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1. INFORMATION TO THE USER

alera Energy S.L.U., as Data Controller, informs you that, in accordance with the provisions of Regulation (EU) 2016/679, of April 27, (RGPD) and in the L.O. 3/2018, of December 5, data protection and guarantee of digital rights (LOPDGDD), we will treat your data as reflected in this Privacy Policy.

In this Privacy Policy we describe how we collect your personal data and why we collect it, what we do with it, with whom we share it, how we protect it, and your choices regarding the processing of your personal data.

This Policy applies to the processing of your personal data collected by the company for the provision of its services. If you accept the measures in this Policy, you agree that we treat your personal data as defined in this Policy.

2. Basic Principles

We have always been committed to providing our services with the highest degree of quality, which includes treating your data with security and transparency. Our principles are:

  • Legality: We will only collect your Personal Data for specific, explicit and legitimate purposes.
  • Data minimization: We limit the collection of personal data to what is strictly relevant and necessary for the purposes for which it was collected.
  • Purpose Limitation: We will only collect your personal data for the stated purposes and only in accordance with your wishes.
  • Accuracy: We will keep your personal data accurate and up to date.
  • Data Security: We apply appropriate technical and organizational measures proportional to the risks to ensure that your data does not suffer damage, such as unauthorized disclosure or access, accidental or unlawful destruction or accidental loss or alteration and any other form of illicit treatment.
  • Access and Rectification: We have the means for you to access or rectify your data when you consider it appropriate.
  • Retention: We retain your personal data lawfully and appropriately and only for as long as it is necessary for the purposes for which it was collected.
  • International transfers: when it is the case that your data is going to be transferred outside the EU/EEA, they will be adequately protected.
  • Third Parties: The access and transfer of personal data to third parties are carried out in accordance with the applicable laws and regulations and with the appropriate contractual guarantees.
  • Direct Marketing and cookies: We comply with the applicable legislation regarding advertising and cookies.

3. COLLECTION AND PROCESSING OF YOUR PERSONAL DATA
The types of data that can be requested and processed are:

  • Identification data.

We also automatically collect data about your visit to our website as described in the cookie policy.

Whenever we request your Personal Data, we will clearly inform you of what personal data we collect and for what purpose. In general, we collect and process your personal data for the purpose of:

  • Provide information, services, products, relevant information and news in the sector.
  • Sending communications.

4. LEGITIMACY

In accordance with the applicable data protection regulations, your personal data may be processed provided that:

  • You have given us your consent for the purposes of processing. Of course you can withdraw your consent at any time.
  • By legal requirement.
  • Because there is a legitimate interest that is not undermined by your privacy rights, such as sending commercial information either by subscribing to our newsletter or by being a customer.
  • Because it is necessary for the provision of any of our services through a contractual relationship between you and us.

5. COMMUNICATION OF PERSONAL DATA

The data may be communicated to companies related to alera Energy S.L.U. for the provision of various services as Treatment Managers. The company will not make any assignment, except by legal obligation.

6. YOUR RIGHTS

In relation to the collection and processing of your personal data, you can contact us at any time to:

  • Access your personal data and any other information indicated in Article 15.1 of the GDPR.
  • Rectify your personal data that is inaccurate or incomplete in accordance with Article 16 of the GDPR.
  • Delete your personal data in accordance with Article 17 of the GDPR.
  • Limit the processing of your personal data in accordance with Article 18 of the GDPR.
  • Request the portability of your data in accordance with Article 20 of the GDPR.
  • Oppose the processing of your personal data in accordance with article 21 of the GDPR.

If you have given your consent for any specific purpose, you have the right to withdraw the consent granted at any time, without affecting the legality of the treatment based on the consent prior to its withdrawal.

You can exercise these rights by sending motivated and accredited communication to info1@www.alera.academy

You also have the right to file a claim with the competent Control Authority (www.aepd.es) if you consider that the treatment does not comply with current regulations.

7. LEGAL INFORMATION
The requirements of this Policy complement, and do not replace, any other existing requirements under the applicable data protection law, which will prevail in any case.

This Policy is subject to periodic review and may be amended by Company at any time. When this occurs, we will notify you of any changes and ask you to re-read the most recent version of our Policy and confirm your acceptance.

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WHY

Why do we need the www.alera.academy?

The global energy transition towards an electricity dominated energy world created by renewable energy, mainly wind and solar, is well underway. In some countries, wind and solar are already contributing a notable portion of the electricity production. By this transition, the interest in thermal energy is declining and material and intellectual resources are increasingly diverted from thermal energy technology to electricity from renewables. Some university institutes for thermal engineering are faced with strongly reduced numbers of students or they even close thermal energy departments

However, if one looks at the total global primary energy usage, the picture looks less promising.

Evaluating the last 17 years, the period after the Kyoto protocol signed by 192 nations went into force in 2005. we see that the actual contribution of wind and solar energy to cover the global primary energy consumption is neglectable.

In this period the global primary consumption of energy increased by 26,3 % and the largest amount of this increase  with 70 % was provided by coal, oil and gas. Wind and solar contributed only 20 % of the increase and hydropower 8 %. 

In 2021 wind and solar energy only provided 4,3 % of total global primary energy.

The contribution of the different energy sources to the global primary energy is shown below.

(source https://ourworldindata.org/energy-mix). 

The fact that wind and solar energy have a high convertion factor to  electricity is already accounted for in the above numbers chart. Nuclear is shown with its thermal input, not electricity produced and hydro is adjusted for efficiency as present in a thermal power plant.

The idea that additional energy consumption growth or the globally required energy  will in the short to medium future, say 50 to 100 years, be in its majority provided by wind and solar and the rest by other renewables such as hydro or nuclear with a suitable grid and energy storage system is nothing but an illusion.

This is why we are conviced that we must upkeep and further develop thermal energy knowledge, and so utilise the enormous potential energy saving  through efficiency increase and better thermal energy processes.