PRIVACY POLICY

 

1. WHO ARE WE?

In this privacy policy, the terms "we", "our", and "us" are used to refer to Carbis Partners Limited, company number 12449958, with its registered office at 35 Ballards Lane, London N3 1XW. Brotherton Private Equity is a trading name of Brotherton PE Limited.

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2. HOW WE USE YOUR DATA AND HOW TO CONTACT US

We are committed to protecting your privacy and it is important that you understand how we look after your personal data and how we make sure that we meet our legal obligations to you under relevant data protection rules (including associated guidance) (the "Data Protection Laws"). This privacy policy outlines how we will use, store and share your personal data that we collect in the course of our business including through our marketing and business development activities and the operation of this website. If you have any questions in relation to this policy or generally how your personal data is processed by us please contact us in writing at 1 Warwick Street, London W1B 5LR or by email at info@carbis.co.uk

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3. KEY TERMS

Personal data: Any information relating to an identified or identifiable individual.

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Special categories of personal data: Personal data regarding your racial or ethnic origin, political opinions, religious or philosophical beliefs, trade union membership, genetic data, biometric data for the purposes of uniquely identifying a person, data concerning your health (including mental and physical health), or data concerning your sexual orientation.

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4. THE INFORMATION WE COLLECT AND WHY

 

4.1 Raising bank debt & equity:
 

What we collect: Contact details (including name, address, email address, phone number(s)), correspondence, date of birth, residential status, current address, previous addresses, nationality, passport details, primary ID, address ID, NI number, IP address, dependant information (e.g. name, contact details, date of birth), financial information (including details of assets owned, bank and credit card details and statements and copies of statements, details of existing debt and household/personal expenditure, existing mortgage details, insurance details, salary information, payslips, savings, shares), employer details (including name and contact details)/and or company details and self-employed/ sole-trader/ partnership/ company accounts, professional track record/portfolio, solicitors details, details of other advisors, accountants details, criminal offences/convictions, gender, insurance details, marital status.

 

Why we need it: To: (a) provide to lenders/financial partners (including banks, credit funds, private equity funds, infrastructure funds, debt funds & all other financial and other institutions we deal with) in order for them to: (i) assess the suitability of the client as borrower and their business or assets for lending on prior to such lender entering into a loan contract with them; and (ii) fulfil their KYC/ AML/ CDD obligations and internal requirements, (b) to administer and fulfil our obligations under our terms and conditions.

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Where we store it: On our systems in the UK and Austria.

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How long do we keep it: Until the end of the term of the loan/JV/corporate arrangement plus seven years.

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4.2 Business Representatives

 

What we collect: Commercial/corporate representatives of a business that we engage with (e.g. third-party service providers, agents or suppliers) – business contact details.

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Why we need it: To take steps to enter, enter and fulfil the contract between the businesses we engage with.

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Where we store it: On our systems in the UK and Austria.

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How long we keep it: For the length of the agreement/ arrangement with the business, plus seven years (for legal reasons).

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4.3 Visitors to our website
 

What we collect: Technical information, including the Internet protocol (IP) address used to connect your computer to the Internet, MAC addresses, traffic data, location data, your login information, browser type and version, time zone setting, browser plug-in types and versions, operating system and platform and cookies, information about your visit, including the full Uniform Resource Locators (URL) clickstream to, through and from our website (including date and time), services you viewed or searched for, your conduct via the site and (where relevant) any other site activity, page response times, download errors, length of visits to certain pages, page interaction information (such as scrolling, clicks, and mouse-overs), and methods used to browse away from the page.

 

Why we need it: For our legitimate business interests, being: (a) to administer our site and for internal operations, including troubleshooting, data analysis, testing, research, statistical and survey purposes; (b) to improve and enhance our site and to ensure that (where applicable), content is presented in the most effective manner for you and for your device; and (c) to measure and analyse traffic via our website. Both you and we benefit from the effective management, updates and administration of our site and it is a necessity for us to use this information for these purposes, as we would be unable to achieve the same aim in any other way. We do not consider the collection and use of this information to be intrusive.

 

You are able to disable cookies, as set out in our Cookies Policy.

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Where we store it: On our systems in the UK and Austria.

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How long we keep it: For as long as is necessary for the purpose (which may vary depending on issues arising requiring internal operation e.g. troubleshooting).

Cookie duration is as set out in our Cookies Policy.

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4.4 Special Categories of Personal Data
 

We may ask you for some sensitive details (special categories of personal data), or criminal conviction/ offence history and details or you may voluntarily give such personal data to us. We will only use this personal data for the purposes of complying with our statutory obligations and implementing appropriate safeguards, and where required, we will obtain your explicit consent to processing this data (see "Consent" below). We may share any of your personal data which falls into a special category of personal data with other members of our group and third parties (for example, lenders and financial partners) for the purposes of facilitating your agreements/ arrangements and implementing appropriate safeguards only.

