Privacy Policy

Our Privacy Policy

BTS Grants: values your privacy and cares about the way in which your personal information is treated.

What personal information do we collect about you?

We may collect personal information from you in the course of our business, including through your use of our website, when you contact or request information from us.

Personal information that we process includes:

  • Your Name
  • Your Email
  • Your Phone Number’s
  • Your Postal Code
  • Technical information: Such as information gained from your visits to our website or applications, as well as information gained from materials and communications sent to you electronically
  • Any other personal information you may give to us

How we obtain your personal information?

BTS Grants: Obtains and uses personal information about you in a variety of ways, including your use of our website and our service offerings. We make advantage of that data.

  • To uphold and enhance this website, including auditing and analyzing use.
  • Provide and improve our services to you.
  • Provide information requested by you.
  • Fulfil our legal: Regulatory and risk management obligations, including establishing, exercising or defending legal claims.
  • In order to facilitate recruitment.

Use of BTS Grants website

BTS Grants: A few functions on our website, such as quote requests and email inquiries, enable you to furnish us with personal information. The objective of these facilities is obvious when you input your personal information, and we only use your information for those purposes.

Our website makes use of Google Analytics, a web-based analytics service that records and reports on how the website is used in order to help us improve it. Google Analytics accomplishes this by storing simple text files known as ‘cookies’ on your device. The data obtained by cookies, such as the number of visitors to the site, pages visited, and time spent on the site, is aggregated and hence anonymous.

Marketing and other emails

We use personal information to understand whether you read the emails and other materials, such as legal publications, that we send to you, click on the links to the information that we include in them and whether and how you visit our website after you click on that link (immediately and on future visits). We do this by using software that places a cookie on your device which tracks this activity and records it against your email address. Please see ‘Use of Cookies on BTS Grants website’ for more information on cookies and how to manage and remove them. Removal of this cookie will not affect your experience on our websites.

How long we keep your personal information

Your personal information will be retained in accordance with our data retention policy which categorizes all of the information held by BTS Grants and specifies the appropriate retention period for each category of data. Those periods are based on the requirements of applicable data protection laws and the purpose for which the information is collected and used, taking into account legal and regulatory requirements and good practice.

How we protect your personal information

We use a variety of technical and organisational measures to help protect your personal information from unauthorised access, use, disclosure, alteration or destruction consistent with applicable data protection laws.

Who we share your personal information with

Any information that you provide to us may be shared with and processed by the team at BTS Grants. We may also share your personal information with certain trusted third parties in accordance with contractual arrangements in place with them, including:

  • Our professional advisers.
  • Suppliers to whom we outsource certain support services such as word processing, translation, photocopying and document review.
  • IT service providers to BTS Grants

Where necessary, or for the reasons set out in this policy, personal information may also be shared with regulatory authorities, courts, government agencies and law enforcement agencies. While it is unlikely, we may be required to disclose your information to comply with legal or regulatory requirements. We will use reasonable endeavours to notify you before we do this, unless we are legally restricted from doing so.

If in the future we re-organise or transfer all or part of our business, we may need to transfer your information to new BTS Grants entities or to third parties through which the business of BTS Grants will be carried out BTS Grants may use social media sites such as Facebook, LinkedIn and Twitter. If you use these services, you should review their privacy policy for more information on how they deal with your personal information.
We do not sell, rent or otherwise make personal information commercially available to any third party, except with your prior permission

Who we share your personal information with

We use a variety of technical and organisational measures to help protect your personal information from unauthorised access, use, disclosure, alteration or destruction consistent with applicable data protection laws.
We use a variety of technical and organisational measures to help protect your personal information from unauthorised access, use, disclosure, alteration or destruction consistent with applicable data protection laws.
We use a variety of technical and organisational measures to help protect your personal information from unauthorised access, use, disclosure, alteration or destruction consistent with applicable data protection laws.

Your rights regarding your personal information

The European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation and other applicable data protection laws provide certain rights for data subjects.

You are entitled to request details of the information we hold about you and how we process it. You may also have a right in accordance with applicable data protection law to have it rectified or deleted, to restrict our processing of that information, to stop unauthorised transfers of your personal information to a third party and, in some circumstances, to have personal information relating to you transferred to another organisation.

If you object to the processing of your personal information, or if you have provided your consent to processing and you later choose to withdraw it, we will respect that choice in accordance with our legal obligations.
 
Your objection (or withdrawal of any previously given consent) could mean that we are unable to perform the actions necessary to achieve the purposes set out above (see ‘How we use your personal information’) or that you may not be able to make use of the services and products offered by us. Please note that even after you have chosen to withdraw your consent we may be able to continue to process your personal information to the extent required or otherwise permitted by law, in particular in connection with exercising and defending our legal rights or meeting our legal and regulatory obligations.