AHL privacy policy

You may be able to update some of the data we hold about you or third parties directly yourself. If you are acting as an intermediary or otherwise on behalf of a third party or supply us with information regarding a third party (such as your employer or a client company), you undertake that you are an authorised representative or agent of such third party and that you have obtained all necessary consents from such third party to the collection, processing, use and disclosure by us of their personal data.This privacy statement has been included in this website is in order to clarify AHL's reasons for, and the manner in which, AHL handles personal data supplied by yourself to AHL in the process of using this website.

Our data protection and privacy statement wording is required as a result of a data protection law arising pursuant to a European Union data protection directive. Businesses in European Union countries must comply with national laws enacted in light of their country's interpretation of the EU data protection directive.

The legislation seeks to ensure that all personal information held by businesses and organisations is both accurate and suitably protected in order to ensure there is no mis-use of personal data relating to an individual held by the business or organisation.

Accordingly, AHL endeavours to ensure that when processing your personal data we are protecting both our and your interests by complying with the relevant legislation.

Therefore please carefully read the privacy statement below which has been included with a view to protecting your personal data as well as ensuring that AHL complies with the relevant legislation. When you visit this web site and in the course of our providing services to you, AHL ('we', 'us' or 'our') may collect personal information about you ('personal data') either.

This web site is provided by AHL¹.

When you visit this web site and in the course of our providing services to you, AHL ('we', 'us' or 'our') may collect personal information about you ('personal data') either:

• directly when you are asked to provide data (e.g. name, e-mail address and mailing address) or when you e-mail, phone, or otherwise contact, us; or
• indirectly, e.g. via cookies² and other technical means to monitor your use of the portal such as access control logs, your internet protocol address or profiling to tailor the web site to your preferences or to track your use of certain pages of the web site, or from third parties who provide us with information about you.

'You' or 'your', in this Privacy Statement, means you as an individual, rather than any legal entity (such as your employer) which you may represent when you order a service from us via this web site.

We may process personal data collected via this web site or otherwise for the purposes of administering the web site, responding to queries or provide services to you at your request, updating our records and databases, improving the personalisation of our services to you, maintaining contact data about you or a third party (for example, your employer), informing you, or enabling third parties to inform you, of features, services, products, fund launches and related information from AHL or third parties which may be of interest to you and otherwise to enable us to perform any agreement with you, your employer or any other relevant third party.

You may be able to update some of the data we hold about you or third parties directly yourself. If you are acting as an intermediary or otherwise on behalf of a third party or supply us with information regarding a third party (such as your employer or a client company), you undertake that you are an authorised representative or agent of such third party and that you have obtained all necessary consents from such third party to the collection, processing, use and disclosure by us of their personal data.

The data may, for these purposes, be disclosed to certain types of staff within AHL's organisation (i.e. staff whose job it is to process your enquiries and orders or otherwise to administer the web site, and those staff involved in the provision of AHL services and products which may be of interest to you). Personal data may also be disclosed to a limited number of third parties, such as third party marketing companies to send you information which may be of interest, data processors, suppliers or providers of goods or services.

Because of the international nature of this web site and the nature of AHL's activities, personal data may be transferred internationally throughout the AHL group worldwide for the purposes described above (including to Switzerland and Ireland).

We do not generally seek to collect data about your racial or ethnic origin, political opinions, religious or other similar beliefs, trade union membership, physical or mental health, sexual life, criminal record or alleged criminal activity through the web site ('sensitive personal data'). We may collect some sensitive personal data incidentally. By providing us with unsolicited sensitive personal data you consent to our using those data for the above purposes standards of technology and operational security in order to protect the confidentiality and security of personal data collected via this web site but the nature of the Internet is of course such that the data may flow over networks without appropriate security measures and may be accessed and used by unauthorised persons.

Please note that this Privacy Statement only covers this web site and does not regulate the privacy practices of other web sites which may be accessible through or linked to this web site.