Fidus Technologies Limited, a company registered in the Republic of Ireland at 3 Cavendish Row, Dublin 1, The Republic of Ireland D01 A2T5. (“Arubex”) is the Controller of Data and in compliance with the terms of the Data Protection Act (1998) and Regulation (EU) 2016/679.
Arubex is committed to protecting and respecting your privacy and managing your personal data transparently and in a fair and lawful manner. This policy (together with our terms of use and any other documents referred to herein) sets out the basis on which any personal data we collect from you, or that you provide to us, will be processed by us. Please read the following carefully to understand our practices in processing your data, as well as your rights regarding your personal data and how we will treat it.
Should you have any queries, concerns, requests or complaints in relation to the manner in which we process your personal data, you may contact our Data Protection Officer by email on support@arubex.com. You also have the right to lodge a complaint before the Information Commissioner Office (ico.org.uk) with regard to matters concerning your personal data.
By visiting arubex.com (“Website”) and submitting data to us, you are accepting and consenting to use of your personal data as described in this policy. If you do not agree with the terms of this Privacy Policy please do not use the Website or otherwise provide us with your personal data.
We may change our privacy policy from time to time. Any changes we may make to our Privacy Policy in the future will be posted on this page and any such changes will become effective upon posting of the revised Privacy Policy. Please check back frequently to see any updates or changes to our privacy policy. If we make any material or substantial changes to this Privacy Policy we will use reasonable endeavours to inform you by email. Please ensure that you have supplied us with an updated e-mail at all times for this purpose.
We may collect and process personal data provided directly by you; we also process, insofar as necessary, personal data provided to us by third parties, including publicly accessible data, personal data legitimately provided by other group companies and personal data provided by other trusted third parties. You are responsible to provide us with personal data that is correct and inform us of any changes occurring in your data in writing, in order that we may take all reasonable measures to keep our records in your regard correct and up to date.
You shall have the right to object to any of the above-mentioned legitimate company interests as a basis for the processing of personal data by contacting our Data Protection Officer by email on admin@arubex.com. If you submit an objection, we will no longer process your personal data unless we can give evidence of mandatory, legitimate reasons for processing, which outweigh your interests, rights, and freedoms, or processing serves the enforcement, exercise, or defence of interests.
In the event that you have provided us with specific consent:
If you do not want us to use your data in this way, or to pass your details on to specific third parties for marketing purposes, you have to the right to withdraw your consent at any time by emailing admin@arubex.com and we will update our records. Withdrawal of consent does not affect the legality of data processed prior to withdrawal.
As part of our onboarding and know your client and due diligence processes, Arubex may share on a secure basis, or require that your supply directly your required personal data to trusted third parties to be verified for identification and compliance or risk purposes; this personal data shall include sensitive personal data such as a picture of yourself and government issued ID. In order to provide ongoing services, your personal data may also be provided to trusted third-party processors for customer care and client communication services, credit reference, fraud prevention, business scoring, credit scoring, placing of monetary deposits, transfer of payments, debt collection and recovery. Such processing shall be conducted in compliance with all legal requirements as well as our Privacy Policy and strict retention policies and codes of conduct. We will ensure that all companies to which we disclose your Personal Data will only process it in accordance with our instructions and on our behalf, and that they shall only use such data to the extent to which we ourselves are entitled.
We may disclose your personal data to third parties for the purpose of fulfilling legitimate company interests:
The trusted third parties we work with may be outside of the European Economic Area: your personal data will only be transferred to third countries or territories providing sufficient and appropriate safeguards to your personal data in compliance with all legal requirements as well as our Privacy Policy and strict codes of conduct.
We will ensure that all companies to which we disclose your Personal Data will only process it in accordance with our instructions and on our behalf, and may only use such data to the extent to which we ourselves are entitled. All such companies and third parties will further be required by us to meet the requirements of data protection legislation and Arubex’s strict privacy and retention policies to keep your data secure at all times.
We may, if necessary or authorised by law, provide customer data to law enforcement agencies, regulatory organisations, courts or other public authorities. We attempt to notify our customers about legal demands for their Personal Data unless prohibited by law or court order or when the request is an emergency. We may dispute such demands when we believe that the requests are disproportionate, vague or lack proper authority, but we do not promise to challenge every demand.
Your personal data shall not be processed for purposes other than those it was collected for; should further processing be required, you will be informed of that purpose and provided with all necessary information.
In the event that you have provided us with consent, we may share your personal data with any member of our group of companies, which means our subsidiaries, our ultimate holding company.
In the event you have provided us with consent, we may share your personal data with selected third parties including:
You shall have the right to object to any of the above-mentioned legitimate company interests as a basis for the processing of personal data and to forward any queries you may have by contacting our Data Protection Officer by email on admin@arubex.com If you submit an objection, we will no longer process your personal data unless we can give evidence of mandatory, legitimate reasons for processing, which outweigh your interests, rights, and freedoms, or processing serves the enforcement, exercise, or defence of interests.
The data that we collect from you may be transferred to, and stored at, a destination outside the European Economic Area ("EEA"). It may also be processed by staff operating outside the EEA who work for us or for one of our suppliers. Such staff maybe engaged in, among other things, the fulfilment of your order, the processing of your payment details and the provision of support services. By submitting your personal data, you agree to this transfer, storing or processing. We take all steps reasonably necessary to ensure that your data is treated securely using sufficient and appropriate safeguards and in compliance with all legal requirements as well as this Privacy Policy and our strict codes of conduct.
All personal data you provide to us is stored on our secure servers. Any payment transactions will be encrypted using SSL technology. Where we have given you (or where you have chosen) a password which enables you to access certain parts of our site, you are responsible for keeping this password confidential. We ask you not to share a password with anyone.
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 site; any transmission is at your own risk. Once we have received your data, we will use strict procedures and security features to try to prevent unauthorised access.
In line with applicable law, we shall, where lawfully obliged, notify the competent authorities and/or you in cases of personal data breach and will keep a log of any such breaches.
We will process and store your personal data for as long as it is necessary in order to fulfil our contractual, regulatory and statutory obligations. We will assess and respond to requests to delete data. We will delete data provided that the data is no longer required in order to fulfil contractual, regulatory or statutory obligations, or the fulfilment of any obligations to preserve records according to law.
We will normally retain your records for a minimum of five years to comply with legal, regulatory and contractual requirements unless there is a particular reason to hold the records for longer; your personal data may be retained for longer periods in the event of prospective or pending debt collecting, legal or law-enforcement proceedings and until such proceedings are formally and definitively concluded.
In relation to your personal data, you have the right to:
You shall also have the right to ask us not to process your personal data for marketing purposes. We will seek your explicit consent (before collecting your data) if we intend to use your data for such purposes or if we intend to disclose your information to any third party for such purposes. You can also withdraw your consent by contacting us on admin@arubex.com and requesting to withdraw your consent.
Our site may, from time to time, contain links to and from the websites of our partner networks, advertisers and affiliates. If you follow a link to any of these websites, please note that these websites have their own privacy policies and that we do not accept any responsibility or liability for these policies. Please check these policies before you submit any personal data to these websites.
You have the right to request, free of charge, access to and a copy of your personal data as processed by us.
In establishing and carrying out our business relationship, we generally do not make use of fully automated decision making. If we use this procedure in individual cases, we shall inform you of this separately, provided it is a legal requirement.
Questions, comments and requests regarding this privacy policy are welcomed and should be addressed to our Data Protection Officer on admin@arubex.com.