This privacy notice aims to give you information on how Innsworth Advisors Limited collects and processes your personal data through your use of this website and our communications with you, including any data you may provide to us.
It is important that you read this privacy notice together with any other privacy notice or fair processing notice we may provide on specific occasions when we are collecting or processing personal data about you so that you are fully aware of how and why we are using your data. This privacy notice supplements the other notices and is not intended to override them.
Innsworth Advisors Limited is the controller and responsible for your personal data (collectively referred to as “Innsworth”, “we”, “us” or “our” in this privacy notice).
We have appointed a data privacy manager who is responsible for overseeing questions in relation to this privacy notice. If you have any questions about this privacy notice, including any requests to exercise your legal rights in relation to your personal data, please contact the privacy manager using the details set out below.
Ian Garrard
Innsworth Advisors Ltd
1 Chancery Lane
LONDON
WC2A 1LF
client.operations@innsworth.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 do please contact us in the first instance.
Personal data, or personal information, means any information about an individual from which that person can be identified. It does not include data where the identity has been removed (anonymous data).
When you contact us, we may collect, use, store and transfer different kinds of personal data about you which we have grouped together follows:
name and job title
contact information including postal address (this may be your home address if you have provided this to us) and email address
telephone number
date of birth
country of birth, domicile and nationality
passport number
demographic information such as postcode, preferences and interests
your password for password protected platforms or services used by us
information collected from publicly available resources, integrity data bases and credit agencies
information about relevant and significant litigation or other legal proceedings against you or a third party related to you and interaction with you
We may also collect information about the meetings held with our employees and visits to our premises.
We do not collect any Special Categories of Personal Data about you (this includes details about your race or ethnicity, religious or philosophical beliefs, sex life, 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.
We may collect personal data about you through you direct interactions with us, in a number of circumstances, including when you or your organisation:
seek funding for a litigation case
are a claimant, or agent of a claimant, in a case being considered for or funded by us
browse, make an enquiry or otherwise interact on our website
sign up to receive information from us
offer to provide or provide services to us
You may give us your identity and contact data by filling in forms or by corresponding with us by post, phone, email or otherwise.
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. We may also receive Technical Data about you if you visit other websites employing our cookies.
Please see our cookie policy below for further details.
We may also use aggregated personal data and statistics for monitoring website usage to help us develop our website and our services.
We may contact you by telephone, email, post or fax.
We may collect information from you for the following reasons:
to help make informed investment decisions
for internal record keeping
to improve our services
to periodically send you information with details of new cases that you might be interested in.
We may use your personal data for the following purposes only (“Permitted Purposes”):
to assess, monitor and manage the funding of litigation cases
to assist with managing investor relations
to provide other services requested by you or your organisation
to comply with screening or recording obligations (e.g. anti-money laundering, fraud and crime prevention purposes); these may include automated checks of
personal data or other information you provide about your identity against applicable sanction lists
to analyse and improve our services and communications
to protect the security of and managing access to our premises, IT and communication systems, online platforms, websites and other systems, preventing and
detecting security threats, fraud or other criminal or malicious activities
to comply with our legal and regulatory obligations and requests, domestically and anywhere in the world, including reporting to and/or being audited by national
and international regulatory bodies
to comply with court orders and exercises and/or defend our legal rights
keeping you up to date with information which we feel would be of interest to you
We may share your personal data with:
other Innsworth entities or affiliated companies on a confidential basis where required for providing litigation funding, other services, administration, billing and
other purposes
law firms, legal specialists, consultants or experts, either domestic or foreign, for obtaining advice or opinions on a matter which is being considered for funding
or is currently being funded by us
companies providing services such as fund administration, money laundering and other fraud and crime prevention purposes
courts, law enforcement authorities, regulators or attorneys or other parties when we are required by applicable law or regulations or judicial or official request
to do so, or as required to investigate actual or suspected fraudulent or criminal activities
We may also use aggregated personal data and statistics for monitoring website usage in order to help us develop our website and our services.
We will only use your personal data for the purposes for which we collected it, unless we reasonably consider that we need to use it for another reason and that
reason is compatible with the original purpose. If you wish to get an explanation as to how the processing for the new purpose is compatible with the original
purpose, please contact us at client.operations@innsworth.com.
If we need to use your personal data for an unrelated purpose, we will notify you to explain why and the legal basis which allows us to do so.
Please note that we may process your personal data without your knowledge or consent, in compliance with the above rules, where this is required or permitted
by law.
We have put in place appropriate security measures to prevent your personal data from being accidentally lost, used or accessed in an unauthorised way, altered
or disclosed. We limit access to your personal data to those employees, agents, and contractors. They will only process your personal data on our instruction 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 or
reporting requirements.
In some circumstances you can ask us to delete your data by contacting us with an erasure request
We do not transfer your personal data outside the European Economic Area (EEA).
You may have the right to:
Request access to your personal data.
Request correction of your personal data.
Request erasure of your personal data.
Object to processing of your personal data.
Request restriction of processing your personal data.
Request transfer of your personal data.
Withdraw consent.
If you wish to exercise any of the rights set out above, please contact Innsworth’s data controller at client.operations@innsworth.com.
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 several requests.
How we use cookies
A cookie is a small file which asks permission to be placed on your computer’s hard drive. Once you agree, the file is added and the cookie helps analyse web
traffic. Cookies allow web applications to respond to you as an individual.
We use cookies to identify which pages are being used and help us analyse our site.
Our website uses cookies to distinguish you from other users. This helps us to provide you with a good experience and allows us to improve our site.
Cookies in emails
As well as the cookies on our websites, we use cookies and similar technologies in some emails. These help us understand whether you’ve opened an email. They
also ensure that if you unsubscribe, we don’t email you again. If you have enabled images, cookies may be set on your computer or device. Cookies will also be set
if you click on any link within the email.