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.