Who does this privacy notice apply to, and what is it about?

This privacy notice applies to you if you are an individual and you are either a current or former shareholder of Rotork plc, or otherwise you currently have, or have previously had, an interest in the shares of Rotork plc, whether that interest is legal or beneficial.

This privacy notice explains what personal data we collect about you and what we do with it. It also explains your rights in respect of your personal data and it informs you what to do if you have any questions or complaints about our use of your personal data.

Who is the controller of your personal data?

The controller of your personal data that is collected and processed for the purposes explained in this privacy notice is Rotork plc.

The data controller’s representative for the purposes of this privacy notice is Rotork plc’s Company Secretary, who can be contacted using the contact details set out at the end of this notice.

What personal data do we collect about you, and how?

We collect certain personal data about you, including:

• Your name
• Your address
• Details of your past or present holdings of shares and/or interests in shares in Rotork plc (including any reference numbers attributed to such shares), whether you hold or held these as legal owner or have or had a beneficial interest in them
• Details of how you have in the past exercised, or intend in the future to exercise, your voting rights attached to shares in Rotork plc
• Your bank or building society account details into which dividends and other income or capital returns on your shares have in the past, or should in the future, be paid
• Your contact details, such as email addresses and telephone numbers, where you have provided these to us
• Your image, where it is captured by visual recording equipment and
• Your voice, where this is captured by audio recording equipment

 We collect this information in a variety of ways, including:

• By you providing it to us, either voluntarily or at our request or demand
• If you are also an employee of a Rotork group company, by your employer providing certain of these details to us
• By third parties acting on your behalf providing certain of these details to us, such as stock brokers and other agents through whom you may have acquired or disposed of your shares or interest in shares
• Where you exercise your rights in respect of your shares, including by your attendance at general meetings and voting in person or by your casting proxy votes, whether in hard copy form or by submitting electronic instructions via the CREST system
• From third parties who perform services on our behalf, such as our registrars who assist us with maintenance of our share registers and with the conduct of our general meetings and
• By capturing your image and/or your voice on visual and/or audio recording equipment, for example on CCTV at our premises if you attend such premises, on any recordings made of our general meetings if you attend such meetings, and on any recordings made of other presentations to shareholders if you attend such presentations

What do we do with your personal data, and on what basis?

We collect and process personal data about you (with the support of our registrar) for the following purposes:

• Legal and regulatory compliance: to comply with laws and regulations to which Rotork plc is subject, including those that require us to keep records and file returns about the shareholdings in Rotork plc, pay you amounts due on your shares, send you information about Rotork plc and comply with disclosure requirements imposed or enforced by governmental authorities and regulatory agencies, including law enforcement agencies and tax authorities
• Contractual compliance: to comply with our contract(s) with you, as set out in the memorandum and articles of association of Rotork plc and/or in any share scheme or plan trust deed or rules, including giving you the information and communicating with you in the ways referred to therein
• Managing our relationship with you and your shareholder rights: to enable us to otherwise manage our relationship with you, including by meeting with you, communicating with you and answering questions you ask of us
• Other legal purposes: to enable us to enforce or defend our legal rights, including by bringing or defending legal claims that may be made by or against Rotork plc in relation to your shareholdings or interests in shares
• Safety and security: to seek to ensure the safety and security of attendees at our general meetings and at presentations to shareholders, and to keep records of those events
• Dissemination of information: to disseminate information about Rotork plc’s business, strategy and financial results
• For any other purpose we identify as relevant to further our business interests, but never at the expense of your privacy rights

We process your personal data because we have legal obligations to do so and because it is necessary to perform our contract(s) with you as a shareholder and/or holder of interests in shares in Rotork plc. Otherwise we process your personal data on the basis of our legitimate interests, which are to achieve those purposes referred to above that do not relate to complying with a legal obligation or performing our contract with you.

Where we process your personal data only on the basis of our legitimate interest, you have the right to object to that use. However, we do not have to stop processing personal data where we have compelling grounds that override your interests, or where we need to process your personal data in order to establish, exercise or defend legal claims. If you have any objections, please contact Rotork plc’s Company Secretary at the data protection email address (details below).

Where we use your personal data because we have a legal obligation to do so or to perform a contract with you, there is no right to object.

What if we have obtained your consent to use your personal data?

If we obtain your consent for any use of your personal data (which is likely to be for a purpose that is not described in this privacy notice), you may withdraw that consent at any time and we will give you further information in any consent form by which we obtain your consent on how to withdraw your consent.

What are our obligations to collect and your obligations to provide personal data?

We have legal obligations to collect and process certain personal data about you, for example to record your details in our statutory register of members, to pay you amounts due on your shares, to enable you to exercise your rights attached to shares and to send you certain information. You may also have legal obligations to provide us with certain information about you, for example where we make a statutory demand to ascertain the beneficial ownership of shares.

If you do not provide us with the information necessary to enable us to comply with our legal obligations, you may not be recognised as a shareholder of Rotork plc and/or you may not be entitled to exercise or enjoy your rights attaching to your shares in Rotork plc and/or we may not be able to fulfil our other obligations to you.

