About Rowan Dartington

Rowan Dartington & Co Limited (Company No. 2752304) has its registered office at St. James's Place plc Head Office: St. James's Place House, 1 Tetbury Road, Cirencester, Gloucestershire, GL7 1FP, United Kingdom.

Rowan Dartington is part of the St. James’s Place Wealth Management Group. Rowan Dartington is a member of the London Stock Exchange and authorised and regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority (No. 155241).

Our use of your Personal Information

Rowan Dartington is committed to protecting the privacy of its users and we therefore ask that you please read our Privacy Policy before providing us with any information about you or any other person ("Personal Information").

ICO Registration Number: Z6274335

Our processing of your personal information

We will collect and use different personal information about you for different reasons, depending on our relationship with you.

Sometimes we will request or receive “special categories of personal information” (which is information relating to your health, genetic or biometric data, criminal convictions, sex life, sexual orientation, racial or ethnic origin, political opinions, religious or philosophical beliefs, and trade union membership) in order to provide comprehensive advice and deliver health related products to you.

We may also use details of any unspent criminal convictions for fraud prevention purposes during the process of investing money.

Where you provide personal information to us about other individuals (for example, members of your family or other dependents) we will also be data controller of their personal information and we are responsible for protecting their personal information and using it appropriately. This notice will therefore apply to those individuals and you should refer them to this notice.

In order to make this notice as user friendly as possible, we have split it into different sections. Please read the section below that best describes your relationship with us and the service you receive from us.

Where you are a prospective or existing client

This section will apply if you receive investment or advice services from us or are looking to in the future.

What personal information may we collect?

General information such as your name, address, phone numbers and email addresses, date of birth and gender.

• Identification information including passport, driving licence, national identity card (for non-UK nationals), government issued ID verification and address verification documents such as council tax letters or bank statement and evidence of benefit entitlement (this is not an exhaustive list).
• Employment information such as job title, employment history and professional accreditations.
• Financial information relevant to the products we provide, including:
  • Bank details
  • Financial reviews 
  • Information relating to your personal finances such as your financial liabilities and assets, income and outgoings.
• Information obtained from carrying out identification checks and checking sanction lists and politically exposed persons (PEP) screening, including bankruptcy orders or where you have been flagged as a PEP, or where you have close links to PEPs.
• Information about your family including information about your dependants.
• Information obtained during telephone recordings.
• Your marketing preferences and details of your customer experience with us.

What special / sensitive categories of information will we collect?

• Details about any criminal convictions and any related information which have been obtained from our sanctions checks and PEP screening. This will include information relating to any offences or alleged offences you have committed or any court sentences which you are subject to.
• Details about your health which are relevant to the service you are receiving, for example where you have disclosed such information to us because it helps understand your risk appetite for investments.

How will we collect your personal information?

We will collect information directly from you when:

• you enquire about a Rowan Dartington service or apply to invest within one of our investment solutions or recommended products; and
• you contact us by email, telephone and through other written and verbal communications.

We will also collect your personal information from:

• St. James’s Place Partners, other Independent Financial Advisers or introducers where they act as your agent or introducer to Rowan Dartington.
• Other St James's Place group companies.
• Third parties who provide anti money laundering and fraud prevention services who we have appointed to carry out electronic ID checks, sanctions and politically exposed persons checking services.

What will we use your personal information for?

There are a number of reasons we use your personal information and for these reasons we need to have a ‘lawful basis’ to do so.

We will rely on the follow ‘lawful basis’ when we process your personal information:

• For the performance of your contract with us

In each case we assess our need to use this personal information for these purposes against your rights to privacy to ensure we are protecting your rights.

When we use your ‘special categories of personal information’, we must have an additional ‘lawful basis’ and we will rely on the following lawful basis in these circumstances:

• You have given your explicit consent to our use of your special categories of personal information. We may not be able to assess the suitability of a service without details regarding your health situation.
• We have a substantial public interest to prevent or detect unlawful acts (such as fraud).

Who will we share your personal information with?

We will not sell or transfer your personal information to anyone unless we have a valid purpose as set out above and we will only disclose it to the following parties:

• Our regulators including the Financial Conduct Authority and the Financial Ombudsman Service.
• Selected third parties in connection with any sale, transfer or disposal of our business.
• Our insurers.
• Data protection authorities.
• Financial crime and fraud detection agencies.
• The police, HMRC and other crime prevention and detection agencies.
• Third parties who have entered into contractual arrangements with us to provide services we need to carry out our everyday business activities such as support specialists, document management providers, back office system providers, secure login and email providers, storage warehouses, IT suppliers, actuaries, auditors, lawyers, outsourced business process management providers, our subcontractors and tax advisers.
• Our Group Parent – St. James’s Place.

