We take your privacy very seriously and are committed to maintaining the privacy and security of information you provide to us. Please read this document carefully to understand our policies regarding your personal data and how will collect, store and use your personal data and the rights you have in connection with the same.
GrowthInvest.com (the “Website”) is owned by EIS Platforms Ltd, trading as GrowthInvest (“GrowthInvest”, “we” or “us”), a private limited company in England and Wales (company registration number 08018312) with its registered office at Warnford Court, 29 Throgmorton Street, London EC2N 2AT.
The data controller (as defined under European Data Protection Legislation) for GrowthInvest.com is EIS Platforms Ltd. We are registered as a data controller with the Information Commissioner’s Office and our registration number is ZA114581.
If you have any questions or concerns about this Privacy Policy you can contact us at privacy@GrowthInvest.com or 0300 303 0037 or via post to GrowthInvest, Warnford Court, 29 Throgmorton Street, London EC2N 2AT. You also have the right to make a complaint directly to the Information Commissioner’s Office.
This Privacy Policy sets out how we collect, use and protect your personal information. ‘Personal information’ is information which identifies you or another person, or which is capable of doing so. It applies to information we collect about you through this Website and when you communicate with us in other ways, make a transaction, or is provided to us by third parties such as financial advisers or fund managers, or that we collect through available 3rd party information and research.
By visiting our Website or by supplying us with your Personal Information, or by consenting to a third party to do so on your behalf, you are accepting and consenting to the practices described in this Privacy Policy.
In the event that you disclose to us any Personal Information that relates to any another person, such as a financial adviser disclosing information or registering their clients, you represent and warrant
Where you authorise an adviser to register on, and use, the Website or any other services provided by us on your behalf, then you acknowledge and agree that we are entitled to use the Personal Information provided by such adviser as if it was provided directly by you, to the extent this information is required by us to provide the services requested by the adviser on your behalf. If you no longer wish an Adviser to use the Website on your behalf please contact us at privacy@growthinvest.com or on 020 7071 3945.
You may withdraw your consent to the use of your Personal Information in any of the ways set out in this Privacy Policy or adjust your communication preferences at any time by contacting us at privacy@growthinvest.com or 020 7071 3945. If you do withdraw your consent, we may still be able to process some of the Personal Data that you have provided to us on other grounds such as legitimate interest or to uphold our legal obligations. (See Section 3 below)
This Privacy Policy may change from time to time and, if it does, the up-to-date version will always be available on our Website, and we will alert you to any significant changes. Please note that by continuing to use our Website you are agreeing to any updated versions.
When you register on our Website and while you continue to use the services provided by us, or request information from us we may collect and process the following types of Personal Information:
We may use your Personal Information for the following purposes:
The legal bases that we rely on for processing your Personal Information are:
When we process your Personal Information to achieve such legitimate interests, we consider and balance any potential impact on you (both positive and negative), and your rights under data protection laws. We will not use your Personal Information for activities where our interests are overridden by the impact on you, for example where use would be excessively intrusive (unless, for instance, we are otherwise required or permitted to by law).
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.
When we share your information with third parties they will process your Personal Information as either a data controller or as our data processor and this will depend on the purposes of our sharing your Personal Information. We will only share your Personal Information in compliance with any applicable data protection legislation.
We may disclose your Personal Information to third parties when:
The third parties include:
We may share some broader statistics and customer profiling information with third parties, but the data is anonymised, so you would not be identifiable from that data. We will never rent or sell our users’ details to any other organisation or individual.
Our Website uses cookies to distinguish you from other users and to improve your experience on our Website and to recommend content that may be of interest to you. When you visit the Website, we will ask you whether you agree to our use of cookies. You can indicate your acceptance of our use of cookies by clicking “Continue” in the appropriate place on the banner that appears on the Website. However, please note that if you do not click “Continue” but do go on to browse the Website, you will be deemed to have accepted our use of cookies in accordance with this Privacy Policy. If you do not agree to our use of cookies, then you may continue to use the Website but your browsing experience may be affected. You can find out more below about what cookies are, the cookies we use and how to switch off cookies.
A cookie is a text file containing small amounts of information which is downloaded to your device when you access a website. The text file is then sent back to our server each time your browser requests a page from the server. This enables us to operate the Website more effectively and load the Website in such a way as to reflect your personal preferences based on your previous browsing on the Website, as well as keywords we may be able to gather from URLs of webpages from which you accessed the Website.
