Privacy Policy

DMA Privacy Policy

WEBSITE PRIVACY STATEMENT AND SUMMARY

DMA Invest and DMA Global are committed to respecting and protecting your privacy. This privacy notice (together with any other documents referred to in it) sets out how we look after your personal data when you visit our website at www.developingmarkets.com, and tells you about your privacy rights and how certain laws may apply to you.

If you have any queries about this policy or how we use your personal information, please contact us at info@developingmarkets.com.

Your privacy is important to us. To protect your privacy and help you to make informed choices, we provide this notice explaining our information practices, how you can choose how we use your data, and your rights in relation to your data.

In brief, we will only use your information:

  • to contact you about up-coming events;
  • to send you our newsletter if you have previously signed up to it;
  • to optimise our website performance; or
  • where you have consented to us doing so.

This is explained in more detail below.

CONTENTS

1. About Us
2. This Privacy Notice
3. What Personal Data Do We Collect Via the Site?
4. How we Collect Personal Data
5. How and Why We Use Personal Data
6. How We Share Personal Data
7. International Transfers
8. Data Security and Storage
9. How Long We Keep Personal Data
10. Third Party Links
11. Your Rights
12. Changes to This Policy or Your Data

ABOUT US

This website www.developingmarkets.com (our "site") is operated by DMA Invest and DMA Global ("DMA Invest and DMA Global", also referred to in this notice as "DMA", “the company”, "we", "us" and "our").

DMA Invest Ltd is a limited company registered in England and Wales, Company No. 9418641.  Registered office: Suite 3, First Floor Stanmore House, 15-19 Church Road, Stanmore, Middlesex, HA7 4AR.

DMA Global Ltd is a limited company registered in England and Wales, Company No. 9418861.  Registered office: Suite 3, First Floor Stanmore House, 15-19 Church Road, Stanmore, Middlesex, HA7 4AR.

The offices of DMA Invest and DMA Global are set out below:

London Office Address
Kemp House,
152-160 City Road,
London
EC1V 2NX

Sydney Office Address
Suite 215, Excen Corporate Centre
133 Alexander Street, Crows Nest
Sydney
NSW 2065

Registered Address
Suite 3, First Floor Stanmore House,
15-19 Church Road,
Stanmore,
Middlesex
HA7 4AR

You can contact us about any queries you have regarding this privacy notice at either our postal addresses above or at info@developingmarkets.com.

THIS PRIVACY NOTICE

This privacy notice describes how we collect and use information collected through your use of this site. Please read this privacy notice carefully.

This site is not intended to collect data of children under the age of 18.

WHAT PERSONAL DATA DO WE COLLECT VIA THE SITE?

We collect different information depending on how you use the site and how you interact with us. 'Personal data' means any data which can be associated with you as an individual, either directly or indirectly.

The personal data we collect via the site may include:

  • Identity information, such as your name, organisation name and position.
  • Contact data, such as your address and email and telephone details.
  • Marketing and communications data, including your preferences in receiving marketing and other communications from us.
  • Technical data, such as your internet protocol (IP) address, browser type and version, time zone setting and location, browser plug-in types and versions, operating system and platform and other technology on the devices you use to access the site.
  • Usage data, which includes information about how you use the site, and any communications we may receive from you.

Our site is not intended for storing or transmitting 'special categories' of personal data, such as details about your race or ethnicity, religious or philosophical beliefs, sex life, sexual orientation, political opinions, trade union membership, health information, or criminal convictions and offences.

HOW WE COLLECT PERSONAL DATA

Different personal data is collected in different ways.

a) Personal data you provide to us
When you sign up to one of our events or to one of our mailing lists, you will provide us with your identity and contact information and your marketing and communications preferences. You will also provide us with personal data when you correspond with us, and if you apply for a position with us.

b) Personal data we collect automatically
As you use the site, we will collect certain technical data including your browser type, the Internet Protocol (IP) address used to connect your computer to the internet, and your usage habits, patterns and preferences. We collect this data using cookies, beacons and similar technologies. We use Google Analytics to help us analyse user habits while visiting our site. The data gathered from cookies may be transmitted to Google servers in the United States. We employ IP address anonymisation to ensure that there is no direct reporting of individual user IPs as part of this process. The information will be used by Google only for the purpose of evaluating website use, creating website activity reports, and other services relating to website activity and internet usage on behalf of DMA. The IP address that your browser conveys within the scope of Google Analytics, will not be associated with any other data held by Google.

We use the following cookies:

Cookie Name

Google Analytics

What it is used for?

Website analytics and visitor tracking

You can remove cookies from your computer through the settings on your browser but be aware that this may impact your ability to make use of some features on this and other web sites. Management of cookie settings varies from one browser to another. The "Help" menu of your web browser will provide full instructions. For your convenience, you can follow these links for details on how to manage cookies in each of the major web browsers:

For more information about our cookie policy please see our cookies page (www.developingmarkets.com/cookies)

HOW AND WHY WE USE PERSONAL DATA

We will only use your information where:

a) You have given us permission to do so
If you sign up to one of our events or to one of our mailing lists, we will send you updates and marketing information that you have consented to receive. Likewise, we may need your contact, identity, technical and/or usage information to respond to a question you have asked us, or to register you for an event that you have requested to attend.

