Privacy policy
The Financial Times Limited ("FT") takes the privacy of its users seriously. We are committed to safeguarding the privacy of our users while providing a personalised and valuable service. This Privacy Policy statement explains the data processing practices of FT, trading as FT Business. If you have any requests concerning your personal information or any queries with regard to these practices please contact our Privacy Officer by e-mail at [email protected]
Our sites contain links to third party sites, which are not subject to this privacy policy. We recommend that you read the relevant privacy policy of any such sites that you visit.
Information Collected
Personal information is collected by The Financial Times Limited and its trading entities on behalf of the Financial Times group of companies. The Financial Times Limited is registered with the UK's Information Commissioner as a Data Controller in accordance with the Data Protection Act 1998, registration number Z7087146 . The registered office is Number One Southwark Bridge, London SE1 9HL, England and registered company number 227590.
We collect personally identifiable information about you (your "Data") through:
- the use of enquiry and registration forms
- when you purchase any of our products or services
- the provision of your details to us either online or offline.
The elements of your Data that we collect may include:
- Name
- Job title
- Company name
- Company address, phone and fax number
- Home address and phone number
- Mobile telephone number
- E-mail address
- Payment details such as credit card information
- Market research data such as readership patterns
If you are subscriber to any of our sites, we may also collect information regarding your use of the service.
We also collect information automatically about your visit to our sites. Please see the 'Use of Cookies' section for more details.
Use and Disclosure of Personal Information
We use your Data for purposes that may include:
- providing our users with a personalised service
- processing orders, registrations and enquiries
- conducting market research surveys
- running competitions, prize draws and promotions
- providing you with information about products and services we offer (providing you agree to receive such information)
- sharing your Data with third party organisations who offer products or services which we feel may be of interest to you (providing you agree to receive such information)
- See 'Use of Cookies' section for more details.
If you would like to receive information about products or services offered by FT, the Financial Times group of companies, or about the products and services offered by other organisations, please notify us accordingly using the appropriate tick-boxes when providing us with your Data. If you wish to amend your marketing preferences at any time, please see the 'User Access and Control of Data' section.
We may also disclose your information to business partners and to third party suppliers we engage to provide services which involve processing data on our behalf, successors in title to our business, in accordance with a properly executed court order or otherwise required to do so by law. FT reserves the right to fully co-operate with any law enforcement authorities or court order requesting or directing FT to disclose the identity or locate anyone posting any material on our sites in breach of the site's terms and conditions.
We also use information in aggregate form (so that no individual user is identified):
- to build up marketing profiles
- to aid strategic development
- to manage our relationship with advertisers
- to audit usage of the site.
Use of Cookies and other Tracking Devices
We may use cookies to help personalise your use of our sites. A cookie is a small piece of information which is sent to your computer's hard drive by the web server so that the website can remember who you are. This information may include information relating to your use of our sites, information about your computer such as the computer's IP address and browser type, demographic data and, if you arrived at our site via a link from a third party site, the URL of the linking page. If you are a registered user or subscriber, this may include your name and email address for verification purposes.
We use information from cookies for purposes that may include:
- identifying returning users, registrants and subscribers and to allow subscribers to be presented with a personalised version of the site
- enabling you to move more easily around our sites
- tracking your use of our sites to better develop our sites in accordance with your requirements
- building up a demographic profile.
You can delete cookies from your hard drive at any time however this will mean that any settings such as your stored username and password will have to be reset. You can set your internet browser so that it will not allow cookies to be stored on your computer. This may reduce functionality of the site, prevent access to subscriber-only areas of the site and mean that certain features or content will not be available to you. Further information on how to prevent cookies from being stored on your computer can be found on http://www.allaboutcookies.org under the 'manage cookies' section. Alternatively, go to the help menu within your internet browser.
From time to time we may permit 3rd party companies to set cookies on our sites for purposes which may include market research, serving advertisements, revenue tracking or to improve functionality of the site.
Security Policy
FT has appropriate measures in place to ensure that our users' Data is protected against unauthorised access or use, alteration, unlawful or accidental destruction and accidental loss. User Data may be transferred outside the FT group to data processors such as fulfillment houses but they will act only on our instructions to provide the services required.
Transfer of Data
The Internet is a global environment. Using the Internet to collect and process personal data necessarily involves the transmission of data on an international basis. Therefore, by browsing our sites and communicating electronically with us you acknowledge and agree to our processing of your Data in this way. By agreeing to our transfer of your Data to third party organisations for them to send you details of products and services offered (as detailed above) you are deemed to provide your consent to any transfer of your Data to organisations based outside the European Economic Area.
User Access and Control of Data
If you wish to amend any of the Data that we hold about you, or update your marketing preferences, please contact us using the contact details below or see the 'Contact Us' section of the relevant website. Calls made to these numbers may be recorded for training and quality control purposes.
Investors Chronicle Subscribers:
If you are a subscriber to www.InvestorsChronicle.co.uk and you wish to amend any of the Data which we hold about you, or update your marketing preferences, please contact [email protected], go to edit profile or see the 'Contact Us' section of our website. Calls made to these numbers may be recorded for training and quality control purposes.
FT Adviser Subscribers:
If you are an FT Adviser subscriber and you wish to amend any of the Data that we hold about you, or update your marketing preferences, please go to the 'My Profile' page within 'My Adviser', or contact [email protected]
FT Mandate Subscribers:
If you are a subscriber to the FT Mandate database and wish to amend any of the Data that we hold about you, such as your user details or password, please contact [email protected]
In accordance with the Data Protection Act 1998, you may request a copy of the personal information we hold about you by contacting the Privacy Officer at [email protected] or writing to:
Company Secretary
Financial Times Ltd
Number One Southwark Bridge
London SE1 9HL
United Kingdom
We may charge the statutory allowable fee for provision of this information.
Children Under 14
We do not intentionally collect any information on children under 14 years of age. We will undertake to delete any details of such users where a parent or guardian has notified us that any such details have been obtained.
Changes to this Policy
This policy is effective February 2007. From time to time we may make changes to this privacy policy statement to reflect any changes to our privacy practices in accordance with changes to legislation, best practice or website enhancements.