Aida
Amadeus
Astree
Aurelia
BankFocus
Bel-first
Dafne
This Privacy Notice explains in detail how Bureau van Dijk Editions Electroniques Sàrl ("Bureau van Dijk", "we", "us", "our"), a Moody’s Corporation company of Avenue Louise 250, 1050 Brussels, Belgium, processes personal data in connection with the following products:
Aida
Amadeus
Astree
Aurelia
BankFocus
Bel-first
Dafne
Diane
Fame
InsuranceFocus
Markus
Markus Gewerberegister
Mint Italy
Mint NL
Odin
Oriana
Orbis
Orbis Intellectual Property
Orbis Crossborder Investment
Orbis M&A
Osiris
Reach
Ruslana
Sabi
Sabina
(the "Product").
"Personal Data" means information which identifies, or can be used to identify, living individuals.
1. Purposes of Processing
2. Personal Data Collected
3. Sources of Personal Data
4. Uses & Disclosures of Personal Data
5. Retention of Personal Data
6. Your Rights & Choices
7. Supplementary Information for the European Union, Switzerland and the UK
8. Contact & Queries
9. Updates to this Privacy Notice
Our clients include leading financial institutions, accounting companies and legal advisors, as well as companies in a variety of sectors and industries. Clients use the Products for legal compliance, risk assessment and business intelligence purposes, including:
We collect the Personal Data contained in the Products from a variety of sources, including third-party providers. Our clients are responsible for ensuring that their use of the Products complies with applicable laws and regulations.
While the focus of the Products is corporate entities, they contain some information about key individuals connected with businesses, such as owners, directors, shareholders, managers and professional advisors, and patent holders, in the case of Orbis IP, and information about businesses which are not corporate entities (for example, sole traders).
The types of Personal Data in the Products include:
⦁ Name
⦁ Contact details, as provided on company-related records. Typically, these are company contact details, but some may be personal contact details where these have been included in company-related records
⦁ Salutation (Mr/Mrs)
⦁ Positions held within companies
⦁ Age
⦁ Nationality and/or national ID numbers
⦁ Status as a disqualified director
⦁ Information about unincorporated businesses.
For a full list of which types Personal Data may be included in each of the Products, please see below:
For clients to perform basic checks such as KYC and AML, they need to be able to understand who they are dealing with and be able to verify information provided to them.
Each data field included in the Products is necessary for these basic purposes.
For example:
Below we explain the sources of Personal Data contained in the Products:
Below we set out a description of the ways Personal Data is used and shared in the Products:
The Personal Data is stored for as long as reasonably necessary to fulfil the purposes we collected it for, including for the purposes of satisfying any legal, regulatory, tax, accounting or reporting requirements. To determine the appropriate retention period for Personal Data, we consider the amount, nature and sensitivity of the Personal Data, the potential risk of harm from unauthorised use or disclosure, and the applicable legal, regulatory, tax, accounting or other requirements.
You may have rights under applicable data privacy laws. If you would like to request to review, correct, update, suppress, delete or otherwise limit our use of your Personal Data, you may make a request by contacting us using the information provided in the “Contacts & Queries” section below. If you are a California resident, please see the Additional Information for California Section of our main privacy policy for information on your specific rights regarding your Personal Data.
You may also have the right to complain to your local data protection authority if you have concerns about how we process your Personal Data. However, we hope we can solve any queries or concerns you may have, so please contact us directly in the first instance.
We process Personal Data in the Products under the legitimate interests basis of the EU General Data Protection Regulation (“GDPR”) as it is within our and our clients’ legitimate interests to process limited Personal Data about company-related individuals:
Personal Data is stored in the Products for as long as reasonably necessary to fulfil the purposes we collected it for, including for the purposes of satisfying any legal, regulatory, tax, accounting or reporting requirements. To determine the appropriate retention period for Personal Data, we consider the amount, nature and sensitivity of the Personal Data, the potential risk of harm from unauthorised use or disclosure, and the applicable legal, regulatory, tax, accounting or other requirements.
The Personal Data are stored in the EU. To transfer Personal Data outside of the EEA, Switzerland and the UK within Moody’s Corporation, we use EU standard contractual clauses to ensure that an equivalent level of data protection applies. To request a copy of these clauses, please email us at privacy@moodys.com.
To access your Personal Data contained in the Products and exercise your rights of correction, objection, restriction, erasure, and digital testament, please email us at privacy@moodys.com.
You may also have the right to complain to your local data protection authority if you have concerns about how we process your Personal Data. However, we hope we can solve any queries or concerns you may have, so please contact us directly in the first instance.
If you have any queries about our privacy practices or would like to contact us, please email us at privacy@moodys.com or write to us at:
Legal Department
Moody’s Corporation
7 World Trade Center at 250 Greenwich Street
New York, NY 10007
Phone: +1-212-553-1653 or 1-866-995-9659
E-mail: privacy@moodys.com
The most current version of this Privacy Notice will always be available here. You can check the “effective date” posted at the top to see when this Privacy Notice was last updated.