Privacy Notice

This privacy notice explains how Sun Global Investments Ltd (“we “or “SGIL”) uses any personal information we collect about you.

What information do we collect about you and why?

From our clients SGIL collects and uses personal data based on its legitimate interests, ensuring that your privacy rights are not compromised. This is necessary for fulfilling our contractual obligations with you or to comply with legal requirements

From our clients: We collect information via our account opening application or requirements and throughout our ongoing relationship with you to comply with regulations and for the purpose of fulfilling our contract with you. The provision of your personal data is required to enter into a contract with us, however the provision of information for marketing purposes is voluntary. We may record and monitor phone calls made to or by us  in  order  to  comply  with regulatory obligations. Automated decision making may be used  in order  to comply with our Know Your Client  (“KYC”)/Anti Money Laundering (“AML”) checks or to evidence that SGIL is providing a suitable and appropriate service to its clients.

From our employees: We collect information from potential, current and former employees for the purpose of carrying out our recruitment process or employment contract with you.

From our website: When you visit our website, we may collect information about your visit such as your IP address and the pages you visited and when you use our services, we may collect information on how you use those services. Please see our Cookies Policy for additional information at cookie-policy

How do we process your information?

All information is processed both manually and electronically in compliance with current regulations. We allow only authorised SGIL employees and Third-Party processors to have access to your information. Such employees and Third-Party processors are appropriately designated and trained to process data only according to the instructions we provide for them. Please note that our offices  or premises may have CCTV which will record your image.

How do we store your information?

SGIL will retain personal data for a reasonable period, considering legitimate business needs to capture and retain such information. Information will also be retained for a period necessary to comply with local regulations, or country specific regulations and requirements, and in accordance with  the SGIL Retention Policy.

How long do we keep this information?

If you are not a client of ours, we will keep your information for a year after we last heard from you. If you ask us to remove you from our marketing list, we may keep your name and communication details on an “opted-out” list to ensure  that we do  not market to you again. If you  are or were an SGIL client, we keep  most of your information for 7 years after closure of your account. Where required by law or regulation, we keep documents relating to pension transfers indefinitely and recordings of telephone conversations with you for 5 years after they took place.

Who do we share your information with?

• Our IT providers, and all services providers to provide and maintain the provision of our services.
• Our appointed auditors, accountants, lawyers and other professional advisers, to the extent that they require access to the information to provide advice.
• Fraud prevention agencies and other organisations allow us to undertake the relevant checks.
• Providers of investments or services we recommend, including providers of pensions, offshore bonds, onshore bonds, trusts, investment platforms, discretionary management services, custodians, insurance products or other such products or services. We may also be required to share information with the auditors appointed by the providers of such products or services.
• The Financial Conduct Authority (“FCA”), the Information Commissioner’s Office (“ICO”), or any relevant regulatory authority where they are entitled to require disclosure.
• If required to do so to meet applicable law, the order of a Court or market rules and codes of practice applicable to the circumstances at the time.
• Relevant authorities to investigate or  prevent fraud or activities believed to be illegal or otherwise in breach of applicable law.
• If tax regulations require us to collect information about tax residency, then in certain circumstances (including if we do not receive a valid self-certification from you), we may be obliged to share information about your account with the relevant tax, payments, and customs authority, who may pass this on to tax authorities in other jurisdictions.
• In the event that we sell or buy any business or assets, in which case we will disclose your personal information to the prospective seller or buyer of such business or assets; or
• If SGIL’s assets are acquired by a third party, in which case personal information held by it about its clients may be one of the transferred assets.

We will not lend or sell your information to third parties.

Your personal information may need to be shared with our service providers, which may involve transferring it to countries outside the European Economic Area (EEA). Where we do so, we will ensure that we do this in accordance with current data protection legislation by only transferring your data to jurisdictions in respect of which there is a  European  Commission adequacy decision or, where this is not the case, by using model clauses which have been approved by the European Commission.

Marketing

If you agree, we may send you information about our products and services by email and those of other companies in our group which may be of interest to you. Where it is in our legitimate interests, we may send you information about our products and services by post. If you have consented to receive marketing, you may still opt out at a later date. We may also use your name and address to post to your invitations to events which may reasonably be of interest to you.

You have a right at any time to stop us from contacting you for marketing purposes. If you no longer  wish to be contacted for marketing purposes, please email us at DPO@sunglobal.co.uk or write to us using the information at the end of this notice.

Your rights

You have certain rights in respect of the data we hold relating to you. Details of these rights can also be found on the Information Commissioner’s website. You are entitled to a copy of the information we hold about you in a portable format or otherwise, to request rectification, erasure, or restriction of processing of the information we hold about you, and to object to processing or to automated decision making. Please note that the application of these rights varies according to the legal basis used to process your data. In certain circumstances we are required to retain copies of information we hold about you by other regulations. In this instance we will not be able to erase or modify the data.

To exercise these rights or if you have any concerns about our use of your personal information, please contact the Data Protection Officer (“DPO”) using the information at the end of this notice.

We will endeavor to keep your information accurate however if at any time after giving us this information it becomes out of date, then we ask you to  notify us directly and we shall remove or amend the information within a reasonable time frame and in accordance with legislative requirements.

Security

Internet communication, which includes email, is not secure. The protection of data by encryption   is possible provided that the encryption method (protocol) used is current and the correct procedure for encryption and decryption is followed at all times. We cannot accept any responsibility for unauthorised access by a third party or for the loss, theft, or modification of data while it is being sent to us by email. For security purposes we may monitor emails received or issued by us. Please see our Cookie Policy for information regarding cookies.

Other websites

Our website contains links to other websites. This privacy notice only applies to our website. When you use a link to another website you should read the privacy policy of that site.

Changes to our Privacy Notice

We keep our privacy notice under regular review.  This privacy notice was last updated in September 2024. We reserve the right to update this privacy notice at any time and we will advise you when we make any substantial update to it.

How to contact us

If you have any questions about our privacy notice or the information, we hold about you please contact us at DPO@sunglobal.co.uk or by post at the address below:

Data Protection Officer
Sun Global Investments Limited
43-45 Dorset Street,
London, W1U 7NA,
United Kingdom