Privacy Policy

Last revised: March 14 2019

This Privacy Policy is designed to help you understand what information we gather about you, what we use that information for, and with whom we share that information. It also sets out your rights in relation to your information and whom you may contact for more information or queries. 

To whom this privacy policy applies and what it covers

This privacy policy applies to each member of Selenine’ group of companies (the “Selenine Group”) and the entities we own or control (“Selenine” or “we”, “us” or “our”). For more details on each of us (including our names, registered office addresses and contact details).

Selenine recognizes the importance of protecting your personal and financial information and is committed to doing this. This Privacy Policy sets out how we collect, handle, store and protect information about you when:

• we provide products or services to you or our client;
• you visit or use our Website; and/or
• performing any other activities that form part of our business.

When we refer to “our Website” or “this Website” in this Privacy Policy, we mean the specific webpages of selenine.com , and to specific webpages with a URL that begin with or contain selenine.com/… 

Selenine.com are comprised of various global, country or regional websites, each of which is provided by Selenine.

This Privacy Policy also contains information about when we share your personal information with other members of the Selenine Group and other third parties (for example, our service providers).

In this Privacy Policy, we may sometimes collectively refer to handling, collecting, protecting and storing your personal information as “processing” such personal information.

Other websites

Please note that other websites that may be linked to by this Website are not governed by this Privacy Policy. We encourage visitors to review the privacy policy on each of these other websites before disclosing any personal information.

What information we collect

In the course of providing products or services to you or our client and performing due diligence checks in connection with our products or services (or discussing the possible products or services we might provide), we generally collect personal information about you. We also typically collect personal information about you when you visit or use our Website.

We typically collect or obtain your personal information because you give it to us (for example, in a form on our Website) or because other people give that information to us (for example, third party service providers that we use to help operate our Website or your employer where it receives products or services from Selenine). We may also collect or obtain personal information from you because we observe or infer that information about you from the way you interact with us. For example, if you use our risk management platform,, we will generally collect information about you in order to communicate updates to Aladdin functionality and general information about it. In order to improve your experience when you use this Website and to ensure that it is functioning effectively, we (or our service providers) also use cookies (small text files stored in a user’s browser) and web beacons (small graphic images that are placed on a website and used to monitor a user’s interaction with that website) which may collect personal information.

Additional information on how we use cookies and other tracking technologies and how you can control these can be found in our Cookies Policy, which is included at the end of this document.

The personal information that we may collect depends on the specific services, activities or products we undertake but typically includes: your name; age; date of birth; gender; home address; email address; telephone number; other contact details; country of residence; passport number and other national ID numbers; employment details (for example, the organization you work for, your job title); family circumstances (for example, your marital status where you enter it in a form on our Website or it appears in any documentation you provide to us); financial and tax related information (for example, your income, assets and tax residency where you enter such information in a form on our Website or it appears in any documentation that you provide to us); details of how you use any product or service provided by Selenine; postings on any blogs, forums, wikis, and any other social media applications and services that we provide; IP address; browser and device type; user name that is used by you for one of our products or services; language; access times and duration; details of how you like to use our Website or the interactive products, tools, other technology or services we provide to you or our clients; websites that you visited before and after visiting our Website; details of how you like to interact with us, and similar information.

The types of personal information and ‘sensitive’ or ‘special categories’ of personal information that we collect will generally vary depending on the nature of the products and services that we provide to you and how you use our Website. In some cases, the ‘sensitive’ or ‘special categories’ of personal information that we collect include: your dietary requirements (for example, where we would like to provide you with lunch during a meeting); your health (for example, so that we can make reasonable accommodations for you in our buildings); your sexual orientation (for example, if you provide us with details of your spouse or partner); and any criminal convictions that you may have (for example, if this information is collected as part of ‘know your client’ and anti-money laundering checks that we must conduct before accepting you or your employer as a client).

In some rare circumstances, we will also gather other ‘special categories’ of personal information about you because you volunteer that data to us (for example, it appears in a copy of your resume/CV that you upload to our Website). In some other circumstances, the personal information we collect from you is needed to meet our legal or regulatory obligations or to provide you with the products or services requested by you or our client (who may be your employer). If so, we will indicate to you that the provision of this information is mandatory, and the consequences if we cannot collect this information.

In some cases, we will also collect personal information about you indirectly from third parties such as: (i) your employer where we provide it with products or services; (ii) third parties such as providers of ‘know your client’ and anti-money laundering services which we sometimes use to help us meet our legal requirements in this area and to help us verify your identity where we provide you or your employer with products or services; (iii) intermediaries (such as independent financial advisers); (iv) background check providers which we sometimes use to verify your identity when you apply for a job through our Website; (v) third party service providers that help us to operate our Website; and (vi) from publicly available sources such as business and employment oriented social networking services and jobs boards.

