Privacy Policy

In this Privacy Policy, “personal information” includes information such as names, contact information, and addresses. Under applicable data protection laws, this refers to any information that identifies, relates to, describes, is capable of being associated with, or could reasonably be linked, directly or indirectly, with a particular individual.

Bloomberg, or where relevant, a designated service provider or third party, collects personal information through this Site, such as during registration, when you request certain services or products, or submit information to complete a survey or poll.

Personal information is obtained directly from you, from others authorized to provide the information, from activity on the Site and from other parties with whom we work, such as third parties, business partners, and data analytics providers.

You provide us with personal information including the following:

• Registration information, which includes your name, address, and password.
• Contact information, which includes your phone number, address, email address, and other information that you provide to us when contacting us on the webform, feedback form or via other means such as email.
• Professional information, which includes job title, industry, and employment-related information.

If you do not provide certain required personal information, not all functionality on this Site will be available.

If you submit personal information about others, you represent and warrant that you are authorized to do so and that you have received authorization from the person about whom you are providing the information and that person has consented to have all information used, disclosed, and transferred in accordance with this Privacy Policy.

We and third parties may obtain the following types of personal information in connection with this site:

• Information generated through the use of the Site, including information such as the web last login date and login type.
• Information provided through cookies and other similar technologies. We use cookies and other similar tracking technologies (together, “cookies”) which provide us with your online identifier, internet protocol address, browser and device information, location information, or other similar identifiers. These cookies may also provide us with your internet or other electronic network activity information, including user preferences, the websites you visited immediately before and after visiting this Site, and information regarding a user’s interaction (including reading habits) with an internet website, application, or advertisement.
• Information collected through service providers or third parties. In certain circumstances, we engage third parties or service providers such as Google Analytics who, through the use of their own cookies, collect personal information on our behalf (such as the information collected through cookies as mentioned above) and transmit such information to us. For more information, please see “Use of Cookies and Other Electronic Technologies” below.

Bloomberg uses this information for carefully considered business purposes as follows:

• to provide our products and services, including this Site;
• to communicate with you;
• to help Bloomberg improve and develop our products and services;
• to provide support for our products and services,
• to provide you with offers and promotions about services and products of Bloomberg
• to maintain the quality and safety of products and services, and for internal quality control purposes, including debugging to identify and repair errors that impair existing intended functionality
• to enhance your experience with this Site, including to save your preferences and login information;
• to analyze website usage and analyze use of the Site;
• to protect the interests, rights, safety, or property of Bloomberg or others and to monitor compliance with and enforce the terms of any agreement with Bloomberg; and
• to operate our services, products and systems properly.

You may instruct Bloomberg at any time not to use your personal information collected in connection with the product you requested to provide you with offers and promotions by contacting privacy@bloomberg.com and indicating OpenFIGI in the Subject line of your inquiry.

You can also update your settings for receiving offers and promotions by clicking here. Please note that if you exercise choice in this manner, you will continue to receive communications concerning your account and products and services you requested, and in response to any requests for information by you. Please also note that these processes may take some time to complete consistent with applicable law.

To assist us with the uses described in this Privacy Policy, information we or our designated service providers have collected about you through this Site, including your use of this Site, may be aggregated, analyzed or enhanced with personal or other information about you that we have from other sources.

In certain jurisdictions, such as the EU or the UK, we process your personal information on the following legal bases:

• where we have obtained your consent;
• where processing is necessary for us to pursue our legitimate interests, such as the implementation and operation of a group-wide organizational structure and for group-wide information sharing, prevention of fraud, misuse of company IT systems or money laundering, physical, IT and network security, internal investigations, and in the context of proposed mergers and acquisitions.

Bloomberg, a designated service provider or a third party may use different web server logs, web beacons, pixels, trackers or other electronic technologies (collectively, “cookies)” to collect information about you and your use of the Site.

We use the following cookies:

• Strictly necessary cookies. Some cookies are strictly necessary to make the Site available to you; for example, to perform your login functionality and for user authentication and security. We cannot provide you with the Site without this type of cookies.
• Functional cookies. These are used to recognize you when you return to the Site. This enables us to personalize our content for you, and remember your preferences (for example, to store your account details).
• Analytical or performance cookies. These cookies help us to operate, maintain, and improve our Site. We use third party analytics providers to help us understand how users engage with the Site. This information is used to compile reports and help us improve the Site.

You can usually set your browser to disable cookies, or to alert you when cookies are being sent. The help function on most browsers contains instructions on how to set your browser to notify you before accepting cookies or to disable cookies entirely. However, note that this Site will not function properly if you disable certain cookies.

We use Google Analytics; further information on how it collects and processes data can be found here. To opt-out of Google Analytics, please click here. We use Matomo; further information on how Matomo collects and processes data can be found here. To opt-out of Matomo tracking, please click here.

Bloomberg shares your personal information in the following circumstances:

• To our affiliates, subsidiaries, and other entities within the Bloomberg corporate group;
• To our service providers,
• To law enforcement authorities, regulators and other governmental agencies, pursuant to lawful requests, or if we believe in good faith that such disclosure is necessary to: (a) comply with any applicable law, rule or regulation or in response to a subpoena, court order, or other legal process, subject to Bloomberg’s Law Enforcement Data Request Statement; (b) protect the interests, rights, safety, or property of Bloomberg or others; or to (c) monitor compliance with and enforce any terms of service on this Site; and
• Pursuant to a merger, acquisition, or other similar corporate restructuring.

