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Privacy Policy

A Legal Disclaimer

Opes Vi Ltd
Data Privacy Notice 2024

​Opes Vi Ltd is responsible for ensuring that it uses your personal data in compliance with data protection law. The purpose of this notice (the “Privacy Notice”) is to explain what personal data Opes Vi Ltd collects and how Opes Vi Ltd uses it. For the purposes of data protection law, Opes Vi Ltd is a data controller in respect of your personal data. “Personal data” is any data that can be used to identify you or that Opes Vi Ltd can link to you and which Opes Vi Ltd has in its possession or control.

In this Privacy Notice when we refer to “Opes Vi Ltd” or “we”/“us”/“our” we mean Opes Vi Ltd and our Associates. You can find contact details for our Associates, and the details of the data controllers within Opes Vi Ltd, by contacting us on:

info@opesvi.com

Personal data that Opes Vi Ltd collects

Opes Vi Ltd will collect and process the following personal data:

Information that you or someone acting on your behalf provides to Opes Vi Ltd or its Associates. This includes information about you that you give to Opes Vi Ltd by filling in forms, signing up for services on our website or by communicating with Opes Vi Ltd, whether face-to-face, by phone, e-mail or otherwise. If you are a client or are connected with one of our client’s matters, this may include personal data about you or others that is provided to Opes Vi Ltd in connection with the provision of services to that client.

Information Opes Vi Ltd collects or generates about you. We will also collect information about you when you use our services or when we otherwise interact or correspond with you. We use various technologies to collect and store information when you visit our websites. We may, for example, collect information about the type of device you use to access the websites, your IP address and your geographic location, the operating system and version, your browser type, the content you view and features you access on our websites, the web pages and the search terms you enter on our websites.

If you are a client, or are connected with one of our client’s matters, this information may include:

  • information about you, your transactions, financial information and relationship to others;

  • data that Opes Vi Ltd collects about your use of Opes Vi Ltd’s IT systems;

  • reports and information for tax reporting (e.g. FATCA) or compliance with legal or regulatory obligations (e.g. insider lists, regulator information requests);

  • (where required by legal or regulatory obligations or otherwise where we have a specific legal basis) recordings of telephone calls between you and Opes Vi Ltd.

Information Opes Vi Ltd obtains from other sources. If we collect or receive your personal data in the context of our provision of services, we might receive information from third parties such as your employer, other parties relevant to the services we are providing (e.g. counterparties in transactions) and others such as regulators and authorities. That information could include your name, contact details, employment details and other information relevant to the services that we are providing to our client.

Uses of your personal data

Personal data may be stored and processed by Opes Vi Ltd in the following ways and for the following purposes:

  • to provide Opes Vi Ltd’s products and services, including processing instructions and providing confirmations, advice and statements to our clients;

  • verify your identity (including for fraud prevention purposes), assess your ability to meet your financial commitments (if any) and manage Opes Vi Ltd’s relationship with you and/or the client to whom you are connected;

  • to contact you in connection with your work with Opes Vi Ltd and the products and services that Opes Vi Ltd provides to you or a client to whom you are connected;

  • to perform the contract with you or a client/supplier to whom you are connected (including performing Opes Vi Ltd’s obligations and exercising Opes Vi Ltd’s rights);

  • to engage in marketing and business development activity and to advise you or a client to whom you are connected of other products and services similar to those which you or a client to whom you are connected receive from Opes Vi Ltd and/or its Associates;

  • to engage in Community Investment projects where you choose to participate;

  • to notify you about changes to Opes Vi Ltd’s service;

  • to carry out financial risk assessments, risk mitigation activities and for risk reporting and risk management;

  • to comply with Opes Vi Ltd’s legal and regulatory obligations. This includes reporting to the relevant authorities, complying with anti-money laundering obligations and tax reporting obligations;

  • to use it to prevent and respond to actual and potential fraud or illegal activities; or

  • to use it to look into any complaints or queries you or a client/supplier to whom you are connected may have.

Opes Vi Ltd is entitled to use personal data in these ways because:

  • Consent - we may (but usually do not) need your consent to use your personal data. You can withdraw your consent by contacting us (see below).

  • Performance of a contract - we may need to collect and use your personal data to enter into a contract with you or to perform our obligations under a contract with you or a client to whom you are connected.

  • Legitimate interest - we may use your personal data for our legitimate interests, some examples of which are given above.

  • Compliance with law or regulation - we may use your personal data as necessary to comply with applicable law/regulation.

Disclosure of personal data to third parties

Opes Vi Ltd may disclose personal data to its Associates in the circumstances described below:

  • to provide the services or perform its obligations in connection with your contract or the contract of a client/supplier with whom you are connected;

  • for the management and administration of the Opes Vi Ltd business;

  • for the management and administration of internal policies and procedures within Opes Vi Ltd.

Where personal data is disclosed to its Associates, Opes Vi Ltd will take steps to ensure that the personal data is accessed only by those persons who need to do so for the purposes described in this Privacy Notice.

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