How we use information about you

Use of personal information to provide products and services

We will use your personal information to provide you or our client with products or services. As part of this, we may use your personal information in the course of correspondence relating to those products or services. Such correspondence may be with you, our client, other members of the Selenine Group, our service providers or public or judicial authorities with the necessary authorisation.

In many cases, we also use your personal information to conduct due diligence checks in advance of providing products or services to you or our client, and to process an application from you or a prospective client to receive products or services from us. If you are referred to us by an intermediary or similar third party, we also typically use your personal information to assess whether to accept or reject your referral to Selenine by that intermediary or similar third party.

Because we provide a wide range of products and services to our clients, the way in which we use personal information in relation to our products and services varies. For example, we use personal information about you when:

• you use our risk management platform
• we provide you or your employer with an insurance product or service
• you or your employer engage us to provide investment management or similar services 
• you privately invest in a fund product managed by a member of the Selenine Group
• you engage a member of the Selenine Group to provide investment management services
• you provide us with your personal information via email or a web form.

Use of personal information collected via our Website

We generally use your personal information collected via this Website:

• to manage and improve any services provided via our Website 
• to manage and improve our Website (including by drawing up statistics on the usage of our Website)
• to tailor content of our Website to provide you with a more personalized experience and draw your attention to information about products and services that may be of interest to you
• to manage and respond to any request that you submit through our Website
• to help us learn more about you, the products and services that you or your employer receive from elenine, and other products and services that you or your employer might be interested in receiving
• to correspond with you in relation to services you use on our Website or information you provide via our Website. This correspondence is usually with you, other members of the Selenine Group, our service providers, or public or judicial authorities with the necessary authorisation.

Use of personal information for other activities that form part of the operation of our business

We generally also use your personal information collected via this Website for the purposes of, or in connection with:

• applicable legal or regulatory requirements
• requests and communications from public or judicial authorities with the necessary authorisation
• financial accounting, invoicing and risk analysis purposes
• prudent operational management (including credit and risk management, insurance, audit, training and similar administrative purposes)
• client relationship purposes, which involve: (i) sending you Selenine thought leadership or details of Selenine products and services that we think might be of interest to you or your employer; (ii) contacting you to receive feedback on Selenine products or services; and (iii) contacting you for other marketing or research purposes
• recruitment and business development purposes
• services we receive from our professional advisors, such as lawyers, accountants and consultants
• arrangements we have in place with intermediaries, brokers and other individuals and entities that partner with us
• considering, and entering into, any transaction involving part or all of the business or assets of the Selenine Group
• protecting our rights and those of our clients
• meeting our corporate and social responsibilities.

The legal grounds we rely on for processing personal information

We are required by law to set out in this Privacy Policy the legal grounds on which we rely in order to process your personal information.

We generally use your personal information for the purposes outlined above because: (a) it is necessary for our legitimate interests and does not unduly affect your interests or fundamental rights and freedoms (see below); (b) it is necessary for legal and/or regulatory obligations or requests that we are subject to, such as keeping records for tax purposes or providing information to a public body or law enforcement agency; (c) it is necessary to perform contractual obligations that we owe towards you or our client, or to take pre-contractual steps at the request of you or our client; (d) it is necessary for the performance of a task carried out in the public interest (such as assisting with diversity in the workplace where you make contact through our Website in relation to job opportunities at Selenine); or (e) in some cases, we have obtained your prior consent.

Examples of the ‘legitimate interests’ referenced above are: (i) to benefit from cost-effective services (for example, we may opt to use certain IT platforms offered by our service providers); (ii) to assess and verify any job application that you submit through the Website; (iii) to prevent fraud or criminal activity, misuses of our products and services, as well as the security of our IT systems, architecture and networks; (iv) to exercise our rights under Articles 16 and 17 of the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union, including our freedom to conduct a business and right to property; and (v) to meet our corporate and social responsibility objectives.

To the extent that we process any sensitive personal information relating to you for any of the purposes outlined above, we will do so because either: (1) you have given us your explicit consent to process that information; (2) the processing is necessary for reasons of substantial public interest on the basis of applicable law (for example where we are required by law or regulatory requirements to process that information in order to ensure we meet our ‘know your client’ and ‘anti money laundering’ obligations); (3) the processing is necessary to carry out our obligations under employment, social security or social protection law; or (4) the processing is necessary for the establishment, exercise or defense of legal claims. The legal grounds for processing sensitive personal information outlined above at (1) to (4) appear at Articles 9(2)(a), 9(2)(g), 9(2)(b) and 9(2)(f) of the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation respectively.

