Data controller: tepeo, 630 Wharfedale Road, Winnersh, Wokingham, RG41 5TP

We are committed to being transparent about how we collect and use data and to meeting our data protection obligations.

When do we collect information about you? 

We collect information about you when you:

  • Register to find out if a ZEB is suitable for your home
  • Subscribe to our newsletters or marketing communications
  • Sign up for trials and other initiatives we run from time to time
  • Register to attend events organised by or involving tepeo
  • Visit our website and accept the use of cookies

How will we use the information about you and what is our Lawful Basis? 

Under UK data protection law, we must have a “lawful basis” for processing your personal data. Here is how we use your information and the legal grounds we rely on:

  • To assess your home’s suitability: We process your address, property details, and energy usage to provide your ZEB Home Check and issue an indication of suitability. Our lawful basis is that this is necessary to take steps at your request prior to entering a contract.
  • To provide installation services: When you request a quote, we may share your contact details, location, and property information with our network of authorised tepeo PRO installers so they can arrange surveys and provide services. Our lawful basis is performance of a contract.
  • To send marketing communications: We will only send you email or postal marketing if you have given us your explicit consent.
  • For social media advertising: We share data securely with platforms like Meta and Google to serve targeted ads. Our lawful basis for this is your explicit consent, obtained when you accept our advertising cookies or marketing terms.
  • To provide updates: If you register for a trial or event, we use your data to keep you informed. Our lawful basis is your consent.
  • To fulfill tepeo Care Plans and maintenance: If you purchase a ZEB or subscribe to a Care Plan, we use your contact and property details to arrange ongoing maintenance and physical checks. We will share this information with tepeo staff or our authorised tepeo PRO installers so they can visit your property to complete these services. Our lawful basis is the performance of a contract.

Third-Party Data Sources

When you use our ZEB Home Check tool, we instantly look up your property details (such as property age, size, and Energy Performance Certificate (EPC) rating). This information is obtained from external third-party databases, such as the UK Government’s EPC Register, to ensure your quote is accurate.

Data Retention 

We keep your personal data only for as long as is necessary for the purposes it was collected. Specifically:

  • Abandoned Quotes: If you use our Home Check tool but do not complete the form to request a quote, your full address is never stored. We only capture your full postcode and associated EPC data. We will retain this information for a maximum of 6 years.
  • Customer Data: If you become a customer, we retain your data for the duration of your warranty and for up to 6 years thereafter to comply with tax and legal obligations.

In some circumstances, we might anonymise your personal data (so that it can no longer be associated with you) and use this indefinitely, without further notice.

Access to your information and correction 

You have the right to request a copy of the information that we hold about you. If you would like a copy of some or all of your personal information, please contact us using the contact information provided below. You can ask us to correct or remove information you think is inaccurate.

We hold personal data securely on Google and Amazon cloud servers which are both compliant with GDPR requirements. Because these are international companies, some data may be transferred outside of the UK. When this happens, we ensure strict legal safeguards are in place, such as Standard Contractual Clauses or reliance on UK Adequacy Regulations, to protect your data.

Where personal data is collected directly from individuals for case studies, surveys and research, explicit consent for processing is sought.

Form submissions 

When you submit information to this website via our form, we collect the data requested in the form in order to respond to your submission. We hold this information within Hubspot, our CRM system, and use Hubspot to manage our communications with you.

Cookies 

This website uses cookies and similar technologies, which are small files or pieces of text that download to a device when a visitor accesses a website or app. There are two types of cookies, essential cookies which help a website to function, offering you the best visitor experience and analytics or performance cookies which are used to monitor website activity.

This website is hosted by WP Engine. WP Engine collects personal data when you visit this website, including:

  • Information about your browser, network and device
  • Web pages you visited prior to coming to this website
  • Web pages you view while on this website
  • Your IP address

WP Engine needs the data to run this website, and to protect and improve its platform and services. WP Engine analyses the data in a depersonalised form.

With the use of analytic cookies this website collects and shares with our analytic providers, WP Engine and Google, the following data:

  • Clicks
  • Internal links
  • Pages visited
  • Scrolling
  • Searches
  • Timestamps
  • The town and country you are located in

Advertising and Remarketing Cookies

In addition to analytics, we use advertising cookies and tracking technologies, such as the Meta Pixel and Google Ads tags. These tools help us track the effectiveness of our advertising campaigns and allow us to participate in remarketing. 

