Metro Bank Magic Makers - Privacy Notice

This is the privacy notice for “Metro Bank Magic Makers” (the Programme).

The Programme is organised by L Marks Limited (the Administrator of the Programme), in conjunction with Metro Bank PLC (the Sponsor of the Programme). Any reference to we, us or our in this notice is a reference to both the Administrator and the Sponsor unless otherwise stated.

We are committed to respecting the privacy of users of the Programme website (www.metrobankonline.co.uk/magicmakers) (the Website) and applicants to the Programme. The following statement explains how we may use the personal information we collect from you in connection with your use of our Website and the application process.

The Administrator is registered in England and Wales with company number 7756651. The Administrator’s registered office address is 20 Broad Lane, Hale, Altrincham, Cheshire, WA15 0DF.

The Sponsor is registered in England and Wales with company number 6419578. The Sponsor’s registered office address is One, Southampton Row, London WC1B 5HA.

1. APPLICABILITY OF THIS NOTICE

   • This notice applies to any person accessing our Website and to any person submitting an application to participate in the Programme. This notice does not apply to participation in the Programme itself, which is governed by separate terms which will be notified to you if you are invited to participate.
   • The Administrator and the Sponsor are separate entities, and each is separately responsible for how it deals with your personal information.
   • Where you submit an application, this privacy notice applies in addition to our application terms. The submission of an application is conditional upon you agreeing to the terms of this privacy notice.
   • Applications are made through the Administrator’s application portal, The Bridge. The Administrator has its own privacy notice for your use of The Bridge which you should read in addition to this notice.

2. PERSONAL INFORMATION
   • In the course of using our Website, completing and submitting an application form and participating in the selection process you may provide us with personal information about you such as your name, address, date of birth, telephone numbers (including mobile number) and email address (personal information).
   • We are committed to protecting your privacy, and will only use your personal information in accordance with applicable data protection legislation, including the UK General Data Protection Regulation (as supplemented by the Data Protection Act 2018).
   • To properly complete our application form we require you to provide some basic data about yourself. This is information that we consider necessary or desirable so that we can properly consider your application. If you do not agree to us holding this information about you, please do not complete an application.
   • In completing the application form or participating in the application process you may choose to provide further information about yourself, team members or other associated people. It is entirely your decision as to whether you provide this type of information to us and you should only provide this information if you are comfortable with us storing it and using it to process your application as described in this privacy notice.
   • You are entitled by law to ask for a copy of your personal information at any time. Please contact us using the details in paragraph 13. You are entitled to ask us to correct or update your personal information at any time by contacting us at the address above.

3. PERSONAL INFORMATION RELATING TO OTHER PEOPLE
   • It is possible that during the application process, for example whilst completing the application form or participating in the 3-day Fusion event, you may provide us with personal information relating to other individuals, such as team members or other people involved in your business or business idea.
   • Where you do provide us with personal information relating to other people, it is essential that you:
     • inform those people that you will be providing their personal information to us;
     • provide them with a copy of this notice so that they are aware of how their personal information may be used and their rights in respect of it; and
     • obtain their written consent (for example by way of email) to you providing the information to us.
   • By submitting information relating to other people, you agree to indemnify us for any claim, fine or penalty that we may suffer (including any associated costs or expenses that we incur) as a result of your failure to comply with paragraph 3.2.

4. USES MADE OF THE INFORMATION

   • We (and our representatives) may use your personal information as follows:
     • to perform our obligations in respect of the handling of your application, including:
       • registering you on our database;
       • considering your application to participate in the Programme; and
       • making arrangements with you to attend and participate in the 3-day Fusion event, ;
     • where you have expressly consented to us doing so, including responding to any enquiry that you submit to us (whether via our Website enquiry form or otherwise);
     • where it is necessary for compliance with legal obligations, including for record keeping and regulatory compliance purposes; and
     • where we otherwise have a legitimate interest in doing so, including:
       • promoting the Programme, to increase awareness of the Programme, our products, services and brands and your business;
       • updating you on relevant Programmes in addition to the one applied for, to promote awareness of those Programmes and encourage applications;
       • ensuring that our Website is presented in the most effective manner for you and your computer and tracking your use of the Website through use of cookies and log files (see paragraphs 8 and 9 below) to provide a positive user experience and improve and increase usage of our Website; and
       • notifying you about a change to our Website or the application process to ensure the effective administration of the application process.
     • We may also contact you regarding investment or commercial opportunities that we consider may be of interest to you. We work with a wide range of companies and investors and, where it considers that a company or investor it is working with might be interested in learning more about you and your business or business idea it may pass non-personal information (such as information about your business) onto that company or investor. We do this because it is in our (or the relevant company's or investor's) legitimate interests to pursue promising business opportunities.
     • If that company or investor is interested in learning more about you then the Administrator may request your permission to pass your personal information onto that company or investor, but will not pass your personal information on unless and until you have agreed to this.
     • If you do not want us to contact you or pass your personal information on in the way set out at paragraph 4.2 you can “opt out” by contacting us as described in paragraph 13.
     • Non-personal information that you submit may also be used for analytical or reporting purposes and anonymised reports may be published or otherwise provided to third parties.
     • Please be aware that any part of the 3-day Fusion event, including the pitches and the interviews, may be recorded and a copy of any recordings we make may be publicised and circulated as we consider appropriate. If you take part in any relevant events and would prefer not to be recorded please let us know and we’ll ensure you are not included in any content.
     • Where our processing of your personal data is based on consent, you have the right to withdraw this consent at any time, which you may do by contacting us as described in paragraph 13. Please note however that the withdrawal of your consent will not affect any use of the data made before you withdrew your consent.

