Privacy Policy

Introduction

This policy sets out how azakaw gather and use personal data and seeks to explain the rights you have with respect to the personal data that it holds.

“azakaw,” “our”, “we” or “us” refers to group entities, subsidiaries and associated entities of azakaw either individually or collectively. Your personal data is solely or jointly controlled by either one or more of these entities.

We process personal data for numerous reasons. This data may be collected directly from you (as example, if you contract us seeking to engage us for services for yourself as an individual, if you provide contact details to receive communications from us or seek employment).

Personal data may be collected if you contact us seeking services for your employer or other entity, for example, seeking assistance with obtaining a license from a financial services regulator or providing other advisory services. We may also obtain and hold publicly available personal details using medium such as the internet. This policy is designed to cover all such eventualities.

Complaints

Should you have concerns regarding breach of privacy laws or regulation or specifically on issues such as the manner in which personal data is gained, held or used by us, please contact our data protection officer at dataprotection@azakaw.com . Our data protection officer will investigate your concern and inform you of action to be taken in addressing it.

You are entitled to complain to the data protection authority in your own country, or to refer to a competent authority in a relevant jurisdiction where we operate.

Concerned Information

This policy covers personal data about individuals who can be identified, by reference to specific identifying fact(s) such as name, contact number, or location of data. Personal data includes factors which may be physical, genetic, mental, economic, cultural or social. Personal data also includes categories of data from which we may infer or even determine:

Political / religious / philosophical beliefs and views
Membership of associations
Genetic / biometric data
Ethnic or racial origins
Health both physical and or mental
Sexual orientation or practices
As well as personal data relating to criminal convictions and offenses

We do not collect personal data when you visit our site.

Information that you provide voluntarily

We do not collect personal data unless you provide this voluntarily for example when contacting us, subscribing to a newsletter or survey or such action. We may collect information including:

Name and job title, with function/role
Company data for employer or relevant organisation
Contact details including email and physical address and phone number
Information relevant to provision of services to you
Any other information you choose to provide to us

Gathering unnecessary sensitive and or personal data is not by intention. Should you choose to provide such sensitive or personal information we reasonably assume that you consent to its collection and processing by us.

Information that we collect automatically

When visiting our site, we may collect certain data automatically, specifically this may include information such as your IP address, device type and unique identification number, geographic location (such as country or city-level location) and or other technical details.

We may collect details regarding how your device interacted with our site, including the pages and links accessed during visits. Collection can enable us to better understand our visitors and their requirements.

Information may be used for analytical purposes and with the intention of better meeting our visitors experience. To this end cookies and similar tracking devices may be used.

Reasons we process the personal data of visitors to our site:

To authenticate visitors’ identities and prevent unauthorized access to specific areas of our site.
To personalize and improve your visit by displaying more relevant and interesting content
To understand which company, organization, etc. you may be associated with
To provide you with better marketing communications and materials
To monitor and enforce compliance with applicable terms of use
To conduct quality and risk management reviews and better develop our business
Any other purpose for which you provided information to azakaw

Legal grounds for processing personal data of visitors of our site are:

Ensuring effective delivery of information/services to you through a lawfully operated business
Developing our site and improving the visitor experience while gaining explicit visitor consent.

Client data

We collect personal data from you and your customers when you engage us to provide professional service.

When proving services, we may process personal data of individuals who are not direct clients (e.g. proposed Directors of a company yet to be incorporated).

The majority of personal data we collect and use to provide our services is supplied voluntarily by our clients or their customers. Accordingly, if you are a client of azakaw it will usually be evident what personal data we collect and use. Such information may include:

Your name, associated entity, nature of engagement or association with entity
Contact details including physical and email addresses and phone number
Other personal data you provide to us to facilitate provision of professional services

Information is used to:

To administer our relationship and maintain contractual relations
For marketing, business development, historical and statistical purposes
To provide services to you and your customers and comply with our legal and regulatory obligations
To establish, exercise and or defend our legal rights.

Transfer of personal data

We operate in different countries and provide service from different locations where your personal data will be stored after transfer.

Appropriate security and legal precautions are taken to protect both the safety and integrity of personal data held within the organization. Your personal data may also be processed by our service providers (including lawyers and auditors) in support or our internal ancillary processes.

Other disclosures

We may disclose your personal data:

For lawful and contractual purposes
If required to do so by applicable law, court order, regulatory or government authority
In connection with a reorganization or extension of our organization
to help enforce/apply terms of engagement/agreement or protect/defend ourselves, or
With your consent

Please not that typically we have a legal obligation to report suspicious transactions or activity as regards money-laundering to relevant regulatory authorities. We will also report suspected criminal activity to the law enforcement body we deem applicable. We are not always permitted by law to inform you of such activity.

Accuracy of personal data

If we are to maintain accurate and complete data, it is important that you inform us of all changes to such information. Please contact us via dataprotection@azakaw.com with all such change requests.

Retention

We typically retain personal data only for as long as it is needed. Please note that retention requirements vary according to different regulatory bodies. However, to help meet legal requirements and to best exercise or defend our legal rights we may retain information for significant periods of time.