On the 1st March 2023, the Financial Times Group (FT Group) acquired the product and consulting divisions of Wavteq Group Limited (Wavteq). The brands; Amplify, IncentivesFlow, InvestmentFlow, InvestmentMap, Influencers and their strategy and development services have joined the fDi Intelligence portfolio.
FT has not acquired the lead generation division of Wavteq, which can be found at Wavteq's website* .
These products and services greatly complement our fDi Intelligence portfolio and as a newly combined group, offer an unrivalled centre of excellence globally, providing news and analysis, data tools, events and strategic guidance for the industry.
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(*This link is provided for your convenience only. FT has no control over this third party or its website and is not responsible for any Wavteq products, services, materials or information.)
The fDi Intelligence portfolio, a powerhouse of foreign and domestic investment products and services, offers an unrivalled centre of excellence globally, providing news and analysis, data tools, events and strategic guidance for the industry. Central to this mission is our commitment to upholding the highest standards of data protection for our customers.
This Privacy Policy applies to all websites and web applications which link to this policy and are provided by The Financial Times (Overseas) Limited (“Sites”).
If you wish to amend any of the personal information that we hold about you, or update your marketing preferences, you can do so at any time through your account.
If you have any queries about how we use your personal information, please contact our Data Protection Officer at privacy.fto@ft.com.
This section details the information we may collect about you. We explain why, and how, we use it in later sections.
If you decide to create an account or enquire about one of our products or services, we’ll ask you to provide us with some specific information, for example:
On occasion, we will ask you to voluntarily provide additional information, for example:
In some circumstances, we collect information about you from our partners or from publicly available sources to help us better understand our audience and enhance the relevance of our content and marketing.
We also obtain some information from publicly available sources for the purpose of inclusion in our directories; IncentivesFlow, InvestmentFlow, Influencers and fDi Markets. These are online databases, which track companies investing overseas and government incentives. As part of the research process, we identify publicly available details of key individuals who are linked to either project activities or listed as a company contact. If your contact details have been included in the database, you will have received an email containing instructions on how to opt-out, which you can do by calling +44 (0)20 7775 6667 or emailing privacy.fto@ft.com.
We use cookies (and similar technologies) and analytics tools across our Sites to collect information about you. This information can be used to improve the performance of the site, make advertising more relevant and enhance your user experience; examples include:
We only process personal information where we have a lawful basis for doing so, such as the following:
We may also rely on relevant exemptions under the GDPR to the requirement to identify a lawful basis for processing.
We collect personal information for the following main reasons:
We disclose personal information to facilitate the running of our business or to provide specific services you have requested. Commonly, we will disclose information to:
We retain the majority of your personal information for as long as your account is active and therefore open; this allows you to continue accessing our content, products and services.
If you become inactive and are not a subscriber, we may delete elements of the information associated with your account. We will normally warn you if your access is going to be withdrawn and give you the opportunity to retain your account.
Where we don’t need to keep all of your information in full, we may obfuscate or aggregate it, for example, web activity logs and survey responses. This is to ensure that we do not retain your information for any longer than is necessary.
A summary of how long your personal information is retained can be found below:
Category of Data |
Example |
Retention Period Justification for Retention |
Billing information |
Masked details of most recently used payment method |
7 years For regulatory reasons we are required to retain accounting records for 7 years. |
Business intelligence |
Web activity on our sites |
36 months (then To improve and maintain aggregated + performance, personalise our non-personally services and to provide our identifiable) product. |
Customer service queries |
Complaint about a service you’re subscribed to |
7 years To provide a case history to assist us to answer your queries. |
Communication history |
Email stating that your subscription is up for renewal |
7 years So that we have a record of what communications we have sent to you, to better assist your queries. |
Event registration |
Sign up information for European Cities & Regions of the Future 2023 Awards Ceremony |
13 - 36 months For event administration and, with your permission, to invite you to future events. |
Market research Site features |
Responses to surveys about our products Trends and Analysis Tool |
36 months (the To administer market research aggregated + incentives, avoid duplicating non-personally research requests and to identifiable) understand research responses against usage of our Sites. Lifetime of the account To improve your experience of our products and services and to enable you to continue accessing site features. |
Subscription information |
Account information relating to your subscriptions |
7 years To enable us to fulfil your contract post-subscription with us. |
It is sometimes necessary for us to keep your personal information for longer periods of time, for example:
We have appropriate technical and administrative security measures in place to help ensure that our users’ information is protected against unauthorised or accidental access, use,
alteration, or loss. We use encryption technology, such as Transport Layer Security (TLS), to protect your personal information when you order products or services from us. More information about our approach to cyber security can be found in our Cyber Security Statement.
