Disclaimer
The Anthropocene Fixed Income Institute (‘AFII’) does not provide tax, legal, investment, accounting, or regulatory advice or services.
The content of any AFII website is for informational and educational purposes only and is not intended to provide, and should not be relied on for, tax, legal, investment, accounting, or regulatory, or regulated advice or services. Nothing on an AFII website is intended (i) as investment advice, as an offer or solicitation of an offer to buy or sell, or as a recommendation, endorsement, or sponsorship of any security, company, issuer, or fund, (ii) to express a particular investment proposal in respect of a financial instrument or an issuer, (iii) to propose a particular investment decision in respect of a financial instrument or an opinion as to the present or future value or price of any financial instrument, or (iv) to recommend or suggest any investment strategy.AFII is not responsible for any investment decision made by you. You are responsible for your own investment research and investment decisions. The content of an AFII website is not meant as a general guide to investing, nor as a source of any specific investment recommendation.
Unless attributed to others, any opinions expressed are our current opinions only. AFII does not take into account your own circumstances or assets and AFII assumes no direct or indirect responsibility or liability for any investment decisions you make, and you remain fully responsible for your own research, legal and regulatory compliance, and decisions.
Certain information presented may have been sourced from third parties. AFII believes that such third-party information is reliable and has checked public records to verify it wherever possible, but does not guarantee its accuracy, timeliness or completeness; and it is subject to change without notice.
Any reference to an issuer’s creditworthiness or likelihood of positive or negative performance in the current or future market is purely observational and should not be taken as a recommendation or endorsement or critique of such issuer or its securities.
AFII is a non-profit organisation that provides fixed income investors with the insights and tools they need to align their portfolios with ambitious climate and nature targets.. For more information about the Institute, please visit www.anthropocenefii.org.
AFII is committed to ensuring that your privacy is protected. This Data Protection Policy outlines how we use and protect any information that you provide to AFII.
Data Protection Policy
1. Introduction
Anthropocene Fixed Income Institute (AFII) (“we”, “us” and “our”) is committed to protecting the privacy and security of your personal information.
This Data Protection Policy applies to all AFII’s “stakeholders”, including donors, consultants, suppliers, website users, and other external network stakeholders (“you” and “your”).2. Policy
This section of the Data Protection Policy describes how we collect and use personal information about you when you engage with AFII and its work. In this circumstance, AFII upholds the standards required of a controller under data protection laws.a) The data we hold and why
We hold the names and email addresses of AFII’s stakeholders as well as any other information you may provide to us. We may also process information collected through cookies and similar technologies (such as tracking pixels) when you visit an AFII website and via communications we may send to you electronically.
We may use this personal information to:
• provide information about our services and promote our work;
• provide and improve any AFII website;
• manage our relationship with our stakeholders;
• understand our stakeholders’ marketing preferences;
• send correspondence such as market news and analysis and webinar invitations to stakeholders who have opted in to receive it and have approved AFII holding their email address in our database; and
• respond to your questions.
We will process your personal data on the basis of one or more of the following lawful bases (to the extent applicable): (1) where you provide your consent; (2) where required to comply with legal and regulatory obligations; and (3) where we have a legitimate interest to process your personal data, including to operate our services and provide you with relevant communications and marketing.
b) Direct marketing
Stakeholders, who have opted in to direct marketing, can opt out at any time by emailing [email protected].
c) How long the organisation keeps data
Where you provide your personal information to us, for example in response to a particular campaign, we will only keep this for as long as is reasonably required for the purpose(s) for which it was submitted.
d) Data protection rights
AFII would like to make sure you are fully aware of all of your data protection rights. Every stakeholder is entitled to the following:
• The right to access – You have the right to request from AFII copies of your personal data.
• The right to rectification – You have the right to request that AFII corrects any information you believe is inaccurate. You also have the right to request AFII to complete information you believe is incomplete.
• The right to erasure – You have the right to request that AFII erases your personal data, under certain conditions.
• The right to restrict processing – You have the right to request that AFII restricts the processing of your personal data, under certain conditions.
• The right to object to processing – You have the right to object to AFII’s processing of your personal data.
• The right to data portability – You have the right to request that AFII transfers the data that we have collected to another organisation, or directly to you, under certain conditions.
You have the right to request a copy of the personal information we hold about you and to have any inaccuracies corrected. Where you, as an AFII stakeholder would like to review the data that we hold for you or exercise any of the above rights, please make a request to: [email protected] or send a request in the post to: AFII at Kornhamnstorg 53, 111 27 Stockholm, Sweden or at Warnford Court, 29 Throgmorton St, London EC2N 2AT. We will endeavour to provide the information within one month.
e) Who AFII discloses data to, and international data transfers
AFII does not transfer any personal data to any third countries or international organisations outside the UK and the European Economic Area (“EEA”). If it is necessary to transfer your personal information outside the UK or EEA, this shall be done in accordance with the General Data Protection Regulation (EU) 2016/679 (“EU GDPR”) and EU GDPR as onshored into UK legislation as part of the UK’s exit from the European Union (“UK GDPR”, and together with EU GDPR, “GDPR”), for example on the basis of an adequacy decision under Article 45 of UK GDPR or EU GDPR, as applicable.AFII currently only discloses stakeholders’ data within the organisation and to any marketing platform provider which we require to be compliant with GDPR.
The only other circumstances where AFII will share your data with third parties, is in order to comply with legal requests where disclosure is required or permitted by law (for example to government bodies for tax purposes or law enforcement agencies for the prevention and detection of crime, subject to such bodies providing AFII with a relevant request in writing).
f) Complaints
If you are not satisfied with the manner in which we process your personal information, you have the right to complain to the Information Commissioner’s Office, Wycliffe House, Water Lane, Wilmslow, Cheshire, SK9 5AF.
3. Review of this Policy
This Data Protection Policy was last updated in April 2025.
If you have any queries in relation to this notice, please contact us at [email protected].
Anthropocene Fixed Income Institute of Kornhamnstorg 53, 111 27 Stockholm, Sweden and Warnford Court, 29 Throgmorton St, London EC2N 2AT is the controller of your personal data.