Privacy Policy

***This Privacy Policy applies to the personal information of individuals within the European Economic Area (‘EEA’) within the meaning of the General Data Protection Regulations 2018 (‘GDPR’). Nothing contained herein creates any rights or obligations except to the extent afforded or imposed by GDPR ***

Acquisitions International understands that your privacy is important to you and that you care about how your personal data is used. We respect and value the privacy of everyone who visits this website, www.acquisitionsintl.com (“Our Site”) and will only collect and use personal data in ways that are described here and in a way that is consistent with our obligations and your rights under the law.

Please read this Privacy Policy carefully and ensure that you understand it. Your acceptance of this Privacy Policy is requested at the point at which you register an Account.

Definitions and Interpretation
- In this Policy the following terms shall have the following meanings:
  "Account"means an account required to access and/or use certain areas and features of Our Site;
  
  "Cookie"means a small text file placed on your computer or device by Our Site when you visit certain parts of Our Site and/or when you use certain features of Our Site. Details of the Cookies used by Our Site are set out in Part 14, below; and
  
  "Cookie Law"means the relevant parts of the Privacy and Electronic Communications (EC Directive) Regulations 2003;
Information About Us
- Our Site, acquisitionsintl.com, is owned and operated by Equitas Capital Partners a limited company, whose registered address is registered in England and Wales under company number 086474180.
- Registered address: 101 Park Drive, Milton Park, Oxfordshire OX14 4RY.
  VAT number is: 274 3648 80.
What Does This Policy Cover?
- This Privacy Policy applies only to your use of Our Site. Our Site may contain links to other websites. Please note that we have no control over how your data is collected, stored, or used by other websites and we advise you to check the privacy policies of any such websites before providing any data to them.
What Is Personal Data?
- Personal data is defined by the General Data Protection Regulation (EU Regulation 2016/679) (the “GDPR”) and the Data Protection Act 2018 (collectively, “the Data Protection Legislation”) as ‘any information relating to an identifiable person who can be directly or indirectly identified in particular by reference to an identifier’.
- Personal data is, in simpler terms, any information about you that enables you to be identified. Personal data covers obvious information such as your name and contact details, but it also covers less obvious information such as identification numbers, electronic location data, and other online identifiers.
What Are My Rights?
- Under the Data Protection Legislation, you have the following rights, which we will always work to uphold:
  1. The right to be informed about our collection and use of your personal data. This Privacy Policy should tell you everything you need to know, but you can always contact us to find out more or to ask any questions using the details in Part 15.
  2. The right to access the personal data we hold about you. Part 13 will tell you how to do this.
  3. The right to have your personal data rectified if any of your personal data held by us is inaccurate or incomplete. Please contact us using the details in Part 15 to find out more.;
  4. The right to be forgotten, i.e. the right to ask us to delete or otherwise dispose of any of your personal data that we hold. Please contact us using the details in Part 15 to find out more.
  5. The right to restrict (i.e. prevent) the processing of your personal data.
  6. The right to object to us using your personal data for a particular purpose or purposes.
  7. The right to withdraw consent. This means that, if we are relying on your consent as the legal basis for using your personal data, you are free to withdraw that consent at any time.
  8. The right to data portability. This means that, if you have provided personal data to us directly, we are using it with your consent or for the performance of a contract, and that data is processed using automated means, you can ask us for a copy of that personal data to re-use with another service or business in many cases.
  9. Rights relating to automated decision-making and profiling.
    For more information about our use of your personal data or exercising your rights as outlined above, please contact us using the details provided in Part 15.
  It is important that your personal data is kept accurate and up-to-date. If any of the personal data we hold about you changes, please keep us informed as long as we have that data.
  Further information about your rights can also be obtained from the Information Commissioner’s Office or your local Citizens Advice Bureau.
  If you have any cause for complaint about our use of your personal data, you have the right to lodge a complaint with the Information Commissioner’s Office. We would welcome the opportunity to resolve your concerns ourselves, however, so please contact us first, using the details in Part 15.
  Transmission of information over the internet is not entirely secure and if you submit any information to us, whether by email, via our website or any other means, you do so entirely at your own risk. We shall not be responsible for any costs, expenses, loss of profits, harm to reputation, damages, liabilities or any other form of loss or damage suffered by you as a result of your decision to use Our Site or transmit information to us by such means.
What Data Do You Collect and How?
Depending upon your use of Our Site, We may collect and hold some or all of the personal and non-personal data set out in the table below, using the methods also set out in the table. Please also see Part 14 for more information about our use of Cookies and similar technologies and our Cookie Policy https://www.acquisitionsintl.com/za/terms-and-conditions/cookie-policy/. We do not collect any ‘special category’ or ‘sensitive’ personal data or personal data relating to children or data relating to criminal convictions and/or offences.

