Your privacy and trust are important to us.  It also provides information about your rights and about how you can contact us if you have questions about how we handle your information.

This Privacy Policy #10 is dated 1/1/2021, it having been revised when EU GDPR was superseded by UK GDPR (UK GDPR supplemented by the Data Protection Act 2018).  It sets out how we, ClearView Financial Media Ltd, collect, store and use information about you when you use or interact with our websites and where we otherwise obtain or collect information about you.

For ease of reference, this Privacy Policy is divided in two: a summary privacy policy and the full privacy policy.

If you have any questions about our Privacy Policy, please contact us by sending an email to info@clearviewpublishing.com 

Privacy Policy Summary

This section summarises how we obtain, store and use information about you. It is intended to provide a very general overview only. It is not complete in and of itself and it must be read in conjunction with the corresponding full sections of this Privacy Policy.

Data controller: ClearView Financial Media Ltd, 83 Victoria Street, London SW1H OHW – (company registration number 06784131)

How we collect or obtain information about you:

– when you provide it to us (e.g. by requesting a trial membership to our publications, asking to attend one of our events or placing an order on our website).

Information we collect: name, contact details, IP address, information about how you use our websites (e.g. which pages you have viewed, the time when you view them and what you clicked on, the geographical location from which you accessed our website (based on your IP address), company name or business name (if applicable), and VAT number (if applicable).

How we use your information: to provide you with the services you have requested from us, for administrative and business purposes (particularly to contact you and process orders you place on our website), to improve our business and websites, to advertise our goods and services, to analyse your use of our websites, and in connection with our legal rights and obligations.

By signing up for a trial to one of ClearView Financial Media Ltd membership services or by joining its network though a corporate or individual membership, it is agreed that the registrant may receive carefully selected third-party mailings from Partner organisations.  The offers can be broadly summarised as follows:

  • Invitations to exclusive and non-exclusive wealth management events and webinars.
  • Invitations to download wealth management research produced the Clearview research team and or by partner organisations.
  • Occasional marketing of goods and services regulated (where required) within the jurisdiction where email is sent to. This is limited to that which may be directly of interest to wealth management professionals.

An unsubscribe facility for these and other types of mailing is available at all times.

The ability to unsubscribe to all mailings is available at all times.

Disclosure of your information to third parties: only to the extent necessary to run our business, to our service providers, to fulfil any contracts we enter into with you, and where required by law or to enforce our legal rights.  Where data is shared, consent will be sought at all times and we will aim for an equivalent level of protection for data.

Do we sell your information to third parties (other than in the course of a business sale or purchase or similar event)? Not without your explicit consent.

How long we retain your information? For no longer than necessary, taking into account any legal obligations we have (e.g. to maintain records for tax purposes), any other legal basis we have for using your information (e.g. your consent, performance of a contract with you or our legitimate interests as a business) and certain additional factors described in the main section below entitled How long we retain your information. For specific retention periods in relation to certain information which we collect from you, please see the main section below entitled How long we retain your information.

How we secure your information? Using appropriate technical and organisational measures such as storing your information on secure servers, encrypting transfers of data to or from our servers using Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) technology, encrypting payments you make on or via our website using Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) technology, only granting access to your information where necessary.

Use of cookies: we use cookies on our website including essential, functional and analytical cookies. For more information, please see our cookies policy.

Transfers of your information outside the European Economic Area: in certain circumstances we may need to transfer your information outside of the European Economic Area, including to the United States of America. Where we do so, appropriate safeguards will be in place to ensure an equivalent level of data protection exists in the recipient jurisdiction, which may mean that equivalent protections are provided for by contractual measures between us and the data importer.

Your rights in relation to your information (SARS):

  • to access your information and to receive information about its use
  • to have your information corrected and/or completed
  • to have your information deleted
  • to restrict the use of your information
  • to receive your information in a portable format
  • to object to the use of your information
  • to withdraw your consent to the use of your information
  • to complain to a supervisory authority

Sensitive personal information: we do not knowingly or intentionally collect what is commonly referred to as ‘sensitive personal information’. Please do not submit sensitive personal information about you to us.

For more information, please see the main section below entitled Sensitive Personal Information.

Legitimate interest

Clearview Financial Media Ltd may use personal information for a number of legitimate interests. 

