Privacy Policy
This website is provided by Chimara Ltd.
The purpose of this Privacy Policy is to explain Chimara Ltd's (“CHIMARA”, “we”, ‘us” or ”our”) policy with regards to the collection, use, and handling of personal data supplied by you to CHIMARA during the process of using this website. It also explains your rights in relation to the personal data held by CHIMARA. “You” or “your”, in this privacy statement, means you as an individual, rather than any legal entity which you may represent.
CHIMARA collects and processes data and recognizes its accountability to comply with relevant legislation.
CHIMARA kindly requests that you read the Privacy Policy below which has been included with a view to protecting your personal data. CHIMARA may amend this Privacy Policy at any time to reflect any changes in the way that we process your data. It is important to remember that the information we have about yourself is owned by you and that you have the right to decide how it should be handled.
Your Rights
You have the following rights:
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to require that we cease processing your personal data if the processing is causing you damage or distress;
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to require us not to send you marketing communications;
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to ask us to correct the personal data we hold about you if it is not correct, and expect us to give this request due consideration;
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to ask us to erase your personal data, and expect us to do so unless there is a lawful, regulatory or contractual requirement or risk that means we must keep it for a period of time in your or our legitimate interests;
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to ask us to restrict our data processing activities and expect us to do so unless there is a lawful, regulatory or contractual requirement or risk that means we must keep it for a period of time in your legitimate interests;
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to obtain free of charge and within 30 days from us the personal data we hold about you which you have provided to us, in a reasonable format specified by you, including for the purpose of transmitting that personal data to another data controller, unless it would represent an unreasonable burden on CHIMARA to do so.
Collection of data
When visiting this website and in the course of providing services to you, CHIMARA may collect information about you (“personal data”) in a number of ways:
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when you are asked to provide data (e.g., name, e-mail address, and mailing address) or when you email, phone or otherwise contact us in order that we may send you information about the services of CHIMARA;
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when you or we complete on your behalf client on-boarding, application, or other forms;
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from your agents, trustees, platforms, advisers, intermediaries, insurance companies, fund managers, investment managers, and custodians of your assets;
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from publicly available sources or third parties in the course of CHIMARA providing its services to you, including background checks.
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indirectly, e.g. via cookies and other technical means to monitor your use of the portal such as access
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logs, your internet protocol address, or profiling to tailor the website to your preferences or to track your use of certain pages of the website, or from third parties who provide us with information about you.
Processing your data
We may process personal data collected via this website, or otherwise, not only for the purpose of undertaking a contract to which you are a party. There may be other reasons for processing your data, including:
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for the purposes of administering the website,
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responding to queries or providing services to you at your request, updating our records and databases,
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improving the personalization of our services to you,
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maintaining contact data about you or a third party,
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informing you, or enabling third parties to inform you, of features, services, products, launches, and related information from CHIMARA or third parties which may be of interest to you, and
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otherwise to enable us to perform any agreement with you or any other relevant third party.
We may also process your data to enable us to comply with our legal obligations in providing you with our services. We may, in these circumstances, use your data:
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to meet our compliance and regulatory obligations, such as compliance with anti-money laundering laws, retaining of data as required by legislation, and the monitoring and recording of telephone conversations,
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to share your data with third parties in conducting background checks
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to respond to requests from relevant regulators or law enforcement agencies when we are required to do so.
You may be able to update some of the data we hold about you or third parties directly yourself. If you are acting as an intermediary or otherwise on behalf of a third party or supply us with information regarding a third party (such as a client company), you undertake that you are an authorized representative or agent of such third party and that you have obtained all necessary consents from such third party to the collection, processing, use and disclosure by us of their personal data.
The data may, for these purposes, be disclosed to certain staff within CHIMARA’s organization (i.e. staff whose job it is to process your inquiries and orders or otherwise to administer the website, and those staff involved in the provision of CHIMARA services and products which may be of interest to you). Personal data may also be disclosed to a limited number of third parties, such as third-party marketing companies to send you information that may be of interest, data processors, suppliers, or providers of goods or services.
Security of data
We have adopted generally accepted standards of technology and operational security in order to protect the confidentiality and security of personal data collected via this website, but the nature of the internet is of course such that the data may flow over networks without appropriate security measures and may be accessed and used by unauthorized persons. Please note that this privacy policy only covers this website and does not regulate the privacy practices of other websites that may be accessible through or linked to this website.
Retention of data
We may retain your personal data for a certain period of time after the termination of our relationship with you in case any claims arise out of the provision of our services to you. We do not generally seek to collect data about your racial or ethnic origin, political opinions, religious or other similar beliefs, trade union membership, physical or mental health, criminal record, or alleged criminal activity through the website (“sensitive personal data”).
In Summary
CHIMARA may collect your personal data when you access this website or when we ask for information from you in order to provide our services to you. We may process your data in order to fulfill the requirements of any contract between us, in order to meet our legal and/or regulatory duties, and for other legitimate reasons. At all times, we will collect and process your data in compliance with applicable laws.