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Privacy & Cookies Policy

Deepbridge Privacy & Cookies Policy

Introduction

This privacy notice lets you know what happens to any personal data that you give to us, or any that we may collect from you or about you in line with The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR’) and the Data Protection Act 2018. It applies to all our products and services, and any instances where we collect your personal data.

About Us

Deepbridge refers to Deepbridge Capital LLP, and its trading style, Deepbridge Syndicate. Deepbridge Capital LLP is a limited liability partnership registered in England and Wales, registered number OC356449. Deepbridge Capital LLP is authorised and regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority (FRN 563366).

All personal information processed in connection with this privacy policy (the “Privacy Policy”) is controlled by Deepbridge Capital LLP, (from now on "we", "our" or "us"). Our registered office is at Deepbridge House, Honeycomb East, Chester Business Park, Chester CH4 9QN.

By “personal information” we mean all information that identifies or may identify you.

If you have any questions in relation to this privacy policy or how we collect, use or store your personal information, you can contact us by phone at: 01244 746000, by post at Deepbridge, Deepbridge House, Honeycomb East, Chester Business Park, Chester CH4 9QN or by email at: enquiries@deebridgecapital.com

Future Changes To This Privacy Notice

We may change this privacy notice occasionally in order to reflect changes in the law, as well as our privacy practices. While we encourage you to check this notice on our website regularly, we will notify you should any substantial change take place. This privacy policy was last updated on 12th March 2020.

Data Protection Officer (DPO)

Our Data Protection Officer is Andrew Aldridge. You can get in touch with Andrew at DPOenquiries@deepbridgecapital.com or Deepbridge House, Honeycomb East, Chester Business Park, Chester CH4 9QN.

What Personal Information About You Do We Process?

Personal information that we will process in connection with our products and services includes:

Where Does Your Personal Information Come From?

We will collect personal information from the following sources:

What Do We Use Your Personal Data For?

We use your personal data for the following purposes:

  • Assessing an application for a product or service, including considering whether or not to offer you the product or service, the price, the risk of doing so, availability of payment method and the terms
  • Managing products and services relating to that the product or service, or application for one
  • Managing any aspect of the product or service
  • To perform and/or test the performance of, our products, services and internal processes
  • To improve the operation of our business and that of our business partners
  • To follow guidance and best practice under the change to rules of governmental and regulatory bodies
  • For management and auditing of our business operations including accounting
  • To carry out checks at Credit Reference and Fraud Prevention Agencies during the pre-application and application stages, and periodically after that
  • To monitor and to keep records of our communications with you and our staff (see below)
  • To administer our good governance requirements such as internal reporting and compliance obligations or administration required
  • For market research and analysis and developing statistics
  • For direct marketing communications and related profiling to help us to offer you relevant products and service, including deciding whether or not to offer you certain products and service. We’ll send marketing to you by SMS, email, phone, post, social media and digital channels.  Offers may relate to any of our products and services.
  • To provide personalised content and services to you, such as tailoring our products and services, our digital customer experience and offerings, and deciding which offers or promotions to show you on our digital channels
  • To develop new products and services and to review and improve current products and services
  • To comply with legal and regulatory obligations, requirements and guidance
  • To provide insight and analysis of our customers both for ourselves and for the benefit of business partners either as part of providing products or services, helping us improve products or services, or to assess or improve the operating of our businesses
  • Deepbridge Capital LLP, and its associated companies, will share some or all of your personal data with parties necessary to the processing of the application and subsequent subscriptions of investors. Such parties include the Custodian/Nominee, Kin Capital Partners LLP and KCP Nominees Ltd, the Investment Manager, Enterprise Investment Partners LLP, GB Group PLC for identification and anti-money laundering reporting and the respective investee companies. These purposes may be extended to include those purposes as set out in the Privacy Policy of Deepbridge Capital LLP.
  • To share with third parties (GB Groups Plc.) to provide a service to, or perform a function for, us or you or who are otherwise appointed by us in connection with the services we offer you including those who are acting as our agent or sub-contractor, including, without limitation, data processing service providers and our legal and professional advisors;
  • To share with third parties, including law enforcement officials, law courts and government and regulatory authorities: (a) if we believe disclosure is required by any applicable law, regulation or legal process (such as to respond to subpoenas or judicial orders); or (b) to protect and defend our rights, or the rights or safety of third parties, including to defend against legal claims.
  • To facilitate the sale of one or more parts of our business
What Are The Legal Grounds For Our Processing Of Your Personal Information, And When Can We Share It With Others?

