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Our site is operated by Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer LLP on behalf of the Equal Representation in Arbitration Campaign, led by the Pledge Steering Committee (together “we”, “us”, “our”).
Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer LLP (“Freshfields”) is a limited liability partnership registered in England and Wales whose registered office is at 65 Fleet Street, London EC4Y 1HS (registered number OC334789). It is authorised and regulated by the Solicitors Regulation Authority. A list of the members (and of the non-members who are designated as partners) of Freshfields and their qualifications is available for inspection at its registered office, 65 Fleet Street, London EC4Y 1HS. Any reference to a partner means a member, or a consultant or employee with equivalent standing and qualifications, of Freshfields or any of its associated firms or entities.
The Pledge Steering Committee consists of individual members of the arbitration community committed to increasing, on an equal opportunity basis, the number of women appointed as arbitrators. A full list of Pledge Steering Committee members can be found here.
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This Policy (together with our Website Terms of Use and any other documents referred to in it) explains how we collect, use, share, protect and process any Personal Information that we may collect from you, or that you may provide to us. Please read the following carefully to understand our views and practices regarding your Personal Information and how we will treat it. By visiting www.arbitrationpledge.com you are accepting and consenting to the practices described in this Policy.
“Personal Information” is information that identifies you, whether directly or indirectly, including, without limitation, your name, gender, address, email address, phone number and any other contact information that you may voluntarily submit to us.
For the purpose of applicable data protection laws, the data controller is Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer LLP of 65 Fleet Street, London EC4Y 1HS, on behalf of the Equal Representation in Arbitration Campaign led by the Pledge Steering Committee.
We collect Personal Information from our day-to-day contact with you and other supporters of the Equal Representation in Arbitration Campaign and the public. Personal Information is gathered in a range of ways including by emails, business cards, written correspondence, telephone calls and through the Website (for example, by filling in forms on our Website in order to sign up to the ERA Pledge).
Each time you visit the Website we may automatically gather the following information:
We use your Personal Information for the following reasons:
The Personal Information we collect from you may be transferred to, and stored at, a destination outside the European Economic Area (“EEA”). It may also be processed by staff outside the EEA who work for us. Such staff may be engaged in, among other things, the provision of support services. We will take all steps reasonably necessary to ensure that your Personal Information is treated securely and in accordance with this Policy. By submitting your Personal Information, you agree to this transfer, storing and processing.
We will not share Personal Information collected through our Website with unrelated third parties, except as provided in this Policy. We may share Personal Information with companies that we contract with to perform services for us, such as assisting us with our mailing campaigns or other data processing, where they need your Personal Information to perform the service for us. These companies are not authorised to keep or use your Personal Information for any other purpose.
We may disclose your Personal Information to selected third parties if we are under a duty to do so in order to comply with any legal obligation, or in order to enforce or apply our Website Terms of Use.
We aim to ensure that your Personal Information is secure. In order to prevent unauthorised access or disclosure, we have put in place appropriate physical, technical and organisational measures to safeguard and secure the Personal Information we collect.
Unfortunately, the transmission of information via the internet is not completely secure. Although we will do our best to protect your Personal Information, we cannot guarantee the security of your data transmitted to our Website; any transmission is at your own risk. Once we have received your Personal Information, we will use strict procedures and security features to try to prevent unauthorised access.
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The Website may contain links to the websites of other companies and organisations which may be of interest (“Third Party Sites”). However, once you have used these links to leave the Website, we do not have any control over such Third Party Sites. We cannot therefore be responsible or liable for the protection and privacy of any Personal Information which you provide whilst visiting them. Third Party Sites are governed by their own privacy policies. Please therefore exercise caution when accessing Third Party Sites and check the applicable privacy policy.
You have the right to ask us not to process your Personal Information for marketing purposes. We will usually inform you (before collecting your data) if we intend to use your data for such purposes or if we intend to disclose your information to any third party for such purposes. You can exercise your right to prevent such processing by checking certain boxes on the forms we use to collect your Personal Information. You can also exercise the right at any time by contacting us here.
We will not sell or distribute your Personal Information to third parties unless we have your permission or are required by law to do so. We may use your Personal Information to send you promotional information about third parties which we think you may find interesting if you tell us that you wish this to happen.
You have the right to request details of the Personal Information we hold about you and to delete or rectify any inaccurate information about you by sending us a written request to our contact form.
Any changes we may make to our privacy policy in the future will be posted on this page and, where appropriate, notified to you by email. Please check back frequently to see any updates or changes to our Privacy Policy.
If you have any questions or comments about this Privacy Policy please contact us here.