1 – Background & Data Privacy At a Glance
Privacy Policy Background
Mondofin UK is responsible for ensuring that it uses all Personal Data in compliance with data protection laws thus we take our clients data privacy seriously.
Mondofin UK respects the privacy of our clients, and we are committed to keeping all your Personal Data secure. This Privacy Policy governs the handling of Personal Data by Mondofin. It provides a simple overview of what happens with your personal data when you visit our website. Personal data comprises all data with which you could be personally identified. Comprehensive information on the topic of data privacy can be found in the data privacy statement below this text.
How do we collect your data?
Your data is collected from you when you share that data with us. This may include data that you send to us in advertising or informational emails.
Other data is automatically collected by our IT systems when you visit our website. This is primarily technical data (e.g. internet browser, operating system, or date and time of site access). Your data is collected automatically as soon as you access our website.
How do we use your data?
Some of the data is collected in order to ensure that the website operates smoothly. Other data can be used to analyse your usage behaviour.
Which rights do you have with regard to your data?
You have the right to receive information about the origin, recipient and purpose of your stored personal data at any time, free of charge. You also have the right to request that the data be corrected, blocked, or deleted. Please contact us at the address or email given in our legal notice if you have any questions regarding the topic of data privacy. Furthermore, the competent supervisory authority is available if you wish to exercise the right to file a complaint.
2 – Obligatory Information
Data Privacy
The operators of these sites take the protection of your personal data very seriously. We treat your personal data confidentially and in accordance with legal data privacy guidelines and with this data privacy statement.
If you use this website, various personal data is collected. Personal data is data with which you could be personally identified. This data privacy statement explains which data we collect and how we use that data. The statement also explains how and for what purposes this occurs.
Please note that data transmission over the internet (e.g. via email communication) may involve security gaps. It is not possible to protect your data completely from third parties.
How we protect your information
We have controls in place to maintain the security of our information and information systems. Client files are protected with safeguards according to the sensitivity of the relevant information. Appropriate controls (such as restricted access) are placed on our computer systems. Physical access to areas where Personal Data is gathered, processed or stored is limited to authorised employees.
As a condition of employment, Mondonfin UK’s employees are required to follow all applicable laws and regulations, including in relation to data protection law. Access to sensitive Personal Data is limited to those employees who need it to perform their roles. Unauthorised use or disclosure of confidential client information by a Mondonfin UK employee is prohibited and may result in disciplinary measures.
When you contact a Mondofin UK’s employee about your file, you may be asked for some Personal Data. This type of safeguard is designed to ensure that only you, or someone authorised by you, has access to your file.
How long we retain your data
If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely. This is so we can recognize and approve any follow-up comments automatically instead of holding them in a moderation queue.
For users that register on our website (if any), we also store the personal information they provide in their user profile. All users can see, edit, or delete their personal information at any time (except they cannot change their username). Website administrators can also see and edit that information.
Where we send your data
Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service.
Revoke consent for processing your data
You may revoke your consent at any time. A simple email submitted to us is sufficient. Revocation does not affect the legality of all data processing that occurred up to the point of revocation.
3 – Data we collect and why we collect it
Data which you provide to us
This includes information about you that you provide to us. The nature of the services you are requesting will determine the kind of Personal Data we might ask for, though such information may include (by way of a non-exhaustive list):
- basic Personal Data (such as first name; family name; position in the company; company name; company email address; business phone number; business address; city; postcode; country) and other identification information required for KYC, AML and/or sanctions checking purposes (eg. copies of your passport and/or driving licence or a specimen of your signature) any other personal information provided by you in the course of our business relationship;
- any information that you choose to share on Mondofin UK internet forums which may be considered Personal Data. (Please note that Mondofin UK does not collate information included on Mondofin UK internet forums together with Personal Data from any User Center account or profile);
Data we obtain from Sources
Cookies
Some internet sites use cookies. Cookies do not cause any damage to your computer and do not contain viruses. Cookies are intended to make our website more user-friendly, effective and secure. Cookies are small text files that your browser saves on your computer.
Most of the cookies we use are known as “session cookies”. These cookies are automatically deleted once your browser session ends. Other cookies may remain on your device until deleted. These cookies enable us to recognise your browser the next time you access our website.
You can configure your browser such that you are informed when cookies are set and only allow cookies in specific cases, accept cookies in certain cases, prevent cookies altogether, or automatically delete cookies when the browser is closed. Deactivating cookies may limit the website’s functionality.
Cookies that are required in order to perform certain electronic communication processes or in order to provide specific functions requested by you (e.g. shopping cart function) are stored on the basis of Art. 6. Sec. 1 lit. f DSGVO. The site operator has a legitimate interest in storing cookies in order to ensure that the website functions smoothly and services are provided seamlessly. If other cookies (e.g. cookies for analysing your browsing behaviour) are stored, these cookies are addressed separately in this data privacy statement.
If you leave a comment on our site you may opt-in to saving your name, email address and website in cookies. These are for your convenience so that you do not have to fill in your details again when you leave another comment. These cookies will last for one year.
