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Apart from Strict Cookies, some software we use in this website, from third parties, can store cookies (Functional Cookies) on your Terminal Equipment throughout our website. This paragraph applies to these Functional Cookies that provide functionality in our website. Planate cannot control or influence the use of Functional Cookies and/or the use by third parties of the information collected through Functional Cookies. Planate only provides the platform that enables storing these third party cookies. Planate emphasizes that on the use of the data collected through Functional Cookies further conditions of third parties may be applicable.
The different types of Functional Cookies are not mandatory and the Website can operate without them, therefore, you are allowed to opt-in or opt-out at any time.
At this point we do not use any Functional Cookies on the Website.

In order to collect data on the usage of the Website and visits to the Website, Planate uses third party software. These providers store a permanent cookie (Performance cookies) on your Terminal Equipment which is subsequently used to register your use of the Website. This data is then analyzed by these third parties and the results are presented to Planate. This enables Planate to get insights in the way in which the Website is used and, based on this information, to make adjustments to the Website or the provided services.
This kind of software can give this information to other third parties if it is legally obligated to do so and/or if those third parties are processing the information on behalf of these providers. These providers cannot use the information for any other purpose. You, as a user, can opt-in or opt-out from Performance cookies.

Our Performance Cookies Providers are:

• Google Analytics

These kind of cookies allow us to retarget our Website’s users, whenever they browse any website within the ads network. This is used to market our products and services when users are searching or visiting other websites by displaying an advert for specific Planate’s products.
The different types of Marketing Cookies are not mandatory and the Website can operate without them, therefore, you are allowed to opt-in or opt-out at any time.
At this point we do not use any Marketing Cookies Providers on the Website.

Our cookies are stored and saved on your Terminal Equipment for a term set up by the respective cookies provider. We do not have any control over such term.

Planate Management Group LLC (“we”, “us” and “our”) is a limited liability company registered in Virginia, the United States of America at 1800 Diagonal Road, Suite 600, Alexandria, Virginia 22314.
References to “you” means any of our current or former:
– Visitors, Customers and Clients – visitors of our website (www.planate.com), customers, clients and prospective clients;
– Employees and Contractors – employees, officers, directors, contractors, agents, consultants or agent workers;
– based in the European Economic Area (“EEA”) or based outside the EEA but where your Personal Data (as defined below) is processed in the context of any of our establishments in the EEA. References to “you” will also include, where relevant, any dependents or other individuals about whom you provide Personal Data in connection with your relationship with us for visitor/client/customer/employee/contractor management reasons, such as for emergency contact or benefit purposes.
We are a “controller” for the purposes of the General Data Protection Regulation 2016/679 (“GDPR”). We are committed to protecting your privacy and processing your Personal Data fairly and lawfully in compliance with the GDPR.
By “processing”, we mean the collection, recording, storage, use, disclosure and any other form of operations or dealings with your Personal Data.
During your engagement with us, we may need to gather and use “Personal Data” about you, by which we mean any information about you from which you can be identified. The purpose of this
Privacy Notice (“Privacy Notice”) is to inform you of how we will process your Personal Data and the measures and processes we have put in place to ensure its adequate protection.
This notice does not form part of your contract, and we may amend it from time to time.

2. FAIR AND LAWFUL PROCESSING

We will only process Personal Data about you where the processing is necessary:
1. to manage our business and operations;
2. to provide benefits and payments to you (Employees and Contractors only);
3. to inform you about our products, offers and activities (Customers and Clients only);
4. for our legitimate interest or those of any third-party recipients that receive your Personal Data (as detailed below); and/or
5. to comply with our legal obligations.

We may also process certain Personal Data about you where you have given us your express consent to do so (which you may withdraw at any time, as detailed at clause 9 below).

3. WHAT PERSONAL DATA WE COLLECT ABOUT YOU

We typically process the following types of Personal Data about you:

For Employees and Contractors:
1. Personal details, such as name, phone number, email, address, date of birth, marital status, emergency contact details, country of residence, national insurance number, salary, bank details, and tax related details;
2. Professional details, such as your work contact details, CV, details of your qualifications, relevant experience and skills;
3. Identification documentation, such as copies of your passport, driving license, national or work ID card, or other documentation required by law (which may include photographs of your face and shoulders);

4. HR-related records, such as training, appraisals/performance assessments, absence and time-keeping records, disciplinary, grievance or capability proceedings, equal opportunities data, references and background checks; and
5. Details of your access to our premises and to systems, software, websites, and applications including access and location data and communications data (information about devices used, IP (Internet Protocol) address, device ID, application ID, vendor ID).