Please be aware that certain features of the site may make any information you disclose available to others; for example, to your employer or other authorized users of the Site as designated by your employer.

In applicable jurisdictions and in certain circumstances, you have the following rights in relation to your personal information:

• To access and request certain information about the processing of your personal information
• To obtain a portable copy of your personal information
• To correct personal information
• To delete personal information
• To restrict processing of certain personal information
• To object to the processing of personal information
• To withdraw consent, where this was the lawful reason for processing
• To lodge a complaint with the relevant supervisory authority

Please bear in mind that if you exercise such rights this may affect our ability to provide our products and services.

To exercise a right related to your personal information, please contact us by clicking here or by e-mailing us at privacy@bloomberg.com. While Bloomberg will make reasonable efforts to accommodate your request, we also reserve the right to impose certain restrictions and requirements on such requests, if allowed or required by applicable laws. In the event that we cannot take action with respect to a request relating to your personal information, in certain jurisdictions, you may have the right to appeal that decision by e-mailing us at privacy@bloomberg.com and include OpenFIGI in the Subject line of your inquiry.

Please note that it may take some time to process your request, consistent with applicable law. If you choose to exercise these rights, we may ask that you provide sufficient information, including the products and services you have used in the past, your state and country of residence, and contact information, in order for us to verify your identity and process your request. Depending on the types of requests, we may ask for additional information.

You may use an authorized agent to submit a request on your behalf related to your personal information. If you choose to use an authorized agent, you should supply your agent with written permission to act on your behalf in relation to your request, and your agent must provide us with proof of such authorization before we process your request.

Any personal information you provide to Bloomberg is kept on secure servers. Bloomberg uses security measures appropriate to the provision of the relevant product or service, such as reasonable administrative, technical, personnel, and physical measures (a) that are designed to safeguard personal information against loss, theft, unauthorized use, disclosure, or modification; and (b) to ensure the integrity of the personal information. To help us protect your privacy, you should maintain the secrecy of the logon ID and password you may have set up in connection with your participation in this Site’s services. Personal information is retained for as long as is necessary for the purpose(s) described in this Privacy Policy, or as may be permitted under applicable law. For example, personal information is retained if the information is reasonably necessary to manage your relationship with us or to provide our products and services to you. To determine the appropriate retention period, we will generally consider the following criteria: the length of time needed to achieve the purpose your information was collected for; whether you ceased using our services or products; the existence of any relevant legal proceedings; or applicable legal and regulatory requirements.

Some of the uses and disclosures mentioned in this Privacy Policy may involve the transfer and processing of your personal information to and in various countries that may have different levels of privacy protection than your country. Personal information may be accessed by Bloomberg offices worldwide, including in the United States and the United Kingdom. By using our products and services, you acknowledge and agree to such transfers and processing of this information in various other countries. We implement appropriate safeguards to protect such personal information, which may include (without limitation) European Commission approved standard contractual clauses or the EU-US Data Privacy Framework and its UK Extension and the Swiss-US Data Privacy Framework. For more information, see our Data Privacy Framework Notice. Bloomberg’s International Transfer of Personal Information Statement provides additional information about Bloomberg’s personal data protection, security and transfer practices and explains how those practices ensure there are appropriate safeguards in place to protect personal information and is available in the Bloomberg International Transfer of Personal Information Statement. More information concerning the safeguards (including copies and information on data importers, if relevant) can be obtained by contacting us.

Bloomberg may provide links or access to third-party websites or other digital properties, including social networking websites. Since we do not control third-party digital properties and are not responsible for any information you may provide while on such digital properties, we encourage you to read the privacy policies on those websites before providing any of your information on such digital properties.

If you have questions regarding this privacy policy, please contact us at privacy@bloomberg.com and include “OpenFIGI” in the Subject line of your inquiry.

If you are a California resident, the information below applies to you and supplements the information provided above.

Certain information collected on this Site, including your log-in and password, may constitute “sensitive personal information” as that term is defined by the California privacy law. However, Bloomberg only uses such information to provide our services and products or as otherwise permitted under California privacy law.

The California privacy law’s definition of “sale” and “share” is broad and may include sharing practices that are typical amongst organizations. However, Bloomberg does not “sell” personal information covered by this Privacy Notice, nor do we “share” such personal information as that term is defined under California law.

Your right to access and request information about the processing of your personal information includes the right to know the categories of personal information, categories of sources from which personal information is collected, the purpose for processing personal information, the categories of third parties to whom Bloomberg discloses personal information, and the specific pieces of personal information Bloomberg has collected about you.

If you choose to exercise the rights set out in this Privacy Notice, you also have a right not to receive discriminatory treatment for exercising your rights.

In certain instances, for example, when you have exercised your right to know, we may need to ask you for additional personal information to verify your identity. We will only use personal information provided for the limited purpose of verifying your identity. If you use an authorized agent to reach out to us, we may email you for verification of your identity and the nature of your request.