Data Protection Disclaimer for Sturgeon Ventures LLP
DATA PROTECTION &
PRIVACY
1.1 We take our obligations under the Data Protection Act 1998 and all related
regulations ("the Act") very seriously and have taken steps to ensure
compliance with the provisions of the Act.
1.2 When you register and use the Site, we will ask you to provide certain
data, such as your contact details and demographic information.
1.3 The principal purposes for which we process and store your Personal Data
are:
• to allow you to personalise services provided via the Site;
• to monitor, improve and administer the Site and the services provided on the
Site;
• to enable us to conduct surveys and aggregate user profiles;
• to enable us to conduct prize draws which you have entered via the Site;
• to provide you with information on selected products and selected services
that we think may be of interest to you (unless you have asked us not to do
so); and
• to enable us to comply with our legal and regulatory obligations.
Full details of the purposes are set out in our Data Protection registration.
1.4 Sturgeon Ventures LLP will not share, copy or distribute any personal or
business contact details with any third party without the prior consent of the
person or business in question.
1.5 To enable us to provide the services available on the Site and to monitor
and improve the Site, we may gather certain information about you, including
details of your operating system, browser version, domain name and IP address,
the details of the web site you linked from to the Site.
1.6 We may use cookies only to store information such as your User name and
your session identifiers to enable us to identify whether you are registered on
to the Site and, if so, to shortcut your access to the Site. We will only read
cookies from your cookie file placed there through your web browser's
interaction with the Site.
1.7 We endeavor to take all reasonable steps to protect your Personal Data
including the use of encryption technology, but cannot guarantee the security
of any Personal Data you disclose online.
1.8 We have certain responsibilities under the Money Laundering Regulations 2007
and the FSA Rules to verify the identity of clients and may need to make
certain enquiries and obtain certain information from you for that purpose. You
confirm that all information you supply will be accurate and that we may
disclose such information as we consider necessary to comply with any reporting
or legal and regulatory requirements.
1.9 You agree that we may disclose to the FSA and to any other regulatory
authority to which we are subject, or to any person empowered to require such
information by or under any legal enactment, any information they may request
or require relating to you or, if relevant, any of your clients.
1.10In the event that you wish to see a copy of your Personal Data held by us
please write to Data Protection Officer, Sturgeon Ventures LLP, 2nd Floor, 4
Broadgate, London EC2M 2QS.
1.11We will amend or delete any Personal Data relating to you which is found to
be incorrect or not relevant in accordance with the Act.