Privacy Statement
The Deloitte Accounting Research Tool (“DART”) contains content
provided by various member firms (or their affiliates) of Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu
Limited, a UK private company limited by guarantee (“DTTL”). DTTL and each of its
member firms are legally separate and independent entities.
Content is organized into the channels specified in the paragraph
below. The specific channel that you are viewing is designated in the upper
right-hand corner of each DART webpage. The specific DTTL member firm or its
affiliate responsible for providing the content you are viewing will vary depending
upon the channel you are viewing.
All content on the ‘iGAAP’ and ‘GAAP in the UK’ channels is provided
by Deloitte LLP (the United Kingdom affiliate of Deloitte NSE LLP, a member firm of
DTTL). All content on the US channel is provided by a subsidiary of a US member firm
of DTTL. .
The following privacy terms apply to personal data collected with respect to
content provided by an affiliate of a US member firm of DTTL. The following
privacy terms apply
to personal data collected with respect to content provided by Deloitte LLP.
Deloitte Accounting Research Tool (DART), U.S. Version — Privacy Statement
Deloitte Accounting Research Tool (DART), U.K. Version — Privacy Statement
Privacy statement
Last revised: March 2019
1 Who this privacy statement applies to and
what it covers
1.1 This privacy statement applies to Deloitte LLP with
registered office address at 1 New Street Square, London EC4A 3HQ, and the
entities we own or control ("Deloitte", "we", "us"
or "our").
1.2 We are committed to protecting your privacy and handling
your information in an open and transparent manner.
1.3 This privacy statement sets out how we will collect, handle,
store and protect information about you when you use:
1.3.1 dart.deloitte.com;
1.3.2 dart.deloitte.com/iGAAP; or
1.3.3 dart.deloitte.com/UKGAAP
1.4 When we refer to the "DART website” in this policy we
mean the specific webpages of the Deloitte Accounting Research Tool (“DART”)
designated in the upper-right hand corner as either the iGAAP Channel or the
GAAP in the UK Channel and specific webpages containing IFRS related content
which are included in the US Channel.
1.5 This privacy statement also contains information about when
we share your personal data with other member firms of the Deloitte Touche
Tohmatsu Limited network and their affiliates and other third parties (for
example, our service providers).
1.6 In this privacy statement, your information is sometimes
called "personal data". We may also sometimes collectively refer to
handling, collecting, protecting and storing your personal data as
"processing" such personal data.
2 What information we collect
2.1 In the course of providing services to you or our client and
performing due diligence checks in connection with our services (or discussing
possible services we might provide), we will collect or obtain personal data
about you. We may also collect personal data from you when you use the DART
website.
2.2 We may collect or obtain such data because you give it to us
(for example in a form on the DART Website), because other people give that data
to us (for example your employer or adviser, or third party service providers
that we use to help operate our business) or because it is publicly available.
2.3 We may also collect or obtain personal data from you because
we observe or infer that data about you from the way you interact with us or
others. For example, to improve your experience when you use the DART website
and ensure that it is functioning effectively, we (or our service providers) may
use cookies (small text files stored in a user’s browser) and Web beacons which
may collect personal data. Additional information on how we use cookies and
other tracking technologies and how you can control these can be found in our
cookies
notice.
2.4 The personal data that we collect or obtain may include:
2.4.1 your name;
2.4.2 your contact information, such as your address and contact
details (including your email and mobile telephone number);
2.4.3 country of residence;
2.4.4 employment details (for example, the name and contact details of
the organisation you work for, whether you or your organisation are a
Deloitte client, your job title and department details);
2.4.5 financial information (for example) credit or debit card
information);
2.4.6 the email address of relevant contacts you may have in
Deloitte;
2.4.7 your IP address, your browser type and language, your access
times; complaint details;
2.4.8 details of how you use our products and services;
2.4.9 details of how you like to interact with us and other similar
information.
3 Information provided by third
parties
3.1 Where we are provided with personal data about you by our
client or another third party, we take steps to ensure that the client or other
third party has complied with the privacy laws and regulations relevant to that
information; this may include, for example, that the client or other third party
has provided you with notice of the collection (and other matters) and has
obtained any necessary consent for us to process that information as described
in this privacy statement.
