Website Policy
International Business Advisors LLP (IBA) protects and respects your privacy and processes data in accordance with applicable laws.
This policy explains how IBA may process your personal data. Any updates to this policy will appear on the IBA’s website.
Personal Data
Personal data means any information relating to an identified or identifiable natural person.
IBA usually collects personal data because you have provided it to us, for example by entering into an agreement with IBA, giving IBA and its employees your business card, entering your data on IBA’s website, agreeing to receive services from IBA, or applying for a position with IBA. IBA may also collect your personal data from other sources, including publicly available sources.
Personal data that IBA may collect, and process may include:
• Basic information such as your name, your employer and your title or position;
• Contact information such as your e-mail address, postal address, and phone number.
• Financial information, such as bank account details;
• Identification and background information provided by you or otherwise collected by IBA as part of our business acceptance procedures;
• Details of your visits to IBA offices or of other meetings that IBA may have with you;
• Data you provide to IBA for the purposes of attending events or meetings;
• Information that you may provide to IBA for the purpose of a job application;
• Data related to your visit to IBA website or in relation to materials and communications IBA may send you electronically;
• Any other personal information that you that you may provide to us or IBA may obtain from a third party source.
IBA’s use of your personal data
IBA will only process your personal data in connection with IBA’s professional activities, including but not limited to the fulfillment of IBA’s legal or regulatory obligations. IBA will do so on the basis of your consent, performance of a contract, compliance with a legal obligation
or legitimate interest.
The purposes for which IBA may process your personal data include:
• Providing IBA’s services;
• Complying with IBA’s legal and regulatory obligations;
• Managing our business development and marketing activities, such as briefings and invitations to IBA’s events;
• Handling your job application or otherwise managing IBA’s recruitment processes;
• Generating statistics regarding the use of IBA’s website or to analyze and improve on IBA’s website; and
• Fulfilling IBA’s legal, regulatory and risk management obligations, including establishing, exercising, or defending legal claims.
Data of Children
IBA understands the importance of protecting children’s privacy, especially in an online environment. Our sites are not designed for or directed at children under the age of 18. Moreover, it is our policy to never knowingly collect or maintain any information about anyone under the age of 18, except as a part of an engagement to provide professional services or when required to be disclosed by law. If you are under 18 years of age, please do not provide any personal data. If you believe that you have inadvertently provided personal data, then please ask your parent(s) or legal guardian(s) to notify us, and we will delete your personal data.
Security of personal data
IBA maintains appropriate technical and organizational security measures to protect your personal information against loss, destruction, misuse, damage, alteration or disclosure.
Your rights regarding your personal data You have a number of legal rights under applicable data protection legislation. Please note that some of these rights may be limited in certain cases, for example to protect legal privilege or to satisfy IBA’s legal or regulatory obligations.
In particular, you are entitled:
• To request details of the personal data concerning you;
• To have your personal information rectified or corrected if it is inaccurate or incomplete;
• To request the erasure of the personal data that relates to you;
• To withdraw your consent;
• To object to or request restrictions on the processing of your data;
• To have personal data transmitted to another organization in an appropriate format;
• To object to profiling; and
• To lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority.
If you wish to exercise these rights, you may, at any time, contact IBA using the contact details below.
Sharing with others
IBA may disclose your personal information to third parties for the above-mentioned purposes.
These include:
• third parties relevant to the legal services IBA provides, such as counterparties, other counsel, courts, regulatory bodies and government institutions;
• third parties IBA engages with in order to comply with legal obligations, such as IBA’s professional advisors and auditors; and
• third parties in connection with the processing of your personal data.
IBA will only disclose your personal data to such third parties for the purposes stated in this Privacy Policy. Where IBA does so, IBA will do this in accordance with applicable data protection laws and will take appropriate safeguards to ensure its integrity and protection.
Retention period
IBA will not store the personal data of users any longer than is necessary to achieve the purposes stated in this Privacy Policy, or to comply with laws or regulations. Non-existence of automated decision-making IBA does not use automated decision-making or profiling. Profiling means any form of automated processing of personal data consisting of the use of personal data to evaluate certain personal aspects relating to a natural person.