This is our Privacy Policy relating to your personal data.
What is Personal Data?
Under the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation, Personal Data is defined as
“any information relating to an identified or identifiable natural person (‘data subject’); an identifiable natural person is one who can be identified, directly or indirectly, in particular by reference to an identifier such as a name, an identification number, location data, an online identifier or to one or more factors specific to the physical, physiological, genetic, mental, economic, cultural or social identity of that natural person”.
Why does Burts (Hull) Limited need to collect and store personal data?
In order for us to provide you with services, we need to collect personal data for correspondence purposes and/or detailed service provision.
In any event, we are committed to ensuring that the information we collect and use is appropriate for this purpose, and does not constitute an invasion of your privacy. We may pass your personal data on to Third Party service providers who are contracted to Burts (Hull) Limited in the course of dealing with you.
Our contractors are obliged to keep your details securely, and use them only to fulfil the service requested. Once your service need has been satisfied or the case has been closed, they will dispose of the details in line with our firm’s procedures. If we wish to pass your sensitive personal data onto a third party we will only do so once we have obtained your consent, unless we are legally required to do so.
How Burts (Hull) Limited uses your information
Burts (Hull) Limited will process – that means collect, store and use – the information you provide in a manner that is compatible with the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).
We will endeavor to keep your information accurate and up to date and not keep it for longer than is necessary. In some instances, the law sets the length of time information has to be kept, but in most cases, we will use its discretion to ensure that we do not keep records outside of our normal business requirements.
Our aim is not to be intrusive, and we undertake not to ask irrelevant or unnecessary questions. Moreover, the information you provide will be subject to rigorous measures and procedures to minimise the risk of unauthorised access or disclosure.
Using your personal data
In order to process your application, we will perform credit and identity checks on you with one or more credit reference agencies (“CRAs”).
To do this, we will supply your personal information to CRAs and they will give us information about you. This will include information from your credit application and about your financial situation and financial history. CRAs will supply to us both public (including the electoral register) and shared credit, financial situation and financial history information and fraud prevention information.
We will use this information to:
- Assess your creditworthiness and whether you can afford to take the product;
- Verify the accuracy of the data you have provided to us;
- Prevent criminal activity, fraud and money laundering;
- Manage your account(s);
- Trace and recover debts; and
- Ensure any offers provided to you are appropriate to your circumstances.
We will continue to exchange information about you with CRAs while you have a relationship with us. We will also inform the CRAs about your settled accounts. If you borrow and do not repay in full and on time, CRAs will record the outstanding debt. This information may be supplied to other organisations by CRAs. When CRAs receive a search from us they will place a search footprint on your credit file that may be seen by other lenders.
If you are making a joint application, or tell us that you have a spouse or financial associate, we will link your records together, so you should make sure you discuss this with them, and share with them this information, before lodging the application. CRAs will also link your records together and these links will remain on your and their files until such time as you or your partner successfully files for a disassociation with the CRAs to break that link.
The identities of the CRAs, their role also as fraud prevention agencies, the data they hold, the ways in which they use and share personal information, data retention periods and your data protection rights with the CRAs are explained in more detail at www.equifax.co.uk/crain. The Credit Reference Agency Information Notice (CRAIN) is accessible from each of the three CRAs – clicking on any of these three links will also take you to the same CRAIN document:
TransUnion: transunion.co.uk/legal
Equifax: equifax.co.uk/crain
Experian: experian.co.uk/crain
Consent
By consenting to our Privacy Policy, you are giving us permission to perform the above actions.
You may withdraw consent at any time.
Use of cookies
When you visit the StarLoans web site, you can surf the site anonymously and access important information without revealing your identity. In order to improve our site, we use “cookies” to track your visit.
A cookie is small amount of data that is transferred to your browser by a Web server and can only be read by the server that gave it to you. Most browsers are initially set to accept cookies. You can set your browser to notify you when you receive a cookie, giving you the chance to decide whether or not to accept it. (For some Web pages that require an authorization, cookies are not optional. Users choosing not to accept cookies will probably not be able to access those pages.) While StarLoans uses cookies to track your visit, and our Web servers automatically log the IP/Internet address of your computer, this information does not identify you personally unless you have otherwise provided StarLoans with personal information
Data Protection
Burts (Hull) Limited is a registered Data Controller under the Data Protection Act 1998. Registration number Z6439069. We may hold personal information about you when you access the site and use it for the processing of your application and for fraud prevention.
For more information visit The Information Commissioner’s Office at www.informationcommissioner.gov.uk