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Privacy Policy for Mentees

Global Mentors Group consists of CMi Merryck (ANZ and Middle East), Merryck & Co., Chair Mentors International, The Board Advisory Partnership, and Mentore.

Our contact details 

Data Protection Officer Global Mentors Group, Standbrook House, Floor 2, 2-5 Old Bond Street, W1S 4PD

Telephone: +44 (0)207 823 0516 

Data Protection Officer CMi Merryck ANZ Pty Ltd, Level 29, Chifley Tower, 2 Chifley Square, Sydney, NSW 2000 

Email: infoaus@cmimerryck.com Telephone: +61 2 9231 8670

Data Protection Officer CMi Merryck Middle East, Saif Al Dalah Al Hamadani Al Zahra District, Riyadh, 12815

Email: infome@cmimerryck.com Telephone: +44 (0)773 664 6561

Why we process your personal information 

We process your personal information in connection with the performance of our contract with you to provide coaching/mentoring and assessment services (including as relevant mentoring services, Team Assessment diagnostics and High Performing Team Coaching) 

In our execution of the contract, we process your personal information for the following reasons: (1) to initiate the mentoring services with you (such as scheduling initial meetings with a mentor or scheduling a team assessment); (2) to provide background to your mentors and ensure they are appropriately briefed to offer the best possible service to you; (3) contacting you to discuss your experience whilst involved in our services; (4) to provide summary feedback on our delivery of the contract to you. (5) invoicing you for the services. (6) to include you in our alumni network. (7) deliver the coaching/mentoring services to you; 

 

 The type of personal information we collect 

 

 Reason we process information 

Information we process 

Corporate administration and service management 

(1) to initiate the coaching/mentoring services with you. 

• Personal identifiers, contacts and characteristics (for example, name and contact details). • Work identifiers (such as Position or Role and corporate profile/CV) • Objectives of mentoring. 

(2) to provide background to CMi Merryck mentors and ensure they are appropriately briefed to offer the best possible service to you. 

(3) contacting you to discuss your experience whilst involved in our services. 

(4) to provide summary feedback on our delivery of the contract to you. 

(5) invoice you for the services. 

(6) Alumni network. 

• Personal identifiers, contacts and characteristics (for example, name and contact details). • Work identifiers (such as Position or Role and corporate profile/CV) 

Mentoring 

(7) deliver the coaching/mentoring services to you. 

• Personal identifiers, contacts and characteristics (for example, name and contact details) • Work identifiers (such as Position or Role and corporate profile/CV) • Assessment data, data you share in regards of performance evaluation, professional and personal work-related objectives, activities and interests. • Personal data processed by a mentor in the course of providing individual mentoring services will not be shared without first obtaining the mentee’s explicit permission; the relationship between you and your mentor will be based on confidentiality and this is an explicit contractual obligation of parties. 

 

How we collect personal information and why we have it 

You or your sponsoring organisation will provide us with your initial contact details and the objectives of the mentoring. 

Other information we process, including any sensitive or confidential information, will be provided by you to your mentors. 

Who we share personal information with 

In the course of delivering our services we may share information with third parties. These are outlined below. 

 

Our reason for processing information 

Who we share information with 

Corporate administration and service management (including Alumni) 

• Our IT providers, including cloud-based providers of email, office functionality and Customer Relationship Management. • The mentor(s) responsible for your specific engagement. 

Mentoring 

• Mentors are senior independent professionals and operate as third parties under CMi Merryck’s instructions. Mentors will store and process data on their own equipment and personal computers. • The Mentor-mentee relationship is considered confidential. Therefore, other than confirmation that the service is being delivered to you, no information is shared by the mentors. • Summary and anonymised data of the services being delivered may be shared with you and/or your parent organisation. This could include, for example, anonymous team assessment diagnostics or practical mentoring information (such as practicalities, schedules, timing). 

 

How we store your personal information 

We have a documented approach to information security that is consistent with international standards. Your information is securely stored as follows: Our reason for processing information 

How we store your information 

Corporate administration and service management, including Alumni. 

• Secured use of cloud-based providers of email, office functionality and Customer Relationship Management. 

Mentoring 

• Mentors operate as our subcontractors and will store information on their own devices. We have outlined in our agreements with mentors the level of security required and have measures in place to implement and oversee the security of mentor devices. 

 

How we retain and remove data 

We retain your personal data for seven years after your engagement with us has concluded. Our reason for processing information 

How long we retain information and how we remove this 

Corporate administration and service management (including Alumni) 

• Our core records, which indicate who we have offered services to, are retained for seven years. After this time, we anonymise the data we hold to remove reference to individual mentees. • We retain your contact details on our Alumni programme for as long as you participate in the programme. We remove your details once you choose to leave. 

Mentoring 

• Mentors are instructed to retain their records of your mentoring for no longer than twelve months after your relationship with them ends, after which they delete the data from their devices. 

 

Your data protection rights 

Under data protection law, you have rights including: Your right of access – You have the right to ask us for copies of your personal information. Your right to rectification – You have the right to ask us to rectify personal information you think is inaccurate. You also have the right to ask us to complete information you think is incomplete. Your right to erasure – You have the right to ask us to erase your personal information in certain circumstances. Your right to restriction of processing – You have the right to ask us to restrict the processing of your personal information in certain circumstances. Your right to object to processing – You have the right to object to the processing of your personal information in certain circumstances. Your right to data portability – You have the right to ask that we transfer the personal information you gave us to another organisation, or to you, in certain circumstances. You are not required to pay any charge for exercising your rights. If you make a request, we have one month to respond to you. 

Please contact us at infoaus@cmimerryck.com / infome@cmimerryck.com if you wish to make a request.

 

How to complain 

If you have any concerns about our use of your personal information, you can make a complaint to us at infoaus@cmimerryck.com or infome@cmimerryck.com.