PRIVACY POLICY
This statement relates to our privacy practices in connection with www.equiomtrust.com, www.equiominternational.com, www.equiom.im, www.equiom.co.im, www.yachtsmann.com, www.flymann.com, www.expatmann.com, www.companymann.com, www.trustmann.com and does not refer to content or privacy practices of other websites. Any external links to other websites are clearly identifiable as such. Some technical terms used in this statement are explained at the end of this page.
General Statement
Equiom Trust Company Limited and associated Isle of Man companies, ("Equiom" or "we") respects your right to privacy in relation to your interactions with this web-site. Any information which is provided by you will be treated in accordance with the terms of the Data Protection Act 2002 ("the Act") and any implementing and/or amending legislation as may be adopted in the Isle of Man from time to time.
Collection and use of personal information
We will let you know what we intend doing with that information before collecting it, so that you can decide whether or not to furnish that information to us. If at any time after giving us this information you decide that you no longer wish us to hold or use this information, or in the case that the information becomes out of date, you are free to notify us, and we will remove or rectify the information within a reasonable time.
Under section 5 of the Act you have a right to request a copy of the information we hold about you for which we may charge a small fee. If you request a copy of your information please contact in writing:
The Data Protection Officer
Compliance Department
Equiom Trust Company Limited
Jubilee Buildings, Victoria Street
Douglas
Isle of Man, IM1 2SH
Disclosure of Information to Third Party
Equiom, its servants and/or agents may need to verify and/or exchange certain information provided by you from time to time with financial institutions and/or other appropriate bodies. This may be because of the restrictions applicable to the use of certain facilities and/or services offered by way of this site, or to the extent otherwise necessary in connection with your use of facilities and/or services offered by way of this site. Therefore, you agree that Equiom and/or any employee, representative or agent of Equiom shall have the right to verify and/or exchange such information as provided by you and you hereby authorise any or all of such entities to contact you and/or financial institutions and/or other appropriate bodies as maybe necessary in order to verify and/or exchange the information which you have provided.
You acknowledge and agree that in certain circumstances we may be obliged to disclose personal information relating to you to third parties, for example, in order to conform to any requirements of law or to comply with any legal process, as well as to protect and defend the rights of property of Equiom, our licensors and/or our other customers. Equiom may also use the information that you have provided for the purposes of providing you with additional information relating to the goods and services of Equiom, its associated and affiliated companies and/or third parties. Equiom may also share this information with its associated and affiliated companies and/or carefully selected third parties, to enable those associated and affiliated companies and/or third parties to contact you directly in relation to their goods and services.
Collection and use of technical information
Information and data relating to you may be collected through the standard operation of our internet servers and logs. You should be aware that Equiom is unable to control the use of "cookies" or the resulting information by other third parties such as advertisers or parties hosting data for Equiom. The Equiom website does not use cookies, apart from temporary "session" cookies which enable a visitor's web browser to remember which pages on this website have already been visited. One simple way to prevent the use of cookies is to activate the facility which is available in most web browsers that enables the user to deny or accept cookies. However, you should realise that certain cookies especially "session" cookies may be necessary in order to provide you with certain features such as the personal deposit online application forms.
Links to other websites
You should also be aware that where you link to another website from this website, that Equiom has no control over that other website. Accordingly, Equiom cannot guarantee that the controller of that website will respect your privacy in the same manner as Equiom.
Equiom, its directors, employees, servants and agents, affiliates or other representatives and their respective parent and subsidiary companies, shall not be liable in respect of any claims, emergencies, demands, causes of action, damages, losses, expenses, including without limitation, reasonable attorney fees and costs of proceedings arising out of or in connection with the use and/or dissemination of personal information relating to you in accordance with this privacy policy and your consents.
Equiom reserves the right in its sole discretion to amend this privacy statement at any time, and you should regularly check this privacy statement for any amendments.
Some pages on this site contain hypertext links to web sites not maintained by us. You are reminded that when you enter other web sites via such hypertext links, you will not be subject to these terms and conditions and you will not benefit from the protections afforded to you in using our site.
Glossary of technical terms used
Web browser
The piece of software you use to read web pages. Examples are Microsoft Internet Explorer, Netscape Navigator and Opera.
Cookies
Small pieces of information, stored in simple text files, placed on your computer by a web site. Cookies can be read by the web site on your subsequent visits. The information stored in a cookie may relate to your browsing habits on the web page, or a unique identification number so that the web site can "remember" you on your return visit. Generally speaking, cookies do not contain personal information from which you can be identified, unless you have furnished such information to the web site.
If you have any questions in relation to this privacy statement please contact us at: enquiries@equiomtrust.com
