privacy policy

JULY 2017

 

The company under the name "Independent Portfolio Management Société Anonyme for the Servicing of Receivables from Loan and Credit Facilities (S.A.S.R.L.C.F.)", whose registered seat is located at Agia Paraskevi (4 Zalogou Street), with General Commercial Registry No. 142905801000 (IPM), member of the Alvarez & Marsal Group of Companies (the A&M Group), is committed to protecting the privacy of the persons who access the present website (the users), its customers and contacts, and is dedicated to protecting the confidentiality and privacy of information that may be notified to IPM through the present website or other websites of the A&M Group. This includes protection of personal information, commonly referred to as Personal Data, that may be collected through the present website or through customer contact with IPM (e.g., when the user completes a contact form). IPM always seeks compliance with applicable privacy and data protection legislation within every jurisdiction in which it operates.

Information for Website Users

We will only collect Personal Data that is voluntarily provided by the users of this website, so that we may offer information about our services. If you do not agree to your Personal Data being used in accordance with this Privacy Policy, please do not use this website or give us any of your Personal Data.

The Privacy Policy covers the information management practices of all websites of the A&M Group that link to this Privacy Policy.  

Collection of Information

We may collect information from you about your use of this website or of other websites of the A&M Group. We collect Personal Data only if you choose to provide them to us. No registration is required in order to use the relevant website. You may give us information about yourself by filling in forms which may generally include data such as: name, title, company / company address, email address and phone / fax numbers, provided through completion of information request screens. The information request screens allow users to ask questions or request information about IPM’s services; or to offer feedback, comments or suggestions about IPM’s services.

Website Navigational Information

As you navigate through this website, we automatically collect information of a technical nature, including Internet Protocol (IP) addresses through Web server logs and other information through cookies and Web beacons. 

An IP Address is a number that identifies your computer or other similar device whenever you access the Internet, allowing computers and servers to recognize and communicate with each other over the network. IPM collects technical information, including the IP address used to connect your computer to the Internet, the login information, data such as browser type and version, time zone setting, browser plug-in types and versions, operating system and platform, to aggregate non-personal information for analysis and trending.    

A Uniform Resource Locator (‘URL’) is the address of a specific website or file on the Internet. We collect information about your visit, including the full URL clickstream to, through and from our site (including date and time), items you viewed or searched for, page response times, download errors, length of visit to a specific page, page interaction information (such as scrolling, clicks and mouse-overs) and methods used to browse away from the page, as well as any phone numbers used to call our customer service center.   

Cookies are small text files placed on your hard drive that allow the site to remember who you are. As an example, IPM uses cookies to compile aggregate statistics to enhance the overall website experience. 

On our website, a notification ‘cookie’ banner will appear requiring your explicit consent to place and collect cookies. If you do not provide consent, target/advertising cookies will not be placed on your browser and your computer will not be identified.  If you accept the use of cookies, your selection will be valid for a period of one year. Performance and functionality cookies may still be required for necessary operation of our site. Such cookies will not be blocked through the use of this notification banner. If you wish to revoke your selection, you may do so by clearing your browser's cookies (often found in your browser's Tools or Preferences menu).

Read more about how IPM uses cookies in the Cookies Policy: https://www.alvarezandmarsal.com/cookie-policy.

Web Beacons are small image files on a Web page that may be used, for example, to count users that have accessed a page or to gather other related website statistics. By disabling browser cookies, unique information associated with web beacons will also be disabled.

Use of Information Collected

By submitting information on our website, you are also agreeing to the use of this information in accordance with this Privacy Policy. Any Personal Data collected is not used for other purposes, unless with your prior explicit consent or as otherwise required or permitted by applicable law.

If you are our customer or contact, we may process information about you, such as your name, position, company, contact details (such as business email and telephone number and business address) and the frequency of communications and meetings with our employees. We process this information in order to better understand our relationship with you and to contact you regarding our products and services; you may revoke your consent and/or object to us contacting you about our products and services at any time. In this context, we may process information that you have provided to us, for instance when you give your business card to one of our employees or submit information to us via a contact form or information request screen. We may also combine information that you have provided to us with other information that we hold about you, for instance information on our systems regarding the frequency of your communications with our employees and the dates, times and locations of meetings with our employees as well as information that you make publicly available on your Linked In profile. We may use service providers for this purpose.  However, if we do so, we will take the steps required to ensure that there is an adequate level of protection of your information. 

