### What does this Privacy Policy cover? Universal Quantum respects your privacy and is committed to protecting your Personal Data. We want to be transparent with you about how we collect and use your Personal Data in making available our website (“Site”) and tell you about your privacy rights and how the law protects you. With that in mind, this Privacy Policy is designed to describe: - Who we are and how to contact us. - Your rights relating to your Personal Data. - Marketing communications preferences. - What Personal Data we collect. - How we use your Personal Data and why. - What happens when you do not provide necessary Personal Data? - How we use cookies and other tracking or profiling technologies. - Who we share your Personal Data with. - How we keep your Personal Data secure. - How long we store your Personal Data. - Our policy on children. - Third party links. This Privacy Policy aims to give you information on how Universal Quantum collects and processes your Personal Data through your use of this Site, including any data you may provide through this Site. The Privacy Policy is intended to meet our duties of Transparency under the General Data Protection Regulation (“GDPR”) and the UK Data Protection Act 2018 (“DPA 2018”). When we refer to the GDPR in this Privacy Policy, we are referring to that Regulation as implemented into English law by the DPA 2018 (as may be modified from time-to-time, including as a result of the United Kingdom leaving the European Union). We will post any modifications or changes to this Privacy Policy on this page or a successor page we may notify to you from time-to-time. ### Who we are and how to contact us #### Who we are We, Universal Quantum Technologies Limited, are the Controller (for the purposes of the GDPR) of your Personal Data (referred to as either “Universal Quantum”, “we”, “us” or “our” in this Privacy Policy). We are a limited company registered in England and Wales under company number 11710367. Our registered address and our trading address is Universal Quantum Gemini House, Mill Green Business Estate, Haywards Heath, RH16 1XQ, United Kingdom, #### How to contact us To contact us, you can either: info@universalquantum.com; or write to us at our address shown above. ### Your rights relating to your Personal Data #### Under certain circumstances, by law you have the right to: - Request access to your Personal Data. - Request correction of the Personal Data that we hold about you. - Request erasure of your Personal Data. - Object to processing of your Personal Data. - Request the restriction of processing of your Personal Data. - Request the transfer of your Personal Data. - Withdraw consent. #### How to exercise your rights If you want to exercise any of the rights described above, please contact us using the contact details shown [here.](https://universalquantum.com/who-we-are) Typically, you will not have to pay a fee to access your Personal Data (or to exercise any of the other rights). However, except in relation to Consent Withdrawal, we may charge a reasonable fee if your request is clearly unfounded, repetitive or excessive, or, we may refuse to comply with your request in these circumstances. We may need to request specific information from you to help us confirm your identity and ensure your right to access your Personal Data (or to exercise any of your other rights). This is a security measure to ensure that Personal Data is not disclosed to any person who has no right to receive it. We may also contact you to ask you for further information in relation to your request to speed up our response. We try to respond to all legitimate requests within one month. Occasionally it may take us longer than a month if your request is particularly complex or you have made a number of requests. In this case, we will notify you and keep you updated. #### Complaints If you would like to make a complaint regarding this Privacy Policy or our practices in relation to your Personal Data, please contact us by: emailing info@universalquantum.com writing to us at our address shown above We will reply to your complaint as soon as we can. If you feel that your complaint has not been adequately resolved, please note that the GDPR gives you the right to contact your local data protection supervisory authority, which for the UK, is the Information Commissioner’s Office. ### Marketing communications preferences You can ask us to stop sending you marketing messages at any time by: following the opt-out or ‘Unsubscribe’ links on any marketing message sent to you; or by contacting us at any time using the contact details shown under Who We Are and How to Contact Us. Where you opt out of receiving these marketing messages, this will not apply to Personal Data Processed in connection with service-related emails (e.g., emails regarding updates to this Privacy Policy or our Terms of Use). Universal Quantum needs your email address to send you The Quantum \|1〉newsletter. You may unsubscribe from this communication at any time. We use Mailchimp as our marketing platform. By subscribing, you acknowledge that your information will be transferred to Mailchimp for processing. Learn more about Mailchimp’s privacy practices here. ### What Personal Data we collect All the Personal Data we collect, both from you and from third parties about you, is outlined in the table below: #### Contact Data: - Your full name - Your email address - The organisation