Where we rely on legitimate interests as a lawful ground for processing your personal information, we balance those interests against your interests, fundamental rights and freedoms. 

More detailed information about these legitimate interests is set out below:

  • To contact you for participation in, and to conduct, and manage, events, webinars, seminars, meetings, awards ceremonies and/or other related gatherings or similar activities.
  • To administer your membership and your use of our services in general terms. This includes access to the sites, providing technical and customer support, processing transactions, servicing our customers’ needs including delivering the membership benefits and sending important account, subscription and membership information, handling enquiries and complaints.
  • To contact you in relation to, and to conduct, surveys, polls or other research activities and to analyse the data collected for market research purposes, including, without limitation, related to creating and improving our Services.
  • To display information you choose to post, share, upload or make available in on-line event forums and demonstrations.
  • To provide any third-party, who has made our Services available to you (e.g., your employer or our subscriber), insights about use of the Services.
  • To provide you with marketing as permitted by law.
  • To meet our internal and external audit requirements, including our information security obligations (and if your employer or our subscriber provides for your access to our Services, to meet their internal and external audit requirements) and for regulatory reporting, oversight and co-operation.
  • To enforce our terms and conditions.
  • For the facilitation of, and management of relationships with, clients/customers, vendors/service providers, business partners, professional advisors and/or any other counterparties.
  • For the negotiation and finalisation of, and/or participation in, any sale, merger, acquisition, restructure, joint venture, assignment, transfer or other disposition of all or any portion of our business.
  • For the appointment and periodic review of any individuals in ownership, shareholder, member, manager, director, officer and/or any other executive-level positions.
  • For the prevention, detection or investigation of a crime or other breach of law or requirement, loss prevention or fraud.
  • To build, update, supplement and manage content databases made available to our customers in connection with our Services.
  • To comply with requests from courts, law enforcement agencies, regulatory agencies, and other public and government authorities, including where they are outside your country of residence
  • In order to exercise our rights, and to defend ourselves from claims and to comply with laws and regulations that apply to us or third parties with whom we work.

Full Privacy Policy

Data controller
The data controller in respect of our websites is ClearView Financial Media, a limited company registered in England and Wales (registration number 06784131) the registered office of which is at 505 Pinner Rd, Harrow HA2 6EH.

You can contact the data controller by writing to The Data Controller, 52 Grosvenor Gardens, London SW1W OAU or sending an email to gdpr@clearviewpublishing.com .

If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, please contact the data controller.

Information we collect when you visit our websites:
– We collect and use information from website visitors in accordance with this section and the section entitled Disclosure and additional uses of your information.

Web server log information
We use a third-party server to host our websites. Our website server automatically logs the IP address you use to access our website as well as other information about your visit such as the pages accessed, information requested, the date and time of the request, the source of your access to our website (e.g. the website or URL (link) which referred you to our website), and your browser version and operating system.

Our server is located in the United Kingdom.

Use of website server log information for IT security purposes

Our third-party hosting provider stores server logs to ensure network and IT security and so that the server and website remain uncompromised. This includes analysing log files to help identify and prevent unauthorised access to our network, the distribution of malicious code, denial of services attacks and other cyber attacks, by detecting unusual or suspicious activity.

Unless we are investigating suspicious or potential criminal activity, we do not make, nor do we allow our website server provider to make any attempt to identify you from the information collected via server logs.

Legal basis for processing: compliance with a legal obligation to which we are subject.
Legal obligation: we have a legal obligation to implement appropriate technical and organisational measures to ensure a level of security appropriate to the risk of our processing of information about individuals. Recording access to our website using server log files is such a measure.

Legal basis for processing: our legitimate interests.
Legitimate interests: we have a legitimate interest in using your information for the purposes of ensuring network and information security.

Cookies
Cookies are data files which are sent from a website to a browser to record information about users for various purposes.

We use cookies, including essential, functional and analytical cookies. For further information on how we use cookies, please see our cookies policy

You can reject some or all of the cookies we use on or via our website by changing your browser settings, but doing so can impair your ability to use our website or some or all of its features. For further information about cookies, including how to change your browser settings and other ways in which you can reject cookies, please visit www.allaboutcookies.org or see our cookies policy.

