CUSTOMERS AND SUPPLIERS PRIVACY POLICY
1.
GENERAL
1.1
PURDY FINANCIAL
SERVICES LTD (we us our) is committed to protecting and respecting your privacy. We
are the data controller and will process your personal data in accordance with
the Data Protection Act 1998 as amended or replaced by the General Data
Protection Regulation 2016 and any national laws which relate to the processing
of personal data (data protection
legislation).
1.2
Please read the
following carefully to understand our views and practices regarding Your Data and
how we will treat it.
This policy applies to information we collect about:
·
Visitors to our
website
·
Customers
·
Introducers
·
Suppliers
2.
VISITORS TO OUR WEBSITE
2.1
We may collect and
process personal data about you in the following circumstances:
2.1.1
when you complete
the online contact forms on our website (Site)
providing us with your name, address, email address and contact number;
2.1.2
whenever you
provide information to us when reporting a problem with our Site, making a
complaint, making an enquiry or contacting us for any other reason. If you
contact us, we may keep a record of that correspondence;
2.1.3
when you visit our
Sites we will retain details such as traffic data,
location data, weblogs and other communication data, and the resources that you
access (see section 2.2.2 on Cookies below); and
2.1.4
whenever you
disclose your information to us, or we collect information from you in any
other way, through our Sites.
2.2
We may also
collect data in the following ways:
IP
Address
2.2.1
We may collect
information about your device, including where available your Internet Protocol
address, for reasons of fraud protection. We may also collect information about
your devices operating system and browser type, for system administration and
to report aggregate information to our advertisers. This is statistical data
about our users' browsing actions and patterns, and
does not identify any individual.
Cookies
2.2.2
Our Sites uses
cookies to distinguish you from other users of our Sites. This helps us to
provide you with a good experience when you browse our Sites and also allows us
to improve our Sites. For detailed information on the cookies we use and the
purposes for which we use them see our Cookie Policy.
2.3
We may use your personal
data for our legitimate interests in order to:
2.3.1
provide you with
information, or services that you requested from us;
2.3.2
respond to an
enquiry submitted via
our online contact forms;
2.3.3
allow you to
participate in interactive features of our Sites, when you choose to do so;
2.3.4
ensure that
content from our Sites are presented in the most effective manner for you and
for your device;
2.3.5
improve our Sites
and services;
2.3.6
process and deal
with any complaints or enquiries made by you; and
2.3.7
contact you for
marketing purposes where you have signed up for these (see section 7 for
further details).
Website
Links
Our
Site may, from time to time, contain links to and from the websites of third
parties. Please note that if you follow a link to any of these websites, such
websites will apply different terms to the collection and privacy of your personal
data and we do not accept any responsibility or liability for these policies.
Please check before you submit your information to these websites.
3.
CUSTOMERS
3.1
We will collect
details such as name, address, email
address, contact number, date of birth, national insurance number and financial
information in order to provide services to customers. We may also receive
details of credit checks undertaken where you have supplied these to us.
3.2
We will share customer
personal information with our employees to manage our relationship with you and
we will retain customer personal data indefinitely.
3.3
We will use your
personal data provided to comply with our contractual obligations arising from
the agreements we enter into with our Customers and share the data with
financial institutions who can assist in the provision of financial services to
customers including product providers, lenders, banks, insurers, fund managers,
platform providers and third party para-planners.
3.4
We will use
customer personal data for our legitimate interests including:
3.4.1
sharing personal
data with Tenet* as they provide compliance services to us Further details
regarding how Tenet will use customer personal data can be found on its website
at www.tenetgroup.co.uk or by contacting Tenet on 01132390011;
3.4.2
with your consent,
marketing our other products and services by mail and email; and
3.4.3
with your consent,
obtaining your sensitive personal data from third parties including your
health, ethnic origin, or criminal prosecutions from third parties such as
employers and credit reference agencies, fraud prevention agencies and other
similar organisations.
3.5
We will not
transfer any customer personal data outside the European Economic Area (EEA).
*Tenet means Tenet
Group Limited, Tenet Limited, TenetConnect Limited, TenetConnect Services Limited, TenetLime
Limited, its associated companies.
4.
SUPPLIERS
We
will collect details such as contact names, address, email address and telephone
number in order to contact you about goods and/or services we have ordered from
you, to comply with our contractual obligations and to place further orders. We
may share your personal data with our employees to manage our relationship with
you and we will keep your personal data for as long as we require your goods
and/or services subject to a maximum of six years from the date of our last
contact with you. We will not transfer your personal data outside the EEA.
5.
MARKETING
5.1
We may use customer
personal data to provide you with details about our services, products, business updates and events which we think may
be of interest.
5.2
You have the right
to opt-out of receiving the information detailed in section 7.1 at any time. To
opt-out of receiving such information you can:
5.2.1
tick the relevant
box situated in the form on which we collect your information;
5.2.2
clicking the
unsubscribe button contained in any such communication received; or
5.2.3
email us at [email protected] or call 01629 592850 providing
us with your name and contact details.
5.3
Where you have
subscribed to receive marketing correspondence from us we will keep your
personal data for six years from when you subscribed to receiving marketing
information from us or until you unsubscribe from receiving such correspondence
from us (whichever is earlier).
