This website is operated by LCM Partners Limited (referred to as “LCM”, “we”, “us” or “our” in this privacy statement). We take privacy seriously and we are open and transparent about how we handle your personal information and about our obligations under applicable data protection laws and regulations, including the General Data Protection Regulation (the “GDPR”) and the GDPR as it forms part of the law of England and Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland by virtue of section 3 of the European Union (Withdrawal) Act 2018 (including as further amended or modified by the laws of the United Kingdom or a part of the United Kingdom from time to time).
This privacy statement explains the basis on which we will control and process any personal information we collect from you or that you may provide to us through this website or otherwise. We are responsible for any such personal data in our capacity as a data controller or as a data processor, as determined in accordance with applicable data protection legislation.
We have tried to keep this statement as straightforward as possible. However, if you require any further information or clarification then please contact us directly at:
LCM Partners Limited
The Peak
5 Wilton Road
London SW1V 1AN
Telephone number: +44 (0)20 3457 5050
Email address: [email protected]
Yes, given the nature of our business and the data that we hold we have appointed a Data Protection Officer to help ensure that your rights are protected. You can contact our Data Protection Officer (currently our General Counsel, Josephine Bennett) at the following email address: [email protected] or write to the Data Protection Officer at the address listed above.
Personal data means any information capable of identifying an individual. It does not include anonymised data.
We may process the following categories of personal data about you:
We collect and use this personal data in order to provide our services to you. If you do not provide personal data we ask for, it may delay or prevent us from performing our contract with you and providing these services.
We do not carry out automated decision making or any type of automatic profiling.
We require your explicit consent if we process special category data (e.g health data). Where relevant, we will send you a further communication asking you to confirm your consent for this processing.
We may collect data about you when you provide the data directly to us (for example, by sending us emails, or through other forms of correspondence we have with you, such as phone calls).
Third parties that we appoint may collect data from you and pass it on to us.
We may automatically collect certain data from you as you use our website through our use of cookies and similar technologies. Please see our cookie policy for more details about this.
We may receive data from third parties such as analytics providers for example, Google, some of which may be based outside the United Kingdom and/or the European Economic Area. Please section 11 below for further details.
We may use your information on any of the following lawful grounds:
Our legitimate interests include the following:
We may share your information with employees, directors, shareholders and to those of our affiliates, financial institutions, investment companies, accountants, lawyers, auditors, insurers, professional advisors, or other third party service providers who provide services to us such as those that assist us with running our business (e.g IT service providers) and asset management companies. We may also disclose information we have a legal or regulatory right or obligation to report. Further, we may share your information with third parties to whom we sell, transfer or merge parts of our business or our assets.
It is our commitment that prior to disclosing any personal information about you to another organisation we have taken all reasonable steps to ensure that that organisation will hold and protect your information with adequate security measures and in accordance with relevant regulation.
We protect your information with appropriate security measures under the laws and regulations that apply to prevent your personal data from being accidentally lost, used, altered, disclosed or accessed without authorisation. We confirm our security measures are subject to regular testing and updated as appropriate to the level of data that we hold.
We have procedures in place to deal with suspected personal data breaches and will notify you and any applicable regulator of a breach if we are legally required to do so.
We will only retain your personal data for as long as is necessary to fulfil the purposes for which we collected it, including for the purposes of satisfying any legal, accounting, or reporting requirements.
When deciding what the correct time is for which we should keep the data, we look at its amount, nature and sensitivity, the potential risk of harm from unauthorised use or disclosure, the processing purposes, whether these can be achieved by other means and legal requirements.
For tax purposes, in certain circumstances the law requires us to keep information about customers (including Customer, Client, Investor and Communication Data) for six years after they stop being customers.
In some circumstances we may anonymise your personal data for research or statistical purposes in which case we may use this information indefinitely without further notice to you.
You have explicit rights concerning your personal information and we will ensure that your rights are protected while your data is in our possession. Your rights include the following:
You will not have to pay a fee to access your personal data (or to access any of your other rights). However, we may charge a reasonable fee if your request is clearly unfounded, repetitive or excessive.
Please note that we may ask you to provide us with additional documentation to verify your identity before we action your request. This is to ensure we are dealing with the correct individual and also for Anti-Money Laundering purposes. We will tell you when we ask for your information whether it is a statutory or contractual requirement to give us the information and the consequences of not providing the information.
If you wish to make a complaint then you may do so in person, by telephone, in writing and/or by email. Please note that all complaints are dealt with according to our complaints policy and will be fully logged and investigated.
You can also contact the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO), which is the UK supervisory authority for data protection issues (www.ico.org.uk).
We will not transfer your data to a country outside of the United Kingdom and/or the European Economic Area unless that country ensures an adequate level of data protection, has appropriate safeguards in place or relies on one of the derogations provided for under applicable law and regulation.
This site may contain links to other sites. We are not responsible for their privacy practices or content nor potential damage, loss or offence caused.
It is very important that the information we hold about you is accurate and up-to-date. Please let us know if at any time your personal information changes by contacting us via the details set out above.
This privacy statement was published in May 2018 and last updated on 01 December 2021. This may be updated by us at any time. When we make any material changes to this statement, we will communicate these to you appropriately.
LCM Partners Limited, December 2021
