Privacy Notice and Policy
Neo Asset Management Private Limited, or any third party service provider, functionary, or agent appointed by
NEO ASSET MANAGEMENT PRIVATE LIMITED acting on its behalf (together, the "NEO ASSET MANAGEMENT PRIVATE LIMITED
managed Fund", "we", "us", "our") are committed to protecting your personal data and are required, by Data
Protection Legislation (as defined below), to provide individuals with certain information about how we use your
personal information.
This privacy notice and policy ("Privacy Policy") explains what information we collect from you or you
provide
to us, how we use it and with whom we share that information. The Privacy Policy also sets out your rights and
who you can contact for more information.
In this Privacy Policy:
• your information is sometimes called "personal data";
• we may also sometimes collectively refer to handling, collecting, protecting and storing your personal
data as
"processing" such personal data; and
• the term "Data Protection Legislation" means the EU General Data Protection Regulation 2016/679, together
with
all other applicable legislation relating to privacy or data protection.
For the purposes of Data Protection Legislation the data controller is NEO ASSET MANAGEMENT PRIVATE LIMITED.
1 What information we collect about you We may collect, record and use information about you in
physical and
electronic form and will hold, use and otherwise process the data in accordance with Data Protection Legislation
and as set out in this Privacy Policy.
The personal data we, collect and process may include:
• information obtained from identification documentation (including your name, contact details, nationality
and
national identify numbers (where applicable));
• your professional title, occupation and details of your employment;
• your age and marital status;
• financial information, tax status, account details and evidence of ownership of financial assets;
• personal identifiers such as your social security number, national insurance number, tax file number, IP
address or our internal electronic identifiers;
• information which we or our service providers need to conduct 'know your client' checks such as details
relating to your passport and credit history; and
• other information you provide in the course of your dealings with us or which we require to provide you
with
products and services.
In certain circumstances, we also collect and process what are known as 'special categories' of
personal data
(as defined by Data Protection Legislation). Money laundering, sanctions, financial crime and fraud prevention
checks sometimes result in NEO ASSET MANAGEMENT PRIVATE LIMITED obtaining information about actual or alleged
criminal convictions and offences.
You are not obliged to provide us with your personal data where it is requested but we may be unable to
provide
certain products and services or proceed with your business relationship with NEO ASSET MANAGEMENT PRIVATE
LIMITED if you do not do so.
2 How we collect your information
The information we collect comes from:
• application forms or other materials you or your authorised representative submits to us during the
course of
your relationship with the NEO ASSET MANAGEMENT PRIVATE LIMITED managed Fund;
• you or your authorised representative's interactions with us, transactions and use of our products and
services (including the use of any our website);
• your or your authorised representative's business dealings us, including via email, telephone or as
stated in
contracts with you;
• depending on the products or services you or your authorised representative requires, third parties
(including
for credit and money laundering checks, among other things); and
• recording and monitoring tools that we use for compliance or security purposes (e.g. recording of
telephone
calls, monitoring emails, etc.).
3 How we use your information
Our primary purpose in collecting your personal information is to facilitate and record your holding of shares
in NEO ASSET MANAGEMENT PRIVATE LIMITED managed Funds, the management and administration of your holding in NEO
ASSET MANAGEMENT PRIVATE LIMITED managed Funds and any related administration on an on-going basis.
Additionally, we use your information for the following specific purposes:
• to process transactions and to improve the quality of the service that we provide to you;
• to disclose information to other third parties such as service providers of NEO ASSET MANAGEMENT PRIVATE
LIMITED, auditors, regulatory authorities and technology providers for the purposes outlined in this Privacy
Policy (as set out in more detail below)
• to communicate with you as necessary in connection with the proper running of the Fund;
• to update and maintain records and carry out fee calculations;
• to monitor and record calls and electronic communications;
• in connection with NEO ASSET MANAGEMENT PRIVATE LIMITED’s or NEO ASSET MANAGEMENT PRIVATE LIMITED’s
managed
Funds internal management and reporting;
• to report regulatory and tax related information to regulatory and tax authorities in order to comply
with a
legal obligation, including any obligation arising under legislation implementing the U.S. Foreign Account Tax
Compliance Act of 2010, as amended, and the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development's Common
Reporting Standard;
• to permit, administer and record your investment in NEO ASSET MANAGEMENT PRIVATE LIMITED managed Funds; •
verifying the identity of the prospective investor to comply with statutory and regulatory requirements in
relation to anti-money laundering procedures;
• in order to carry out actions which are necessary to comply with legal obligations in relation to the
prevention of fraud, money laundering, terrorist financing, bribery, corruption, tax evasion and to prevent the
provision of financial and other services to persons who may be subject to economic or trade sanctions, on an
on-going basis;
• for prudential and risk management purposes;
• to provide you with any products and services that you request from us; and
• if it is necessary to use it for another reason and that reason is compatible with the primary purpose. 4
Legal grounds for using your personal information Data Protection Legislation permits us to process your
personal data in the way that we do because the processing is:
• necessary for the purposes of the legitimate interests that we pursue, which are to run and administer
the
Fund, to discharge our legal obligations, to store and disclose information where necessary and to evaluate,
