Last Updated: January 17, 2024
This Privacy Policy explains how Accend Technology, Inc. ("Accend Technology", "we," "us," or "our") collects, uses, discloses, and protects your personal information when you use Accend platform and associated services, including our KYB/EDD report automation, online research tools, and any related features (collectively, the "Services").
This policy applies when we act as a Data Controller, determining the purposes and means of processing personal data, for example with respect to the personal data of our website visitors, service users, clients, partners, etc.
Accend Technology, Inc.
We will store and process your data in order to allow us to provide our products and services. This includes:
If you contact us, we may also send you information that we think you will be interested in. This may include a range of related products and services. We will also send any relevant details to authorities and any other organisation that requires them by law.
If you contact us, we will use your data to send you the information that you have requested and updates, and other information that we think you will be interested in.
We will store your personal details in order to provide our services and run our company. This includes your contact details, company information, and in some cases, financial information.
We will not share your data with any third parties other than as described here, to fulfil our obligations to you, operate and develop our company, and to protect our interests. We will only share any data that is particularly relevant to our process in order to provide the services that we offer. We may share your information with regulators or legal bodies that request it.
We may also share your data with organisations internationally for example AWS, OpenAI, and Microsoft Azure (please refer to Accend Subprocessors). Where this is the case, we will ensure your data is kept secure and appropriate controls, agreements, risk assessments have been completed.
Your data will be stored for up to 7 years following the last contact we have with you, after which time your data will be deleted. For more information please refer to our Data Retention Policy.
We will never sell, share or otherwise distribute your data to any other third party other than as described here. Access to your data is carefully controlled.
We will store your data on secure servers. We use industry standard security protocols/technology to secure your data.
This policy sets out how we will collect, store and process the information that you provide to us, information we collect as a result of our interaction, the information we collect about you from other sources, or information we service about you by using the information we hold.
The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) describes how organisations must collect, handle, process, and store personal information. These rules apply regardless of whether data is stored electronically, on paper or on other materials. To comply with the law, personal information must be collected and used fairly, stored safely and not disclosed unlawfully. GDPR is underpinned by eight important principles. These say that personal data must:
We take these responsibilities seriously; this document describes our approach to data protection.
This policy helps to protect us from data security risks, including:
Accend Technology, Inc. is registered in United States of America. The Data Protection Lead is Joseph Zhou. You can contact us in any of the following ways:
We have appointed EU and UK Representatives under Article 27 of the EU GDPR and UK GDPR respectively. Our appointed representatives are:
Under Article 27 of the GDPR, we have appointed Instant EU GDPR Representative Ltd. as our EU Representative. Contact details:
Under Article 27 of the UK Data Privacy Act, we have appointed GDPR Local Ltd. as our UK Representative. Contact details:
This policy relates to data subjects of Accend Technology, Inc. including clients, customers, suppliers, partners, employees, and all other individuals. Processing of your data is required in order to offer you our products and services and to run our company. It applies to all data that the company holds relating to identifiable individuals, even if that information technically falls outside of the GDPR. This can include:
This section describes the lawful basis for processing your data and applies to the information about yourself that you choose to provide us with or that you allow us to collect. This includes:
We do not routinely collect or process sensitive data about you. However, where this is the case we will ensure we take appropriate precautions to protect your data.
We understand the sensitivity of Personal Identifiable Information (PII). In the context of KYB and EDD report automation and generation, the collection of PII is essential to ensure accurate and effective business verification and risk assessments. Here's how we handle PII:
We will only use your personal data for the purposes for which we collected it and as you would reasonably expect your data to be processed and only where there is a lawful basis for such processing, for example:
We may collect and process information about you, including your name, address, date of birth, address, contact details (including email address and mobile phone number). We may take personal information from a range of sources.
We will use your data for the purpose it was collected and where we have your consent or an appropriate lawful basis may use your personal information to provide you with marketing information about services, promotions and offers that may be of interest to you. This document explains how you can change whether to receive this information. Please note that, even if you choose not to receive this information, we may still use your personal information to provide you with important services communications, including communications in relation to any services we provide to you.
You will only receive marketing communications from us if you have:
We operate in line with the GDPR data protection guidelines. We respect your rights and will respond to any request for access to personal information and requests to delete, rectify, transfer, data and to stop processing. We will also advise you on how to complain to the relevant authorities. Where possible any requests or objections should be made in writing to the Data Controller, or you can visit our website, call, or email us to contact us to exercise your rights, make a complaint, or change your preferences at any time.
Where you give your consent for us to process your data, for example when you agree to us sending you marketing information or where you agree to us processing financial data, you can contact us to amend or withdraw your consent at any time. You can also choose to object to processing and request deletion of your data. We respect all user rights as defined in GDPR. If you have any comments or wish to complain please contact us.
