Terms of Use
By accessing this website, you are agreeing to be bound by all terms and conditions contained herein or currently posted.These terms are a legal agreement between you and Think Crest Advisory Limited and are intended to have the same force as if they had been signed by both parties. If you do not agree to these terms of use, please do not use this site.
We allow you access to this website for your personal use only in order to display the information contained herein and to print copies you require of the information. You may not use this site for any commercial purpose whatsoever nor use any component for any purpose, whether commercial or otherwise.
You have no right or license to use any of our logos, trademarks or names, or any belonging to third parties on our website. All rights including logos, trademarks and names are owned and controlled by us.
You use this site at your own risk. We are not liable for any damage or loss of any type howsoever caused.
This site is provided to you on an ‘As Is’ basis without any warranty of any kind.
Our terms and legal notices are governed by the laws of England and Wales and any disputes will be decided only by the courts of England and Wales. We reserve the right to change these Terms of Use from time to time. Your continued use of this web site, confirms your acceptance to these Terms of Use and any updates or changes made by us from time to time. We do not warrant the suitability of any items for a particular purpose. These policies above, do not affect your statutory rights.
Think Crest Advisory Ltd respects your privacy and cares about the way in which your personal information is treated.
This privacy policy is issued by Think Crest Advisory Ltd so when we mention “Think Crest”, “we”, “us” or “our” in this privacy policy, we are referring to Think Crest Advisory Ltd.
Think Crest Advisory Ltd is the controller and responsible for this website.
We have appointed a data privacy officer who is responsible for overseeing questions in relation to this privacy policy. If you have any questions about this privacy policy, including any requests to exercise your legal rights, please contact us regarding our data privacy using the details set out below:
Email address: info@thinkcrest.co.uk
Postal address: 79, College Road, London HA1 1BD
You have the right to make a complaint at any time to the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO), the UK supervisory authority for data protection issues (www.ico.org.uk). We would, however, appreciate the opportunity to deal with your concerns before you approach the ICO so please contact us in the first instance.
We must ensure that your personal information is accurate and up to date. Therefore, please advise us of any changes to your personal information by emailing us at info@thinkcrest.co.uk
This privacy policy describes:
what personal information we collect about you
how your personal information is collected
how we use your personal information
the basis on which we use your personal information
who we share your personal information with
how we protect your personal information
international transfers of your personal information
how long we keep your personal information
your legal rights
We may collect personal information from you in the course of our business, including when you engage our services, when you contact or request information from us or through your use of our website.
Personal information means any information about an individual from which that person can be identified. This information does not include data where the identity of the person has been removed (anonymous data).
The personal information that we collect, use, process, store and transfer, includes:
Identity information including your name, the organisation you work for, your title or position and your relationship to a person, and similar information about your personal assistant if applicable
Contact information including your email address, postal address, and telephone numbers
Technical information including information from your visits to our website or applications (including IP address and how you use our website) or in relation to materials and communications we send to you electronically
Marketing and communications information including your preferences in receiving marketing materials from us and your communication preferences
Information you provide to us for the purposes of attending meetings and events and in response to surveys we send out or sent out on our behalf
Identification and background information provided by you or collected as part of our business acceptance processes
Financial information, including payment-related information
Any other information relating to you which you may provide to us
We collect information from you and about you as necessary in the course of providing our services including as part of our business acceptance processes
We collect information about you when you provide it to us, or interact with us directly, including when you register on one of our digital platforms or applications or engage with our personnel
We collect your personal information while monitoring our technology tools and services, including email communications sent to and from us and our websites
We may obtain information about you from other sources, including keeping the contact details we already hold for you accurate and up to date by using publicly available sources
We use the personal information about you that we collect, including through your use of our website and in the provision of services by us, in a number of ways:
To provide you with information requested by you
To provide and improve our website, including monitoring its use
To provide and improve our services to you and to our clients
To manage and administer our relationship with you and our clients
To promote our services, including sending business related updates, publications and details of events
To fulfil our legal, regulatory and risk management obligations
For the purposes of recruitment
Our website includes facilities which invite you to provide us with personal information, such as our email queries facilities and the vacancy application facility in the ‘Careers’ section of our website. The purpose of these facilities is apparent at the point that you provide your personal information and we only use that information for those purposes.
Our website uses cookies to distinguish you from other users of our website. This helps us to provide you with a good experience when you browse our website and also allows us to improve our website. For more information about the cookies we use, please see our cookie policy. By continuing to browse our website site, you are agreeing to our use of cookies. You may refuse the use of cookies or withdraw your consent at any time. Our Cookie Policy explains how you can do this, but please note that this may affect your use and experience of our website.