For Visitors:
1. Personal details, such as name, address, phone number, email (if provided by the Visitor);
2. Details of your access to our premises and to systems, software, websites, and applications including access and location data and communications data (information about devices used, IP (Internet Protocol) address, device ID, application ID, vendor ID).

We make every effort to maintain the accuracy and completeness of your Personal Data which we store and to ensure all of your Personal Data is up to date. However, you can assist us with this considerably by promptly contacting us if there are any changes to your Personal Data or if you become aware that we have inaccurate Personal Data relating to you (see clause 9 below). We will not be responsible for any losses arising from any inaccurate, inauthentic, deficient or incomplete Personal Data that you provide to us.

4. HOW WE COLLECT PERSONAL DATA

We usually collect your Personal Data from the information you submit during the course of your relationship with us or our affiliate companies. This will typically be done when you agree to
accept our marketing or information emails, apply for a job with us, join us as an employee, make any amendments to your personal details via our office intranet or by notifying us.

5. HOW WE USE PERSONAL DATA

We will process your Personal Data in connection with the management of our relationship with you, for the following purposes:
1. for general HR administration, including payroll, payments, insurance, benefits, training and development, performance management, sickness and absence management, emergency contact, grievance and disciplinary procedures, equal opportunities monitoring and business continuity planning (Employees and Contractors only);
2. for internal finance management, including personnel expense reimbursement, travel and time-keeping (Employees and Contractors only);
3. for monitoring and assessing compliance with our policies and standards, as well of those of our customers and/or other Planate contracted bodies (Employees and Contractors only);
4. for administrative purposes in relation to the security and access of our systems, premises, platforms and secured websites and applications;
5. to consider your suitability for any of our current or future employment opportunities and to confirm your references, character and educational background (Employees and Contractors only);
6. to comply with our legal and regulatory obligations and requests anywhere in the world, including reporting to and/or being audited by national and international regulatory, enforcement or exchange bodies;
7. to comply with court orders and exercise and/or defend our legal rights;
8. to analyze effectiveness of our promotional and marketing campaigns and materials;
9. for any other legitimate business purpose; and
10. as otherwise permitted or required by any applicable law or regulation.

6. INTERNATIONAL TRANSFERS OF PERSONAL DATA

The Personal Data we collect in connection with your employment or engagement with us may be transferred to (including accessed in or stored in) a country or territory outside the (“EEA”), including to countries whose laws may not offer the same level of protection of Personal Data as are enjoyed within the EEA. We will ensure that any such international transfers are made subject to appropriate or suitable safeguards as required by the GDPR. Copies of the relevant safeguard documents are available by contacting us at the details provided below.

7. WHO ELSE MIGHT RECEIVE YOUR PERSONAL DATA

We do not and will not sell, rent out or trade your Personal Data. We will only disclose your Personal Data in the ways set out in this notice and, in particular, to the following recipients:
1. to one of our affiliate companies (including those outside of the EEA);
2. to third parties who process your Personal Data on our behalf (such as our financial services provider or other systems providers including cloud providers);
3. to third parties who process your Personal Data on their own behalf but in connection with a service provided to us or you on our behalf (such as industry event organizers, pension providers, background check providers or third parties from whom we request a reference);
4. to companies providing services for money laundering checks, police record checks, credit risk reduction and other fraud and crime prevention purposes and companies providing similar services, including financial institutions, credit reference agencies and regulatory bodies with whom such information is shared;
5. to any third party to whom we assign or novate any of our rights or obligations;
6. to any prospective buyer in the event we sell any part of our business or assets; and/or

7. to any government, regulatory agency, enforcement or exchange body or court where we are required to do so by applicable law or regulation or at their request.

8. HOW WE PROTECT YOUR PERSONAL DATA

We are committed to safeguarding and protecting Personal Data and will implement and maintain appropriate technical and organizational measures to ensure a level of security appropriate to protect any Personal Data provided to us from accidental or unlawful destruction, loss, alteration, unauthorized disclosure of, or access to Personal Data transmitted, stored or otherwise processed. We have implemented Information Security Policy to govern any relations regarding any information security measures.

