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Privacy Policy



About this notice

Unless otherwise indicated, this notice applies to the activities of Platina Partners LLP, Platina Energy Partners LLP and Platina Equity Solutions SAS (together ‘Platina’) in their capacity as data controllers as defined by the General Data Protection Regulation (‘GDPR’).

Platina is committed to ensuring that your personal data are kept safe and handled in compliance with relevant laws and regulations. This privacy policy sets out how Platina collects and uses your data. We ask that you read it carefully as it contains important information on who we are, how and why we collect, store, use and share personal information, your rights in relation to your personal information and on how to contact us and supervisory authorities in the event you have a complaint.

It is important that you read this privacy policy together with any other privacy policy or notice or fair processing notice we may provide on specific occasions when we are collecting or processing personal data about you (e.g. when you enter into a contractual relationship with us, e.g. to become an investor) so that you are fully aware of how and why we are using your data. This privacy policy supplements the other notices and is not intended to override them.

Who we are

Platina collects, uses and is responsible for certain personal information about you. When we do so we are regulated under the General Data Protection Regulation which applies across the European Union (including in the United Kingdom) and any related UK legislation and Financial Conduct Authority regulations and we are responsible as ‘controller’ of that personal information for the purposes of those laws. The relevant Platina entities are listed below:

  • Platina Partners LLP (company registration number OC332872), a limited liability partnership having its registered office at c/o DMH Stallard (0594), 6 New Street Square, New Fetter Lane, London EC4A 3BF, UK;
  • Platina Energy Partners LLP (company registration number OC366952), a limited liability partnership having its registered office at c/o DMH Stallard (0594), 6 New Street Square, New Fetter Lane, London EC4A 3BF, UK; and
  • Platina Equity Solutions SAS (company registration number 502381056 RCS Paris), a French limited liability company registered at 32 rue la Boetie, 75008 Paris, France.

The personal information we collect and use

Information collected by us

In the course of our activities as a fund manager and investment adviser we may collect the following personal information:

  • Contact details such as your name, address, e-mail address and telephone numbers;
  • Where required, additional personal details such as your date of birth, citizenship, professional status and background;
  • Where required, financial details such as your Tax Identification Number and tax residency and your bank account details;
  • Where we and/or third party requestors are required by law to conduct anti-money laundering checks, copies of proof of identity and address and other information necessary for this purpose;
  • Where you apply for a position with Platina, information about your experience and education.

Information collected from other sources

We may also obtain personal information from other sources as follows:

  • Publicly available sources:
    • The relevant Companies Registry (Companies House in the UK and its equivalents in other countries);
    • Charity Registers (the UK Charities Commission and equivalent registers in other countries;
    • Reputable third party websites and publications;
    • Professional networking sites such as LinkedIn as well as other social media sites.
  • Professional advisors
  • Trustees
  • via our website—we use cookies on our website for Google Analytics (tracking usage). You can find information on ‘gtag.js and analytics.js – cookie usage’*, at the following link: https://developers.google.com/analytics/devguides/collection/analyticsjs/cookie-usage * Please note that the other headings are not applicable to our usage.

How we use your personal information

We use your personal information to:

  • Carry out our business as a fund manager and investment adviser
  • Provide you with information relevant to your relationship with us
  • Communicate with you in relation to your investment
  • Communicate with you in relation to your job application
  • Draft any agreements to which you are a party
  • Contact you to see if you are interested in becoming an investor and/or to make you aware of any services and products which may be of interest to you
  • Respond to any requests you make through our website
  • Carry out Know Your Customer (‘KYC’) checks in compliance with Anti-Money Laundering and FCA regulations
  • Respond to KYC requests by third parties as appropriate
  • Comply with legal and regulatory obligations
  • Updating our internal records
  • Statutory returns
  • Ensuring safe practices in the working environment, staff administration and assessments

Who we share your personal information with

We routinely share your personal data with third parties, as is necessary in the course of our business. Such third parties may include accountants, auditors, tax advisers, lawyers, background checking companies, other professional services providers and banks. Some of those third party recipients may be based outside the European Economic Area — for further information including on how we safeguard your personal data when this occurs, see ‘Transfer of your information out of the EEA’.We will share personal information with law enforcement or other authorities if required by applicable law.