Information we collect when you contact us:
We collect and use information from individuals who contact us in accordance with this section and the section entitled Disclosure and additional uses of your information.

Email
When you send an email to the email address displayed on our website, we collect your email address and any other information you provide in that email (such as your name, telephone number and the information contained in any signature block in your email).

Legal basis for processing: our legitimate interests.
Legitimate interest(s): responding to enquiries and messages we receive and keeping records of correspondence.

Transfer and storage of your information.
We use our own email system to store emails you send us. All the data is held in the UK.

Contact form
When you contact us using our contact forms, we collect the following information: your name, email address and any information you include in the message field. We also collect your company name if you provide it.

If you do not provide the mandatory information required by our contact form, you will not be able to submit the contact form and we will not receive your enquiry.

Legal basis for processing: our legitimate interests.
Legitimate interest(s): responding to enquiries and messages we receive and keeping records of correspondence.

Transfer and storage of your information:

– Messages and requests you send us via our contact forms will be stored on our web servers in the UK and also transferred to our own email servers in the UK.

Phone
When we communicate by phone, we collect your phone number and any information provided to us during your conversation with us. We do not record phone calls.

Legal basis for processing: our legitimate interests.
Legitimate interest(s): responding to enquiries and messages we receive and keeping records of correspondence.

Transfer and storage of your information:

– Information about your call, such as your phone number and the date and time of your call, is processed by our third-party telephone service providers and stored in the United Kingdom.

Post
If you contact us by post, we will collect any information you provide to us in any postal communications you send us.

Legal basis for processing: our legitimate interests.
Legitimate interest(s): responding to enquiries and messages we receive and keeping records of correspondence.

Transfer and storage of your information

Information you send us by post is stored in the United Kingdom.

Information we collect when you interact with our website
We collect and use information from individuals who interact with particular features of our website in accordance with this section and the section entitled Disclosure and additional uses of your information.

Digital newsletters and subscription-based news services
When you sign up for our digital newsletters an/or news services to receive news and offers about our services on our website we collect your email address.

Legal basis for processing: your consent
Consent: you give your consent to us sending you our newsletters by signing up to receive it using the steps described above.

Legal basis for processing: contract
Contract: where a member has a contractual right to receive access to information for which he or his company has paid to receive.

Transfer and storage of your information

We use a contracted email service to send out our digital newsletters and administer our own mailing lists.

Information you submit to subscribe for our newsletters is stored on servers in the UK.

Registering on our website
When you register and create an account on our website, we collect the following information: your name, company name (if applicable), your address (including country, street address, town/city and postcode), phone number, email address and password (we do not view your password).

If you do not provide the mandatory information required by the registration form, you will not be able to register or create an account on our website.

Legal basis for processing: our legitimate interests.

Legitimate interest: registering and administering accounts on our website to provide you access to content and updates you have purchased and facilitate the efficient running and operation of our business.

Transfer and storage of your information

Information you submit to us via the registration form on our websites will be stored on our third party hosting provider’s servers in the United Kingdom.

Awards Submission 

When you use our websites to indicate interest in submitting an entry to one of our awards programmes we collect your information including your name, email address, company name, telephone number and which award categories you are considering entering. If you subsequently enter one or more categories we will match your submission to the record of the information we hold about you and we will communicate with you regarding the progress of your entry through the awards programme and thereafter in relation to any commercial dealings we may have with you or your organisation.

Legal basis for processing: our legitimate interest.

Legitimate interest: registering on our websites to enter the Awards process.

Legal basis for processing: your consent
Consent: you give your consent to us retaining your contact details.

Awards Attendance

When you use our websites to indicate a wish to attend one of our awards ceremonies in person, we collect your information including your name, email address, company name, telephone number and dietary requirements. We hold this information to provide you with logistical and content information regarding the ceremony and to ensure that your dietary requirements are met. Information regarding dietary requirements is deleted immediately upon being communicated to the venue hosting the ceremony. We also hold your information to invoice you or your organisation for your attendance at the ceremony.

Legal basis for processing: our legitimate interest.

Legitimate interest: registering to attend one of the Awards ceremonies.

Legal basis for processing: your consent.
Consent: you give your consent to us retaining your contact details.

