We can only collect personal information about you by a lawful and fair means. We may collect information from you directly, such as when you complete an application form including an online application form, a contract or make an enquiry.
We may also collect your personal information indirectly from third parties such as our introducers, finance and insurance companies other service providers or Credit Reporting Bodies. You should not assume that we are in control of or responsible for the privacy practices of our lenders and third parties and we encourage you to read the Privacy Policy issued by them.
If we receive personal information about you from someone else without having asked for it (whether from a formally arranged referrer or any other third party), we will only continue to hold it if it is personal information that we could have collected from you ourselves, in accordance with this Privacy Policy. If it is personal information which is not reasonably necessary for our business functions and activities, we will destroy or de-identify it.
If you are using one of our websites, you will browse anonymously, except as set out below. For all visitors browsing our website, we use cookies to collect information such as the server your computer is logged on to, your browser type (for example, Internet Explorer, Chrome, or Firefox), the time of visit, pages visited and your IP address. An IP address is a number that is assigned to your computer automatically and required for using the Internet. We may also derive the general geographic area associated with an IP address. We also use cookies to manage online advertising. Information collected in this way is not capable of personally identifying you.
If you have provided us with personal information by completing an application form or enquiry online, we may use cookies to collect information about how you browse our websites, which can also identify you.
If you would prefer not to be identified in this way, you can delete the cookies and reconfigure the cookie preferences on your internet browser.
We use Google Display Advertising features (Demographics and Interest Reports, Remarketing with Google Analytics). We and third-party vendors, such as Google, use first-party cookies and third party cookies together to report how our ad impressions, other uses of ad services, and interactions with these ad impressions and ad services are related to visits to website digital services.
Web users who do not want their data collected with Google Analytics can install the Google Analytics opt-out browser add-on. This add-on instructs the Google Analytics JavaScript running on websites to prohibit sending information to Google Analytics.
Most browsers accept cookies by default; however, you can alter your browser settings to not accept cookies or delete the cookies from your system. Most browsers do allow a ‘private’ mode where cookies are always deleted after a visit.
Please read your browser’s help section for more information about how to set the ‘private’ mode or how to delete cookies.
You can still visit our site even though your browser is in ‘private’ mode, however the user experience might not be optimal, and some functions might not work.
Whether you contact us through our online presence or any other channel, we may scan your ID documents and other material that we have collected from you directly or with your consent and store this in our systems. We also may share this scanned documentation with others who are providing links to achieve your end goal.