Our Commitment To Privacy
Your privacy is important to Levine Leichtman Capital Partners, LLC and its affiliates (together, ‘our’, ‘us’, ‘we’ or ‘company’). To better protect your privacy, we are providing information explaining our online information practices.
This Privacy Policy describes how we gather and use personal data that we may collect on or through the website and/or through other data collection points in order to provide our services or products to you. Please read this Privacy Policy carefully.
For the purposes of applicable UK and EU data protection laws including Regulation (EU) 2016/679 (the ‘EU GDPR’), the UK equivalent of the EU GDPR (the ‘UK GDPR’) and the Data Protection Act 2018, Levine Leichtman Capital Partners, LLC and Levine Leichtman Strategic Capital, LLC will each be a data controller of any personal data collected by us. If you have any questions regarding our use of your personal data, or this Privacy Policy, please contact LLCPprivacy@llcp.com.
We rely on various legal bases under applicable data protection legislation in order to process your personal data, including our legitimate interests, contractual necessity and as required by law, as detailed below. We use the personal data we collect to operate our business and provide you with the services and products we offer and perform essential business operations.
Further information about the legal bases under which we process your personal data is included in the section headed “Why we use your personal data”.
You do not need to take any action as a result of this Privacy Policy, but you do have certain rights as described below in the section headed “Your rights”.
The Personal Data We Process and How We Obtain it
Information you provide to us
We collect your personal data when you decide to interact with us and we only collect the information necessary to carry out our business for the purposes set out below.
We collect your personal data when you decide to interact with us (e.g., via the “Contact” section of the website, when you visit our offices, when you communicate with us over email or the telephone) including your name, title, address, email and phone number, as appropriate.
Information provided by third parties or publicly available sources
If you represent one of our vendors, business partners or portfolio companies, we may also collect your personal data (e.g., , basic identifying and contact information, including your name, title, work email address, work postal address, job title and/or work telephone number, tax information and bank data, as appropriate) from the entity that you work for where this is necessary to receive products or services from, or otherwise conduct business with, such third party.
We also process information in relation to companies that we are evaluating in connection with a potential investment in or purchase of such companies which may include personal data including name, title, email address, postal address, job title, telephone number, passport or other government-issued identification, financial information and/or job and benefits information, litigation history, AML/KYC, education and employment history. This personal data is obtained via third parties.
Why We Use Your Personal Data
To the extent that you provide us with any personal data, through or in connection with this website (i.e., via telephone, email or secure portal), we may use such information for the following purposes:
| Purpose | Legal Basis |
| To provide you with the services or financial products you have requested | Contractual necessity; and/or legitimate interest in operating our business and providing investment services |
| To communicate with you, to operate, schedule and facilitate meetings (in-person and online) and to administer your participation in any of our events | Legitimate interest in operating our business and providing investment services |
| To keep a record of your relationship with us | Legitimate interest in operating our business and providing investment services; and/or legal requirement |
| To verify your identity (including to conduct anti-money laundering checks and to enable you to access our offices) | Legal requirement; and/or legitimate interest in operating our business and providing investment services securely |
| To protect against, identify and prevent, fraud, money-laundering, cyber attacks, theft of our property and other unlawful activity | Legal requirement; and/or legitimate interest in operating our business and providing investment services securely |
| To conduct conflicts checks | Legal requirement |
| To conduct due diligence activities in connection with an actual or prospective corporate transaction or investment with respect to which we are party to | Legitimate interest in operating our business and providing investment services; contractual necessity; and/or legal requirement |
| Corporate transaction and investment reporting | Legal requirement |
| Fraud and abuse prevention | Legitimate interest |
| Litigation management and conducting internal audits and investigations | Legal requirement; and/or legitimate interest in operating our business |
| To administer and protect our business and this website | Legitimate interest in operating our business |
| To make suggestions and recommendations to you about goods or services that may be of interest to you | Legitimate interest in operating our business |
| For statistical analysis and market research | Legitimate interest in operating our business |
| For any other purpose that has been notified, or has been agreed, in writing | Consent |
Note that we may process your personal data on more than one legal basis depending on the specific purpose for which we are using your personal data.
