Privacy policy
Last updated: February 4, 2025
What is this privacy policy about?
Photoncycle AS is a company developing a seasonal energy storage system for
residential use. We offer our customers a large capacity energy storage system that is based on solid-state hydrogen, that enables using self-produced solar energy year-round and help in balancing the energy grid.
Photoncycle AS is the parent company of the Photoncycle Group. This Privacy notice is for the processings where Photoncycle AS is Controller This Privacy Policy responds to the following questions:
- What information we collect about you?
- How we use that information?
- What are your rights and choices related to information we collect about you?
The phrase “information about you” in this policy has the same meaning as “personal data”, and means data we may use to identify you or that relates to you in other ways.
This privacy notice explains what categories of personal data we may process for
different purposes. A more detailed description of the categories can be found below.
Categories of Personal data
Communication
Information included in communication with us. Examples include content in forms, email, chat messages, surveys, etc.
Contact information
Information that lets us get in contact with you. Examples include email, physical
address, and phone number.
Customer status
A) Description of your relationship with us. B) Possible customer segments you belong to. Examples include A) Customer on a waiting list, Photoncycle subscriber B) Segment, campaign
Household information
Information about your household that we use for our services and offers. Examples include delivery point, grid area, type (house/apartment), size, number of residents, means for heating.
Other information you decide to share with us
Such information that is not included in this table but that you share in open text fields, e-mail, phone calls, etc.
Technical data
Information you provide or are collected when you use our online services, e.g. web page, mobile application, social media. Examples include IP-address, browser type and version, time zone setting and location, browser plug-in types and versions, operating system and platform and other technology on the device you use to access the online service, login data, page views and link clicks, visit period on the application, time spent using the application.
Controller
Photoncycle AS is the controller and responsible for the processing of personal data according to this privacy notice.
Full name of legal entity and contact information for Photoncycle AS are as follows:
Company name: Photoncycle AS
Company address: Gaustaadaleen 21, 0343 Oslo
Company registration number: 925 751 359 (Norway)
E-mail: [email protected]
Purposes for processing your personal data
To make your visit to our digital channels relevant for you
When you use any of our digital channels, e.g. webpage or pages on social media,
we will process personal data that you share with us in order to make your visit to our digital channels relevant for you.
Provide possibility to register interest
As we are getting closer to the market launch of our product, we are providing you a chance to sign up for a waitlist for the Photoncycle unit. If you want us to contact you when we have news about the product launch and entering new markets, you can register your interest.
Categories of personal data:
- Contact information (e-mail)
Legal basis: Consent
Retention time: As long as the purpose is applicable, or until you withdraw your consent.
Sharing and transfer of data: We may share the personal data to other Photoncycle companies where communication for this purpose is performed. We may also share the data to suppliers of communication tools.
To provide cost estimates of the Photoncycle system
We are providing you an opportunity to estimate the cost and savings related to
adoption of Photoncycle. The produced data will be stored, so we can provide you more specific offers and send out the quote.
Categories of personal data:
- Identification information
- Contact information
- Household information
- Demographic information
- Communication
Legal basis: Consent
Retention time: As long as the purpose is applicable or until you withdraw
your consent.
Sharing and transfer of data: We may share the personal data to other Photoncycle companies where communication for this purpose is performed.
To comply with laws, directives and regulatory requirements
We process information about you to comply with legal obligations such as book-
keeping, security and access control (including investigation and notification of security incidents or personal data breaches) or to respond to disclosure requests from public authorities when mandated by law.
Depending on the nature of the legal obligation, we may process Contact information, Account information, Purchase information, Payment information, Device data, Event Data, Other technical data and Your Content.
For risk management and business development purposes
We process information about you to ensure we have a correct understanding of how our business performs by monitoring different parts of our business such as accounts receivable and accounts payable or by analyzing trends in sales or the use of our services. We may process information about you to protect our rights when necessary, by preserving evidence and enforcing claims in or out of court. Should we be involved in a sale of parts of our business to another company, it may be necessary to exchange and process information about our customers to the acquiring party.
The categories of information we may use include Contact information, Account
information, Purchase information, Payment information, Device data, Event data, Other technical data and information collected from public sources when relevant for a legal or administrative proceeding.
We do not use algorithms or profiling to make any decision that would significantly affect you without the opportunity for human review.
Where do we process your data?
Photoncycle AS processes your personal data within the EU and the European
Economic Area (EEA), and our IT-system uses cloud services with the EU/EEA.
Photoncycle AS requires all third parties we use as Processor to respect the security of your personal data and to treat it in accordance with the law. Photoncycle does not allow our third-party service providers to use personal data for their own purposes and only permits them to process personal data for specified purposes and in accordance with our instructions. Sometimes we may transfer your personal data to third parties that themselves process them as Controllers, e.g. transfer to authorities.
Rights related to personal data
Since Photoncycle is established in the European Economic Area, our processing of information about you (or “personal data” as it is often called in the European
Union/European Economic Area) is subject to the GDPR regardless of where you reside or where the data is stored and processed.
Under the GDPR, you have the following rights in relation to our collection and use of information about you:
The right to request information from us as to whether and what data we process
from you:
- The right to have us correct data if it is inaccurate;
- The right to request erasure of data;
- The right to request that we provide certain personal data in a commonly used
electronic format or transfer it to another controller; - The right to withdraw consent, where our processing is based on your consent;
- The right to receive, upon request, further information that is helpful for the
exercise of these rights;
If you wish to exercise any of the rights set out above, you can contact Photoncycle via email at [email protected].
Can we update this privacy policy?
This Privacy Policy is not part of a contract with you. Its primary purpose is to ensure that you have up-to-date and accurate information about how we collect and use data about you, and we may therefore change this Privacy Policy at any time. We will notify you of material changes to this Privacy Notice in accordance with applicable law. The version published on this website is the current version.
Contact us
Photoncycle AS, Gaustaadaleen 21, 0343 Oslo, Norway
E-mail: [email protected]
This Privacy notice was updated in February 2025.