Data CollectedHow We Collect the Data

Identity information including e.g. name, title, date of birthRegistration of an Account

Contact information including e.g. address, email address, telephone numberRegistration of an Account

Business information e.g. Business name and job title (if applicable)Registration of an Account

Communication preferencesRegistration of an Account

Opportunity notification criteriaRegistration of an Account and search criteria
How Do You Use My Personal Data?
Under the Data Protection Legislation, we must always have a lawful basis for using personal data. The following table describes how we may use your personal data, and our lawful bases for doing so:

What We DoWhat Data We UseOur Lawful Basis

Registering you on Our SiteName, address, contact detailsConsent

Providing and managing your Account.Name, address, contact detailsConsent and/or legitimate interests in offering facility of an account and management of the same.

Providing and managing your access to Our Site.Name, address, contact detailsConsent and/or legitimate interests to enable you to access the opportunities required.

Personalising and tailoring your experience on Our Site.Name,. email address, your search criteriaConsent and/or legitimate interests in maximising your experience on Our Site.

Administering our business.Name, email addressConsent and/or legitimate interests in maximising your experience on Our Site.

Supplying our products and/or services to you.Name, email address, your search criteriaConsent and/or legitimate Interests in providing service(s)

Personalising and tailoring our products and services for you.Name, email address, analytics info etcConsent and/or legitimate interests in maximising our offering to you.

Communicating with you.Name, email address, telephone number(s); postal addressConsent and/or legitimate interests to ensure that you are provided with the information requested and/or such other information which we consider may be of interest to you.

Supplying you with information by email and/or post that you have opted-in-to (you may opt-out at any time by emailing us at [email protected] with ‘opt out’.Name, email address, postal addressConsent and/or legitimate interests in delivering information requested and/or considered to be of interest.

With your permission and/or where permitted by law, we may also use your personal data for marketing purposes, which may include contacting you by email and/or telephone and/or text message and/or post with information, news, and offers on our products and/or services. You will not be sent any unlawful marketing or spam. We will always work to fully protect your rights and comply with our obligations under the Data Protection Legislation and the Privacy and Electronic Communications (EC Directive) Regulations 2003, and you will always have the opportunity to opt-out. We will always obtain your express opt-in consent before sharing your personal data with third parties for marketing purposes and you will be able to opt-out at any time.

We use the following automated system(s) for carrying out certain kinds of decision-making and/or profiling. If at any point you wish to query any action that we take on the basis of this or wish to request ‘human intervention’ (i.e. have someone review the action themselves, rather than relying only on the automated method), the Data Protection Legislation gives you the right to do so. Please contact us to find out more using the details in Part 15.

The following automated decision-making method(s) may be used:

Based on legitimate interests, identifying suitable opportunities of interest based on your search criteria with a view to optimising your use and experience of Our Site.

We will only use your personal data for the purpose(s) for which it was originally collected unless we reasonably believe that another purpose is compatible with that or those original purpose(s) and need to use your personal data for that purpose. If we do use your personal data in this way and you wish us to explain how the new purpose is compatible with the original, please contact us using the details in Part 15.

If we need to use your personal data for a purpose that is unrelated to, or incompatible with, the purpose(s) for which it was originally collected, we will inform you and explain the legal basis which allows us to do so.