4 How we use information about you?
4.1 We collect and process information about you to enable us
and other Deloitte Member Firms to provide our services to you and our clients
and in order to meet our legal or regulatory obligations.
4.2 In addition, some of your personal data may be used for
other business purposes. Examples of the types of uses are set out below:
Use of personal data to provide services to our
clients
4.3 We will use your personal data to provide you or our clients
or other third parties with services. As part of this, we may use your personal
data in the course of correspondence relating to the services. Such
correspondence may be with you, other third parties, other Deloitte Member
Firms, our service providers or competent authorities.
4.4 In addition to the purposes connected to the operation of
our business above, we may also use your personal data collected via the DART
website:
4.4.1 to manage and improve the DART website;
4.4.2 to tailor the content of the DART website to provide you with a
more personalised experience and draw your attention to information
about our products and services that may be of interest to you; or
4.4.3 to manage and respond to any request you submit through the DART
website.
5 The legal grounds we use for processing
personal data
5.1 We are required by law to set out in this privacy statement
the legal grounds on which we rely in order to process your personal data. We
rely on one or more of the following lawful grounds:
5.1.1 you have explicitly agreed to us processing your information for
a specific reason;
5.1.2 the processing is necessary to perform the agreement we have with
you or to take steps to enter into an agreement with you;
5.1.3 the processing is necessary for compliance with a legal
obligation we have such as keeping records for tax purposes or providing
information to a public body or law enforcement agency; or
5.1.4 the processing is necessary for the purposes of a legitimate
interest pursued by us, which might be:
(a) to provide our services to you or our clients
and other third parties and ensure that our client engagements are
well-managed;
(b) to prevent fraud;
(c) to protect our business interests;
(d) to ensure that complaints are
investigated;
(e) to evaluate, develop or improve our services
or products; or
(f) to keep you or our clients informed about
relevant products and services and provide you with information, unless
you have indicated at any time that you do not wish us to do so.
6 Sharing your personal data
6.1 In connection with one or more of the purposes outlined in
the "How we use information about you" section above, we may disclose
details about you to the following recipients, or categories of recipients:
6.1.1 Other Deloitte Member Firms or other third parties that provide
services to us;
6.1.2 competent authorities (including courts and authorities
regulating us or another member of the Deloitte Network);
6.1.3 your advisers or your employer and/or their advisers;
6.1.4 anyone to whom we may transfer our rights and/or obligations
under the Terms;
6.1.5 any other person or organisation after a restructure, sale or
acquisition of Deloitte LLP, as long as that person uses your
information for the same purposes as it was originally given to us or
used by us (or both).
7 Transferring your personal data outside
the UK
7.1 Information about you in our possession may be transferred
to other countries (which may include countries outside the European Economic
Area ("EEA")), such as jurisdictions in which and through which
transactions are effected; jurisdictions linked to your engagement with us;
jurisdictions from which you regularly receive or transmit information; or
jurisdictions where our third parties conduct their activities.
7.2 You understand and accept that these countries may have
differing (and potentially less stringent) laws relating to the degree of
confidentiality afforded to the information it holds and that such information
can become subject to the laws and disclosure requirements of such countries,
including disclosure to governmental bodies, regulatory agencies and private
persons, as a result of applicable governmental or regulatory inquiry, court
order or other similar process. In addition, a number of countries have
agreements with other countries providing for exchange of information for law
enforcement, tax and other purposes.
7.3 When we, or our permitted third parties, transfer your
personal data outside the EEA, we or they will impose contractual obligations on
the recipients of that data to protect your personal data to the standard
required in the EEA. We or they may also require the recipient to subscribe to
international frameworks intended to enable secure data sharing. In the case of
transfers by us, we may also transfer your personal data where:
7.3.1 the transfer is to a country deemed to provide adequate
protection of your personal data by the European Commission; or
7.3.2 where you have consented to the transfer.
