This Data Protection and Privacy Policy (“Privacy Policy”) is provided by SOL International Ltd (ADGM Commercial Licence No. 000001580 of Office 2473 24 Floor Al Sila Tower Abu Dhabi Global Market Square PO Box 128666 Abu Dhabi, UAE; “SOL International Ltd”, “we”, “us”, “our”), for and on behalf of itself. This Policy has been prepared with reference to ADGM Data Protection Regulations 2021.
We are committed to safeguarding the privacy of the personal information that we process in the course of our business, including the personal information we receive from you (“you” or “your”). This Privacy Policy will inform you of the nature of your personal information that is processed by us and how you can request that we delete, update, transfer and/or provide you with access to it. It also sets out your rights in respect of our processing of your personal information.
Please take a moment to read the following information carefully in order to gain a better understanding of our policies and procedures for handling personal data. If you have any queries about our approach to data protection, please contact our Data Protection Officer, as per the contact details set out at the end of this Privacy Policy.
Please also note that this Privacy Policy is only applicable to the use of your personal information that is obtained by us.
We may collect personal information from you during the course of our business, when you contact us or request information from us, when you instruct us to provide legal services, when you use our website, or as a result of your relationship with any of our personnel or clients.
The personal information that we process includes:
We may collect your personal information:
We collect most of this information directly from you, or through your use of our website. However, data may also be collected from a third party source, such as our clients, your employer, other parties to matters in which we are involved, platform operators for technology used in our business (e.g. webinar platforms), regulators or other government authorities, credit reporting agencies, information service providers, or from publicly available records.
The information provided by you may be confidential, and we will maintain such confidentiality and protect your information in accordance with our professional obligations and the relevant applicable law.
Whether personal data is received directly from you or from a third party, such information will only be used with prior consent or if another lawful basis upon which to do so exists.
The purposes for which we process your personal information are as follows:
The personal data collected will only be used for the intended purpose, unless we reasonably consider that such information must be used for another reason and that reason is in line with the original purpose.
It is necessary for us to use and process your personal information;
Cookies are small pieces of data that are stored on the computer by the web browser while browsing a website in order for the website to remember the user’s data. Information from cookies may include information relating to your use of our websites, information about your computer (such as IP address and browser type), and demographic data. We use cookies to improve our website.
All web browsers have a system that notifies you when you receive a new cookie and tells you how to reject new cookies or disable cookies altogether (if you wish to do so).
We may disclose your personal information to the following recipients as necessary:
This list is non-exhaustive and there may be other examples where we might need to share your personal information with other parties in order to provide the services as effectively as possible.
We take photographs and video of our events, and this may result in your image being captured and used in the course of reporting on the event (e.g. via social media or other means); we will draw this to your attention in materials relating to the specific events.
In relation to any other disclosures to third parties, we will only do so where you have given your consent, where we are required to do so by law, or where it is necessary for the purpose of or in connection with legal proceedings or in order to exercise or defend legal rights. We do not sell, rent, distribute, or otherwise make, personal information commercially available to any third party.
It may sometimes be necessary for us to share your personal information with associated professional services firms around the world, who provide services to us or on our behalf (including data storage facilities or online storage located within or outside the United Arab Emirates, which may be operated by independent service contractors). This will entail a transfer of personal information from within the Abu Dhabi Global Market to recipients outside the ADGM, and vice versa.
The level of personal information protection in the various jurisdictions in which we operate varies, and in some instances may not provide an adequate level of protection from an international perspective. To address this, we have procedures and safeguards in place to ensure the protection of personal information. These procedures include contractual obligations to ensure that all such entities safeguard your personal information and use it only for the purposes that we have specified and communicated to you. When we transfer your information to other countries, we will use, share and safeguard that information as described in this Privacy Policy.
We will retain your personal information for the length of time needed to fulfil the purposes for which it was collected, unless we specifically agree a longer retention period with you, or a longer retention period is required or permitted by law in accordance with our regulatory obligations or professional indemnity obligations. We may then destroy such files without further notice or liability.
Various rights may be available to you, depending on the circumstances and the applicable law.
If you would like to exercise any of the above rights, or any other rights available to you pursuant to the applicable law, please contact our Data Protection Officer using the contact details set out below.
Please note that some of these rights may be limited where we have an overriding interest or legal obligation to continue to process the data or where data may be exempt from disclosure due to reasons of legal professional privilege or professional secrecy obligations.
We are committed to keeping the personal information provided to us safe and protected and we have implemented suitable information security policies, rules, and technical measures to safeguard the personal information that we have under our control from unauthorised access, improper use or disclosure, unauthorised alteration and unlawful destruction or accidental loss.
All our employees and consultants who have access to, and/or are associated with the processing of personal information, are obliged to respect the confidentiality of such personal information.
We may from time to time make changes to this Privacy Policy. Where these are likely to be material, we will communicate these in advance. Otherwise, these will become effective once the amended Privacy Policy is posted on our website. We may also make changes as required to comply with changes in applicable law or regulatory requirements. Please check back regularly to keep informed of updates to this Privacy Policy.
It is important that the personal data we hold about you is accurate and updated. Please keep us informed if your personal data changes during your relationship with us.
Our Data Protection Officer oversees compliance with data protection within SOL International Ltd. If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, or our processing of your personal data, please contact our Data Protection Officer using the contact details set out below:
Data Protection Officer
Sarah Malik
SOL International Ltd
Office 2473 24 Floor Al Sila Tower
Abu Dhabi Global Market Square PO Box 12866
Abu Dhabi UAE
Email: info@sol-intl.com
Telephone: +971 2 694 8695
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