5. DISCLOSURE OF YOUR INFORMATION
   • We (and our representatives) may disclose your personal information to third parties:
     • for completing due diligence on you and your business or business idea (and, where appropriate, on your team or company);
     • to help find investment and commercial opportunities for you, as described in paragraph 4.2;
     • in publicity material, as described in the application terms;
     • to suppliers involved in the operation of the Programme, for example the operator of the venue where the 3-day Fusion event is held to make arrangements regarding your attendance or a creative agency involved in publicising the Programme;
     • if we are under a duty to disclose or share your personal data in order to comply with any legal obligation, or in order to enforce or apply such other terms as apply to our relationship, or to protect the rights, property, or safety of our customers, ourselves or others. This includes exchanging information with other companies and organisations for the purposes of fraud protection and credit risk reduction;
     • if we determine that such disclosure is necessary in connection with any investigation or complaint regarding your use of the Website or your application; and
     • in the event that we sell or buy any business or assets, in which case we may disclose your personal data to the prospective seller or buyer of such business or assets.
   • The Administrator and the Sponsor may also share your personal information between them and with other companies in the Sponsor’s group for the purposes of assessing and processing your application and arranging your participation in the 3-day Fusion event.

6. INCOMPLETE APPLICATIONS
   • The Bridge offers you the opportunity to save incomplete applications prior to submission. It is important to be aware that where you save an incomplete application we can access that application and the information within it, even if you have not submitted it. It is therefore important that you do not save any information in the application form that you would not be comfortable with us seeing.
   • If your application remains unsubmitted after the closing date we may nonetheless access your application and consider admitting it to the application process even though it was not submitted. By starting an application you agree to us doing this. If we do decide that we are prepared to consider accepting your application we will let you know, and you will then be able to decide whether you want to proceed with it.

7. RETENTION, UPDATING AND REMOVAL OF YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION
   • Where you provide us with personal information during the course of your usage of the Website, in the application form or during the application process we may retain this information for future use, including:
     • to speed up your future use of the Website and application form;
     • for record keeping and compliance purposes;
     • for informing you about upcoming programmes;
     • for exercising our rights set out in the application terms; and/or
     • to contact you about investment and commercial opportunities that may arise in future.
   • The duration for which we retain your personal information will differ depending on the type of information and the reason why it was submitted. However, in some cases personal information may be retained on a long term basis: for example, personal information that we need to retain for legal purposes will normally be retained for at least seven years in accordance with usual commercial practice and regulatory requirements.
   • You are responsible for ensuring that the personal information that we hold about you is accurate and up-to-date, and you should check it on a regular basis. Until the closing date you will be able to update information via the application form on The Bridge, so where this personal information changes you can update it yourself. Following closure of the application process, or if you are otherwise unable to do this, you can contact us using the details in paragraph 13 and, where appropriate, we will update the relevant personal information for you.
   • If you want to withdraw your application at any time please contact the Administrator. Your withdrawal will result in the deletion of some of the personal information that we hold about you, but we may still retain some personal information, for example for record keeping purposes. If you would also like to close your account on The Bridge, you should confirm this in your request.
   • You may in certain circumstances be entitled to request the erasure of personal information that we hold on you. To make a request of this nature, please contact us, providing full details of the personal information you want to be erased and the reason(s) for your request. We will consider all requests upon receipt and confirm to you whether we are able to agree to your request.
   • Please be aware that the erasure of personal information that we hold about you may affect our ability to provide the Website and/or process your application and in some cases our acceptance of an erasure request may require us to cease considering your application.

