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Overview: Abu Dhabi Global Market Data Protection Regulations 2021 (ADGM DPR 2021) became effective on February 14, 2021. The ADGM DPR 2021 provide the ADGM’s data subjects with the following individual rights and freedoms:
THE RIGHT TO BE INFORMED: You may be entitled to request information about how we process your Personal Information.
RIGHT OF ACCESS:
You may be entitled to ask us for confirmation of whether we are processing your Personal Information and for a copy of your Personal Information.
This right is known as an “Individual Request.”
We will normally send you a copy of your Personal Information within a reasonable period, but at the latest with two months of receiving your request.
There is usually no charge; but in exceptional circumstances we may charge where a request is unreasonable or excessive, in particular because it is repetitive.
RIGHT TO RECTIFICATION:
You may have the right to request that any inaccurate Personal Information about you is corrected, and for incomplete Personal Information to be completed.
RIGHT TO ERASURE:
In certain circumstances, you may be entitled to ask us to erase your Personal Information.
RIGHT TO DATA PORTABILITY:
In certain circumstances, you may wish to obtain and to re-use your Personal Information for your own purposes and across different services.
If this right applies, you may request a copy of your Personal Information or request us to transmit your Personal Information to another data controller, where technically feasible, and where permitted under ADGM DPR 2021.
RIGHT TO OBJECT:
If the right applies, you may be able to object to the processing of your Personal Information at any time.
This effectively allows you to stop us from further processing your Personal Information.
Where we rely upon legitimate interests as the legal basis for processing your Personal Information, you may object to us continuing to process your Personal Information, but you must give us specific reasons for objecting.
We will consider the reasons you provide, but if we consider that there are compelling legitimate grounds for us to continue to process your Personal Information, we may continue to do so.
In that event, we will let you know the reasons for our decision.
RIGHT TO RESTRICTION:
You may be entitled to restrict the processing of your Personal Information in certain circumstances. The right is available where:
- You contest the accuracy of your data, while we are verifying the accuracy of your Personal Information;
- The processing of your Personal Information is unlawful and you request restriction instead of erasure;
- We no longer need your Personal Information for the purposes of processing, but it is required by you for the establishment, exercise, or defense of legal claims; or
- You have exercised your right to object to processing of your Personal Information based on the “legitimate interest” basis while we verify whether our legitimate grounds override your individual rights and freedoms.
RIGHTS RELATED TO AUTOMATED INDIVIDUAL DECISION-MAKING INCLUDING PROFILING:
We will not use your Personal Information in connection with any automated decision-making process.
We use limited contact information to carry out certain business development profiling activities to support and grow our business. When doing so, we rely upon our legitimate interests as the lawful basis for processing your Personal Information and you may exercise the above rights if you do not wish your Personal Information to be processed in this way.
You may contact King and Spalding at dataprivacy@kslaw.com should you have any questions regarding its privacy program.
You can submit requests about your Personal Information here.