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Vialto Partners is strongly committed to protecting personal data. This privacy statement describes why and how we collect and use personal data and provides information about individuals’ rights in relation to personal data. It applies to personal data provided to us, both by individuals themselves or by others. We may use personal data provided to us for any of the purposes described in this privacy statement or as otherwise stated at the point of collection.
As used in this privacy statement, “Vialto Partners”, “us”, and “we” refer to the Vialto Partners network and/or one or more Vialto Entities that may process your personal information. Each Vialto Entity in the Vialto Partners network is a separate legal entity. The data controllers of your personal information are one or more of the Vialto Entities listed here at disclosures. See disclosures also for a list of countries and regions in which Vialto Entities operate.
Vialto Partners processes personal data for numerous purposes. Our policy is to be transparent about why and how we process personal data.
To find out more about our specific processing activities, go to our processing activities.
Your local law may require us to set out in this privacy statement the legal grounds on which we rely in order to process your personal information. In such cases, we rely on one or more of the following processing conditions:
If we process your personal information, your personal information may be transferred to and stored outside the country where you are located. This includes countries outside the European Economic Area (EEA) and countries that do not have laws that provide specific protection for personal information.
Where we collect your personal information within the EEA, transfer outside the EEA will be only:
For details of Vialto Entity locations, please see disclosures.
We may share personal data with other Vialto Entities where necessary in connection with the purposes described in this privacy statement. For example, when providing professional services to a client we may share personal information with Vialto Entities in different territories that are involved in providing advice to that client.
We may transfer or disclose the personal data we collect to third party contractors, subcontractors, and/or their subsidiaries and affiliates. Third parties support the Vialto Partners Network in providing its services and help provide, run and manage IT systems. Examples of third party contractors we use are providers of identity management, website hosting and management, data analysis, data backup, security and cloud storage services. The servers powering and facilitating our IT infrastructure are located in secure data centres around the world, and personal data may be stored in any one of them.
The third party providers may use their own third party subcontractors that have access to personal data (sub-processors). It is our policy to use only third party providers that are bound to maintain appropriate levels of security and confidentiality, to process personal information only as instructed by Vialto Partners, and to flow those same obligations down to their sub-processors.
We may also disclose personal information under the following circumstances:
To find out more please go to the sections below that are relevant to you.
We have implemented generally accepted standards of technology and operational security in order to protect personal information from loss, misuse, alteration or destruction. Only authorised persons are provided access to personal information; such individuals have agreed to maintain the confidentiality of this information.
Although we use appropriate security measures once we have received your personal data, the transmission of data over the internet (including by e-mail) is never completely secure. We endeavor to protect personal data, but we cannot guarantee the security of data transmitted to or by us.
You may have certain rights under your local law in relation to the personal information we hold about you. In particular, you may have a legal right to:
We may update this privacy statement at any time by publishing an updated version here. So you know when we make changes to this privacy statement, we will amend the revision date at the top of this page. The new modified or amended privacy statement will apply from that revision date. Therefore, we encourage you to review this privacy statement periodically to be informed about how we are protecting your information.
You may also contact us at the postal address at: disclosures
Vialto Partners processes personal data about contacts (existing and potential Vialto Partners clients and/or individuals associated with them).
This includes name, employer name, contact title, phone, email and other business contact details. In addition, we may record information about our interactions with contacts.
Personal data relating to business contacts may be used for the following purposes:
Personal data will be retained for as long as we have, or need to keep a record of, a relationship with a business contact, which is for the duration of our relationship with a contact or their organisation. Personal data may be held for longer periods where extended retention periods are required by law or regulation and in order to establish, exercise or defend our legal rights.
Our policy is to collect only the personal data necessary for agreed purposes and we ask our clients to only share personal data with us where it is strictly needed for those purposes.