This means we may use your browsing behavior to show you relevant advertisements for tepeo on other websites and social media platforms. You can set your browser not to accept cookies and you can remove cookies from your browser. More information about how to do this can be found here.

Marketing Communications & Advertising

With your consent, we may send you marketing communications via email or post. You can unsubscribe from email communications by clicking the link at the bottom of the email, and you can opt out of postal campaigns by contacting us. We share your contact information with Hubspot, our CRM and email marketing provider, so we can send emails out through their system and keep our data in one place.

To ensure you see the most relevant content, we may also securely share your data (such as hashed email addresses) with third-party advertising platforms like Meta (Facebook and Instagram) and Google Ads. This allows us to create “Custom Audiences” and serve targeted advertising to you on these platforms.

If you are a customer and opt out of marketing emails we may still contact you with product updates and other aspects that we deem important under legitimate interest.

tepeo App

If you are a customer you will use the tepeo app to configure and manage your ZEB. Secure authentication via an email address and account password is an inherent and necessary part of delivering this service to you. We prefer you to authenticate using a third-party Single Sign-On (SSO) service so that we do not collect or store your account password. Whether you choose to use SSO or not we will process your authentication credentials on the lawful basis of performance of a contract. 

Applying for Finance

Payments and Financial Data

If you purchase a ZEB or subscribe to a tepeo Care Plan, we must process financial data to collect your monthly or annual payments. We do not store your full credit card, debit card, or bank account details directly on our own servers. Instead, this data is securely collected and processed by our trusted third-party payment gateway, Stripe. Our lawful basis for processing payment information is the performance of a contract, and we retain transaction records to comply with our legal obligations under UK tax and accounting laws.

Applying for Finance 

We offer finance products from a panel of lenders to help you spread the cost of your ZEB. tepeo LTD is an appointed representative of Koze Group Ltd, which is a credit broker, not a lender.

If you choose to apply for finance, you will complete the application directly through the Vendigo platform. tepeo does not collect or process any personal or financial information relating to the finance application itself. The Vendigo platform then submits the application to the relevant lender(s). tepeo and the installer generally act as separate data controllers for their own processing activities, rather than joint controllers.

How your data is used for finance & our Lawful Basis:

  • Credit Checking: Our finance partners will use your details to check your credit history with Credit Reference Agencies. This will leave a footprint on your credit file.
  • Processing the application: We do not store this data ourselves; it is passed directly through to the Vendigo platform so the broker/lender can provide you with the requested finance product. Our lawful basis for this is taking steps at your request prior to entering into a performance of a contract.
  • Compliance: We retain basic records of your application to comply with the rules set out by the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) and our legal obligations.

Please note that once your data is passed to a finance partner, they become the “Data Controller” for that specific information. Please read the privacy policies of our finance partners to understand how they process your personal information as independent data controllers. If you have any financial complaints or questions about how they process your data, we highly recommend reading their respective Privacy and Complaints Policies

Other websites

Our website contains links to other websites including our social media channels and Google Maps. This privacy policy only applies to this website so when you link to other websites you should read their privacy policies.

Your rights

You have a number of rights. You can:

  • Access and obtain a copy of your data on request
  • Require us to change incorrect or incomplete data
  • Require us to delete or stop processing your data, for example where the data is no longer necessary for the purposes of processing
  • Object to the processing of your data where we are relying on legitimate interest as the legal ground for processing
  • Ask us to stop processing data for a period if data is inaccurate or there is a dispute about whether or not your interests override our legitimate grounds for processing data

Data Protection Complaints

If you believe that we have not complied with your data protection rights, you have the right to make a data protection complaint directly to us. We will acknowledge your complaint within 30 days and investigate without undue delay. If you remain dissatisfied with how we have handled your complaint, you can complain to the Information Commissioner who can be contacted here. We would, of course, appreciate the opportunity to discuss your complaint with you first.

How to contact us 

If you have any questions about this privacy policy, our privacy practices, or if you wish to exercise your legal data rights, please contact our data privacy manager:

  • Email address: customerservice@tepeo.com

  • Postal address: 630 Wharfedale Close, Winnersh, Wokingham, Rg41 5TP

Changes to our privacy policy 

We keep our privacy policy under regular review and we will place any updates on our website. 

Updated: 18th June 2026.