If you visit our login page, we will set a temporary cookie to determine if your browser accepts cookies. This cookie contains no personal data and is discarded when you close your browser.
When you log in, we will also set up several cookies to save your login information and your screen display choices. Login cookies last for two days, and screen options cookies last for a year. If you select “Remember Me”, your login will persist for two weeks. If you log out of your account, the login cookies will be removed.
If you edit or publish an article, an additional cookie will be saved in your browser. This cookie includes no personal data and simply indicates the post ID of the article you just edited. It expires after 1 day.
Comments
When visitors leave comments on the site we collect the data shown in the comments form, and also the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to help spam detection.
An anonymized string created from your email address (also called a hash) may be provided to the Gravatar service to see if you are using it. The Gravatar service privacy policy is available here: https://automattic.com/privacy/. After approval of your comment, your profile picture is visible to the public in the context of your comment.
Media
If you upload images to the website, you should avoid uploading images with embedded location data (EXIF GPS) included. Visitors to the website can download and extract any location data from images on the website.
Embedded content from other websites
Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g. videos, images, articles, etc.). Embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact same way as if the visitor has visited the other website.
These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, including tracking your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.
4 – Disclosing your information to third parties
5.2 We may also share your Personal Data outside of Mondofin UK for the following purposes:
- with our business partners and consortium. For example, this could include our partners from whom you or your company or your organisation purchased the waste solutions. Personal Data will only be transferred to a business partner who is contractually obliged to comply with appropriate data protection obligations and the relevant privacy and confidentiality legislation;
- with third party agents and contractors for the purposes of providing services to us (for example, Mondofin UK’s accountants, professional advisors, IT and communications providers and financiers/funding/lending partners). These third parties will be subject to appropriate data protection obligations and they will only use your Personal Data as described in this Privacy Policy;
- to the extent required by law, for example if we are under a duty to disclose your Personal Data in order to comply with any legal obligation (including, without limitation, in order to comply with tax reporting requirements and disclosures to regulators), or to establish, exercise or defend its legal rights;
- if we sell our business or assets, in which case we may need to disclose your Personal Data to the prospective buyer for due diligence purposes; and
- if we are acquired by a third party, in which case the Personal Data held by us about you will be disclosed to the third party buyer.
5 – Plug-ins and Tools
Analytics
This website uses Google Analytics, a web analysis service provided by Google Inc. (Google). Google Analytics uses cookies, which are text files that are stored on your computer and allow analysis of your use of the website. The information about your use of the website generated via cookies (including your IP address) is transmitted to a Google server in the USA and stored there. On behalf of this website provider, Google will use this information to assess your use of the website, generate reports about website activities, and to provide services associated with website use and internet use to the website operator. The IP address transmitted by your browser within the scope of Google Analytics is not combined with other Google data. You can prevent cookies from being stored using the corresponding browser settings; however, please note that this may prevent some of the website’s functions from operating fully. By using this website, you provide your consent for your data to be processed by Google in the manner and for the purposes listed above. In addition, you can prevent your data collected by means of cookies and the data regarding your website use from being processed by Google by downloading and installing the browser plug-in available at the following link: (http://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=de).
6 – What rights you have over your data
If you have an account on this site or have left comments, you can request to receive an exported file of the personal data we hold about you, including any data you have provided to us. You can also request that we erase any personal data we hold about you. This does not include any data we are obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes. In all cases in which we collect, use or store your Personal Data, you may have the following rights and, in most cases, you can exercise them free of charge. These rights include:
- the right to obtain information regarding the processing of your Personal Data and access to the Personal Data which we hold about you;
- the right to withdraw your consent to the processing of your Personal Data at any time. Please note, however, that we may still be entitled to process your Personal Data if we have another legitimate reason for doing so. For example, we may need to retain Personal Data to comply with a legal obligation;
- in some circumstances, the right to receive some Personal Data in a structured, commonly used and machine-readable format and/or request that we transmit those data to a third party where this is technically feasible. Please note that this right only applies to Personal Data which you have provided directly to Mondofin UK;
- the right to request that we rectify your Personal Data if it is inaccurate or incomplete;
- the right to request that we erase your Personal Data in certain circumstances. Please note that there may be circumstances where you ask us to erase your Personal Data but we are legally entitled to retain it;
- the right to object to, or request that we restrict, our processing of your Personal Data in certain circumstances. Again, there may be circumstances where you object to or ask us to restrict, our processing of your Personal Data but we are legally entitled to refuse that request; and
- the right to lodge a complaint with the relevant data protection regulator if you think that any of your rights have been infringed by us.
7 – Designated Representative
Mondofin UK’s registered office may be contacted using the following contact information:
Address: Tytherington Business Park, Patterson Close Sk102YU
Email Address: info@mondofin.co.uk
8 – Additional information
If you have any questions or concerns about Mondofin UK’s handling of your Personal Data, or about this Policy, please contact our Privacy Officer using the following contact information above. We are usually able to resolve privacy questions or concerns promptly and effectively. If you are not satisfied with the response you receive from our Privacy Officer, you may escalate concerns to the applicable privacy regulator in your jurisdiction.
