This document sets out the Privacy and Cookies Policy which applies to the Barclays Research for Business website (the “Website”) and supplements the terms and conditions for the Website and the use of the Barclays Research for Business Service (the “Terms and Conditions”).

In this Policy, defined terms given a meaning in the Terms and Conditions shall have the same meaning when used in this Policy.

This Privacy and Cookies Policy describes how your information will be treated as you use the Website. By “your information” we mean any information about you that you or third parties provide to us in connection with the Website. By using the Website you agree to your information being used as described in this Privacy and Cookies Policy. All capitalised terms used in this Privacy and Cookies Policy without definition have the meaning assigned to them in the Terms.

When you access the Website, we may collect information about your device, the services you use, and the content you view. This information may include: the IP address from which you access the Website; information about the device you use to access the Website such as the operating system type and version, your user and device name, as well as the unique user ID (the UUID) or Android ID (as applicable) assigned to the device; messages and other content you view, the time of viewing and what device or browser you used; and settings and preference choices you have made for the Website.  We use various technical means to collect this information including application logs on your device or PC, server logs, “cookies” placed on your device or PC and “beacons” in email and other content.

The information you provide and any data you create and save on the Website is used as follows:

we may use your information to prepare anonymised reports, for example for research and statistical analysis, with the aim of improving our services. We compile reports from information about you and other Barclays’ clients and they will not contain any information that identifies you. We may share these anonymised reports with third parties, including non-Barclays’ companies;
when you access the Website we ask you to authenticate yourself. In addition when you navigate through the Website we may log the date, time and duration of your visit and also the pages or sections on the Website that you have visited as well as any content you have viewed. We use this information to monitor how Users navigate through the Website in order to enable us to evaluate and improve the Website. We also use this information to monitor the effectiveness, and extent and frequency of usage of the Research, and to further improve the Research, our products and our relationships with our clients; and we may also use demographic information about you as well as information we gather about how you use the Website to suggest other content or services from us and third parties that may be of interest to you based on the interests of similar users of  the Website, and we may use information about your use to make similar predictions for other users of the Website.

We may share or transfer your information with or to (i) other companies within the Barclays Group, (ii) anyone to whom we transfer or may transfer our rights and duties under this agreement, (iii) anyone as a result of any restructure, sale or acquisition of any company within the Barclays Group, and (iv) regulatory and other governmental authorities in connection with Barclays and/or the Firm's compliance obligations or in response to an order of a court or agency that asserts authority over you. We will condition any such sharing or transfer on the requirement that any such recipient uses your information only for the purposes that we have permitted.

We may also send your information to vetted third parties who provide a service to us or are acting as our agents, on the understanding that they will keep the information confidential. If we transfer your information to an agent or service provider located in another country, we will make sure that they agree to apply the same levels of protection as we are required to apply to your information and to use your information strictly in accordance with our instructions. If this is not possible - for example because we are required by law to disclose information - we will ensure the sharing of that information is lawful.

We will retain information collected about you after your Website registration is cancelled for as long as permitted for legal, regulatory, fraud and other financial crime prevention and legitimate business purposes.