Who will we share your personal data with?

We will share your personal data with Rotork plc’s:

• Registrar, Equiniti, who manage and maintain our statutory register of members
• Third parties, where we are legally obliged to do so, for example with government bodies and regulators and with the courts and parties to legal proceedings pursuant to court rules and orders
• Subsidiaries, as necessary to operate our business and
• Third party suppliers and service providers, for example professional advisors and third parties who are used by us to perform processing activities, such as software service providers and payment service providers

In addition to the above, we will share your personal data:

• If the law requires or permits disclosure, or there is a duty to the public to share or disclose your personal data, for example, for the purpose of verifying shareholdings
• With any third party at your request or with your consent
• With any individual or company to whom we propose to transfer our obligations and rights in relation to the administration of our share register and
• With any other person who requires access to or receipt of your personal data in connection with or a result of any agreement we may have with or concerning you, or arrangements with you

The Rotork plc subsidiaries and/or third parties who process your personal data on our behalf may do so in countries outside the UK. We will always take steps to ensure that the transfer of information outside the UK is carefully managed to protect your privacy rights:

• Transfers within the Rotork group will be covered by an intra-group data transfer agreement which contractually obliges each member to ensure that your personal data receives adequate and consistent protection wherever it is transferred within the group
• We will only transfer personal data to an overseas third party or international organisation if it is based on adequacy regulations or if one of the following applies:
• The European Commission has issued a decision confirming that the country to which we transfer the personal data ensures an adequate level of protection for the data subjects' rights and freedoms; or
• Appropriate safeguards are in place such as binding corporate rules, standard contractual clauses approved by the European Commission, an approved code of conduct or a certification mechanism; or
• You have provided explicit consent to the proposed transfer after being informed of any potential risks; or
• The transfer is necessary for one of the other reasons set out in the UK GDPR including the performance of a contract between us, reasons of public interest, to establish, exercise or defend legal claims or to protect your vital interests where you are physically or legally incapable of giving consent and, in some limited cases, for our legitimate interest.

Please contact us if you want further information on the specific mechanism used by us when transferring your personal data internationally. 

For how long will we process your personal data?

We will process your personal data for as long as you hold shares or an interest in shares in Rotork plc.

We will also retain your personal data after you cease to hold shares or an interest in shares in Rotork plc for so as long as necessary to deal with any outstanding matters relating to your holding or interest, including where legal claims have arisen or might arise.

We may also retain your personal data where it is comprised in business data which evidences your holding or interest, such as where your name or other information about you appears in business records or reports for as long as we need to keep that evidence for our business purposes, which is likely to be at least six (6) years from creation of that evidence or longer where there are legal requirements to hold such evidence for longer.

In respect of your personal data which is contained in our statutory registers, we will retain this personal data for an indefinite period.

It is important that the personal data that we hold about you is accurate and up to date. You should let us know if any of your details change by contacting our Registrar, Equiniti, whose contact details are set out below.

What rights do you have in relation to your personal data?

You have a number of rights in relation to your personal data. These include the right, subject to exceptions, to:

• Access the personal data that we hold about you
• Request the rectification of incorrect personal data that we hold about you
• Or erasure of your personal data in certain limited circumstances
• Request restrictions on the processing of your personal data where certain requirements are met
• Request that we transfer elements of your personal data to another service provider and
• Object to our processing of your personal data

You may also have the right in some circumstances to receive a copy of your personal data in a portable format e.g. Microsoft Excel. This right is limited to personal data that you have provided to us and is processed on the basis of your consent or your contract(s) with us. It does not cover personal data that we process on other grounds.

Please contact Rotork plc’s Registrar, Equiniti (whose contact details are set out in 10. below), if you wish to exercise any of these rights. They may ask you for proof of identity when making a request to exercise any of these rights. This is to ensure that they only disclose information when they know that they are dealing with the right person.

What should you do if you have any questions or complaints, or you wish to change your personal details?

Rotork plc

If you have any questions or complaints about how we process your personal data, you should contact Rotork plc’s Company Secretary at:

• Address: Company Secretary, Rotork plc, Rotork House, Brassmill Lane, Bath BA1 3JQ

OR

• Email address: CompanySecretary@rotork.com

Equiniti

If you have any questions about, or want to make any changes to, the personal data we hold on you, or wish to exercise your rights in relation to the personal data we hold, you should contact Rotork plc’s Registrar at:

• Address: Equiniti Limited, Aspect House, Spencer Road, Lancing, West Sussex BN99 6DA

OR

• Email address (if registered for online shareholder communications): www.shareview.co.uk

OR

• Telephone from the UK: 0371 384 2280*
• Telephone from overseas: +44(0) 121 415 7047*

* Lines are open from 8.30am to 5.30pm, Monday – Friday, excluding public holidays.

You may also contact the data protection mailbox at dataprotection@rotork.com

You also have the right to complain to the UK Information Commissioner’s Office about how we process your personal data. You can do this by contacting them on their helpline on 0303 123 1113. We encourage you to contact us to help resolve your complaint in the first instance.