This Privacy Policy explains how Financial Crime Compliance Limited collects, uses, and protects your personal data when you use our services, visit our website, or otherwise interact with us.

We are committed to protecting your privacy and handling your personal data in a transparent and secure manner, in accordance with the UK General Data Protection Regulation (UK GDPR) and the Data Protection Act 2018.

Financial Crime Compliance Limited  is a consultancy firm registered in the United Kingdom and Wales under company number  16491976. 

Our contact email for privacy matters is: 

your-team@financialcrimecompliance.co.uk

For the purposes of the UK GDPR, we are the Data Controller of the personal data we process, unless otherwise stated.

For the purposes of the UK GDPR, we are the Data Controller of the personal data we process, unless otherwise stated.

We may collect and process various types of personal data about you, depending on your interaction with us:

• Identity Data: Name, title, date of birth, gender.
• Contact Data: Billing address, delivery address, email address, telephone numbers.
• Professional Data: Job title, company name, industry, professional qualifications, career history (e.g., if you apply for a job with us).
• Financial Data: Bank account details, payment card details (though we typically use third-party payment processors who handle this securely).
• Transaction Data: Details about services you have purchased from us.
• Technical Data: Internet protocol (IP) address, your login data, browser type and version, time zone setting and location, browser plug-in types and versions, operating system and platform, and other technology on the devices you use to access our website.
• Usage Data: Information about how you use our website, products, and services.
• Marketing and Communications Data: Your preferences in receiving marketing from us and our third parties, and your communication preferences.
• Recruitment Data: Information provided in CVs, cover letters, interview notes, references, and background checks (for job applicants).

We use different methods to collect data from and about you, including:

• Direct Interactions: You may give us your Identity, Contact, Professional, and Financial Data by filling in forms or by corresponding with us by post, phone, email, or otherwise. This includes personal data you provide when you:
  • Enquire about or purchase our services.
  • Create an account on our website.
  • Subscribe to our newsletter or publications.
  • Request marketing to be sent to you.
  • Enter a competition, promotion, or survey.
  • Give us feedback or contact us.
  • Apply for a job with us.
• Automated Technologies or Interactions: As you interact with our website, we may automatically collect Technical Data about your equipment, browsing actions, and patterns. We collect this personal data by using cookies, server logs, and other similar technologies. Please see our Cookie Policy below for more details.
• Third Parties or Publicly Available Sources: We may receive personal data about you from various third parties and public sources, such as:
  • Technical Data from analytics providers (e.g., Google Analytics).
  • Contact, Financial, and Transaction Data from providers of technical, payment, and delivery services.
  • Identity and Contact Data from publicly available sources (e.g., Companies House, LinkedIn).
  • Recruitment agencies or professional networking sites (for job applicants).

We will only use your personal data when the law allows us to. Most commonly, we will use your personal data in the following circumstances:

• Performance of a Contract: Where we need to perform the contract we are about to enter into or have entered into with you.
• Legitimate Interests: Where it is necessary for our legitimate interests (or those of a third party) and your interests and fundamental rights do not override those interests. This includes improving our services, marketing, and preventing fraud.
• Legal Obligation: Where we need to comply with a legal or regulatory obligation.
• Consent: Where you have given your explicit consent for us to process your personal data for a specific purpose. You have the right to withdraw consent at any time by contacting us.

We use your personal data for the following purposes:

• To provide and manage our services: To deliver the consultancy services you have engaged us for, including managing payments, fees, and charges, and collecting and recovering money owed to us.
• To manage our relationship with you: Including notifying you about changes to our terms or privacy policy, and asking you to leave a review or take a survey.
• To improve our website and services: To administer and protect our business and website (including troubleshooting, data analysis, testing, system maintenance, support, reporting, and hosting of data).
• To deliver relevant website content and advertisements to you: And measure or understand the effectiveness of the advertising we serve to you.
• To make suggestions and recommendations to you: About services that may be of interest to you.
• For recruitment purposes: To process job applications and assess suitability for roles within our firm.
• To comply with legal and regulatory obligations.