We use the following cookies:
We add buttons to allow people to easily share to those networks. When we include these social ‘plugins’, it gives those sites the flexibility to use cookies. They can’t read any cookies we set from our Website, and we can’t read any cookies they set, but it lets them do the same kind of traffic measuring that we do on the rest of the Website, and it also lets them know whether you’re logged in. Other websites and services (including, for example, advertising networks, providers of external services like web traffic analysis services and content recommendation engines) may also use cookies, over which we have no control. These cookies are likely to be analytical/performance cookies or targeting cookies.
If you would like to opt out of cookies, you can change the settings on your internet browser to reject cookies. For more information please consult the “Help” section of your browser. Please note that if you do set your browser to reject cookies, you may not be able to use all of the features of our Website.
The data that we collect from you may be transferred to, and stored at, a destination outside of the European Economic Area (“EEA”). It may also be processed by staff operating outside the EEA who work for us or one of our suppliers. By using the Website or our services, 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 Policy.
We follow strict security procedures as to how your Personal Information is stored and used, and who sees it, to help stop any unauthorised person getting hold of it. All Personal Information you register on our Website or provide to us will be located behind a firewall. Once we have received your information, we will use strict procedures and security features to try to prevent unauthorised access. We are committed to ensuring that there are appropriate technical controls in place to protect your Personal Information including protection from misuse and unauthorised access.
Your Personal Information is only accessible by staff, and contractors who are bound by appropriate policies and procedures to protect your information.
Unfortunately, the transmission of information via the internet is not completely secure and although we do our best to protect your Personal Information, we cannot guarantee the security of your data. So, on this basis we cannot accept any liability for the loss, theft or misuse of any Personal Information which you have registered on the Website or if there is a security breach relating to its transmission over the internet.
We will keep your Personal Information stored on our systems for as long as it takes to provide the services to you and to undertake our obligations as set out in this Privacy Policy. The third parties we engage to provide services on our behalf will keep your data stored on their systems for as long as is necessary to provide the services to you and to undertake our obligations as set out in this Privacy Policy. We will not store your Personal Information for longer than is reasonably necessary or required by law.
Please note that you may only use/ benefit from some of the following rights in limited circumstances. For more information, we suggest that you consult guidance from the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) – please click here – or please contact us by post the attention of the Operations Director at the address below, or by contacting us at privacy@growthinvest.com or 020 7071 3945. In exceptional circumstances we mayreserve the right to charge a small administrative fee to do so, but this would always be agreed with you in advance.
In certain circumstances as outlined in the ICO guidance referred to above, you have a right to require us to stop processing your Personal Information in a particular way.
You have the right to request that your Personal Information is erased from our records in certain circumstances.
You have a right to ask for a copy of the Personal Information we hold about you. If you want to access your Personal Information, please send a description of the Personal Information you want to see and proof of your identity for the attention of the Operations Director at the address set out below.
We also want to make sure that your Personal Information is accurate and up to date. Please let us know if your details change. You may also ask us to correct or remove Personal Information which is inaccurate.
You can also opt-out of receiving all or some of our marketing/ investment communications or request that we stop processing Personal Information about you for certain purposes at any time by contacting us using the details below, or using the opt-out option which will be present on any e-mail communications.
In certain circumstances you have a right to data portability which means we will provide you (or a third party you nominate) with your Personal Information in a structured, commonly used and machine-readable format.
The Website may, from time to time, contain links to and from the websites of third parties. 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 Information to these websites.
Questions, comments and requests regarding this Privacy Policy should be addressed to:
The Chief Operating Officer,
Warnford Court,
29 Throgmorton Street,
London EC2N 2AT
privacy@growthinvest.com or 0300 303 0037
For the purposes of this Privacy Policy, (“European Data Protection Legislation“) is defined as, for the periods in which they are in force, the European Data Protection Directive 95/46/EC, all laws giving effect or purporting to give effect to the European Data Protection Directive 95/46/EC (such as the Data Protection Act 1998) or otherwise relating to data protection (to the extent the same apply) and, from 25 May 2018, the General Data Protection Regulation (Regulation (EU) 2016/670) (GDPR) or any equivalent legislation amending or replacing the GDPR.
GrowthInvest is a trading name of EIS Platforms Limited. EIS Platforms Limited (FRN: 694945) is an appointed representative of Sapphire Capital Partners LLP (FRN:565716) which is authorised and regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority in the UK.
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