Many countries have data protection laws that protect the privacy of individuals by regulating the way in which businesses handle personal information. Among other things, data protection laws require businesses that handle personal information to be open and transparent about why and how they handle personal information.
The purpose of this Website Privacy Notice is to inform you why and how the Maples Group (“we” or “us“) handles personal information about visitors to the website at https://maples.com/ (“our website“). This Website Privacy Notice will apply to you if you visit any part of our website but otherwise it will not apply to you.
Please note that this Website Privacy Notice does not apply to other websites which are operated by us or on our behalf in connection with our client-facing businesses (such as the Maples eServices portal), and it does not apply to personal information which we handle outside our website in connection with our client-facing businesses (such personal information will, where applicable, be subject to a separate privacy notice for our clients; see https://maples.com/privacy).
Please also note that if you submit job applications through our website, this Website Privacy Notice will not apply to you as a jobseeker to the extent you applied to work for any Maples Group entity which has adopted a separate privacy notice for its job applicants (in such cases, we will handle your personal information in accordance with the relevant privacy notice; see https://maples.com/privacy).
Our website is owned and operated by Maples and Calder (Cayman) LLP, for its own benefit and for the benefit of all members of the Maples Group. The registered office of Maples and Calder (Cayman) LLP is at PO Box 309, Ugland House, South Church Street, George Town, Grand Cayman KY1-1104, Cayman Islands.
Please note that Maples and Calder (Cayman) LLP is subject to the Cayman Islands’ Data Protection Law 2017, but it is not subject to privacy laws of jurisdictions outside the Cayman Islands.
The types of personal information which we collect through our website will vary depending on how the visitors interact with our website, but they can be grouped into the following categories:
It is our position that the bulk of the information concerning visitors to our website do not constitute information that are legally protected under data protection laws. This is because whilst we can ascertain the approximate geographical region from which visitors to our website access our website and distinguish how different visitors access / use our website, we will not be in a position to precisely identify who they are, unless they provide us with identifying information such as name and contact details (e.g. when registering on our website).
Therefore, if you remain a passive, unregistered visitor to our website who does not make use of any of the interactive features of our website (e.g. online forms or social media plug-ins), it is unlikely that we will be able to specifically identify you from any other information concerning your use of our website we might be holding.
We collect personal information about visitors to our website for the following reasons:
The personal information we collect through our website may be shared with the following categories of third parties:
Our website is hosted on our behalf by WP Engine through the infrastructure service they provide (known as WP Engines High Availability (AWS) platform), in WP Engines data centers which could be physically located in multiple locations around the world, including the USA. As such, if you access and use our website, your personal information collected through our website may be transferred to and stored outside your country / region, including the USA.
WP Engine is certified to ISO 27001 and is (SOC 2©) Type II compliant. WP Engine is trusted by numerous leading businesses around the world, including businesses hailing from privacy-conscious European countries. We have additionally implemented our own technical and organizational security measures to protect our website and the underlying IT systems.
We believe that our website is as safe as any public-facing website can be, but if you have any concern regarding the security of our website or if you prefer not to have your personal information stored outside your country / region, we kindly ask that you refrain from accessing or using our website.
Depending on a number factors (e.g. whether or not we actually hold any identifying information about you that enables us to specifically identify you as a visitor to our website and which particular member of the Maples Group in which country is making use of your personal information that we have collected through our website), you may have certain rights in relation to your personal information.
For example, if a Maples Group member based in Europe uses your personal information collected through our website to promote its services to you, you could benefit from a range of rights you enjoy under the European data protection laws, such as the right to ask us to:
and you also have the right to complain to the relevant regulator if you believe we have mishandled your personal information.
If you have any questions or concerns regarding how our website handles personal information, please reach out to your usual point of contact within the Maples Group. Alternatively, you can email your query to [email protected].
If you wish to stop receiving marketing emails from us or change the type of marketing email you receive from us, you can click on the ‘unsubscribe’ link which we include in every marketing email we send. You can also register on our website and update your marketing preferences. If these features are absent or not working properly for any reason, please let us know and we will address them.
We will endeavor to respond satisfactorily to any request, query, or complaint you may have in respect of your personal information, but if you are dissatisfied with our response and wish to make a formal complaint, or if you simply wish to learn more about your rights, you can contact the Cayman Islands Ombudsman:
Ombudsman
PO Box 2252
Grand Cayman KY1-1107
Cayman Islands
https://ombudsman.ky/data-protection