Sharing of Information Collected

Information obtained by the website is used for the purposes stated at the time that the information is collected. IPM may also share data with other members of the A&M Group, i.e. its affiliated companies, our parent company and its subsidiaries, as well as service providers to whom we have contractually awarded the provision of services on our behalf, including, but not limited to, customer relationship management (CRM) and analytics and search engine providers that assist us in the improvement and optimization of our website.  IPM may also partner with other companies to jointly offer services or it may share information with our joint promotion partner(s) in connection with the potential for jointly offered services. IPM does not control our business partners’ use of data we collect and their use of information will be in accordance with their own privacy policy. IPM does not sell Personal Data to any third parties, nor does it transfer the Personal Data that you provide to any third parties for their own marketing use. IPM reserves the right to use or disclose information provided if required by law or if we reasonably believe that such use or disclosure is necessary to protect IPM’s rights and / or comply with a legal order or any other duty to disclose or share your Personal Data or apply our terms of use, to protect the rights, property or safety of IPM, our clients or others. This may include exchanging information with other companies and organizations for the purposes of fraud protection and credit risk reduction.

Links to Other Sites

The present website may contain links to other sites that are not governed by this Privacy Policy but by other privacy statements that may be different. We recommend users to review the privacy policy of each website visited before disclosing any Personal Data.

Public Forums (Bulletin Boards, Blogs, Chat Rooms, etc.)

IPM may provide links to social media platforms maintained on separate servers by natural or legal persons over which IPM has no control. IPM makes no representations or warranties regarding the accuracy of information located on such servers. In addition, IPM cannot be held responsible if you share Personal Data on social media platforms that is subsequently used, misused or otherwise appropriated by another user. We recommend reviewing the privacy policy of any third-party site that may be linked from our website to determine their intended use of your Personal Data.

International Transfer of Information Collected

IPM may transfer certain Personal Data across geographical borders, subject to the requirements of applicable law.  For example information collected within the European Economic Area or Asian, North or Latin American jurisdictions or other countries may be transferred outside of those areas. IPM may also store Personal Data in a country or jurisdiction other than where you are based. By providing Personal Data on our website, users are consenting to this cross-border transfer / and or storage of their data. We will take all steps reasonably necessary to ensure that your data is treated securely and always in accordance with this Privacy Policy.

Communications Preferences

IPM gives users choices regarding the collection and usage of Personal Data. If you have registered to any IPM related updates through our website and you do not wish to receive future emails, you may visit the “unsubscribe page” within the application you registered.

User Data

We use reasonable efforts to retain the Personal Data collected from our users only for so long as we need such data in accordance with the purpose for which it was collected or until we are requested to delete it (if earlier).

Users have the right to request a copy of their Personal Data that we hold and/or to request the correction, temporary non-use, blocking, non-disclosure or erasure of their data. If users wish to make such a request or are concerned that any of their Personal Data that we possess is incorrect, they may contact us at info@ipm.eu.com.

Security

IPM implements generally acceptable security standards for the protection of Personal Data from loss, misuse, alteration, unauthorized disclosure or access, destruction and/or any other form of unlawful processing. Only authorized IPM employees / partners are provided access to Personal Data, who are subject to strict confidentiality requirements.

Unfortunately, the transmission of information via the Internet is not completely secure. Although we will do our best to protect your Personal Data, we cannot guarantee the security of your data transmitted to our site; any transmission is at your own risk. Once we have received your information, we will use strict procedures and security features designed to prevent unauthorized disclosure, access or other form of unlawful processing of your Personal Data.

Minors

IPM understands the importance of protecting minors' privacy, especially in an online environment. This website, as well as the other websites of the A&M Group, are neither intentionally designed nor directed at minors and we do not knowingly collect or maintain information about minors.

Changes to this Privacy Policy

IPM keeps this Privacy Policy under regular review and reserves the right to modify or amend this Privacy Policy at any time. The effective date is displayed at the beginning of this statement. To keep users informed of any changes to our Privacy Policy, we will notify users of material changes by prominently identifying the alteration(s) for a period of not less than two weeks on our central homepage at www.ipm.eu.com.

Policy Questions / Contacting Us

If you have questions regarding this Privacy Policy or wish to modify information previously collected, you may contact the following email address: info@ipm.eu.com.