Where we are legally required to obtain your explicit consent to provide you with certain marketing materials, we will only provide you with such marketing materials where we have obtained such consent from you.

If you do not want to continue receiving any marketing materials from us, you can click on the unsubscribe function in the communication or e-mail
lifetech@selenine.com at any time.

To whom we disclose your information

In connection with one or more of the purposes outlined in the “How we use information about you” section above, we generally disclose details about you to: other members of the Selenine Group; professional advisors and third parties that provide services to us and/or other members of the Selenine Group (such as IT systems providers, platform providers, financial advisors, consultants (including lawyers and accountants), providers of HR and recruitment services and other goods and services providers (such as providers of marketing services where we are permitted to disclose your personal information to them); intermediaries, brokers, and other individuals and entities that partner with us; competent authorities (including any national and/or international regulatory or enforcement body or court or other form of tribunal, where we (or any other member of the Selenine Group) are required to do so by applicable law or regulation at their request); a potential buyer, transferee, merger partner or seller and their advisers in connection with an actual or potential transfer or merger of part or all of Selenine’s business or assets, or any associated rights or interests, or to acquire a business or enter into a merger with it; credit reference agencies or other organizations that help us detect criminal activity and incidence of fraud; and any central or local government department and other statutory or public bodies.

If you are an individual in the European Union, please note that some of the recipients of your personal information referenced above will be based in countries outside of the European Union whose laws may not provide the same level of data protection. Those countries typically include: the United States, Canada, Singapore, and India. In such cases, Selenine will ensure that there are adequate safeguards in place to protect your personal information that comply with our legal obligations. To ensure this level of protection for your personal information, Selenine typically uses a data transfer agreement with the recipient based on standard contractual clauses approved by the European Commission. A copy of these clauses is available here: https://ec.europa.eu/info/law/law-topic/data-protection_en. Further details of the transfers of your personal information outside of the European Union and the adequate safeguards used by Selenine in respect of such transfers (including copies of relevant agreements) are available from us by contacting lifetech@selenine.com. You can also use this e-mail address to request further information about the entities that comprise the Selenine Group and the countries in which they operate.

How long we keep your personal information

We will hold your personal information on Selenine’s systems for as long as is necessary to fulfill the purpose for which it was collected or to comply with legal, regulatory or internal policy requirements.

Protection of your personal information

We use a range of physical, electronic and managerial measures to ensure that we keep your personal information secure, accurate and up to date. These measures include:

• education and training to relevant staff to ensure they are aware of our privacy obligations when handling personal information as well as training around social engineering, phishing, spear phishing, and password risks
• administrative and technical controls to restrict access to personal information on a ‘need to know’ basis
• technological security measures, including fire walls, encryption (industry standard SSL encryption with 128-bit key lengths), and anti-virus software
• physical security measures, such as staff security passes to access our premises.
• external technical assessments, security audits and vendor due diligence
• perimeter security: Firewalls, IDS, content filters
• segregation of networks: DMZ, corporate domain, production domain
• application security: OWASP top 10 focused code requirements, application testing, penetration testing
• endpoint security: Anti-virus, portable storage device lockdown, restricted administrative privileges
• Real-time monitoring of data leakage controls
• Layered and comprehensive cybersecurity defences
• Security incident reporting and management.

Although we use appropriate security measures once we have received your personal information, the transmission of data over the internet (including by e-mail) is never completely secure. We endeavor to protect personal information, but we cannot guarantee the security of data transmitted to us or by us.

Your rights and how to contact us

You have various rights in relation to your personal information. In particular, you have a right to:

• object to the processing or your personal information
• request a copy of personal information we hold about you
• ask that we update the personal information we hold about you, or correct such personal information that you think is incorrect or incomplete
• ask that we delete personal information that we hold about you, or restrict the way in which we use such personal information
• withdraw consent to our processing of your personal information (to the extent such processing is based on consent).

To exercise any of your rights, or if you have any other questions about our use of your personal information, please e-mail lifetech@selenine.com . You may also use these contact details if you wish to make a complaint to us relating to your privacy.

If you are unhappy with the way we handled your personal information or any privacy query or request that you have raised with us, you also have a right to complain to a data protection regulator in the place where you live or work, or in the place where you think an issue in relation to your data has arisen. A list of national data protection regulators can be found here: 
https://ec.europa.eu/info/policies/justice-and-fundamental-rights_en.

Changes to this privacy statement

We may modify or amend this privacy statement from time to time.

Any future changes or additions to the processing of your personal data as described in this notice affecting you will be communicated to you through an appropriate channel, depending on how we normally communicate with you.