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Introduction 

PwC is strongly committed to protecting personal data. This privacy statement describes why and how we collect and use personal data and provides information about individuals’ rights in relation to personal data. It applies to personal data provided to us, both by individuals themselves or by others. We may use personal data provided to us for any of the purposes described in this privacy statement or as otherwise stated at the point of collection.

As used in this privacy statement, “PwC”, “us”, and “we” refer to the PwC network and/or one or more of its Member Firms that may process your personal information. Each Member Firm in the PwC network is a separate legal entity. The data controllers of your personal information are one or more of the Member Firms listed here at https://www.pwc.com/gx/en/about/corporate-governance/legal-entities.html. For further details, please see www.pwc.com/structure. See http://www.pwc.com/gx/en/about/office-locations.html for a list of countries and regions in which PwC Member Firms operate.

This privacy statement also applies to personal data that may be provided to Strategy&, PwC’s global strategy consulting firm, whether by individuals themselves or by others. Strategy& may use personal information for any of the reasons described in this statement or as otherwise stated at the point of data collection. Strategy& is part of the PwC Network. 

PwC processes personal data for numerous purposes. Our policy is to be transparent about why and how we process personal data. 

Click on the links in our index to take you to the more detailed sections of this privacy statement.

To find out more about our specific processing activities, go to our processing activities.

 

Our legal grounds for processing your personal data

Your local law may require us to set out in this privacy statement the legal grounds on which we rely in order to process your personal information. In such cases, we rely on one or more of the following processing conditions:

 

 

Transfers of personal data

Cross-border transfers

If we process your personal information, your personal information may be transferred to and stored outside the country where you are located. This includes countries outside the European Economic Area (EEA) and countries that do not have laws that provide specific protection for personal information.

Where we collect your personal information within the EEA, transfer outside the EEA will be only:

Other PwC Member Firms

For details of PwC Member Firm locations, please see http://www.pwc.com/gx/en/about/office-locations.html.

We may share personal data with other PwC member firms where necessary in connection with the purposes described in this privacy statement. For example, when providing professional services to a client we may share personal information with PwC Member Firms in different territories that are involved in providing advice to that client.

Third Party Providers

We may transfer or disclose the personal data we collect to third party contractors, subcontractors, and/or their subsidiaries and affiliates. Third parties support the PwC Network in providing its services and help provide, run and manage IT systems. Examples of third party contractors we use are providers of identity management, website hosting and management, data analysis, data backup, security and cloud storage services. The servers powering and facilitating our IT infrastructure are located in secure data centres around the world, and personal data may be stored in any one of them.

The third party providers may use their own third party subcontractors that have access to personal data (sub-processors). It is our policy to use only third party providers that are bound to maintain appropriate levels of security and confidentiality, to process personal information only as instructed by PwC, and to flow those same obligations down to their sub-processors.

Other disclosures

We may also disclose personal information under the following circumstances:

Our processing activities

To find out more please go to the sections of this statement that are relevant to you.

Business contacts

Corporate clients (and individuals associated with our corporate clients)

Personal clients

Individuals who use our applications

Individuals whose personal data we obtain in connection with providing professional services to our clients

Websites

Marketing activities

Others who get in touch with us

Recruitment applicants

Suppliers (including subcontractors and individuals associated with our suppliers and subcontractors)

PwC Personnel (partners, staff and contractors)

Insolvencies and restructuring

Visitors to our offices

Security

We have implemented generally accepted standards of technology and operational security in order to protect personal information from loss, misuse, alteration or destruction. Only authorised persons are provided access to personal information; such individuals have agreed to maintain the confidentiality of this information.

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

Your legal rights in relation to personal data

You may have certain rights under your local law in relation to the personal information we hold about you. In particular, you may have a legal right to:

Changes to this privacy statement

This privacy statement was last updated on 6th November 2020

We may update this privacy statement at any time by publishing an updated version here. So you know when we make changes to this privacy statement, we will amend the revision date at the top of this page. The new modified or amended privacy statement will apply from that revision date. Therefore, we encourage you to review this privacy statement periodically to be informed about how we are protecting your information.