Privacy and cookies policy
Last Updated: 6 April 2023.
Connection Capital LLP (‘CC’) is committed to protecting and respecting your privacy and processing your personal information for legitimate and lawful business purposes, in alignment with the Data Protection Act 2018 and the retained General Data Protection Regulation ((EY) 2016/679) (‘ UK GDPR’).
The purpose of this legislation is to enforce greater control and rights for individuals to have their privacy respected and their data protected. This includes easier access to the personal information organisations hold about you, ensuring it is updated, accurate and processed lawfully and fairly.
CC offers online resources that provide information on our firm, our asset management services and our portfolio companies. This Privacy Policy (‘Policy’) together with our Terms and Conditions, aim to help you understand how we gather, use and manage any information we collect about you, when you visit our website and deal with us as a firm.
The Policy does not govern any information collected by us through channels outside of the website. It also does not apply to any third-party website or application to which the website may link, such as the websites of our portfolio companies. Should you choose to visit those websites, you should review their privacy policies to ensure that you are comfortable with them. CC is not responsible for content on third party websites.
Your personal information
‘Personal’ information means any information that can be directly associated with a specific person, or that reasonably can be used to identify a specific person.
You do not have to submit any personal information in order to use this website. We will not collect any personal information about individuals, except where it is specifically and knowingly provided by them. When using this website, should we ask you to provide certain information by which you can be identified, such as completing a registration to become a client, we can confirm that this information will only be used in accordance with this Policy.
When you visit CC’s website, our web server collects some basic information, such as your internet service provider’s domain name, which pages you accessed on our website, and when. This information is only used to analyse the use of our website to help guide improvements (see ‘How we use cookies’). We may also store and maintain any content that you provide, including but not limited to postings on our social media applications such as LinkedIn and Twitter.
Please see the Privacy Notices below, which provide more detail about what personal data we collate, how we collect and process it, the lawful basis for processing, how long we retain your personal information and your data protection rights:
All Individuals not covered by a Specific Privacy Notice (6 April 2023). Click to read.
How we use cookies
Cookies are small files that are sent from an organisation’s web server to your web browser and are saved to your computer hard drive. They track, save and store information about your interactions and usage of the website. This allows the website, through its server, to provide you with a tailored experience within the website. Cookies can't read data off your hard drive or cookie files created by other sites, and do not damage your system.
We use cookies to better understand your experience while visiting the CC website, with the aim of improving the performance of our website, by measuring traffic and your interactions and usage of the website. No personal information is stored, saved or collected.
This website uses a cookie-control system enabling you on your first visit to the CC website to either allow or decline the use of cookies on your computer/device. Please note that you can reset your browser at any time, to refuse any cookie or to alert you to when a cookie is being sent. Web browsers allow you to control cookies stored on your hard drive through the web browser settings. To find out more about cookies, including what cookies have been sent and how to manage and delete them, visit https://www.allaboutcookies.org.
This website uses ProFundCom third party targeting cookies which may be used to build a profile of your interests and show you relevant adverts on other sites. They do not store directly personal information, but are based on uniquely identifying your browser and internet device.
ProFundCom cookies: PFCE, PFCT, PHPSESSID
Expiry: 6 months
The CC website uses tracking software to monitor its visitors to better understand how they use the different web pages. This software is provided by Google Analytics, which uses cookies to track visitor usage. The software will save a cookie to your computer's hard drive in order to track and monitor your engagement and usage of the website, but will not store, save or collect personal information.
Google Analytics Cookies: _utma; _utmb; _utmc; _utmz
Expiry: 2 years; 30 minutes; when you quit your browser; 6 months (respectively)
Purpose: These cookies collect information about how our visitors use our website. This data is collected anonymously and is used to help improve the CC website’s functionality.
Google's privacy policy can be found at https://policies.google.com/privacy and the safeguarding of personal data at https://support.google.com/analytics/answer/6004245.
You can opt out of being tracked by Google Analytics across all websites by installing Google’s opt-out browser add on. Further information about the opt-out browser add on can be found at https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout.
Security
CC is committed to safeguarding your personal information and we endeavour to apply appropriate procedures and security features to process and protect your personal data.
All CC systems are hosted in securely managed environments, where appropriate disaster recovery and backup up procedures are in place.
Please be aware that the transmission of any data via the Internet is not completely secure but we do take appropriate steps to try to protect the security of your personal data.
Updating your information
It is important that the personal data we hold about you is accurate and up to date. Please keep us informed if your personal data changes during your relationship with us. If you become aware of any errors or your information needs updating, please contact us using the contact details in ‘Contact us’.
Access to information
You may access any personal information we have about you by contacting us using the contact information in ‘Contact us’. We will respond to your inquiry within a reasonable timeframe.
Changes to our privacy policy
Please note that this Policy and Privacy Notices may change from time to time. We will provide notice of any changes on the website or, where appropriate, notify you by e-mail. Please check back frequently to see any updates or changes to our privacy policy.
This policy is effective from 18 May 2018 and was last updated 6 April 2023.
Contact us
In the event of any query about our marketing to you, please email hello@connectioncapital.co.uk. If you wish to make a complaint in connection with the personal information we hold about you, please email louise.mcweeney@connectioncapital.co.uk or write to us at Louise McWeeney (Data Protection Manager) Connection Capital LLP, Unit 21 Cottesbrooke Park, Heartlands Business Park, Daventry, Northamptonshire, NN11 8YL.
If you are not satisfied with our response or believe we are not processing your personal data in accordance with the law you can complain to our Data Protection regulator:
Information Governance department
Information Commissioner’s Office
Wycliffe House
Water Lane
Wilmslow
Cheshire
SK9 5AF
0303 123 1113
https://ico.org.uk/make-a-complaint/
Connection Capital LLP is authorised and regulated by the FCA, ref number 705640.