PRIVACY NOTICE

Better Capital PCC Limited (the "Company")

This Privacy Notice sets out how personal data is collected, processed and disclosed in connection with Better Capital PCC Limited.

We take privacy and security of your information seriously and will only use such personal information as set out in this Privacy Notice.

As a result of your investment (or an investment made by a person firm or entity with which you have a connection) in the Company or your visit to the Company's website, your personal information may be provided to the Company, the Administrator and the Registrar each of which will act as independent data processors. The Company, the Administrator or the Registrar may process your personal information or such data in respect of your directors, officers, employees or beneficial owners.

As each of the Company, the Administrator and the Registrar are entities incorporated in Guernsey, the Company is obliged to comply with the provisions of the Guernsey DP Law.

This Privacy Notice should be read in conjunction with the Company's main Website Terms & Conditions, Privacy Policy, any other relevant legal notices, including the privacy notice of each of:

  1. Interpretation and Definitions:
    1. For the purposes of this Privacy Notice:
      1. "authorised third parties" means any counterparty with whom the Company enters or is contemplating entering into a contract, agreement or arrangement in order to deliver the Services including the counterparty's officers, employees, sub-processors and sub-contractors authorised by the Company to provide the Services;
      2. "Controller Affiliate" means each and any subsidiary, holding company or wholly-owned subsidiary of the Company, and "holding company", "subsidiary" and "wholly-owned subsidiary" shall have the same meanings given to them under section 531 of the Companies (Guernsey) Law, 2008;
      3. "Administrator" means Estera International Fund Managers (Guernsey) Limited or such other person providing administrative services to the Company from time to time, acting in its capacity as administrator of the Company;
      4. "Data Protection Law" means the Directives and the Regulation (as amended or replaced from time to time), guidance, directions, determinations, codes of practice, circulars, orders, notices or demands issued by Data Protection Commissioner as defined under Guernsey Law, and any applicable national, international, regional, municipal or other data protection authority or supervisory authority or other data protection laws or regulations in any other territory in which the Services are provided or received or which are otherwise applicable and, in particular, the Guernsey DP Law;
      5. "Data Subject" means the data subjects who are the subject of the Personal Information;
      6. "Directives" mean the European Data Protection Directive (95/46/EC) and the European Privacy and Electronic Communications Directive (Directive 2002/58/EC);
      7. "Guernsey DP Law" means the Data Protection (Bailiwick of Guernsey) Law, 2001 and the Data Protection (Bailiwick of Guernsey) Law, 2017 as amended and any successor legislation;
      8. "Investor" means the Data Subject who invests in the Company and whose Personal Information will be processed;
      9. "Personal Information" means all personal data and information relating to or in connection with the Data Subject (including but not limited to such personal data as are provided by the Data Subject pursuant to the Agreement and all client due diligence documentation required for anti-money laundering compliance) processed by the Company, the Controller Affiliates, the Administrator, the Registrar and/or authorised third parties;
      10. "Regulation" means, on and from 25 May 2018, Regulation (EU) 2016/679 on the protection of natural persons with regard to the processing of personal data and on the free movement of such data, as and when it becomes applicable;
      11. "Registrar" means Link Market Services (Guernsey) Limited or such other person providing share registration services to the Company from time to time, acting in its capacity as registrar of the Company;
      12. "Services" means the services provided to the Company by the Administrator and/or the Registrar;
      13. "data subject", "processing", "personal data" and "sensitive personal data" (also known as "special category data") shall have the meanings attributed to them in the Data Protection Law and the term "personal data" shall be deemed to include "sensitive personal data"/"special category data"; and
      14. A reference to a statute or statutory provision is a reference to it as amended, extended or, re-enacted from time to time (and for so long as it remains in force) and shall include all subordinate legislation.
  2. Where we obtain your personal data:
    1. Your personal data comprises the following categories:
      1. information obtained from identification documentation (including name, contact details, nationality and national identity numbers (where applicable));
      2. employment history, income and personal wealth;
      3. tax status and tax identification numbers;
      4. bank account details.
    2. We primarily collect your personal data from the following sources:
      1. from information which you or your authorised representative gives to us, including but not limited to:
        1. information set out in any subscription agreement with the Company;
        2. such other forms and documents as we may request that are completed in relation to the administration/management of any investment in the Company;
        3. client due diligence documentation as part of our regulatory requirements; and
        4. any personal data provided by you by way of correspondence with us by phone, e-mail or otherwise;
    3. personal data we receive from you or any third party sources which may include:
      1. entities in which you or someone connected to you has an interest;
      2. your legal and/or financial advisors;
      3. other financial institutions who hold and process your personal data to satisfy their own regulatory requirements;
      4. credit reference agencies and financial crime databases for the purposes of complying with our regulatory requirements; and
      5. information collected via the Company's website (including cookies and IP addresses) and emails.
    4. We may also collect and process your personal data in the course of dealing with advisors, regulators, official authorities and service providers by whom you are employed or engaged or for whom you act.
  3. Why we collect your Personal data:
    1. Lawful grounds for processing: The Company, the Administrator and the Registrar are entitled to hold and process your personal data on the following lawful grounds:
      1. the processing is necessary for the legitimate interests of the Company provided your interests and fundamental rights do not override those interests;
      2. where the Investor is a natural person, the processing is necessary to comply with our respective contractual duties to you under the terms of our subscription agreement with you and all supplemental agreements thereto;
      3. to comply with the legal and regulatory obligations of each of the Company, the Administrator and the Registrar;
      4. (on exceptional occasions) where we have obtained your consent; and
      5. (on rare occasions) where it is needed in the public interest.