Where we need to process personal data to provide professional services, we ask our clients to provide the necessary information to the data subjects regarding its use. Our clients may use relevant sections of this privacy statement or refer data subjects to this privacy statement if they consider it appropriate to do so.
The categories of personal data processed by us in relation to the services we provide are generally:
For certain services or activities, we may process special categories of personal data (such as in performing client checks and providing immigration and tax services, which involve us processing government identification documents that may contain biometric data or data revealing racial or ethnic origin or as part of an audit of an organisation in the health sector).
Generally, we collect personal data from our clients or from third parties when providing services to the relevant client.
We use personal data for the following purposes:
We retain the personal data processed by us for as long as necessary for the purpose for which it was collected. Personal data may be held for longer periods where extended retention periods are required by law or regulation and in order to establish, exercise or defend our legal rights.
We provide external users access to various applications managed by us. Such applications will contain their own privacy statements explaining why and how personal data is collected and processed by those applications. We encourage individuals using our applications to refer to the privacy statements available on those applications.
Our policy is to collect only the personal data necessary for agreed purposes and we ask our clients only to share personal data with us where it is strictly needed for those purposes.
Where we need to process personal data to provide our services, we ask our clients to provide the necessary information to the individuals who are the subject of the data.
Given the diversity of the services we provide, we process many categories of personal data, including:
For certain services, we may process special categories of personal data (such as in performing client checks and providing immigration and tax services, which involve us processing government identification documents that may contain biometric data or data revealing racial or ethnic origin or as part of an audit of an organisation in the health sector).
Generally, we collect personal data from our clients or from a third party acting on the instructions of the client. For some of our services, for example, when undertaking a due diligence review of an acquisition target on behalf of a client, we may obtain personal data from that target’s management and employees or from a third party acting on the instructions of the target.
We use personal data for the following purposes:
We retain the personal data processed by us for as long as is considered necessary for the purpose for which it was collected. Personal data may be held for longer periods where extended retention periods are required by law or regulation and in order to establish, exercise or defend our legal rights.
This section describes how Vialto Partners handles personal information collected through the sites on disclosures and any other Vialto Partners sites that link to this privacy statement (collectively, “the Websites”).
By using the Websites and providing personal information to us, you acknowledge you have read this privacy statement, and, to the extent your consent is necessary and valid under applicable law, you consent to the collection, use and disclosure of such personal information by the Vialto Partners network and any third party recipients in accordance with this privacy statement.
Some sites of the Websites may have privacy statements that differ from this one and/or contain additional information as required under local law. Please refer to the privacy statements on the sites you visit in order to understand how they collect and process your data. By accessing any sites available within the Websites or content within them, you (a) acknowledge you will review those Privacy statements and (b) to the extent required under applicable law, consent to the collection, processing and use of your personal data as described in those Privacy statements.
The Websites may link to third-party sites not controlled by Vialto Partners and which do not operate under Vialto Partners’ privacy practices. When you link to third-party sites, Vialto Partners’ privacy practices no longer apply. We encourage you to review each third-party site’s privacy policy before disclosing any personally identifiable information.
When you use our Websites, we may collect information about you and your use of the relevant site, including through cookies and analytics tools. We may collect personal information about you, such as your name, job title, company name, address, email address and telephone number, either directly from you or by combining information we collect via the Websites with personal information we collect and maintain through other channels (such as client relationship management systems or identification and access management systems, including IP addresses) or as we may lawfully collect from social media or other third-party sites.
Below are examples of how you may provide personal information to us via Websites:
We do not intend to collect sensitive information through the Websites unless we are legally required to do so. Examples of sensitive information include race or ethnic origin; political opinions; religious or philosophical beliefs; trade union membership; physical or mental health; genetic data; biometric data; sexual life or sexual orientation; and criminal records. We ask that you do not provide sensitive information of this nature when using the Websites. If you choose to provide sensitive information to us for any reason, the act of doing so constitutes your explicit consent, where such consent is necessary and valid under your local law, for us to collect and use that information in the ways described in this section of this Privacy statement or as described at the point where you choose to disclose this information.