Whilst Platina’s IT providers have the capacity to access any data held on our systems, contractual safeguards are in place to ensure that your personal data are kept confidential. Platina uses third party providers for offsite storage and scanning services, however, any personal details stored are protected by contractual safeguards.

Whether information has to be provided by you, and if so why

The provision of your personal data as applicable to your relationship with us is required from you to enable us to carry out our activities as a fund manager and investment adviser and to communicate with you, as well as to comply with legal and regulatory obligations. We will inform you at the point of collecting information from you, whether you are required to provide the information to us.

How long your personal information will be kept

We will hold your personal data for no longer than is required under relevant legislation and/or regulatory rules, or than is necessary for the purposes set out in this notice.

Personal data received by or contained in e-mails will be stored in Mimecast for a period of ten years in compliance with Financial Conduct Authority regulations.

Reasons we can collect and use your personal information

We rely on (i) legal obligations, (ii) contractual obligations, (iii) your consent and (iv) our legitimate interests as the lawful basis on which we collect and use your personal data.

A legitimate interest is when we have a business or commercial reason to use your information, so long as this is not overridden by your own rights and interests. Our legitimate interests are the interests of enabling Platina to carry out its business as a fund manager and investment advisor.

Transfer of your information out of the EEA

We may transfer your personal information to countries outside the European Economic Area (EEA) only where it is required to comply with legal and regulatory obligations, or where this may be necessary to meet our contractual obligations to you.

This may be necessary if, for example, your and/or our services providers are located outside of the EEA, or if you are based outside of the EEA.

These transfers are subject to special rules under European and UK data protection law.

We will not otherwise transfer your personal data outside of the EEA or to any organisation (or subordinate bodies) governed by public international law or which is set up under any agreement between two or more countries.

If you would like further information, please contact us (see ‘How to contact us’, below).

Your rights

Under the General Data Protection Regulation you have a number of important rights free of charge. In summary, those include rights to:

  • fair processing of information and transparency over how we use your use personal information
  • access to your personal information and to certain other supplementary information that this Privacy Policy is already designed to address
  • require us to correct any mistakes in your information which we hold
  • require the erasure of personal information concerning you in certain situations
  • receive the personal information concerning you which you have provided to us, in a structured, commonly used and machine-readable format and have the right to transmit those data to a third party in certain situations
  • object at any time to processing of personal information concerning you for direct marketing
  • object in certain other situations to our continued processing of your personal information
  • otherwise restrict our processing of your personal information in certain circumstances

For further information on each of those rights, including the circumstances in which they apply, see the Guidance from the UK Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) on individuals’ rights under the General Data Protection Regulation.

If you would like to exercise any of those rights, please:

  • email, call or write to us using the details set out at the end of this notice.

Keeping your personal information secure

We have appropriate security measures in place to prevent personal information from being accidentally lost, or used, or accessed in an unauthorised way. We limit access to your personal information to those who have a genuine business need to know it. Those processing your information will do so only in an authorised manner and are subject to a duty of confidentiality.

We also have procedures in place to deal with any suspected data security breach. We will notify you and any applicable regulator of a suspected data security breach where we are legally required to do so.

Third party links

This website may include links to third-party websites, plug-ins and applications. Clicking on those links or enabling those connections may allow third parties to collect or share data about you. We do not control these third-party websites and are not responsible for their privacy statements. When you leave our website, we encourage you to read the privacy policy of every website you visit.

How to complain

We hope that we can resolve any query or concern you raise about our use of your information.

The General Data Protection Regulation also gives you right to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority, in particular in the European Union (or European Economic Area) state where you work, normally live or where any alleged infringement of data protection laws occurred. The supervisory authority in the UK is the Information Commissioner who may be contacted at https://ico.org.uk/concerns/ or telephone: 0303 123 1113.

Changes to this privacy policy

This privacy policy was published on 25 March 2020.

We may change this privacy notice from time to time. The latest version can be accessed via our website.

How to contact us

Please contact us as set out below, if you have any questions about this privacy policy or the information we hold about you.

  • By email to Platina legal@platinapartners.com; or
  • By mail to the Legal & Compliance Team, Platina Partners LLP, 5th Floor 20 Old Bailey London EC4M 7AN; or
  • By calling +44 (0) 20 7042 9600.