No solely automated decision making, including profiling, is used when processing your personal data.
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 we need to use your personal data for an unrelated purpose, we will notify you and explain the legal basis which allows us to do so.
Marketing
We do not collect information about you via our website and across third party websites to provide you with marketing or promotional communications relating to our business or services which you might be interested in. If this were to change, where required by applicable law, we will obtain your consent for the processing of your personal data for direct marketing purposes. If you do receive direct marketing communications from us, you may opt-out at any time by emailing LLCPprivacy@llcp.com.
Disclosure And Transfer Of Personal Data
Unfortunately, the transmission of information and data via the Internet is not completely secure. Although we do our best to protect your personal data, we cannot guarantee the security of any information or data transmitted to or through our website; any transmission of information or data by you to or through this website is at your sole risk.
Your personal data will be shared with and processed by our affiliates and certain service providers as necessary to fulfil the purposes set out in this policy, including professional advisors, auditors, tax advisors, IT and data security providers, data hosting providers, customer relationship manager software platform providers and in some instances placement agents, administration agents, depositories, investment managers and fund administrators, as well as regulators, law enforcement and other government bodies. We make sure anyone who provides a service to, or for us, enters into an agreement with us and meets our standards for data security. To the extent your personal data is transferred to countries outside of the EEA/UK, such transfers will only be made in accordance with applicable data privacy laws. For further information about the safeguards/derogations used, please contact LLCPprivacy@llcp.com.
We reserve the right to disclose your personal data as required by law, or when we believe that disclosure is necessary to protect our rights and/or comply with a judicial proceeding, court order, request from a regulator, national security, for the purposes of public importance or any other legal or investigatory process involving us. Should we, or any of our affiliated entities, be the subject of a takeover, divestment or acquisition we may disclose your personal data to the new owner of the relevant business and their advisors on the basis of our legitimate interest..
Security And Retention Of Personal Data
We are committed to protecting the personal data you entrust to us. We adopt robust and appropriate data security technologies, measures and policies, so the information we have about you is protected to the extent possible from unauthorized access and disclosure, accidental loss and improper use. 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. They will only process your personal data on our instructions and they are subject to a duty of confidentiality and required to keep your personal data secure.
We have put in place procedures to deal with any suspected personal data breach and will notify you and any applicable regulator of a breach where we are legally required to do so.
We will keep your personal data only for as long as is reasonably necessary for the purposes set out in this Privacy Policy, unless a longer retention period is required by law. For further information about how long we will keep your personal data, please contact LLCPprivacy@llcp.com.
Capacity
This website is only intended for individuals who are at least 18 years of age. We do not knowingly encourage or solicit visitors to this website who are under the age of 18 or knowingly collect personal data from anyone under the age of 18 without parental consent. If we learn we have collected or received personal data from an individual under the age of 18, we will delete that information.
Your Rights
Under the EU GDPR and the UK GDPR, you may have the right: to obtain information about, or (where applicable) withdraw any consent given in relation to, the processing of your personal data; to access and receive a copy of your personal data; to request rectification of your personal data; to object to the processing of your personal data on the basis of our legitimate interests; and (in certain circumstances) to request erasure of your personal data.
To exercise these rights and controls, please contact LLCPprivacy@llcp.com.
Notification Of Changes
We reserve the right to amend this Privacy Policy from time to time by updating this Privacy Policy.
Contact Us
If you have any questions or concerns about this Privacy Policy, please contact LLCPprivacy@llcp.com.
Complaints
Should you wish to lodge a complaint with regards to how your personal information has been processed by us, please contact your local supervisory authority. In the UK, this is the Information Commissioner’s Office – https://ico.org.uk/global/contact-us.
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