We operate a global business, so your personal information may be processed and stored outside the UK and the European Economic Area (EEA). For example, our global account managers need to access information about you in order to respond to your queries. We put in place safeguards, such as standard contractual clauses, to protect information that is transferred in this way.
Under data protection laws, you may have rights as an individual in relation to the personal data we hold about you. These rights include:
You can exercise these rights through your account or by contacting your account manager.
You also have the right to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority. In the UK, this is the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO).
Personal information is collected by The Financial Times (Overseas) Limited on behalf of the Financial Times group of companies and its trading divisions (including fDi Intelligence and GIS Planning).
Our Sites are not intended for children under 16 years of age. We do not intentionally collect or use any information from children.
Our Sites contain links to third party websites which are not subject to this privacy policy. We are not responsible for their content, use of personal information, or security practices.
If you have a query in regards to the processing of your personal information, please contact our Data Protection Officer directly at privacy.fto@ft.com.
The Financial Times (Overseas) Limited
Registered Office: Bracken House, 1 Friday Street, London, EC4M 9BT, United Kingdom. Registered Number: 1613899
Please also refer to the relevant Privacy Policies for fDi Intelligence and GIS Planning if you are also using, or have notified us of marketing contact permissions relating to, these products.
To comply with the General Data Protection Regulation (2016/679) we have appointed a European representative:
Bird & Bird GDPR Representative Services Ireland
Deloitte House
29 Earlsfort Terrace
Dublin 2
D02 AY28
EUrepresentative.FinancialTimes@twobirds.com
Key Contact: Vincent Rezzouk-Hammachi
This section is intended for California residents and supplements the above.
If you are a California resident, the California Consumer Privacy Act, as amended by the California Privacy Rights Act, (CCPA) may provide you with additional rights regarding the use of your personal information. These rights include:
You can exercise any applicable rights by emailing ccpa.privacy@ft.com. You may be required to submit proof of your identity and/or address, if we are unable to confirm your
identity or cannot verify that you are a California resident. We endeavor to respond to a verifiable consumer request within 45 days. You may also designate an authorised agent to make a request on your behalf, subject to proof of identity and authorisation.