We also do not actively seek demographic information from visitors to the Websites. However, you may choose to provide such information (including for example when becoming a Registered User, visiting our site from a social media site, submitting a resume, or responding to an online job application). If you choose to provide demographic information to us, the act of doing so constitutes your explicit consent, where such consent is necessary and valid under applicable law, for us to collect and use that information in the ways described in this section of the Privacy statement or as described at the point where you choose to disclose this information.
It is our policy to collect only minimum personal information required. If the Websites seek non-mandatory personal information about you, you will be notified of this at the point of collection. If you believe a Website has collected excessive information about you, please contact us to raise any concerns.
Some pages on the Websites may permit you to send emails to us. Messages sent via the Websites will contain your screen name and email address, as well as any additional information you wish to include in the message.
If you choose to become a Registered User, as part of the registration process you will be asked to provide us with personal information through a registration form. Information we collect may include: your name, email address, password, country, organisation, and job title. Some of the information is required and, if you do not provide it, you will not be able to register and receive the benefits of being a Registered User (for example, obtaining access to premium content). We have marked with an * those registration fields seeking information that you must provide in order to become a Registered User.
For as long as you are a Registered User, you are responsible for providing us with accurate information about you and for keeping that information up to date. You may update your information by editing your user profile in your Account.
Once you are a Registered User, we may combine the information you give us as part of the registration process with information we collect and/or have previously collected through your use of the Websites (such as articles you read, comments you make). As a Registered User, all of the data you provide as part of registration may be tied back to the information we collect or have previously collected about you through your use of the Websites.
We may also match the information you provide us against third-party data to supplement your user profile. For example, if a third party has additional information related to your email address (such as a social media profile URL or a photo), we may match your email address and activity on the Websites (including activity information collected prior to your becoming a Registered User) against that data and then use the third party data for additional marketing activities.
When you provide personal information to us through Websites, we may use it for any of the purposes described in this section of the privacy statement or as stated at the point of collection (or as obvious from the context of collection), including:
Our Websites do not collect or compile personal information for sale to non- Vialto Partners parties for consumer marketing purposes.
If you would like to find out more about the different categories of information we collect on the Websites, please review the ‘Collection of personal information’ section.
If you choose to become a Registered User, we may also use your information for the following purposes:
Please see our Cookie Policy.
We will retain your personal information on our systems only for as long as we need it, given the purposes for which it was collected, or as required to do so by law. We keep mailing list information until a user unsubscribes from our mailing lists. If you choose to unsubscribe from a mailing list, we may keep certain limited information about you so that we may honor your request.
Where we are legally required to obtain your explicit consent to provide you with marketing materials, we will only provide you with such marketing materials if you have provided consent for us to do so.
If you opt into any subscriptions, you will receive automated emails when content is updated. If you opt into any newsletters, you will receive curated emails known as newsletters. If you select any preferences such as issues, topics, subjects or industries, you may receive email communications related to those self-selected topics.
If you want to unsubscribe from mailing lists or any registrations, you should look for and follow the instructions we have provided within the appropriate area(s) of the Websites or in the relevant communications to you.
If you do not wish to receive emails or marketing communications from us, you can at any time contact us to request that such communications cease. If you wish to unsubscribe or no longer receive only certain communications, please identify such communications in your request.
If you choose to unsubscribe from any or all mailings, we may retain information sufficient to identify you so that we can honour your request.
If you are a Registered User, you may deactivate your account at any time via the Registered User section of the Websites. If you deactivate your account on the Websites, you will no longer receive the benefits of being a Registered User. If you choose to deactivate your account, we may retain information sufficient to identify you so that we can honour your request.
If you have other registrations with Vialto Partners, or have provided your information to Vialto Partners through other means (such as subscribing to newsletter), those registrations will be maintained unless you take specific action to inform us to cease contacting you.
