|
Close Window |
There are a number of independent member firms within the PricewaterhouseCoopers
network1 which will be providing various parts of the Portal. The
personal data you provide when you register for the Portal will be controlled
by the entity named on your registration page. You might provide personal data
either before or after registration to a particular entity if you subscribe
to a newsletter or use any "Contact Us" features or if you are using
a part of the Portal which is provided by that entity. In this case, your personal
data will be controlled by the entity to which you send your personal data (Other
entities may also control your personal data as described below.) Certain services
or information offered on the portal may be subject to a different privacy policy.
In such instances, a separate privacy policy will be posted.
"We" or "us" in this Privacy Statement means, in relation
to your personal data, the PricewaterhouseCoopers entity that is the controller
of that personal data.
"You" in this Privacy Statement means you as an individual, rather
than any legal entity (such as your employer) which you may represent when you
register for the Portal or order a product or service from us using this Portal.
1. What information is collected?
2. How will personal data be used?
3. Are cookies used on the Portal?
4. How can I access, change my personal data or withdraw my consent?
5. Are personal data transferred to another country?
6. Are personal data disclosed to third parties?
7. How long are personal data retained?
8. How are personal data secured?
1. What information
is collected?
"Personal data" means information about you and/or third parties (where
required by law, a third party could be a legal entity represented by you e.g.
where you submit data to us about your employer or a client company).
When you visit this Portal and in the course of providing products or services
to you, we may collect personal data either:
(i) directly where you are asked to provide data, such as when you register,
use any "Contact Us" features of the Portal or subscribe for newsletters
(e.g. name, e-mail address and mailing address); or
(ii) indirectly, such as using cookies (as described below) or customizing software
to tailor the site to your preferences or to track your use of certain pages
of the Portal (e.g. your internet protocol address) and other technical means
to monitor your use of the Portal or from third parties who provide us with
information about you.
If you decide to register and obtain services or information using this Portal
(or if a legal entity which you represent has already registered and you log
in to the Portal), you may be asked to fill in certain boxes with information
about yourself or others. You do not have to fill in the "optional"
boxes - if you don't, we will still register you or process your order or question
but it is always helpful for us to receive this optional data as it may help
us to understand your business needs. You must fill in the "mandatory"
boxes marked * as otherwise we may not be able to register you or process your
order or question. We will only ever collect, hold, process, use, communicate
and/or disclose such personal data, whether optional or not, in accordance with
this Privacy Statement.
If you are acting as an intermediary or otherwise on behalf of a third party
or supply us with information regarding a third party (such as your employer
or a client company), you undertake that you are an authorised representative
or agent of such third party and that you have obtained all necessary consents
from such third party to the collection, processing, use and disclosure by us
of their personal data. Because we are collecting the third party's data from
you, you undertake to make the third party aware of all matters listed in this
Privacy Statement, preferably by distributing a copy of this statement to them
or by referring them to our website.
We do not generally seek to collect sensitive data through the Portal. If we
do seek to collect such data we will ask you to consent to the uses we propose
to make of the data. By providing us with unsolicited sensitive data you consent
to our using those data, subject to applicable law, for the purposes set out
below.
2. How will personal
data be used?
We may process and use personal data collected via this Portal or otherwise
in relation to this Portal for the following purposes:
· to administer the Portal
· to provide information products and services to you at your
request
· to update our records and databases
· to improve the personalisation of our services for you and maintain
information about you or a third party about whom you have supplied us with
data (for example, your employer)
· to inform you or to enable other PricewaterhouseCoopers entities
to inform you of features, services and products from PricewaterhouseCoopers
and third parties and/or send you related information which may be of interest
to you, but only if you affirmatively agree to us doing this (if we intend to
do this, you will have an opportunity to consent to this when you register to
obtain any service or information from us and you may withdraw your consent
at any time as described in paragraph 4 below).
3. Are cookies used
on the Portal?
A cookie is information sent by a Web server to a user's computer and stored
there. The information stored in the cookie can be accessed by that server when
the user returns to the web site (in this case the Portal). A cookie can hold
a variety of information, including the number of times the user has accessed
the site, registration information, and the number of times a user has seen
a particular advertisement on the site.
