Privacy Statement
Calastone provides a network that enables the global mutual funds industry to automate the flow of investment fund transactions from initial order routing and settlement, through to post-trade services, including transfers and re-registration. Calastone also continuously assesses future technologies and their possible application.
Calastone is regulated by the UK Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) and is recognised as a major provider of services to the global mutual funds industry.
Calastone Limited is committed to protecting and respecting your privacy.
This notice (together with our terms of use and any other documents referred to on it) sets out the basis on which any personal data we collect from you, or that you provide to us, will be processed by us. Please read the following carefully to understand our views and practices regarding your personal data and how we will treat it. By visiting calastone.com (our website) you are accepting and consenting to the practices described in this notice.
For the purpose of the General Data Protection Regulation 2018 (GDPR), the data controller is Calastone Limited of Birchin Court, 20 Birchin Lane, London EC3V 9DU which is registered with the Information Commissioner’s Office under registration reference Z1695467.
Information collected from you or that you provide to us
You may give us information about you by filling in forms on our website or by corresponding with us by phone, e-mail or otherwise. This includes information you provide when you register to create an account on our site, when you report a problem with our website or if you are applying for employment within our company. The information you give us may include your name, address, e-mail address and phone number.
With regard to each of your visits to our site we may automatically collect the following information:
- technical information, including the Internet protocol (IP) address used provides information about your visit, including the full Uniform Resource Locators connect your computer to the Internet, your login information, browser type and version, time zone setting, browser plug-in types and versions, operating system and platform
- information about your visit, including the full Uniform Resource Locators (URL) clickstream to, through and from our site (including date and time); products you viewed or searched for; page response times, download errors, length of visits to certain pages, page interaction information (such as scrolling, clicks, and mouse-overs), and methods used to browse away from the page and any phone number used to call our customer service number
Cookies
Our website uses cookies to distinguish you from other users of our website. This helps us to provide you with a good experience when you browse our website and also allows us to improve our site. For detailed information on the cookies we use and the purposes for which we use them see our Cookie policy.
Uses made of the information
We use information held about you in the following ways:
- to provide you with information about services we offer
- to notify you about changes to our service
- to initiate communication with you relating to matters of business or employment
- to ensure that content from our site is presented in the most effective manner for you and for your computer
- to administer our site and for internal operations, including troubleshooting, data analysis, testing, research, statistical and survey purposes
- to improve our site to ensure that content is presented in the most effective manner for you and for your computer
- as part of our efforts to keep our site safe and secure
- to measure or understand the effectiveness of advertising we serve to you and others, and to deliver relevant advertising to you
Calastone does not collect sensitive personal data such as genetic, biometric or health data on information on race, ethnicity, religion, political persuasion or sexual orientation.
Disclosure of your information
We may share your personal information with any member of our group, which means our subsidiaries, our ultimate holding company and its subsidiaries, as defined in section 1159 of the UK Companies Act 2006.
We may share your information with selected third parties including
- Analytics and search engine providers that assist us in the improvement and optimisation of our site
- If we are under a duty to disclose or share your personal data in order to comply with any legal or regulatory obligation, or in order to enforce or apply our terms of use and other agreements; or to protect our rights, property or safety, or those of our customers, or others
Where we store your personal data
The data that we collect from you may be transferred to, and stored at, a destination outside the European Economic Area (“EEA”). It may also be processed by staff operating outside the EEA who work for us or for one of our suppliers. By submitting your personal data, you agree to this transfer, storing or processing. We will take all steps reasonably necessary to ensure that your data is treated securely and in accordance with this privacy notice.
Where we have given you (or where you have chosen) a password which enables you to access certain parts of our site, you are responsible for keeping this password confidential. We ask you not to share a password with anyone. Unfortunately, the transmission of information via the internet is not completely secure. Although we will do our best to protect your personal data, we cannot guarantee the security of your data transmitted to our site; any transmission is at your own risk. Once we have received your information, we will use strict procedures and security features to try to prevent unauthorised access.
Security
Calastone is committed to ensuring that your information is secure. In order to prevent unauthorised access or disclosure, we have put in place suitable physical, electronic and managerial procedures to safeguard and secure the information we store or process.
Your rights
You have the right to ask us not to process your personal data for marketing purposes. We will usually inform you (before collecting your data) if we intend to use your data for such purposes or if we intend to disclose your information to any third party for such purposes. You can exercise your right to prevent such processing by checking certain boxes on the forms we use to collect your data. You can also exercise the right at any time by contacting us at dataprotection@calastone.com.
Note. By exercising your right to prevent such processing, Calastone may not be able to action request(s) you have made in relation to items listed in “Uses made of the information” above.
Our site may, from time to time, contain links to and from the websites of our partner networks, advertisers and affiliates. If you follow a link to any of these websites, please note that these websites have their own privacy policies and that we do not accept any responsibility or liability for these policies. Please check these policies before you submit any personal data to these websites.
Access to information
GDPR gives you the right to access information held about you. Your right of access can be exercised in accordance with the GDPR. Any access request may be exercised by emailing dataprotection@calastone.com.
Changes to our privacy notice
Any changes we may make to our privacy notice in the future will be posted on this page. Please check back frequently to see any updates or changes to our privacy notice.
Contact
Questions, comments and requests regarding this privacy policy are welcomed and should be addressed to dataprotection@calastone.com.
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