We use a customer relationship management (CRM) tool to assess the strength of the relationship between individuals in Think Crest and our clients or potential clients based on the frequency of email contact between them. We use that information in order to analyse, assess and improve the services that we provide.
We use personal information to understand whether you read the emails and other materials, such as business related publications, that we send to you, click on the links to the information that we include in them and whether and how you visit our website after you click on that link (immediately and on future visits). We do this by using software that places a cookie on your device which tracks this activity and records it against your email address.
If you receive marketing communications from us and no longer wish to do so, you may unsubscribe at any time by emailing us at – info@thinkcrest.co.uk
We will collect and process personal information about you in relation to your attendance at our offices or at an event (such as a conference or seminar) organised by Think Crest or its business partners. We may share your personal information with IT and other service providers or business partners involved in organising or hosting the relevant event.
We will only use and process special categories of personal information about your dietary or access requirements in order to cater for your needs and to meet any other legal or regulatory obligations we may have.
We collect, use, process and retain personal information in the course of and in connection with the services we provide to our clients. We will process identification and background information as part of our business acceptance (including anti-money laundering, conflict, reputational and financial checks), finance, administration and marketing processes.
We will also process personal information provided to us by or on behalf of our clients for the purposes of the work we do for them. The information may be disclosed to third parties to the extent reasonably necessary in connection with that work.
We use your personal information on the following bases:
To perform a contract, such as engaging with an individual to provide consulting or other services
For legitimate business purposes
To comply with legal and regulatory obligations
We are an international consultancy firm and any information that you provide to us may be shared with and processed by any entity in our worldwide network.
We may also share your personal information with certain trusted third parties in accordance with contractual arrangements in place with them, including:
Our professional advisers and auditors
IT service providers to Think Crest
Third parties engaged in the course of the services we provide to clients and with their prior consent
Third parties involved in hosting or organising events
If we are required to disclose your personal information to comply with legal or regulatory requirements, we will use reasonable endeavours to notify you before we do this, unless we are legally restricted from doing so.
If in the future we re-organise or transfer all or part of our business, we may need to transfer your personal information to new Think Crest entities or to third parties through which the business of Think Crest will be carried out.
Think Crest may use social media sites such as LinkedIn, Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, RSSFeed and Soundcloud. If you use these services, you should review their privacy policy for more information on how they deal with your personal information.
We do not sell or otherwise make personal information commercially available to any third party, except with your prior consent.
We have put in place appropriate security measures to protect your personal information from unauthorised access, use, disclosure, alteration or destruction. We also limit access to your personal information to those employees, agents, contractors and other third parties who have a business need to know. They will only process your personal information on our instructions and they are subject to a duty of confidentiality.
We have put in place procedures to deal with any suspected personal information breach and will notify you and any applicable regulator of a breach where we are legally required to do so.
In order to provide our services, we may need to transfer your personal information to locations outside the jurisdiction in which you provide it or where you are viewing this website for the purposes set out in this privacy policy. We may transfer your personal information from a location within the European Economic Area (“EEA”) to outside the EEA, or from outside the EEA to a location within the EEA.
The level protection of personal information in countries outside the EEA may be less than that offered within the EEA. Where this is the case, we will implement appropriate measures to ensure that your personal information remains protected and secure in accordance with applicable data protection laws.
We have put in place EU standard contractual clauses between all Think Crest entities that share and process personal information. Where our third party service providers process personal information outside the EEA in the course of providing services to us, our written agreement with them will include appropriate standard contractual clauses.
We will only retain your personal information for as long as necessary taking into account the requirements of applicable data protection laws and the purpose for which the personal information is collected and used, including for the purposes of satisfying legal, accounting and regulatory requirements to retain the information for a minimum period, good practice and Think Crest’s business purposes.
The European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation and other applicable data protection laws provide certain rights for data subjects.
You are entitled to request details of the personal information we hold about you and how we process it.
You may also have a right to have your personal information rectified or deleted, to restrict our processing of your personal information, to stop unauthorised transfers of your personal information to a third party and, in some circumstances, to have your personal information transferred to another organisation.
If you object to the processing of your personal information, or if you have provided your consent to processing and you later choose to withdraw it, we will respect that choice in accordance with our legal obligations.
Your objection (or withdrawal of any previously given consent) could mean that we are unable to perform the actions necessary to achieve the purposes set out above or that you may not be able to make use of the services offered by us.
Even after you have chosen to withdraw your consent we may be able to continue to process your personal information to the extent required or otherwise permitted by law, in particular in connection with meeting our legal and regulatory obligations.