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5. WHERE DO WE GET THIS INFORMATION FROM?
We collect some of your information directly from you, either through information that you give to us or information that we collect through communications with us. However, most of the time we obtain some information from other third parties, including third party partners, financial partners, other agents, advisory companies, banks, former and/or current employers, insurance companies, credit reference agencies and other similar data providers and fraud prevention agencies.

 

Credit Reference Agencies (CRA's) hold personal data about consumers. Most of the personal data held by the CRA's relates to how you have maintained your credit accounts. They also hold address details and personal data from public sources such as the electoral roll, public records including county court judgments, and bankruptcy and insolvency data. We may obtain personal data about you from the CRA's for debt collection purposes and to check your credit history, verify your identity, to locate you and for fraud and money laundering purposes. If you fall behind with your payments and a full payment or satisfactory payment plan are not made, then a default notice may be recorded with the CRA's. Any records shared with CRA's will remain on your credit file for 6 years. Other organisations may see these defaults and any searches done on your file, and these may affect your ability to borrow from certain lenders.

We use Google Analytics and other software to collect information about how you use our website. This includes IP addresses. The data is anonymised before being used for analytics processing. Google Analytics processes anonymised information about:

·       the pages you visit on our website

·       how long you spend on each website page

·       how you got to the site

·       what you click on while you’re visiting the site

 

6. BASIS FOR USING YOUR INFORMATION

 

Contract: We use your personal data (excluding special categories of personal data) as set out in this privacy policy to enable us to manage our agreement/ arrangements with you.
We may also pass your personal data to members of our group and other third parties acting on our behalf for this purpose.

 

Legal obligation: In some cases we have a legal obligation to collect information from or about you. You cannot opt-out or refuse to provide this information and a failure to provide the appropriate documentation for this purpose, may impact on, or lead to a rejection of any application or proposal and/or us ceasing to work with you.

 

Consent: In some circumstances, we may need your consent to process certain information. You have the right to withdraw your consent to this processing at any time and you will be offered an alternative means of providing the information we need.

 

Legitimate interests: To use your personal data for any other purpose described in this privacy policy, we will rely on a condition known as "legitimate interests". It is in our legitimate interests to collect your personal data as it provides us with the information that we need to run our business, manage your agreement or arrangements with us and represent you more effectively. This requires us to carry out a balancing test of our interests in using your personal data, against the interests you have as a citizen and the rights you have under data protection laws (for example, to not have your data sold to third party marketing companies without your knowledge, or not store your personal data in insecure or unstable countries or regions). As a result of our balancing test, which is detailed (where applicable) in Section 4 (THE INFORMATION WE COLLECT AND WHY) above, we have determined, acting reasonably and considering the circumstances, that we are able to process your personal data in accordance with the data protection laws on the basis that we have a legitimate business interest.

 

7. WHO DO WE SHARE YOUR INFORMATION WITH?

We may share your information with the other members of our group of companies and third parties but only for the purposes specified in this privacy policy. In particular we may share your information with:

• our clients, actual or potential lenders, actual or potential financial partners, actual or potential investors;

• other third-party service providers and suppliers, such as agents, professional advisors, advisory companies and lenders/ financial partners (including banks, credit funds, private equity funds, infrastructure funds, debt funds and other financial institutions). Please contact us if you would like an up to date list of our service providers, agents and/or suppliers who we intend to share your information with;

• credit reference agencies and fraud prevention agencies who will use your information to prevent fraud and money laundering. If fraud or money laundering is detected or we are unable to verify your identity, you could be refused certain services;

• regulators, law enforcement or fraud prevention agencies, as well as courts and any other authorised bodies, for the purposes of investigating any actual or suspected criminal activity or other regulatory or legal matters etc; and/or

• in a corporate situation, for example, (a) in the event that we consider selling or buying any business or assets, in which case we will disclose your personal data to any prospective sellers or buyers of such business or assets; (b) in the event of any insolvency situation (e.g. the administration or liquidation) of us or any of our group entities; or (c) if we, or substantially all of our assets, are acquired by a third party, in which case personal data held by us will be one of the transferred assets.

 

Please note that we may combine personal data we receive from other sources with personal data you give to us and personal data we collect about you. We may also use a number of carefully selected third parties to supply us with products and services, such as legal, tax, consulting, financial and/or other advice. We will only share your information with these suppliers where it is necessary for them to provide us with the services we or you need. We do not share your information with third parties for marketing purposes. Please contact us if you would like an up-to-date list of our service providers, agents and/or suppliers.

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8. WHERE IS YOUR INFORMATION STORED

As set out above, we store your information in the UK and Austria. However, when we share your information with the parties listed above in section 7 (WHO DO WE SHARE YOUR INFORMATION WITH?) your data may be transferred outside the European Economic Area.

