We are dedicated to protecting the confidentiality and privacy of information entrusted to us. Please read this Privacy Policy to learn about your rights, what information we collect, how we use and protect it.

 

This website is operated by Outpace The Market (“we” or “us”).

 

Who are we?

This Privacy Policy applies to Outpace The Market.

 

Who can you contact for privacy questions or concerns?

If you have questions or comments about this Privacy Policy or how we handle personal data, please direct your correspondence to:

Outpace The Market
Alte Landstrasse 86, 8702

Zurich, Switzerland
outpacethemarket.com

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How do we collect personal data?

 

Directly. We obtain personal data directly from individuals in a variety of ways, including obtaining personal data from individuals who provide us their business card, complete our online forms, attend meetings or events we host or visit our offices. We may also obtain personal data directly when, for example, establishing a business relationship, performing professional services through a contract, or through our hosted software applications.

 

Indirectly. We obtain personal data indirectly about individuals from a variety of sources, including recruitment services and our clients. We may attach personal data to our customer relationship management records to better understand and serve our business clients, prospects, subscribers and individuals, satisfy a legal obligation, or pursue our legitimate interests.

• Public sources – Personal data may be obtained from public registers (such as Commercial Registers), news articles, sanctions lists, and Internet searches.

• Social and professional networking sites – If you register or login to our websites using social media (e.g., LinkedIn, Google, or Twitter) to authenticate your identity and connect your social media login information with us, we will collect information or content needed for the registration or login that you permitted your social media provider to share with us. That information may include your name and email address and depending on your privacy settings, additional details about you, so please review the privacy controls on the applicable service to set how much information you want shared with us.

• Business clients – Our business clients may engage us to perform professional services which involves sharing personal data they control as part of that engagement. For example, we will review payroll data as part of an audit and we often need to use personal data to provide global mobility and pension services. Our services may also include processing personal data under our clients’ control on our hosted software applications, which may be governed by different privacy terms and policies.

 

What categories of personal data do we collect?

We may obtain the following categories of personal data about individuals through direct interactions with us, or from information provided through client engagements, from applicants, our suppliers and through other situations including those described in this Privacy Policy.

 

Personal data. Here is a list of personal data we commonly collect to conduct our business activities.

• Contact details (e.g., name, company name, job title, work and mobile telephone numbers, work and personal email and postal address)

• Professional details (e.g., job and career history, educational background and professional memberships, published articles).

• Sensitive personal data. When we do need to process sensitive personal data, it is with the consent of the individual unless it is obtained indirectly for legitimate purposes. Examples of sensitive personal data we may obtain include: Information provided to us by our clients in the course of a professional engagement.

• Location-based data. We may process geographical locations, e.g. when you are using our website to locate an office near you.

 

What lawful reasons do we have for processing personal data?

We may rely on the following lawful reasons when we collect and use personal data to operate our business and provide our products and services:

• Contract – We may process personal data in order to perform our contractual obligations.

• Consent – We may rely on your freely given consent at the time you provided your personal data to us.

• Legitimate interests – We may rely on legitimate interests based on our evaluation that the processing is fair, reasonable and balanced. These include:

• Delivering services and products – To deliver the services and products our clients have engaged us to provide.

• Marketing – To deliver timely industry insights and professional knowledge, offerings and invitations we believe are welcomed by our business clients, prospects, subscribers and other individuals.

• Legal obligations and public interest – We may process personal data in order to meet regulatory and public interest obligations or mandates.

 

Why do we need personal data?

• We aspire to be transparent when we collect and use personal data and tell you why we need it, which typically includes:

• Providing professional advice and delivering reports and services related to our tax, advisory, audit and assurance, pension scheme administration, legal, restructuring, mergers and acquisitions and other professional services and products.

• Promoting our professional services, products and capabilities to existing and prospective business clients.

• Sending invitations and providing access to guests attending our events and webinars or our sponsored events.

• Personalising online landing pages and communications we think would be of interest based on interactions with us.

• Administering, maintaining and ensuring the security of our information systems, applications and websites. 

• Authenticating registered users to certain areas of our sites.

• Processing online requests, including responding to communications from individuals or requests for proposals and quotations.

• Contacting journalists regarding market insights, corporate news, invitations to press conference, highlighting messages that may be of interest on specific industry topics.

• Travel arrangement assistance.

• Complying with legal and regulatory obligations relating to sanctions, embargo assessment, countering money laundering, terrorist financing, fraud and other forms of financial crime.

