Last updated 23/07/2024

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This Cookie Policy explains how Solar Europe (Pty) LTD and all its subsidiaries and affiliates, doing business as Solar Europe ("Company,” "we,” "us,” and "our") use cookies and similar technologies to recognize you when you visit our websites at www.solar-europe.co.za and https://retrotech01.wixstudio.io/sei-training ("Websites"). It explains what these technologies are and why we use them, as well as your rights to control our use of them.

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In some cases, we may use cookies to collect personal information or information that becomes personal if we combine it with other information.

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What are cookies?

Cookies are small text files that are placed on your computer or mobile device when you visit a website. Data stored in a cookie is created by a website’s server when you connect with it. This data is labeled with an ID unique to you and your device. Cookies are widely used by website owners to make their websites work or to work more efficiently, as well as to provide reporting information.

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Cookies set by the website owner (in this case, Solar Europe) are called "first party cookies". Cookies set by parties other than the website owner are called "third-party cookies". Third-party cookies enable third-party features or functionality to be provided on or through the website (e.g. advertising, interactive content and analytics). The parties that set these third-party cookies can recognize your computer both when it visits the website in question and when it visits certain other websites.

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Why do we use cookies?

Some cookies are required for technical reasons in order for our Websites to operate. We refer to these as "essential" cookies. Other cookies also enable us to track and target the interests of our users to enhance the experience on our Websites. Third parties serve cookies through our Websites for advertising, analytics and other purposes.

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The specific types of first and third-party cookies served through our Websites and the purposes they perform are described below. Please note that the specific cookies served may vary depending on the specific Online Properties you visit.

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How can I control cookies?

You have the right to decide whether to use our Websites and accept or reject certain types of cookies at any time. You can exercise your cookie rights by setting your preferences in our Cookie Consent Manager. The Cookie Consent Manager allows you to select which categories of cookies you accept or reject. Essential cookies cannot be rejected, as they are strictly necessary to provide you with our Websites’ services.

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The Cookie Consent Manager can be accessed by selecting the floating icon in the bottom left of your screen when viewing any Solar Europe webpage. If you choose to reject certain cookie categories, you may still use our Websites, but your access to some functionality and areas of our Websites may be restricted. You may also set or amend your web browser controls to accept or refuse cookies. Controlling how you can refuse cookies through your web browser controls varies from browser to browser, so you should visit your browser's help menu for more information.

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All data we collect is governed by our Private Policies, which can be viewed here.

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What types of cookies do we use?

Essential cookies:

These cookies enable core functionality such as security, verification of identity and network management. These cookies can’t be disabled.

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Optional cookies:

Marketing Cookies:

These cookies are used to track advertising effectiveness to provide a more relevant service and deliver better ads to suit your interests.

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Functional Cookies:

These cookies collect data to remember choices users make to improve and give a more personalized experience.

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Analytics Cookies:

These cookies help us to understand how visitors interact with our website, discover errors and provide a better overall analytics.

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What about other tracking technologies, like web beacons?

Cookies are not the only way to recognize or track visitors to a website. We may use other, similar technologies from time to time, like web beacons (sometimes called "tracking pixels" or "clear gifs"). These are tiny graphics files that contain a unique identifier that enable us to recognize when someone has visited our Websites or opened an e-mail including them. This allows us, for example, to monitor the traffic patterns of users from one page within a website to another, to deliver or communicate with cookies, to understand whether you have come to the website from an online advertisement displayed on a third-party website, to improve site performance, and to measure the success of e-mail marketing campaigns. In many instances, these technologies are reliant on cookies to function properly, and so declining cookies will impair their functioning.

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Third-party cookies

To support our website, we sometimes embed audio files, images and video content from social media websites. As a result, when you visit a page with content embedded from (for example) YouTube or Instagram, you may be presented with cookies from these websites. Solar Europe does not control the dissemination of these cookies. You should check the third-party websites for more information about these.

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In parts of our Websites, we will also embed 'share' buttons to enable users of our Websites to easily share articles or pages with their friends through social media networks. These sites may set a cookie when you are also logged in to their service. Solar Europe does not control the dissemination of these cookies and you should check the relevant third-party website for more information about these.

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How often will we update this Cookie Policy?

We may update this Cookie Policy from time to time to reflect, for example, changes to the cookies we use or for other operational, legal or regulatory reasons. Please re-visit this Cookie Policy regularly to stay informed about our use of cookies and related technologies.

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The date at the top of this Cookie Policy indicates when it was last updated.