Summits and other events

When you use our websites to indicate a wish to attend one of our summits, breakfast briefings, lunches, webinars or any other event in person or online we collect your information including your name, email address, company name, telephone number. We hold this information to communicate to you about the specific event that you have indicated an interest in, including logistical information, information regarding content and reminder contacts. We use your information to invite you to similar events.

Legal basis for processing: our legitimate interest.

Legitimate interest: registering and administering accounts on our websites to provide you access to content you have purchased and facilitate the efficient running and operation of our business.

Legal basis for processing: your consent
Consent: you give your consent to us retaining your contact details.

Marketing communications
We will send you marketing communications in relation to our goods and services only if you opt-in to receive them.

Legal basis for processing: consent.
Consent: you give your consent to us sending you information about our goods and services by signing up to receive such information in accordance with the steps described above.

Transfer and storage of your information

– We use a contracted third-party partner to send out our digital newsletters and administer our mailing list.

Information you submit to subscribe for one of our memberships, enter or attend one of our events will be stored in the UK.

How we collect or obtain information about you from third parties
This section sets out how we obtain or collect information about you from third parties.

Information received from third parties
Generally, we do not receive information about you from third parties.

It is also possible that third parties with whom we have had no prior contact may provide us with information about you.

Information we obtain from third parties will generally be your name and contact details, but will include any additional information about you which they provide to us.

Legal basis for processing: necessary to perform a contract.

Reason why necessary to perform a contract: where you have entered into a contract or requested that we enter into a contract with you.

Legal basis for processing: consent.
Consent: where you have asked that a third party to share information about you with us and the purpose of sharing that information is not related to the performance of a contract or services by us to you, we will process your information on the basis of your consent, which you give by asking the third party in question to pass your information on to us.

Legal basis for processing: our legitimate interests.
Legitimate interests: where a third party has shared information about you with us and you have not consented to the sharing of that information, we will have a legitimate interest in processing that information in certain circumstances.

For example, we would have a legitimate interest in processing your information to perform our obligations under a sub-contract with the third-party, where the third-party has the main contract with you. Our legitimate interest is the performance of our obligations under our sub-contract.

Similarly, third parties may pass on information about you to us if you have infringed or potentially infringed any of our legal rights. In this case, we will have a legitimate interest in processing that information to investigate and pursue any such potential infringement.

Information obtained by us from third-parties
In certain circumstances (for example, to verify the information we hold about you or obtain missing information we require to provide you with a service) we will obtain information about you from certain publicly accessible sources, such as Companies House, online customer databases, business directories, media publications, social media, and websites (including your own website if you have one). We may do this, for example, if we have insufficient information to be able to contact you or to better understand your business.

Legal basis for processing: necessary to perform a contract or to take steps at your request to enter into a contract.
Reason why necessary to perform a contract: where you have entered into a contract or requested that we enter into a contract with you, in certain circumstances, we will obtain information about you from public sources in order to enable us to understand your business and provide services to you or services to a sufficient standard.

For example, we would obtain and/or verify your email address from your website or from a directory where you ask us to send you information by email but we do not possess the information or we need to confirm that we have recorded your email address correctly.

Legal basis for processing: our legitimate interests.
Legitimate interests: in certain circumstances, we will have a legitimate interest in obtaining information about you from public and private sources. For example, if you have infringed or we suspect that you have infringed any of our legal rights, we will have a legitimate interest in obtaining and processing information about you from such sources in order to investigate and pursue any suspected or potential infringement.

Disclosure and additional uses of your information
This section sets out the circumstances in which we will disclose information about you to third parties and any additional purposes for which we use your information.

Disclosure of your information to service providers
We use a number of third parties to provide us with services which are necessary to run our business or to assist us with running our business and who process your information for us on our behalf. These include the following:

– Telephone providers (UK),
– Email provider (UK),
– IT service providers (UK),
– Web developers (UK), and
– Hosting provider (UK)

All our service providers are primarily located in the United Kingdom.

Where operationally necessary the business will utilise cloud-based services. Where we do so, data may be held and with at least the equivalent data protection afforded by non-cloud providers.

Examples of cloud-based services may be:

– Survey Monkey (for research projects).  Information shared with this operator will be anonymised and contact data collected by Clearview ( and or a research Partner) only where the respondent leaves his/her details as part of a prize draw or for further information about a product or service.  This contact information will be passed to the Partner with consent of the respondent.

