Privacy Policy

AC Shining Stars Management Ltd is responsible for ensuring that it uses your personal data in compliance with data protection law. The purpose of this notice (the “Privacy Notice”) is to explain what personal data AC Shining Stars Management Ltd collects and how AC Shining Stars Management Ltd uses it. For the purposes of data protection law, AC Shining Stars Management Ltd is a data controller in respect of your personal data. “Personal data” is any data that can be used to identify you or that AC Shining Stars Management Ltd can link to you and which AC Shining Stars Management Ltd has in its possession or control.

In this Privacy Notice when we refer to “AC Shining Stars Management Ltd” or

“ACS” or “we”/“us”/“our” we mean AC Shining Stars Management Ltd and our Associates. You can find contact details for our Associates, and the details of the data controllers within AC Shining Stars Management Ltd, by contacting us on [email protected].

Personal data that AC Shining Stars Management Ltd collects

AC Shining Stars Management Ltd will collect and process the following personal data:

Information that you or someone acting on your behalf provides to AC Shining Stars Management Ltd or its Associates. This includes information about you that you give AC Shining Stars Management Ltd by filling in forms, signing up for services on our website or by communicating with AC Shining Stars Management Ltd, whether face-to-face, by phone, e-mail or otherwise. If you are a client or are connected with one of our client’s matters, this may include personal data about you or others that is provided to AC Shining Stars Management Ltd in connection with the provision of services to that client.

Information AC Shining Stars Management Ltd collects or generates about you. We will also collect information about you when you use our services or when we otherwise interact or correspond with you. We use various technologies to collect and store information when you visit our websites. We may, for example, collect information about the type of device you use to access the websites, your IP address and your geographic location, the operating system and version, your browser type, the content you view and features you access on our websites, the web pages and the search terms you enter on our websites. For information about how we use Cookies and the choices you may have, you can request a copy of our Cookies Policy by emailing [email protected].

If you are a client, or are connected with one of our client’s matters, this information may include:

information about you, your transactions, financial information and relationship to others;
data that AC Shining Stars Management Ltd collects about your use of AC Shining Stars Management Ltd’s IT systems;
reports and information for tax reporting (e.g. FATCA) or compliance with legal or regulatory obligations (e.g. insider lists, regulator information requests);
(where required by legal or regulatory obligations or otherwise where we have a specific legal basis) recordings of telephone calls between you and AC Shining Stars Management Ltd.

Information AC Shining Stars Management Ltd obtains from other sources. If we collect or receive your personal data in the context of our provision of services, we might receive information from third parties such as your employer, other parties relevant to the services we are providing (e.g. counterparties in transactions) and others such as regulators and authorities. That information could include your name, contact details, employment details and other information relevant to the services that we are providing to our client.

Uses of your personal data

Personal data may be stored and processed by AC Shining Stars Management Ltd in the following ways and for the following purposes:

to provide AC Shining Stars Management Ltd’s products and services, including processing instructions and providing confirmations, advice and statements to our clients;
verify your identity (including for fraud prevention purposes), assess your ability to meet your financial commitments (if any) and manage AC Shining Stars Management Ltd’s relationship with you and/or the client to whom you are connected;
to contact you in connection with your work with AC Shining Stars Management Ltd and the products and services that AC Shining Stars Management Ltd provides to you or a client to whom you are connected;
to perform the contract with you or a client/supplier to whom you are connected (including performing AC Shining Stars Management Ltd’s obligations and exercising AC Shining Stars Management Ltd’s rights);
to engage in marketing and business development activity and to advise you or a client to whom you are connected of other products and services similar to those which you or a client to whom you are connected receive from AC Shining Stars Management Ltd and/or its Associates;
to engage in Community Investment projects where you choose to participate;
to notify you about changes to AC Shining Stars Management Ltd’s service;
to carry out financial risk assessments, risk mitigation activities and for risk reporting and risk management;
to comply with AC Shining Stars Management Ltd’s legal and regulatory obligations. This includes reporting to the relevant authorities, complying with anti-money laundering obligations and tax reporting obligations;
to use it to prevent and respond to actual and potential fraud or illegal activities; or
to use it to look into any complaints or queries you or a client/supplier to whom you are connected may have.

AC Shining Stars Management Ltd is entitled to use personal data in these ways because:

Consent - we may (but usually do not) need your consent to use your personal data. You can withdraw your consent by contacting us (see below).
Performance of a contract - we may need to collect and use your personal data to enter into a contract with you or to perform our obligations under a contract with you or a client to whom you are connected.
Legitimate interest - we may use your personal data for our legitimate interests, some examples of which are given above.
Compliance with law or regulation - we may use your personal data as necessary to comply with applicable law/regulation.

Disclosure of personal data to third parties

AC Shining Stars Management Ltd may disclose personal data to its Associates in the circumstances described below:

to provide the services or perform its obligations in connection with your contract or the contract of a client/supplier with whom you are connected;
for the management and administration of the AC Shining Stars Management Ltd business;
for the management and administration of internal policies and procedures within AC Shining Stars Management Ltd.