Family members or business associates of a client receiving or wishing to receive services

This section will apply where a client receiving services or wishing to receive services provides information about their family member(s) or business associates to explain their lifestyle and approach to investments and wealth management (for example if you are a spouse or dependant mentioned in a will or trust document or a business partner). This section will set out how we use your information.

What personal information may we collect?

General information such as your name, address, phone numbers and email addresses, date of birth and gender.

• Identification information including passport, driving licence, national identity card (for non-UK nationals), government issued ID verification and address verification documents such as council tax letters or bank statement and evidence of benefit entitlement (this is not an exhaustive list).
• Employment information such as job title, employment history and professional accreditations.
• Financial information relevant to the products we provide, including:
  • Bank details
  • Financial reviews;
  • Information relating to your personal finances such as your financial liabilities and assets, income and outgoings.
• Information obtained from carrying out identification checks and checking sanction lists and politically exposed persons (PEP) screening, including bankruptcy orders or where you have been flagged as a PEP, or where you have close links to PEPs.
• Information about your family including information about your dependants.
• Information obtained during telephone recordings.
• Your marketing preferences and details of your customer experience with us.

This will include:

• General information such as your name, address, phone numbers and email addresses, date of birth and gender.
• Your relationship to our client who is receiving services.
• Financial information relating to your financial liabilities, for example details of you and your partner's property portfolio to enable us to provide appropriate advice to our client.

What special / sensitive categories of personal information will we collect?

• We may collect details about your health which are relevant to the services our client receives (for example where you are the client's partner and you have a medical condition which means that you are unable to work and therefore our client has a higher need for investment return and a lower risk appetite).

How will we collect your personal information?

We will collect information directly from you when:

• you contact us by email, telephone and through other written and verbal communications, for example in relation to a data subject access request.

We may also collect your personal information from:

• our client who is receiving services;
• our client's Investment Manager, adviser or agent;
• the St. James’s Place Wealth Management client relationship management system and hosted platforms.

What will we use your personal information for?

There are a number of reasons we use your personal information and for each use we need to have a "lawful basis" to do so.

We will rely on the following “lawful basis” when we process your "personal information":

• We have a legal or regulatory obligation to use such personal information. For example, our regulators require us to hold certain records of our dealings with you.
• We have a valid business reason to use your personal information which is necessary for our everyday business operations and activities, for example to maintain our business records.

In each case we assess our need to use this personal information for these purposes against your rights to privacy to ensure we are protecting your rights.

When we use your “special categories of personal information", we must have an additional “lawful basis" and we will rely on the following lawful basis in these circumstances:

• We need to use such special categories of personal information to establish, exercise or defend legal rights, such as when we are facing legal proceedings or want to bring legal proceedings ourselves.
• There is a substantial public interest in the prevention and detection of unlawful acts such as where we suspect fraud.
• It is in the substantial public interest to comply with regulatory requirements relating to unlawful acts and dishonesty – such as carrying out fraud, credit and anti-money laundering checks.

Who will we share your personal information with?

We will not sell or transfer your personal information to anyone unless we have a valid purpose as set out above and we will only disclose it to the following parties:

• Third parties who facilitate the arrangement of products services we recommend such as Intermediary Independent Financial Advisors, Partners of St. James’s Place or the service/product provider themselves. Where we have shared your personal information with these third parties, they will also be a data controller and responsible for how they use your personal information. Their uses of your personal information will be governed by their own fair processing notices.
• Other St. James's Place group companies.
• Compliance consultants including the Consulting Consortium
• Financial crime and fraud detection agencies.
• Our regulators including the Financial Conduct Authority and the Financial Ombudsman Service.
• Selected third parties in connection with any sale, transfer or disposal of our business.
• Our insurers.
• The police, HMRC and other crime prevention and detection agencies.
• Third parties who have entered into contractual arrangements with us to provide services we need to carry out our everyday business activities such as partner support specialists, document management providers, back office system providers, secure login and email providers, storage warehouses, IT suppliers, actuaries, auditors, lawyers, outsourced business process management providers, our subcontractors and tax advisers.

Other business partners of St. James's Place

If you are a business partner such as products providers, portfolio or fund managers and contractors who carry out business functions on our behalf, this section will be relevant to you and sets out our uses of your personal information.

What personal information may we collect?

General information such as your name, address, phone numbers and email addresses, date of birth and gender.

