Privacy Policy Our Privacy Policy - your rights, your information and how we use it Harwood Capital LLP (“Harwood”) is committed to protecting your personal information in accordance with the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and any successor Data Protection laws and regulations as applicable in the United Kingdom, in line with the highest standards of ethical conduct. This policy sets forth important information about the expected behaviours of Harwood Employees and Third Parties in relation to the consent, collection, use, retention, transfer, disclosure, and destruction of any Personal Data belonging to a Harwood client (i.e. the Data Subject). Harwood, as a Data Controller- i.e. any organisation that handles Personal Data, is responsible for ensuring compliance with the Data Protection requirements outlined in this policy. This version of our Privacy Policy was last updated 1st February 2020. Who we are Harwood Capital LLP, is part of the Harwood Capital Management Group. This Privacy Policy applies to Harwood Capital LLP the legal trading company that manages the products and services we offer to our customers. How to contact us If you have any questions about our Privacy Policy or the information we collect or use about you, please contact; FAO Data Protection Officer Harwood Capital LLP 6 Stratton Street London W1J 8LD Email: ashah@harwoodcapital.co.uk Information we collect and use Information about you that we collect and use includes: Information about who you are e.g. your name, date of birth and contact details Information connected to your product or service with us e.g. your bank account details Information about your contact with us e.g. meetings, phone calls, emails/letters Information that is automatically collected e.g. via cookies when you visit one of our websites Information if you visit one of our offices e.g. visual images collected via closed-circuit television (CCTV) Information classified as ‘sensitive’ personal information e.g. relating to your health, marital or civil partnership status. This information will only be collected and used where it’s needed to provide the product or service you have requested or to comply with our legal obligations The information you may provide us about other people e.g. joint applicants or beneficiaries for products you have with us Information on children e.g. where a child is named as a beneficiary on the policy taken out by a parent or guardian on their behalf. In these cases, we will collect and use only the information required to identify the child (such as their name, age, gender) What are cookies? A cookie is a small file – it’s saved onto your computer or other devices when you visit our website. Cookies store small pieces of information. For example - they will remember you've visited our website or performed a certain action. We use cookies to help us improve your experience when you visit our website. For example, a cookie might store information so you don't have to keep entering it. Cookies also let us know which pages of our website you visited; they help us develop and market our products and services. They also help us track sales. Persistent cookies - these stay valid, and will work until their expiry date (unless you delete them before they expire) Session cookies - these expire when you close your web browser Harwood operates many different platforms, websites, and microsites, where we use, store and process your information in a way that is specific to that application. Therefore, we have many different cookie policies and these can be accessed by clicking on the ‘Privacy Policy’ link at the foot of each webpage. There is a consistency across all our cookie policies and as such, you can find more detail on our website at www.harwoodcapital.co.uk Cookies policy. Where we collect your information We may collect your personal information directly from you, from a variety of sources, including: an application form for a product or service phone conversations with us emails or letters you send to us meetings with one of our advisers registering for one of our events e.g. an AGM event or webinars carrying out suitability reviews to help us understand you better and improve our products and services our online services such as websites, social media If you have a financial adviser, accountant, lawyer, trustee and/or are a member of a pension scheme or are a beneficiary of a trust, the information we collect and use will most likely have been provided by them on your behalf. Where appropriate, we may also need to collect personal information on you from places such as business directories and other commercially or publicly available sources such as the Electoral Register e.g. to check or improve the information we hold (like your address) or to obtain better contact information if we are unable to contact you directly. What we collect and use your information for We take your privacy seriously and we will only ever collect and use information which is personal to you where it is necessary, fair and lawful to do so. We will collect and use your information only where: you have given us your permission (consent) to send you information about products and services offered by members of the Harwood Capital Management Group it’s necessary to provide the product or service you have requested e.g. if you wish to invest in one of Harwood Capital LLP funds, we will require some personal information including your name, address, date of birth, bank account details it’s necessary for us to meet our legal or regulatory obligations e.g. to send you Annual Statements, carry out suitability reviews, perform anti-money laundering background checks, tell you about changes to our Terms and Conditions or for the detection and prevention of fraud to protect your investments it’s in the legitimate interests of Harwood e.g. to deliver appropriate information and guidance so you are aware of the options that will help you get the best outcome from your investment; where we need to process your information to better understand you and your needs so we can send you more relevant communications about the service you have with us it’s in the legitimate interests of a third party you have nominated e.g. sharing information with your financial adviser, accountant, lawyer, trustee or pension