Vasant Capital Limited, its subsidiaries and affiliates (further “Vasant Connect”, “Company”, “we”, “us”, “our”) value and respect the privacy of client organisations and their designated contacts (“Client(s)”), or any other person visiting or exchanging information with our website(s) (“Site(s)”). Clients are subject to a Client Service Agreement incorporating this Privacy Policy. As a User of our Site(s), you have also agreed to, and are subject to, the Terms and Conditions, which incorporate this Privacy Policy. By visiting our Site(s) you agree to the collection and use of your data under the terms of this Privacy Policy. This Privacy Policy explains how we collect, store, use, share and protect personal information provided by Clients, or any visitor to our Site(s). Any breach of this Privacy Policy by a Client or any visitors of our Site(s)may result in termination of usage rights.
This Privacy Policy applies to data about Clients’ and Site Visitors’ businesses and, more specifically, to personal information supplied by individuals about themselves in their capacity as (i) employees or representatives of Clients, (ii) natural persons who are visitors to any Site(s). We refer to all such persons as “Individuals”. By making use of any services available through the Site, each Individual gives their consent to the processing of personal information concerning the Individual as outlined below. By using our Site(s) in any capacity, you agree to the Privacy Policy in force at that time.
PERSONAL INFORMATION COLLECTED
Vasant Capital collects information voluntarily provided by Individuals during the Client acceptance procedure. Such information will be complemented by additional information generated through interaction with the Site(s), through correspondence, in connection with potential or actual participation in any consultation, survey, poll or assignment (“Project(s)”) or any other interaction with Vasant Capital and Clients. This will include personal information such as name, contact details (including email address, postal address and telephone numbers), skills, expertise, professional biography including academic and employment history, Project participation or other contributions. Vasant Capital may also obtain certain information from third parties including, but not limited to, suggestions on potential prospective advisors provided by existing Clients, or other third parties.
Vasant Capital may send one or more cookies – text only strings of characters identifying a visitor’s browser – to any Individual visiting any Site. You can configure your browser to accept all cookies, reject all cookies, or notify you when a cookie is set. Vasant Capital records every visit to any Site and logs web request and internet protocol address information.
This Privacy Policy collectively refers to the information collected by Vasant Capital about you as “your information‟. This includes that personal information that allows you to be uniquely identified.
USE OF YOUR INFORMATION
Vasant Capital uses your information to facilitate and process your participation in Projects and to contact you about past, current and potential future Projects. In addition, we use the information we collect about you to:
– monitor, improve and develop our business/offering to you;
– inform you about services offered by Vasant Connect;
– send you direct (e)mail such as offers, requests or notices from Vasant Capital or associated third parties with whom we have a contractual relationship regulating the use of your information;
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– be supplemented with information received from third parties;
– share with any associated third parties or suppliers that process data on our behalf both in the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (further ‘U.K.”) and abroad for the purposes described in this Privacy Policy.
– Any Individual making use of such communication channels or functionalities understands that their personal information is available to the intended recipient party and Vasant Connect.
DISCLOSURE OF YOUR INFORMATION
Your information may be held by Vasant Capital inside and outside the U.K. Your information may also be transferred to and from locations inside and outside the U.K. by our staff and third parties working for us.
Apart from the disclosures in connection with the uses outlined in the section Use of Your Information above, Vasant Capital may disclose your information in response to any legal or discovery process required by law or any authority, to protect our rights or for the prevention or detection of a crime. Upon a partial or complete sale of Vasant Capital or upon us entering into a joint venture with a third party, we may disclose your information to such new business partners or owners who may then use your information in connection with their respective products and services. We may also disclose your information as part of aggregated Vasant Capital data which is not individually identifiable.
SECURITY
We take the security of your personal information seriously and therefore have measures in place to minimise abuse, unauthorised access, loss and unlawful processing. However, we cannot guarantee the security of our servers, transmissions between your computer and our servers, or information provided to us or any third party via our Site(s). We therefore remind you that you are acting at your own risk with respect to any and all information you supply to us or generate through interaction with us or our Clients.
LINKS
Our Site(s) may contain links to other web sites belonging to third parties. Such sites are not controlled by us and are not covered by this Privacy Policy independent of whether or not we have any affiliation with them. Please ensure that when accessing any site using a link provided, you have read and understood that site’s Privacy Policy as this Privacy Policy only applies to information collected on our Site(s).
CHANGES TO THIS PRIVACY POLICY
We may change this Privacy Policy from time to time without notice and any such changes will take effect from the time the revised version is available on the Site(s). We therefore ask that you bookmark and periodically review this page to ensure your understanding of, and agreement with, the Privacy Policy in force at any one time.
CONTACT
Vasant Capital welcomes any comments, requests and queries relating to this Privacy Policy or our use of your information, which should be addressed to contact@vasantconnect.com or by mail to Vasant Capital Limited, 8 Redcliffe Street, London SW10 9DS, United Kingdom.