Privacy Policy & IDD Information
Last updated: January 2025
Customer Data Protection (GDPR) Privacy Notice
This privacy statement explains what personal data our firm collects from you through our business relationship and how we will use that data and how you may amend the data we hold. The processing of your data is necessary as you are asking the firm to take specific steps, (in your interests), by entering into a contract with us to source a mortgage, finance and/or an insurance product for you. Without the data being provided we cannot carry out the high level of service we wish to provide. We have a legitimate interest in the collection of your data which is necessary to enable us to complete any contractual arrangements and personalise your experience with us as described above and below.
Data Collection
How we collect data
Your information may be passed onto us from a third party with your knowledge or permission, who may ask our firm to contact you by either telephone, text message, letter, email, social media, fax, or by you making enquiries to our website.
The reasons we collect data from you is so that we can source a more relevant and suitable mortgage, loan, finance and/or insurance product(s) for you, or make introductions to other firms where we do not have access to certain products ourselves.
Our firm can collect data via its website by the use of "cookies" which are small text files that can be read by the web server in the domain that puts the cookie on your computer's hard drive. We may use cookies to store your preferences and settings which help you when accessing our website. You have the option to accept, block or delete cookies when accessing our website to personalise your experience with us.
What data do we collect?
To enable us to source the most effective product(s) for you, we need to collect data about you, your family, including your children (the data being limited and for information purposes only). They will not form part of any contract with us. Your occupations, income and expenditure, financial commitments including credit facilities and bank details you hold as well as any mortgages and insurances that you may hold. We may ask for details of your health, medical history and ethnic origin if discussing various insurances with you. You must provide us with accurate information. We will also need to know of any third-party relationships you hold with any industry connections such as your Bank, Lenders, Insurers, Solicitors, Conveyancers, Will Writers, Surveyors, Estate Agents/ Management Agents and Accountants, so we may liaise with them on related issues to improve the service we provide to you. This information is stored within our Data Base.
Data Processing
Lawful basis of processing
From time to time we may pay for the contact details of people who might be interested in hearing from us in future. These may come from retailers or from companies who conduct telephone or online surveys or social media engagement, to promote and gather interest for organisations. Before we purchase contact information, we always check the wording used when your information was originally collected, to ascertain how we process your data. You may who have actively expressed interest in receiving information from us, which means we would contact you under consent or you have shared information which could mean we have a legitimate interest to contact you.
Where data is shared outside of the EEA we will take the necessary and appropriate technical and organisational measures to protect our customer's data
How do we use your data?
Our firm aims to source the most suitable product(s) for you from many product providers available to us which necessitate our firm to pass on the data we have collected about you to various controlled affiliated third parties, using third-party software to compare and research various products for you.
We may also obtain some information from third parties, for example, credit checks, information from your employer, and searches of information in the public domain such as the voter's roll. We may use technology solutions to assist in the collection of Your Personal Data for example software that can verify your credit status. We will only do this if we have consent from you for us or our nominated processor to access your information in this manner.
Your Rights
You have the "right to be informed", by way of this "privacy notice", of our obligations to provide transparency as to how we use your personal data. You have a "right of access" to obtain confirmation that your data is being processed and have a right to access your data. You also have a right to have data collected "rectified" if inaccurate or incomplete. If we have passed inaccurate information to other third parties, we will notify them of this anomaly and request they correct it.
You have the right to have your data "ported" to other organisations within the UK and European Union. You have the right to "object" to the processing of your data. You also have the right to request we stop using your data for marketing purposes. You also have the right to "restrict or block" the processing of your data under certain circumstances such as when you contest the accuracy of the data. We can store the data, but not process it.