Privacy Policy

Valere Capital respects your privacy and is committed to protecting your personal data. This privacy notice will inform you as to how we look after your personal data.

1. Important information and who we are

This privacy notice aims to give you information on how we collect and process your personal data. We do not knowingly collect data relating to children.

Valere Capital Partners LLP is the controller and responsible for your personal data. We have appointed a data privacy manager (DPM) who is responsible for overseeing questions in relation to this privacy notice. If you have any questions about this privacy notice, including any requests to exercise your legal rights, please contact the DPM using the details set out below.

Our full details are:

Full name of legal entity:          Valere Capital Partners LLP
Name or title of DPM:               Jean Dulude
Email address:                          jean.dulude@valerecapital.com
Postal address:                        12 Austin Friars, London EC2N 2HE.

Our full details are:

Full name of legal entity: Valere Capital Partners LLP
Name or title of DPM: Jean Dulude
Email address: jean.dulude@valerecapital.com
Postal address: 12 Austin Friars, London EC2N 2HE.

You have the right to make a complaint at any time to the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO), the UK supervisory authority for data protection issues (www.ico.org.uk). We would, however, appreciate the chance to deal with your concerns before you approach the ICO so please contact us in the first instance. This version was last updated on 25 May 2018.


It is important that the personal data we hold about you is accurate and current. Please keep us informed if your personal data changes during your relationship with us.

2. The data we collect about you

Personal data, or personal information, means any information about an individual from which that person can be identified. It does not include data where the identity has been removed (anonymous data). We may collect, use, store and transfer different kinds of personal data about you which we have grouped together follows:

  • Identity Data includes first name, maiden name, last name, username or similar identifier, marital status, title, date of birth and gender.
  • Contact Data includes home, work and billing address, email address and telephone numbers.
  • Marketing and Communications Data includes your preferences in receiving marketing from us and our third parties and your communication preferences.


We do not collect any Special Categories of Personal Data about you (this includes details about your race or ethnicity, religious or philosophical beliefs, sex life, sexual orientation, political opinions, trade union membership, information about your health and genetic and biometric data). Nor do we collect any information about criminal convictions and offences aside from any such information you may have communicated to us in responding to our Professional Conduct Statement.


Where we need to collect personal data by law, or under the terms of a contract we have with you and you fail to provide that data when requested, we may not be able to perform the contract we have or are trying to enter into with you.

3. How is your personal data collected?

We use different methods to collect data from and about you including through:

  • Direct interactions. You may give us your Identity and Contact Data by filling in forms or by corresponding
    with us by post, phone, email or otherwise. This includes personal data you provide when you engage
    us to offer or receive expert witness or other services from us, or request marketing to be sent to you.
  • Third parties or publicly available sources. We may receive or obtain personal data about you from
    various third parties and public sources including the Law Society and LinkedIn.
4. How we use your personal data

We will only use your personal data when the law allows us to. Most commonly, we will use your personal data in the following circumstances:

  • Where we need to perform the contract we are about to enter into or have entered into with you.
  • Where it is necessary for our legitimate interests (or those of a third party) and your interests
    and fundamental rights do not override those interests.
  • Where we need to comply with a legal or regulatory obligation.


We have set out below a description of all the ways we plan to use your personal data, and which of the legal bases we rely on to do so. We have also identified what our legitimate interests are, where appropriate. If we need to use your personal data for an unrelated purpose, we will notify you and we will explain the legal basis which allows us to do so.
Necessary for our legitimate interests (to develop our products/services and grow our business)

You will receive marketing communications from us if you have requested information from us or purchased services from us. You can ask us to stop sending you marketing messages at any time by sending an email request to our DPM.

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5. Disclosures of your personal data

We share the personal data of expert witnesses with potential clients, and vice versa. We require all parties to respect the security of such personal data and to treat it in accordance with the law.

6. International transfers

We do not transfer your personal data outside the European Economic Area (EEA) unless either the expert witness or the main client contact is outside the EEA. In such cases we will ask for the explicit informed consent of the relevant individuals.

7. Data security

We have put in place appropriate security measures to prevent your personal data from being accidentally lost, used or accessed in an unauthorised way, altered or disclosed. In addition, we limit access to your personal data to those who have a business need to know, subject to a duty of confidentiality. We have put in place procedures to deal with any suspected personal data breach and will notify you and any applicable regulator of a breach where we are legally required to do so.

8. Data retention

We will only retain your personal data for as long as necessary to fulfil the purposes we collected it for, including for the purposes of satisfying any legal, accounting, or reporting requirements. In some circumstances you can ask us to delete your data. More information is available on our guidelines in our Data Retention Guidelines which can be obtained by request at info@valere-capital.com.

9. Your legal rights

Under certain circumstances, you have rights under data protection laws in relation to your personal data. You will not have to pay a fee to access your personal data (or to exercise any of the other rights). However, we may charge a reasonable fee if your request is clearly unfounded, repetitive or excessive. Alternatively, we may refuse to comply with your request in these circumstances.
We may need to request specific information from you to help us confirm your identity and ensure your right to access your personal data (or to exercise any of your other rights). This is a security measure to ensure that personal data is not disclosed to any person who has no right to receive it. We may also contact you to ask you for further information in relation to your request.

We try to respond to all legitimate requests within one month. Occasionally it may take us longer than a month if your request is particularly complex or you have made a number of requests. In this case, we will notify you and keep you updated.

10. Glossary

LAWFUL BASIS
Legitimate Interest means the interest of our business in conducting and managing our business to enable us to give you the best service/product and the best and most secure experience. We make sure we consider and balance any potential impact on you (both positive and negative) and your rights before we process your personal data for our legitimate interests. We do not use your personal data for activities where our interests are overridden by the impact on you (unless we have your consent or are otherwise required or permitted to by law).

Performance of Contract means processing your data where it is necessary for the performance of a contract to which you are a party or to take steps at your request before entering into such a contract.

Comply with a legal or regulatory obligation means processing your personal data where it is necessary for compliance with a legal or regulatory obligation that we are subject to.

YOUR LEGAL RIGHTS

You have the right to:
10.1
Request access to your personal data (commonly known as a “data subject access request”). This enables you to receive a copy of the personal data we hold about you and to check that we are lawfully processing it.
10.2 Request correction of the personal data that we hold about you. This enables you to have any incomplete or inaccurate data we hold about you corrected, though we may need to verify the accuracy of the new data you provide to us.
10.3 Request erasure of your personal data. This enables you to ask us to delete or remove personal data where there is no good reason for us continuing to process it.

10.4 Object to processing of your personal data where we are relying on a legitimate interest and you feel it impacts on your fundamental rights and freedoms, or where we are processing your personal data for direct marketing purposes.
10.5 Request restriction of processing of your personal data. This enables you to ask us to suspend the processing of your personal data in certain circumstances.
10.6 Request the transfer of your personal data to you or to a third party.
10.7 Withdraw consent at any time where we are relying on consent to process your personal data. If you withdraw your consent, we may not be able to provide certain services to you. We will advise you if this is the case at the time you withdraw your consent.