Last Modified: April 28, 2020
This Sixth Street Website Privacy Notice (“Privacy Notice”) applies to sixthstreetpartners.com, tssp.com, tpgsixthstreetpartners.com, tpg6streetpartners.com, 6thstreetpartners.com, advisorstssp.com, and tpgsixthstreet.com (together, the “Site”), which provides information about the affiliated entities commonly referred to as “Sixth Street Partners” or “Sixth Street.”
Other than as set out in this Privacy Notice, this Site does not directly collect any personal information. You may, however, choose to contact us by email, in which case we will collect your name, email address and any other personal information that you choose to provide to us. Please do not provide personal information that you do not want us to have.
If you choose to provide personal information to us, we will use that information for the purpose(s) for which you provided it to us. For example, if you provide your contact information when making an enquiry to us, we will use that contact information to process and respond to that enquiry and any related activity that may result from your enquiry. Similarly, if you are interested in joining the Sixth Street team and submit a resume or CV to us by email, we will use that information to assess your suitability for relevant roles with us and, where applicable, to contact you to progress your application.
In addition, we may gather limited information about you automatically through your use of the Site, e.g., your IP address and how you navigate our Site. With your consent (where required by law), we do this by using cookies. For more information on the cookies we use and why we use them, please see the Cookie Notice below.
The following chart describes the categories of Personal Information we expect have collected about individuals, where and why we collected it, and the categories of entities with which we shared the Personal Information, if any.
Categories of Personal Information We Collect | Sources of Collection | Purpose of Collection and Use | Types of Third parties With Which We Share Personal Information |
Personal Identifiers (e.g., Name, Email Address)
IT, Technical and Web Operations (e.g., Cookie Data, IP Address) Employment/Profession-Relation Information (e.g., Compensation, Job Position/Title, or Other Information From CV) Additional Information You Provide to Us |
Directly provided by you to us
From your activities on our Sites |
Communicate with you, including to respond to your inquiries and fulfill your requests
Provide, maintain, personalize, optimize, and improve our Sites, including research and analytics regarding use of our Sites, social media platforms and third-party services, physical locations, facilities and infrastructure and to remember you when you leave and return to our Sites or facilities Comply with our obligations, including legal, regulatory, due diligence, business operations, operational or fiscal obligations Detect, investigate, and prevent activities that may violate our policies or be fraudulent or illegal |
Third-Party Service Providers that administer our business
Legal and Regulatory Authorities (e.g., Government Regulators, Law Enforcement Agencies) Financial institutions with whom we partner or business counter-parties |
We may share your personal information with financial institutions with whom we partner or business counter-parties, for the purposes described in this Privacy Notice.
We may share your personal information with service providers that perform services on our behalf such as analytics providers and hosting providers. In accordance with applicable law, we have entered into legally binding agreements requiring them to use or disclose personal information only as necessary to perform services on our behalf or, where permitted by law, to comply with applicable legal requirements.
In addition, we may disclose personal information about you (a) if we are required or permitted to do so by law or legal process, for example due to a court order or a request from a law enforcement agency, (b) when we believe disclosure is necessary or appropriate to prevent physical harm or financial loss, (c) in connection with an investigation of suspected or actual fraudulent or other illegal activity, and (d) in conjunction with (i) the making, management, or disposition of any of our investments, (ii) business continuity, or (iii) to successors in interest or entities that acquire all or part of our business in connection to a corporate sale, merger, reorganization, dissolution or similar event.
The Site may contain links to other web sites. We have no control over and are not responsible for the privacy policies or practices of such sites. Whenever you link to another web site, you may be asked to provide registration or other information. Please note that any personal information that you provide is going to a third party, and therefore you should familiarize yourself with that party’s privacy policy or notice.
We implement and maintain reasonable security appropriate to the nature of the personal information that we collect, use, retain, transfer or otherwise process. While we are committed to developing, implementing, maintaining, monitoring and updating a reasonable information security program, no such program can be perfect; in other words, all risk cannot reasonably be eliminated. Data security incidents and breaches can occur due to vulnerabilities, criminal exploits or other factors that cannot reasonably be prevented. Accordingly, while our reasonable security program is designed to manage data security risks and thus help prevent data security incidents and breaches, it cannot be assumed that the occurrence of any given incident or breach results from our failure to implement and maintain reasonable security.
Sixth Street is committed to ensuring that our communications are accessible to individuals with disabilities. Individuals with disabilities can access this Privacy Notice in alternative formats by contacting us at the address, phone, or email address below.
