Privacy policy

Ethical Capital Opportunity Advisors Ltd is incorporated in England and Wales and its registered office is Redwood House, 65 Bristol Road, Keynsham, BS31 2WB, England. Its company number is 11112420.

References to “ECO Advisors”, “we”, “us” and “our” are references to Ethical Capital Opportunity Advisors Ltd.

About this privacy notice

We are a data controller in respect of your personal data for the purposes of data protection law, such as the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation. We are responsible for ensuring that we use your personal data in compliance with data protection law.

This privacy notice applies to you if (i) you are a client or prospective client of ECO Advisors (including an investor or prospective investor in a vehicle or entity that we may manage or advise, a service provider to a vehicle or entity that we may manage or advise, (ii) your personal data has been provided to us in connection with any of the foregoing by another person (such as where you are a director, partner, trustee, employee, agent or direct or indirect owner of such person); or (iii) you otherwise enter into communications with us by email or other means.

This privacy notice sets out the basis on which personal data about you that you provide to us, that we create about you or that we obtain about you from other sources, will be processed by us. Please take the time to read and understand this privacy notice.

Personal data that we might use

We might process the following personal data about you:

  1. Information provided to ECO Advisors or to a vehicle or entity that we may manage or advise or its administrator by you or (if different) the applicant for interests in a vehicle or entity that we may manage or advise: This might include your name and address (including proofs of name and address), contact details, date of birth, gender, nationality, photograph, signature, copies of identity documents, occupational history, job title, income, assets, other financial information, bank details, investment history, tax residency and tax identification information. Such information might be provided in an application form or in other documents (as part of an application process or at other times), face-to-face, by telephone, by email or otherwise.
  2. Information that ECO Advisors collects or generates: This might include information relating to your (or an applicant’s) investment in a vehicle or entity that we may manage or advise, emails (and related data), call recordings and website usage data.
  3. Information that ECO Advisors obtains from other sources: This might include information obtained for the purpose of our know-your-client procedures (which include anti-money laundering procedures, counter-terrorist financing procedures, politically-exposed-person checks, sanctions checks, among other things), information from government or public bodies, public websites and other public sources and information received from the applicant’s advisers or from intermediaries.

Uses of your personal data

We collect your personal information to fulfil our contractual obligations, our statutory and regulatory obligations and/or the legitimate interests of ECO Advisors or any vehicle or entity that we may manage or advise and for other purposes for which ECO Advisors has a lawful basis under the privacy laws, including:

  1. Compliance with legal and regulatory obligations and industry standards, including know-your-client procedures, the automatic exchange of tax information and legal judgments.
  2. General business administration, including communicating with investors, communicating with service providers and counterparties, accountancy and audit services, risk monitoring, the administration of IT systems and monitoring and improving products.
  3. Assessing and processing applications for interests in a vehicle or entity that we may manage or advise and other dealings with ECO Advisors, including performing know-your-client procedures, issuing and redeeming interests, receiving payments from and making payments to the applicant, calculating net asset value, and overseeing these processes.
  4. Business activities, such as investor relations, discussions with our or a vehicle or entity that we may manage or advise nominated service providers and counterparties, decision-making in relation to a vehicle or entity that we may manage or advise, and business strategy, development and marketing.

We are entitled to process your personal data in these ways for the following reasons:

    1. You may enter into an investment contract with ECO Advisors or a vehicle or entity that we may manage or advise and some processing will be necessary for the performance of that contract, or will be done at your request prior to entering into that contract.
    2. Processing may be necessary to discharge a relevant legal or regulatory obligation.
    3. The processing is necessary for the legitimate business interests of ECO Advisors or a vehicle or entity that we may manage or advise or its administrator or another person, such as:
      1. carrying out the ordinary or reasonable business activities of ECO Advisors, a vehicle or entity that we may manage or advise or its administrator or other persons, or other activities previously disclosed to you or referred to in this privacy notice;
      2. ensuring compliance with all legal and regulatory obligations and industry standards, and preventing fraud;
      3. establishing, exercising or defending legal rights or for other purposes relating to legal proceedings; and
      4. ensuring the security of information systems.
    1. In respect of any processing of sensitive personal data falling within special categories, such as any personal data relating to the political opinions of a politically exposed person, the processing will be necessary for reasons of substantial public interest.

Disclosure of your personal data to third parties

We may from time to time, in accordance with the purposes described above, disclose your personal data to other parties, including (a) our affiliates (b) the administrator and its affiliates of a vehicle or entity that we may manage or advise (c) professional advisers such as law firms and accountancy firms, (d) other service providers of ECO Advisors or a vehicle or entity that we may manage or advise or its administrator, including technology service providers, (e) counterparties and (f) courts and regulatory, tax and governmental authorities. Some of these persons will process your personal data in accordance with our instructions and others will themselves be responsible for their use of your personal data. These persons may be permitted to further disclose the personal data to other parties.

