Introduction

Your privacy is important to us. We believe it is important for you to know how we treat the information we receive from you, on the Internet. This privacy statement explains what personal data we, Wharf Street Strategies (“Wharf Street Strategies”, “WSS” or “we”), collect from you, through our interactions with you on this website, and how we use that data.

This Privacy Terms apply to the main website "https://connectupapp.com/" as well as in the sites. Please note that these websites may include links to websites of third parties whose privacy practices differ from those of Wharf Street Strategies. If you provide personal data to any of those websites your data is governed by their privacy statements.

This privacy statement applies to the collection, process, disclosure and use of personal identifiable information (PII) or the personal sensitive information (PSI), as the case may be, which is submitted to Wharf Street Strategies, having its registered office at 126 Burns Avenue, Chadwell Heath – RM6 4DG, London (Wharf Street Strategies, WSS or ‘we’).

This privacy statement provides details about the types of personal information that we collect, how we use, process, protect and disclose such personal information and the rights individuals have to control our usage and disclosure of such personal information. Personal information submitted may be transferred to other individual Wharf Street Strategies firms, which are subsidiary of the Wharf Street Strategies (each of which is a separate and independent legal entity), where it is necessary to meet the purpose for which the user has submitted the information. By using this site and submitting any personal information, you agree to the use and disclosure by Wharf Street Strategies of such information in accordance with this privacy statement.If you do not agree with any of these terms, you are prohibited from using or accessing this site. The materials contained in this website are protected by applicable copyright and trademark law.

Scope and Usage of Data

Personal information you give to us

We may collect personal information from clients, customers, employees, contractors and other individuals. We collect such information when it is necessary for business purposes. Usually, we collect information like the contact details and organisational roles of our clients, suppliers, vendors and other business contacts. Typically, this information includes names, addresses, telephone numbers, email addresses, fax numbers and job titles. In the course of providing professional services to our clients, we may need to collect more detailed personal information (for instance, financial details if we are engaged to perform financial or tax services).

Wharf Street Strategies collects data to operate this website. You provide some of this data directly, such as when you submit Subscription form, Contact us form and microsite form. Typically, the contact information we collect is used by us to respond to your enquiry, business purpose or allow you to access specific account information. We may execute other activities such as marketing campaign, promotional communications for which consent is taken appropriately or another appropriate lawful basis for the processing is identified.

In general, you can visit WHARF STREET STRATEGIES on the World Wide Web without telling us who you are. Our web servers or affiliates who provide analytics and performance enhancement services collect IP address, operating system details, browsing details, device details and language settings. This information is aggregated to measure the number of visits, average time spent on the site, pages viewed and similar information. Wharf Street Strategies uses this information to measure the site usage, improve content and to ensure safety and security as well enhances performance of the website.

You can make choices about our collection and use of your data. For example, you may want to access, edit or remove the personal information in your Wharf Street Strategies or microsite account, change your password, or close your account. When you are asked to provide personal data, you may decline. The data we collect depends on the context of your interactions with Wharf Street Strategies, and the choices you make, including your privacy settings. The data we collect can include the following:

• Name and contact data: We collect first and last name, email address, postal address, country, employer, phone number, fax number and other similar contact data
• Credentials: We collect passwords used for authentication and account access, where this function is available.

Purpose of Data Uses

Wharf Street Strategies uses the data we collect for 2 main purposes, described in more detail below: to operate our business and this website; and to send communications, including promotional communications.

• Security and Safety: We use data to protect the security and safety of our website.
• Communications: We use data we collect to communicate with you and personalize our communications with you. Additionally, you can sign up for email subscriptions and choose whether you wish to receive promotional communications from Wharf Street Strategies by email, SMS, post and telephone or other means of communication. For information about managing your contact data, email subscriptions and promotional communications, please submit a request to us using our contact form at "https://connectupapp.com/"

Sharing of data

We share personal data among Wharf Street Strategies affiliates and subsidiaries. We also share personal data with vendors or agents working on our behalf for the purposes described in this statement. For example, companies we've hired to assist in protecting and securing our systems and services may need access to personal data to provide those functions.

We usually do not share other personal data collected from the websites with other third parties. However, this may happen if:

1. You request or authorize us to do so.
2. We need to comply with applicable law or respond to valid legal process.
3. We need to operate and also maintain the security of this website, including to prevent or stop an attack on our computer systems or networks.

Cookies

This Website uses cookies to improve the user experience and ensure that it is functioning effectively.

In order to provide you with a more personalized and responsive service we need to remember and store information about how you use this Website. This is done using small text files called cookies. Cookies contain small amounts of information and are downloaded to your computer or other device by a server for this Website. Your web browser then sends these cookies back to this Website on each subsequent visit so that it can recognise you and remember things like your user preferences. You can find more detailed information about cookies and how they work at http://www.aboutcookies.org/ or http://www.cookiecentral.com/faq/

Our Use of Cookies and Similar Technologies - Wharf Street Strategies uses cookies and similar technologies for several purposes, which may include:

• Storing your Preferences and Settings - Settings that enable our website to operate correctly or that maintain your preferences over time may be stored on your device.
• Functional Cookies - We also use functional cookies to record information about the choices you have made and to allow us to tailor the site to our users; for example, to remember your language or region or that you have already completed a survey. This information is usually anonymised and is not used for any other purpose.
• Sign-in and Authentication - When you sign into our website using your credentials, we store a unique ID number, and the time you signed in, in an encrypted cookie on your device. This cookie allows you to move from page to page within the site without having to sign in again on each page. You can also save your sign-in information so you do not have to sign in each time you return to the site.
• Security - We use cookies to detect fraud and abuse of our websites and services.
• Social Media - We use social buttons to enable our users to share or bookmark web pages. These are buttons for third party social media sites and these sites may log information about your activities on the Internet including on this Website. Please review the respective terms of use and privacy policies of these sites to understand exactly how they use your information and to find out how to opt-out, or delete, such information.
• Analytics Service - In order to provide our website efficiently and track how effective our content is, we use cookies and other identifiers to gather usage and performance data. For example, we use cookies to count the number of unique visitors to a web page or service and to develop other statistics about the operations of our website. This includes cookies from Wharf Street Strategies and from third-party analytics providers.
• Email Communications: We may also use tracking technologies to determine whether you have read, clicked on, or forwarded certain email communications we send to you so that we can make our communications more helpful and interesting. If you do not wish us to confirm whether you have opened, clicked on or forwarded our communications, you will need to unsubscribe, as it is not possible for us to send these emails without tracking enabled. Registered subscribers can update their communication preferences at any time by contacting us, or you can unsubscribe following the instructions in the individual email communications you receive from us.
• Performance - Wharf Street Strategies uses cookies for load balancing to ensure that websites remain up and running.

In addition to the cookies Wharf Street Strategies sets when you visit our websites, third parties may also set cookies when you visit Wharf Street Strategies sites. In some cases, that is because we have hired the third party to provide services on our behalf, such as site analytics. In particular, we use cookies from Google Analytics (read Google’s privacy policy) and Adobe Analytics (read Adobe’s privacy policy) for website analytics and metrics. If you want to know more about these services use cookies and personal data, please refer to the privacy notices directly on each third party’s website.

We may modify or amend this Cookie Notice from time to time at our discretion without any notice. We encourage you to periodically review this Cookie Notice to be informed about how we are using cookies from time to time as required.

Use License

Permission is granted to temporarily download one copy of the materials (information or software) on Wharf Street Strategies' website for personal, non-commercial transitory viewing only. This is the grant of a license, not a transfer of title, and under this license you may not:

1. modify or copy the materials;
2. use the materials for any commercial purpose, or for any public display (commercial or non-commercial);
3. attempt to decompile or reverse engineer any software contained on Wharf Street Strategies' website;
4. remove any copyright or other proprietary notations from the materials; or
5. transfer the materials to another person or "mirror" the materials on any other server.

This license shall automatically terminate if you violate any of these restrictions and may be terminated by Wharf Street Strategies at any time. Upon terminating your viewing of these materials or upon the termination of this license, you must destroy any downloaded materials in your possession whether in electronic or printed format.

Accuracy of materials

The materials appearing on Wharf Street Strategies' website could include technical, typographical, or photographic errors. Wharf Street Strategies does not warrant that any of the materials on its website are accurate, complete or current. Wharf Street Strategies may make changes to the materials contained on its website at any time without notice. However, Wharf Street Strategies does not make any commitment to update the materials.

Links

Wharf Street Strategies has not reviewed all of the sites linked to its website and is not responsible for the contents of any such linked site. The inclusion of any link does not imply endorsement by Wharf Street Strategies of the site. Use of any such linked website is at the user's own risk.

Your Communications Preferences

If you receive promotional email from us and would like to opt out, you can do so by following the directions in those emails. You can also opt out of email subscriptions and choose whether to share your contact information with Wharf Street Strategies.

How to Contact Us

If you have a privacy concern, complaint or a question regarding this privacy statement, please direct it to the Wharf Street Strategies at info@wharfstreetstrategies.com

European Data Protection Rights - GDPR

When we process personal data about you, we do so with your consent and/or as necessary to provide the website you use, operate our business, meet our contractual and legal obligations, protect the security of our systems and our customers, or fulfill other legitimate interests of Wharf Street Strategies as described in this privacy statement.

Below, you will find additional privacy information that you may find important. Wharf Street Strategies adheres to applicable data protection laws in the European Economic Area, which if applicable includes the following rights:

• If the processing of personal data is based on your consent, you have a right to withdraw consent at any time for future processing;
• You have a right to request from us, a “data controller” as defined in the law, access to and rectification of your personal data;
• You have a right to request from us that your personal data are erased, subject to certain exceptions;
• You have a right to object to the processing of your personal data; and
• You have a right to lodge a complaint with a data protection authority.

Security of Personal Data

Wharf Street Strategies is committed to protecting the security of your personal data. We use a variety of security technologies and procedures to help protect your personal data from unauthorized access, use or disclosure.

Where We Store and Process Personal Data

Personal data collected by Wharf Street Strategies may be stored and processed in your region, in London, and in any other country where Wharf Street Strategies or its affiliates, subsidiaries or service providers operate facilities. The storage location(s) are chosen in order to operate efficiently, to improve performance and to create redundancies in order to protect the data in the event of an outage or other problem. We take steps to ensure that the data we collect under this privacy statement is processed according to the provisions of this statement and the requirements of applicable law wherever the data is located.

Our Retention of Personal Data

Wharf Street Strategies retains personal data for as long as necessary to provide the access to and use of the website, or for other essential purposes such as complying with our legal obligations, resolving disputes and enforcing our agreements. Because these needs can vary for different data types and purposes, actual retention periods can vary significantly.

Changes to This Privacy Statement

We may update this privacy statement from time to time. We encourage you to periodically review this privacy statement to learn how Wharf Street Strategies is protecting your information.Wharf Street Strategies may revise these terms of service for its website at any time without notice. By using this website you are agreeing to be bound by the then current version of these terms of service.

This privacy policy is effective from 15th May 2019