Where personal data is disclosed to its Associates, AC Shining Stars Management Ltd will take steps to ensure that the personal data is accessed only by those persons who need to do so for the purposes described in this Privacy Notice.

AC Shining Stars Management Ltd may also disclose personal data outside of AC Shining Stars Management Ltd and its Associates, as follows:

to third party agents, service providers or contractors, bound by obligations of confidentiality, who will only use personal data on AC Shining Stars Management Ltd’s behalf for the purposes described in this Privacy Notice;
to third parties relevant to the services outlined in the contract with you or the contract of a client/supplier with whom you are connected. This may include for example counterparties to transactions, professional advisers, stock exchanges or regulators;
to the prospective counterparty, for due diligence purposes, if AC Shining Stars Management Ltd and/ or AC Shining Stars Management Ltd’s Associates restructure or sell any of its or their business or assets (for the avoidance of doubt, your personal data would only be transferred in such circumstances to the extent that such a transfer was required for the purposes of due diligence and was subject to appropriate security protections e.g. anonymisation and/or confidentiality restrictions);
to the extent required by law, regulation or court order for example if AC Shining Stars Management Ltd is under a duty to disclose personal data in order to comply with any legal or regulatory obligation; and

in order to establish, exercise or defend AC Shining Stars Management Ltd’s legal rights, for example if AC Shining Stars Management Ltd needs to obtain external legal advice or provide personal data in connection with judicial proceedings.

Transfers of personal data outside the European Economic Area

Personal data may be transferred to, and stored at, a destination outside the UK or the European Economic Area (“EEA”). It may also be stored and processed by staff operating outside of the UK or the EEA, who work for AC Shining Stars Management Ltd’s Associates or AC Shining Stars Management Ltd’s third party agents, service providers or contractors.

Where AC Shining Stars Management Ltd transfers personal data outside the UK or the EEA, AC Shining Stars Management Ltd will ensure that it is protected in a manner that is consistent with how personal data will be protected by AC Shining Stars Management Ltd in the UK and the EEA. This may be achieved in one of the following ways:

the country that AC Shining Stars Management Ltd sends the data to might be approved by the European Commission or by a relevant data protection authority; or
the recipient might have signed a contract based on “model contractual clauses” approved by the European Commission or by a relevant data protection authority, obliging them to protect the personal data that they receive.

In other circumstances the law may permit AC Shining Stars Management Ltd to otherwise transfer personal data outside the UK or the EEA. In all cases, however, AC Shining Stars Management Ltd will ensure that any transfer of personal data is compliant with applicable data protection law.

You can obtain further details of the protection given to your personal data when it is transferred outside the UK or the EEA by contacting AC Shining Stars Management Ltd in accordance with the “Contacting AC Shining Stars Management Ltd” section below.

Retention of personal data

How long AC Shining Stars Management Ltd holds personal data for will vary. The retention period will be determined by various criteria including:

the purpose for which AC Shining Stars Management Ltd is using it - AC Shining Stars Management Ltd will need to keep the data for as long as is necessary for that purpose; and
legal obligations - laws or regulation may set a minimum period for which AC Shining Stars Management Ltd has to retain personal data.

Rights in relation to personal data

You have a number of legal rights in relation to the personal data that AC Shining Stars Management Ltd holds about you. These rights include:

the right to obtain information regarding the processing of your personal data and access to the personal data which AC Shining Stars Management Ltd holds about you;
the right to request that AC Shining Stars Management Ltd rectify your personal data if it is inaccurate or incomplete;
the right to request that AC Shining Stars Management Ltd erase your personal data in certain circumstances. Please note that there may be circumstances where you ask AC Shining Stars Management Ltd to erase your personal data but AC Shining Stars Management Ltd is legally entitled to retain it;
the right to object to, and the right to request that AC Shining Stars Management Ltd restrict, its processing of your personal data in certain circumstances. Again, there may be circumstances where you object to, or ask AC Shining Stars Management Ltd to restrict, its processing of your personal data but AC Shining Stars Management Ltd is legally entitled to continue processing your personal data and / or to refuse that request;
in some circumstances, the right to receive some personal data in a structured, commonly used and machine-readable format and/or request that AC Shining Stars Management Ltd transmit such 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 AC Shining Stars Management Ltd;
the right to withdraw your consent, although in certain circumstance it may be lawful for AC Shining Stars Management Ltd to continue processing your data where AC Shining Stars Management Ltd has another legitimate reason (other than consent) for doing so. AC Shining Stars Management Ltd is not relying on your consent in order to process your personal data for the purposes and in the manner set out in this Privacy Notice; and
the right to lodge a complaint with the relevant data protection authority if you think that any of your rights have been infringed by AC Shining Stars Management Ltd.

You can exercise your rights by contacting AC Shining Stars Management Ltd using the details set out in the "Contacting AC Shining Stars Management Ltd" section below.

You can find out more information about your rights by contacting the relevant data protection authority. We can, on request, tell you which data protection authority is relevant to the processing of your personal data.

Contacting AC Shining Stars Management Ltd

If you would like further information about AC Shining Stars Management Ltd’s processing of your personal data or the exercise of any of the rights referred to above, please address questions, comments and requests to [email protected].