Your data will be collected, stored and processed securely, where we transfer your data internationally, we will ensure we take appropriate precautions to protect this data. Your data will normally be stored for up to 7 years in order to meet our legal obligations and protect our interests.
We will only use your personal data 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 you wish to find out more about how the processing for the new purpose is compatible with the original purpose, please email us. If we need to use your personal data for a purpose unrelated to the purpose for which we collected the data, we will notify you and we will explain the legal ground of processing.
We may be legally obliged to disclose your personal information without your knowledge to the extent that we are required to do so by law; in connection with any ongoing or prospective legal proceedings; in order to establish, exercise or defend our legal rights (including providing information to others for the purposes of fraud prevention and reducing credit risk); to any person who we reasonably believe may apply to a court or other competent authority for disclosure of that personal information where, in our reasonable opinion, such court or authority would be reasonably likely to order disclosure of that personal information.
We are a Data Controller. In relation to the information that you provide to us, we are legally responsible for how that information is handled. We will comply with the GDPR in the way we use and share your personal data.
Under certain circumstances, you have rights under data protection laws in relation to your personal data. These include the right to:
You will not have to pay a fee to access your personal data (or to exercise any of the other rights). However, we may charge a reasonable fee if your request is clearly unfounded, repetitive or excessive. Alternatively, we may refuse to comply with your request in these circumstances.
We may need to request specific information from you to help us confirm your identity and ensure your right to access your personal data (or to exercise any of your other rights). This is a security measure to ensure that personal data is not disclosed to any person who has no right to receive it. We may also contact you to ask you for further information in relation to your request to speed up our response.
We aim to respond to all legitimate requests within one month. Occasionally it may take us longer than a month if your request is particularly complex or you have made a number of requests. In this case, we will notify you and keep you updated.
We may have to share your personal data with selected third parties in order to meet our obligations to you and for the purposes described in this document:
We require all third parties to whom we transfer your data to respect the security of your personal data and to treat it in accordance with the law. We only allow such third parties to process your personal data for specified purposes and in accordance with our instructions.
Our use and transfer of information received from Google APIs will adhere to the Google API Services User Data Policy, including the Limited Use requirements. This commitment is easily visible to all users and ensures our practices are in strict alignment with the data protection and privacy standards set forth by Google.
We have put in place appropriate security measures to prevent your personal data from being accidentally lost, used or accessed in an unauthorised way, altered or disclosed. In addition, we limit access to your personal data to those employees, agents, contractors and other third parties who have a business need to know such data. They will only process your personal data on our instructions, and they are subject to a duty of confidentiality.
Where required under GDPR will report any breaches or potential breaches to the appropriate authorities within 24 hours and to anyone affected by a breach within 72 hours. If you have any queries or concerns about your data usage, please contact us.
Our website may include links to third-party websites, plug-ins and applications. Clicking on those links or enabling those connections may allow third parties to collect or share data about you. We do not control these third-party websites and are not responsible for their privacy statements. When you leave our website, we encourage you to read the privacy notice of every website you visit.
For more detailed information about our security policies and controls, please refer to Accend Security.
A cookie is a small file which asks permission to be placed on your computer’s hard drive. Once you agree, the file is added, and the cookie helps analyse web traffic or lets you know when you visit a particular site. Cookies allow web applications to respond to you as an individual. The web application can tailor its operations to your needs, likes and dislikes by gathering and remembering information about your preferences. We use traffic log cookies to identify which pages are being used. This helps us analyse data about webpage traffic and improve our website in order to tailor it to customer needs. We only use this information for statistical analysis purposes and then the data is removed from the system.
Overall, cookies help us provide you with a better website by enabling us to monitor which pages you find useful and which you do not. A cookie in no way gives us access to your computer or any information about you, other than the data you choose to share with us.
You can choose to accept or decline cookies. Most web browsers automatically accept cookies, but you can usually modify your browser setting to decline cookies if you prefer. This may prevent you from taking full advantage of the website.
As well as your ability to accept or reject cookies, we also require your permission to store cookies on your machine, which is why when you visit our site, you are presented with the ability to accept our terms of use, including the storage of cookies on your machine.
For more detailed information about our cookie policy, please refer to Accend Cookie Policy.
If you have any questions or comments about this Privacy Policy, wish to exercise your information rights in connection with the personal data you have shared with us or wish to complain, please use the below links:
Alternatively, you could contact our Data Protection Lead, Joseph Zhou, at joseph@withaccend.com.
We aim to process data protection requests within 30 days, SAR responses are usually free, but we reserve the right to charge for excessive or unfounded requests. We fully comply with Data Protection legislation and will assist in any investigation or request made by the appropriate authorities.
If you remain dissatisfied, then you have the right to apply directly to your local data protection authority. You can find the list at: European Data Protection Board.