This website is designed to meet content accessibility guidelines. To submit accessibility-related requests or report barriers to accessibility, please contact us at 1-877-543-3198 or contact tsspprivacy@tssp.com.
Cookies are small text files that are placed on your computer or device by websites that you visit. We use cookies to ensure the Sites function as efficiently as possible, as well as to better understand, customize and improve the user experience of the Sites and our other services and offerings. The cookies we use may collect certain limited personal information about you, such as your IP address.
Certain cookies used on the Site may be strictly necessary for the operation of the Site. In such circumstances, these cookies may be set automatically. Otherwise, we use the following cookies (with your consent, where required by law) for the purposes as set out in the table below:
Cookie | Name | Purpose |
Universal Analytics (Google) | _ga
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These cookies are used to help us to improve the Site and understand how visitors engage with and navigate around it. Information on how Google Analytics collects and processes your data is available here: www.google.com/policies/privacy/partners/.
These cookies collect information in an anonymous form, including the number of visitors to the Site, where visitors have come to the Site from and the pages they visited. _ga expires after 2 years _gat_gtag_UA_132769893_1 expires after 1 minute _gid expires after 24 hours |
Your web browser can be set to allow you to control whether you will accept cookies, reject cookies, or to notify you each time a cookie is sent to you. If your browser is set to reject cookies, the Site may not recognize you when you return to the website, and some website functionality may be lost. The Help section of your browser may tell you how to prevent your browser from accepting cookies. To find out more about cookies, including how to see what cookies have been set and how to manage or delete them, visit www.allaboutcookies.org.
To opt out of being tracked by Google Analytics across all websites, visit http://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout.
Do Not Track (“DNT”) is a privacy preference that users can set in their web browsers. When a user turns on DNT, the browser sends a message to websites requesting that they do not track the user. Sixth Street does not change its practices, described elsewhere in this Privacy Notice, in response to DNT browser settings or signals. For information about DNT, visit www.allaboutdnt.org.
Third parties may collect personal information about your online activities over time and across different websites, including your use of this Site. This Privacy Notice does not apply to, and we are not responsible for, the practices of third parties that collect your personal information.
The time period for which we keep personal information depends on the purposes for which we collected it. In all cases we keep it for as long as necessary to fulfill those purposes. We will then delete this personal information unless we are required to preserve your personal data in connection with litigation, investigations and proceedings, or if a longer retention period is required or permitted by applicable law.
The information below is intended only for visitors to the Site who are located in the European Economic Area (“EEA”), UK or Switzerland.
Controller Details
Unless stated otherwise, Sixth Street is the controller in respect of personal information collected through the Site and can be contacted at tsspprivacy@tssp.com.
Purposes and Legal Bases for Processing
We primarily process your personal information for the purposes described above on the basis that it is necessary for our legitimate interests, including to:
operate, manage and improve the Site and our business;
contact you to respond to your requests or enquiries;
comply with legal obligations affecting our business;
ensuring the security of the Site and our systems and networks;
prevent, investigate or provide notice of fraud, physical harm, financial loss, unlawful or criminal activity, or unauthorized access to or use of personal information, the Site or our data systems; and
enforce our Terms of Use.
If we process your personal information submitted by you to us in connection with an application for employment with us, such personal information will be processed as is necessary for our legitimate interests in considering you for a role with us, and where applicable, to perform a contract or to take steps at your request, before entering a contract.
International Transfers
We comply with applicable legal requirements providing adequate protection for the transfer of personal information to recipients in countries outside of the EEA, UK and Switzerland. In all such cases, we will only transfer your personal information if:
The country to which the personal information will be transferred has been granted an adequacy decision by the European Commission or UK Information Commissioner’s Office (as applicable);
The recipient of the personal information is located in the U.S. and has certified to the EU-US or Swiss-US Privacy Shield Framework (as applicable); or
We have put in place other appropriate safeguards in respect of the transfer, for example the EU Model Contracts.
You may request a copy of the safeguards that we have put in place in respect of transfers of personal data by contacting us as described in the “How to Contact Us About Privacy Matters” section below.