– Google Gmail for email transmission

– Google Docs for storage of files in a series of secure folders

Your information will be shared with these service providers only where necessary to enable us to run our business.

Disclosure of your information for legal reasons
Indicating possible criminal acts or threats to public security to a competent authority
If we suspect that criminal or potential criminal conduct has occurred, we will in certain circumstances need to contact an appropriate authority, such as the police. This could be the case, for instance, if we suspect that a fraud or a cyber crime has been committed or if we receive threats or malicious communications towards us or third-parties.

We will generally only need to process your information for this purpose if you were involved or affected by such an incident in some way.

Legal basis for processing: our legitimate interests.
Legitimate interests: preventing crime or suspected criminal activity (such as fraud).

In connection with the enforcement or potential enforcement of our legal rights we will use your information in connection with the enforcement or potential enforcement of our legal rights, including sharing information with debt collection agencies if you do not pay amounts owed to us when you are contractually obliged to do so. Our legal rights may be contractual (where we have entered into a contract with you) or non-contractual (such as legal rights that we have under copyright law or tort law).

Legal basis for processing: our legitimate interests.
Legitimate interest: enforcing our legal rights and taking steps to enforce our legal rights.

In connection with a legal or potential legal dispute or proceedings
We may need to use your information if we are involved in a dispute with you or a third party for example, either to resolve the dispute or as part of any mediation, arbitration or court resolution or similar process.

Legal basis for processing: our legitimate interests.
Legitimate interest(s): resolving disputes and potential disputes.

For ongoing compliance with laws, regulations and other legal requirements
We will use and process your information in order to comply with legal obligations to which we are subject. For example, we may need to disclose your information pursuant to a court order or subpoena if we receive one or to the National Crime Agency (or equivalent agency in other jurisdictions) in connection with suspected or potential money laundering matters.

Legal basis for processing: compliance with a legal obligation.
Legal obligation(s): legal obligations to disclose information which are part of the laws of England and Wales or if they have been integrated into the United Kingdom’s legal framework (for example in the form of an international agreement which the United Kingdom has signed).

Legal basis for processing: our legitimate interests.
Legitimate interest: where the legal obligations are part of the laws of another country and have not been integrated into the United Kingdom’s legal framework, we have a legitimate interest in complying with these obligations.

Where we operate in other jurisdictions, legal disclosure is on an equivalent basis

Disclosure of your information to other third parties
We disclose your information to other third parties in specific circumstances, as set out below.

Sharing your information with a prospective or actual purchaser or seller in the context of a business or asset sale or acquisition by us, a merger or similar business combination event, whether actual or potential.
Legal basis for processing: legitimate interests.
Legitimate interest(s): sharing your information with a prospective purchaser, seller or similar person in order to allow such a transaction to take place.

Sharing your information with third parties, which are either related to or associated with the running of our business, where it is necessary for us to do so. These third parties include our accountants, advisors, affiliates, business partners, independent contractors, and insurers
Further information on each of these third parties is set out below.

Legal basis for processing: our legitimate interests.
Legitimate interest: running and managing our business efficiently.

Accountants

We share information with our accountants for tax purposes. For example, we share invoices we issue and receive with our accountants for the purpose of completing tax returns and our end of year accounts.

Our accountants are located in the United Kingdom.

Advisors

Occasionally, we obtain advice from advisors, such as accountants, financial advisors, lawyers and other specialists. We will share your information with these third parties only where it is necessary to enable these third parties to be able to provide us with the relevant advice.

Our advisors are located in the United Kingdom.

Affiliates

Affiliates are individuals or entities we work with to promote our business by various means, including by advertising our services on their websites, for example. Our affiliates can be in any industry, sector or sub-sector. Affiliates will share information with us and we will share information with them where you have expressed an interest in our products or services.

Our affiliates are located in the United Kingdom.

Business partners

Business partners are businesses we work with which provide goods and services which are complementary to our own or which allow us to provide goods or services which we could not provide on our own. We share information with our business partners where you have requested services which they provide whether independently from, or in connection with or own services.

Our business partners are located globally.

