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Only Insurance Ltd is committed to ensuring that your privacy is protected. This Policy
explains how we use the information we collect about you, how you can instruct us
if you prefer to limit the use of that information and procedures that we have in
place to safeguard your privacy.
Please read this Privacy Policy carefully as once you use our website and/or our
product and/or account aggregation services ("Services") you will be regarded as
having read and accepted this Privacy Policy. You must not use our website or our
Services if you do not accept this Privacy Policy.
The information we collect
We will collect personal information about you which you give to us when you register
to use our account aggregation service and when you provide information as part
of our product aggregation service, for example, in order to obtain a quote for
a secured loan. The provision of the Services to you may also require us to store
details of your transactions, together with details of your financial information.
We will periodically review your personal information to ensure that we do not keep
it for longer than is necessary.
Purposes for which we use information about you
We may use your personal information for the following purposes:
- to enable you to access and use the Services; and/or
- to personalise aspects of our overall service to you; and/or
- to communicate with you; and/or
- to process a transaction between you and a third party.
Passing on information about you
Please be aware that once you use our website or our Services, you will be
regarded as having given your consent to us disclosing your personal information
to the following parties:
- Third party providers whose products or services are listed on the results pages
of the channels on our website, for the purposes of obtaining an online quotation
for you or comparing different products and services as requested by you;
- The Financial Services Authority and/or other regulatory/governing bodies for the
purposes of compliance monitoring;
- Other third parties that might be able to offer, either an alternative product in
the event that your preferred choice of third party provider does not approve your
application or offers a less attractive product or service than you had originally
applied for, or simply a product that meets the basic criteria of the type of product
for which you have searched on onlyinsurance.com.
- Any other third party who may provide you with information, offers and services that may be of interest to you.
You can ask us to stop passing your information to third parties for marketing purposes at any time, which we will do. Such a request may result in us ceasing to offer the Services to you.
We may disclose information about you in connection with legal proceedings or potential legal proceedings or if otherwise permitted to do so by law.
Third party providers and data privacy
If you decide to enter into a contract with a third party provider through a channel
on our website, the information you have provided to us together with any further
information requested by, and supplied by you to, the third party provider will
be held by the provider for the purposes set out in that provider's privacy policy.
Therefore, you are strongly advised to read your chosen provider's privacy policy
and satisfy yourself as to the purposes for which the provider will use your personal
information before entering into the contract. We have no responsibility for the
uses to which a provider puts your personal information once you have contracted
with that provider.
Advertisements
The advertisements that you see displayed on this website are delivered on our behalf
by a third party advertising company. No personal data for example your name, address,
email address or telephone number are used during the course of serving our advertising,
but, on our behalf, our third-party advertiser may place or recognize a unique "cookie"
on your browser. This cookie does not collect personal data about you nor is it
linked to any personal data about you. If you would like more information about
this practice and to know your choices about not having this information used by
this company, please click here www.doubleclick.net/us/corporate/privacy.
Security
The internet is not a secure medium. However we have put in place various security
procedures as set out in this policy. Firewalls are used to block unauthorised traffic
to the servers and the actual servers are located in a secure location which can
only be accessed by authorised personnel. We also keep your information confidential.
Our internal procedures cover the storage, access and disclosure of your information.
Cookies
We use cookies. A cookie is a small file that is stored on your computer's hard
drive by your web browser. They allow us to understand what areas of the website
are of interest to our visitors and allow us to provide a better user experience.
These cookies do not track individual user information, and all our cookie data
is encrypted and cannot be read by other websites. It is possible to 'turn off'
the cookies in your browser and this will not affect the functionality of the web site. You can find out more information about cookies
including how to switch cookies
on or off i.e. accept or refuse cookies from www.aboutcookies.org.
Transferring your information abroad
Information supplied by you to us will only be transferred abroad by us or our agents
for the purpose of performing contractual obligations to you, or when you have given
your prior consent to such transfer.
Your Rights
You have certain rights under the Data Protection Act 1998. For example, we will
always let you have a copy of all personal information we have about you should you request it. We may charge you a fee for a copy of such information.
By supplying data to us to will provide information about yourself and others which the Data Protection Act defines as personal data or sensitive personal data. The data controller will be Only Insurance Ltd. Our Data Protection registration number is Z8806254.
Data, including your telephone number will be used by Only Insurance Limited and any other carefully selected companies for administration, renewal, claims handling, credit checking, marketing and research purposes and will be added to certain databases which may be checked by various organizations including the police. By supplying data you give explicit consent for all the data provided to be used in this way unless you tell us otherwise. |
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