In some circumstances, where permitted or required by law, we may process your personal data without your knowledge or consent. This will only be done within the bounds of the Data Protection Legislation and your legal rights.
How Long Will You Keep My Personal Data?
We will not keep your personal data for any longer than is necessary in light of the reason(s) for which it was first collected. Your personal data will therefore be kept for the following periods (or, where there is no fixed period, the following factors will be used to determine how long it is kept):

Type of DataHow Long We Keep It

Identity Information including data collected e.g. name, title, DOB.Permanently on systems within our group of companies

Contact information including data collected e.g. address, email address, telephone numbersAs above

Business information including e.g. business name, job title, profession.As above

Profile information including data collected e.g. preferences and interests, username and passwordAs above
How and Where Do You Store or Transfer My Personal Data?
We will store your personal data within the UK but may also transfer some or all of your data within the group of companies of which we are part. Where this involves the transfer of personal data outside the EEA, our group ensures that personal data is protected by requiring all companies within the group to follow the same rules with respect to personal data usage. These are known as “binding corporate rules”. More information on binding corporate rules is available from the European Commission.

Please contact us using the details below in Part 15 for further information about the particular data protection mechanism(s) used by us when transferring your personal data to a third country.

The security of your personal data is essential to us and to protect your data, we take a number of important measures, including the following:
- limiting access to your personal data to those employees, agents, contractors, and other third parties with a legitimate need to know and ensuring that they are subject to duties of confidentiality;
- using secure servers to store your information;
- using Secure Sockets Layer (SSL0 software to encrypt any information you submit to us via any forms on our website;
- Transmission of information to us via email;
- verifying the identity of any individual who requests access to information prior to granting them access;
- only transferring your information via closed system or encrypted data transfers;
- procedures for dealing with data breaches (the accidental or unlawful destruction, loss, alteration, unauthorised disclosure of, or access to, your personal data) including notifying you and/or the Information Commissioner’s Office where we are legally required to do so;
Do You Share My Personal Data?
We will not share any of your personal data with any third parties for any purposes, subject to the following exceptions.

We may share your personal data with other companies in our group for the general operation and development of our business. This includes subsidiaries.

If we sell, transfer, or merge parts of our business or assets, your personal data may be transferred to a third party. Any new owner of our business may continue to use your personal data in the same way(s) that we have used it, as specified in this Privacy Policy.

In some limited circumstances, we may be legally required to share certain personal data, which might include yours, if we are involved in legal proceedings or complying with legal obligations, a court order, or the instructions of a government authority.

If any of your personal data is shared with a third party, as described above, We will take steps to ensure that your personal data is handled safely, securely, and in accordance with your rights, our obligations, and the third party’s obligations under the law, as described above in Part 9.

If any personal data is transferred outside of the EEA, We will take suitable steps in order to ensure that your personal data is treated just as safely and securely as it would be within the UK and under the Data Protection Legislation, as explained above in Part 9.
How Can I Control My Personal Data?
1. In addition to your rights under the Data Protection Legislation, set out in Part 5, when you submit personal data via Our Site, you may be given options to restrict our use of your personal data. In particular, we aim to give you strong controls on our use of your data for direct marketing purposes (including the ability to opt-out of receiving emails from us which you may do by unsubscribing using the links provided in our emails, or at the point of providing your details and by managing your Account).
2. You may also wish to sign up to one or more of the preference services operating in the UK: The Telephone Preference Service (“the TPS”), the Corporate Telephone Preference Service (“the CTPS”), and the Mailing Preference Service (“the MPS”). These may help to prevent you receiving unsolicited marketing. Please note, however, that these services will not prevent you from receiving marketing communications that you have consented to receiving.
Can I Withhold Information?
You may access Our Site without providing any personal data at all. However, to use all features and functions available on Our Site you may be required to submit or allow for the collection of certain data.

You may restrict our use of Cookies. For more information, see Part 14 and our https://www.acquisitionsintl.com/za/terms-and-conditions/cookie-policy/.
How Can I Access My Personal Data?
If you want to know what personal data we have about you, you can ask us for details of that personal data and for a copy of it (where any such personal data is held). This is known as a “subject access request”.

