This website (the "Website") is the website of Equinox Information Services Ltd. For the purposes of this agreement, "Equinox IS", "us" or "we" shall mean a company registered in England and Wales under company number 09331995 and with its registered address at 60 Windsor Avenue, London, England, SW19 2RR, and its affiliates and their officers, directors, and employees.
This privacy policy sets out how Equinox Information Services Ltd. ("Equinox IS"). uses and protects any information that you give when you use this website or share when communicating with us.
Equinox IS is committed to ensuring that your privacy is protected. Should we ask you to provide certain information by which you can be identified when using this website, then you can be assured that it will only be used in accordance with this policy.
Equinox IS may change this policy from time to time by updating this page. You should check this page intermittently to ensure that you are happy with any changes or updates. This policy is effective from 1 January 2020.
It applies to use of our website, our professional services or during any communications with you.
Your personal information such as name, address, email address and phone number, or any other personal data which may reasonably identify you, may be collected by:
We will not collect sensitive (special category) personal information from visitors to our website, clients or our employees, except where necessitated by the terms of our engagement. ‘Sensitive personal information’ includes information about racial or ethnic origin, political opinions, religious or philosophical beliefs, trade union membership, genetic data, biometric data, data concerning health or data concerning a natural person’s sex life or sexual orientation.
Any sensitive personal information collected as part of our lawful processing obligations will be protected using best practice information security controls.
We will use your personal information solely for the purpose for which it was provided and share it with Equinox IS partners, staff and consultants on a ‘need to know’ basis. We will not use your data for other purposes without your explicit consent.
We use cloud based applications and providers for information storage. Data is by preference stored in the EU, but may be transferred for hosting/storage to the United States. We will only send data outside of the EU where an organization employs data protection rules that are recognised as being equivalent. We only use suppliers who implement the same level of security controls (or stronger) as we do ourselves.
We may use your personal information for the following purposes:
As described in this policy, personal information will be retained by us and will not be sold, transferred or otherwise disclosed to any third party, other than for the purpose of lawful processing. Personal information may be anonymised / pseudonymised for the purpose of research to inform our marketing and development strategies or where such disclosure is required by law or court order.
If your personal information changes or you no longer wish to receive a particular communication from us please let us know and we will correct, update or remove your details. This can be done by emailing hello@equinox.is.
In providing services to you, we may process personal data as a controller or on your behalf as a data processor. Where we act as processor on your behalf we will only process personal data for the purposes outlined above or otherwise in accordance with your instructions, and only keep it for as long as it is needed for that purpose.
We use up-to-date data storage and security controls to protect your personal information from unauthorised access, improper use or disclosure, unauthorised modification or unlawful destruction or accidental loss. All our employees and any third parties we engage to process your personal information are obliged to respect the confidentiality of your information.
We may disclose your personal information to our agents or service providers, where there is a lawful basis, for any of the purposes set out in this policy.
We will not sell your information to a third party.
The following cookies are in use on our website:
We do not currently use any other cookies or other means of tracking your visits to our website. You can turn off cookies in your web browser’s settings.
Under the GDPR, you have rights as an individual which you can exercise in relation to the information we hold about you. For further information, please visit ico.org.uk.
If at any time you wish to exercise your rights as a data subject in relation to information we hold about you as an individual please contact us by email to hello@equinox.is or by mail to the address above.
Equinox IS tries to meet the highest standards when collecting and using personal information. For this reason, we take any complaints we receive about this very seriously. We encourage you to bring it to our attention if you think that our collection or use of your information is unfair, misleading or inappropriate. We would also welcome any suggestions for improving our procedures.
This privacy notice was drafted with brevity and clarity in mind. It does not provide exhaustive detail of all aspects of Equinox IS’ collection and use of personal information. However, we are happy to provide any additional information or explanation needed. Any requests for this should be sent to the address below.
If you want to make a complaint about the way we have processed your personal information please do so by email to hello@equinox.is. If you are not satisfied with the response we give you then you can contact the Information Commissioner’s Office (www.ico.org.uk), which is the statutory body which oversees data protection law in the UK.
By using this website and/or providing your personal information to us, you consent to the collection and use of your personal information by us set out in this privacy notice.
If we change our privacy policies and procedures, we will post those changes on our website or otherwise notify you to keep you aware of what information we collect, how we use it and under what circumstances we may disclose it.
If you have any comments, questions, or concerns about how or why we use your data, how long we keep it, or what rights you have over it, please get in touch.
If you have any queries concerning our use of the above, please email hello@equinox.is.