Independent contractors

Occasionally, we use independent contractors in our business. Your information will be shared with independent contractors only where it is necessary for them to perform the function we have hired them to perform in relation to our business.

Our independent contractors are located in the United Kingdom.

Insurers

We will share your information with our insurers where it is necessary to do so, for example in relation to a claim or potential claim we receive or make or under our general disclosure obligations under our insurance contract with them.

Our insurers are located in the United Kingdom.

How long we retain your information
This section sets out how long we retain your information. We have set out specific retention periods where possible. Where that has not been possible, we have set out the criteria we use to determine the retention period.

Specific retention periods
Order information: when you place an order for goods and services, we retain that information for a minimum period of six years following the end of the financial year in which you placed your order, in accordance with our legal obligation to keep records for tax purposes under paragraph 6, Schedule 11 of the Value Added Tax Act 1994.

Correspondence and enquiries: when you make an enquiry or contact us by email or via our contact form, we will retain your information for as long as it takes to respond to and resolve your enquiry, and for 6 further month(s), after which point we will delete your information.

Mailing list: we retain the information you used to sign up for our newsletter for as long as you remain subscribed (i.e. you do not unsubscribe) or if we decide to cancel our newsletter service, whichever occurs first.

Criteria for determining retention periods
In any other circumstances, we will retain your information for no longer than necessary, taking into account the following:

the purpose(s) and use of your information both now and in the future (such as whether it is necessary to continue to store that information in order to continue to perform our obligations under a contract with you or to contact you in the future);

whether we have any legal obligation to continue to process your information (such as any record-keeping obligations imposed by relevant law or regulation);
whether we have any legal basis to continue to process your information (such as your consent);

any relevant agreed industry practices on how long information should be retained;

the levels of risk, cost and liability involved with us continuing to hold the information;

how hard it is to ensure that the information can be kept up to date and accurate; and

any relevant surrounding circumstances (such as the nature and status of our relationship with you).

How we secure your information

Measures taken to secure your information
We take appropriate technical and organisational measures to secure your information and to protect it against unauthorised or unlawful use and accidental loss or destruction, including:

only sharing and providing access to your information to the minimum extent necessary, subject to confidentiality restrictions where appropriate, and on an anonymised basis wherever possible;
using secure servers to store your information;
verifying the identity of any individual who requests access to information prior to granting them access to information; and
using Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) software or other similar encryption technologies to encrypt any payment transactions you make on or via our website.

Transmission of information to use by email
Transmission of information over the internet is not entirely secure, and if you submit any information to us over the internet (whether by email, via our website or any other means), you do so entirely at your own risk.

We cannot 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 transmit information to us by such means.

Transfers of your information outside the UK
Your information will be transferred and stored outside the UK in the unlikely event that we are required to comply with legal obligations to which we are subject (compliance with a court order, for example). Where we are required to do so, we will ensure that appropriate and equivalent safeguards and protections are in place.

Email
Information you submit to us by email is not transferred outside the UK and is stored on secure email servers.

Country of storage: United Kingdom

Contact form
Information you submit via our contact forms is stored on our server in the United Kingdom.

Digital newsletter and news sites
Information you submit to us when you sign up for our newsletters (your email address) remains in the UK.

Country of storage: United Kingdom

Your rights in relation to your information

Your rights
Subject to certain limitations on certain rights, you have the following rights in relation to your information, which you can exercise by writing ClearView Financial Media, 52 Grosvenor Gardens, London SW1W OAU or sending an email to gdpr@clearviewpublishing.com

– to request access to your information and information related to our use and processing of your information;
– to request the correction or deletion of your information;
– to request that we restrict our use of your information;
– to receive information which you have provided to us in a structured, commonly used and machine-readable format (e.g. a CSV file) and the right to have that information transferred to another data controller (including a third party data controller);
– to object to the processing of your information for certain purposes (for further information, see the section below entitled Your right to object to the processing of your information); and
– to withdraw your consent to our use of your information at any time where we rely on your consent to use or process that information. Please note that if you withdraw your consent, this will not affect the lawfulness of our use and processing of your information on the basis of your consent before the point in time when you withdraw your consent.