We may share your personal data with the following parties:

• Internal Third Parties: Other companies within our group (if applicable) acting as processors or joint controllers, who provide IT and system administration services and undertake leadership reporting.
• External Third Parties:
  • Service providers acting as processors who provide IT and system administration services, payment processing, marketing services, and professional advisors (e.g., lawyers, accountants, auditors).
  • Regulators and other authorities based in the United Kingdom who require reporting of processing activities in certain circumstances.
  • Third parties to whom we may choose to sell, transfer, or merge parts of our business or our assets. Alternatively, we may seek to acquire other businesses or merge with them. If a change happens to our business, then the new owners may use your personal data in the same way as set out in this privacy policy.

We require all third parties to respect the security of your personal data and to treat it in accordance with the law. We do not allow our third-party service providers to use your personal data for their own purposes and only permit them to process your personal data for specified purposes and in accordance with our instructions.

We primarily store and process your personal data within the United Kingdom and the European Economic Area (EEA).

If we transfer your personal data outside the UK or EEA, we ensure a similar degree of protection is afforded to it by ensuring at least one of the following safeguards is implemented:

• We will only transfer your personal data to countries that have been deemed to provide an adequate level of protection for personal data by the UK government or European Commission.
• Where we use certain service providers, we may use specific contracts approved by the UK government or European Commission which give personal data the same protection it has in the UK/EEA.

We have implemented appropriate security measures to prevent your personal data from being accidentally lost, used, or accessed in an unauthorised way, altered, or disclosed. In addition, we limit access to your personal data to those employees, agents, contractors, and other third parties who have a business need to know. They will only process your personal data on our instructions and they are subject to a duty of confidentiality.

We have put in place procedures to deal with any suspected personal data breach and will notify you and any applicable regulator of a breach where we are legally required to do so.

We will only retain your personal data for as long as necessary to fulfil the purposes we collected it for, including for the purposes of satisfying any legal, accounting, or reporting requirements.

To determine the appropriate retention period for personal data, we consider the amount, nature, and sensitivity of the personal data, the potential risk of harm from unauthorised use or disclosure of your personal data, the purposes for which we process your personal data and whether we can achieve those purposes through other means, and the applicable legal requirements.

In some circumstances, we may anonymise your personal data (so that it can no longer be associated with you) for research or statistical purposes, in which case we may use this information indefinitely without further notice to you.

Under certain circumstances, you have rights under data protection laws in relation to your personal data. These include the right to:

• Request access to your personal data (commonly known as a "data subject access request").
• Request correction of the personal data that we hold about you.
• Request erasure of your personal data.
• Object to processing of your personal data 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.
• Request restriction of processing of your personal data.
• Request the transfer of your personal data to you or to a third party.
• Withdraw consent at any time where we are relying on consent to process your personal data.

If you wish to exercise any of the rights set out above, please contact us at [Your Privacy Contact Email].

You will not have to pay a fee to access your personal data (or to exercise any of the other rights). However, we may charge a reasonable fee if your request is clearly unfounded, repetitive, or excessive. Alternatively, we may refuse to comply with your request in these circumstances.

We may need to request specific information from you to help us confirm your identity and ensure your right to access your personal data (or to exercise any of your other rights). This is a security measure to ensure that personal data is not disclosed to any person who has no right to receive it. We may also contact you to ask you for further information in relation to your request to speed up our response.

We try to respond to all legitimate requests within one month. Occasionally it may take us longer than a month if your request is particularly complex or you have made a number of requests. In this case, we will notify you and keep you updated.

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We keep our Privacy Policy under regular review. Any changes we may make to our Privacy Policy in the future will be posted on this page. We encourage you to review this page periodically for the latest information on our privacy practices.

If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy or our privacy practices, please contact us in the following ways:

Email: your-team@financialcrimecompliance.co.uk

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.