We use cookies to help us authenticate your identity as a registered user when
you log on to the Portal. We also use individual session cookies for each user
to track your use of Portal within a single session. Cookies enable us to recognise
your browser and to provide certain features to you.
The "help" function on most browsers will have information on how
to prevent your computer accepting cookies, find out if you have received a
cookie and disable them completely, if this is what you want to do. However,
be aware that if you do disable cookies, you will not be able to register as
a user of the Portal nor take advantage of a number of useful features on the
Portal so we would recommend that you use them.
4. How can I access
or change my personal data or withdraw my consent?
You are entitled to request access to and correct all your personal data collected
by us via this Portal, as well as to require us to delete your personal data
if you no longer want us to process it. You may have additional rights provided
by applicable laws.
You can make such a request or a related enquiry by sending an email to the
entity named on your registration form and/or the entities to whom you have
submitted personal data. If you consent or have previously consented to the
collection, holding, processing, use, communication and/or disclosure of personal
data as identified herein, please note that you can withdraw your consent at
any time by sending an email message to our privacy office at privacy@pwc.com
and/or the entities to which you have submitted personal data. You may send
an email to pwcportal@custhelp.com
to obtain a list of the PricewaterhouseCoopers entities and their contact details.
Please note that there may be a small charge for making an access request or
it may be free, depending on the circumstances. In particular, in some countries
(such as Germany) you may be entitled to make this request for free. You can
find out more details by emailing the appropriate entity as indicated above.
You may be able to update some of the data we hold about you (such as your registration
data) directly yourself, by editing "User Information" in the "My
Account" section of the Portal.
5. Are personal data
transferred to another country?
Because of the international nature of the service provided by this Portal and
the nature of PricewaterhouseCoopers' activities, personal data may, subject
to applicable law, be transferred internationally to other PricewaterhouseCoopers'
entities world-wide for the purposes described above. Details of any international
transfers are available on request to the entity identified on your registration
page or the entity to which you have submitted information, as described in
paragraph 4 above.
This may mean that personal data are transferred to countries, such as the United
States where the Portal's server is located, which do not provide legal protection
of personal data equivalent to that in the country from which you are accessing
the site.
To use the Portal, you must explicitly consent to the transfer of your personal
data to PricewaterhouseCoopers entities located in other countries for the specific
purposes described in this Privacy Statement.
6. Are personal data
disclosed to other entities?
The data will only be disclosed to certain types of staff within PricewaterhouseCoopers
entities (i.e. staff whose job it is to process your enquiries and orders or
otherwise to administer the Portal and those staff involved in the provision
of services and products which may be of interest to you) and they will only
process the data for the purposes identified in this Privacy Statement.
Personal data will also, subject to applicable law, be disclosed:
· to other entities within the PricewaterhouseCoopers network
which may follow the privacy practices in this policy or notify you of their
own privacy practices
· to data processors, suppliers or providers of goods or services
(but only for the purposes of processing your request for services or information)
and
· where such disclosure is required by law through subpoena, search
warrant or other forms of legal process.
In some situations, you may submit personal data via the Portal directly to
third parties who supply services to PricewaterhouseCoopers entities in connection
with the Portal (such as authenticating your user details and password or processing
credit card details, among others). Before submitting personal you will be informed
if this is the case and whether that entity will process personal data pursuant
to this Privacy Statement or another privacy statement and given the name and
contact details of the entity to whom you are submitting personal data.
Again, this may mean that data are transferred to countries such as the United
States as any such third parties mentioned above may be located there.
7. How long are personal
data retained?
We will keep your personal data only as long as it is reasonably necessary for
the purposes described in this Privacy Statement or, if you have registered
for the Portal and to the extent necessary to preserve our rights or allow us
to comply with our obligations in relation to your registration, for 7 years
from the date your registration is terminated, whichever comes last.
8. How are personal
data secured?
We have implemented generally accepted standards of technology including Secure
Socket Layer (SSL) and operational security in order to protect the personal
data collected but the nature of the Internet is of course such that the data
may flow over networks without appropriate security measures and may be accessed
and used by unauthorised persons.
Please note that this Privacy Statement only covers this Portal, which may or
may not regulate the privacy practices of other web sites that may be accessible
through or linked to this Portal. We encourage visitors to review each site's
privacy statement before disclosing any personal identifying information.