Any user generated content that you may have created before then will not be anonymised following deactivation, nor will it be immediately removed from our systems or records.
We are committed to providing reasonable and practical access that allows visitors to the Websites to identify and correct any inaccuracies in the information we collect about them.
When we keep personal information about you, we are responsible for keeping an accurate record of the information that you have submitted to us. We do not assume responsibility for verifying the ongoing accuracy of your personal information. If you are a Registered User, you may update your personal information; to do so, log in using your account credentials and update your information.
If you have questions about the accuracy of identifying information you previously submitted to Vialto Partners, or want to have outdated information removed, please email us at: privacy@vialto.com. When requested, and provided that it is practical and commercially feasible to comply with the request and there is no legal or regulatory need for us to keep the information, we will delete identifying information from current operational systems.
We understand the importance of protecting children’s privacy, especially in an online environment. The Websites covered by this Privacy statement are not intentionally designed for or directed at children, and our terms and conditions of use require all users to be above the age of majority in their local country. We adhere to laws regarding marketing to children. We never knowingly collect or maintain personal information about individuals under the age of 18.
Marketing includes any communications about Vialto Partners products and services. Where we are legally required to obtain your explicit consent to send you marketing materials, we will only provide you with such marketing materials if you have provided consent for us to do so.
We retain contact information (including name and email address) on our mailing lists until an individual unsubscribes from our mailing lists. If you unsubscribe from our mailings, we may retain limited information sufficient to identify you so that we can honour your opt out request.
Vialto Partners does not sell personal information to non-Vialto Partners parties for consumer marketing purposes.
You can at any time contact us to request that we stop sending you email marketing communications. If you want to unsubscribe from mailing lists, you should look for and follow the instructions we have provided in the relevant communications to you.
If you wish to no longer receive only certain communications, please identify such communications in your request.
We collect personal data when an individual gets in touch with us with a question, complaint or feedback (such as name, contact details and contents of the communication). In these cases, the individual is in control of the personal data shared with us. We only use the data as necessary to respond to the communication or resolve the complaint.
This section describes why and how we collect and use personal data in connection with our recruitment activities.
If your application is successful, we perform pre-employment screening checks as part of our onboarding process. Depending on the role you have applied for, these checks may include criminal records checks.
We collect personal data in connection with our recruitment activities as described below.
Most of the personal data we collect as part of our recruitment process is provided by you such as:
We create personal data in connection with our recruitment activities such as
We obtain personal data from third party sources such as:
We process personal data for our legitimate interests to attract and secure the best talent to work with us as follows:
Where allowed by law, we carry out criminal records checks for the following purposes:
We retain personal data processed in connection with recruitment activities as follows:
We collect and process personal data about our suppliers (including subcontractors and individuals associated with our suppliers and subcontractors) in order to manage the relationship, contract, to receive services from our suppliers and, where relevant, to provide professional services to our clients. The personal data is generally business card data and will include name, employer name, phone, email and other business contact details and the communications with us.
We use personal data for the following purposes:
We retain the personal data processed by us for as long as is considered necessary for the purpose for which it was collected. Personal data will be retained about our contacts at our suppliers for as long as it is necessary for the purposes set out above (e.g. for as long as we have, or need to keep a record of, a relationship with a contact, which is for the duration of our relationship with a contact or their organisation). Personal data may be held for longer periods where extended retention periods are required by law or regulation and in order to establish, exercise or defend our legal rights.
We collect personal data concerning our own personnel (partners, staff and individual contractors) to administrate the employment relationship and manage our business.
Please refer to our privacy statement available on Spark for information on why and how personal data is collected and processed in relation to your role with Vialto Partners.
We have security measures in place at Vialto Partners offices, including CCTV and building access controls.
