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Thank you for visiting our website and for using our services. We’d like to tell you about our online privacy notice and how we use cookies on our website. We have defined some words and phrases to help make it clear what we mean.
In this Online Privacy Notice and Cookie Policy:
“personal data” means personal data as defined under the Law and includes any information about an identified or identifiable natural person. Such information may include, for example, information we collect against an identifier for you (for example, your IP address or cookie ID). We also refer to personal data as “data about yourself”, “personal information”, “your information”, “personal details” and “information about you”;
“controller” means controller as defined in applicable data protection legislation;
“Invesco”, “our”, “us” and “we” means Invesco Asset Management S.A.; and
“the Law” means applicable data protection legislation, including (where applicable) the General Data Protection Regulation (“GDPR”).
This Online Privacy Notice and Cookie Policy tell you how we will process any personal data that we collect from you, or that you provide to us online. The Law says we must provide you with this information and we hope this will help you to understand how we will keep your personal data safe. You can find more information about how we process your personal data in our privacy notice at here) which also applies to the use of personal data we collect offline.
Depending on your interaction with our website, we collect the following categories of personal data from you:
We may collect, process, use and store your personal data electronically or on paper and in written or digital formats. We collect, process and use your personal data with automated tools.
We may also collect your personal data from third parties, for example (i) from publicly accessible sources, including publicly available online profiles and databases e.g. to establish and verify your identity, to find out your contact details or to liaise with you in relation to our products and services, or (ii) by using third party cookies. Please find more information about how we use third party cookies in our Cookies Policy.
We maintain strict security standards and procedures with a view to preventing unauthorised access to your personal data by anyone, including our staff. We use leading technologies such as (but not limited to) data encryption, firewalls and server authentication to protect the security of your personal data. The staff of Invesco follow strict privacy standards and whenever we hire third parties to provide support services, we require them to observe the same standards and to allow us to audit them for compliance.
This section of this Online Privacy Notice and Cookies Policy explains for what purposes we use your personal data we collect online and on which legal bases we rely. Our legal bases for collecting and using your personal data will include
Using our Email page tool, you will be able to send links to site content to another person, by providing their name, audience type, company name (if relevant) and email address. We will not use this information for any purpose other than sending the links you request. You should always get permission before providing someone else's details to us.
We only keep your personal data for as long as is necessary to fulfil the purposes for which it has been collected. When determining the appropriate retention period, we consider the risks of the processing, our contractual, legal and regulatory obligations, internal data retention policies and our legitimate business interests as described in this Online Privacy Notice and Cookies Policy.
Where we send direct marketing materials to you, we may send your personal data to third parties with whom we have contracted to provide these materials to you on our behalf and in our name. These third parties act as our processors in relation to their processing of your personal data in this way.
We also use other third parties to process your personal data on our behalf. For example, we use Salesforce and LivePerson to provide and administer the webchat function on our website and we use third parties to drop cookies and perform analytics on our website (please see the Cookie Policy below for further information about our use of cookies). When we use third party processors, we ensure they process your personal data in accordance with our instructions and that they put appropriate technical and organisational security measures in place to adequately protect your personal data.
In certain circumstances, we may also share your personal data we collect online, for the purposes set out in this Online Privacy Notice and Cookies Policy, with other third parties such as:
We also may disclose your personal data to courts, the police, or other law enforcement agencies where we are legally obliged to do so or in our reasonable opinion such disclosure is necessary to comply with applicable laws and legal processes, support an investigation or to protect our rights and interests in relation to any suspected misuse by you of our website or any of our online services.
We endeavour to prevent unauthorised disclosures of your personal data by other people, but we are not responsible for any unauthorised disclosures or other breaches of security or for the actions of others if the personal data was passed to them with your authority or with the authority of anybody other than us or our affiliates.
We may also share your personal data with a potential buyer in connection with any proposed purchase, merger or acquisition of any part of our business.
When we share your personal data with the organisations listed above, it may involve transferring your personal data outside the European Economic Area (EEA) or outside any other country from where you may access our website, to countries where the level of protection of personal data has not been deemed adequate by the European Commission. The absence of an adequacy decision means that the laws of these countries may not guarantee the adequate level protection of your personal data as defined by the Law. However, we will ensure that your personal data is transferred, processed and maintained to the standards required by Law by putting standard data protection clauses in place (as approved by the European Commission) or where we use third parties, we may rely on other appropriate transfer mechanisms they have implemented. You can obtain a copy of the standard data protection clauses at https://ec.europa.eu/info/law/law-topic/data-protection/data-transfers-outside-eu/model-contracts-transfer-personal-data-third-countries_en and contact us by using the contact details provided below for further information about other appropriate transfer mechanisms we may rely on.
