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GDPR Privacy Policy

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GDPR Privacy Policy

Mercury Capital Advisors LLP, Mercury Capital Advisors LLC and their affiliates (together the “Investment Advisor”) are committed to protecting your privacy and maintaining the confidentiality and security of your personal information. Any personal information processed by the Investment Advisor is controlled by the Investment Advisor and the Investment Advisor is the data controller of your personal information. Where your details are provided to the Investment Advisor as a consequence of your investment (or potential investment) in a private investment fund for which the Investment Advisor serves as investment advisor (each a “Fund”), then the Investment Advisor, acting as a data controller, may itself (or through a third party such as SS&C (the “Administrator”) acting in its capacity as the Fund’s administrator) process your personal information or, if you are an entity, that of your (i) beneficial owner(s), (ii) employees, and (iii) directors, officers, trustees, general partners, managers, or other persons serving in a similar capacity (as distinguished from the entity itself) (the foregoing collectively, “Your Personal Information”). When processing Your Personal Information, there may also be times when the Administrator will act as a data controller.

The Investment Advisor’s European Union representative is located in the United Kingdom at Mercury Capital Advisors LLP, 1 Knightsbridge Green, London SW1X 7QA and can be contacted at ecuan@mcadv.com.

This policy (the “EU Privacy Policy”) explains the manner in which the Investment Advisor collects, utilizes and maintains non-public personal information about investors and potential investors (“Investors”) based in the European Union (“EU”) or the European Economic Area (“EEA”), as required under the General Data Protection Regulation (EU) 2016/679 (“GDPR”). This EU Privacy Policy applies to your investment or potential investment in the Fund.

Collection of Your Personal Information

The Investment Advisor collects Your Personal Information from the following sources, as applicable:

  1. Subscription documents and other information provided by the Investor in writing, in person, by telephone, electronically or by any other means (this information includes (i) name, address, income, financial and investment qualifications, and tax-related information, birth date, nationality, passport or other identification number, and employment information);
  2. Transactions within the Fund, including account balances, investments, redemptions and management fees and performance allocations; and
  3. Other interactions with the Investment Advisor (for example, discussions with our staff).

Why We Use Your Personal Information

Your Personal Information may be processed by the Investment Advisor(or any of their affiliates, agents, employees, delegates or sub-contractors) for the following purposes, as applicable:

  1. to facilitate your investment in the Fund and the management and administration of your investment in the Fund on an ongoing basis (the “Services”) which are necessary to fulfill all contractual and regulatory obligations related to your investment in the Fund, including without limitation the acceptance and processing of subscription documents and redemption and transfer requests;
  2. in order to carry out anti-money laundering checks and related actions which the Investment Advisor and/or Administrator considers appropriate or necessary to fulfill any of their legal obligations on an ongoing basis (i) with respect to the prevention and/or detection of fraud, money laundering, terrorist financing, bribery, corruption, and/or tax evasion and (ii) to prevent the provision of financial and other services to persons who may be subject to economic or trade sanctions, all of the foregoing in accordance with the Investment Advisor’s and the Administrator’s anti-money laundering policies and procedures;
  3. to comply with their legal obligations and, in particular, to report tax-related information to tax authorities;
  4. to disclose information to other third parties such as service providers of the Fund, the Investment Advisor and/or Administrator (including, for example, attorneys, accountants, auditors, or other professionals), regulatory authorities and technology providers in order to comply with any legal obligation imposed on the Fund, Investment Advisor and/or Administrator or in order to pursue the legitimate interests of the Fund, Investment Advisor and/or Administrator;
  5. to monitor and record electronic communications and, if applicable, calls, for any of the purposes specified herein; and/or
  6. to otherwise pursue the legitimate interests of the Investment Advisor and/or Administrator relating to your investment or your potential investment in the Fund, and/or where the processing of Your Personal Information would be in the public interest.

Countries Having Access to Your Personal Information

The Investment Advisor’s servers, which store and keep Your Personal Information, are located in the United States of America.

The Investment Advisor also engages with service providers whose personnel will have access to Your Personal Information and that are located in other jurisdictions. Transfers to these service providers are necessary for the performance of the contract between the Fund and the Investor. These jurisdictions either (i) afford an adequate level of protection for Your Personal Information (as declared by the European Commission) or, (ii) if they do not, then the Investment Advisor and/or the Fund has entered into an agreement with these service providers incorporating clauses the same or substantially similar to the standard contractual clauses, as well as other relevant provisions contained in the GDPR, and obligations no less onerous than those contained in this EU Privacy Policy.

Collecting Investor Information Legally

The Investment Advisor and the Administrator are able to legally collect and use Your Personal Information either because:

  1. you have consented to their doing so; and/ or
  2. it is necessary for the performance of a contract to which the Investor is a party or in order to take steps at the request of the Investor prior to entering into a contract; and/ or
  3. collecting and using Your Personal Information is necessary for the Investment Advisor and/or the Administrator to fulfill their legitimate business interests, which may include, without limitation, investigating, defending against, or prosecuting any actual, threatened, or potential claim in a court of law or other judicial or regulatory forum, or otherwise protect their legal rights; and/ or
  4. it is necessary to comply with any applicable regulatory, judicial or other legal obligations applicable to the Investment Advisor and the Administrator.

