This privacy notice covers the Financial Intelligence Unit, which sits within the Department for the Economy.
The Financial Intelligence Unit is registered as a Controller under the Data Protection (Jersey) Law 2018 (Data Protection Law), as we determine the purpose and means of the processing of the personal information collected about you for this service.
The Financial Intelligence Unit (FIU) - Jersey is responsible for receiving, gathering, storing, analysing and disseminating information about financial crime; receiving suspicious activity reports and other disclosures of information about financial crime; and assisting with the prevention and detection of financial crime.
The purposes for which we process personal data are determined in accordance with our statutory function, as set out in Proceeds of Crime (Jersey) Law 1999 and Proceeds of Crime (Financial Intelligence) (Jersey) Regulations 2015, as amended.
As a directorate within a Government Department, we generally process and hold your information in order to provide public services and meet our statutory obligations. This notice explains in more detail how we use and share information relating to you (your personal data) in order to provide the service described above.
Find more information on how the Department uses your personal data for other services on the States of Jersey privacy policies.
We will continually review and update this privacy notice to reflect changes in our services and feedback from service users, as well as to comply with changes in the law.
Your personal data will sometimes be collected directly from you. This may be done in any of the following ways:
In some cases, we may collect information about you from another Government of Jersey department or from the following third parties with which we interact in order to deliver our duties:
The types of personal data collected will vary depending on what information you volunteer and the information we need in each circumstance. However, we have listed below the most common categories of information we may collect about you:
We need to collect and hold personal data about you, in order to carry out the public functions of the FIU. Our legal basis for processing personal data in most cases is that it is necessary for the exercise of the FIU function of the States or any public authority (Schedule 2 para 4(c) of the Data Protection Law).
We have set out in further detail below why we use your personal data in each instance.
Statutory duties:
Public functions: The processing is necessary for the exercise of any function of Crown, the States or any public authority (Data Protection (Jersey) Law 2018, Schedule 2, paragraph 4c)
Name, contact details, name of organisation, occupation, job title or role, dates and place of birth, address, nationality, relationship status, financial information, political exposure, information on alleged or confirmed criminal activity.
Operational security, including access control systems and CCTV.
Public functions: The processing is necessary for the exercise of any function of Crown, the States or any public authority (Data Protection (Jersey) Law 2018, Schedule 2, paragraph 4c).
Proceeds of Crime (Jersey) Regulations 2015, as amended, article 2B.
Name, contact details, images.
Answer your query or investigate your complaint or manage our relationship with you.
Public functions: The processing is necessary for the exercise of any function of Crown, the States or any public authority (Data Protection (Jersey) Law 2018, Schedule 2, paragraph 4c).
Contact details, organisation details, voluntary information.
Keep you informed about our services, products and events.
Consent: The data subject has consented to the processing of his or her data for one or more specific purposes. (Data Protection (Jersey) Law 2018, Schedule 2, paragraph 1).
Contact details, organisation details, preferences.
Tailor events to meet your dietary requirements.
Consent: The data subject has consented to the processing of his or her data for one or more specific purposes. (Data Protection (Jersey) Law 2018, Schedule 2, paragraph 1).
Contact details, organisation details or voluntary information, preferences.
We may need to pass your personal data to other Government of Jersey Departments or the following organisation for the purposes stated above:
We may also disclose information to other public authorities where it is necessary, either to comply with a legal obligation, or where required under other legislation. Examples of this include, but are not limited to:
Your personal data may be processed on our behalf by certain third parties who provide service to us, so that they can provide those services. We have strict contracts in place with these service providers to ensure they process your data only on our instructions and with appropriate security in place. The categories of third parties who may receive your personal data in order to provide us with a service are:
At no time will your information be passed to organisations for marketing or sales purposes or for any commercial use without your prior express consent.
We may need to publish your information on our website or through Government of Jersey channels for the reasons set out below. This will not include your personal data:
We will keep your personal data accurate and up to date and not keep it for longer than is necessary for us to do so for the purposes for which the data is processed. Ask to see our retention schedule for more information about how long we retain your information.
Government of Jersey systems store data in Jersey, the UK and the European Union. The UK has been granted adequacy status by the European Commission and personal data stored there will be protected to the same standards as personal data held in Jersey and the EU.
In some instances, we may be required to transfer your personal data outside Jersey and the European Economic Area, if the recipient is located outside these jurisdictions. We do this when we share information with UK national security authorities and with members of the Egmont Group of Financial Intelligence Units, which are outside the European Economic Area, or are in jurisdictions without an adequacy decision from the European Union. However, we shall only do this with the necessary safeguards in place and where it complies with the Data Protection Law. For details of the safeguards we rely on if we do this, contact the Financial Intelligence Unit using the contact details below.
Cookies are small text files that are placed on your computer by websites that you visit. They are widely used in order to make websites work, or work more efficiently, as well as to provide information to the owners of the site. Find details of the cookies used on gov.je website in the gov.je privacy policy.
Links on our website may lead to other websites which are not under our control. Using these links does not mean these organisations can access information about you which is held by the FIU or States of Jersey.
This privacy policy only covers the FIU-Jersey website (www.fiu.je). Websites linked to, and from, this site are not covered by this policy, so you should always read the privacy statement on that website.
The FIU is not responsible for the content of external websites.
We use Google Analytics to help us understand how you engage with our website so that we can continually improve your experience.
When you visit fiu.je your browser automatically sends certain information to Google. This includes, for example, the web address of the page that you're visiting and your IP address.
Learn how to control the information your browser sends to Google on Google's website.
We use Facebook pixel for marketing purposes. The Facebook Pixel is used for Facebook Ads and Facebook Analytics. It does use private data and you will need to ask for prior consent. Facebook has also implemented flexible ways for their users to see and control how the pixel is used on partner websites.
The Facebook pixel receives these types of data:
You can change your ad preferences at any time using your Facebook login.
Your computer’s IP address is a number assigned to your computer when you use the internet. This is recorded automatically in a log file when you visit our site. This log file does not contain any personal identifiable information about you.
We will not pass your information to organisations for marketing or sales purposes or for any commercial use without your prior express consent.
You are obliged under the following legislation to provide us with personal data as set out in the table above.
See your personal data rights for details of your rights under the Data Protection Law and how to exercise them. These rights will be subject to the exemptions in the Data Protection Law, which apply to the functions of the Financial Intelligence Unit. This means that some of the rights outlined will not apply.
Where we rely on your consent to process personal data (see section 3 above), you can withdraw your consent by contacting fiu.admin@jersey.police.je
If you want to contact the Financial Intelligence Unit in relation to this privacy notice please contact fiu.admin@jersey.police.je.
If you have an enquiry or concern regarding processing your personal data you can contact the Central Data Protection Unit.
If you want to make a complaint about how your personal data is processed, you can email the Government’s Data Protection Officer at DPO@gov.je.
If you believe that the Financial Intelligence Unit has contravened the Data Protection Law and the contravention affects your data protection rights, you have the right to make a complaint at any time to the Jersey Office of the Information Commissioner (JOIC).
We would, however, appreciate the chance to deal with your concerns before you approach the JOIC, so contact the DPO in the first instance.
We may, from time to time, revise this privacy to ensure it remains up to date. It is advisable to check it regularly to keep aware of any changes.ariatur.