Introduction
We are committed to protecting your privacy and ensuring that your personal information is collected, processed and used responsibly and lawfully, with the required confidentiality and transparency.
This Statement covers:
-NVest’s Data Protection Values
-What Personal Information NVest collects from you
-Informs you about our use of Cookies
-How we use your Personal Information and who we may share that with
-How we protect your personal information
-Your rights of accessing your personal information from us
-The retention of your personal information
-How to communicate with us whether that may be a compliment, complaint or simply raising a question.
Purpose
Our Data Protection Values
These values are premised on:
✓TRUST
We acknowledge and value the trust you place in us by providing your personal information. We will always strive to use your personal information in a way that is fair and worthy of that trust.
✓TRANSPARENT
We will always be transparent with you about what information we collect, what we do with it, and who we share it with.
✓COLLABORATION
We are committed to engaging with you promptly and constructively to resolve any query or concern which you may have on how we use your information.
✓PROTECTION
We will take all reasonable steps to protect your information from misuse and to keep it secure.
✓COMPLIANCE
We shall do all things necessary to comply with applicable data protection laws and regulations and will co-operate with data protection authorities and regulators.
What Information We Collect
Use of Personal Information
✓to provide our products or services
✓to execute your transactions
✓to maintain our relationship with you
✓to conduct credit reference searches or verification with third parties
✓to confirm and verify your identity or to verify that you are an authorized user for security purposes
✓for the detection and prevention of fraud, crime, money laundering or other malpractice
✓for debt tracing or debt recovery
✓to conduct market or customer satisfaction research and for statistical analysis
✓for audit and record-keeping purposes
✓to liaise with third-parties to offer services to you that form part of the products you have with us
✓in connection with legal proceedings We will also use your personal information to comply with legal and regulatory requirements or industry codes. If you inform NVestor its subsidiaries that you do not want us to continue using your personal information, we will stop doing so as far as that is practically possible.
Information Quality and Security
We provide adequate protection to prevent unauthorized access and use of the personal information we store. We will, on an ongoing basis, continue to review our security controls and related processes and technology to ensure that your personal information is secure and used only in line with what is set out in this notice. Where we interact with third parties and share personal information, we take reasonable steps to impose appropriate security, privacy and confidentiality obligations on those recipients as processors of personal information. This is to ensure that personal information that we are responsible for, is kept secure and only processed lawfully. The disclosure of personal information to third parties may involve the transfer of personal information to other countries. These countries may not have to same data protection laws as those that apply in your country. We have put in place contractual provisions with those recipients. Before we contract with third parties in foreign jurisdictions, we ensure that the recipient is subject to a law or binding agreement with NVest that provides for similar or better protection of your personal information than is provided for in this notice.
Your Rights To Access and Correction of Information
You have the right to ask us to update or correct your personal information. You may do this by contacting your financial advisor. We will take reasonable steps to confirm your identity before making any changes to the personal information we may hold about you. Keeping your personal information up-to-date and accurate remains your responsibility. In the event that there are changes to your personal information such as a change in contact details or a residential address, please contact your financial advisor to update your records. For further information, click here for our Information Manual on accessing your personal information under the Promotion of Access to Information Act, No.2 of 2000.
Retention of Your Personal Information
-any compliance requirement in terms of legislation
-the retention of personal information for scientific, historical or statistical purposes
-for the establishment,exercise or defence of legal claims
Privacy Complaints, Compliments or Comments
-do not contact you in future
-provide you with a copy of the personal information which we hold about you
-correct, update, or pseudonymise your personal information in our records
-investigate any alleged misuse of your personal information