Retention of Investor Information

The Investment Advisor and the Administrator will retain Your Personal Information for the purposes described in (1), (2), (3) and (4) in the immediately preceding paragraph as long as required for the purposes described above.

In particular, and without limitation to the foregoing, the Investment Advisor and the Administrator have legal obligations imposed on them under applicable legal systems which requires them to retain Your Personal Information for certain minimum time periods

Your Rights

You have the right to:

  1. be informed about Your Personal Information that the Investment Advisor and/or the Administrator collects from you, uses, and retains, which this EU Privacy Policy seeks to do;
  2. obtain confirmation from the Investment Advisor that Your Personal Information is being collected, used, and retained as described above and to access Your Personal Information held by the Investment Advisor;
  3. have Your Personal Information corrected if it is inaccurate or incomplete at any time;
  4. erasure, or the right to be forgotten, which means you can request deletion or removal of any of Your Personal Information the Investment Advisor holds about you at any time, subject to the Investment Advisor’s or the Administrator’s rights to retain Your Personal Information as provided for under the GDPR;
  5. block or suppress the Investment Advisor collecting and using Your Personal Information, which means the Investment Advisor can continue to store Your Personal Information but cannot further collect or use it in any way;
  6. obtain and reuse any of Your Personal Information that the Investment Advisor holds about you for your own purposes across different services, which allows you to move, copy or transfer Your Personal Information easily from the Investment Advisor to another place identified by you to the Investment Advisor in a safe and secure way without hindrance to the usability of Your Personal Information;
  7. object to the Investment Advisor collecting, using or retaining Your Personal Information where this is based on:
    1. your legitimate interest or the performance of a task in the public interest; or
    2. direct marketing even if otherwise legally permitted; and
  8. withdraw your consent to the use of Your Personal Information at any time, as described below.

To make any requests as listed above, please contact the Investment Advisor at mmanfredonia@mcadv.com.

The Investment Advisor will respond to requests relating to your rights above within one month of receipt of your request, or within two months of receipt of your request where this request is more complex.

Withdrawal of Your Consent

You can tell the Investment Advisor to stop collecting, using and retaining Your Personal Information at any time by emailing the Investment Advisor at mmanfredonia@mcadv.com. You should note that notwithstanding your withdrawal of consent, the Investment Advisor may be legally required to retain some or all of Your Personal Information.

Where the Investment Advisor or the Administrator requires Your Personal Information to comply with AML or other legal requirements, failure to provide this information will mean that you will be unable to be accepted as an investor in the Fund and/or may be mandatorily redeemed from the Fund if you are already an Investor.

Protection of Investor Information

The Investment Advisor maintains appropriate technical and organizational measures to ensure a level of security appropriate to potential risks, including physical, electronic and procedural safeguards that comply with the GDPR to protect customer information, including:

  1. the pseudonymization and encryption of Your Personal Information where appropriate;
  2. ensuring ongoing confidentiality, integrity, availability and resilience of processing systems and services;
  3. ensuring the Investment Advisor can restore access to Your Personal Information in a timely manner if a physical or technical incident occurs; and
  4. regular testing, assessment and evaluation of the effectiveness of its technical and organizational measures to attempt to ensure Your Personal Information is secure.

The Investment Advisor restricts access to the personal and account information of Investors to those employees and third-parties who need to know that information in the course of their job responsibilities. The Investment Advisor will destroy, erase or make unreadable data, computer files and documents containing Your Personal Information that is non-public prior to disposal.

Making a Complaint

If you would like to make a complaint about the way the Investment Advisor has collected, used or retained Your Personal Information, please contact us at mmanfredonia@mcadv.com.

You have the right to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority in the EU Member State of your habitual residence or place of work or in the place of the alleged infringement if you consider that the processing of personal data relating to you carried out by the Investment Advisor or its service providers infringes the GDPR.

Former Customers and Investors

This EU Privacy Policy also applies to former Investors in the EU and the EEA.

Further Information

This EU Privacy Policy is in addition to the Investment Advisor’s existing Privacy Policy adopted under US law, a copy of which is available from the Investment Advisor on request. The Investment Advisor reserves the right to change this EU Privacy Policy at any time and without prior notification. The examples contained within this EU Privacy Policy are illustrations and are not intended to be exclusive. This EU Privacy Policy complies with the GDPR regarding privacy. You may have additional rights under other foreign or domestic privacy laws in addition to those that are described above. If you have any questions about this EU Privacy Policy, please call Mike Manfredonia on +1 646 786 8095, or email at mmanfredonia@mcadv.com. Other than as described above, no further action is required on your part.

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