• Preventing fraud or criminal activity, safeguarding our IT systems and handling of claims. 

 

In some situations the provision of personal data is required to provide the services in such cases this is indicated on the Website accordingly or pointed out in the disclaimers or contractual agreements. Furthermore, we may be required to collect certain personal data by law. If you fail to provide such data, we may not be able to provide the services, or we may have to cancel a product or service you have with us.

 

Do we share personal data with third parties?

We may share personal data with trusted third parties to help us deliver efficient and quality services and products. These recipients are contractually bound to safeguard the data we entrust to them. We may engage with several or all of the following categories of recipients:

Parties that support us as we provide our services and products (e.g. providers of telecommunication systems, mailroom support, IT system support, archiving services, document production services and cloud-based software services, scanning services).

Our professional advisers, including lawyers, auditors and insurers.

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A potential buyer, transferee, merger partner or seller and their advisers in connection with an actual or potential transfer or merger/acquisition of part or all of our business or assets, or any associated rights or interests. 

Payment services providers.

Marketing services providers.

Law enforcement or other government and regulatory agencies (e.g. FAOA, FINMA) or to other third parties as required by, and in accordance with, applicable law or regulation.

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What are your data protection rights?

If Outpace The Market processes personal information about you, you have the rights listed below. Before responding to your request, we may ask for proof of identity. This helps us to ensure that personal data is not disclosed to any person who has no right to receive it. We may also ask you for sufficient information about your interactions with us so that we can locate your personal information.

• Access – You can ask us to verify whether we are processing personal data about you, and if so, to provide more specific information.

• Correction – You can ask us to correct our records if you believe they contain incorrect or incomplete information about you. 

• Erasure – You can ask us to erase (delete) your personal data after you withdraw your consent to processing or when we no longer need it for the purpose it was originally collected and no retention requirements exist

• Processing restrictions – You can ask us to temporarily restrict our processing of your personal data if you contest the accuracy of your personal data, prefer to restrict its use rather than having us erase it.

• Data portability – In some circumstances, where you have provided personal data to us, you can ask us to transmit that personal data in electronic form if technically feasible.

• Automated Individual Decision-making – You can ask us to review any decisions made about you which we made solely based on automated processing, including profiling, that produced legal effects concerning you or which significantly affected you.

• Right to Object to Marketing including Profiling – You can object to our use of your personal data for marketing purposes, including profiling. We may need to keep some minimal information to comply with your request to cease marketing to you.

• Right to Object to Active Sourcing – You can object to our use of your personal data for active sourcing purposes. We may need to keep some minimal information to comply with your request to cease recruiting activities

• Right to Withdraw Consent – You can withdraw your consent that you have previously given to one or more specified purposes of processing your personal data. This will not affect the lawfulness of any processing carried out before you withdraw your consent. It may mean we are not able to provide certain products or services to you and we will advise you if this is the case.

 

To submit a data request please direct your correspondence to:

Outpace The Market
Alte Landstrasse 86, 8702

Zurich, Switzerland
outpacethemarket.com

 

We aim to respond within 60 days from the date we receive privacy-related communications.
No fee is required to make a request unless your request is clearly unfounded or excessive. Depending on the circumstances, we may be unable to comply with your request based on other lawful grounds.

 

What about personal data security?

We have put appropriate technical and organisational security policies and procedures in place to protect personal data (including sensitive personal data) from loss, misuse, alteration or destruction. We limit access to personal data in general. Those individuals who have access to the data are required to maintain the confidentiality of such information. We may apply pseudonymization, de-identification and anonymization techniques in efforts to further protect personal data.

 

How long do we retain personal data?

We retain personal data to provide our services, make offerings, stay in contact with you and to comply with applicable laws, regulations and professional obligations that we are subject to. We retain personal data for so long as the personal data is needed for the purposes for which it was collected or in line with legal and regulatory requirements or contractual arrangements. We will dispose of personal data when we no longer need it.

 

Do we link to other websites?

Our websites will typically contain links to other sites, that are not governed by this Privacy Policy. Please review the destination websites’ privacy policies before submitting personal data on those sites. Whilst we try to link only to sites that share our high standards and respect for privacy, we are not responsible for the content, security, or privacy practices employed by other sites.

 

Do we change this privacy policy?

We regularly review this Privacy Policy and will post any updates to it on this webpage. This Privacy Policy was last updated on 22 June 2018.