Important notice
The Scottish Investment Trust PLC and SIT Savings Limited, are committed to maintaining the confidentiality, integrity and security of personal information about our current and prospective investors. Any personal information or details you submit or provide to us will be treated and kept in confidence and will not be provided to any third party except as expressly set out herein.
This Privacy Policy sets out the means by which The Scottish Investment Trust PLC and SIT Savings Limited ("SIT") collect, use and share data about you. By visiting the SIT website, you are accepting and consenting to the practices described in this Privacy Policy. This Privacy Policy shall be deemed to be incorporated within the SIT website Terms and Conditions of Use.
Purpose of Information Collection
To help us facilitate your use of the SIT website, we collect information from you during your visit to the SIT website. Such information and data will be used by SIT for assessment and analysis, including market and product analysis for the purposes of developing, offering and delivering products and analysis of the use of the SIT website to enable SIT to review, develop and improve the services offered by SIT and enable SIT to provide you with relevant information through SIT's marketing programme from time to time. It is also used to enable SIT (and its agents and sub-contractors) to provide you with information you have requested from SIT on this website and to allow cookies to be employed for the purpose described below.
Disclosure and Use of Information
SIT restricts access to personal information to those who require such information to provide you with products and services. SIT may disclose and use information or data which is provided by you to SIT's employees, associated companies, agents, contractors and sub-contractors for the purposes outlined above and also to government agencies, other regulatory bodies and law enforcement officials where required by law, for audit purposes or as required in connection with legal proceedings. SIT will not hold such information or data for any longer than is reasonably necessary for such purposes.
Your Rights
SIT is obliged to comply with the provisions of the Data Protection Act 1998 ("DPA") and all related legislation under the terms of the DPA and we fully endorse and adhere to the eight data protection principles as set out in the DPA. Both companies are registered on the Registry of Data Controllers held by the Information Commissioner's Office. Our purpose for holding personal data and a general description of the categories of people and organisations to whom we may disclose such data are listed on the register. You may inspect the register online at www.informationcommissioners.gov.uk or obtain a copy from the Information Commissioner's Office.
Under the terms of the DPA you are entitled to receive a copy of information or data about you which is held by SIT upon payment of £5. You are also entitled to require the rectification, erasure or blocking of any such information or data which is inaccurate or not up-to-date. If you wish to exercise any of these statutory rights, or if you wish to opt-out of any future processing of your information or data held by SIT, please write to SIT at the address below stating your name and address and providing SIT with any relevant information.
Cookies
A cookie is a small text file that a web server places on your computer hard drive to be a unique identifier and which the server can access when you revisit a website. SIT employs "session only" cookies - these are temporary and are not saved on the hard drive of your PC and exist only for the time of your visit to the SIT website. These cookies enable you to visit those parts of SIT's website for which you must accept the Terms and Conditions of Use without the need for you to accept them more than once during a single user session. The cookies do not collect any personal information or information about the configuration of your computer during your visit. If you want to delete any cookies that are already on your computer, please refer to the instructions for your file management software to locate the file or directory that stores cookies. If you want to stop cookies being stored on your computer in future or to disable any cookies, please refer to your Internet browser's instructions by clicking 'Help' in its menu. Further information on deleting or controlling cookies is available at www.AboutCookies.org.
Security
SIT maintains physical, electronic and procedural safeguards in keeping with industry best practice in connection with the collection, storage and disclosure of personally identifiable customer information. SIT regularly reviews and updates such controls in order to respond to changing requirements and technological advances. SIT, however, cannot guarantee the security of any data it collects and stores.
Withdrawal of Consent
If you wish to withdraw your consent to this Privacy Policy or should you wish your data to be deleted or amended for any reason, please contact SIT at the address below.
Links to Other Sites
The SIT website contains links to other websites. You should be aware that the SIT Privacy Policy does not apply to these linked sites nor to the use of third party cookies. You are advised to read the privacy policies of any website to which you link via the SIT website.
Security information
It has been brought to our attention that there have been a number of email scams in operation. These scams send a fake email asking the recipient to go to a website and to enter confidential information (eg credit card details, login details). Please be advised that SIT will never send an email to you asking for any credit, policy or security details to be entered online. If you do receive such an email you are advised to delete it immediately without responding and to contact the Data Protection Manager listed below.
Updates
The terms of this Privacy Policy may change to reflect changes in SIT's business and to reflect changes in the law. If SIT makes any substantial changes to the way it uses your personal information, SIT will notify you by posting a prominent announcement on the SIT website.
Further Information
For further information on this policy, please contact:
The Data Protection Manager
The Scottish Investment Trust PLC
6 Albyn Place
Edinburgh
EH2 4NL
Telephone: 0131 225 7781
Fax: 0131 226 3663
General email: info@sit.co.uk
Consent
I have read and understood the above Privacy Policy and I consent to the uses (including the use of cookies) and disclosures described in and the terms set out in this Privacy Policy.
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