develop and improve our services; or
• necessary for the performance of a contract with you; or
• necessary in order to comply with a legal obligation to which we are subject. To the extent that we
process
any special categories of data relating to you for any of the purposes outlined above, we will do so because
either: (i) you have given us your explicit consent to process that personal data; (ii) you have made the
personal data manifestly public; or (iii) the processing is necessary for the establishment, exercise or defence
of legal claims. 5 Providing your information to third parties The following categories of recipients may
receive your personal information and process it for the purposes outlined in this Privacy Policy:
• third parties such as auditors, regulatory authorities, technology providers, agents, contractors, other
service providers or related companies (including payment processors) if this is necessary to administer your
investment in NEO ASSET MANAGEMENT PRIVATE LIMITED managed Funds, respond to your enquiries or for any other
related purposes;
• any regulatory, supervisory or governmental authorities to the extent we are required by law to do so,
and in
certain other limited circumstances (for example if required by a court order or regulatory authority, or if we
believe that such action is necessary to prevent fraud);
• tax authorities. The Fund does not undertake marketing activities for third parties, nor does it provide
information to third parties for their own marketing purposes. 6 Transferring data outside of the EEA NEO ASSET
MANAGEMENT PRIVATE LIMITED is incorporated and regulated in India as such, your personal data is stored on
secure systems within NEO ASSET MANAGEMENT PRIVATE LIMITED premise within India and with providers of secure
information storage in India. Further, we may transfer, store or allow the transfer or storage of personal data
about you to our service providers and other organizations outside the European Economic Area (EEA), with
adequate safeguards to ensure your personal data remains adequately protected. Some of these destinations may
not have data protection laws that are similar to those in the EEA and may not be regarded by the European
Commission as providing an adequate level of data protection. When we, or our permitted third parties, transfer
personal information outside the EEA, we will aim to ensure that the transfer is subject to appropriate
safeguards in accordance with Data Protection Legislation. 7 Automated processing We do not carry out automated
decision-making or profiling. Your rights At any time, you have the right:
• to be informed about the processing of your personal data (i.e. for what purposes, what types, to what
recipients it is disclosed, storage periods, any third party sources from it was obtained, confirmation of
whether we undertake automated decision-making, including profiling, and the logic, significance and envisaged
consequences);
• to request access to or a copy of any personal data which we hold about you; • to rectification of your
personal data, if you consider that it is inaccurate;
• to ask us to delete your personal data, if you consider that we do not have the right to hold it;
• to withdraw consent to our processing of your personal data (to the extent such processing is based on
previously obtained consent);
• to restrict processing of your personal data;
• to data portability (moving some of your personal data elsewhere) in certain circumstances;
• to object to your personal data being processed in certain circumstances; and
• not to be subject to a decision based on automated processing and to have safeguards put in place if you
are
being profiled based on your personal data. Any request for access to or a copy of your personal data must be in
writing and we will endeavour to respond within a reasonable period and in any event within one month in
compliance with Data Protection Legislation. We will comply with our legal obligations as regards your rights as
a data subject. We will correct any incorrect or incomplete information of which we are aware and will stop
processing your personal data, or erase it, where there is no legal reason for us to continue to hold or use
that information. We aim to ensure that the information we hold about you is accurate at all times. To assist us
in ensuring that your information is up to date, do let us know if any of your personal details change.
How long we keep your information
We will only keep the information we collect about you for as long as required for the purposes set out in
this
Privacy Policy or as long as required for us to comply with any legal obligations to which we are subject being
the longest of the following periods:
• a minimum of six years;
• as long as is necessary for the relevant activity or as long as is set out in any relevant agreement you
enter
into with NEO ASSET MANAGEMENT PRIVATE LIMITED or NEO ASSET MANAGEMENT PRIVATE LIMITED managed Funds;
• the length of time it is reasonable to keep records to demonstrate compliance with professional or legal
obligations; • any retention period that is required by law; or
• the end of the period in which litigation or investigations might arise in respect of an investment in
NEO
ASSET MANAGEMENT PRIVATE LIMITED managed Funds. This will involve us regularly reviewing our files to check that
information is accurate, up-todate and still required.
10 How we protect your information
We ensure that there are appropriate technical, physical, electronic, and administrative safeguards in
place to
protect your personal details from unauthorised access.
11 Changes to Privacy Policy
This Privacy Policy may be amended from time to time without notice, in which case the date of this Privacy
Policy will be revised. If our Privacy Policy changes in any way, we will place an updated version on our
website. Regularly reviewing the Privacy Policy ensures that you are always aware of what information we
collect, how we use it and under what circumstances, if any, we will share it with other parties.
12 Other
This Privacy Policy is for your information and should not be used as the basis for any decision to
purchase or
redeem investments in NEO ASSET MANAGEMENT PRIVATE LIMITED managed Funds. The views and information expressed in
this policy do not constitute and may not be relied upon as constituting any form of investment advice or
inducement to invest, and prospective investors must obtain appropriate independent professional advice before
making investment decisions.