Privacy policy
Please read the following carefully. This privacy policy sets out how GMTL ADVISORY LIMITED uses and protects your personal data and information and explains your rights and how to contact us if you need.
GMTL ADVISORY LIMITED may change this policy from time to time by updating this page and you should check this page from time to time to ensure that you are happy with any changes. This policy is effective from March 2021.
This policy sets out:
What personal data about you we may collect;
Where we collect this personal data;
How we use your personal data;
With whom we share your personal data;
Where we store your personal data;
How we protect your personal data; and
How long we hold your personal data
What personal data about you we may collect
In the course of our business activities and the provision of due diligence and strategic advisory services to our clients, personal data we collect may include:
your name
your address, phone number, email address and other contact details;
your job function and title and details of your career; or
personal information provided to us in the course of communications or transactions with us or the company you work for.
Where we collect this personal data
We may collect personal data about you:
directly from you (including when you subscribe to marketing communications);
from an agent/third party acting on your behalf e.g. lawyer, trustee or fiduciary;
from information vendors e.g. Factiva, BoardEx, Pitchbook, Preqin;
through publicly available sources e.g. LinkedIn, Google, Companies House; and
through references or by word of mouth e.g. you may be referred to us by a current or former colleague or employer or a personal acquaintance.
Security
We are 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 collect online.
How we use cookies
A cookie is a small file which asks permission to be placed on your computer’s hard drive. Once you agree, the file is added and the cookie helps analyse web traffic or lets you know when you visit a particular site. Cookies allow web applications to respond to you as an individual. The web application can tailor its operations to your needs, likes and dislikes by gathering and remembering information about your preferences.
We use traffic log cookies to identify which pages are being used. This helps us analyse data about web page traffic and improve our website in order to tailor it to customer needs. We only use this information for statistical analysis purposes and then the data is removed from the system.
Overall, cookies help us provide you with a better website, by enabling us to monitor which pages you find useful and which you do not. A cookie in no way gives us access to your computer or any information about you, other than the data you choose to share with us.
You can choose to accept or decline cookies. Most web browsers automatically accept cookies, but you can usually modify your browser setting to decline cookies if you prefer. This may prevent you from taking full advantage of the website.
With whom we share your personal data
We will share personal data with affiliates and partners only where necessary to fulfil client obligations. You will be advised if this is the case.
Otherwise, we will not share your personal data unless required to do so to satisfy any legal obligations (whether under anti-corruption, anti-bribery, anti-money laundering regulations or otherwise).
Where we store your personal data
All data held by GMTL is stored on secure cloud servers managed by our IT provider. These servers and service providers are physically located within the UK and are required to comply with The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and conduct regular reviews to ensure ongoing compliance. Where, if necessary for the completion of an assignment, your personal data is transferred outside the European Economic Area (EEA) to a country that is not subject to equivalent data protection laws we will take all reasonable steps to ensure that security measures and approved model clauses are in place to protect your personal data.
How long we hold your personal data
We will keep your personal data for as long as is necessary for us to use your information as set out above or to comply with our legal obligations. Please be advised that we may retain some of your information after you cease to use our services. For example, we are required to keep accounting records and contracts for a period of six (6) years.
Your Rights
The right to be given a copy of the personal data about you held by us;
The right to rectification of the personal data about you held by us;
The right to erasure of the personal data about you held by us;
The right to restrict our use of the personal data about you held by us;
The right to object to further use of the personal data about you held by us (including processing use for direct marketing);
The right to request that the personal data about you held by us be transferred to a third party;
The right to lodge a complaint with your national data protection regulator; and
The right to withdraw consent. If you have given your consent to anything we do with your personal data, you have the right to withdraw your consent at any time (although if you do so, it does not mean that anything we have done with your personal data with your consent up to that point is unlawful).