• Identification information including passport, driving licence, national identity card (for non-UK nationals), government issued ID verification and address verification documents such as council tax letters or bank statement and evidence of benefit entitlement (this is not an exhaustive list).
• Employment information such as job title, employment history and professional accreditations.
• Financial information relevant to the products we provide, including: 
  • Bank details
  • Financial reviews 
  • Information relating to your personal finances such as your financial liabilities and assets, income and outgoings.
• Information obtained from carrying out identification checks and checking sanction lists and politically exposed persons (PEP) screening, including bankruptcy orders or where you have been flagged as a PEP, or where you have close links to PEPs.
• Information about your family including information about your dependants.
• Information obtained during telephone recordings.
• Your marketing preferences and details of your customer experience with us.

How will we collect your information?

• Directly from you.
• From other St. James's Place group companies.
• From publicly available sources such as internet search engines.
• From service providers who carry out sanctions checks.

What will we use your personal information for?

There are a number of reasons we use your personal information and for each use we need to have a "lawful basis" to do so.

We will rely on the following “lawful basis” when we process your "personal information":

• We need to use your personal information to enter into or perform the contract that we hold with you.
• We have a legal or regulatory obligation to use such personal information. For example, we may be required to carry out certain background checks.
• We have a valid business reason to use your personal information which is necessary for our everyday business operations and activities, for example to keep records of investments and the reasoning behind such investments, to maintain business records, to carry out due diligence, to review our business models and undertake strategic and operational business analysis.

In each case we assess our need to use this personal information for these purposes against your rights to privacy to ensure we are protecting your rights.

Users of the Rowan Dartington website

If you use our website, this section will be relevant to you and sets out our uses of your personal information. Rowan Dartington & Co Limited (Company No. 2752304) is the data controller.

What personal information may we collect?

General information such as your name, address, phone numbers and email addresses, date of birth and gender.

• Identification information including passport, driving licence, national identity card (for non-UK nationals), government issued ID verification and address verification documents such as council tax letters or bank statement and evidence of benefit entitlement (this is not an exhaustive list).
• Employment information such as job title, employment history and professional accreditations.
• Financial information relevant to the products we provide, including:
  • Bank details
  • Financial reviews;
  • Information relating to your personal finances such as your financial liabilities and assets, income and outgoings.
• Information obtained from carrying out identification checks and checking sanction lists and politically exposed persons (PEP) screening, including bankruptcy orders or where you have been flagged as a PEP, or where you have close links to PEPs.
• Information about your family including information about your dependants.
• Information obtained during telephone recordings.
• Your marketing preferences and details of your customer experience with us.

How will we collect your personal information?

We will collect your information directly from our website.

What will we use your personal information for?

There are a number of reasons we use your personal information and for each use we need to have a "lawful basis" to do so.

We will rely on the following “lawful basis” when we process your "personal information":

• We have a valid business reason to use your personal information, necessary for our everyday business operations and activities, for example to maintain business records and to monitor usage of the website.

In each case we assess our need to use this personal information for these purposes against your rights to privacy to ensure we are protecting your rights.

Who will we share your personal information with?

We will not sell or transfer your personal information to anyone unless we have a valid purpose as set out above and we will only disclose it to:

• Other St. James's Place group companies;
• Third parties who we have entered into contractual arrangements with to provide services we need to carry out our everyday business activities such as IT suppliers and website providers.

What marketing activities do we carry out?

We may use your personal information to provide you with information about our services or which may be of interest to you where you are an existing client. Where these are part of the ongoing services we offer or if you have provided your consent for us to do so.

We are committed to only sending you marketing communications you have clearly expressed an interest in receiving. If you wish to opt out of marketing, you may do so by clicking on the "unsubscribe" link that appears in all emails or telling us when we call you. Otherwise you can always contact us using the details set out in the contacting us section to update your contact preferences.

Please note that, even if you opt out of receiving marketing messages, we may still send you communications which are relevant to the nature of the products or the services we offer you, or which we are obliged to legally send to you.

How long do we keep personal information for?

We will only keep your personal information for as long as reasonably necessary to fulfil the purposes set out above and to comply with our legal and regulatory obligations. As a financial service firm, we are regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority (the FCA) who impose certain record-keeping rules which we must adhere to for example:

• if we have any documents relating to a pension transfer you have made, the FCA require us to keep these documents and your related personal information indefinitely. However we will keep such documents for a period of 120 years to ensure that it covers your lifetime;

If you would like further information regarding the periods for which your personal information will be stored, please contact us using the details set out in the contacting us section.

