Thank you for visiting our website and for using our services. We’d like to tell you about our online privacy notice and how we use cookies on our website. We have defined some words and phrases to help make it clear what we mean.
In this Online Privacy Notice and Cookie Policy:
“personal data” means personal data as defined under the Law and includes any information about an identified or identifiable natural person. Such information may include, for example, information we collect against an identifier for you (for example, your IP address or cookie ID). We also refer to personal data as “data about yourself”, “personal information”, “your information”, “personal details” and “information about you”;
“controller” means controller as defined in applicable data protection legislation; “Invesco”, “our”, “us” and “we” means Invesco Distributors, Inc. and
“the Law” means applicable data protection legislation, including (where applicable) the General Data Protection Regulation (“GDPR”).
This Online Privacy Notice and Cookie Policy tell you how we will process any personal data that we collect from you, or that you provide to us online. The Law says we must provide you with this information and we hope this will help you to understand how we will keep your personal data safe. You can find more information about how we process your personal data in our privacy notice at which also applies to the use of personal data we collect offline.
We are the controllers of your personal data and, as controllers, determine why and how we collect and use your personal data. We are committed to protecting your privacy and personal data as you use our website and web services. We take seriously our responsibility to hold your personal data securely and confidentially.
Depending on your interaction with our website, we collect the following categories of personal data from you: If you use the online email, you may choose to give us your personal data and we will also ask you to provide us with certain personal data such as your name, business email address, job title, company. We may need to ask you for additional personal data to help us to meet your needs and to provide you with the services you require. If you do not provide your personal data to us, it may make it impossible for us to provide these services to you;
We may collect, process, use and store your personal data electronically or on paper and in written or digital formats. We collect, process and use your personal data with automated tools.
We maintain strict security standards and procedures with a view to preventing unauthorised access to your personal data by anyone, including our staff. We use leading technologies such as (but not limited to) data encryption, firewalls and server authentication to protect the security of your personal data. The staff of Invesco follow strict privacy standards and whenever we hire third parties to provide support services, we require them to observe the same standards and to allow us to audit them for compliance.
This section of this Online Privacy Notice and Cookies Policy explains for what purposes we use your personal data we collect online and on which legal bases we rely. Our legal bases for collecting and using your personal data will include
We only keep your personal data for as long as is necessary to fulfil the purposes for which it has been collected. When determining the appropriate retention period, we consider the risks of the processing, our contractual, legal and regulatory obligations, internal data retention policies and our legitimate business interests as described in this Online Privacy Notice and Cookies Policy.
Where we send direct marketing materials to you, we may send your personal data to third parties with whom we have contracted to provide these materials to you on our behalf and in our name. These third parties act as our processors in relation to their processing of your personal data in this way.
We also use other third parties to process your personal data on our behalf. When we use third party processors, we ensure they process your personal data in accordance with our instructions and that they put appropriate technical and organisational security measures in place to adequately protect your personal data.
In certain circumstances, we may also share your personal data we collect online, for the purposes set out in this Online Privacy Notice and Cookies Policy, with other third parties such as:
We also may disclose your personal data to courts, the police, or other law enforcement agencies where we are legally obliged to do so or in our reasonable opinion such disclosure is necessary to comply with applicable laws and legal processes, support an investigation or to protect our rights and interests in relation to any suspected misuse by you of our website or any of our online services.
We endeavour to prevent unauthorised disclosures of your personal data by other people, but we are not responsible for any unauthorised disclosures or other breaches of security or for the actions of others if the personal data was passed to them with your authority or with the authority of anybody other than us or our affiliates.
We may also share your personal data with a potential buyer in connection with any proposed purchase, merger or acquisition of any part of our business.
When we share your personal data with the organisations listed above, it may involve transferring your personal data outside the European Economic Area (EEA) or outside any other country from where you may access our website, to countries where the level of protection of personal data has not been deemed adequate by the European Commission. The absence of an adequacy decision means that the laws of these countries may not guarantee the adequate level protection of your personal data as defined by the Law. However, we will ensure that your personal data is transferred, processed and maintained to the standards required by Law by putting standard data protection clauses in place (as approved by the European Commission) or where we use third parties, we may rely on other appropriate transfer mechanisms they have implemented (e.g. EU-US Privacy Shield, binding corporate rules). Please contact us using the contact details provided below to obtain a copy of our standard data protection clauses or further information about other appropriate transfer mechanisms we may rely on. For example, we transfer your personal data to the United States for analysis purposes by employing the Google Analytics technologies. The personal data transferred to Google is protected under the terms of their EU-US Privacy Shield Certification (for more information see here: https://www.privacyshield.gov/Individuals-in-Europe
Subject to the conditions prescribed in applicable laws, you have the right: (i) to access, rectify or request erasure of your personal data; (ii) to ask us to restrict processing of it; (iii) to request portability of it and (iv) not to be subject to a decision based solely on automated processing, including profiling, which produces legal effects concerning you or similarly significantly affects you.
Subject to the conditions prescribed in applicable laws, you have the right (i) to object, on grounds relating to your particular situation, to processing of your personal data which is based on our or a third party’s legitimate interests; and (ii) to object to processing of your personal data for direct marketing purposes.
You can exercise these rights by contacting us using the contact details provided below.
You also have the right to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority about our use of your personal data in the EU Member State of your habitual residence, place of work or place of the alleged infringement if you consider that the processing of your personal data infringes the GDPR.
In accordance with applicable data protection legislation, you may choose to use the website in an anonymised or pseudonymized manner. This applies only to the extent that anonymous or pseudonymized use of the website is technically possible and reasonable.
At the current time we do not use either functional or experience cookies on this site.
Some pages of our site may contain links to other websites that may be of interest to you. Please note that we do not have any control over the content or privacy practices of these sites. We urge you to review the privacy policy of these sites before providing any personal information.
This policy was updated on 24 May 2018. We reserve the right to revise this policy at any time by posting a revised Online Privacy Notice and Cookies Policy online.
If you have any questions about this Online Privacy Notice and Cookies Policy, please contact us via email at emea.privacy@invesco.com or in writing at the addresses provided below:
Invesco Distributors, Inc.,
11 Greenway Plaza,
Suite 1000,
Houston,
Texas 77046
Issued in the US by Invesco Distributors, Inc., 11 Greenway Plaza, Suite 1000, Houston, Texas 77046. Invesco Distributors, Inc. is the appointed US sub-distributor of the STIC Global Funds by Invesco Asset Management Limited in the UK. All entities are wholly owned, indirect subsidiaries of Invesco Ltd.