This Privacy Policy explains how QSM Asset Management Ltd (“QSM”) Protects the personal data we collect from you when you use our website and services. 

QSM may collect and process the following data about you:

• Information that you provide by filling in forms on our site, including information provided at the time of registering to use our site, subscribing to our service, posting material or requesting further services;
• If you contact us, we may keep a record of that correspondence;
• Details of your visits to our site and the materials and information that you access, for the following purposes:
• To provide you with information, products or services that you request from us or which we consider may interest you, where you have consented to be contacted for such purposes;
• To allow you to participate in interactive features of our service, when you choose to do so;
• To determine your suitability to be granted access to our site.

We process your personal data for our legitimate business interests, our legal and/or regulatory obligations and/or contractual obligations including:

Pursuit of QSM’s legitimate business interests so we are able to provide and promote our products and services and continually improve our offering and delivery of our service to you and to send you requested product or service information, for example, our factsheets and quarterly reviews.

Managing our business: managing, administrating and protecting our business including maintaining accounts and records, administering and managing our business relationships and managing and supporting our employees.

Performance of contracts so that we can administer, manage and perform our contracts.

Compliance with our legal and regulatory obligations: such as tax reporting and regulatory obligations including but not limited to the preventing fraud, money laundering, terrorist financing, bribery and corruption.

To send you requested product or service information and to market to you, for example by sending factsheets to you.

Generally, we do not rely on consent as a legal basis for processing personal data.   Please note that you have the right at any time to withdraw consent for marketing or the right to ask not to receive marketing material by contacting us at info@qsmasset.com

When processing your personal data, we may share your personal data with third parties and other data processors for the purposes of carrying on our legitimate business interests or complying with legal, regulatory or contractual obligations.  We shall ensure that written contracts are in place with such parties to ensure the safeguarding of personal data.

We may share personal data with competent authorities including but not limited to tax authorities, regulatory bodies, courts or as required or requested by law.

Wherever possible we do not transfer your personal data outside the UK or European Economic Area (EEA). In certain circumstances, we may use third party service providers based outside the UK or EEA to process your personal data. 

Where this occurs, we will ensure a similar degree of protection is provided to your personal data by transferring it to countries that have been deemed to provide an adequate level of protection or ensure there is an agreement in place with any processor to ensure suitable safeguards are in place including that any personal data will only be processed for the purposes of that agreement and on our instruction.

Under data protection law, you have the following rights:

• The right of access – you have the right to ask us for copies of your personal information.
• The right to rectification – you have the right to ask us to rectify personal information you think Is inaccurate. You also have the right to ask us to complete information you think is incomplete.
• The right to erasure – you have the right to ask us to erase your personal information in certain circumstances.
• The right to restrict processing – you have the right to ask us to restrict the processing of your personal information in certain circumstances.
• The right to data portability – you have the right to ask that we transfer the personal information you gave us to another organisation, or to you, in certain circumstances.

In cases where you have provided consent for the processing of personal data you have the right to fully or partly withdraw your consent at any time by contacting us at info@qsmasset.com