9. YOUR RIGHTS IN RELATION TO THE PERSONAL DATA WE COLLECT

You have the following rights regarding your Personal Data:
1. The right to be informed – you have the right to know how it will be collected, processed, and stored, and for what purposes;
2. The right of access – after we collect your Personal Data, you have the right to know how it has been collected, processed, and stored, what Personal Data exists, and for what purpose;
3. The right of rectification – you have the right to have your Personal Data corrected if it is inaccurate or incomplete;
4. The right to erasure (‘the right to be forgotten’) – you have the rights to have your Personal Data deleted or removed without the need for a specific reason as to why you wish to discontinue;

5. The right to restrict processing – you have the right to block or suppress processing or your Personal Data;
6. The right to data portability – you have the right to move, copy, or transfer your Personal Data from one data controller to another, in a safe and secure way, in a commonly used and machine-readable format;
7. The right to object – you are entitled to object to your Personal Data being used without your consent.
8. The right not to be subjected to automated decision making and profiling – you have the right to demand human intervention, rather than having important decisions made solely by algorithm.
If you wish to:
1. update, modify, delete or obtain a copy of the Personal Data that we hold on you; or
2. restrict or stop us from using any of the Personal Data which we hold about you;
3. exercise you inquire about any of your rights,
you can request this by emailing us at the address set out in clause 12 below. We endeavor to respond to such requests within a month or less, although we reserve the right to extend this period for complex requests.
In any of the situations listed above, we may request that you prove your identity by providing us with a copy of a valid means of identification for us to comply with our security obligations and to prevent unauthorized disclosure of data.
We reserve the right to charge you a reasonable administrative fee for any manifestly unfounded or excessive requests concerning your access to your Personal Data, and for any additional copies of the Personal Data you request from us.

10. HOW LONG WE WILL HOLD YOUR PERSONAL DATA FOR

We will only retain your Personal Data for as long as necessary to fulfill the purpose for which it was collected or to comply with legal, regulatory or internal policy requirements.

11. HOW WE UPDATE OR CHANGE THIS PRIVACY NOTICE

We may change or update parts of this Privacy Notice in order to maintain our compliance with applicable law and regulation or following an update to our internal practices. We will do this by updating this Privacy Notice on the Planate website. You will not necessarily be directly notified of such a change. Therefore, please ensure that you regularly check this Privacy Notice so you are fully aware of any changes or updates.

12. HOW YOU CAN CONTACT US

If you have any queries about the contents of this Privacy Notice, or wish to inform us of a change or correction to your Personal Data, would like a copy of the Personal Data we collect on you or would like to raise a complaint or comment, please contact us using the details set out below:
Email: [email protected]
Post: 1800 Diagonal Road Suite 600, Alexandria, Virginia 22314, United States

13. HOW TO LODGE A COMPLAINT TO THE REGULATOR

You are entitled to lodge a complaint with your data protection regulator if you consider that we have breached your data protection rights.

Planate Management Group LLC (“we”, “us” and “our”) is a limited liability company registered in Virginia, the United States of America at 1800 Diagonal Road, Suite 600, Alexandria, Virginia 22314.
References to “you” means any of our current or former visitors of our website (www.planate.com).
By “processing”, we mean the collection, recording, storage, use, disclosure and any other form of operations or dealings with your Personal Data.
During your visit to, browsing on, and communicating through our website, we may need to or automatically will gather and use “Personal Data” about you, by which we mean any information about you from which you can be identified. The purpose of this Privacy Notice (“Privacy Notice”) is to inform you of how we will process your Personal Data and the measures and processes we have put in place to ensure its adequate protection.

This notice does not form part of your contract, and we may amend it from time to time.

1. FAIR AND LAWFUL PROCESSING

We will only process Personal Data about you where the processing is necessary:
1. to manage our business and operations;
2. to inform you about our products, offers and activities;
3. for our legitimate interest or those of any third-party recipients that receive your Personal Data (as detailed below); and/or
4. to comply with our legal obligations.

We may also process certain Personal Data about you where you have given us your express consent to do so (which you may withdraw at any time, as detailed below).

2. WHAT PERSONAL DATA WE COLLECT ABOUT YOU

We typically process the following types of Personal Data about you:
1. Personal details, such as name, email (if provided by the Visitor);
2. Details of your access to our premises and to systems, software, websites, and applications including access and location data and communications data (information about devices used, IP (Internet protocol) address, device ID, application ID, vendor ID).

