LSEG World-Check privacy statement

• World-Check holds information that helps financial institutions, corporates, professional services firms, governments, law enforcement agencies, regulators and other World-Check customers and companies within the LSEG Group (“World-Check Users”) to perform due diligence and other screening activities in accordance with their legal or regulatory obligations and risk management procedures carried out in the public interest, including but not limited to the purposes of anti-money-laundering or ‘know your customer’, anti-bribery or anti-corruption or other regulatory compliance checks, or for preventing, investigating, detecting or prosecuting financial crime, fraud and serious misconduct or dishonesty, or other criminal or unlawful activity (for example, modern slavery, illegal trafficking, environmental crime, etc.) and any unethical conduct (“Checks”).
• It is designed and maintained to improve the speed, accuracy and transparency of Checks which are carried out by World-Check Users on customers, vendors, business partners and other counterparties.
• World-Check is not aimed at children. In the limited circumstances where we collect and use personal information about children (for example, because they are the children of a PEP (as defined below), we comply with industry guidelines and applicable laws.
• Your information is only included on World-Check if Public Domain Data (as defined below) suggests that there is information about you that World-Check Users ought to be aware of for the purposes of Checks.

When World-Check Users carry out Checks, they can also choose to carry out searches of Public Domain Data contained within media sources using media search tools available in World-Check. For example, they may conduct media searches against names of their customers, vendors, business partners, or other counterparties. For more information on this, click here.

The inclusion of information about you on World-Check does not prevent you from doing business with World-Check Users such as financial institutions. You can find out if information about you is on World-Check here. To see our FAQs on how World-Check works, click here.

As part of World-Check, we may collect and process information that is derived from Public Domain Data, where relevant for Checks.

World-Check Users can also choose to carry out optional searches of Public Domain Data contained within media sources using search tools within World-Check, in order to enhance or supplement their Checks. These search tools allow World-Check Users to enter names of their customers, vendors, business partners and other counterparties alongside keywords used for research purposes into a search engine that searches media sources and returns results based on those names and keywords. Keywords can be selected by World-Check Users, but they are aimed at discovery of the type of information listed below. If such a search is conducted about you, your name would appear alongside any articles in which your name (or a similar name) appears, alongside any relevant keywords found in that article. However, World-Check Users know that this does not mean that either the person named in the article is actually you or that everything contained in Public Domain Data is true. They are obliged to take further steps to verify information and to determine how to use it.

World-Check may hold the following types of information about you.

• Information that helps identify you (e.g. your name; alias (if any) age; date of birth; gender; country of residence; passport details; citizenship).
• Personal identification numbers (e.g. social security numbers; national insurance numbers) that are Public Domain Data.
• Family circumstances information (e.g. your marital status and dependents) if you are a PEP or a close associate of a PEP.
• Employment/role and education details (for example, the organisation you work for, public roles (including political, diplomatic, religious, judicial, military and trade union roles), your job title and your education history).
• Professional and personal affiliations (for example, organisations (including sanctioned vessels and aircraft) and individuals that you may be associated with in your professional or personal capacity).
• Financial information relevant to understanding your income or wealth (for example, bankruptcy or insolvency filings).
• Your inclusion (if any) on sanctions lists or on public lists of disqualified directors or other positions of responsibility.
• Public Domain Data about actual or alleged money laundering or terrorist financing crime, or crimes that are a pre-cursor to money laundering or terrorist financing which are also known as predicate offences (e.g. financial crime, illegal trafficking, environmental offences, smuggling, membership of an organised crime group).
• Your postings on website, blogs or social media applications.

We use information to facilitate Checks by World-Check Users, to comply with regulatory requests and for other purposes connected with the proper management of World-Check and protection of our rights. More information on these purposes is contained below.

Some laws require us to explain our lawful reason for processing your personal information. We process standard personal information on the basis that it is in our or others’ legitimate interests. We generally process special category and criminal data for reasons of substantial public interest on the basis of applicable law.

We make World-Check information available to World-Check Users, companies within the LSEG Group that require World-Check data for products or services that they offer, third parties who provide advice and services to us (including professional advisors), business partners that work with us to make World-Check data available for the purpose of Checks and as required by, or desirable in order to comply with, law. Our third-party service providers are not permitted to share or use personal information we make available to them for any purpose other than to provide services to us.

We take information security seriously and use a range of physical, electronic and managerial measures to keep your personal information secure, accurate and relevant. These measures and our information security policies are closely aligned with widely accepted international standards, reviewed regularly and updated as necessary to meet our business needs and changes in technology and regulatory requirements.

World-Check is a global service and the LSEG Group is a global organization. Your personal information may be transferred to recipients in multiple jurisdictions, and stored and processed, outside of your home country, including in countries that may not offer the same level of protection for your personal information as your home country and which do not benefit from an adequacy determination or decision by the applicable governing bodies (e.g., the EU Commission, data protection regulator, supervisory authority, etc.). We have measures in place to ensure that when your personal information is transferred internationally, it is subject to appropriate safeguards in accordance with data protection laws (e.g. including Articles 44 to 50 of the GDPR). Often, these include contractual safeguards. More information about these safeguards (including copies, where relevant) can be obtained by contacting us here.

How long your data is held in World-Check will depend on type of information we hold about you, details of which can be found here. You can find more information on the criteria used to determine retention periods below.

You may have rights under European and other laws to have access to your information and to ask us to rectify, erase and restrict use of, your information. You may also have rights to object to your information being used and to withdraw consent to the use of your information. Further information on how to exercise your rights is set out below.

The California Consumer Privacy Notice supplements this Privacy Statement and applies solely to California consumers.

We have established processes and procedures to allow appropriate data subjects to exercise their rights under South Africa’s Protection of Personal Information Act. If you wish to exercise your rights, please visit here. For more information on our processes and procedures, and your rights, you can visit our Promotion of Access to Information Manual.

For information and disclosures applicable to data subjects covered under the Lei Geral de Proteção de Dados, please visit here.

If you have any questions, comments, complaints or suggestions in relation to data protection or this Privacy Statement, or any other concerns about the way in which we process information about you, please contact the Privacy Office at contact@world-check.com or at Attn: Data Protection Officer, Refinitiv Limited, Five Canada Square, Canary Wharf, London E14 5AQ, England, United Kingdom. You can also find out if information about you is on World-Check here.