Privacy Policy
PRIVACY POLICY REGARDING CUSTOMER INFORMATION
Mizuho Investment Management (UK) Ltd.
Mizuho Investment Management (UK) Ltd (“MIMUK”) hereby announces its Privacy Policy Regarding Customer Information, which sets forth how we will process the personal information of both our customers and potential customers and our basic approach to the protection and safeguarding of such personal information.
Management of Personal Information
MIMUK is registered under the Data Protection Act 1998. We shall make every effort to ensure that, your personal information is processed in accordance with all applicable UK data protection legislation.
Collection of Personal Information
By accessing the MIMUK website www.mizuho-im.com (our site) you consent to the processing by us, our agents and parent company and its agents of any personal information given by you in the following ways:
i) Information that you provide by filling in forms on our site. This includes information provided at the time of registering to use our site, posting material or requesting further services. We may also ask you for information when you report a problem with our site;
ii)If you contact us, we may keep a record of that correspondence; and
iii) Details of your visits to our site including, but not limited to, traffic data, location data, weblogs and other communication data, and the resources that you access.
Use of Personal Information
By accessing our site you consent to the processing by us, our agents and parent company and its agents of your personal information which may occur for any of the following reasons:
i) Providing you with specific information concerning the funds, for example when reports are updated, in which you have an invested interest.
ii) Ensuring your records that we hold are accurate and up to date;
iii) Keeping you informed of any other funds by post, fax, email and telephone unless you have objected to receiving such information by marking the appropriate box on our User Registration Application Form or by advising us if you contact us.
iv)Monitoring our telephone calls and electronic transactions with you in order to accurately carry out your instructions,
v) Preventing and detecting fraud or money laundering; and
vi) Protecting both yours and our interests.
Disclosure of Personal Information
Save as set out below your personal information:
(i) will not be transferred outside of MIMUK other than to our agents and our parent company and its agents who provide us with support services for our site;
(ii) will be stored on our secure servers;
(iii) will not be sold or traded to any other company.
We may disclose your personal information to third parties:
- in the event that we sell or buy any business or assets, in which case we may disclose your personal data to the prospective seller or buyer of such business or assets.
- if MIMUK or substantially all of our assets are acquired by a third party, in which case personal data held by us about our customers will be one of the transferred assets.
- if we are under a duty to disclose or share your personal data in order to comply with any legal obligation, or in order to enforce or apply our terms and conditions, or to protect the rights, property, or safety of MIMUK, our customers, or others. This includes exchanging information with other companies and organisations for the purposes of fraud protection.
Unfortunately, the transmission of information via the Internet is not completely secure. Although we will do our best to protect your personal data, we cannot guarantee the security of your data transmitted to our site; any transmission is at your own risk. Once we have received your information, we will use strict procedures and security features to try to prevent unauthorised access.
Cookies
Cookies are pieces of information that are transferred to the cookie file on your computer’s hard drive. They enable you to navigate around our site and enable us to provide you with a more personalised service.
Our site collects data using cookies which allows us to recognise you, your preferences and how you use our site. This information is collected by using temporary ‘session cookies’ which are small strings of data stored in your computer until you close your browser, at which point they are deleted.
Cookies are also used as timestamps to ensure that the session between you and the server is restricted to a specific length of time. For example, if you enter your user name and password to access the secure site, you will need to be authenticated. Once authenticated, the server puts a cookie on your hard drive with a timestamp of, for example, four minutes. When you request to go to another secure page within the site, the server will query the cookie to see if the session has timed out yet.
The web browsers of most computers are initially set up to accept cookies. If you prefer, you can set your web browser to disable cookies or to inform you when a website is attempting to add a cookie. You can also delete cookies that have previously been added to your computer’s cookie file.
You can set your browser to disable persistent cookies and/or session cookies but if you disable session cookies, although you will be able to view our public unsecured site, you will not be able to log onto any secure pages on our site.
Customer Requests concerning Personal Information
We will respond to requests from customers concerning personal information held by us promptly and in any event in accordance with statutory time limits.