Cookies and Privacy Policy

This Cookies and Privacy Policy (the "Policy") describes how Coremont collects, uses and shares the information you provide to us and the information we collect in the course of operating our business and our site.

In this Policy when we refer to Coremont or "we"/"us"/"our", we mean Coremont LLP (the "Firm"). Coremont's contact address is 60 Charlotte Street, London W1T 2NU, United Kingdom.

We may revise this Policy at any time by amending this page. You are expected to check this page from time to time to take notice of any changes we make, as they are binding on you.

Privacy

The information that we collect and where we get it from

"Personal information" is any information that can be used to identify you or that we can link to you and which we have in our possession or control.

We may collect and process the following personal information about you:

  • Information that you provide to us by accessing our site, including (without limitation) your full name, title, telephone number, geographical location, email address and information about your employer or your business
  • Information that we collect or generate about you, including (without limitation):
    • information regarding the services provided to you, your use of our site and our interactions with you;
    • your contact history, to be used, amongst other purposes, to ensure your satisfaction with the quality of our services;
    • users’ IP addresses or other system details (such as operating system and browser details) to be used, amongst other purposes, to ensure effective continued use of the systems across different devices, and
    • activity data relating to your use of our site
  • Information we obtain from other sources. This includes personal data provided to us by third-party service providers, agencies or any other publicly available sources.

How we use the information we collect

We may do the following with your personal information:

  • use it to engage in marketing and business development activity in relation to our services to comply with legal and regulatory obligations that we have to discharge,
  • record and monitor your use of our site or our other online services for our business purposes (which may include analysis of usage, measurement of site performance and generation of marketing reports),
  • use it for our legitimate business interests, such as undertaking business research and analysis, managing the operation of our site and our business,
  • use it to look into any complaints or queries you may have, and
  • use it to prevent and respond to actual or potential fraud or illegal activities.

Also, we may collate, process and share any statistics based on an aggregation of information held by us provided that any individual is not identified from the resulting analysis and the collation, processing and dissemination of such information is permitted by law.

Grounds for using your personal information

We rely on the following legal grounds to process your personal information, namely:

  • Consent – we may (but usually do not) need your consent to use your personal information. You can withdraw your consent by contacting us.
  • Performance of a contract – we may need to collect and use your personal information to enter into a contract with you or to perform our obligations under a contract with you.
  • Legitimate interest – we may use your personal information for our legitimate interests, some examples of which are given above.
  • Compliance with law or regulation – we may use your personal information as necessary to comply with applicable laws and regulation.

How we share information with third parties

We share personal information with our international offices. As a result, your personal information may be transferred to locations within and outside of the UK and the European Economic Area (“EEA”) for the purposes described above.

We may also share your personal information outside the Firm. This may include sharing information with:

  • Third party agents/suppliers or contractors, bound by obligations of confidentiality, in connection with the processing of your personal information for the purposes described in this Policy. This may include, but is not limited to, IT and communications service providers.
  • Third parties relevant to the regulated services that we provide. This may include, but is not limited to, counterparties to transactions or litigation, regulators, authorities, governmental institutions and stock exchanges.
  • To the extent required by law, regulation or court order, or if we are under a duty to disclose your personal information in order to comply with any legal obligation.

Where we transfer your personal information outside of the UK and the EEA, we will ensure that it is protected and transferred in a manner consistent with applicable legal requirements. This can be done in a number of different ways, for instance:

  • the country to which we send the personal information may be approved by the UK Government or the UK Information Commissioner’s Office (“ICO”), including based on decisions by the European Commission, or
  • the recipient may have signed a contract based on standard contractual clauses such as "model contractual clauses" approved by the European Commission or the ICO, obliging them to protect your personal information.

In other circumstances, the law may permit us to otherwise transfer your personal information outside the UK or the EEA. In all cases, however, any transfer of your personal information will be compliant with applicable data protection law.

You can obtain more details of the protection given to your personal information when it is transferred outside the UK or the EEA (including a sample copy of the model contractual clauses) by contacting us using the details set out below.

Keeping your information and information security

How long we hold your personal information for will vary and will depend principally on:

  • the purpose for which we are using your personal information – we will need to keep the information for as long as is necessary for the relevant purpose, and
  • legal obligations – laws or regulation may set a minimum period for which we have to keep your personal information.

We will ensure that the personal information that we hold is subject to appropriate security measures.

Your choices and rights

You have a number of legal rights in relation to the personal information that we hold about you and you can exercise your rights by contacting us using the details set out below.