you work for or represent - Any Personal Data you provide in any free-text ‘message’ fields via which you can communicate with us on the Site. #### Marketing and Communications Data Your preferences relating to our promotional emails, and your communication preferences #### Technical Data Internet protocol (IP) address, browser type and version, time-zone setting and location, browser plug-in types and versions, operating system and platform and other technology on the devices you use to access this website or use our services. #### Aggregated Data We also create, Process and / or share “Aggregated Data” such as statistical or demographic data for any purpose based on use of the Site. This Aggregated Data may be derived from your Personal Data, but once in aggregated form it will not constitute considered Personal Data for the purposes of the GDPR as this data does not directly or indirectly reveal your identity. However, if we combine or connect Aggregated Data with your Personal Data so that it can directly or indirectly identify you, we treat the combined data as Personal Data which will be used in accordance with this Privacy Policy. #### No Special Categories of Personal Data We do not collect any “Special Categories of Personal Data” about you. Please do not provide us with any such data types. ### How we use your Personal Data and why We will only use your Personal Data for the purposes for which we collected it as listed below. If we need to use your Personal Data for an unrelated purpose, we will update this Privacy Policy and we will explain the legal basis which allows us to do so. #### What is our “legal basis” for processing your Personal Data? In respect of each of the purposes for which we use your Personal Data, the GDPR requires us to ensure that we have a “legal basis” for that use. Most commonly, we will rely on one of the following legal bases: - Where we need to perform a contract we are about to enter into or have entered into with you (“Contractual Necessity”). - Where it is necessary for our legitimate interests (“Legitimate Interests”). - Where we need to comply with a legal or regulatory obligation (“Compliance with Law”). - Where we have your specific consent (“Consent”). ### What happens when you do not provide necessary Personal Data? Where we need to process your Personal Data either to comply with law, or to perform the terms of a contract we have with you and you fail to provide that data when requested, we may not be able to perform the contract we have or are trying to enter into with you (for example, to provide you with the functionalities of the Site). In this case, we may have to stop you using our Site but we will notify you if this is the case at the time. ### How we use cookies & other tracking or profiling technologies #### Cookies We may collect information using “cookies”. Cookies are small data files stored on the hard drive of your computer or mobile device by a website. We may use both session cookies (which expire once you close your web browser) and persistent cookies (which stay on your computer or mobile device until you delete them) to provide you with a more personal and interactive experience on our Site. We use two broad categories of cookies: - first party cookies, served directly by us to your computer or mobile device; and - third party cookies, which are served by our partners or service providers on our Site #### Cookies we use Our Site uses the following types of cookies for the purposes set out below: - Essential cookies – These cookies are essential to provide you with the core services available on our Site, and to enable you to use some of the Site’s features. #### Disabling cookies You can typically remove or reject cookies via your browser settings. In order to do this, follow the instructions provided by your browser. Many browsers are set to accept cookies until you change your settings. If you do not accept our cookies, you may experience some inconvenience in your use of our Site. ### Who we share your Personal Data with We may share your Personal Data with third parties who are based outside the European Economic Area (“Europe”). We may transfer your Personal Data to countries that have been deemed to provide an adequate level of protection for Personal Data by the European Commission. - **Service Providers** - Identity Data, Contact Data, Technical Data. - **Professional advisers** - Identity Data, Contact Data. - **Counterparties to Corporate Events** - Identity Data, Contact Data, Technical Data. - **HM Revenue & Customs, regulators and other authorities** - Identity Data, Contact Data. ### How we keep your Personal Data secure We have put in place appropriate security measures to prevent your Personal Data from being accidentally lost, used or accessed in an unauthorised way, altered or disclosed. ### How long we store your Personal Data We are committed to only keeping your Personal Data for as long as we reasonably need to use it for the purposes set out above. ### Our policy on children Neither our Site, nor our products or services, is intended for children below 16 and we do not knowingly collect data relating to such children. ### Third party links This Site may include links to third-party websites. Clicking on those links may allow third parties to collect or share your Personal Data. We do not control these third-party websites and are not responsible for their privacy statements.