scheme for the governance of your investments If you do not wish us to collect and use your personal information in these ways, it may mean that we will be unable to provide you with our services. Who we may share your information with We may share your information with third parties for the reasons outlined in 'What we collect and use your information for.' These third parties include: Companies within the Harwood Capital Management Group Third parties you have instructed us to share information with Companies we have chosen to support us in the delivery of the products and services we offer to you and other clients e.g. fund administrators Our regulators and Supervisory Authority e.g. the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA), the Information Commissioner’s Office for the UK (the ICO) Law enforcement, credit, and identity check agencies for the prevention and detection of crime HM Revenue & Customs (HMRC) e.g. for the processing of tax relief on pension payments or the prevention of tax avoidance We will never sell your personal information to someone else. Whenever we share your personal information, we will do so in line with our obligations to keep your information safe and secure. Where your information is processed We process your personal information in the UK. Where information is processed by our fund administrator, we will ensure your information is protected under UK / EEA data privacy laws e.g. we will put in place legal agreements with our fund administrator and do regular checks to ensure they continue to meet these obligations. How we protect your information We take information and system security very seriously and we will aim to comply with our obligations always. Any personal information which is collected, recorded or used in any way, whether on paper, online or any other medium, will have appropriate safeguards applied in line with our data protection obligations. Your personal information is protected by systems and controls designed to minimise loss or damage through accident, negligence or deliberate actions. Our employees also protect sensitive or confidential information when storing or transmitting information electronically and are subject to ongoing training and monitoring to ensure these standards are maintained. Our security controls are aligned with current industry standards and guidelines and are constantly under review; providing a controlled environment that effectively manages risks to the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of your information. How long we keep your information We keep your personal information for the duration you are a client of ours in order that we may provide you with our services. In the event you are no longer a client, we may also keep your information after this period but only where we are required to meet our legal and or regulatory obligations. As a regulated firm, we are obliged under the Financial Services and Markets Act (FSMA) to retain personal information. The length of time we keep your personal information for these purposes will vary depending on the legal obligations we need to meet. Your individual rights Under the GDPR you have several rights in relation to how Harwood uses your personal information. They are: Right to be informed You have the right to be informed about the collection and use of your personal data. This will include the purpose of processing your personal data, retention periods for that personal data, and who it will be shared with. We call this ‘privacy information’. We will provide you with this privacy information at the time we collect your personal data from you. Right of access You have the right to access your personal data and supplementary information, we hold on you. This right of access allows you to be aware of and verify the lawfulness of the processing of the personal data we hold for you, you may make a data subject access request (DSAR). Right to rectification If the personal information we hold on you is incorrect or inaccurate you have the right to have your personal data rectified or completed if it is incomplete. You may make this request for rectification verbally or in writing. Right to request erasure You can ask for your information to be deleted or removed if there is not a compelling reason for Harwood to continue to have it. Right to erasure Subject to our regulatory and legal obligations you have a right to have personal data erased. This right is also known as ‘the right to be forgotten’ you can make this request verbally or in writing. Right to restrict processing You have the right to request the restriction or suppression of your personal data. This is not an absolute right and only applies in certain circumstances. When processing is restricted, we are permitted to store your personal data, but not use it contrary to your instruction. You can make a request for restriction verbally or in writing. Right to data portability You have the right to data portability this allows you to obtain and reuse your personal data for your own purposes across different services. The right allows you to move, copy or transfer your personal data easily from one IT environment to another in a safe and secure way, without affecting its usability. The right only applies to information you have provided to the data controller. Right to object You have the right to object to the processing of your personal data on the following grounds: where it is based on legitimate interests or the performance of a task in the public interest/exercise of official authority (including profiling); for direct marketing (including profiling); and processing for purposes of scientific/historical research and statistics. Harwood can confirm that it will not process your personal data under any of the above grounds. Rights related to automatic decision making including profiling You have the right to ask for information about the processing of your personal information and request our intervention or challenge a decision where processing is done solely by automated processes and carry out regular checks to make sure that where automated decision making and profiling processes are used are working as they should. Harwood can confirm that it does not use automated individual decision-making (making a decision solely by automated means