Transfers of your personal data outside the European Economic Area

Your personal data may be transferred to and stored by persons outside the European Economic Area (the “EEA”), in particular it may be transferred to and stored by affiliates or service providers of the a vehicle or entity that we may manage or advise or their administrators outside the EEA.

Where personal data is transferred outside the EEA, we will ensure that the transfer is subject to appropriate safeguards or is otherwise permitted under applicable law. For example, the country to which the personal data is transferred may be approved by the European Commission, the recipient may have agreed to model contractual clauses approved by the European Commission that oblige them to protect the personal data, or the recipient may be located in the United States and be a certified member of the EU-US Privacy Shield scheme.

You can obtain more details of the protection given to your personal data when it is transferred outside the EEA, including a copy of any standard data protection clauses entered into with recipients of your personal data, by contacting us.

Necessity of personal data for us to provide services to you or an investment in an a vehicle or entity that we may manage or advise

The provision of certain personal data is necessary for us to provide services to you or for interests in a vehicle or entity that we may manage or advise to be issued to any applicant and for compliance by the ECO Advisors and the vehicle or entity that we may manage or advise and our and their respective service providers with certain legal and regulatory obligations. Accordingly, if certain personal data is not provided when requested, we may not be able to provide services to you and/or an application for interests might not be accepted or interests might be compulsorily redeemed.

Retention of personal data

How long we hold your personal data for will vary. The retention period will be determined by various criteria, including the purposes for which we are using it (as it will need to be kept for as long as is necessary for any of those purposes) and legal obligations (as laws or regulations may set a minimum period for which we have to keep your personal data).

Your rights

You have a number of legal rights in relation to the personal data that we hold about you. These rights include the following:

    1. The right to obtain information regarding the processing of your personal data and to access to the personal data that we hold about you.
    2. In some circumstances, the right to receive some personal data in a structured, commonly used and machine-readable format and the right to request that we transmit that data to a third party where this is technically feasible. Please note that this right only applies to personal data which you have provided to us.
    3. The right to request that we rectify your personal data if it is inaccurate or incomplete.
    4. The right to request that we erase your personal data in certain circumstances. Please note that there may be circumstances where you ask us to erase your personal data but we are legally entitled to retain it.
    5. The right to object to, and the right to request that we restrict, our processing of your personal data in certain circumstances. Again, there may be circumstances where you object to, or ask us to restrict, its processing of your personal data but we are legally entitled to continue processing your personal data or to refuse that request.
    6. The right to lodge a complaint with the data protection regulator (details of which are provided below) if you think that any of your rights have been infringed by us.

You can exercise your rights by contacting us using the details set out under “Contacting us” below. You can find out more information about your rights by contacting an EU data regulator such as the UK’s Information Commissioner’s Office, or by searching its website at ico.org.uk.

Contacting us

If you would like further information on the collection, use, disclosure, transfer or processing of your personal data or the exercise of any of the rights listed above, please address questions and requests to Christian Dass, email: c.dass@ecoadvisors.eu.

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Products and Services

The information contained herein is current at the date of publication, but is subject to change without notice. ECO Advisors has expressed its own views and opinions on this website, and these may change without notice. This website is not directed at you if ECO Advisors is prohibited by any law of any jurisdiction from making the information on this site available to you and is not intended for any use that would be contrary to local law or regulation. None of the information contained on this website is intended to constitute any offer to sell or an invitation or solicitation of an offer to buy any product or service by ECO Advisors and must not be relied upon in connection with any investment decision. Products or services mentioned on this site are subject to legal and regulatory requirements in applicable jurisdictions and may not be available in all jurisdictions. Accordingly persons are required to inform themselves of and observe any such restrictions. Nothing in this website should be construed as investment, tax, legal or other advice.  The information on this website is intended only for the use of eligible clients, and is not intended for retail investors.

Risk Warning

Past performance is not necessarily a guide to future performance. The value of investments and the income of any financial instruments mentioned in the website may fall as well as rise, and investors may get back less than the amount originally invested. Fluctuations in exchange rates may have a positive or an adverse effect on the value of foreign-currency denominated securities and financial instruments. Certain investments involve an above-average degree of risk and should be seen as long-term in nature. The investment products and services described in the website may have tax consequences. Any tax reliefs referred to are those currently available and their value depends on the circumstances of the individual investor. You acknowledge that levels and bases of taxation may change, and that ECO Advisors does not provides tax advice. You should consult your own tax advisor in order to understand the tax consequences of the products and services described in the website.

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