Privacy Policy

How we use personal information

This section includes details of the purposes for which we use personal information and also the different legal grounds upon which we process that personal information. Further information is set out below.

Some laws require us to explain our lawful reason for processing your personal information. Personal information may be processed under more than one lawful reason/basis. We process personal information about you on the basis that it is:

• Necessary for the performance of a contract: where we have a contract with you, we will process your personal information in order to fulfil that contract (i.e., to provide you with Services).
• In our or a third-party’s legitimate interests: details of those legitimate interests are set out in more detail below (e.g., provision of Services that we are contractually obliged by a third-party, such as your employer or our subscriber, to deliver to you).
• Substantial public interest on the basis of applicable law (e.g., to help prevent and detect unlawful acts (e.g., money laundering, terrorism, fraud and/or other criminal activity (including, without limitation, modern slavery))).
• Where you give us your consent (e.g., signing up to receive marketing and promotional communications from or about LSEG, competitions administered by or on behalf of us): we only ask for your consent in relation to specific uses of personal information where we need to and, if we need it, we will collect it separately and make it clear that we are asking for consent.
• For compliance with a legal obligation (e.g., to respond to a court order or a regulator; comply with statutory and regulatory requirements within the jurisdictions within which we operate (including those relating to bribery and corruption, money laundering and sanctions; sharing personal information with external organizations (e.g., police, tax authorities, or other public authorities or government enforcement agencies)).

In the limited circumstances where we process sensitive personal information, we normally do so where:

• Necessary in relation to employee obligations.
• Personal information is within the public domain.
• Necessary for the establishment, exercise or defence of legal claims or whenever courts are acting in their judicial capacity.
• Processing is necessary for reasons of substantial public interest, on the basis of applicable law.

You are welcome to contact us for further information on the legal grounds that we rely on in relation to any specific processing of your personal information.