without any human involvement); and profiling (automated processing of personal data to evaluate certain things about an individual). As part of its decision-making process. How to make a complaint We will always strive to collect, use and safeguard your personal information in line with data protection laws. If you do not believe we have handled your information as set out in our Privacy Policy, please contact the Data controller at Harwood Capital Management Group and we will endeavour to resolve your concern. If you are still unhappy, you can report your concerns to the Information Commissioner’s Office. You can report your concerns at: https://ico.org.uk/concerns/ NB this policy is constantly under review, so please check our website for the most recent version. Cookie Policy We use cookies and similar technologies on our web sites to improve performance and make your experience better. Your use of our web sites indicates your consent to the cookies described in this policy. Please see HOW YOU CAN CONTROL COOKIES, below, for more information on how to withdraw your consent at any time. WHAT ARE COOKIES? A web cookie, a commonly used data collection technology, is simply a piece of text which can be placed on the browser of your personal computer or mobile device and subsequently read as you visit a web site. A cookie may be a session cookie, that is, a cookie that remains on your browser while you are logged on to a particular web site and then disappears when you close your browser, or it may be a persistent cookie, a cookie that remains on your browser over a period of time. Information from a cookie may be collected and used in aggregate form. Or data may be collected into an individual profile or record. That individual record may either be unique but anonymous, or the profile can be linked with information that identifies you as an individual. You can learn more about cookies, generally, at www.allaboutcookies.org HOW DO WE USE COOKIES? We may use cookies for a number of purposes: 1. Essential cookies We may use a limited number of cookies essential to particular services you have requested or for security purposes. A few of our sites use a cookie for a shopping cart function when you purchase services or offerings. In particular, if you have registered for a site or use a customer portal, we may use a cookie to authenticate the pc or mobile device that you are using. 2. Performance cookies We allow third parties to set analytics, or performance, cookies to collect and report aggregate information. These cookies provide reporting to us on an aggregate basis and so, do not identify you at all. We use the aggregate reports to understand how our web sites are used and improve their usefulness to our audiences. 3. Functional cookies A number of cookies also support how our web sites function, identifying your pc or end device on a unique but anonymous basis. These cookies may, for example, remember your language preferences or recognize an individual’s activity within a single session. If you register for a site, we use a cookie to associate your presence with a specific user name and password or account. We may use a persistent cookie to recognize you automatically each time you return, but only if you ask us to do so. We may also use cookies to prepopulate your login or forms you fill out on the site with information you have already provided. We may conduct analyses of user traffic to measure the use of our sites and to improve the content of our web sites and our services. These analyses will be performed using IP addresses and cookies. We use web beacons and pixels in our emails to track delivery and open rates. Our email provider delivers cookies with our email to recognise a user’s response. The results are stored and reported on against the individual’s email address and the account profile within our database. THIRD PARTY COOKIES AND ADVERTISING ON OUR SITES We allow third party advertisers to show you advertising on our sites. Third party ad servers may use cookies to control certain routine advertising concerns such as making sure that you do not see the same ad too many times or that the ads are shown in the format best suited for your browser. Advertising may also be targeted: You may be shown ads based on certain demographic information which we provide, for example, the size of the company you work for or your professional responsibilities. Advertisers may also use third party ad servers to target you based on an anonymous but unique profile on your online behaviour across a number of unaffiliated websites, a method known as online behavioural advertising. Advertisers may even place their own cookies on our sites. You can find more information about each ad server’s practices by visiting www.youronlinechoices.uk. We may use certain demographic information to enable third party ad servers (see below) to show you ads based on information about you in your business capacity, for example, your title within a company or the size of that company. HOW YOU CAN CONTROL COOKIES The cookies we use or allow are an accepted part of ecommerce and important to your use of our web sites. Performance cookies allow us to understand our audiences as a whole and improve how our sites meet your needs and expectations. Many of the functional cookies are basic to how our sites and services work. The cookies we use for registration allow us to conduct our business online. Our sites and services, or parts of them, may not work properly without these cookies. 1. Browser controls Most modern browsers offer you ways to control or block cookies. These browser controls will usually be found in the “options’ or “preferences” menu. 2. Ad cookies and targeting You can find more information or turn off targeting by member companies at YourOnlineChoices UK, http://www.youronlinechoices.com/uk. THIS PRIVACY POLICY If our use of cookies changes, we will post the changes to this policy. Please check frequently as online data collection practices and our use of them continue to evolve. To contact us about this policy, you may email info@harwoodcapital.uk This version of the cookies policy is effective as of 1 February 2020 Contact 6 Stratton Street, London, W1J 8LD 020 7640 3200 info@harwoodcapital.co.uk © 2021 Harwood Capital LLP Sitemap Privacy Policy Anti Money Laundering