PRIVACY POLICY
Hikari Capital handles personal information in compliance with the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). We understand the importance of the fair and lawful collection and processing of personal data and fully adhere to the principles set out in the Regulation.
Information that is gathered from visitors
In common with other websites, log files are stored on the web server saving details such as the visitor’s IP address, browser type, referring page and time of visit. Cookies may be used to remember visitor preferences when interacting with the website. Where registration is required, the visitor’s email and a username will be stored on the server.
How the Information is used
The information is used to enhance the visitor’s experience when using the website to display personalised content and possibly advertising.
E-mail addresses will not be sold, rented or leased to third parties. E-mails may be sent to inform you of news of our services or offers by us or our affiliates.
Visitor Options
If you have subscribed to one of our services, you may unsubscribe by following the instructions which are included in e-mails that you receive.
You may be able to block cookies via your browser settings but this may prevent you from access to certain features of the website.
IP Addresses
Your IP Address, this is a string of numbers unique to your computer that is recorded by our web server when you request any page or component on the Website. This information is used to monitor your usage of the Website.
Cookies
When someone visits this website, we collect standard internet log information and details of visitor behaviour patterns. We do this to find out things such as the number of visitors to different parts of the site and for system administration purposes. We collect this information in a way which does not identify anyone. We do not make any attempt to find out the identities or personal information of those visiting this website without making that clear.
Use of Cookies
Cookies are small text files that are placed on your computer by websites that you visit. They are widely used in order to make websites work, or work more efficiently, as well as to provide information to the owners of the site. Most web browsers allow some control of cookies through the browser settings. To find out more about cookies, including how to see what cookies have been set and how to manage and delete them, visit www.aboutcookies.org
Personal Data
This notice refers to the collection and handling of personal data – namely information that could be used to identify an individual, such as name, email address and postal address.
Unigel collects information about its customers, potential customers and other interested parties for a number of reasons. This could refer to both individuals and organisations. Primarily we collect non-sensitive personal data such as names, email addresses, telephone numbers company names and job roles in order to:
- Developing customer information for sales and marketing purposes
- Contact potential customers to discuss opportunities.
- Carry out our obligations arising from any contracts entered into between customers, suppliers and providers of services.
- We may contact you in relations to supply goods or services either via email or telephone
Ensuring your personal data is safe and accurate
We ensure that your data is kept safely on our systems and have put measures in place to help guard against any accidental loss, destruction or damage of personal data.
We only collect and record data about individuals that is necessary for us to perform our marketing activity and nothing more. As our information is collected from the individuals directly, we assume that this is correct at the time of collection and offer provision for our data subjects to update their details at any time if the information held becomes inaccurate (see below ‘Data Subject Rights’).
Data Sharing
Hikari Capital will only ever share your data when it is required to do so, for example internally within our Group of Companies. Or with third parties, to help manage our business and deliver services. These third
parties may from time to time need to have access to your personal data, and include:
- Financial Institutions
- Solicitors and other professional service firms such as accountants and our auditors
We may also disclose personally identifiable information in by law. Personally identifiable information may be provided to a party if we file for bankruptcy, or if there is a transfer of the assets or ownership in connection with proposed or consummated corporate reorganizations, such as mergers or acquisitions. The data we share is limited to carry out commercial contracts and will include company names, individual names, telephone numbers and email addresses. We will never share or sell our customers or potential customer’s data with any other businesses, individuals outside of our company or any third parties.
Retaining Information
We will retain personal data for as long as is reasonably necessary for the purposes listed above. Where there has been no interaction from a customer, supplier and service provider, data will be archived after 3 year and deleted after 7 years. Where we are required to do so to meet legal, regulatory, tax or accounting requirements, we will retain personal data for longer periods of time, but only where permitted to do so, including so that we have an accurate record of dealings with us in the event of any complaints or challenges, or if we reasonably believe there is a possibility of legal action relating to your personal data or dealings. We maintain a data retention policy which we apply to records in our care. Where personal data is no longer required and we do not have a legal requirement to retain it, we will ensure it is either securely deleted or stored in a way such that it is anonymised and the Personal Data is no longer used by the business.