Privacy statement

Pensions Brief (the “Site”) is provided by PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP, the limited liability partnership incorporated in England under registration number OC303525 and with its registered address at 1 Embankment place, London WC2N 6RH.  The personal data you provide when you register for the Site, and any personal data provided after registration, will be controlled by PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP.

"We" or "us" in this Privacy Statement means, in relation to your personal data, PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP, the limited liability partnership incorporated in England under registration number OC303525 and with its registered address at 1 Embankment place, London WC2N 6RH.

"You" in this Privacy Statement means you as an individual, rather than any legal entity (such as your employer) which you may represent when you register for the Site or order a product or service from us using this Site.

1. What information is collected?
2. How will personal data be used?
3. Are cookies used on the Site?
4. How can I access, change my personal data or withdraw my consent?
5. Are personal data disclosed to other entities?
6. How long are personal data retained?
7. How are personal data secured?


1.        What information is collected?

"Personal data" means information about you and/or third parties (where required by law, a third party could be a legal entity represented by you e.g. where you submit data to us about your employer or a client company).

When you visit this Site and in the course of providing products or services to you, we may collect personal data either:

(i) directly where you are asked to provide data, such as when you register, use any "Contact Us" features of the Site or send us a comment form (e.g. name, e-mail address and mailing address); or

(ii) indirectly, such as using cookies.

If you decide to register and obtain services or information using this Site, you may be asked to fill in certain boxes with information about yourself or others. You must fill in the "mandatory" boxes marked * as otherwise we may not be able to register you or process your order or question. We will only ever collect, hold, process, use, communicate and/or disclose such personal data, whether optional or not, in accordance with this Privacy Statement.

If you are acting as an intermediary or otherwise on behalf of a third party or supply us with information regarding a third party (such as your employer or a client company), you undertake that you are an authorised representative or agent of such third party and that you have obtained all necessary consents from such third party to the collection, processing, use and disclosure by us of their personal data. Because we are collecting the third party's data from you, you undertake to make the third party aware of all matters listed in this Privacy Statement, preferably by distributing a copy of this statement to them or by referring them to our website.

We do not generally seek to collect sensitive data through the Site. If we do seek to collect such data we will ask you to consent to the uses we propose to make of the data. By providing us with unsolicited sensitive data you consent to our using those data, subject to applicable law, for the purposes set out below.

2.        How will personal data be used?

We may process and use personal data collected via this Site or otherwise in relation to this Site for the following purposes:

· to administer the Site

· to provide information products and services to you at your request

· to update our records and databases

· to improve the personalisation of our services for you and maintain information about you or a third party about whom you have supplied us with data (for example, your employer)

· to inform you or to enable other PricewaterhouseCoopers entities to inform you of features, services and products from PricewaterhouseCoopers and/or send you related information which may be of interest to you, but only if you affirmatively agree to us doing this (if we intend to do this, you will have an opportunity to consent to this when you register to obtain any service or information from us and you may withdraw your consent at any time as described in paragraph 4 below).

3.        Are cookies used on the Site?

A cookie is information sent by a Web server to a user's computer and stored there. The information stored in the cookie can be accessed by that server when the user returns to the web site (in this case the Site). A cookie can hold a variety of information, including the number of times the user has accessed the site, registration information, and the number of times a user has seen a particular advertisement on the site.

We use cookies to help us authenticate your identity as a registered user when you log on to the Site. Cookies enable us to recognise your browser and to provide certain features to you.

The "help" function on most browsers will have information on how to prevent your computer accepting cookies, find out if you have received a cookie and disable them completely, if this is what you want to do. However, be aware that if you do disable cookies, you will not be able to register nor use the Site.

4.        How can I access or change my personal data or withdraw my consent?

You are entitled to request access to and correct all your personal data collected by us via this Site, as well as to require us to delete your personal data if you no longer want us to process it. You may have additional rights provided by applicable laws.

You can make such a request or a related enquiry by sending an email to the entity named on your registration form and/or the entities to whom you have submitted personal data. If you consent or have previously consented to the collection, holding, processing, use, communication and/or disclosure of personal data as identified herein, please note that you can withdraw your consent at any time by sending an email message to our office via the ‘Contact Us’ section of the Site.

Please note that there may be a small charge for making an access request in relation to personal data.

5.        Are personal data disclosed to other entities?

The data will only be disclosed to certain types of staff within PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP (i.e. staff whose job it is to process your enquiries and orders or otherwise to administer the Site and those staff involved in the provision of services and products which may be of interest to you) and they will only process the data for the purposes identified in this Privacy Statement.

Personal data will also, subject to applicable law, be disclosed:

· to other entities within the PricewaterhouseCoopers network¹ which may follow the privacy practices in this policy or notify you of their own privacy practices

· to data processors, suppliers or providers of goods or services (but only for the purposes of processing your request for services or information) and

· where such disclosure is required by law through subpoena, search warrant or other forms of legal process.

6.        How long are personal data retained?

We will keep your personal data only as long as it is reasonably necessary for the purposes described in this Privacy Statement or, if you have registered for the Site and to the extent necessary to preserve our rights or allow us to comply with our obligations in relation to your registration, for 7 years from the date your registration is terminated, whichever comes last.