Privacy Policy for Reef Gains
Reef Gains is committed to protecting the privacy and security of your personal data. This Privacy Policy outlines how we collect, use, disclose, and protect your information when you interact with our online platform, promoting sustainable investment opportunities in marine life and conservation projects.
1. Information We Collect
We collect various types of information to provide and improve our services, facilitate sustainable blue economy investments, and support marine conservation.
- Personal Identification Information: This includes your name, email address, phone number, and postal address. We collect this when you register an account, subscribe to newsletters, or engage in investment inquiries.
- Financial Information: For investment services, we may collect financial details such as bank account information, investment preferences, and financial interests. This is crucial for facilitating ethical investment opportunities.
- Technical Data: This includes IP addresses, browser type, operating system, and technical specifications of your device. We use this to ensure the security and functionality of our online platform.
- Usage Data: Information about how you use our site, such as pages visited, time spent on pages, and links clicked. This helps us understand user engagement and improve our services related to marine conservation and impact investment advisory.
- Communication Data: Records of your communications with us, including emails and inquiries through our contact forms, relating to aquatic biodiversity protection initiatives.
2. How We Use Your Information
We use the collected information for various purposes under lawful grounds, primarily to deliver our ethical marine investment and conservation finance services:
- To Provide and Maintain Our Services: This includes managing your account, processing investment applications, and facilitating responsible aquaculture financing.
- For Communication: To respond to your inquiries, send you relevant updates, newsletters about marine conservation projects, and other administrative information.
- For Personalization: To tailor our content and investment opportunities to your interests, particularly in sustainable blue economy investments.
- For Analytics and Improvement: To understand how users interact with our site, diagnose technical issues, and improve the functionality and content related to impact investment advisory.
- For Legal Compliance and Security: To comply with legal obligations, enforce our terms and conditions, and protect our online platform from fraud or other harmful activities.
3. Legal Basis for Processing Personal Data (GDPR)
We process your personal data based on the following legal grounds:
- Consent: Where you have given clear consent for us to process your personal data for a specific purpose, such as subscribing to our newsletter.
- Contractual Necessity: Where processing is necessary for the performance of a contract with you, or to take steps at your request before entering into such a contract, for example, an investment agreement.
- Legal Obligation: Where processing is necessary for compliance with a legal obligation to which we are subject, such as financial regulations.
- Legitimate Interests: Where processing is necessary for the purposes of the legitimate interests pursued by us or by a third party, except where such interests are overridden by your interests or fundamental rights and freedoms. This includes improving our services and ensuring the security of our platform.
4. Data Sharing and Disclosure
We do not sell your personal data. We may share your information with trusted third parties only when necessary and under strict confidentiality agreements for the purposes outlined below:
- Service Providers: Third-party vendors who assist us in operating our online platform, providing customer service, conducting analytics, or facilitating payment processing for investment activities.
- Legal Requirements: When required by law or in response to valid requests by public authorities (e.g., a court order or government agency).
- Business Transfers: In connection with any merger, sale of company assets, or acquisition of all or a portion of our business.
- Project Partners: With marine conservation projects and other initiatives we fund or partner with, strictly for the purpose of facilitating your investment or involvement.
5. Data Security
We implement robust technical and organizational security measures to protect your personal data from unauthorized access, disclosure, alteration, and destruction. These measures include encryption, access controls, and regular security audits to safeguard your information within the context of our ethical investment and conservation work.
6. International Data Transfers
As a United Kingdom-based company, your data will primarily be processed within the UK and European Economic Area (EEA). If we transfer your personal data outside the UK/EEA, we ensure that appropriate safeguards are in place, such as standard contractual clauses or reliance on adequacy decisions, to guarantee a similar level of protection.
7. Your Data Protection Rights (GDPR)
Under GDPR, you have the following rights regarding your personal data:
- The Right to Access: You can request a copy of the personal data we hold about you.
- The Right to Rectification: You can request that we correct any inaccurate or incomplete personal data.
- The Right to Erasure ( "Right to be Forgotten"): You can request the deletion of your personal data under certain conditions.
- The Right to Restrict Processing: You can request that we restrict the processing of your personal data under certain conditions.
- The Right to Object to Processing: You have the right to object to our processing of your personal data under certain conditions.
- The Right to Data Portability: You can request that we transfer the data that we have collected to another organization, or directly to you, under certain conditions.
- The Right to Withdraw Consent: Where our processing is based on your consent, you have the right to withdraw that consent at any time.
To exercise any of these rights, please contact us using the details provided below. We will respond to your request within one month.
8. Data Retention
We retain your personal data only for as long as necessary to fulfil the purposes for which it was collected, including for the purposes of satisfying any legal, accounting, or reporting requirements related to our ethical marine investment and conservation activities.
9. Cookies and Tracking Technologies
Our online platform uses cookies and similar tracking technologies to enhance your experience, analyze site usage, and support our marketing efforts related to sustainable investment opportunities. You can control the use of cookies at the individual browser level.
10. Links to Other Websites
Our site may contain links to other websites that are not operated by Reef Gains. If you click on a third-party link, you will be directed to that third party's site. We strongly advise you to review the Privacy Policy of every site you visit, especially those related to marine conservation project funding or responsible aquaculture financing. We have no control over and assume no responsibility for the content, privacy policies, or practices of any third-party sites or services.
11. Children's Privacy
Our services are not intended for individuals under the age of 18. We do not knowingly collect personally identifiable information from anyone under 18. If you are a parent or guardian and you are aware that your child has provided us with personal data, please contact us. If we become aware that we have collected personal data from children without verification of parental consent, we take steps to remove that information from our servers.
12. Changes to This Privacy Policy
We may update our Privacy Policy from time to time. We will notify you of any changes by posting the new Privacy Policy on this page and updating the "last updated" date. We encourage you to review this Privacy Policy periodically for any changes.
13. Contact Us
If you have any questions or concerns about this Privacy Policy or our data practices, please contact us at:
Reef Gains
14 Ocean View Terrace, Floor 3
Plymouth, Devon, PL1 3AG
United Kingdom
You also have the right to lodge a complaint with the UK's supervisory authority for data protection, the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO), if you believe your rights have been violated.