8. COOKIES
   • Certain parts of the Website use "cookies" to keep track of your visit and to help you navigate between sections. A cookie is a small data file that certain websites store in your device’s memory when you visit such websites. Cookies can contain information such as the pages you have visited. The only personal information a cookie contains is information that you have personally supplied.
   • We may use cookies on the Website to enable us to deliver content that is specific to your interests and gives us an idea of which parts of the Website you are visiting and to recognise you when you return to the Website. Reading cookies does not give us access to other data in your device’s memory and our Website will not read cookies created by other websites that you have visited.
   • You may refuse to accept cookies by activating the setting on your browser which allows you to refuse the setting of cookies. If, however, you select this setting you may be unable to access certain parts of the Website. Unless you have adjusted your browser settings so that it will refuse cookies, our system will issue cookies when you access the Website.

9. LOG FILES
   • In common with most websites, our Website logs various information about visitors, including internet protocol (IP) addresses, browser type, internet service provider (ISP) information, referring / exit pages and date / time stamp.
   • We may use this information to analyse trends, administer the Website, track your movement around the Website and gather broad demographic information.

10. RESPONSIBILITY FOR THIRD PARTY WEBSITES

    • Our Website may, from time to time, contain links to and from other websites. If you follow a link to any of these websites, please note that these websites have their own privacy notices and that we do not accept any responsibility or liability for these notices. Please check these notices before you submit any personal data to these websites.

11. YOUR RIGHTS AND COMPLAINTS
    • You have specific rights over your personal data, as explained below and throughout this privacy notice. These may not apply in all circumstances – we will let you know where this is the case.
    • Data subject access request: You may request information concerning what personal data we process on you and request a copy of that personal data
    • Rectification of inaccurate personal data: You may request rectification of any inaccurate personal data. We take reasonable steps to keep your personal data accurate and current but you can also ask us to change any information we hold about you to keep it accurate, complete and current. However, please remember that it is your responsibility to tell us about any updates to this information
    • Erasure of personal data: You have the right to ask us to erase the personal data we hold about you. It may be necessary to retain your personal data to fulfil our contract with you or our legal and regulatory obligations
    • Restricting processing of personal data: You can request that we restrict our processing of your personal data where you contest the accuracy of the information we hold (restricted until it has been verified), it was processed unlawfully but you do not wish us to erase it just restrict our processing or we no longer need the personal data but you need us to retain it for the establishment, exercise or defence of a legal claim. Where a restriction is in place we can continue to store your information but only otherwise process it with your consent or for the establishment, exercise or defence of legal claims, for the protection of another individuals rights or for important public interest reasons. We will inform you prior to the lifting of any restriction
    • Right of portability: In certain circumstances, where technically feasible, you have the right to receive the personal data in a structured, commonly used and machine-readable format and have the right to transmit such personal data to another controller, if the processing is based on consent and is carried out by automated means
    • Object to the processing of your personal data: Where we process your personal data on the basis of ‘Legitimate Interests’, you can request we stop such processing. Where we process your personal data for direct marketing purposes, you can request we stop such processing and we will cease any processing related to direct marketing
    • Right not to be subject to automated decision-making: You have the right to ask that a human reviews an automated decision, to express your point of view and to contest an automated decision
    • Right to withdraw consent: Where we process your personal data because you have given us your consent, withdraw your consent at any time
    • You can exercise your rights by contacting us as described in paragraph 13.
    • If you are unhappy with our management of your information, you have the right to lodge a complaint with the Information Commissioner’s Office. Please visit https://ico.org.uk/make-a-complaint for more information.

12. CHANGES TO THE PRIVACY NOTICE
    • We reserve the right to alter this privacy notice at any time. Such alterations will be posted on the Website by us (if you have submitted an application we will also send you a copy of the updated notice using the details you have provided to us).
    • It is important that you read any alterations as and when they are posted on the Website by us and should you object to any alteration, please contact us as described in paragraph 13.

13. CONTACTING US
    • If you have a general query about this notice or the handling of your personal information, or if you have an issue regarding the use or retention of your personal information by the Administrator, please contact the Administrator’s Data Protection Officer Daniel Saunders at 72 Acton Street, Kings Cross, London, WC1X 9NB or by email at daniel@lmarks.com.
    • If you have an issue regarding the use or retention of your personal information in relation to the Programme by the Sponsor, please contact the Sponsor’s Deputy Data Protection Officer Matt Kay at Data Protection Officer, Metro Bank PLC, One Southampton Row, London WC1B 5HA or by email at DataProtectionOfficer@metrobank.plc.uk.

14. FURTHER INFORMATION
    • We hope that the contents of this privacy notice address any queries that you may have about the personal information we may hold about you and how we may use it. However, if you do have any further queries, comments or requests, please contact us as described in paragraph 13 above.
    • Whilst this privacy notice sets out a general summary of your legal rights in respect of personal information, this is a very complex area of law. More information about your legal rights can be found on the Information Commissioner’s website at https://ico.org.uk/your-data-matters.