Summary of consumers’ personal information we have collected in the preceding 12 months
Categories of Personal Information (as defined by California law) |
Sources of Business Purposes Information |
Commercial Purposes |
Identifiers: name; contact information including email or postal address and telephone number; unique personal identifiers including online identifier and IP address. |
Directly from you: as part of the account information you provide when you sign up to our services, or when you enquire about our products or services. Information we obtain: including information from partners, service providers or public sources. Providing Services: including fulfilment of orders; running our events; providing customer services; verifying customer information; maintaining accounts and auditing interactions with customers. Advertising: short term use of personal information for the customisation of ads to make the advertising on our sites more relevant. Quality Assurance: including internal research for technological development and maintaining the quality of our products and services. Legal: including monitoring compliance with our policies and terms and communicating product changes. Operational Purposes: other operational purposes |
Marketing: including sales and promoting products and services. Directories: including the building and ongoing upkeep of directories. Competitions: including administering prize draws and competitions. |
Commercial information: including purchase history and transactions; financial details and payment information. |
Directly from you: as part of the account information you provide when you sign up to our services. Providing Services: including fulfilment of orders; providing customer services; verifying customer information; accounting purposes and conducting audits. Security: including detecting security incidents and debugging. Quality Assurance: including internal research for technological development and maintaining the quality of our products and services. Legal: including monitoring compliance with our policies and terms. |
Not applicable. |
Professional or employment related information: including job title; industry; company. |
Information we obtain: including information from partners, service providers or public sources. Advertising: short term use of personal information for the customisation of ads to make the advertising on our sites more relevant. Quality Assurance: including maintaining the quality of our products and services. Operational Purposes: other operational purposes. |
Directories: including the building and ongoing upkeep of directories. |
Internet/other electronic network activity: online identifiers including device and IP address; geolocation and online behaviour including interest data, interactions with advertisements and recordings of the actions you take on some of our websites. |
Indirectly from you: for example through cookies or similar technology when you are using our websites. |
Advertising: allowing third parties who advertise with us to measure the effectiveness of their ads. |
Audiovisual: audio, electronic, visual and similar information (such as images, videos or call recordings). Inferences: drawn from any of the personal information listed above to create a profile or summary about you (for example, an individual’s preferences or characteristics). |
Directly from you: when you enquire about our products or services, or contact us about your account. Providing Services: including providing customer services; verifying customer information; maintaining accounts and auditing interactions with consumers. Quality Assurance: including internal research for technological development and maintaining the quality of our products and services. Advertising: short term use of personal information for the customisation of ads to make the advertising on our sites more relevant. Quality Assurance: including maintaining the quality of our products and services. |
Not applicable. Marketing: including sales and promoting products and services. |
As described in our Privacy Policy above, we share your personal information with third parties for business purposes. Commonly, these include service providers who help to support our business operations and improve our products.
We also use service providers to serve you with advertisements that we believe are relevant to you. These third parties are permitted to process your personal information only for the purposes of providing services to The Financial Times (Overseas) Limited; this may include the use of their own cookies or similar technologies to collect your personal information (IP address or other unique identifier) as part of providing their services to FT.
If you are a California resident, the CCPA also provides you with a right to opt-out of the sale and sharing of your personal information. The definitions of ‘sell’ and ‘share’ are extremely broad under the CCPA, and may include sharing certain pieces of information with our advertising partners, such as cookie identifiers, geolocation and interactions with advertisements, for the purposes of showing you advertising that is relevant to your interests.
You can choose to block sharing of this data with advertisers. This means that we turn off some types of advertising based on information you have given us and your use of our Sites, ensuring that our advertising partners do not receive this data. By opting out, you will stop receiving adverts that are targeted specifically to you; however, you will still see the same number of adverts on our Sites.
You can opt out using the ‘Do Not Sell or Share My Info’ link located in the footer of the website you are using, if that website shows the types of advertising described above. Alternatively, you can request this by emailing ccpa.privacy@ft.com.
IncentivesFlow is an online database tracking government incentives on a global and real time basis.
InvestmentFlow is an online database that tracks and profiles domestic investment in the UK and Canada.
Influencers is an online database that tracks and profiles investment intermediaries.
fDi Markets is an online database that tracks and profiles companies investing overseas and uses this information to understand the trends in FDI on a global basis.
As part of the research process for these directories, we identify publicly available details of key individuals who are linked to either project activities or listed as a company contact.
If your contact details have been included in one of these directories, you will have received an email containing instructions on how to opt-out, which you can do by calling +44 (0)20 7775 6667 or emailing ccpa.privacy@ft.com.
For more information on how we use your personal information and who we share your personal information with, please see our Privacy Policy above or contact ccpa.privacy@ft.com.
Changes to this Privacy Policy
This policy was reviewed on 28/02/2023 and last updated on 28/02/2023.
Any changes we may make to this privacy policy will be posted on this page. If changes are significant, we may choose to notify you by email or to clearly indicate on our home page that the policy has been updated.
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