 We rely on the following legal bases to use your personal data:

  • Assessing an application for a product or service you hold with us, including consider whether or not to offer you the product, the price, the payment methods available and the conditions to attach
  • Managing products and services you hold with us, or an application for one
  • Updating your records, tracing your whereabouts to contact you about your account and doing this for recovering debt (where appropriate)
  • Sharing your personal information with business partners and services providers when you apply for a product to help manage your product
  • All stages and activities relevant to managing the product or service including enquiry, application, administration and management of accounts, illustrations, requests for transfers of equity, setting up/changing/removing guarantors
  • For some of our profiling and other automated decision making to decide whether to offer you a product and/or service, payment method and the price or terms of this
  • Where it is in our legitimate interests to do so, such as:
    • Managing your products and services relating to that, updating your records, tracing your whereabouts to contact you about your account and doing this for recovering debt (where appropriate)
    • To perform and/or test the performance of, our products, services and internal processes
    • To follow guidance and recommended best practice of government and regulatory bodies
    • For management and audit of our business operations including accounting
    • To carry out searches at Credit Reference Agencies pre-application, at the application stage, and periodically after that.  
    • To carry out monitoring and to keep records of our communications with you and our staff (see below)
    • To administer our good governance requirements, such as internal reporting, compliance obligations or to meet other administrative requirements
    • For market research and analysis and developing statistics
    • For direct marketing communications and related profiling to help us to offer you relevant products and services, including deciding whether or not to offer you certain products and service. We will send marketing to you by SMS, email, phone, post and social media and digital channels.
    • Subject to the appropriate controls, to provide insight and analysis of our customers to business partners either as part of providing products or services, helping us improve products or services, or to assess or to improve the operating of our businesses
    • For some of our profiling and other automated decision making
    • Where we need to share your personal information with people or organisations to run our business or comply with any legal and/or regulatory obligations
  • To comply with our legal obligations
    • We are Authorised by the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA), and as such may be required to process data to comply with the FCA’s rules. This may mean that we are unable to erase your data in certain circumstances, if to do so would result in a breach of the FCA’s record keeping requirements.
  • With your consent or explicit consent:
    • For some direct marketing communications
    • For some of our profiling and other automated decision making
    • For some of our processing of special categories of personal data such as about your health, if you are a vulnerable customer or some criminal records information
When Do We Share Your Personal Information With Other Organisations?

We may share information with the following third parties for the purposes listed above:

  • Business partners (for example, other financial services institutions and debt recovery specialists)
  • Governmental and regulatory bodies such as The Financial Conduct Authority, HM Revenue & Customs, the Prudential Regulation Authority, the Financial Ombudsman Service, the Information Commissioner’s Office and the Financial Services Compensation Scheme
  • Other organisations and business who provide services to us such as debt recovery agencies, back-up and server hosting providers, IT software and maintenance providers, document storage providers and other suppliers
  • Credit Reference and Fraud Prevention Agencies
How And When Can You Withdraw Your Consent?

Where we rely upon your consent to process your personal data, you can withdraw this at any time by contacting our Data Protection Officer (details below).

Our Data Protection Officer is Andrew Aldridge. You can get in touch with Andrew at DPOenquiries@deepbridgecapital.com or Deepbridge House, Honeycomb East, Chester Business Park, Chester CH4 9QN

How Do We Share Your Information With Fraud Prevention Agencies?

Details about how credit reference and fraud agencies use your personal data can be found within the Credit Reference Agency Information Notice: https://www.equifax.co.uk/efx_pdf/credit-reference-agency-information-notice.pdf

What Should You Do If Your Personal Information Changes?

You should tell us as soon as possible so that we can update our records. You can do so via the ‘contact us’ section of our website.

Do You Have To Provide Your Personal Information To Us?

You do not have to provide your personal information to us should you not wish to. However, we are unable to provide you with our products or services if you do not provide certain information to us. In cases where providing some personal information is optional, we will make this clear.

Do We Do Any Monitoring Involving Processing Of Your Personal Information?

In this section monitoring means any: listening to, recording of, viewing of, intercepting of, or taking and keeping records (as the case may be) of calls, email, text messages, social media messages, in person (face to face) meetings and other communications.

We may monitor where permitted by law and we’ll do this where the law requires it, or to comply with regulatory rules, to prevent or detect crime, in the interests of protecting the security of our communications systems and procedures and for quality control and staff training purposes. This information may be shared for the purposes described above.