We make every effort to maintain the accuracy and completeness of your Personal Data which we store and to ensure all of your Personal Data is up to date. However, you can assist us with this considerably by promptly contacting us if there are any changes to your Personal Data or if you become aware that we have inaccurate Personal Data relating to you. We will not be responsible for any losses arising from any inaccurate, inauthentic, deficient or incomplete Personal Data that you provide to us.

While we do not provide any adult-only services, we do not store any Personal Data for persons who have not reached 18 years of age. Such Personal Data is either not obtained or, if obtained due to us not knowing that Personal Data is relating to a person below 18 – removed from our systems as soon as we become aware of the fact that Personal Data relates to a person below 18.

3. HOW WE COLLECT PERSONAL DATA

We usually collect your Personal Data from the information you submit during the course of your relationship with us or our affiliate companies. This will typically be done when you agree to accept our marketing or information emails, apply for a job with us, join us as an employee, make any amendments to your personal details via our office intranet or by notifying us.

4. HOW WE USE PERSONAL DATA

We will process your Personal Data in connection with the management of our relationship with you, for the following purposes:
1. to deal with your requests, complaints and enquiries;
2. for administrative purposes in relation to the security and access of our systems, premises, platforms and secured websites and applications;
3. to comply with our legal and regulatory obligations and requests anywhere in the world, including reporting to and/or being audited by national and international regulatory, enforcement or exchange bodies;
4. to comply with court orders and exercise and/or defend our legal rights;
5. to analyze effectiveness of our promotional and marketing campaigns and materials;
6. to analyze requests and website use;
7. for any other legitimate business purpose; and
8. as otherwise permitted or required by any applicable law or regulation.

5. WHO ELSE MIGHT RECEIVE YOUR PERSONAL DATA

We do not and will not sell, rent out or trade your Personal Data. We will only disclose your Personal Data in the ways set out in this notice and, in particular, to the following recipients:
1. to one of our affiliate companies involved in processing Personal Data;
2. to third parties who process your Personal Data on our behalf (such systems providers including cloud providers);
3. to any third party to whom we assign or novate any of our rights or obligations;
4. to any prospective buyer in the event we sell any part of our business or assets; and/or
5. to any government, regulatory agency, enforcement or exchange body or court where we are required to do so by applicable law or regulation or at their request.

6. HOW WE PROTECT YOUR PERSONAL DATA

We are committed to safeguarding and protecting Personal Data and will implement and maintain appropriate technical and organizational measures to ensure a level of security appropriate to protect any Personal Data provided to us from accidental or unlawful destruction, loss, alteration, unauthorized disclosure of, or access to Personal Data transmitted, stored or otherwise processed. We have implemented Information Security Policy to govern any relations regarding any information security measures.

7. YOUR RIGHTS IN RELATION TO THE PERSONAL DATA WE COLLECT

If you wish to:
– update, modify, delete or obtain a copy of the Personal Data that we hold on you;
– restrict or stop us from using any of the Personal Data which we hold about you;

– exercise you inquire about any of your rights,
– unsubscribe from any marketing or information emails sent by us,
you can request this by emailing us at the address set out below, or by using website mechanisms, if such a present on the website. We endeavor to respond to such requests within reasonable time and will always respond within terms set by laws.
In any of the situations listed above, we may request that you prove your identity by providing us with a copy of a valid means of identification for us to comply with our security obligations and to prevent unauthorized disclosure of data.

We reserve the right to charge you a reasonable administrative fee for any manifestly unfounded or excessive requests concerning your access to your Personal Data, and for any additional copies of the Personal Data you request from us.

8. HOW LONG WE WILL HOLD YOUR PERSONAL DATA FOR

We will only retain your Personal Data for as long as necessary to fulfill the purpose for which it was collected or to comply with legal, regulatory or internal policy requirements.

9. HOW WE UPDATE OR CHANGE THIS PRIVACY NOTICE

We may change or update parts of this Privacy Notice in order to maintain our compliance with applicable law and regulation or following an update to our internal practices. We will do this by updating this Privacy Notice on the Planate website. You will not necessarily be directly notified of such a change. Therefore, please ensure that you regularly check this Privacy Notice so you are fully aware of any changes or updates.

10. HOW YOU CAN CONTACT US

If you have any queries about the contents of this Privacy Notice, or wish to inform us of a change or correction to your Personal Data, would like a copy of the Personal Data we collect on you or would like to raise a complaint or comment, please contact us using the details set out below:
Email: [email protected]
Post: 1800 Diagonal Road Suite 600, Alexandria, Virginia 22314, United States