All subject access requests should be made in writing and sent to the email or postal addresses shown in Part 15. There is not normally any charge for a subject access request. If your request is ‘manifestly unfounded or excessive’ (for example, if you make repetitive requests) a fee may be charged to cover our administrative costs in responding.

We will respond to your subject access request within 15 working days and in any case, not more than one month of receiving it. Normally, we aim to provide a complete response, including a copy of your personal data within that time. In some cases, however, particularly if your request is more complex, more time may be required up to a maximum of three months from the date we receive your request. You will be kept fully informed of our progress.
How Do You Use Cookies?
Our Site may place and access certain first-party Cookies on your computer or device. First-party Cookies are those placed directly by us and are used only by us. We use Cookies to facilitate and improve your experience of Our Site and to provide and improve our products and/or services. We have carefully chosen these Cookies and have taken steps to ensure that your privacy and personal data is protected and respected at all times. Please refer to our Cookie Policy at: https://www.acquisitionsintl.com/za/terms-and-conditions/cookie-policy/

By using Our Site, you may also receive certain third-party Cookies on your computer or device. Third-party Cookies are those placed by websites, services, and/or parties other than us. Our Site uses analytics services provided by Google and HubSpot. Website analytics refers to a set of tools used to collect and analyse anonymous usage information, enabling us to better understand how Our Site is used. This, in turn, enables us to improve Our Site and the products and/or services offered through it.

Information collected by Google analytics (including your IP address and actions you take in relation to our website) is transferred outside the EEA and stored on Google’s servers. You can access Google’s privacy policy here: https://www.google.com/policies/privacy and HubSpot’s privacy policy here: https://legal.hubspot.com/privacy-policy

Country of storage: United States of America. This Country is not subject to an adequacy decision by the European Commission.

Safeguard(s) used: Google has self-certified its compliance with the EU-U.S. Privacy Shield which is available here: https://www.privacyshield.gov/welcome. The EU-U.S. Privacy Shield is an approved certification mechanism under Article 42 of the General Data Protection Regulation, which is permitted under Article 46(2)(f) of the General Data Protection Regulation. You can access the European Commission decision on the adequacy of the EU-U.S. Privacy Shield here: http://ec.europa.eu/justice/data-protection/international-transfers/adequacy/index_en.htm

The analytics service(s) used by Our Site use(s) Cookies to gather the required information. You do not have to allow us to use these Cookies, however whilst our use of them does not pose any risk to your privacy or your safe use of Our Site, it does enable us to continually improve Our Site, making it a better and more useful experience for you.

The analytics service(s) used by Our Site use(s) the following Cookies:

https://www.google.com/policies/privacy
https://legal.hubspot.com/privacy-policy

In addition to the controls that We provide, you can choose to enable or disable Cookies in your internet browser. Most internet browsers also enable you to choose whether you wish to disable all Cookies or only third-party Cookies. By default, most internet browsers accept Cookies, but this can be changed. For further details, please consult the help menu in your internet browser or the documentation that came with your device.

You can choose to delete Cookies on your computer or device at any time, however you may lose any information that enables you to access Our Site more quickly and efficiently including, but not limited to, login and personalisation settings.

It is recommended that you keep your internet browser and operating system up-to-date and that you consult the help and guidance provided by the developer of your internet browser and manufacturer of your computer or device if you are unsure about adjusting your privacy settings.
How Do We Contact You?
To contact Us about anything to do with your personal data and data protection, including to make a subject access request, please use the following details (for the attention of :

James Thornton
Email address: [email protected]
Telephone number: +44 (0) 1865 410747
Changes to this Privacy Policy
We may change this Privacy Policy from time to time. This may be necessary, for example, if the law changes, or if we change our business in a way that affects personal data protection.

Any changes will be immediately posted on Our Site and you will be deemed to have accepted the terms of the Privacy Policy on your first use of Our Site following the alterations. We recommend that you check this page regularly to keep up to date.

This Privacy Policy was last updated on 25 June 2020

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