Privacy and Data Protection Policy

Important Information And Who We Are

Welcome to AccelNorth Partners Limited’s Privacy and Data Protection Policy (“Privacy Policy”). At AccelNorth Partners Limited (“we”, “us”, or “our”) we are committed to protecting and respecting your privacy and Personal Data in compliance with the United Kingdom General Data Protection Regulation (“GDPR”), the Data Protection Act 2018 and all other mandatory laws and regulations of the United Kingdom.

This Privacy Policy explains how we collect, process and keep your data safe. The Privacy Policy will tell you about your privacy rights, how the law protects you, and inform our employees and staff members of all their obligations and protocols when processing data. This Privacy Policy applies to all our employees and staff members and all Personal Data processed at any time by us. This Privacy Policy (“Policy”) explains how we use any personal data we collect about you. AccelNorth Partners Limited is your Data Controller and responsible for your Personal Data.

Any inquiries about your data should either be sent to us by email to info@accelnorthpartners.com. You have the right to make a complaint at any time to the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO), the UK supervisory authority for data protection issues (www.ico.org.uk). We would, however, appreciate the chance to deal with your concerns before you approach the ICO so please contact us in the first instance.

Types Of Personal Data Collected

“Personal Data” is any information about an individual from which that person can be identified. The Personal Data we collect include but are not limited to your name, e-mail address, phone number, residency, company name, job title and business affiliations.
We do not collect any Special Categories of Personal Data about you (this includes details about your race or ethnicity, religious or philosophical beliefs, sexual orientation, political opinions, trade union membership, information about your health, and genetic and biometric data). Nor do we collect any information about criminal convictions and offences.

How We Collect Your Personal Data
We will only use your Personal Data when the law allows us to. We collect personal data that you voluntarily provide to us, for example when:

you communicate with us via e-mail or other channels,
when you ask us to share information or other (non-marketing) materials,
when you sign up for an event,
when you use our products and services, and/or
face to face, for example during meetings.

In some cases, your Personal Data has been supplemented by information retrieved from other sources, including searches via publicly available search engines, reliable financial research platforms, social media and your employer’s website.

How We Use Your Personal Data
We use the Personal Data we collect for purposes, including:

suggestions that may be of interest to you.
seasonal greetings and updates, and/or
to maintain our list of contacts.

Where easily available, including but not limited to information retrieved from sources such as publicly available search engines, reliable financial research platforms, social media and your employer’s website, we may share such information with our relevant contacts or clients.

How We Protect Personal Data
We are concerned with keeping your data secure and protecting it from inappropriate disclosure. We implement a variety of security measures to ensure the security of your Personal Data on our systems, including adopting a secure protocol and encrypting our databases. Data is encrypted in transit, at rest, and on backup media. Any Personal Data collected by us is only accessible by a limited number of employees, sub-contractors and partners who have special access rights to such systems and are bound by obligations of confidentiality. However, unfortunately no transmission of data over the internet is guaranteed to be completely secure. It may be possible for third parties not under the control of AccelNorth Partners Limited to intercept or access transmissions or private communications unlawfully. While we strive to protect your Personal Data, we cannot ensure or warrant the security of any Personal Data you transmit to us. Any such transmission is done at your own risk. If you believe that your interaction with us is no longer secure, please contact us.

Sharing Your Personal Data
We may share your personal data with third parties, such as parties that provide us CRM (Contact Relationship Management tool) services. When we share your information, we only share the information needed, and as little of it as possible, for a specific purpose. We will ensure that, where relevant, contractual safeguards are implemented to ensure the protection of your Personal Data when disclosing your Personal Data to a third party.

How Long We Retain Your Personal Data
Your Personal Data will be saved for as long as you are a business or other contact to us. Your personal data will be deleted when you withdraw your consent (where applicable) and we are not legally required or otherwise permitted to continue storing such data.

Your Legal Rights

Right to be informed. You have a right to be informed about our purposes for processing your personal data, how long we store it for, and who it will be shared with. We have provided this information to you in this policy.
Right of access. This enables you to receive a copy of the personal data we hold about you.
Right to rectification. You have a right to request correction of the personal data that we hold about you.
Right to erasure. You have the right to ask us to delete or remove personal data.
Right to object. You can object to the processing of personal data we hold about you. This effectively allows you to stop or prevent us from processing your personal data. Note that this is not an absolute right and it only applies in certain circumstances, for example:
- Where we are processing your personal data for direct marketing purposes.
- Where we are relying on a legitimate interest (or those of a third party) and there is something about your particular situation which makes you want to object to processing on this ground as you feel it impacts on your fundamental rights and freedoms.
- In some cases, we may continue processing your data if we can demonstrate that we have compelling legitimate grounds to process your information which override your rights and freedoms.
Right to restrict processing. You have the right to request the restriction or suppression of their personal data. Note that this is not an absolute right and it only applies in certain circumstances.

If you wish to make a request under any of these rights, please contact us at info@accelnorthpartners.com.

International Transfer Of Data
Your information may be stored and processed in the UK or other countries or jurisdictions outside the UK where AccelNorth Partners Limited has facilities, employees or sub-contractors. By dealing with AccelNorth Partners Limited, you are permitting and consenting to the transfer of information, including Personal Data, outside of the UK.

Notification Of Changes And Acceptance Of Policy
We keep our Privacy Policy under review and will place any updates here. This version is dated 1 December 2023. In case of any updates, we will post the changed Privacy Policy on our website or publish it otherwise. The changes will take effect as soon as they are posted on this website.