      Some of the grounds for processing described above will overlap and there may be several grounds which justify our use of your personal data.

    2. Inaccurate or Amended Information Please let us know if any of your personal data (including correspondence details) changes as soon as possible. Failure to provide accurate information or to update changed information may have a detrimental impact upon your investment, including the processing of any subscription or redemption instructions or the suspension of your account. Failure to provide information where the same is required for anti-money laundering, pursuant to automatic exchange of information agreements, or other legal requirements means that the Company may not, or may no longer, be able to accept you as an investor in the Company.
    3. Purposes of processing Pursuant to paragraph 1, the Company, the Administrator, the Manager and the Registrar may process your personal data for the purposes set out below ("Purposes"). Those based wholly or partly on our legitimate interests are set out in paragraphs 3.3.1 to 3.3.10 inclusive:
      1. conducting credit reference checks;
      2. communicating with you as necessary in connection with your affairs and generally in connection with your investment in the Company;
      3. operating the Company's, the Administrator's and the Registrar's IT systems, software and business applications;
      4. supporting our IT and business applications support teams, accounting, legal, reporting, internal audit and risk management, administrative, transfer, document storage, record keeping and other related functions, including but not limited to processing personal data in connection with the Company;
      5. monitoring and recording telephone and electronic communications and transactions:
        1. for quality, business analysis, training and related purposes in order to improve service delivery;
        2. for investigation and fraud prevention purposes, for crime detection, prevention, investigation and prosecution of any unlawful act (or omission to act); and
        3. to enforce or defend the Company's and Administrator's respective rights, or through third parties to whom we each may delegate such responsibilities or rights in order to comply with a legal or regulatory obligations imposed on each of us;
      6. disclosing your personal data (including identity and Interest in the Company) to any bank, financial institution or other third party lender providing any form of facility, loan, finance or other form of credit or guarantee to the Company;
      7. detecting and preventing crime such as fraud, money laundering, terrorist financing, bribery, corruption, tax evasion and to prevent the provision of financial and other services to persons who may be subject to economic or trade sanction on an ongoing basis ("Regulatory Assessments");
      8. facilitating the internal administration of each of the Company, the Administrator, and the Registrar and retaining your personal data as part of our Regulatory Assessments or future services entered into by you;
      9. liaising with or reporting to any regulatory authority (including tax authorities) with whom the Company is either required to cooperate or report to, or with whom it decides or deems appropriate to cooperate, in relation to an investment, and which has jurisdiction over the Company or its investments in a third country without the same or similar data protection laws as Guernsey or any EU member state (a "Third Country without Adequacy");
      10. communicating with our professional advisers for the purposes of obtaining professional advice; and
      11. conducting business analytics and diagnostics.

      We will only use your personal information for the purposes for which we collected it unless we reasonably consider that we need to use it for another reason and that reason is compatible with the original purpose. If we need to use your personal information for an unrelated purpose, we will notify you and we will explain the legal basis which allows us to do so. Please note that we may process your personal information without your knowledge or consent, in compliance with the above rules, where these are required or permitted by law.

