Marketing & Cookies

We rely on our legitimate interest in direct marketing to use your email for marketing purposes. We will inform you in advance of sending you marketing (unless this is obvious by the circumstances - for example, when you provide us with your business card). To the extent applicable laws in certain jurisdictions require consent, your provision of Personal Information to us will constitute your consent to such processing where appropriate. Where required, we will also ask you to provide your explicit written consent.

Cookies

We provide all visitors to our site with notice of our cookie collection. We use cookies (small text files placed on your device) and similar technologies on our website and marketing emails to: make sure our websites function as they should; and analyze how our websites and online services are performing (for example to understand how people arrive at and use our website so that we can make it more intuitive); and If you are concerned about cookies, most web browsers (Safari, Internet Explorer, Chrome, etc.) now recognize when a cookie is offered and allow you to opt-out of receiving it. You can also delete all cookies that are already on your browser. If you choose to do this, you may have to manually adjust some preferences every time you visit our websites and some services and functionalities may not work. For more information about cookies and how to disable and/or delete them, please visit www.allaboutcookies.org

Changing your marketing preferences

You may ask us not to process your Personal Information for marketing purposes and can exercise the right at any time by sending us an email at [email protected], or by clicking on 'unsubscribe' in a Deal Academy marketing email.  

Other Sharing of Your Personal Information

We will share your Personal Information, where appropriate, with our relevant partners and staff who may be based in any of our offices. We will also at times need to share some of your Personal Information with select third parties, such as:

Persons related to you

Your agents, consultants, other advisers, counterparties, beneficiaries, trustees, banks and related persons, where you ask us to, or as otherwise necessary for the Permitted Purposes.

Persons related to us

Our agents, consultants and other professionals, suppliers and external agencies/administrators who assist us with legal, administrative, financial, operational and other services, and may have access to certain of your Personal Information as part of their role. These will include, for example: IT software, applications and services, including web content management, recruitment and telecommunications services suppliers; website, online portal and client extranet providers; business continuity/disaster recovery and data back-up providers; our file storage and management suppliers; third party due diligence and identity/background verification suppliers; our banks and other financial providers (such as currency exchange, e-billing and outsourced payroll suppliers); our insurers, insurance brokers, and lawyers; our auditors and other professionals engaged for audit purposes; local lawyers, tax advisors or experts; and other professional advisors.

Courts/tribunals; and law enforcement, regulatory and public authorities

Where disclosure is required by applicable rules and law, or by any court, tribunal, law enforcement, regulatory, public or quasi-governmental authority or department around the world. We do not disclose (or sell) your Personal Information to any other third parties.

Security & Confidentiality of Your Personal Information

We operate a range of technical, non-technical and procedural controls to safeguard your Personal Information (including protection against unauthorized or unlawful processing and against accidental loss, destruction or damage). In particular: We use: (a) firewalls and encryption; and (b) physical and technical controls on, and monitoring of, access to our premises and systems. We only engage reputable suppliers and undertake appropriate information security and regulatory compliance due diligence on them. All our partners and staff who handle Personal Information are subject to confidentiality obligations, have to comply with our internal compliance policies, and receive appropriate data protection and information security training. We will periodically review and update the adequacy of our methods above as the sensitivity and geographical scope of our services expand. The transmission of information via the internet is not completely secure. Although we do our best to protect your Personal Information, we cannot guarantee the security of your Information transmitted to our website – and any such transmission is at your own risk. Our website may also, from time to time, contain links to third party websites - which are outside of our control and are not covered by this Notice. If you access other websites using the links provided, please check their privacy policy before submitting any Personal Information to them.

Data Breaches

If a data breach (leading to the destruction, loss, alteration, unauthorized disclosure of, or access to, your Personal Information) occurs which is likely to result in a high risk of adversely affecting your rights and freedoms, we will inform you of this without undue delay. Where legally permitted, any such notifications will be made either via email, post or telephone.

Updates

If we materially change this Privacy Notice, we will change the “last updated” date above.