You also have the right to lodge a complaint the contact details are here: www.ico.org.uk/global/contact-us/ 

For the purposes of the UK, the supervisory authority is the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO), the contact details of which are available here

Further information about your rights
The above rights are provided in summary form only and certain limitations apply to many of these rights. For further information about your rights in relation to your information, including any limitations which apply, please visit the following pages on the ICO’s website:

You can also find out further information about your rights, as well as information on any limitations which apply to those rights, by reading the underlying legislation.

Verifying your identity where you request access to your information
Where you request access to your information, we are required by law to use all reasonable measures to verify your identity before doing so.

These measures are designed to protect your information and to reduce the risk of identity fraud, identity theft or general unauthorised access to your information.

How we verify your identity

Where we possess appropriate information about you on file, we will attempt to verify your identity using that information.

If it is not possible to identify you from such information, or if we have insufficient information about you, we may require original or certified copies of certain documentation in order to be able to verify your identity before we are able to provide you with access to your information.

We will be able to confirm the precise information we require to verify your identity in your specific circumstances if and when you make such a request.

Your right to object to the processing of your information

Your right to object
You have the following rights in relation to your information, which you may exercise by writing to ClearView Financial Media, 83 Victoria Street, London SW1H 0HW or sending an email to info@clearviewpublishing.com

to object to us using or processing your information where we use or process it in order to carry out a task in the public interest or for our legitimate interests, including ‘profiling’ (i.e. analysing or predicting your behaviour based on your information) based on any of these purposes; and
to object to us using or processing your information for direct marketing purposes (including any profiling we engage in that is related to such direct marketing).
You may also exercise your right to object to us using or processing your information for direct marketing purposes by:

clicking the unsubscribe link contained at the bottom of any marketing email we send to you and following the instructions which appear in your browser following your clicking on that link;

sending an email to gdpr@clearviewpublishing.com, asking that we stop sending you marketing communications or by including the words “OPT OUT”.
For more information on how to object to our use of information collected from cookies and similar technologies, please see the section entitled How to accept or reject cookies in our cookies policy

Sensitive Personal Information

What is ‘Sensitive Personal Information’
‘Sensitive personal information’ is information about an individual that reveals their racial or ethnic origin, political opinions, religious or philosophical beliefs, or trade union membership, genetic information, biometric information for the purpose of uniquely identifying an individual, information concerning health or information concerning a natural person’s sex life or sexual orientation.

Our policy on Sensitive Personal Information
We do not knowingly or intentionally collect sensitive personal information from individuals, and you must not submit sensitive personal information to us.

In some instances we may collect dietary requirements from attendees at our Award gala dinners but this information is destroyed after the said event.

If, however, you inadvertently or intentionally transmit sensitive personal information to us, you will be considered to have explicitly consented to us processing that sensitive personal information. We will use and process your sensitive personal information for the purposes of deleting it.

Changes to our Privacy Policy

Minor changes to our Privacy Policy
Where we make minor changes to our Privacy Policy, we will update our Privacy Policy with a new effective date stated at the beginning of it. Our processing of your information will be governed by the practices set out in that new version of the Privacy Policy from its effective date onwards.

Major changes to our Privacy Policy
Where we make major changes to our Privacy Policy or intend to use your information for a new purpose or a different purpose than the purposes for which we originally collected it, we will notify you by email (where possible) or by posting a notice on our website.

We will provide you with the information about the change in question and the purpose and any other relevant information before we use your information for that new purpose.

Wherever required, we will obtain your prior consent before using your information for a purpose that is different from the purposes for which we originally collected it, except where the data processing is compatible with the original purpose.

Additional Information

Children’s privacy
Because we care about the safety and privacy of children online, we comply with the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act of 1998 (COPPA). COPPA and its accompanying regulations protect the privacy of children using the internet. We do not knowingly contact or collect information from persons under the age of 18. The website is not intended to solicit information of any kind from persons under the age of 18.

It is possible that we could receive information pertaining to persons under the age of 18 by the fraud or deception of a third party. If we are notified of this, as soon as we verify the information, we will, where required by law to do so, immediately obtain the appropriate parental consent to use that information or, if we are unable to obtain such parental consent, we will delete the information from our servers. If you would like to notify us of our receipt of information about persons under the age of 18, please do so by sending an email to enquiries@gdprprivacypolicy.org