We only perform CCTV monitoring where allowed by law. CCTV images captured are securely stored and only accessed on a need to know basis (e.g. to look into an incident). We use the CCTV images for the legitimate purposes of promoting security and safety of our personnel and members of the public, preventing and detecting crime and establishing, exercising and defending legal claims. We may disclose CCTV images to law enforcement bodies as requested and permitted by law.
CCTV recordings are typically automatically overwritten after a short period of time unless an issue is identified that requires investigation (such as a theft).
We require visitors to our offices to sign in at reception and we keep that record of visitors for a short period of time. Our visitor records are securely stored and only accessible on a need to know basis (e.g. to look into an incident).
We may monitor traffic on our guest WIFI networks using industry standard intrusion detection systems. This allows us to see limited information about a user’s network behaviours but will include being able to see at least the source and destination addresses the user is connecting from and to. We cannot inspect encrypted web pages and therefore do not have access to any information (personal or otherwise) that the user might share via these web pages.
This section applies solely to individuals who reside in the State of California. If you have any questions about the information provided in this privacy statement or our privacy practices, please contact us at privacy@vialto.com.
We have collected the following categories of personal information of our business contacts, as applicable, within the last twelve (12) months:
Please see the Business contacts section of the main privacy statement above for further details about the personal information we collect in these categories, the sources of such information, the purposes for which the information was collected, and the categories of third parties with whom we share such information in order to conduct our day-to-day business operations.
In our role as a service provider to our corporate clients, we may process personal information of individuals associated with such clients. As noted in our main privacy statement, our policy is to collect only the personal information necessary for agreed purposes and we ask our clients only to share personal information with us when it is needed for those purposes.
When we need to process personal information to provide our services, we ask our clients to provide the necessary information to data subjects concerned regarding its use.
Given the diversity of services we provide to our corporate clients, we may have processed the following categories of personal information in connection with such services within the last twelve (12) months:
Please see the Corporate clients section of the main privacy statement above for further details about the personal information we collect in these categories, the sources of such information, the purposes for which the information was collected, and the categories of third parties with whom we share such information in order to conduct our day-to-day business operations.
We have collected the following categories of personal information of our website and application users within the last twelve (12) months:
Please see the Individuals who use or applications section of the main privacy statement above for further details about the personal information we collect in these categories, the sources of such information, the purposes for which the information was collected, and the categories of third parties with whom we share such information in order to conduct our day-to-day business operations.
Please refer to the relevant privacy statement available on Vialto Partners’ intranet for information on the collection and processing of your personal information in relation to your role with Vialto Partners.
Please refer to the separate privacy statements presented to you during the recruitment and, if applicable, onboarding processes for information on the collection and processing of your personal information.
The following applies to information we collect as part of our sourcing activities, sometimes referred to as our “Talent Network” or “Talent Community.”
We have collected the following categories of personal information of our “Talent Network” or “Talent Community” contacts within the last twelve (12) months:
Please see the Recruitment applicants section of the main privacy statement above for further details about the personal information we collect in these categories, the sources of such information, the purposes for which the information was collected, and the categories of third parties with whom we share such information in order to conduct our day-to-day business operations.
Unless separate privacy notices are provided to the visitor at or in connection with the event, any personal information collected will be treated in accordance with the applicable section of this privacy statement.
We have collected the following categories of personal information of our office visitors within the last twelve (12) months:
Please see the Visitors to our offices section of the main privacy statement above for further details about the personal information we collect in these categories, the sources of such information, the purposes for which the information was collected, and the categories of third parties with whom we share such information in order to conduct our day-to-day business operations.
We have collected the following categories of personal information from individuals who contact us within the last twelve (12) months:
Please see the Others who get in touch with us section of the main privacy statement above for further details about the personal information we collect in these categories, the sources of such information, the purposes for which the information was collected, and the categories of third parties with whom we share such information in order to conduct our day-to-day business operations.