What is our approach to sending your personal information overseas

There may be some instances where your personal information is transferred to countries outside of the European Economic Area ("EEA") such as when we transfer information to our other companies in the SJP group or to third party suppliers who are based outside the EEA or when third parties who act on our behalf transfer your personal information to countries outside the EEA. Where such a transfer takes place, we will take the appropriate safeguarding measures to ensure that your personal information is adequately protected. We will do so in a number of ways including:

• entering into data transfer contracts and using specific contractual provisions that has been approved by European data protection authorities otherwise known as the "standard contractual clauses";
• transferring personal information only to companies in the United States who are certified under the "Privacy Shield". The Privacy Shield is a scheme whereby companies certify that they provide an adequate level of data protection. You can find out more about the Privacy Shield https://www.privacyshield.gov/welcome; or
• we will only transfer personal information to companies in non-EEA countries who have been deemed by European data protection authorities to have adequate levels of data protection for the protection of personal information. You can find out more about this https://ico.org.uk

We are also entitled under European data protection laws to transfer your personal information to countries outside the EEA where it is necessary for the performance of the contract we have with you.

If you would like further information regarding our data transfers and the steps we take to safeguard your personal information, please contact us using the details set out in section 11.

Your rights

You have several rights which you can exercise at any time relating to the personal information that we hold about you and use in the ways set out in this notice. Please contact us at any time using the details set out in the contacting us section if you wish to exercise these rights; we will not usually charge you.

We respect your rights and will always consider and assess them but please be aware there may be some instances where we cannot comply with a request you make as the consequence might be:

• in doing so we could not comply with our own legal or regulatory requirements for example we are under obligations to hold records of our dealings with you for certain periods of time; or
• in doing so we could not provide services to you and would have to cancel your client agreement, for example we could not enter into investments on your behalf, or provide suitability advice if we had deleted your personal information.

We will of course inform you if any of the above situations arise and if we are unable to comply with your request.

The right to access your personal information

You are entitled to a copy of the personal information we hold about you and certain details of how we use it.

We are happy to provide you with such details but in the interests of confidentiality, we follow strict disclosure procedures which may mean that we will require proof of identify from you prior to disclosing such information.

We will usually provide your personal information to you in writing unless you request otherwise. Where your request has been made electronically (e.g. by email), a copy of your personal information will be provided to you by electronic means where possible.

If you would like to request a copy of the information we hold, please do so in writing to:

Data Protection Specialist
Rowan Dartington & Co. Limited
St. James’s Place House
2610 The Quadrant, Aztec West
Bristol
BS32 4AQ

or at data.protection@rowan-dartington.co.uk.

The right to rectification

Please help us to keep your personal information accurate and up to date so if you believe there are any inaccuracies, discrepancies or gaps in the information we hold about you, please contact us and ask us to update or amend it.

The right to restriction of processing

In certain circumstances, you have the right to ask us to stop using your personal information, for example where you think that the personal information we hold about you may be inaccurate or where you think that we no longer need to use your personal information.

The right to withdraw your consent

Where we rely on your consent to process your personal information, you have the right to withdraw such consent to further use of your personal information.

The right to erasure

You are entitled to request your personal information to be deleted in certain circumstances such as where we no longer need your personal information for the purpose we originally collected it. When you exercise this right, we need to consider other factors such as our own regulatory obligation, to assess whether we can comply with your request.

The right to object to direct marketing

You have a choice about whether or not you wish to receive marketing information from us and you have the right to request that we stop sending you marketing messages at any time. You can do this either by clicking on the "unsubscribe" button in any email that we send to you or by contacting us using the details set out in the contacting us section.

Please note that, even if you opt out of receiving marketing messages, we may still send you communications which are relevant to the nature of services we offer you.

The right to data portability

In certain circumstances, you can request that we transfer personal information that you have provided to us to a third party.

When you exercise this right, we need to consider other factors such as our own regulatory obligations, to assess whether we can comply with your request

Rights relating to automated decision-making

Rowan Dartington & Co. Limited does not rely on automated decision making to provide services or product recommendations to you.

The right to make a complaint with the ICO

If you believe we have breached data protection laws when using your personal information, you have a right to complain to the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO).

You can visit the ICO's website at https://ico.org.uk/ for more information. Please note that lodging a complaint will not affect any other legal rights or remedies that you have.

Contacting us

If you would like any further information about any of the matters in this notice or if you have any other questions about how we collect, store, or use your personal information, you may contact our Data Protection Specialist at Rowan Dartington & Co. Limited, St. James’s Place House, 2610 The Quadrant, Aztec West, Bristol, BS32 4AQ or at data.protection@rowan-dartington.co.uk.

Updates to this notice

From time to time we may need to make changes to this notice, for example, as the result of changes to law, technologies, or other developments. We will provide you with the most up-to-date notice and you can check our website periodically to view it.

This notice was last updated on 26 June 2020 with amendments to our address on 9 July 2024.