 

Where necessary we will make sure safeguards are put in place to secure your information, which may include incorporating European Commission approved clauses into our agreement(s) with third parties to ensure the security of your personal data. A copy of the European Commission approved model clauses is available here.

 

9. WHAT RIGHTS DO YOU HAVE?

You have a number of rights under the Data Protection Laws in relation to the way we process your personal data, which are set out below. You may contact us using the details we have provided to you to exercise any of these rights. In some instances, we may be unable to carry out your request (as permitted by Data Protection Laws), in which case we will write to you to explain why.

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1. You have the right to request access to your personal data: You have the right to request confirmation that your personal data is being processed, to access your personal data (through us providing a copy) and to be provided with other information about how we process your personal data.

2. You have the right to ask us to rectify your personal data: You have the right to request that we rectify your personal data if it is not accurate or not complete.

3. You have the right to ask us to erase your personal data: In certain circumstances, you have the right to ask us to erase or delete your personal data where there is no reason for us to continue to process your personal data. This right would apply if we no longer need to use your personal data to provide the services to you, where you withdraw your consent for us to process special categories of your personal data, or where you object to the way we process your personal data (see (f) below).

4. You have the right to ask us to restrict or block the processing of your personal data: In certain circumstances, you have the right to ask us to restrict or block the processing of your personal data that we hold about you. This right applies where you believe the personal data is not accurate, you would rather we block the processing of your personal data rather than erase your personal data, where we don't need to use your personal data for the purpose we collected it for but you may require it to establish, exercise or defend legal claims.

5. You have the right to port your personal data: In certain circumstances, you have the right to obtain and reuse your personal data obtained from us for your own purposes across different services. This allows you to move personal data easily to another organisation, or to request us to do this for you.

6. You have the right to object to our processing of your personal data: In certain circumstances you have the right to object to our processing of your personal data on the basis of our legitimate business interests, unless we are able to demonstrate that, on balance, our legitimate interests override your rights or we need to continue processing your personal data for the establishment, exercise or defence of legal claims.

7. You have the right not to be subject to automated decisions: You have the right to object to any automated decision making, including profiling, where the decision has a legal or significant impact on you.

8. You have the right to withdraw your consent: You have the right to withdraw your consent to our processing of your special categories of personal data.
    

10. WHAT IF YOU HAVE A COMPLAINT?

If you have any concerns regarding our processing of your personal data, or are not satisfied with our handling of any request made by you, or would otherwise like to make a complaint, please contact us in the first instance using the details we have previously provided to you, so that we can do our very best to sort out the problem. You can also contact the Information Commissioner's Office at Wycliffe House, Water Lane, Wilmslow, Cheshire, SK9 5AF www.ico.org.uk.

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11. CHANGES TO THIS PRIVACY POLICY

Any changes to this privacy policy will be published on our website.
 

This policy was last reviewed and updated in February 2024.

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COOKIES

 

Our website (our "site") has been developed for Carbis Partners Limited (company number 12449958), whose registered office is 35 Ballards Lane, London N3 1XW ("we", "us", "our"). The site uses cookies to distinguish you from other users and this helps us to provide you with a good experience when you browse our site and also to improve our site. If you wish to remove cookies placed on your device by our site or stop our site placing further cookies on your device you can do this at any time (learn how to do this below).

 

A cookie is a small file of letters and numbers that we store on your browser or the hard drive of your computer if you agree. Cookies contain information that is transferred to your computer's hard drive. We use the following cookies:

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Strictly necessary cookies. These are cookies that are required for the operation of our site. They include, for example, cookies that enable you to log into secure areas of our site. We do not require your consent to place these cookies. Nevertheless, you may be able to block these cookies yourself on your device/ browser, but restricting these cookies is likely to mean that our site will not work as you would expect and certain functionality may be inoperable.

 

You can find more information about the individual cookies we use and the purposes for which we use them below:

 

Examples of cookies used on the website include:
_ga: Used to distinguish users in Google Analytics.
_gid: Used to distinguish users in Google Analytics.
_gat: Used to throttle request rate in Google Analytics.
ais: Used to calculate the correct size of images on the website.
has_js Used to store whether the user has Javascript enabled or not.

 

Please note that third parties (including, for example, advertising networks and providers of external services like web traffic analysis services) may also use cookies, over which we have no control. These cookies are likely to be analytical/performance cookies or targeting cookies.

 

You can block cookies by activating the setting on your browser that allows you to refuse the setting of all or some cookies. However, as set out above, if you use your browser settings to block all cookies (including essential cookies) you may not be able to access all or parts of our site.

 

MORE INFORMATION
More information about cookies, including how to block them or delete them, can be found at www.aboutcookies.org. If you have any further questions, comments or requests regarding our cookies policy or how we use cookies on our site, then you can contact us by email at info@carbis.co.uk.

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CHANGES TO THIS COOKIES POLICY
Any changes to this cookies policy in the future will be posted on this page.

 

This policy was last reviewed and updated in February 2024

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