Subject to the conditions prescribed in applicable laws, you have the right: (i) to access, rectify or request erasure of your personal data; (ii) to ask us to restrict processing of it; (iii) to request portability of it and (iv) not to be subject to a decision based solely on automated processing, including profiling, which produces legal effects concerning you or similarly significantly affects you.
Subject to the conditions prescribed in applicable laws, you have the right (i) to object, on grounds relating to your particular situation, to processing of your personal data which is based on our or a third party’s legitimate interests; and (ii) to object to processing of your personal data for direct marketing purposes.
You can exercise these rights by contacting us using the contact details provided below.
You also have the right to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority about our use of your personal data in the EU Member State of your habitual residence, place of work or place of the alleged infringement if you consider that the processing of your personal data infringes the GDPR.
In accordance with applicable data protection legislation, you may choose to use the website in an anonymised or pseudonymized manner. This applies only to the extent that anonymous or pseudonymized use of the website is technically possible and reasonable.
When you access our site for the first time, choose your audience type or register for our site services, we will place a 'cookie' on your computer. Cookies are small text files placed on your computer and are commonly used on the internet by many websites to store information on their users' computers. Cookies only contain information relating to the website that created them, and can only return the information to that website. In other words, our site cannot read the information contained in cookies created by anyone else's website on your computer. Similarly, only our site can read the information in cookies that it creates. Cookies cannot be used to get or view data from your hard drive.
By consenting to the use of cookies on our website you acknowledge and agree that we may track and record information for systems, marketing, trouble shooting, administrative, analysis and reporting purposes, and (ii) use your personal data for the following purposes:
We use two types of cookies:
Session cookies: These are temporary and are deleted as soon as you close your browser; and
Persistent cookies: These are stored on your computer until they expire or you remove them. Persistent cookies store your personal preferences such as your language preferences on multi-lingual sites to make subsequent visits easier. They also remember questions we have asked you previously, such as a request to complete an online survey.
You can find more information about the individual cookies we use, when they expire and the purposes for which we use them in the table below:
Visitors need to accept functional cookies in order to be able to fully navigate around our website.
Required by web server application to allow delivery of core functionality such as selected audience type during website visit and navigation of the site.
At the start of a user session
At the end of a user session
Used by the application server to enable personalisation by adapting content to the visitor according to his or her personal preferences, needs and capabilities.
Stores the accepted state of the site terms and conditions.
When the user accepts the site T&Cs which includes Cookies Policy.
12 months
Stores the accepted state of the site cookie policy.
When the user accepts the site Cookies Policy
Stores the cookie policy level chosen by the user.
When the user confirms or updates the cookie settings
Stores the audience setting of the website.
When the user selects an audience type
30 days
A third party service that provides a way to embed video content into the website.
When the user visits a video page
A third-party chat service which may also collect anonymous user activity.
When the user visits the site
2 years
Required by the Amazon (AWS) load balancer for distributing requests across the servers. Used for managing the performance of the site (Session Cookie).
At the start of the user session.
15 minutes
It identifies and stores users Investor Type preference. Used to retain users Investor Type selection.
When the user accepts the T&Cs.
Stores the accepted state of the site Cookies Policy.
It redirects the user to the original page after accepting T&Cs.
When the user visits the site.
1 minute
These cookies allow us to improve a visitor’s experience of the website; enabling experience cookies can make a visit more relevant. Visitors can choose whether they want to enable or disable experience cookies.
Single session website activity tracking and analysis of how you arrived on our website and the technology you are using to access our website.
When the user first visits the site
6 months
A third-party analytics service which collects anonymous user activity data from the asset management sector.
A third-party analytics service which provides accurate and powerful real-time analytics for web and mobile.
Uses a client ID, to differentiate between returning and first-time visitors and monitors users behaviour around our website and third party websites. See above and below for more information about how Google Analytics and Remarketing works.
Uses a client ID, to distinguish and store the activities of visitors on the website.
Stores Pardot opt in/opt out status.
This cookie is used to identify a unique visitor. It is set in the first-party domain of a browser.
This cookie is used to identify the start of a user's session. It is set in the first-party domain of a browser.