7.4 If we transfer your personal data outside the EEA in other
circumstances (for example because we have to provide such information by law),
we will put in place appropriate safeguards to ensure that your personal data
remains adequately protected.
8 Protection of your personal data
8.1 We use a range of physical, electronic and managerial
measures to ensure that we keep your personal data secure, accurate and up to
date. These measures include:
8.1.1 education and training to relevant staff to ensure they are aware
of our privacy obligations when handling personal data;
8.1.2 administrative and technical controls to restrict access to
personal data to a 'need to know' basis;
8.1.3 technological security measures, including fire walls, encryption
and anti-virus software; and
8.1.4 physical security measures, such as staff security passes to
access our premises.
8.2 Although we use appropriate security measures once we have
received your personal data, the transmission of data over the internet
(including by e-mail) is never completely secure. We endeavour to protect
personal data, but we cannot guarantee the security of data transmitted to us or
by us.
9 How long we keep your information
for
9.1 We will hold your personal data on our systems for the
longest of the following periods: (i) until you request that your account and
information are deleted; (ii) any retention period that is required by law; or
(iii) the end of the period in which litigation or investigations might arise in
respect of the services.
10 Your rights
10.1 You have various rights in relation to your personal data.
In particular, you have a right to:
10.1.1 obtain confirmation that we are processing your personal data
and request a copy of the personal data we hold about you;
10.1.2 be informed about the processing of your personal data (i.e. for
what purposes, what types, to what recipients it is disclosed, storage
periods, any third party sources from where it was obtained,
confirmation of whether we undertake automated decision-making,
including profiling, and the logic, significance and envisaged
consequences);
10.1.3 ask that we update the personal data we hold about you, or
correct such personal data that you think is incorrect or
incomplete;
10.1.4 receive a copy of the personal data concerning you, which you
have provided to us, in a structured, commonly used and machine-readable
format and to transmit such personal data to another party (to the
extent the processing is based on consent or a contract);
10.1.5 ask us to stop sending you marketing messages at any time by
using the below contact details;
10.1.6 object to our processing of your personal data.
10.2 Any request for access to or a copy of your personal data
must be in writing and we will endeavour to respond within a reasonable period
and in any event within one month in compliance with applicable data protection
laws. We will comply with our legal obligations as regards your rights as a data
subject.
10.3 We aim to ensure that the information we hold about you is
accurate at all times. To assist us in ensuring that your information is up to
date, do let us know if any of your personal details change using the contact
details set out in paragraph 12.1.
10.4 You may also use the contact details in paragraph 12.1 if
you wish to make a complaint to us relating to your privacy.
11 Sending you marketing information
11.1 We and other Deloitte Member Firms may use your information
from time to time to inform you by letter, telephone, email and other electronic
methods, about similar products and services (including those of third parties)
which may be of interest to you.
11.2 You may, at any time, request that we and/or other members
of the Deloitte Network do not send such information to you by one, some or all
channels, by following the opt-out instructions in communications from us or
contacting us in the way described in paragraph 12 below.
12 Right to complain
12.1 If you wish to exercise any of the rights relating to your
information set out above, or if you have any questions or comments about
privacy issues, or you wish to raise a complaint about how we are using your
information you can contact us in the following ways:
12.1.1 Write to Head of Deloitte Business Security, Deloitte LLP at 1
New Street Square, London EC4A 3HQ
12.1.2 Send an email to DPO@deloitte.co.uk
12.2 If you have any concerns about our use of your information,
you also have the right to make a complaint to the Information Commissioner's
Office, which regulates and supervises the use of personal data in the UK, via
their helpline on 0303 123 1113. If you are based in an EEA jurisdiction other
than the UK, you have a right to complain to the EU Data Protection Authority
(“DPA”) in your jurisdiction. If you would like to be directed to the
appropriate DPA, please contact us.
13 Changes to this privacy statement
13.1 We may modify or amend this privacy statement from time to
time.
13.2 To let you know when we make changes to this privacy
statement, we will amend the revision date at the top of this page. The new
modified or amended privacy statement will apply from that revision date.
Therefore, we encourage you to periodically review this statement to be informed
about how we are protecting your information.