6.
LEGAL
BASIS FOR PROCESSING YOUR PERSONAL DATA
6.1
In accordance
with data protection legislation we are required to notify you of the legal
basis upon which we process your personal data. We process your personal data
for the following reasons:
6.1.1
for
performance of a contract we enter into with you;
6.1.2
where necessary
for compliance with a legal obligation we are subject to; and
6.1.3
for our
legitimate interests (as described within this policy).
6.2
We will also
process your personal data including personal sensitive data where we have
obtained your explicit consent.
7.
DISCLOSURE OF YOUR DATA to third parties
7.1
In addition to the
third parties mentioned previously in this policy, we may disclose your personal
data to third parties for the
following legitimate business purposes:
7.1.1
staff members in
order to facilitate the provision of services to you;
7.1.2
IT software
providers that host our website and store data on our behalf; and
7.1.3
to a prospective
buyer of some or all of our business or assets, in which case personal data
including Your Data will also be one of the transferred assets.
7.2
We may disclose your
personal data to the police, regulatory bodies, legal advisors or similar third
parties where we are under a legal duty to disclose or share your personal data
in order to comply with any legal obligation, or in order to enforce or apply
our agreements; or to protect our rights, property, or safety of our customers,
or others. This includes exchanging information with other companies and
organisations for the purposes of fraud protection and credit risk reduction.
7.3
We will not sell
or distribute your personal data to other organisations without your approval.
8.
CROSS-BORDER DATA TRANSFERS
We do
not transfer personal data outside the EEA. Where this is required in the future, we will
ensure that safeguards are in place so that such transfers comply with data
protection legislation.
9.
DATA SECURITY
9.1
Information you
provide to us is shared on our secure servers. We have implemented appropriate
physical, technical and organisational measures designed to secure your
information against accidental loss and unauthorised access, use, alteration or
disclosure. In addition, we limit access to personal data to those employees,
agents, contractors and other third parties that have a legitimate business
need for such access.]
9.2
Where we have
given you (or where you have chosen) a password which enables you to access
certain parts of our Sites, you are responsible for keeping this password confidential.
We ask you not to share a password with anyone.
9.3
Unfortunately, the
transmission of information via the internet is not completely secure. Although
we will do our best to protect your personal data, we cannot guarantee the
security of your information transmitted to our Site; any transmission is at
your own risk.
10.
ACCESS TO, UPDATING, DELETING AND RESTRICTING USE OF
YOUR DATA
10.1 It is important that the personal data we hold about
you is accurate and current. Please keep
us informed if the personal data we hold about you changes.
10.2 Data protection legislation gives you certain rights in
relation to your personal data. You have
the right to object to the processing of your personal data in certain
circumstances and to withdraw your consent to the processing of your personal data
where this has been provided.
10.3 You can also ask us to undertake the following:
10.3.1
update or amend your
personal data if you feel this is inaccurate;
10.3.2
remove your personal
data from our database entirely;
10.3.3
send you copies of
your personal data in a commonly used format and transfer your information to
another entity where you have supplied this to us, and we process this
electronically with your consent or where necessary for the performance of a
contract;
10.3.4
restrict the use of
your personal data; and
10.3.5
provide you with
access to information held about you and for this to be provided in an
intelligible form.
10.4 We may request specific information from you to help us
confirm your identity. Data protection
legislation may allow or require us to refuse to provide you with access to
some or all the personal data that we hold about you or to comply with any
requests made in accordance with your rights referred to above. If we cannot
provide you with access to your personal data, or process any other request we
receive, we will inform you of the reasons why, subject to any legal or
regulatory restrictions.
10.5 Please send any requests relating to the above to our Privacy Officer at [email protected] or call 01629 592850 specifying your name
and the action you would like us to undertake. Note that in relation to
requests to access personal data, we reserve the right to charge a reasonable
fee to comply with your request.
11.
RIGHT TO WITHDRAW CONSENT
Where you have provided
your consent to the collection, processing and transfer of your personal data,
you may withdraw that consent at any time. This will not affect the lawfulness
of data processing based on consent before it is withdrawn. To withdraw your
consent please contact us at [email protected] or call 01629 592850.
12.
CHANGES TO OUR PRIVACY POLICY
We reserve the right to update this privacy policy at any
time, and any changes we make to our privacy policy will be posted on this
page. We will notify you if there are any changes to this policy that
materially affect how we collect, store or process your personal data. If we
would like to use your previously collected personal data for different
purposes than those we notified you about at the time of collection, we will
provide you with notice and, where required by law, seek your consent, before
using your personal data for a new or unrelated purpose. We may process your
personal without your knowledge or consent where required by applicable law or
regulation.
13.
CONTACT US
We have appointed a Privacy Officer to oversee compliance
with this privacy policy. If you have any questions, comments or requests
regarding this policy or how we use your personal data please contact our Privacy Officer at [email protected] or call 01629 592850. This is in addition to your
right to contact the Information Commissioners Office if you are unsatisfied
with our response to any issues you raise at https://ico.org.uk/global/contact-us/
Last updated: 25th May 2018.
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