These rights include:

  • Obtaining information regarding the processing of your personal information and access to the personal information which we hold about you (note there may be circumstances in which we are entitled to refuse requests for access to copies of personal information held).
  • Requesting that we correct your personal information if it is inaccurate or incomplete.
  • Requesting that we erase your personal information in certain circumstances (note that there may be circumstances where you ask us to erase your personal information but we are obliged under regulation to retain it).
  • Objecting to, and requesting that we restrict, our processing of your personal information in certain circumstances (again, there may be circumstances where you object to, or ask us to restrict, our processing of your personal information but we are legally entitled to refuse that request).
  • In some circumstances, receiving some personal information in a structured, commonly used and machine-readable format and/or requesting that we transmit such information to a third party where this is technically feasible. Please note that this right only applies to personal information which you have provided to us.
  • Withdrawing your consent, although in certain circumstances it may be lawful for us to continue processing without your consent if we have another legitimate reason (other than consent) for doing so.
  • Lodging a complaint with the relevant data protection authority, if you think that any of your rights have been infringed by us.
  • We can, on request, tell you which data protection authority is relevant to the processing of your personal information

If you would like further information on the collection, use, disclosure or processing of your personal information or the exercise of any of the rights listed above, please contact us at compliance@coremont.com

Cookies

What are cookies?

Cookies are small text files which are placed on our site and/or a service user’s computer to provide us with information about use of our site and/or services.

Some cookies are deleted when you close down your browser. These are known as session cookies. Others remain on your device until they expire or you delete them from your cache. These are known as persistent cookies and enable us to remember things about you as a returning visitor or user.

To find out more about cookies, including how to see what cookies have been set and how to manage and delete them, visit www.allaboutcookies.org. Alternatively, you can search the internet for other independent information on cookies.

Why do we use cookies?

In broad terms we may use cookies on our site and/or services for the following purposes, amongst others:

A. Analytical purposes: Analytical cookies allow us to recognise, measure and track users of our site and/or services in anonymous form. The information collected may include the number of visitors to our site and/or users of our services, where visitors have come to our site from and the pages that they have visited. This may help us to improve the way our site and/or services work, for example, by determining whether site visitors and/or users of services can find information easily, or by identifying the aspects of the site and/or services that are of the most interest to them (as further explained below).

B. Usage preferences: Some of the cookies on our site and/or services are activated when visitors to our site and/or users of our services make a choice about their usage of our site and/or services. Our site and/or services may then ‘remember’ the settings preferences of the user concerned. This may allow us to tailor aspects of our site and/or services to the individual user.

C. Disclaimer: We may use cookies on our site and/or services to record when a site visitor and/or user of services has seen a Policy, such as this one, or provided consent, such as consent to this Policy and our Terms of Use. This may help us to improve the user’s experience of our site and/or services – for example, it avoids a user from repeatedly being asked to consent to the same terms.

D. Session management: The software that runs our site and/or services uses cookies for technical purposes needed by the internal workings of our servers. For instance, we may use cookies to distribute requests among multiple servers, authenticate users and determine what features of our site and/or services they can access, verify the origin of requests, keep track of information about a user’s session and determine which options or pages to display in order for our site and/or services to function.

E. Functional purposes: Functional purpose cookies store information that might be needed by our applications to process and operate. For example, where transactions or requests within an application involve multiple workflow stages, cookies could be used to store the information from each stage temporarily, in order to facilitate completion of the overall transaction or request. Cookies may also be used to track authentication of users’ browsers and operating systems to enable users to use the portal across different devices.

Your cookie preferences

To make full use of our site and/or services, your computer or mobile device will need to accept cookies, as our site and/or services will not function properly without them. In addition, cookies are required in order to provide you with personalised features on our site and/or services.

How to control and amend cookies

You can control which cookies you want to be stored on your computer through the settings in your web browser. You can configure your browser to accept or reject certain or all cookies, as well as see what cookies have been set.

If you wish to remove cookies set by our site from your browser in the future, you may delete them. The instructions for removing cookies from your computer or mobile device depend on the operating system and web browser you use.

PLEASE NOTE, HOWEVER, THAT WITHDRAWING YOUR AGREEMENT TO THE USE OF COOKIES ON OUR SITE AND/OR SERVICES WILL IMPAIR THE FUNCTIONALITY OF OUR SITE AND/OR SERVICES OR OTHERWISE PREVENT YOU FROM ACCESSING AND/OR USING OUR SITE AND/OR SERVICES ENTIRELY.

The "Help" menu in the toolbar of most web browsers will tell you how to change your browser's cookie settings, including how to have the browser notify you when you receive a new cookie and how to disable cookies altogether.

Consent

BY ACCESSING AND USING OUR SITE AND/OR SERVICES YOU: (I) CONSENT TO THE PROCESSING, USE AND SHARING OF YOUR DATA IN ACCORDANCE WITH THIS COOKIES AND PRIVACY POLICY; (II) WARRANT THAT ALL DATA PROVIDED BY YOU IS TRUE AND ACCURATE; AND (III) AGREE THAT, UNLESS YOU HAVE SET YOUR DEVICE'S BROWSER TO REJECT THEM, WE CAN PLACE THE TYPES OF COOKIES SET OUT ABOVE ON YOUR DEVICE, AND USE AND SHARE THE DATA DERIVED FROM SUCH COOKIES IN ACCORDANCE WITH THIS COOKIES AND PRIVACY POLICY.