This section describes the rights of California residents under California law and explains how to exercise those rights. Please see the Individuals’ rights section of our main privacy statement above for information about additional choices you may have regarding your personal information.
If you are a California resident, under certain circumstances in accordance with applicable law, you have the right to request that we disclose to you specific details about your personal information that we have collected, used, disclosed and sold over the past 12 months and/or a copy of your personal information. These details include: (1) the categories of personal information we have collected about you; (2) the categories of sources from which the personal information is collected; (3) the business or commercial purpose for collecting or selling personal information; (4) the categories of third parties with whom we share personal information; (5) the specific pieces of personal information we have collected about you.
Once we receive your request, we will acknowledge it and either respond in accordance with law, ask for additional information to verify your identity, clarify the nature of your request, let you know if we need more time, let you know if we need to charge a fee (such as if requests are manifestly unfounded or excessive, in particular because of their repetitive character, taking into account the administrative costs of providing the information or communication or taking the action requested), or we will inform you if we cannot fulfill any part of your request due to an exception under the law. If we know that your request relates to information we process as a service provider to one of our corporate clients, we will forward your request to the relevant client and cooperate with that client as needed to address your request and/or inform you that your request should be submitted directly to the business on whose behalf we process the information.
If you are a California resident, under certain circumstances in accordance with applicable law, you have the right to request that we delete any of your personal information that we collected from you and retained, subject to certain exceptions. Once we receive and confirm your valid verifiable request, we will delete, de-identify or aggregate your personal information and direct our service providers to do so, or we will inform you if we cannot fulfill any part of your request due to an exception under the law. If your request relates to information we process as a service provider to one of our clients, we will inform you that your request should be submitted directly to the business on whose behalf we process the information.
To exercise the rights described above, please submit a verifiable request to us at privacy@vialto.com
The verifiable request must:
We cannot respond to your request or provide you with personal information if we cannot verify your identity or authority to make the request and confirm the personal information relates to you. Making a verifiable request does not require you to create an account with us. We will only use personal information provided in a verifiable request to verify the requestor’s identity or authority to make the request.
We will respond to your request within a reasonable timeframe in accordance with applicable law. Any disclosures we provide may only cover the 12-month period preceding the verifiable request’s receipt, as required by law.
Depending on the jurisdiction in which you are located, you may have the right to opt-out of the sale of your personal information. Please contact us at privacy@vialto.com for information about our practices and how you may exercise your opt-out rights under applicable law.
If you would like information about the number of requests submitted by California consumers, please contact us at privacy@vialto.com.
In accordance with applicable law, we will not discriminate against you for exercising any of your California privacy rights.
Vialto Partners is committed to protecting the data you provide to us and making it easy to find the information you need.
Learn about the Vialto Partners Network
The Vialto Partners network and each of the individual Vialto Entities are strongly committed to protecting the privacy of personal data that they maintain about Vialto Partners clients, employees and other individuals. As part of this commitment to privacy, Vialto Partners regularly reviews its data protection practices to comply with applicable laws, industry standards and best practices. To meet the requirements of the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), and as a result of other territorial regulations impacting privacy, a comprehensive global programme — the Network Data Protection Programme or NDPP — has been established to provide a basis for, and a consistent approach to, data protection compliance across the Vialto Partners network and within each Vialto Entity.
An overarching goal of the NDPP is to promote a vision, practices and standards across the Vialto Partners network that achieve a robust level of protection for and appropriate use of the personal data of Vialto Entities’ people, clients, vendors and other stakeholders. All Vialto Entities are required to implement the requirements of the NDPP through their own individual programs, building upon existing confidentiality and security processes and standards. These NDPP requirements are extensive and cover multiple functional areas and aspects of our business, all in pursuit of accountability and transparency in how Vialto Partners collects, processes, protects and disposes of personal data.
For more information regarding the Vialto Partners network, its organisation and legal structure, and the relationship between Vialto Entities, please see disclosures.
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