last name*, first name*, street*, house number*, zip code*, city*, e-mail address*, telephone number.

 

Purpose(s)

Customer Data is required for administration and registration, and following maintenance service, on the basis of which the User Agreement for the Management App [Note KWM: Adapt name of App] is concluded so that the Management App services can be provided.

Data (mandatory data are marked with *)

2. Product and other data: serial number, MAC address

The data marked with * under 1. 2. are mandatory data and are required in order to provide the services of the PVSTAR app. The data will be kept for the above purposes for a period of 6 months after the termination of the use of the App by deleting the account. 

 

 

We may automatically receive and store certain types of information whenever you interact with our APP using Google's SDK. For example, This SDK may specifically collect, process and/or use the following data: Phone Model, OAID, and Multimedia Gifs. Google SDK provides this information anonymously with no personal, identifying information associated with it. SDK uses this anonymous data to understand how the APP is being used and to make improvements to the user experience over time. In the process of using the APP, you may use H5 pages or mini programs developed by Google SDK, and these plug-ins or mini programs developed by Google SDK may also apply for relevant operating system permissions as necessary for technical functions.

Information about the recipients of personal data

We transfer data to the following recipients for the purposes listed below:

Data:

1. Customer data

2. Plant Data

In addition to personal data, we process and store information generated by the inverter on the solar energy generated and information on connected devices, as well as technical information such as Plant address/location, serial number of equipment, the fault data of the power plant

 

 

Purpose(s):

Administration and contract fulfillments

Recipient(s):

    contract partners (installers). The installers are located in the European Economic Area (Germany) and have access to your data in order to view the function of your system and to be able to provide appropriate services - such as reading status messages for fault detection and rectification, optimization of the system, repair.

 

 

 

 

    Chint Anneng Digital Power (Zhejiang) Co., Ltd. The PVSTAR app is maintained and provided with software updates by the company as part of the support as manufacturer of the app. Therefore, it cannot be ruled out that your data will be accessed. However, the app is operated on servers within the scope of the European Economic Area.

 

 

 


For the People's Republic of China, there is currently no decision by the EU Commission within the meaning of Article 45 (3) of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). This means that the EU Commission has not yet determined that the level of data protection in the People's Republic of China meets the requirements of the GDPR. In order to nevertheless ensure an adequate level of data protection, we have concluded a contractual agreement with the subcontractor based on standard contractual clauses (Art. 46(2)(c) GDPR).

Your rights as a data subject

Data subject rights under the GDPR: As a data subject, you are entitled to various rights under the GDPR, which arise in particular from Articles 15 to 21 of the GDPR:

    Right to object: you have the right to object at any time, on grounds relating to your particular situation, to the processing of personal data concerning you which is carried out on the basis of Article 6(1)(e) or (f) of the GDPR; this also applies to profiling based on these provisions. If the personal data concerning you is processed for the purpose of direct marketing, you have the right to object at any time to the processing of personal data concerning you for the purpose of such marketing; this also applies to profiling insofar as it is related to such direct marketing.

 

    Right to withdraw consent: You have the right to revoke any consent given at any time.

    Right to information: you have the right to request confirmation as to whether data in question is being processed and to information about this data, as well as further information and a copy of the data in accordance with the legal requirements.

    Right to rectification: you have the right, in accordance with the law, to request that data concerning you be completed or that inaccurate data concerning you be rectified.

 

    Right to erasure and restriction of processing: In accordance with the legal requirements, you have the right to demand that data concerning you be deleted without delay, or alternatively, in accordance with the legal requirements, to demand restriction of the processing of the data.

    Right to data portability: You have the right to receive data concerning you, which you have provided to us, in a structured, common and machine-readable format in accordance with the legal requirements, or to demand its transfer to another responsible party.

 

    Complaint to supervisory authority: without prejudice to any other administrative or judicial remedy, you have the right to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority, in particular in the Member State of your habitual residence, place of work or place of the alleged infringement, if you consider that the processing of personal data concerning you infringes the requirements of the GDPR.

If you have any queries, you could contact our staff as follows, Email: service@pvstar.com