Privacy policy

The Ashmore Foundation is committed to safeguarding your privacy as far as possible. We only collect personal information such as your email address, name, title, and address in order to be able to respond to your enquiries or to assess any applications that we receive.

Please read the following policy to understand how your personal information will be treated. This policy applies to information collected via this website, and may change from time to time.

Data Protection

When you browse the website we will store information supplied by you through the website in order to improve the quality of service that we provide to you. This includes using data in order to compile lists of grantees (which are publicly available), to respond to enquiries, to assess applications and to review our own activity. Any information that may be provided by you to us through the website will be held in confidence by the Ashmore Foundation and will not be disclosed to third parties, other than as set out below, or to any person who provides professional, legal or accounting advice or other service to us, and who will use such information in the course of providing advice or other services to you and for the purposes we specify.  All such companies are required to maintain the confidentiality of such information to the extent they receive it.

Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained herein, we may disclose your personal information or any portions thereof: (a) as required by, or to comply with, applicable law, regulation, court process or other statutory requirement; and (b) at the request of any regulatory, supervisory or governmental authorities. We may also disclose your personal information to fulfil your instructions, to protect our rights and interests, or pursuant to your express consent.

Applicants and their institutions are deemed to have given consent to the Ashmore Foundation to process data related to enquiries and applications, in the manner outlined above, either by submitting an enquiry or an application form to the Ashmore Foundation.

Personal information is held securely and records are retained for no longer than necessary. We take reasonable steps to protect any personal information provided to us. If any information we hold is inaccurate or out of date, or you wish to obtain a copy of the information we hold about you, please email us at foundation@ashmoregroup.com, or write to the Ashmore Foundation, 61 Aldwych, London WC2B 4AE, UK.

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