Your Data Protection Rights
If you are located in the EEA, UK or Switzerland, subject to applicable law, you may have the following rights in relation to personal information that we hold about you:
To request confirmation of whether we process personal information relating to you and, if so, to request a copy of that personal information;
To request that we rectify or update your personal information that is inaccurate, incomplete or outdated;
To request that we erase your personal information in certain circumstances, such as where we collected personal information on the basis of your consent and you withdraw your consent;
To request that we restrict the use of your personal information in certain circumstances, such as while we consider another request that you have submitted, for example a request that we update your personal information;
Where you have given us consent to process your personal information, to withdraw your consent;
To request that we provide a copy of your personal information to you or another organization in a structured, commonly used and machine readable format in certain circumstances; and
To object to certain of our data processing, such as for direct marketing purposes.
If you are located in the EEA, UK or Switzerland and you wish to exercise any of your data protection rights or if you consider that we have processed your personal information in violation of applicable law, please contact us as detailed in the “How to Contact Us About Privacy Matters” section below.
If you consider that we have processed your personal information in violation of applicable law and failed to remedy such violation to your reasonable satisfaction, you may also lodge a complaint with the data protection supervisory authority in your country.
Rights Under California Law
If you are a resident of California, you may have rights under the California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018 (“CCPA”), as described in this section of our Privacy Notice. Please note that we operate substantially in a business-to-business (“B2B”) context and nearly all of personal information we obtain, use and share is covered in whole or in part by applicable CCPA exemptions for B2B data, financial data covered by federal law such as the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act, and employment-related data. We do not sell personal information subject to CCPA.
Individuals who are California residents and whose information is covered by the relevant provisions of the CCPA, and is not subject to applicable exemptions, may have the following privacy rights, provided that the appropriate level of authentication is provided:
to request disclosure of personal information we collect and share about you during the 12-month period preceding our receipt of the request, including:
the categories of personal information we have collected about you
the categories of sources from which we collected the personal information
the business or commercial purposes for which we collected or sold the personal information
the categories of third parties with which we shared the personal information
the categories of personal information that we have shared with service providers who provide services to us
the specific pieces of personal information we collected
to request deletion of personal information we have collected about you.
There may be some types of personal information that can be associated with a household (a group of people living together in a single home). Requests for access or deletion of household Personal Information must be made by each member of the household. We will verify each member of the household using the verification criteria explained below. If we are unable to verify the identity of each household member with the degree of certainty required, we will not be able to respond to the request. In addition, we may not comply with requests that would infringe on the privacy rights of other individuals. We will notify you to explain the basis of our denial.
You have a right not to be discriminated against for the exercise of the privacy rights conferred by the CCPA. If you exercise any of the rights explained in this Privacy Notice, we will continue to treat you fairly and not discriminate against you on the basis that you have exercised such rights.
To respond to your requests, we will ask you for at least two pieces of personal information and, for requests for specific pieces of personal information, we will ask you for at least three pieces of personal information. The information we require may vary depending on your relationship to us, and may include your full legal name, residential address, email, phone, as well information we may have on file about you or other information that may be necessary to verify your identity. If you are requesting on behalf of another consumer, we may request additional information from you and/or the consumer to verify their identity. If you are legally entitled to such rights, you may designate an agent to submit a request on your behalf. The agent can be a natural person or a business entity that is registered with the California Secretary of State. If you would like to designate an agent to act on your behalf, you and the agent will need to comply with our agent verification process.
If you would like to contact us for any reason concerning our privacy practices or this Privacy Notice, please either email us at tsspprivacy@tssp.com, or contact us at 1-877-543-3198.
Alternatively, inquiries may be mailed to the following address:
Mailing address:
Sixth Street Partners c/o Privacy Office
888 Seventh Avenue, 34th Floor
New York, NY 10106
California Civil Code Section 1798.83, also known as the “Shine The Light” law, permits California residents to annually request, free of charge, information about the Personal Information (if any) disclosed to third parties for direct marketing purposes in the preceding calendar year. No information is shared with third parties for their own marketing purposes.
Sixth Street does not knowingly collect information directly from minors—persons under the age of 13, or another age of a minor as defined by law—other than when required to comply with the law or for safety or security reasons.
If you are a parent or guardian of a minor who has provided information without your knowledge or consent, you may submit a request to remove the minor’s information by emailing us at tsspprivacy@tssp.com.
We may change or update portions of this Privacy Notice at any time without notice to you. Please check back from time to time so you are aware of any changes or updates to the Privacy Notice. The revision date appearing on the first page of this Privacy Notice underneath the title will identify the date of the last update or revision.
This Privacy Notice applies only to the public sections of the Site. If you are permitted access to private areas, the terms of your subscription agreement will control our use of provided information.