    4. To the extent that such personal data contains special category data such as, for example: data relating to racial or ethnic origin, political opinion, religious or philosophical belief, trade union membership or criminal data then the processing of such data shall solely be for the purpose of complying with any duty imposed on Company, the Administrator and/or the Registrar by an enactment including, but not limited to, legislation and regulatory obligations relating to Anti-Money Laundering and Combatting the Financing of Terrorism and all other related legislation.
  4. Sharing personal data
    1. The Company, the Administrator and/or the Registrar may share your personal data with group companies and third parties (including bank, financial institution or other third party lenders, IT service providers, auditors and legal professionals) under the terms of any appropriate delegation or contractual arrangement. Those authorised third parties may, in turn, process your personal data abroad and may have to disclose it to foreign authorities to help them in their fight against crime and terrorism.
    2. Data processing (as described above) may be undertaken by an entity who is located outside the Bailiwick of Guernsey or the European Economic Area in a Third Country without Adequacy including but not limited to Hong Kong and Singapore.
    3. This means that the countries to which we transfer your data are not deemed to provide an adequate level of protection for your personal information. However, to ensure that your personal data receives an adequate level of protection we have put in place appropriate measures to ensure that your personal information is treated by those third parties in a way that is consistent with and which respects the EU laws and the laws of the Bailiwick of Guernsey on data protection. If you require further information about these protective measures, you can request it from becapteam-GG@ocorian.com - EU representative
  5. Retention of personal data
    1. Your personal data will be retained for the longest of the following periods:
      1. for the Company, the Administrator, the Registrar and/or any authorised third parties to carry out the Purposes for which the data was collected or as long as is set out in any relevant agreement you enter into with us);
      2. in order to establish or defend legal rights or obligations or to satisfy any reporting or accounting obligations; and/or
      3. any retention period that is required by Data Protection Laws and any applicable laws or regulatory requirements.
    2. We endeavor to store your personal data securely in accordance with accepted market standards.
    3. Whilst we have taken every reasonable care to ensure the implementation of appropriate technical and security measures, we cannot guarantee the security of your personal data over the internet, via email or via our websites nor do we accept, to the fullest extent permitted by law, any liability for any errors in data transmission, machine, software or operating error or any other cause.
  6. Your rights
    1. You have, under certain circumstances, the following rights in respect of personal data:
      1. the right to access and port personal data;
      2. the right to rectify personal data;
      3. the right to restrict the use of personal data;
      4. the right to request that personal data is erased;
      5. the right to object to processing of personal data; and
      6. where the Company, the Administrator or the Registrar has relied on consent to process the personal data, the right to withdraw consent at any time by contacting us via the contact details below.
    2. You also have the right to lodge a complaint with the Guernsey Data Protection Authority if you consider that the processing of your personal data carried out by the Company, the Administrator, the Registrar or any other service provider to the Company, has breached data protection laws. You may also appeal to certain courts against (i) any failure of the Guernsey Data Protection Authority to give written notice of whether the complaint is either being investigated or not being investigated and where applicable, the progress and the outcome of the investigation and (ii) a determination of the Guernsey Data Protection Authority not to investigate the complaint or a determination that a controller or processor has not breached or is not likely to breach an operative provision in connection with the complaint.
    3. In limited circumstances we may approach you for your written consent to allow us to process certain particularly sensitive data or to use data for another purpose. Where you may have provided your consent to the collection, processing and transfer of your personal data for a specific purpose, you have the right to withdraw your consent for that specific processing at any time. To withdraw your consent, please contact becapteam-GG@estera.com. Once we have received notification that you have withdrawn your consent, we will no longer process your information for the purpose or purposes you originally agreed to, unless we have another legitimate basis for doing so in law.
  7. How to contact us:

    If you have any questions about our use of your personal data, our retention procedures or our security processes, please contact us:

    1. at the following address:
      Better Capital PCC Limited
      2nd floor, Trafalgar Court
      Les Banques
      St Peter Port
      Guernsey
      GY1 4LY
    2. by email at: becapteam-GG@ocorian.com
       
  8. Changes to this Policy

    This Privacy Notice is dated 24th May 2018.

    We reserve the right to amend this Privacy Notice at any time without notice, in which case the date of the policy will be revised.


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