1. Who We Are
Nordwald Vermögen Ltd ("Nordwald Vermögen", "we", "our", "us") is the data controller responsible for your personal data. We are registered in England and Wales and our registered office is at 12 Finsbury Square, London, EC2A 1AR, United Kingdom.
If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy or our data practices, please contact our Data Protection contact at privacy@nordwaldvermoegen.com or by post to the address above.
2. The Personal Data We Collect
We may collect and process the following personal data about you:
- Contact information: Your name and email address when you contact us via our contact form, subscribe to our newsletter, or correspond with us by post or telephone.
- Technical data: IP address, browser type and version, time zone setting, browser plug-in types and versions, operating system and platform, and other technology on the devices you use to access our website.
- Usage data: Information about how you use our website, including pages visited, time spent on pages, referral sources, and links clicked.
- Communications data: The content of messages you send us through our contact form or by email, and records of our correspondence with you.
We do not collect any special category data (such as data about health, racial or ethnic origin, political opinions, religious beliefs, sexual orientation, or criminal convictions) through our website.
3. How We Collect Your Personal Data
We collect personal data through the following methods:
- Direct interactions: Data you provide when contacting us via our contact form, emailing us, or telephoning us.
- Automated technologies: As you interact with our website, we may automatically collect technical and usage data. We collect this using cookies, server logs, and similar technologies. Please see our Cookie section below.
- Third-party sources: We may receive technical and usage data from analytics providers such as Google Analytics.
4. How We Use Your Personal Data
We use your personal data for the following purposes, under the following legal bases:
- To respond to your enquiries (legal basis: legitimate interests — responding to communications from individuals who contact us).
- To improve our website (legal basis: legitimate interests — understanding how users interact with our website to improve content and user experience).
- To send you information you have requested, such as newsletter subscriptions (legal basis: consent — you have expressly signed up to receive communications).
- To comply with legal obligations (legal basis: legal obligation — where we are required to process data to comply with UK law).
5. Cookies
Our website uses cookies — small text files stored on your device. We use the following types:
- Strictly necessary cookies: Essential for the website to function. No consent is required for these.
- Analytics cookies: These help us understand how visitors use the website (e.g., Google Analytics). These are only placed with your consent.
You can control and/or delete cookies as you wish. You can delete all cookies that are already on your computer, and you can set most browsers to prevent them from being placed. However, if you do this, you may have to manually adjust some preferences every time you visit a site, and some services and functionalities may not work.
6. Data Sharing and Disclosure
We do not sell, trade, or rent your personal data to third parties. We may share your data with:
- Service providers who assist us in operating our website and conducting our business, subject to confidentiality obligations (for example, our web hosting provider, analytics provider, or email service provider).
- Regulatory authorities where we are required to do so by law, court order, or to cooperate with a lawful investigation.
7. International Transfers
Some of our service providers are based outside the UK/EEA. Where we transfer personal data outside the UK, we ensure appropriate safeguards are in place in accordance with UK data protection law, such as the use of International Data Transfer Agreements (IDTAs) or binding corporate rules.
8. Data Retention
We retain personal data only for as long as necessary for the purposes for which it was collected. Specifically:
- Contact form submissions: retained for 24 months, then deleted.
- Analytics data: retained in accordance with the analytics provider's standard retention period (typically 26 months for Google Analytics).
- Legal obligation data: retained for the period required by applicable law.
9. Your Rights
Under UK GDPR and the Data Protection Act 2018, you have the following rights in relation to your personal data:
- Right of access: You may request a copy of the personal data we hold about you.
- Right to rectification: You may ask us to correct inaccurate or incomplete personal data.
- Right to erasure: You may ask us to delete your personal data in certain circumstances.
- Right to restrict processing: You may ask us to restrict processing of your personal data in certain circumstances.
- Right to data portability: You may request a machine-readable copy of your personal data where processing is based on consent or contract.
- Right to object: You may object to processing based on our legitimate interests.
- Rights relating to automated decision-making: We do not make automated decisions that have legal or similarly significant effects based on your personal data.
To exercise any of these rights, please contact us at privacy@nordwaldvermoegen.com. We will respond within one calendar month. You also have the right to lodge a complaint with the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) at ico.org.uk.
10. Security
We implement appropriate technical and organisational measures to protect your personal data against unauthorised access, alteration, disclosure, or destruction. This includes HTTPS encryption for all data transmitted to and from our website, access controls, and regular security reviews. However, no method of transmission over the internet or method of electronic storage is 100% secure, and we cannot guarantee absolute security.
11. Links to Third-Party Websites
Our website may contain links to external websites. We are not responsible for the privacy practices of those websites and encourage you to review their privacy policies. This Privacy Policy applies only to our website.
12. Changes to This Policy
We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time. The date at the top of this page indicates when the policy was last revised. We encourage you to review this policy periodically. If we make material changes, we will endeavour to notify users through a prominent notice on the website.
13. Contact
For any questions about this Privacy Policy or your personal data, please contact:
Nordwald Vermögen Ltd
12 Finsbury Square
London, EC2A 1AR
United Kingdom
Email: privacy@nordwaldvermoegen.com
Telephone: +44 20 7946 0924