Privacy Policy

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Yourcompanysearch is the data controller of your  personal data and is subject to the EU General Data Protection  Regulation 2016/679 (the “GDPR”).

Our Privacy and Data Compliance Officer’s contact details are:

Email – info@yourcompanysearch.com

This Privacy Policy replaces any previous Privacy Policy or  equivalent which you may have been provided with prior to the Last  Modified Date stated above.

Under the GDPR you have the following rights:

• To instruct us to cease processing your personal data if the processing is causing you damage or distress;
• To gain access to, and copies of, the personal data that we hold about you;
• To instruct us not to send you marketing communications;
• To instruct us to restrict our data processing activities;
• To instruct us to erase your personal data;
• To obtain from us the personal data we hold about you which you have  provided to us, in a practical format specified by you, including for  the purpose of you transmitting that personal data to another data  controller;
• To instruct us to correct the personal data we hold about you if it is incorrect.

Please note that the above rights are not absolute, and we may be titled to refuse requests where exceptions apply.

You may find out more about your rights at the website of the Office  of the Commissioner for Personal Data Protection at  www.dataprotection.gov.cy or by contacting us.

If you are not satisfied with how we are processing your personal data, you can make a complaint to www.dataprotection.gov.cy.

We collect your personal data in multiple ways, for example:

• From the material you provide to us when you meet us;
• When you communicate with us by telephone, fax, email or other forms  of electronic communication. In this respect, we may monitor, record  and store any such communication;
• When you complete (or we complete on your behalf) client engagement forms or any other forms;
• From other affiliated companies of ours;
• From your agents, advisers and intermediaries;
• From publicly available sources or from third parties.

We collect the following categories of personal data about you through our Website:

• Your name and contact information such as your home or business address, email address and telephone and fax number;
• Biographical information which may confirm your identity including  your date of birth, tax identification number, VAT number, reference  letters, CV, ARC, passport number, driver’s license or national identity  card details, country of domicile and/or your nationality;
• Information relating to your financial situation such as income,  expenditure, assets and liabilities, sources of wealth, as well as your  bank account details;
• An understanding of your goals and objectives in our services;
• Information to assess whether you may be characterized as a  politically exposed person or a person involved in terrorist financing/  money laundering.
• Information that you provide by filling in forms, in particular at the time of the first contact with us.
• We also collect Personal Information when you enter a contest or  promotion sponsored by us, and when you report a problem with our  Website.
• Records and copies of your correspondence (including e-mail addresses), if you contact us.
• Details of transactions you carry out, if any, and of the fulfilment of your orders.

We process your personal data in the course of the performance of a  contract to which you are a party or in order to take steps at your  request prior to entering into a contract.

In this respect, we use your personal data for the following:

• To prepare a quotation for you with respect to the services we offer;
• To provide you with the services as set out in our Engagement Letter with you or as otherwise agreed with you from time to time;
• To deal with any complaints or feedback you may have;
• For any other purpose for which you provide us with your personal  data. In this respect, we may share your personal data with or transfer  it to the following:
• Your agents, advisers, intermediaries, and custodians of your assets who you tell us about;
• Third parties whom we engage to assist in delivering the services to you, including our affiliated companies;
• Our professional consultants where it is necessary for us to obtain  their advice or assistance, including lawyers, accountants, or IT;
• Other third parties such as intermediaries who we introduce to you.  We will wherever possible tell you who they are before we introduce you;
• Our data storage providers.

We also process your personal data for our compliance with a legal  obligation which we are under. In this respect, we will use your  personal data for the following:

• To meet our compliance and regulatory obligations, such as  compliance with anti-money laundering and anti-terrorist financing laws;
• As required by tax authorities or any competent court or legal  authority. In this respect, we will share your personal data with the  following:
• Our consultants where it is necessary for us to obtain their advice or assistance;
• Our auditors where it is necessary as part of their auditing functions;

With relevant regulators or law enforcement agencies where we are required to do so.

We also process your personal data because it is necessary for our  legitimate interests, or sometimes where it is necessary for the  legitimate interests of another person.

In this respect, we use your personal data for the following:

For the administration and management of our business, including  recovering money you owe to us, and archiving or statistical analysis;  Seeking advice on our rights and obligations, such as where we require  our own legal advice;

In this respect we will share your personal data with the following:

• Our advisers or agents where it is necessary for us to obtain their  advice or support; With third parties and their advisers where those  third parties are acquiring, or considering acquiring, all or part of  our business.

We may send you marketing information about similar services we  provide, as well as other information in the form of e-mails and  invitations to events which we believe might be of interest to you.

We may communicate this to you in a number of ways including by telephone or email.

If you object to receiving marketing from us at any time, please contact us:

By email – info@yourcompanysearch.com

When sharing your personal data with third parties as set out in this  Privacy Policy, it may be transferred outside the European Union. In  these circumstances, your personal data will only be transferred on one  of the following bases:

• the country that we send the personal data to is approved by the  European Commission as providing an adequate level of protection for  personal data;
• the transfer is to a recipient in the United States of America who has registered under the EU/US Privacy Shield;
• when you have explicitly consented to the same.

Where we have collected your personal data as required by anti-money  laundering legislation, including for identification, screening and  reporting, we will retain that personal data for five years after the  termination of our business relationship, unless we are required to  retain this information by another law or for the purposes of court  proceedings.

We may modify our privacy policy from time to time and although we  may attempt to notify you, you are expected to periodically review the  most up-to-date version found at our website www.yourcompanysearch.com so you are  aware of these binding changes.

When we amend our privacy policy, the “Las\t Modified Date” will be  changed, therefore you agree that you will review this privacy policy  from time to time and refresh the page when doing so. If the “Last  Modified Date” has not been changed from the last time you have revised  our privacy policy, then it is unchanged. On the other hand, if the date  has changed, then there have been changes, and you agree to re-review  our privacy policy, and you agree to the new ones. By continuing to use  the Website subsequent to us making available an amended version of our  privacy policy in a way that you can easily take notice of it, you  hereby consent to such amendment.

This privacy policy does not create rights enforceable by third  parties or require disclosure of any Personal Information relating to  users of the Website.