What About Other Automated Decision Making?

We may make decisions about you using only technology, where none of our employees or any other individuals have been involved. For instance, we may do this to decide: whether to offer you a product or service and to determine the risk of doing so.

We’ll do this where it is necessary for entering into or performing the relevant contract, is authorised by laws that apply to us, or is based on your explicit consent.

How Long Do We Retain Your Personal Information?

Unless we explain otherwise to you, we’ll hold your personal information based on the following criteria:

  • For as long as we have reasonable business needs, such as managing our relationship with you and managing our operations
  • For as long as we provide goods and/or services to you
  • for as long as a claim brought against us lasts; and/or retention periods in line with legal and regulatory requirements or guidance, in particular in conjunction with FCA rules.
What Are Your Rights Under Data Protection Legislation?

Here is a list of the rights that all individuals have under data protection laws. They don’t apply in all circumstances. If you wish to use any of them, we’ll explain at that time if they are engaged or not. The right of data portability is only relevant from 25th May 2018.

  • The right to be informed about the processing of your personal information
  • The right to have your personal information corrected if it is inaccurate and to have incomplete personal information completed
  • The right to object to processing of your personal information
  • The right to restrict processing of your personal information
  • The right to have your personal information erased (‘right to be forgotten’) subject to legal or regulatory obligations
  • The right to request access to your personal information and to obtain information about how we process it
  • The right to move, copy or transfer your personal information (“data portability”)
  • Rights in relation to automated decision making which has a legal effect or otherwise significantly affects you

You have the right to complain to the Information Commissioner’s Office which enforces data protection laws: https://ico.org.uk/.

Your Right To Object

You have the right to object to certain purposes for processing, in particular to data processed for direct marketing purposes and to data processed for certain reasons based on our legitimate interests. You can contact us by going to the Contact Us section of our website to exercise these rights.

What Are Your Marketing Preferences And What Do They Mean?

We may use your home address, phone numbers, email address and social media or digital channels (for example, Facebook, Google and message facilities in other platforms) to contact you if you explicitly consent. You can stop our marketing at any time by amending your marketing preferences or by contacting us using the details below or by following the instructions in the communication.

Where Will Your Data Be Stored?

Your data is stored on secure servers, within the European Union (EU). To ensure that your personal information receives an adequate level of protection, we have put in place appropriate measures and procedures to ensure that your personal information is treated in a way that is consistent with and which respects data protection regulation.

We have also put in place appropriate procedures with third parties we share your personal data with to ensure that your personal information is treated by those third parties which is also in a way that is consistent with and which respects data protection regulation.

We will take all steps reasonably necessary to keep your data secure. You should be aware that transmission of information via the internet is not entirely secure and we cannot guarantee the security of any data you transmit to our Website or Mobile Apps via the internet.

We will retain your personal information and other information which we have collected or received to the extent required by applicable laws and as we may require for operational and legal purposes.

Cookies

Cookies are small files placed on your device when you visit our Website. We use cookies to recognise you and your preferences, improve the performance of our Website and to create statistical data.

Cookies generally fall into one of the following categories:

  • strictly necessary cookies which are cookies that are essential to allow you to use a website and its features;
  • performance cookies which collect information about how visitors use a website to create aggregated, anonymous information that does not identify the visitor;
  • functionality cookies which allow the website to remember you and provide a more personalised service; and
  • targeting or advertising cookies which are used to deliver adverts relevant to you.

Our Website uses all of the above types of cookies.

Some of our cookies remain on your device between your browsing sessions.

You can disable our cookies by changing the settings on your browser but doing so might mean you are unable to use certain features of our Website.

Third Party Links

Our Website and Mobile Apps may contain links to enable you to visit third-party websites, mobile sites and mobile applications. Please note that we do not have any control over these third-party websites, mobile sites or mobile applications. Therefore, we are not responsible for the protection and privacy of any information that you provide whilst visiting such sites. Such sites are governed by their own privacy policies and not this Privacy Policy.

How Can You Contact Us?

If you make a request, we have one month to respond to you. If you would like to exercise any of these rights or have a question about this privacy policy please contact us at our email DPOenquiries@deepbridgecapital.com or write to us at Deepbridge House, Honeycomb East, Chester Business Park, Chester CH4 9QN.

Complaints

All individuals have the right to lodge a complaint with the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) if they have concerns about how we have handled your information. Any concerns can be reported via the ICO’s website https://ico.org.uk/concerns/ or over the telephone, by calling 0303 123 1113.

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