After the user's session
Used to track conversions, retarget website visitors, and unlock additional insights about users interacting with your LinkedIn ads. The LinkedIn Insight Tag enables the collection of data regarding members’ visits to the website, including the URL, referrer, IP address, device and browser characteristics (User Agent), and timestamp. The IP addresses are truncated or (when used for reaching members across devices) hashed, and members’ direct identifiers are removed within seven days in order to make the data pseudonymous.
180 days
24 hours
We work with third parties who, on our behalf, research the use of our website and activities on it. In doing so they may place a cookie on your computer. However, it would not contain any personal data in a format that can be read by anyone else.
We also work with third parties to evaluate the effectiveness of our advertising and promotions on third party websites. Again, the cookie would not contain any personal data in a format that can be read by anyone else.
Please note that third parties (including, for example, providers of external services like web traffic analysis services) may also use cookies, over which we have no control. These cookies are likely to be analytical/performance cookies or targeting cookies.
You can refuse, accept or remove cookies at any time by using the settings on your internet browser. You can configure your internet browser to warn you each time a new cookie is about to be stored on your computer so that you can decide whether to accept or reject it. Please refer to your internet browser's help section for further information. Please note that some parts of our website may not function properly if you reject cookies.
Based on your browser, follow these instructions to manage your cookie settings:
You can find further information about cookies and how to manage your cookie settings on www.allaboutcookies.org or http://www.youronlinechoices.eu/
This website uses Google Analytics, a web analytics service provided by Google Inc. (Google). Google Analytics uses cookies, which are text files stored on your computer or mobile phone to help analyse how the website is used by you. As a rule, the information generated by the cookie about your use of the website is transmitted to and stored by Google on a server in the United States. If IP anonymisation is activated on this website, however, your IP address will be truncated by Google in Member States of the European Union or in other states party to the Agreement on the European Economic Area prior to transmission. Only in exceptional cases will the complete IP address be transmitted to a Google server in the United States and truncated there. Google will use this information on behalf of the operator of this website for the purpose of evaluating your use of the website, compiling website activity reports and providing other services to us relating to the use of this website.
The IP address transmitted by your browser within the scope of Google Analytics will not be associated with any other data held by Google.
Cookies related to Google Analytics and Google Ads (see cookies: ‘_ga’ & ‘_gid’) are used to capture data around how our customers engage with our website, such as pages they visited, interactions they had on the pages, and information about what type of device they are using. We combine this data and analyse it so we can improve the performance of our services and refine the products we provide. We may also use this information and combine it with profile data to help us understand which of our products, services and offers may be relevant for you – with this information, we may tailor our marketing ads, and aspects of our websites to individual visitors based on your usage.
You can prevent the storage of cookies by selecting the appropriate settings of your browser software; however, please note that if you do this, you may not be able to use the full functionality of this website.
You can also prevent the data (including your IP address) generated by the cookie relating to your use of this website from being collected and processed by Google by downloading and installing the browser plug-in available under the following link: https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout.
This website uses Google Analytics with the extension "_anonymizeIp()". This means that only truncated IP addresses will be further processed so as to prevent them from being linked to a specific user.
The use of Google Analytics is made in line with the requirements agreed between the German data protection authorities and Google. Third-party provider information: Google Dublin, Google Ireland Ltd., Gordon House, Barrow Street, Dublin 4, Ireland, Fax: +353 (1) 436 1001. Terms of Service: http://www.google.com/analytics/terms/gb.html, and Privacy Policy: http://www.google.com/intl/en/policies/privacy/.
Cookies related to Adobe Analytics (see cookies: ‘AMCV_*AdobeOrg’ & ‘AMCVS_*AdobeOrg’) allow us to analyse how our customers engage with our website, such as pages they visited, interactions they had on the pages, and information about what type of device they are using. We combine this data and analyse it so we can improve the performance of our services and refine the products we provide. We may also use this information and combine it with profile data to help us understand which of our products, services and offers may be relevant for you – with this information, we may tailor our marketing ads, and aspects of our websites to individual visitors based on your usage.
This policy was updated on 2 December 2020. We reserve the right to revise this policy at any time by posting a revised Online Privacy Notice and Cookies Policy online.
If you have any questions about this Online Privacy Notice and Cookies Policy, please contact us via email at emea.privacy@invesco.com or in writing at the addresses provided below:
Invesco Management S.A., Dutch Branch, Vinoly Building Claude Debussylaan 26, 1082 MD Amsterdam, Netherlands
Issued and approved by Invesco Management S.A., Dutch Branch, Vinoly Building Claude Debussylaan 26, 1082 MD Amsterdam, Netherlands
