• "PBS" means Portfolio BPO Services Limited and any of its subsidiaries and related companies.
• PBS is committed to following policies that protect your privacy and comply with current international data protection laws and regulations in respect of personal data. PBS will only obtain personal data from you for specified and lawful purposes and any personal data which PBS obtains will be processed fairly and lawfully.
• PBS collects personal data for use in the normal course of PBS's business. Your personal data may be held and processed in connection with a transaction that PBS considers with you, for the general development of PBS's business and for administrative purposes relating to those purposes. PBS may use the contact details that you provide to PBS to inform you of relevant opportunities, developments and events, unless you decide to opt out (see "Contact Us").
• PBS will only process the individual data that you provide to PBS for these purposes. PBS will take all reasonable steps to ensure that the data held is adequate, relevant and not excessive for the relevant purposes.
• Please note that the information that you provide to PBS is processed and held on computer systems and files of the 3i group of companies throughout the world. This may include companies, offices or data centres outside the European Economic Area. All 3i group companies maintain the same levels of data protection, confidentiality and security. In certain cases your information may be passed to companies who process data on behalf of PBS, PBS's advisers, financial intermediaries and credit reference agencies with which PBS works. Where PBS passes data to third parties PBS ensures that appropriate confidentiality arrangements are in place. PBS does not provide your details to third parties for any marketing or promotional purposes, except where you have given your consent.
• The servers hosting PBS's website automatically record certain information about you when you use the sites, including details of your domain name, IP address, operating system and browser. PBS may use this information to understand who has seen which pages in order that PBS can monitor and improve PBS's website. PBS may use cookies or other similar text files or programs when you visit certain parts of the PBS website. A cookie is a small file that is sent to your browser and helps PBS to understand your use of the PBS website and enables you to access, navigate and use the services provided on the PBS website. For information about blocking the use of cookies, please refer to the instructions/help screen on your Internet browser. Please note that if you block cookies you may not be able to access certain online services provided on the PBS website.
Accuracy and security
• PBS will take all reasonable steps to keep your personal information accurate and, where necessary, up to date. If you believe that any of the information that PBS holds about you is incorrect please notify PBS (see "Contacts").
• PBS will take all reasonable steps to protect the confidentiality and security of your personal information, but cannot guarantee the security of any data you disclose online. You accept the inherent security risks of providing information online over the Internet and will not hold PBS responsible for any breach of security unless this is due to PBS's negligence or wilful default.
• PBS's website may contain hypertext links to external websites. PBS is not responsible for and accepts no liability in relation to these websites or their contents. You should read any applicable privacy policy on any such website. Any changes to this Privacy Policy will be posted here, so please check PBS's Privacy Policy on a regular basis when you visit any PBS website.
Your rights
• PBS will take all reasonable steps to retain data only for the duration of the purpose for which it was obtained. When requested to do so, PBS will delete personal information from current operational systems where it is no longer required. PBS may need to continue to hold some details about you after your relationship with PBS has ended, for example for legal and regulatory reasons.• You have the right to receive information about the personal data (as defined in the Data Protection Act 1998) that PBS maintains on you (a fee may be payable). You should also note that, under data protection laws, in certain circumstances you are entitled to object to the processing of your personal data and have certain rights of access, rectification and/or removal of your personal data. To exercise these rights you should write to PBS (see "Contacts us ").
Changes to PBS's Privacy Policy
• Any changes to this Privacy Policy will be posted here, so please check PBS's Privacy Policy on a regular basis when you visit the PBS website.Last updated on February 2005