If you apply for a position with the company, we treat any information you send to us as strictly private and confidential and will only use it in relation to application you have submitted.

b) We have a legitimate interest (reasonable business purpose) for doing so
We will use your information for our legitimate business reasons where our doing so will not unduly affect your rights.

We will use your identity, contact and usage information to keep our records up to date.

We will use your technical information to:

  • provide and make improvements to the site, system maintenance, support, reporting and hosting of data, and troubleshooting;
  • ensure that the site is secure;
  • analyse how users interact with the site; and
  • address any issues you may experience with the site.

We may also use any or all of the information above to administer and manage our business in general. If you feel that your interests and fundamental rights outweigh our business purposes, and that we should therefore stop processing your data, please let us know.

c) We need to comply with a legal or regulatory obligation
In certain circumstances, we may need to retain or use your data to comply with regulations and/or the law.

HOW WE SHARE PERSONAL DATA

Personal information collected via this site is shared between DMA Invest and DMA Global. However, this data will remain on our GDPR compliant servers when shared between the two companies.

We may share your information with our trusted third party service providers (including information technology providers such as website and mailing list hosts). When we share your information with our service providers, we will ensure that your data is kept secure and used only in accordance with this notice. Third party services that we use are; Eventbrite, MailChimp.

On rare occasions, we may share personal data when we believe it is necessary to comply with the law, regulation or legal request (including a court order or government inquiry); to enforce or apply our terms of use or other agreements; in the context of a company reorganisation or restructuring exercise; or to protect the rights, property, or safety of the company, our employees, our users, or others.

INTERNATIONAL TRANSFERS

This site is hosted on servers located in the USA. This web service provider is fully complaint with GDPR regulations.

DMA Invest and DMA Global operate in a number of local markets that fall outside of the EU. Specifically, the company operates an office in Australia that information may be shared with. DMA Invest and DMA Global will ensure that this data is transferred, stored and accessed securely on our servers.

DATA SECURITY AND STORAGE

The safety of your personal data is important to us, and we use various technical and organisation measures to ensure that your data is secure.

DMA employs encryption, data security, and intrusion prevention technologies to protect and secure all personal information in our possession. Our data environment is monitored 24/7 for malicious activity and/or anomalous behaviour either of which triggers our incidence response. However, the transmission of information via the Internet is not completely secure. Although we take appropriate measures to safeguard against unauthorised disclosures of information, we cannot guarantee the security of your data.

Unfortunately, the transmission of information via the Internet is not completely secure. Although we will do our best to protect your personal data, we cannot guarantee the security of your data transmitted to our Website; any transmission is at your own risk. Once we have received your information, we will use strict procedures and security features to try to prevent unauthorised access.

HOW LONG WE KEEP YOUR PERSONAL DATA

We will only retain your personal data for as long as necessary to fulfil the purposes we collected it for, including for the purposes of satisfying any legal, accounting, or reporting requirements.

To determine the appropriate retention period for personal data, we consider the amount, nature, and sensitivity of the personal data, the potential risk of harm from unauthorised use or disclosure of your personal data, the purposes for which we process your personal data and whether we can achieve those purposes through other means, and the applicable legal requirements.

THIRD PARTY LINKS

This site may contain links to other sites whose information practices may be different than ours. Please consult all third party sites' privacy notices as we have no control over information that is submitted to, or collected by, third parties.

YOUR RIGHTS

You have certain rights over your personal data. If the GDPR applies, you may:

  • require us to rectify the personal data we hold about you, where that data is incorrect;
  • require that we restrict the processing of your personal information in certain circumstances;
  • request access to the personal data that we hold about you;
  • require that, in certain circumstances, we delete the personal information we hold about you;
  • require that we provide you with the information that we hold about you in a structured, commonly used and machine-readable format; and/or
  • withdraw your consent to our using your data for marketing purposes at any time.

You also have the right to lodge a complaint with the Information Commissioner’s Office (“ICO”), which is the UK supervisory authority for data protection issues (www.ico.org.uk). We would, however, be grateful if you would contact us in the first instance so we can endeavour to deal with your concerns directly.

If you wish to exercise any of these rights, please contact us at info@developingmarkets.com.

To protect your privacy and security, we will take reasonable steps to help verify your identity before granting access or making corrections.

CHANGES TO THIS POLICY OR YOUR DATA

We may amend or modify this privacy notice from time to time. We will post any revised notice on this site. It is important that the personal data we hold about you is accurate and current. Please keep us informed if your personal data changes during your relationship with us.

This privacy statement was last updated on 22nd May 2018.